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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, Bk 1) by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is... more
Book Votes: 47
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, Bk 3) by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter has to sneak back to Hogwarts, after accidentally inflating his horrible Aunt Marge. But once there everyone is whispering about a prisoner who has escaped from the famous wizard prison, Azkaban. His name is Sirius Black, and as a follower of Lord Voldemort he is determined to track... more
Book Votes: 35
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, Bk 7) by J. K. Rowling
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in the epic tale of Harry Potter, Harry and Lord Voldemort each prepare for their ultimate encounter.
Voldemort takes control of the Ministry of Magic, installs Severus Snape as headmaster at Hogwarts, and sends his Death... more
Book Votes: 34
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, Bk 6) by J. K. Rowling
The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet . . . As with all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate.... more
Book Votes: 34
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Twilight (Twilight, Bk 1) by Stephenie Meyer
"About three things I was absolutely positive.
First, Edward was a vampire.
Second, there was a part of him--and I didn't know how dominant that part might be--that thirsted for my blood.
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him."
"I'D... more
Book Votes: 33
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, Bk 2) by J. K. Rowling
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had... more
Book Votes: 33
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, Bk 4) by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for his fourth year of magical adventures in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This year brings with it many trials, dangers, and adventures in the unknown... including "girls". There is Dark Magic afoot, which brings danger as well as death.
Book Votes: 32
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, this book establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion... more
Book Votes: 31
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Wizard of Oz (Aladdin Classics) by L. Frank Baum
Hailed as the first original American fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz inspired countless sequels and imitations, as well as the classic American musical film and the Broadway musical The Wiz. In L. Frank Baum's imaginative story, Dorothy Gale takes a magical journey from the American heartland into... more
Book Votes: 30
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, Bk 5) by J. K. Rowling
I say to you all, once again--in the light of Lord Voldemort's return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust.
So... more
Book Votes: 30
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Laura T. (dordale) - |
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been... more
Book Votes: 29
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Danielle W. - |
The Shining by Stephen King
Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the... more
Book Votes: 28
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
Misery by Stephen King
After an automobile accident, novelist Paul Sheldon meets his biggest fan. Annie Wilkes is his nurse -- and captor. Now, she wants Paul to write his greatest work -- just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an ax. And if they don't work, she can get... more
Book Votes: 26
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| Jane (mahbaar) |
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women:
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace... more
Book Votes: 26
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Set in South Carolina in 1964, "The Secret Life of Bees" tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's... more
Book Votes: 24
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, Bk 1) by Michael Crichton
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now, one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true. Creatures extinct for eons now roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them -- for a... more
Book Votes: 24
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Danielle W. - |
The Green Mile by Stephen King
Read this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously --... more
Book Votes: 24
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Danielle W. - |
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in this decade. Chuck Palahniuk's darkly funny first novel tells the story of a godforsaken young man who discovers that his rage at living in a... more
Book Votes: 23
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 1) by Anne Rice
This is the story of the Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows... more
Book Votes: 23
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Based on a a novella from Different Seasons, this unabridged tale focuses on a man convicted of murder, who finds himself in a prison ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly operated by a clever convict. Read by Frank Muller.
Book Votes: 23
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Aimee B. (mommy2girlz) - |
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, Bk 2) by Thomas Harris
As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames "Buffalo Bill," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him.
That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist... more
Book Votes: 22
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| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien
Saga of a group heroes who set forth to save their world from evil. A brotherhood of 'hobbits,' elves, dwarves, and people is formed to combat evil forces. Tolkien drew on his extensive knowledge of folklore and the classics to create the worlds and creatures described in the trilogy, which... more
Book Votes: 22
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Shannon R. (alien12) - |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
The Grinch, whose heart is two sizes too small, hates Who-ville's holiday celebrations, and plans to steal all the presents to prevent Christmas from coming. To his amazement, Christmas comes anyway, and the Grinch discovers the true meaning of the holiday.
Book Votes: 22
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, Bk 2) by Dan Brown
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to... more
Book Votes: 21
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Eclipse (Twilight, Bk 3) (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Stephenie Meyer & Ilyana Kadu...
Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour the paperback edition Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again... more
Book Votes: 21
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Susan R. (Sue-in-AZ) - |
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields... more
Book Votes: 21
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost... more
Book Votes: 21
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Danielle W. - |
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White & Garth Williams (Illustrator)
An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte... more
Book Votes: 21
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Memoirs of A Geisha is an epic drama about the remote and shimmeringly exotic world of Sayuri, one of Japan?s most celebrated geishas. The novel has been a beloved bestseller all over the world and is now set to become the major movie event of the year. The film stars Asia?s most celebrated... more
Book Votes: 20
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
New Moon (Twilight, Bk 2) by Stephenie Meyer
Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find... more
Book Votes: 19
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
The Princess Bride (Fox): S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventu...
What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the "S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a... more
Book Votes: 19
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Danielle W. - |
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
On the surface, Henry and Clare Detamble are a normal couple living in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Henry works at the Newberry Library and Clare creates abstract paper art, but the cruel reality is that Henry is a prisoner of time. It sweeps him back and forth at its leisure, from... more
Book Votes: 19
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Danielle W. - |
Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded... more
Book Votes: 18
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Alice In Wonderland: Including Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looki...
A pensive, titian-haired Alice trips down the rabbit hole in this adaptation that pairs the classic story with gracefully expressive illustrations. Ingpen’s detailed visions of the menagerie of creatures Alice meets lend them anthropomorphic qualities while remaining anatomically precise.... more
Book Votes: 18
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and... more
Book Votes: 18
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
A heroic story of friendship and belonging. Ponyboy can count on his brothers. And on his friends. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose ideal of a good time is beating up "greasers" like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect - until... more
Book Votes: 18
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
The Firm by John Grisham
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school... more
Book Votes: 17
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, Bk 1) by Dan Brown
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist... more
Book Votes: 17
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
What's a girl to do?
Scatterbrained, social climbing Mrs. Bennet makes one demand of her five daughters.
Marry. Marry well. Marry RICH.
But sweet Jane is hopelessly in love with Mr. Bingley, who doesn't seem to notice. Flighty Lydia wants a man -- any man -- preferably one... more
Book Votes: 17
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon... more
Book Votes: 17
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank & B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (Tr...
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last year of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old... more
Book Votes: 17
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
Roots by Alex Haley
"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte."
So begins "Roots" ...
When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell... more
Book Votes: 16
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
In the forty years since Max first cried "Let the wild rumpus start," Maurice Sendak's classic picture book has become one of the most highly acclaimed and best-loved children's books of all time. Now, in celebration of this special anniversary, introduce a new generation to Max's imaginative... more
Book Votes: 16
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Originally published in 1954, William Golding's Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times.
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. At first they revel in the freedom and celebrate the absence of... more
Book Votes: 16
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Holes (Holes, Bk 1) by Louis Sachar
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by... more
Book Votes: 16
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JaNeil K. (KaneJ) - |
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale & Stan Re...
A former confidence man and master impostor recounts his crimes, captures, escapes, and imprisonment in a firsthand account of his international exploits.
Frank Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers,... more
Book Votes: 16
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
The Bourne Identity (Bourne, Bk 1) by Robert Ludlum
Jason Bourne.
He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets.
There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that... more
Book Votes: 15
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Danielle W. - |
Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, Bk 2) by James Patterson
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are... more
Book Votes: 15
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, Bk 1) by Helen Fielding
Meet Bridget Jones -- a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could:
a. lose 7 pounds
b. stop smoking
c. develop Inner Poise
"129 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified... more
Book Votes: 15
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| Angela B. |
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett & Tasha Tudor (Illustrator)
When orphaned Mary Lennox, lonely and sad, comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can charm and talk to animals. Then,... more
Book Votes: 15
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millenium, Bk 2) by Stieg Larsson & Reg Keeland (T...
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and... more
Book Votes: 14
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| Cindy D. (ladybird) |
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life on Earth... more
Book Votes: 14
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Danielle W. - |
The Devil Wears Prada (Devil Wears Prada, Bk 1) by Lauren Weisberger
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at... more
Book Votes: 14
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Jaws by Peter Benchley
"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer.The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating terror that inspired the Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again -- or for the first time!
