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$100 Startup: Reinvent the Way
You Make a Living, Do What
You Love, and Create a New
Future, The
Guillebeau, Chris
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4 Hour Body Cookbook, The
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Smith, Tiffany
4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path
to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning
Anything, and Living the Good
Life, The
Ferriss, Timothy
4-Hour Workweek, Expanded
and Updated: Expanded and
Updated, With Over 100 New
Pages of Cutting-Edge Content,
The
Ferriss, Timothy
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Agenda 21
Always Know What to Say:
Easy Ways to Approach and
Talk to Anyone
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America Again: Re-becoming
the Greatness We Never
Weren't
Beck, Glenn,
Parke, Harriet
Murphy, Peter
Colbert, Stephen
Summary
In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning
and purpose – and earn a good living.Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of
completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations –
and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special
genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of
adventure and to give back.
Starting off where the 4 Hour Body stops is our 4 Hour Body Cookbook. You can understand
the science, philosophy and plan but if you don't know how or what to eat you will not get
far. This guide to the 4 Hour Body Cookbook will help you make the next step towards your
goals.
#1 New York Times bestselling author (and lifelong non-cook) Tim Ferriss takes you from
Manhattan to Okinawa, and from Silicon Valley to Calcutta, unearthing the secrets of the
world’s fastest learners and greatest chefs. Ferriss uses cooking to explain “meta-learning,”
a step-by-step process that can be used to master anything, whether searing steak or
shooting 3-pointers in basketball. That is the real “recipe” of The 4-Hour Chef.
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to
wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times.Whether your
dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly fivefigure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour
Workweek is the blueprint.
“I was just a baby when we were relocated and I don’t remember much. Everybody has that
black hole at the beginning of their life. That time you can’t remember. Your first step. Your
first taste of table food. My real memories begin in our assigned living area in Compound
14.” Just a generation ago, this place was called America. Now, after the worldwide
implementation of a UN-led program called Agenda 21, it’s simply known as “the Republic.”
There is no president. No Congress. No Supreme Court. No freedom. There are only the
Authorities.
Want to know the easy way to approach and make conversation with new people? In this
book you`ll discover simple ways to ensure you always have something interesting to talk
about.Find out how popular people make it look so easy and how you can do the same.
Elections aren’t really a laughing matter--not usually. But America Again seeks to change
that. Following up on 2007’s best-selling I Am America (And So Can You!), the writing team
behind The Colbert Report delivers an election-time parody that employs the cocksure,
egotistical voice of “Stephen Colbert” to inform readers about how our country is
“Americeptional” in a wide range of subjects: like healthcare, Wall Street, energy, and, of
course, elections. Depending on your political bent, you'll rank this book anywhere from
amusing to downright hilarious. There are jokes galore. And it even comes with 3-D glasses.
--Chris Schluep
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American Sniper: The
Autobiography of the Most
Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military
History
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Art of Men, The
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Autobiography of a Yogi
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Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin, The
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He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and
“the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers . . .From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle
recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has
officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but
it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared
Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle
earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom
he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and
unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as
DeFelice, Jim
one of the great war memoirs of all time.
From the early days of her childhood in Wichita, Kansas, surrounded by her loving father,
her inquisitive and doting grandfather, and a younger brother she fiercely protected when
she wasn’t selling tickets to see him naked, Kirstie Alley’s life has been shaped and molded
by men. “Men, men, glorious men!” gave her her first big break in Hollywood and her
awardwinning role on Cheers, and through two marriages, a debilitating cocaine addiction,
the death of her mother, roles in some of the biggest comedies of the last twenty years, and
a surprising stint on Dancing with the Stars, men proved to be the inspiration for multitudes
Alley, Kristie
of the decisions and dramas in Kirstie Alley’s life.
With engaging candor, eloquence, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda tells the inspiring
chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounter with many
saints and sages during his youthful search throughout India for an illumined teacher, ten
Yogananda,
years of training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master, and the thirty years that he lived
Paramahansa
and taught in America.
One of the most popular works of American literature, this charming self-portrait has been
translated into nearly every language. It covers Franklin's life up to his prewar stay in
London as representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly, including his boyhood years, work
Franklin, Benjamin as a printer, experiments with electricity, political career, much more.
In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising
reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.Annawadi is a
makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India
starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising
Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer
people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in
rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a
little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon
become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a
fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and
Boo, Katherine
good times they call “the full enjoy.”
Behind the Beautiful Forevers:
Life, death, and hope in a
Mumbai undercity
Beyond Outrage: What has
Gone Wrong With Our Economy
and Our Democracy, and How
to Fix Them.
Reich, Robert B.
In this eBook exclusive, Robert B. Reich urges Americans to get beyond mere outrage
about the nation’s increasingly concentrated wealth and corrupt politics in order to mobilize
and to take back our economy and democracy.
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Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall
of Anheuser-Busch and
America's Kings of Beer
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Bossypants
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Bruce
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Buddha's Brain: The Practical
Neuroscience of Happiness,
Love, and Wisdom
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Change Your Words, Change
Your Life: Understanding the
Power of Every Word You
Speak
Damaged: The Heartbreaking
True Story of a Forgotten Child
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Double Cross: The True Story
of the
D-Day Spies
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From countless bar signs, stadium scoreboards, magazine ads, TV commercials, and
roadside billboards, the name Budweiser has been burned into the American consciousness
as the "King of Beers." Over a span of more than a century, the company behind it,
Anheuser-Busch, has attained legendary status. A jewel of the American Industrial
Revolution, in the hands of its founders—the sometimes reckless and always boisterous
Busch family of St. Louis, Missouri—it grew into one of the most fearsome marketing
machines in modern times. In Bitter Brew, critically acclaimed journalist Knoedelseder paints
Knoedelseder,
a fascinating portrait of immense wealth and power accompanied by a barrelful of scandal,
William
heartbreak, tragedy, and untimely death.
Tina Fey’s new book Bossypants is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description
of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days
doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey gives us
a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor,
and self-deprecation. Some of the funniest chapters feature the differences between male
and female comedy writers ("men urinate in cups"), her cruise ship honeymoon ("it’s very
Poseidon Adventure"), and advice about breastfeeding ("I had an obligation to my child to
Fey, Tina
pretend to try").
This sweeping biography of one of America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five
years to be written with the cooperation of Bruce Springsteen himself. With unfettered
access to the artist, his family, and band members—including Clarence Clemons in his last
major interview—acclaimed music writer Peter Ames Carlin presents a startlingly intimate
Carlin, Peter Ames and vivid portrait of a rock icon.
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially
like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed
history. With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from
thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can shape your own brain for greater
happiness,
Hanson, Rick
love, and wisdom.
"Words are a big deal. They are containers for power, and we have to decide what kind of
power we want our words to carry," says Joyce Meyer in CHANGE YOUR WORDS,
CHANGE YOUR LIFE. "I believe that our words can increase or decrease our level of joy.
They can affect the answers to our prayers and have a positive or negative effect on our
future. ... One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been
Meyer, Joyce
thinking and the attitudes we have."
Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been
Glass, Cathy
through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass.
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered
an astonishingly low rate of casualties. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it
was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the
invasion, and the Double Cross system, which specialized in turning German spies into
double agents, deceived the Nazis into believing that the Allies would attack at Calais and
Macintyre, Ben
Norway rather than Normandy.
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Dream Psychology
Psychoanalysis for
Beginners
Drift: The Unmooring of
American
Political Power
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End of Your Life Book Club, The Schwalbe, Will
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Everything Grow Your Own
Vegetable Book, The
Abbott, Catherine
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Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender,
and the End of Normal
Halberstam, J.
Jack
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Harbinger, The: Fact or Fiction? James, David
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Heads in Beds: A Reckless
Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and
So-Called Hospitality
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Freud, Sigmund
Maddow, Rachel
Tomsky, Jacob
Summary
Dr. Sigmund Freud introduces the reader to Psychoanalyis and Dream Interpretation. This is
a how-to guide on the Meaning of dreams. What lies within the subconcious mind?
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted
away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual
War, with all the financial and human costs that entails.
“What are you reading?” That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as
they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary
Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her
doctors believed was a rare type of hepatitis. Months later she was diagnosed with a form of
advanced pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, often in six months or less.
Vine-ripened tomatoes. Succulent squash. Plump cucumbers. Growing vegetables is a
rewarding--and cost-effective--way to eat better for less. Yet many don't know where to start.
Author and farmer Catherine Abbott answers questions like: * What is the best way to
maximize my garden space? * How do I get started growing food to sustain my family? *
Can I grow vegetables inside my house?
Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and
lesbians having babies? In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack
Halberstam answers these questions while attempting to make sense of the tectonic cultural
shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades. This colorful
landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late-life
lesbians, SpongeBob SquarePants, and queer families. So how do we understand the
dissonance between these real lived experiences and the heteronormative narratives that
dominate popular media? We can embrace the chaos! With equal parts edge and wit,
Halberstam reveals how these symbolic ruptures open a critical space to embrace new ways
of conceptualizing sex, love, and marriage.
In The Harbinger: Fact or Fiction? author David James exhaustively documents and
responds to the serious flaws found throughout the New York Times best-seller from
Charisma Media, The Harbinger. Messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn believes he has
discovered an "ancient mystery" in Isaiah:9:10 that "explains everything from 9/11 to the
collapse of the global economy."