Book Votes: 14
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
1984 by George Orwell
First appearing in 1949, the novel 1984 seemed like a nightmarish vision of the future in a totalitarian world. Playing on the public's worst fears about governmental control, different readings saw the former Soviet Union as the object of satire, while others focused on increasingly powerful... more
Book Votes: 14
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| Mamie |
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Four mothers, four daughters, four families... In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss, and with new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck... more
Book Votes: 14
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (Movie Tie-in Edition) by Michael Lewis
The Blind Side tells the inspirational story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teen taken under the wing of the Touhys, a wealthy white Memphis family. Oher's size and speed on the football field bring him accolades. But learning the game's strategy and making it as a student take the... more
Book Votes: 14
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Danielle W. - |
The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to... more
Book Votes: 14
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| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Flowers in the Attic (Dollangagers, Bk 1) by V. C. Andrews
Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden.
Blond, beautiful, innocent little secrets, struggling to stay alive.
Flowers In the Attic
The four Dollanganger children had such perfect lives -- a beautiful mother, a doting father, a lovely home. Then Daddy was killed in a car... more
Book Votes: 14
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of th...
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But... more
Book Votes: 14
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Danielle W. - |
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new material.
Book Votes: 13
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
A Christmas Carol (Value Books) by Charles Dickens
One of the best-loved and oft-quoted stories of "the man who invented Christmas"--English writer Charles Dickens--A Christmas Carol debuted in 1843 and has touched millions of hearts since. Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn't like. . .and hardly a man he does.... more
Book Votes: 13
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Danielle W. - |
PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again.
Holly couldn't live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish each other's sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30-year-old... more
Book Votes: 13
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Set in a small Alabama train stop town in the 1930s, this gem of a book almost could have been shelved as just another light romantic comedy. Various women's voices tell anecdotes of Whistle Stop, as the chapters jump back and forth through time. We hear from Mrs. Threadgoode, reminiscing... more
Book Votes: 13
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Jessica S. (iluvlibros) - |
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
This powerful first novel tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, the privileged young narrator, who comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy, just before his country's revolution and its invasion by Russian forces.... more
Book Votes: 13
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Danielle W. - |
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
"Sometimes dead is better...." When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the... more
Book Votes: 13
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Bk 1) by Suzanne Collins
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to... more
Book Votes: 13
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Danielle W. - |
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia ...
First, pleasure: savoring Italy's buffet of delights -- the world's best pizza, free-flowing wine and dashing conversation partners -- Gilbert consumes la dolce vita as spiritual succor. "I came to Italy pinched and thin," she writes, but soon fills out in waist and soul. Then,... more
Book Votes: 12
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes -- widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer -- opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. Mayes & her Ed take the risk of buying a run-down house in Tuscany &, over the succeeding... more
Book Votes: 12
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| Adriane S. (myhotstylist) |
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
A pregnant teenager abandoned by her boyfriend in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, finds a new home with the eccentric and caring people of the community.
Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she... more
Book Votes: 12
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Bk 1) by Judi B...
If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you'd have no choice. What if you didn't like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?
Book Votes: 12
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Ya Yas, Bk 2) by Rebecca Wells
When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a "tap-dancing child abuser." Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and... more
Book Votes: 12
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| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
"A major decision about me is being made, and no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion." The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to her older sister. And though Anna is not sick, she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has... more
Book Votes: 11
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Stuart Little by E. B. White & Garth Williams (Illustrator)
Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure. Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a... more
Book Votes: 11
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, Bk 1) by Jean M. Auel
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age... more
Book Votes: 11
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The great novel that was suppressed in Russia...praised as a masterpiece throughtout the free world - Doctor Zhivago.
Zhivago, a physician and poet, is the central figure. Through his experiences the reader witnesses the outbreak and the consequences of the Revolution: army revolts,... more
Book Votes: 11
79
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, Bk 1) by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey & F...
Adapted into two classic motion pictures, this bestselling memoir is the unforgettable story of two parents, twelve kids, and a world of laughter and love.
Translated into more than fifty languages, Cheaper by the Dozen is the unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its... more
Book Votes: 11
80
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Greeted as "an amazement of riches ... few readers will be able to resist" by The New York Times, Chocolat is an enchanting novel about a small French town turned upside down by the arrival of a bewitching chocolate confectioner, Vianne Rocher, and her spirited young daughter.