Jacob Tomsky has worked in hotels for more than a decade, doing everything from valet
parking to manning the front desk. He's checked you in, checked you out, separated your
white panties from the white bed sheets, parked your car, tasted your room service, cleaned
your toilet, denied you a late check out, given you a wake-up call, eaten M&Ms out of your
mini-bar, laughed at your jokes, and taken your money. And in Heads in Beds, he pulls back
the curtain on the hospitality business, revealing the crazy yet compelling reality of an
industry we think we know. It is an incredibly funny, authentic, and irreverent chronicle of the
highs and lows of hotel life and boy, is there a market for it: in 2010, the American lodging
industry generated $127.7 billion in revenue. Prepare to be amused, shocked, and amazed
as he spills the unwritten code of the bellhops, the antics that go on the valet parking
garage, and the housekeeping department's dirty little secrets.
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Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor
who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives
Heaven is for Real: A Little
Burpo, Todd, Sonja and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad
Boy's Astounding Story of His
Burpo, Colton
praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence
Trip to Heaven and Back
Burpo
was clear.
Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood
and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on
How Children Succeed: Grit,
tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough
Curiosity, and the Hidden Power
argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like
of Character
Tough, Paul
perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control.
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life
isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties
and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the
incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves
provocative observations on women's lives with laugh-out-loud funny scenes from her own,
How to Be a Woman
Moran, Caitlin
from the riot of adolescence to her development as a writer, wife, and mother.
Pioneers in the field of nutrition and internationally renowned filmmakers, James Colquhoun
and Laurentine ten Bosch join with leading experts to offer proven strategies to lose weight,
prevent and reverse disease, and optimize health. Providing practical solutions, Hungry for
Hungry for Change: Ditch the
Change shows that your health is in your hands and that you can escape the diet trap
Diets, Conquer the Cravings,
forever. Experts from the fi eld of medicine and nutrition plus transformational stories from
and Eat Your Way to Lifelong
those who know what it's like to be sick and overweight give us the tools and inspiration we
Health
Colquhoun, James, need to begin our journey toward health today.
Broken into thirty-one segments, this book defines the most powerful blessings in Scripture
and encourages readers to declare one each day for a month. The declarations will affirm
I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak
God's blessings in the area of health, family legacy, decisions, finances, thoughts, outlook,
Over Your Life
Osteen, Joel
and overcoming obstacles.
"Human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and
say hello. Then it ain't the unknown anymore and it ain't scary. Or I guess it could be a
shitload scarier." Fans of the #1 bestseller Sh*t My Dad Says will recognize the alwayspatient voice of Justin Halpern's dad as it crackles through the pages of this hysterical new
I Suck at Girls
Halpern, Justin
book.
A sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of
muses, higher powers, even creative “types,” Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is
Imagine: How Creativity Works Lehrer, Jonah
not a Single gift possessed by the lucky few.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern
tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken
without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first
“immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead
for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d
weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings.
HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses,
Immortal Life of Henrietta
and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization,
Lacks, The
Skloot, Rebecca
cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
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Author
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In Gods We Trust:The
Evolutionary Landscape of
Religion (Evolution and
Cognition)
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love,
Terror, and an American Family
in Hitler's Berlin
Larson, Erik
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Is Everyone Hanging Out
Without Me? (And Other
Concerns)
Kaling, Mindy
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It Worked For Me
Powell, Colin
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Rushdie, Salman
Killing Kennedy: The End of
Camelot
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking
Assassination that Changed
America
Forever
O'Reilly, Bill,
Dugard, Martin
This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our
knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott
Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive
intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of
certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first
ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mildmannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant
daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome
young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a
position of world prominence.
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid
chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck - impersonating Off-Broadway performer and
playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends
and coworkers with the sentence "Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear
I'll shut up about it?"
It Worked for Me is filled with vivid experiences and lessons learned that have shaped the
legendary public service career of the four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin
Powell. At its heart are Powell's "Thirteen Rules"—notes he gathered over the years and
that now form the basis of his leadership presentations given throughout the world. Powell's
short but sweet rules—among them, "Get mad, then get over it" and "Share credit"—are
illustrated by revealing personal stories that introduce and expand upon his principles for
effective leadership...
On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC
journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the
first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic
Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” So begins
the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to
house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to
choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and
combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—Joseph Anton.
A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John
F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln. More
than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of
nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history.
Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor; recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed
a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War
and its culture-changing aftermath.
O'Reilley, Bill
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly.
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Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to
pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. In the #1 New York Times
Let's Pretend This Never
bestseller, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey
Happened: (A Mostly True
recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years,
Memoir)
Lawson, Jenny
and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor.
In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have
come to be known as the West Memphis Three—were arrested for the murders of three
eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false
testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison;
while eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the “ringleader,” was sentenced to death. Over the
next two decades, the WM3 became known worldwide as a symbol of wrongful conviction
and imprisonment, with thousands of supporters and many notable celebrities who called for
a new trial. In a shocking turn of events, all three men were released in August 2011. Now
Echols shares his story in full—from abuse by prison guards and wardens, to portraits of
fellow inmates and deplorable living conditions, to the incredible reserves of patience,
spirituality, and perseverance that kept him alive and sane while incarcerated for nearly two
Life After Death
Echols, Damien
decades.
The Little Book of Talent is a manual for building a faster brain and a better you. It is an
Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for
easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your
Improving Your Skills, The
Coyle, Daniel
skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business.
Man Who Saved the Union:
From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil
Ulysses Grant in War and
War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the
Peace, The
Brands, H.W.
White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.
Is he Jumpin’ Jack Flash? A Street Fighting Man? A Man of Wealth and Taste? All this, it
turns out, and far more. By any definition, Mick Jagger is a force of nature, a complete
original—and undeniably one of the dominant cultural figures of our time. Swaggering,
Anderson,
strutting, sometimes elusive, always spellbinding, he grabbed us by our collective throat a
Mick
Christopher
half-century ago and—unlike so many of his gifted peers—never let go.
When Beth Bernstein’s mother unexpectedly passed away, Beth’s life was forever changed,
My Charmed Life: Rocky
as she knew that she’d lost not only her best friend, but also a big part of herself. In this
Romances, Precious Family
heartwarming and moving memoir, Beth learns how to link together the platinum memories
Connections and Searching For
of the jewelry handed down to her by the woman who taught her how to love, overcome
a Band of Gold
Bernstein, Beth
obstacles, and (most important) accessorize.
You'd know Fred Stoller if you saw him. He has appeared on practically every great sitcom
you've ever seen - Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, and Murphy Brown just to name a
few. But he has never been a regular on a series, always the guest star. He longs to find a
showbiz home. Instead, he is a television foster child, shuttling from show to show in the
vain hope that one will finally agree to keep him. "My Seinfeld Year" tells the hysterical and
bittersweet story of what happened when Stoller finally got a shot at the showbiz stability
My Seinfeld Year
Stoller, Fred
he'd always dreamed of -- as a staff writer on one of the biggest television shows in history.
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a
justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle
Alexander reveals, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in
New Jim Crow, The
Alexander, Micharl nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans.
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No Easy Day: The Firsthand
Account of the Mission That
Killed Osama Bin Laden
Owen, Mark
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On the Origin of Species
Darwin, Charles
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Orthodoxy
Chesterton, G. K.
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Poor-ducing Theatre & Film at
Black Spectrum
Clay, Carl
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Presumed Guilty: Casey
Anthony: The
Inside Story
Baez, Jose
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Price of Politics, The
Woodward, Bob
Summary
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and
from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound,
operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group — commonly
known as SEAL Team Six — has been a part of some of the most memorable special
operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines. No Easy
Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-fourman team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. The blow-by-blow narrative of
the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen’s life straight
through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden’s death, is an essential piece of modern
history.
In 1831, naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin joined the Beagle expedition to Tierra del
Fuego. What he observed when he got to the new world would eventually lead him to
formulate his theory of natural selection. Published in 1859, On the Origin of the Species is
the controversial classic that revolutionized natural science and altered our understanding of
the world.
This work is a spiritual autobiography which stands as an inspirational apologetic for
Christianity. Many Christian thinkers, including C.S. Lewis, have found this book a pivotal
step in their adoption of a credible faith.
Poor-ducing is the memoir of Carl Clay and his journey towards the creation of an African
American Theatre institution in Southeast Queens N.Y from 1970-2009. What the heck is a
Poor-ducer? Poor-ducing: to dream & imagine with near delusionary belief: To lead and
function with inadequate resources: To adapt: to over-come impossible obstacles: to bring to
market andor create plays, films, concerts, poetry, while stretching pennies and materials to
their absolute outer limits: to effectively bring into being something with nothing, day in and
day out.
When Caylee Anthony was reported missing in Orlando, Florida, in July 2008, the public
spent the next three years following the investigation and the eventual trial of her mother,
Casey Anthony. On July 5, 2011, the case that captured headlines worldwide exploded
when, against all odds, defense attorney Jose Baez delivered one of the biggest legal
upsets in American history: a not-guilty verdict. In this tell-all, Baez shares secrets the
defense knew but has not disclosed to anyone until now and frankly reveals his experiences
throughout the entire case—discovering the evidence, meeting Casey Anthony for the first
time, being with George and Cindy Anthony day after day, leading defense strategy
meetings, and spending weeks in the judge’s chambers.
The Price of Politics chronicles the inside story of how President Obama and the U.S.
Congress tried, and failed, to restore the American economy and set it on a course to fiscal
stability. It spans the three and a half tumultuous years beginning just before Obama’s
inauguration in early 2009 and lasting through the summer of 2012.
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Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they
are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained
neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by
brains under extreme stress. Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness.
The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—
Alexander III M.D., shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered
Proof of Heaven
Eben
stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.
The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all,
inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such
sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and
sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason
and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer,
Prophet, The
Gibran, Kahlil
pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer
listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike selfQuiet: The Power of Introverts
promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are
in a World That Can't Stop
often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to
Talking
Cain, Susan
society--from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer.
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the
2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by
the time he was 30. The New York Times now publishes FiveThirtyEight.com, where Silver
is one of the nation's most influential political forecasters. Drawing on his own
groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can
distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great
cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and
uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more
accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of
Signal and the Noise: Why So
uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the "prediction paradox":
Many Predictions Fail-but Some
The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we
Don't, The
Silver, Nate
can be in planning for the future.
My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no
endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken
promise. Hope Solo is the face of the modern female athlete. She is fearless, outspoken,
and the best in the world at what she does: protecting the goal of the U.S. women's soccer
team. Her outsized talent has led her to the pinnacle of her sport—the Olympics and the
World Cup—and made her into an international celebrity who is just as likely to appear on
ABC's Dancing with the Stars as she is on the covers of Sports Illustrated, ESPN The
Solo: A Memoir of Hope
Solo, Hope
Magazine, and Vogue.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as
interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and
colleagues-- Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and
searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and
ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music,
Steve Jobs: a Biography
Isaacson, Walter
phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
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Superfood Recipes
64 Nonfic
Team of Rivals: The Political
Genius of Abraham Lincoln
65 Nonfic
That Used to Be Us: How
America Fell Behind in the
World It Invented and How We
Can Come Back
66 Nonfic
The Magic (The Secret)
67 Nonfic
The Power of Habit: Why We
Do What We Do in Life and
Business
68 Nonfic
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of
Power
69 Nonfic
Three Simple Steps: A Map to
Success in Business and Life
Author
Summary
With such an increased emphasis on health and nutrition, which comes on the heels of the
rising obesity epidemic, many people are researching ways to significantly improve their
diet. There are countless diets currently on the market that don't work, or give you results
that in turn diminish your health. Superfoods are just that, super. While a number of foods
provide the body with a healthy amount of vitamins and minerals, each of these foods step
up their game to offer something usually reserved for expensive supplements that still fail to
Daniels, Susan
bring what these foods do to the table.
Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly
Goodwin, Doris
original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail
Kearns
over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.
America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we
are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass
along the American dream to future generations.In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L.
Friedman, Thomas Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our
L.
leading foreign policy thinkers, offer both a wake-up call and a call to collective action.
For more than twenty centuries, words within a sacred text have mystified, confused, and
been misunderstood by almost all who read them. Only a very few people through history
have realized that the words are a riddle, and that once you solve the riddle—once you
Byrne, Rhonda
uncover the mystery—a new world will appear before your eyes.
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed
almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted
at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.
Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are
desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one
of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly
imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a
Duhigg, Charles
billion dollars a year.
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and
Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times.
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great
and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think;
politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often
Meacham, Jon
simultaneously. Such is the art of power.
How many self-help books are written by authors whose biggest success is selling self-help
books? Three Simple Steps is different. Despite stock market crashes, dot-com busts, and
the specter of recession, the author started a virtual company from home, using a few
thousand dollars of his savings. A few years later, without ever hiring an employee or
leaving his home office, he sold it for more than $100 million. As the economy slipped into
another free fall, he did this again with a company in a different field. He accomplished this
through no particular genius. Rather, he studied the habits of the many successful men and
women who preceded him, and developed three simple rules that, if followed diligently,
Blake, Trevor
virtually ensure success.
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71 Nonfic
72 Nonfic
73 Juv
74 Juv
75 Juv
76 Juv
77 Juv
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Summary
In 1999 in the Los Rios region of southern Chile, orthopedic surgeon, devoted wife, and
loving mother Dr. Mary Neal drowned in a kayak accident. While cascading down a
waterfall, her kayak became pinned at the bottom and she was immediately and completely
To Heaven and Back: A
submerged. Despite the rescue efforts of her companions, Mary was underwater for too
Doctor's Extraordinary Account
long, and as a result, died. To Heaven and Back is Mary’s remarkable story of her life’s
of Her Death, Heaven, Angels,
spiritual journey and what happened as she moved from life to death to eternal life, and
and Life Again: A True Story
Neal Md, Mary C. back again.
Every day, over 200 million Americans consume food products made of wheat. As a result,
over 100 million of them experience some form of adverse health effect, ranging from minor
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat,
rashes and high blood sugar to the unattractive stomach bulges that preventive cardiologist
Lose the Weight, and Find Your
William Davis calls “wheat bellies.” According to Davis, that excess fat has nothing to do with
Path Back To Health
Davis MD, William gluttony, sloth, or too much butter: It’s due to the whole grain wraps we eat for lunch.
If parenting is making Americans unhappy, if it’s impossible to “have it all,” if people don’t
have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support parenting, then why do
it? And why are anxious new parents flocking to every Tiger Mother and Bébé-raiser for
advice on how to raise kids? In Why Have Kids?, Valenti explores these controversial
questions through on-the-ground reporting, startling new research, and her own unique
experiences as a mom. She moves beyond the black and white “mommy wars” over natural
parenting, discipline, and work-life balance to explore a more nuanced reality: one filled with
Why Have Kids?: A New Mom
ambivalence, joy, guilt, and exhaustion. A must read for parents as well as those
Explores the Truth About
considering starting a family, Why Have Kids? is an explosive addition to the conversation
Parenting and Happiness
Valenti, Jessica
about modern parenthood.
Beloved classic describes a little girl's adventures in a topsy-turvy land underground and her
encounters with such improbable characters as the White Rabbit, March Hare and Mad
Alice's Adventures in
Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse, grinning Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, and the dreadful Queen
Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
of Hearts.
Hannah already has her hands full trying to dodge her mother's attempts to marry her off
while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden's most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the
beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with
Hannah's famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just can't get any
worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder Fluke, Joanne
killer. But if she doesn't watch her back, Hannah's sweet life may get burned to a crisp.
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged
strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
of human teeth grown dangerously low.And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art
(Daughter of Smoke and Bone) Taylor, Laini
student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.
Ar student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought.
She knows who she is--and what she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she
Days of Blood & Starlight
would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a world
(Daughter of Smoke and Bone) Taylor, Laini
suffered for it.
Old favorites such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Snow Queen" are the mainstay of this
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian
12- story collection, but older readers already familiar with Andersen may welcome the
Andersen
Andersen, H. C.
inclusion of such lesser known tales as "The Snowman" and "Father's Always Right"
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Summary
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has
never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a
gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support
Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw,
The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and
heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being
Fault in Our Stars, The
Green, John
alive and in love.
In Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad the two girls decide to be so good and kind and pure of
thought that wild animals will befriend them. When this doesn't work, they decide that
Ivy and Bean: Bound to be Bad Barrows, Annie
perhaps a little badness can be good.
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, set during the Civil War, has always captivated even the
most reluctant readers. Little girls, especially, love following the adventures of the four
March sisters--Meg, Beth, Amy, and most of all, the tomboy Jo--as they experience the joys
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May and disappointments, tragedies and triumphs, of growing up.
Burnett, Frances
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies
Littler Princess, A
Hodgson
but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great
Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and
anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the
opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny,
sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event
unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and
Looking for Alaska
Green, John
steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same.
The elusive Lady Lana (a.k.a. Sammy’s mom) ran off to Hollywood nearly a year ago to get
“discovered.” But when Sammy discovers that her mom has changed her name, dyed her
hair, and told everyone she’s only 25, she decides Lana needs a little reality check. I mean,
Sammy Keyes and the
Van Draanen,
it’s one thing to have her mom ditch her. But it’s another to find out she’s created a life for
Hollywood Mummy
Wendeli
herself where Sammy can’t possibly exist.
While serving school detention in the soup kitchen at St. Mary's Church, Sammy finds
herself the prime suspect in the theft of Father Mayhew's ivory cross. But there have been
other robberies at the church recently, and as Sammy attempts to discover the real thief, all
the suspects appear to be religious figures who are above suspicion. That is, until Sammy
cuts through disguises to uncover an enormous heist! Of course, solving the mystery would
be a lot easier if Sammy wasn't also trying to fend off dirty tricks from her arch-enemy,
Heather, and helping her softball team to win the playoffs. Then there's the gospel-singing
Sammy Keyes and the Sisters Van Draanen,
nuns known as the Sisters of Mercy....The excitement doesn't end in one of the funniest and
of Mercy
Wendeli
feistiest adventures in the life of the inimitable Sammy Keyes!
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Halloween is nearing, the one day of the year when the ghostly plane is close enough to the
human plane to allow mischief and mayhem. But the ghosts who have their eye on Zack
aren't thinking mischief, they are thinking murder. In this fourth volume of Chris
Grabenstein's popular Haunted Mysteries series, Zack must once again do battle with
malevolent spirits. And with his usual pluck, and the assistance of three dotty aunts, he must
save his town from a 200-year-old threat.Once again Chris Grabenstein proves his mastery
The Black Heart Crypt: A
of the frightening and funny tale. Young readers, especially reluctant ones, have found an
Haunted Mystery
Grabenstein, Chris inspiration to read in Grabenstein's quirky characters and deadly situations.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More
intimate than a diary, Charlie’s letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We
may not know where he lives or to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares.
Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course
through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new
friends. The world of sex, drugs, and music—when all one requires to feel infinite is that
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Chbosky, Stephen perfect song on that perfect drive.
I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened in Ohio. John Smith,
out there, on the run. To the world, he's a mystery. But to me . . . he's one of us. Nine of us
came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us—if we all still believe in our
mission. How can I know? There are six of us left. We're hiding, blending in, avoiding
contact with one another . . .but our Legacies are developing, and soon we'll be equipped to
fight. Is John Number Four, and is his appearance the sign I've been waiting for? And what
about Number Five and Six? Could one of them be the raven-haired girl with the stormy
eyes from my dreams? The girl with that are beyond anything I could ever imagine? The girl
The Power of Six
Lore, Pittacus
who may be strong enough to bring the six of us together?
A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a
fondness for vodka) decides it’s not too late to start over… After a long and eventful life,
Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem
is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the
works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka
consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and
100-Year-Old Man Who
embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a
Climbed Out the Window and
suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand operator,
Disappeared, The
Jonasson, Jonas
and an elephant (not to mention a death by elephant).
Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire
Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to
11th Hour (Women's Murder
the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her
Club)
Patterson, James own department's evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer--even her closest friends.
15 seconds can tear your life apart . . .Henry Steadman didn't know what was about to hit
him when he pulled up to a red light. A successful Florida plastic surgeon, he is in town to
deliver a keynote address at a conference when suddenly his life becomes an unrelenting
15 Seconds: a novel
Gross, Andrew
chase to stay alive.
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1Q84
Murakami, Haruki
92 Fic
A Dog's Purpose
Cameron, W.
Bruce
93 Fic
A Gift of Hope
Steele, Danielle
94 Fic
A Million Little Pieces
Frey, James
95 Fic
Age of Miracles, The: a novel
Walker, Karen
Thompson
96 Fic
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of
the End
Loureiro, Manel
97 Fic
Art of Racing in the Rain, The
Stein, Garth
Summary
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’
s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her.
She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for
‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo
takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its
unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.
This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog’s search for his purpose over the course
of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dog’s Purpose touches on the
universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here?Surprised to
find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a
stray mutt, Bailey’s search for his new life’s meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8year-old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a
good dog.
In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle
Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A
Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that
enriched her life beyond what she could imagine.
At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his
nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past
two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a
treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was told he could either stop using or die
before he reached age 24. This is Frey's acclaimed account of his six weeks in rehab.
On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to
discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun
to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is
thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is
also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life...
The dead rise…A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news—it’s the only
warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious
virus that creates monsters of men.
Humanity falls…A lawyer, still grieving over the death of his young wife, begins to write as a
form of therapy. Bur he never expected that his anonymous blog would ultimately record
humanity’s last days.
The end of the world has begun…Governments scramble to stop the zombie virus, people
panic, so-called “Safe Havens” are established, the world erupts into chaos; soon it’s every
man, woman, and child for themselves. Armed only with makeshift weapons and the will to
live, a lone survivor will give mankind one last chance against…
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an
obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television
extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an upand-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the
human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast. Using the
techniques needed on the race track, one can successfully navigate all of life's ordeals.
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Backfire
99 Fic
Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel
100 Fic
Beautiful Disaster
101 Fic
Because You Are Mine Part I:
Because You Tempt Me
102 Fic
Because You Are Mine Part II:
Because I Could Not Resist
103 Fic
Because You Are Mine Part III:
Because You Haunt Me
104 Fic
Because You Are Mine Part IV:
Because You Must Learn
105 Fic
Because You Are Mine Part V:
Because I Said So
106 Fic
Because You Are Mine Part VI:
Because You Torment Me
107 Fic
Because You Are Mine Part VII:
Because I Need To
Author
Summary
San Francisco Judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and
Dillon Savich, is presiding over the trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill – accused in a string of
murders – when the proceedings take a radical turn. Federal prosecutor Mickey O'Rourke,
known for his relentless style, becomes suddenly tentative in his opening statement, leading
Hunt to suspect he’s been threatened – suspicions that are all but confirmed when Hunt is
Coulter, Catherine shot in the back.
Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness... He was beautiful and
brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in
my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and
damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily...Gideon knew. He had demons of
Day, Sylvia
his own.
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the
appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance
from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path
to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand.
Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby wants—and needs—
to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the
ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks
her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If
Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way,
McGuire, Jamie
Travis has no idea that he has met his match.
From Beth Kery, the national bestselling author of Explosive, comes a red-hot romance like
no other—where the rules of attraction are broken with that first electrifying touch. Meet
Kery, Beth
Francesca and Ian. The fantasies of what’s to come begin…
From Beth Kery, the national bestselling author of Explosive, comes a red-hot romance like
no other—where the rules of attraction are broken with that first electrifying touch. Meet
Kery, Beth
Francesca and Ian. The fantasies of what’s to come begin…
From Beth Kery, the national bestselling author of Explosive, comes a red-hot romance like
no other—where the rules of attraction are broken with that first electrifying touch. Meet
Kery, Beth
Francesca and Ian. The fantasies of what’s to come begin…
From Beth Kery, the national bestselling author of Explosive, comes a red-hot romance like
no other—where the rules of attraction are broken with that first electrifying touch. Meet
Kery, Beth
Francesca and Ian. The fantasies of what’s to come begin…
From Beth Kery, the national bestselling author of Explosive, comes a red-hot romance like
no other—where the rules of attraction are broken with that first electrifying touch. Meet
Kery, Beth
Francesca and Ian. The fantasies of what’s to come begin…
From Beth Kery, the national bestselling author of Explosive, comes a red-hot romance like
no other—where the rules of attraction are broken with that first electrifying touch. Meet
Kery, Beth
Francesca and Ian. The fantasies of what’s to come begin…
From Beth Kery, the national bestselling author of Explosive, comes a red-hot romance like
no other—where the rules of attraction are broken with that first electrifying touch. Meet
Kery, Beth
Francesca and Ian. The fantasies of what’s to come begin…
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108 Fic
Because You Are Mine Part
VIII: Because I Am Yours
Kery, Beth
109 Fic
Before I Die
Downham, Jenny
110 Fic
Begger's King, The: A
Hangman's Daughter's Tale
Potzsch, Oliver
111 Fic
Best American Short Stories
2012, The
Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt
112 Fic
Betrayal
Steele, Danielle
113 Fic
Book Case, The
DeMille, Nelson
114 Fic
Calico Joe
Grisham, John
115 Fic
Casual Vacancy, The
Rowling, J.K.
116 Fic
Criminal: A Novel
Slaughter, Karin
Summary
From Beth Kery, the national bestselling author of Explosive, comes a red-hot romance like
no other—where the rules of attraction are broken with that first electrifying touch. Meet
Francesca and Ian. The fantasies of what’s to come begin…
Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with
excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number
one is Sex. Released from the constraints of ‘normal’ life, Tessa tastes new experiences to
make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa’s feelings, her
relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new
boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised in the precious weeks before Tessa’s time finally runs
out.
The year is 1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling
him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has
been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces first-hand the torture he's
administered himself for years. Jakob's daughter, Magdalena, and a young medicus named
Simon hasten to his aid. With the help of an underground network of beggars, a beerbrewing monk, and an Italian playboy, they discover that behind the false accusation is a
plan that will endanger the entire German Empire.
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short
fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of
magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then
chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best
American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.
In Danielle Steel’s thrilling new novel, a successful woman’s seemingly perfect world is
shattered when she faces embezzlement by the last person she would ever suspect.
In this compact and delightful murder mystery, New York Times bestselling suspense
novelist Nelson DeMille returns to one of his most beloved characters—the hard-boiled
NYPD Detective John Corey. New York City bookstore owner Otis Parker is dead, killed by
a falling bookcase. A tragic accident? Corey isn’t so sure.
In the summer of 1973 Joe Castle was the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie
anyone had ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas dazzled Cub fans as he hit
home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shattered all rookie
records. Calico Joe quickly became the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul
Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing Mets pitcher.
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is
left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an
ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor,
teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with
their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’
s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will
triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Karin Slaughter’s new novel is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses
forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good man’s deepest secrets.
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117 Fic
Deep Down: A Jack Reacher
Story
Child, Lee
118 Fic
Defending Jacob: a novel
Landay, William
119 Fic
Do You Take This Woman?
Johnson, RM
120 Fic
Dog Stars, The
Heller, Peter
121 Fic
Dovekeeper, The
Hoffman, Alice
122 Fic
Face in the Crowd, A
King, Stephen
123 Fic
Fall of Giants: Book One of the
Century Trilogy
Follett, Ken
124 Fic
Family Affair, A
Campisi, Mary
125 Fic
Fifty Shades Darker (book 2)
James, E. L.
Summary
In thriller master Lee Child’s exclusive eBook short story, Jack Reacher must track down a
spy in soldier’s clothing—by matching wits with four formidable females. Three are clean—
but the fourth may prove fatal.
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county
for more than twenty years.But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town,
Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old Son is charged with the
murder of a fellow student.