Book Votes: 11
81
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Danielle W. - |
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, WHITE OLEANDER tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, who's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers,... more
Book Votes: 11
82
| Christi W. |
Carrie by Stephen King
A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all... more
Book Votes: 11
83
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." -- C. S. Lewis"Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century. The book presents us with the richest profusion of new lands and... more
Book Votes: 11
84
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Return of the King (The Lord of The Rings, Bk 3) by J. R. R. Tolkien
As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate... more
Book Votes: 11
85
| Cindy D. (ladybird) |
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 1) by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a... more
Book Votes: 10
86
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for... more
Book Votes: 10
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Susan R. (Sue-in-AZ) - |
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy,... more
Book Votes: 10
88
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Story to Screenplay by F. Scott Fitzgerald &...
F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the great voices in the history of American literature, is best known today for his novels, but during his lifetime his fame stemmed primarily from his prolific achievements as one of America's most gifted short story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin... more
Book Votes: 10
89
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John... more
Book Votes: 10
90
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Danielle W. - |
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The story of a half-crazed musician hiding in the labyrinth of the famous Paris Opera House & orchestrating a number of events to further the career of a beautiful young singer has captured the imaginations of filmmakers, musicians, & millions of readers.
Book Votes: 10
91
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Danielle W. - |
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The punctured throat, the coffin lid slowly opening, the unholy shriek as the stake pierces the heart—these are just a few of the chilling images Bram Stoker unleashed upon the world with his 1897 masterpiece, Dracula. Inspired by the folk legend of nosferatu, the... more
Book Votes: 10
92
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Sybil : The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities by Flor...
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Book Votes: 10
93
| Christi W. |
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and... more
Book Votes: 10
94
| Christi W. |
Cujo by Stephen King
A cute family dog turns into a vicious family killer in King's canine classic.
Cujo is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted... more
Book Votes: 10
95
| Christi W. |
The Stand by Stephen King
Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and... more
Book Votes: 10
97
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Danielle W. - |
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
Meet Rose Feller. She's thirty years old and a high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. She also dreams... more
Book Votes: 9
98
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink & Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover -- then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he... more
Book Votes: 9
99
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother... more
Book Votes: 9
100
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is 1642 in the Puritan town of Boston. Hester Prynne has been found guilty of adultery and has born an illegitimate child. In lieu of being put to death, she is condemned to wear the scarlet letter A on her dress as a reminder of her shameful act.
Hester's husband had been lost at sea... more
Book Votes: 9
101
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Danielle W. - |
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Longstocking, Bk 1) by Astrid Lindgren & Florence Lambo...
The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a pet monkey named Mr. Nilsson. Whether... more
Book Votes: 9
102
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie,... more
Book Votes: 9
103
| Jane (mahbaar) |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, Bk 1) by Stieg Larsson & Reg Keeland...
Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the... more
Book Votes: 9
104
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Danielle W. - |
Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
This book is a heart-wrenching tale of self-discovery, renewal, and the courage it takes to love again. Teresa Osborne, a 36-year-old single mother, finds a bottle washed up on a Cape Cod beach. The scrolled-up message inside is a passionate love letter written by a heartbroken man named Garrett... more
Book Votes: 9
105
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Danielle W. - |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
In this classic novel of the 1960's, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the... more
Book Votes: 9
106
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JaNeil K. (KaneJ) - |
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Billy has long dreamt of owning not one but two dogs. So when he's finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own, he's ecstatic. Soon Billy and his hounds become the finest hunting team in the valley. But tragedy awaits these determined hunters -- now friends -- and... more
Book Votes: 9
107
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Christine by Stephen King
She purrs like a kitten...but watch out when she roars.
Book Votes: 9
108
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.
Book Votes: 9
109
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the... more
Book Votes: 9
110
| Christi W. |
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
'Salem's Lot in silver lettering. short description of the novel. A spine-tingling novel by Stephen King author of the million-copy bestseller Carrie
Book Votes: 9
111
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Linda G. (WindynWVa) - |
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, Bk 1) by L. M. Montgomery
This is the classic and immensely popular first novel in the series about Anne Shirley, an irrepressible red-headed orphan. The Cuthberts decide to adopt an orphan -- a strong, hardworking boy to help with the farm chores. Anne is sent to live with them by mistake. Talkative, romantic and... more
Book Votes: 9
112
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Summer, 1954.