RM Johnson, the Essence bestselling author of Dating Games and The Million Dollar
Divorce, once again creates a riveting and enthralling novel that explores the bond between
two childhood friends when they both fall in love with the same woman. Pete and Wayne
grew up side by side and have lived their entire lives as best friends -- as brothers. And as
brothers, they have always been rivals when it came to women. The fateful night when Carla
walks into the bar where Pete and Wayne are having drinks brings Wayne his customary
luck with the ladies, and soon enough, Wayne and Carla are engaged. But Wayne's need
for one last conquest tempts him into bed with another woman, and the ensuing guilt leads
him to confide in his best friend -- a mistake that will haunt the three of them forever.
Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he
lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting
misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the
mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a
random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep
inside him that a better life—something like his old life—exists beyond the airport.
In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a
mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women
and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman’s novel is a
spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of
whom has come to Masada by a different path.
Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than
waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is
breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers
sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame,
shouldn’t be on the planet.
A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits; an American law
student rejected by love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House; a
housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while
Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love
with a German spy; and two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths
when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution.
When Christine Blacksworth's larger-than-life father is killed on an icy road in Magdalena,
New York, a hundred miles from the 'getaway' cabin he visited every month, she discovers a
secret that threatens everything she's always held to be true.
Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young
entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a
new Career with a Seattle publishing house.
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126 Fic
Fifty Shades Freed (book 3)
James, E. L.
127 Fic
Fifty Shades of Grey (book 1)
James, E. L.
128 Fic
Flight Behavior
Kingsolver,
Barbara
129 Fic
Gabriel's Angel
Roberts, Nora
130 Fic
Georgia on My Mind
Force, Marie
131 Fic
Gone Girl
Flynn, Gillian
132 Fic
Guilty Wives
Patterson, James,
Ellis, David
133 Fic
Hunger Games Trilogy, The
Collins, Suzanne
134 Fic
I, Michael Bennett
Patterson, James
Summary
When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young
entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives
irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian’s singular erotic tastes,
Ana demands a deeper Commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees.
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian
Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly,
innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve,
finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and
independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.
Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow
experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her
native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel's
inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. Characters and reader
alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science,
faith, and everyday truces between reason and conviction.
Laura Malone, widowed and eight months pregnant, is on the run from her disapproving
former in-laws, who want to raise the baby themselves in their blue-blooded lifestyle. A car
accident in the snow brings her to cranky artist Gabriel Bradley. Laura is snowbound with
Gabe in his cabin and he offers to marry her to help defeat the in-laws.
Georgie indulges in what she intends to be a no-holds-barred one-night stand with Nathan.
Unfortunately, Nathan has other ideas and sets out to have a relationship with her. Tess, on
the run from an abusive husband, and Cat, who raised her younger brother and sister, hook
up with Nathan’s brothers, Ben, an injured Iraqi war veteran, and Ian, a single-father and
talented Musician.
Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our
time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this
unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago
Tribune proclaimed that her work “draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a
pure but nasty addiction.” Gone Girl’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling
prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn.
Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter,
they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been
to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and
pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to
live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos,
and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known.
The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and
Catching Fire , and Mockingjay. Stunning.
Detective Michael Bennett arrests an infamous Mexican crime lord in a deadly chase that
leaves Bennett's lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to
rain epic violence down upon New York City-and to get revenge on Michael Bennett.
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Author
135 Fic
In the Midnight Rain
Samuel, Barbara
136 Fic
Innocent, The
Baldacci, David
137 Fic
Keeping Faith
Picoult, Jodi
138 Fic
Kill Alex Cross
Patterson, James
139 Fic
Life of Pi
Martel, Yann
140 Fic
Light Between Oceans, The
Stedman, ML
141 Fic
Litigators, The
Grisham, John
142 Fic
Lone Wolf
Picoult, Jodi
Summary
A RITA award finalist for Best Contemporary Romance from Romance Writers of America.
Barbara Samuel's first women's fiction, writing as Ruth Wind. Looking for the Past...Ellie
Connor is a biographer with a special talent for piecing together fragments of the past. Her
latest project, though, promises to be her most challenging—and personal.
America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop.
That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never
questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first-and last-- mistake of his career . . .
When the marriage of Mariah White and her cheating husband, Colin, turns ugly and
disintegrates, their seven-year-old daughter, Faith, is there to witness it all. In the aftermath
of a rapid divorce, Mariah falls into a deep depression—and suddenly Faith, a child with no
religious background whatsoever, hears divine voices, starts reciting biblical passages, and
develops stigmata. And when the miraculous healings begin, mother and daughter are
thrust into the volatile center of controversy and into the heat of a custody battle—trapped in
a mad media circus that threatens what little stability the family has left.
Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part
of. The President's son and daughter have been abducted from their school - an impossible
crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted
to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn't want Cross too close.
After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific.
The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded
zebra, an orangutan—and a 450-pound royal bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the
most extraordinary and beloved works of fiction in recent years. Universally acclaimed upon
publication, Life of Pi is a modern classic.
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and
takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the
coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves
are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel.
Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries
on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
After leaving a fast-track legal career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober,
unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg, a self-described
“boutique law firm” that is anything but. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are in fact just two
ambulance chasers who bicker like an old married couple. But now the firm is ready to
tackle a case that could make the partners rich—without requiring them to actually practice
much law. A class action suit has been brought against Varrick Labs, a pharmaceutical giant
with annual sales of $25 billion, alleging that Krayoxx, its most popular drug, causes heart
attacks. Wally smells money. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of Krayoxx users to
join the suit. It almost seems too good to be true . . . and it is.
A life hanging in the balance…a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author
Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family, love, and letting go.
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143 Fic
Love Me
144 Fic
Low Pressure
145 Fic
Lucky One, The
146 Fic
Mad River
147 Fic
Map of Bones: A Sigma Force
Novel
148 Fic
Marriage Bargain, The
149 Fic
Marriage Plot: a novel, The
Author
Summary
If there's one thing that Janica Ellis is absolutely certain of, it's that she and Luke Carson are
totally wrong for each other. She's a wild, artistic and outspoken fashion designer. He's a
type A, workaholic trauma surgeon (who just happens to be sizzling hot and her brother-inlaw!). But Janica is about to be proven wrong when opposites attract...in the sexiest possible
Andre, Bella
way.
Bellamy Lyston was only 12 years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy
Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime
scene along with her memory of what really happened during the day's most devastating
Brown, Sandra
moments.
After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the
dirt during his tour of duty in Iraq, he experiences a sudden streak of luck -- winning poker
games and even surviving deadly combat. Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an
explanation for his good fortune: the photograph -- his lucky charm.Back home in Colorado,
Thibault can't seem to get the woman in the photograph out of his mind and he sets out on a
Sparks, Nicholas
journey across the country to find her.
Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what’s-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with
dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a
highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep
on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on
the killers’ cell phones and sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal
Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run them
Sandford, John
down. But even he doesn’t realize what’s about to happen next.
The bones lead to ancient mysteries and present-day terror . . . To follow them means
death. During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks'
robes unleash a nightmare of blood and destruction. But the killers have not come for gold;
they seek a more valuable prize: the bones of the Magi who once paid homage to a
Rollins, James
newborn savior . . . a treasure that could reshape the world.
To save her family home, impulsive bookstore owner, Alexa Maria McKenzie, casts a love
spell. But she never planned on conjuring up her best friend’s older brother—the powerful
man who once shattered her heart. Billionaire Nicholas Ryan doesn’t believe in marriage,
but in order to inherit his uncle’s corporation, he needs a wife and needs one fast. When he
discovers his sister’s childhood friend is in dire financial straits, he’s offers Alexa a bold
proposition. A marriage in name only with certain rules: Avoid entanglement. Keep things all
business. Do not fall in love. The arrangement is only for a year so the rules shouldn’t be
Probst, Jennifer
that hard to follow, right? Except fate has a way of upsetting the best-laid plans....
Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone
else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen
and George Eliot. But now, in the spring of her senior year, Madeleine has enrolled in a
semiotics course to see what all the fuss is about, and, for reasons that have nothing to do
Eugenides, Jeffrey with school, life and literature will never be the same.
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Author
150 Fic
Marriage Trap, The
Probst, Jennifer
151 Fic
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
Patterson, James
152 Fic
Mission to Paris: A Novel
Furst, Alan
153 Fic
Next Best Thing, The
Weiner, Jennifer
154 Fic
Notorious Nineteen: A
Stephanie Plum Novel
Evanovich, Janet
155 Fic
NYPD Red
Patterson, James
Summary
To satisfy his late father’s wishes, hot and single billionaire Michael Conte must find a
bride—someone who will fit into his traditional family back home in Italy—and fast, so his
engaged sister will be allowed to wed. With no intention of being tied down, Michael
“proposes” to fiery, free-spirited photographer Maggie Ryan: if she will play the part of his
fiancée during her trip to Milan for a photo shoot, he will keep away from her married best
friend, Alexa, and stop making Maggie nuts with their too-close-for- comfort flirtations.
It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who's
robbing his church's poor box. That mission behind him, Alex returns home to celebrate with
Bree, Nana, and his children. The tree decorating is barely underway before his phone rings
again--a horrific hostage situation is quickly spiraling out of control. Away from his own
family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training, creativity,
and daring to save another family. Alex risks everything--and he may not make it back alive
on this most sacred of family days. Alex Cross is a hero for our time, and never more so
than in this story of family, action, and the deepest moral choices. MERRY CHRISTMAS,
ALEX CROSS will be a holiday classic for years to come.
It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric
Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he’s
coming—a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging
political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to
weaken French morale and degrade France’s will to defend herself. For their purposes,
Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence, and they attack him. What they don’t know is
that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an
informal spy service being run out of the American embassy in Paris.
Actors aren’t the only ones trying to make it in Hollywood.…At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders
left her childhood home in Massachusetts and headed west with her seventy-year-old
grandma in tow, hoping to make it as a screenwriter. Six years later, she hits the jackpot
when she gets The Call: the sitcom she wrote, The Next Best Thing, has gotten the green
light, and Ruthie’s going to be the showrunner. But her dreams of Hollywood happiness are
threatened by demanding actors, number-crunching executives, an unrequited crush on her
boss, and her grandmother’s impending nuptials.
After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency,
Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black.
Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living
facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy.
Now it’s on Stephanie to track down the con man. Unfortunately, Cubbin has disappeared
without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have
had help with the daring escape . . . or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive.
It's the start of Hollywood on Hudson, and New York City is swept up in the glamour. Every
night, the red carpet rolls out for movie stars arriving at premieres in limos; the most
exclusive restaurants close for private parties for wealthy producers and preeminent
directors; and thousands of fans gather with the paparazzi, hoping to catch a glimpse of the
most famous and beautiful faces in the world. With this many celebrities in town, special task
force NYPD Red is on high alert-and they can't afford to make a single mistake.
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Author
156 Fic
Panther, The
DeMille, Nelson
157 Fic
Park Lane
Osborne, Frances
158 Fic
Phantom
Nesbo, Jo
159 Fic
Poseidon's Arrow
Cussler, Clive
160 Fic
Private London
Patterson, James,
Pearson, Mark
161 Fic
Promise Me This
Gohlke, Cathty
Summary
Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, have
been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen-one of the most dangerous places in the Middle
East. While there, they will be working with a small team to track down one of the
masterminds behind the USS Cole bombing: a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as
The Panther. Ruthless and elusive, he's wanted for multiple terrorist acts and murders-and
the U.S. government is determined to bring him down, no matter the cost. As latecomers to
a deadly game, John and Kate don't know the rules, the players, or the score. What they do
know is that there is more to their assignment than meets the eye-and that the hunters are
about to become the hunted.
When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she’s unable to fulfill
her family’s ambitions and find a position as an office secretary. Lying to her parents and her
brother, Michael, she takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane, where she is
quickly caught up in lives of its inhabitants—in particular, those of its privileged son, Edward,
and daughter, Beatrice, who is recovering from a failed relationship that would have taken
her away from an increasingly stifling life. Desperate to find a new purpose, Bea joins a
group of radical suffragettes and strikes up an intriguing romance with an impassioned
young lawyer. Unbeknownst to each of the young women, the choices they make amid the
rapidly changing world of WWI will connect their chances at future happiness in dramatic
and inevitable ways.
Following from Jo Nesbø's electrifying international best-sellers The Snowman and The
Leopard, now comes Phantom, which plunges the brilliant, deeply troubled, now former
police officer Harry Hole into a full-tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future will
come to depend.
It is the greatest advance in American defense technology in decades—an attack submarine
capable of incredible underwater speeds. Nothing else in any other nation’s naval arsenal
even comes close. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype is missing—
and the man who developed it is dead.
For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began
eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private--the world's most
exclusive detective agency--saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but
can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former
Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over
again.
Michael Dunnagan was never supposed to sail on the Titanic , nor would he have survived if
not for the courage of Owen Allen. Determined to carry out his promise to care for Owen’s
relatives in America and his younger sister, Annie, in England, Michael works hard to
strengthen the family’s New Jersey garden and landscaping business.
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Author
162 Fic
Racketeer, The
Grisham, John
163 Fic
Reflected in You: A Crossfire
Novel
Day, Sylvia
164 Fic
Rope, The: An Anna Pigeon
Novel
Barr, Nevada
165 Fic
Rough Riders: Chasin' Eight
James, Lorelei
166 Fic
Rough Riders: Cowboy
Casanova
James, Lorelei
167 Fic
Rough Riders: Cowgirls Don't
Cry
James, Lorelei
168 Fic
Rough Riders: Gone Country
James, Lorelei
Summary
Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge’s untimely demise? His
name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current
residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland. On paper, Malcolm’s
situation isn’t looking too good these days, but he’s got an ace up his sleeve. He knows who
killed Judge Fawcett, and he knows why. The judge’s body was found in his remote lakeside
cabin. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his
young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and
emptied.
Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented
on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures.
I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction... my every desire... mine. My
past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We'd never work. It was too hard, too
painful... except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and
desperate love were the most exquisite insanity. We were bound by our need. And our
passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession...
In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barr’s bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada
Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna’s past and finally reveals the story that her
many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New
York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a
seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna
goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think she’s simply moved on—her
cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. But Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom
of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she found herself
in this situation.
Bull rider Chase McKay has finally landed in a pile too big to charm his way out of. Caught
with his pants down, he finds himself bucked right off the PBR tour until he can get his act
together.
In Sundance, Wyoming, you can’t throw a boot without hitting a McKay cowboy, so Ben
McKay is used to fading into the background. Except on weekends, when he’s Bennett,
imposing Dom at The Rawhide Club, surrounded by a bevy of female subs eager for the
attention of his long…whip.
Jessie McKay has accepted her marriage to Luke McKay wasn’t perfect. After two years of
widowhood, she’s ready to kick up her bootheels—until Luke’s younger brother shows up to
spoil her fun. But if Brandt thinks she’ll ever take orders from another McKay male, he’s got
manure for brains.
Arizona businessman and long-lost McKay love child Gavin Daniels has been awarded sole
custody of his teenage daughter Sierra for one year. In order to steer Sierra back on track
after a brush with the law, he pulls up stakes and heads to Wyoming, looking for support
from his ranching family...even if he isn’t sure where they fit in the McKay dynamic. He’s
prepared for every contingency with the move: the less-than-enthusiastic response from his
daughter, learning to run his corporation remotely, but he’s thrown for a loop when his new
housemate, Rielle, is a whole lot sexier, funnier and sassier than he remembered.
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Author
169 Fic
Rough Riders: Kissin' Tell
James, Lorelei
170 Fic
Safe Haven
Sparks, Nicholas
171 Fic
Sandcastle Girls: A Novel, The
Bohjalian, Chris
172 Fic
Secret Adversary
Christie, Agatha
173 Fic
Siddhartha
Hesse, Hermann
174 Fic
Song of Achilles, The
Miller, Madeline
175 Fic
Stepping Into Sunlight
Hinck, Sharon
Summary
Georgia Hotchkiss swore wild horses couldn’t drag her back to Sundance, Wyoming. So it’s
ironic she’s forced to take a rodeo PR job in her former hometown—right before her ten-year
class reunion. The only thing worse than facing her cheating ex-husband and his pregnant
wife? Showing up to the reunion without a date. Fate smiles on her when she runs into her
former classmate and current cowboy hottie Tell McKay. With his infectious smile and funloving ways—not to mention his banging body—he’s the perfect solution to her problem.
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of
Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing,
Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her
into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and
two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her
reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit
community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.
When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke College, a
crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The First
World War is spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the Bostonbased Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian
genocide. There, Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who
has already lost his wife and infant daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British
Army in Egypt, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he has fallen in
love with the wealthy, young American woman who is so different from the wife he lost.
Where is Jane Finn? The mere mention of her name produced a very strange reaction all
over London. So strange, in fact, that Tommy and Tuppence deceided to find this
mysterious missing lady. And once those two determine sleuths made up their minds,
nothing could stop them -- not international espionage, kidnapping...or even murder.
With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a
young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. Steeped in the tenets of both psychoanalysis
and Eastern mysticism, Siddhartha presents an original view of man and culture, and the
arduous process of self-discovery that leads to reconciliation, harmony, and peace.
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the
kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles.
“The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is
everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become
steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become
skilled in the arts of war and medicine—much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles’
mother, Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.
After Penny Sullivan witnesses a shocking crime, her world tips sideways. Suddenly things
like getting groceries, mowing the grass, and returning phone calls are more than she can
handle. But with her husband away at sea and her seven-year-old son depending on her,
hiding in the closet isn't an option. Hoping to recover by the time her husband gets home,
she picke up her trusty yellow notebook and formulates a restoration plan: Do one kind thing
for another person every day. The results are sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking,
and often brilliantly surprising...
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Summerland: a novel
177 Fic
Take Me There
178 Fic
Tears of a Tiger
179 Fic
The Black Box (A Harry Bosch
Novel)
180 Fic
The Forgotten
181 Fic
The Last Man
182 Fic
The Round House
183 Fic
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Author
Summary
A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a
bonfire on the beach. But what begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy
after a horrible car crash leaves the driver of the car, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin
brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend Jake and her friend Demeter,
are physically unhurt - but the emotional damage is overwhelming, and questions linger
about what happened before Penny took the wheel. As summer unfolds, startling truths are
revealed about the survivors and their parents - secrets kept, promises broken, hearts
betrayed. Elin Hilderbrand explores the power of community, family, and honesty, and
Hilderbrand, Elin
proves that even from the ashes of sorrow, new love can still take flight.
Dylan has a bad-boy past and a criminal record. He knows that rich, beautiful Jess is way
too good for him—but she has always been the one person who sees through his tough
exterior and straight to his heart, and he has been hopelessly in love with her from the first
Dean, Carolee
time they met. He would change his life for a chance with her.
Andy Jackson was driving the car that crashed one night after a game, killing Robert
Washington, his best friend and the captain of the Hazelwood High Tigers. It was late, and
they'd been drinking, and now, months later, Andy can't stop blaming himself. As he turns
away from family, friends, and even his girlfriend, he finds he's losing the most precious
Draper, Sharon M. thing of all -- his ability to face the future.
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from
1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally
investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never
Connelly, Michael solved.
Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the
U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new
Baldacci, David
case-but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida.
An invaluable CIA asset has gone missing, and with him, secrets that in the wrong hands
Flynn, Vince
could prove disastrous. The only question is: Can Mitch Rapp find him first?
One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is
attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized
and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil,
and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to
heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude.
Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill
Erdrich, Louise
prepared.
In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping
for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but
disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few
pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises
with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare
them for the calamitous difficulty they are sure to face in their later lives, to meet a world that
will not love them, a world that will not be kind. Captured here in twelve luminous narrative
threads, their lives tell the story of a mother’s monumental courage and the journey of a
Mathis, Ayana
nation.
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184 Fic
Threat Vector (Jack Ryan
Novels)
Clancy, Tom,
Greaney, Mark
185 Fic
Tiger's Wife, The
Obreht, Tea
186 Fic
Two Graves (Pendergast)
Preston, Douglas,
Child, Lincoln
187 Fic
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold
Fry: A Novel, The
Joyce, Rachel
188 Fic
Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher
Novel, A
Child, Lee
189 Fic
Where We Belong
Griffin, Emily
Summary
Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new
international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President
Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke
Qiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an
invasion of Taiwan.
In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the
mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching
for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his
encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story
her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife.
For twelve years, he believed she died in an accident. Then, he was told she'd been
murdered. Now, FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast discovers that his beloved wife
Helen is alive. But their reunion is cut short when Helen is brazenly abducted before his
eyes. And Pendergast is forced to embark on a furious cross-country chase to rescue her.
But all this turns out to be mere prologue to a far larger plot: one that unleashes a chillinglyalmost supernaturally-adept serial killer on New York City. And Helen has one more surprise
in store for Pendergast: a piece of their shared past that makes him the one man most
suited to hunting down the killer.
Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen,
who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast.
Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the
stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman
he hasn’t seen or heard from in twenty years.
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the
road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent
and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to
Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He
was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife
work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours,
the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was
there
Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York
City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone,
including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a
knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past
that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. From the moment Kirby appears on her
doorstep, Marian’s perfectly constructed world—and her very identity—will be shaken to its
core, resurrecting ghosts and memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten
everything that has come to define her.
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190 Fic
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A
Novel
Semple, Maria
191 Fic
Wicked Business
Evanovitch, Janet
192 Fic
Winter of the World: Book Two
of the Century Trilogy
Follett, Ken
193 Fic
Zoo
Patterson, James
194 Classic
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
The
Twain, Mark
195 Classic
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Twain, Mark
196 Classic
An Ideal Husband
Wilde, Oscar
197 Classic
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo
Summary
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated
partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens,
she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply,
Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed
her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to
Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India
now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her
mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating
a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and
daughter's role in an absurd world.
Janet Evanovich, mega-bestselling author of the beloved Stephanie Plum series, is back
and better than ever. Her novels, hailed by GQ as “among the great joys of contemporary
crime fiction,” deliver rollicking adventure with crackling wit and hilarious mayhem. And, now,
one of the hottest writers today returns with dynamic duo Lizzy and Diesel to prove that
when hunting down bad guys, the real fun is in the chase.
Winter of the World picks up right where the first book, Fall of Giants, left off, as its five
interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, Welsh—enter a time of
enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich,
through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of
the American and Soviet atomic bombs.
All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist,
watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a
coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly
clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before
it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will
be no place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle
suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson's ZOO is an epic, nonstop thrill-ride from "One of the best of the best."
Climb aboard the raft with Huck and Jim and drift away from the "sivilized" life and into a
world of adventure, excitement, danger, and self-discovery. Huck's shrewd and humorous
narrative is complemented by lyrical descriptions of the Mississippi valley and a sparkling
cast of memorable characters.
This childhood classic relates a small-town boy's pranks and escapades with timeless
humor and wisdom. In addition to his everyday stunts (searching for buried treasure, trying
to impress the adored Becky Thatcher), Tom experiences a dramatic turn of events when he
witnesses a murder, runs away, and returns to attend his own funeral and testify in court.
Wilde's scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a
married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers,
society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the
action of the play at a lively pace.
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the
moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant socialmores of their time.
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198 Classic
Around the World in 80 Days
Vernes, Jules
199 Classic
As You Like It
Shakespeare,
William
200 Classic
Bleak House
Dickens, Charles
201 Classic
Burning Daylight
London, Jack
202 Classic
Carmilla
203 Classic
Civil Disobedience
Fanu, Joseph
Sheridan Le
Thoreau, Henry
David
204 Classic
Common Sense
Paine, Thomas
205 Classic
Communist Manifesto, The
Marx, Karl
206 Classic
Complete Sherlock Holmes,
The
Doyle, Arthur
Conan
207 Classic
Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky,
Fyodor
208 Classic
David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles
209 Classic
Emma
Austen, Jane
210 Classic
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary
211 Classic
Girl of the Limberlost, A
Stratton-Porter,
Gene
Summary
Phileas Fogg and his manservant set out to win a wager by travelling around the world in 80
days. They embark on a fantastic, action-packed journey into a world filled with danger and
beauty, from India to the American frontier.
As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court,
accompanied by her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester, to find safety and
eventually love in the Forest of Arden.
In the fog of London, lawyers enrich themselves with endless litigation over a dwindling
inheritance.
Jack London's sweeping and romantic epic of a larger-than-life man's adventures in the
Yukon Territory and the burgeoning American business world is a classic of American
literature.
Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu first published in 1872. It tells the
story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named
Carmilla.
Civil Disobedience is a call for every citizen to value his conscience above his government.
Enormously popular and widely read pamphlet, first published in January of 1776, clearly
and persuasively argues for American separation from Great Britain and paves the way for
the Declaration of Independence.
The complete The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in the 1888
English version edited by Engels himself. One of the most influential political treatises of all
time, The Communist Manifesto is essential reading for every student of politics and history.
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s
Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Here,
all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly
complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!
Supreme masterpiece recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an
impoverished student tormented By his own thoughts after he brutally murders an old
woman.
David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy
and impoverished childhood to the Discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.
Sparkling comedy of provincial manners concerns a well-intentioned young heiress and her
matchmaking schemes that result in comic confusion for the inhabitants of a 19th-century
English village. Droll characterizations of the well-intentioned heroine, her hypochondriacal
father, plus many other finely drawn personalities make this sparkling satire of Provincial life
one of Jane Austen's finest novels.
Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the
anguished monster of Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's monstrous
creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of Readers and inspired
countless writers of horror and suspense.
Elnora Comstock, an impoverished young girl growing up on the edge of the Limberlost
swamp in Indiana, is a lover of nature who has an opportunity to pay for her education by
collecting moths.
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212 Classic
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
213 Classic
Gulliver's Travels
Swift, Johnathan
214 Classic
Wharton, Edith
215 Classic
House of Mirth
Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl
Written by Herself
216 Classic
Innocents Abroad, The
Twain, Mark
217 Classic
Invisible Man, The
Wells, H. G.
218 Classic
Island of Doctor Moreau, The
Wells, H. G.
219 Classic
Jane Eyre
Bronte, Charlotte
220 Classic
Last of the Mohicans, The
Cooper, James
Fenimore
221 Classic
222 Classic
Leaves of Grass
Medea
Whitman, Walt
Euripides
Jacobs, Harriet
Ann
Summary
Humbled, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of
becoming a gentleman — and one day he finds himself in possession of "great
expectations." One of Dickens' finest novels, this is a gripping tale of crime And guilt,
revenge and reward.
From the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, a great classic recounting the 4
remarkable journeys of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver. For children it remains an
enchanting fantasy; for adults, a witty parody of political life in Swift's time and a scathing
send-up of manners and morals in 18th-century England.
Wharton's first literary success, set amid fashionable New York society, reveals the
hypocrisy and destructive effects of the city's social circle on the character of Lily Bart.
Impoverished but well-born, Lily must secure her future by acquiring a wealthy husband; but
her downfall — initiated by a romantic indiscretion — results in gambling debts and social
disasters.
A slave narrative that has come to represent the particular horrors of life for the slave
woman of the 19th century American South.
In 1867, Mark Twain and a group fellow-Americans toured Europe and the Holy Land,
aboard a retired Civil War ship known as Quaker City. Throughout the journey, Twain kept a
written record of his experiences. The Innocents Abroad is both a travelogue and a critique
of clashing cultures but more importantly, it is an entertaining and insightful work written by
one of the great masters of American prose.
One of the most famous scientific fantasies ever written, this highly imaginative tale focuses
on the powers and bold ventures of a scientist, who, after discovering the means to make
himself invisible, unleashes a bizarre streak of terror on the inhabitants of an English village.
Filled with suspense and psychological nuances of plot.
Shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is rescued by a passing boat bound for the island of Doctor
Moreau. After a fight with the vessel s captain, Prendick is forced to go ashore on the island,
where his curiosity compels him to seek the truth about Doctor Moreau s gruesome
experiments. This gripping science fiction novel by H. G. Wells explores themes of cruelty,
morality, and man s abuse of nature.
An orphan girl's progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding
school culminates in a troubled career as a governess. Jane's first assignment at Thornfield,
where the proud and cynical master harbors a scandalous secret, draws readers ever
deeper into a compelling exploration of the mysteries of the human heart.
A massacre at a colonial garrison, the kidnapping of 2 pioneer sisters by Iroquois tribesmen,
the treachery of a renegade brave, and the ambush of innocent settlers create an
unforgettable picture of American frontier life in this imaginative, innovative, and classic
18th-century adventure
The first great American poem and indeed, to this day, the greatest and most essentially
American poem in all our national literature. The publication of Leaves of Grass in July 1855
was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most
extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed."
Medea, the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides.
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223 Classic
Merry Adventures of Robin
Hood, The
Pyle, Howard
224 Classic
Midsummer Night's Dream, A
Shakespeare,
William
225 Classic
Moby Dick
Melville, Herman
226 Classic
My Antonia
Cather, Willa
227 Classic
Odyssey of Homer, The
Homer
228 Classic
Oedipus Trilogy
Sophocles
229 Classic
Of Human Bondage
Maugham, W.
Somerset
230 Classic
Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles
231 Classic
Paradise Lost
Milton, John
232 Classic
Persuasion
Austen, Jane
233 Classic
Phantom of the Opera, The
Leroux, Gaston
Summary
The complete tales of Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Robin Hood and his band -- Little
John, Will Scarlett, Allan a Dale, Friar Tuck, Will Stutely, and Midge the Miller -- live
outlawed in Sherwood Forest, where, pursued by the Sheriff of Nottingham, they rob from
the rich and give to the poor.
Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius because she loves Lysander, and her friend Helena
loves Demetrius. The romantic confusion thickens when Puck a troublesome sprite
interferes. Shakespeare s beloved comedy ends happily after a string of mishaps and
mistaken identities have been resolved.
A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits
Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than
just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes man's soul.
A literary classic first published in 1851, Moby-Dick represents the ultimate human struggle.
My Ántonia, Willa Cather’s vivid portrayal of immigrant life on the American prairie during the
nineteenth century, has been a favorite since it first appeared in 1918. The harsh—yet
forgiving—land, the growth and maturity of Jim Burden, the narrator, the intriguing
characters, and the force of Ántonia’s strength all combine to make this novel exceptional.
Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the
lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge
at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope.
Favorite of the gods, Odysseus embodies the energy, intellect, and resourcefulness that
were of highest value to the ancients and that remain ideals in out time.
Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill
his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family. This
legend has been retold in many versions, and was used by Sigmund Freud to name the
Oedipus complex.
From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with
a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love,
embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.
Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling but inevitable
recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the
underworld crew features some of Dickens' most memorable characters, including the
vicious Bill Sikes, gentle Nancy, and the juvenile pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger.
Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, written by the 17th-century poet John Milton as
he became blind at the end of his life, is a retelling of the Biblical story of the Fall of Man.
Superb novel, autumnal and mellow in tone, concerns the lives and loves of the Elliot family
and their friends and relatives, in particular the thwarted romance between Anne Elliot
(Austen's sweetest, most appealing heroine) and Captain Frederick Wentworth. Finely
drawn characters, gentle satire and wonderful recreation of genteel life in the English
countryside.
Rumors abound that a ghost stalks the dark passages and cellars of the Paris Opera House.
No one has actually seen this Phantom, but Christine Daaé, a beautiful and talented young
singer, has heard his voice. He is her "Angel of Music," coaching her to sing as she never
could before. When the handsome Viscount begins to court Christine, the mysterious
Phantom- consumed by jealousy-rises up to seek revenge.
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234 Classic
235 Classic
236 Classic
237 Classic
238 Classic
239 Classic
240 Classic
241 Classic
242 Classic
243 Classic
244 Classic
245 Classic
Author
Summary
Celebrated novel traces the moral degeneration of a handsome young Londoner from an
innocent fop into a cruel and reckless pursuer of pleasure and, ultimately, a murderer. As
Dorian Gray sinks into depravity, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently
Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Wilde, Oscar
painted portrait reflects the ravages of crime and sensuality.
Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved
acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily
and intellectual explorations.
Masterpiece of semi-autobiographical fiction reveals a powerful portrait of the coming of age
of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity, and character. Telling portrayals of an
Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish
Man, A
Joyce, James
politics, sexual experimentation and its aftermath, and problems with art and morality.
In one of the most universally loved and admired English novels, a country squire of no
great means must marry off his five vivacious daughters. Jane Austen's art transformed this
effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
life.
The Republic is Plato's best known written work, structured as a Socratic dialogue between
the great teacher, his students and other citizens of Athens. A seminal investigation into
philosophy, political science, the nature of justice, government, spirituality and the role of art
Republic, The
Plato
in society, "The Republic" remains hugely influential.
Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure. And
find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel
American island for thirty-five years.
Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the
Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in
Roughing It
Twain, Mark
the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West.
For nearly a century and a half, Hawthorne's masterpiece has mesmerized readers and
critics alike. One of the greatest American novels, its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption,
woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are
Hawthorne,
revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart.
Scarlet Letter, The
Nathaniel
New introductory Note.
This intriguing combination of fantasy thriller and moral allegory depicts the gripping struggle
of two opposing personalities — one essentially good, the other evil — for the soul of one
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Stevenson, Robert man. Its tingling suspense and intelligent and sensitive portrayal of man's dual nature reveal
Mr. Hyde, The
Louis
Stevenson as a novelist of great skill and originality.
Against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Dickens unfolds a masterpiece of drama,
Tale of Two Cities, A
Dickens, Charles
adventure, and courage featuring Charles Darnay, a man falsely accused of treason.
A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this
masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural
lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hardy, Thomas
portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.
Populated by some of the most famous names in literary and actual history — D'Artagnan,
Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII — Dumas's peerless adventure offers
a rousing read. It traces an aspiring Musketeer's path to 17th-century Paris, where he
Three Musketeers, The
Dumas, Alexander encounters intrigue, romance, and, of course, thrilling swordplay.
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254 Classic
Author
Summary
In Mitch Albom's newest work of fiction, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for
trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to
listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually,
with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical
hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the
Time Keeper, The
Albom, Mitch
true meaning of time.
H. G. Wells’s sobering, thought-provoking novel is one of the greatest works of science
fiction ever created—and as powerful today as when it was written. After inventing a
machine that moves through time, the Traveler leaves Victorian London and goes far, far
into the future. At first, the world he discovers seems peaceful and prosperous. But as he
Time Machine, The
Wells, H. G.
looks below the surface he realizes that things are not exactly as they first appeared.
Switched at birth by a female slave who fears for her infant son's life, a light-skinned child
changes places with the master's white son. This simple premise underlies Twain's
Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson,
engrossing 19th-century tale of reversed identities, an eccentric detective, a horrible crime,
The
Twain, Mark
and a tense courtroom scene.
Heady tale of a treasure map, a perilous sea journey across the Spanish Main, a mutiny led
by the infamous Long John Silver, and a lethal scramble for buried treasure as seen through
Stevenson, Robert the eyes of cabin boy Jim Hawkins. An action-packed adventure story that will hypnotize
Treasure Island
Louis
young readers and entertain older ones.
Like many of Shakespeare's comedies, this one centres on mistaken identity. The leading
character, Viola, is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria during the opening scenes. She
loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes to be dead.
Shakespeare,
Masquerading as a young page under the name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke
Twelfth Night
William
Orsino through the help of the sea captain who rescues her.
Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and destroy a menacing sea
Twenty Thousand Leagues
monster. However, he discovers that the beast is actually metal—it's a giant submarine
Under the
called the Nautilus built by the renegade scientist Captain Nemo. So begins an underwater
Sea
Vernes, Jules
adventure that takes them from the South Pole to the submerged lost city of Atlantis.
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and
1921, "Ulysses" has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An
undisputed modernist classic, its ceaseless verbal inventiveness and astonishing wideranging allusions confirms its standing as an imperishable monument to the human
Ulysses
Joyce, James
condition.
The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and
melodramatically condemned the institution of slavery through such powerfully realized
characters as Tom, Eliza, Topsy, Eva, and Simon Legree. First published more than 150
Stowe, Harriet
years ago, this monumental work is today being reexamined by critics, scholars, and
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Beecher
students.
Long before our modern fascination with flying saucers and brightly glowing UFOs, H. G.
Wells anticipated a close encounter between puny Earthlings and seemingly all-powerful
Martians. A flash of light observed coming from the red planet sets the stage for a terrifying
War of the Worlds, The
Wells, H. G.
invasion, against which Earth s modern weapons are useless.
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255 Classic
White Fang
256 Classic
Woman's Bible, The
Author
Summary
The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end
of the 19th-century, and details a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication. White Fang is a
companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild,
London, Jack
which concerns a kidnapped, domesticated dog turning into a wild animal.
Book-by-book examination of the Bible by pioneer in women's rights movement places
events in their historical context, interprets passages as both allegory and fact, and
compares them with myths of other cultures. In the tradition of radical individualism,
Stanton, Elizabeth Stanton's attack on religious orthodoxy represents a political treatise rather than a scholarly
Cady
work.
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