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient.
But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems.And neither is Teddy Daniels.
Is... more
Book Votes: 8
113
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Danielle W. - |
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year... more
Book Votes: 8
114
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
The Bad Seed by William March
What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William March's classic thriller. After its initial publication in 1954, the book went on to become a million-copy bestseller, a wildly successful Broadway show, and a... more
Book Votes: 8
115
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Danielle W. - |
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Mitchard's suspenseful and moving novel is now available in trade paperback
Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story--a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book... more
Book Votes: 8
116
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, Bk 1) by Jeffery Deaver
Lincoln Rhyme was once one of the nation's most brilliant criminologists, a genius in the field of forensics. Now an accident has left him physically crippled and emotionally stunted. But he's about to be dragged into the most explosive case of his already distinguished career. A diabolical... more
Book Votes: 8
117
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Danielle W. - |
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years... more
Book Votes: 8
118
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Shannon R. (alien12) - |
Holes (Holes, Bk 1) by Louis Sachar
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character... more
Book Votes: 8
119
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Merry Christmas, everyone!“Bah!” said Scrooge. “Humbug!” With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and friends or open the pages on a chill winter evening to savor the story in... more
Book Votes: 8
120
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Danielle W. - |
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Annie Graves desperately travels across a continent with her injured daughter to see Tom Booker, the one man who can calm wild horses with his voice and heal broken spirits with his touch, to help her daughter, the girl's savage horse, and her own wounded heart.
Book Votes: 7
121
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
If you've ever paid off one credit card with another, thrown out a bill before opening it, or convinced yourself that buying at a two-for-one sale is like making money, then this silly, appealing novel is for you. In the opening pages of Confessions of a Shopaholic, recent college graduate... more
Book Votes: 7
122
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Rabbit-Proof Fence : The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Do...
The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home.
Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be... more
Book Votes: 7
123
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Danielle W. - |
The Black Stallion (Black Stallion, Bk 1) by Walter Farley
THE SOLE SURVIVORS of a devastating shipwreck, Alec Ramsay and the Black Stallion must learn to rely on each other to survive. As a strong bond develops between them, Alec gains the trust of the magnificent beast and eventually the Black allows Alec to ride. Finally, they are rescued, but will... more
Book Votes: 7
124
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Danielle W. - |
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell living just long enough (five months) to see her first and only novel... more
Book Votes: 7
125
| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.
By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night,... more
Book Votes: 7
126
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
As compelling and disturbing as when it was first published in the midst of the Cold War, The Manchurian Candidate continues to enthrall readers with its electrifying action and shocking climax.... Sgt. Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of... more
Book Votes: 7
127
| Elizabeth W. (pandagirl) |
Rocket Boys: A Memoir (AKA October Sky) by Homer Hickam
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir--a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into... more
Book Votes: 7
128
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again ... With these words the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband... more
Book Votes: 7
129
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The young couple. The new neighbors. The suicide. The amulet. The doctor. The herbs. The anagram. The baby.Rosemary's Baby. In 1967, when Rosemary's Baby was first published, Ira Levin's masterpiece gave horror an innocent new face. It caused a worldwide sensation, found fear where we never... more
Book Votes: 7
130
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
The action is set in Truvy's beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are "anybody" come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and... more
Book Votes: 7
131
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Linda G. (WindynWVa) - |
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
What's a girl to do?
Scatterbrained, social climbing Mrs. Bennet makes one demand of her five daughters.
Marry. Marry well. Marry RICH.
But sweet Jane is hopelessly in love with Mr. Bingley, who doesn't seem to notice. Flighty Lydia wants a man--any man--preferably one in... more
Book Votes: 7
132
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Cassie S. (cassie86) - |
The Handmaid's Tale (Handmaid's Tale, Bk 1) by Margaret Atwood
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to... more
Book Votes: 7
133
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
The story of the tormented and glamorous star, Joan Crawford, struggling to survive in a cutthroat world, succumbing to a rage leading to alcoholism and child abuse.
Book Votes: 7
134
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Hobbit (Lord of the Rings, Prequel) by J. R. R. Tolkien
The greatest fantasy epic of our time...
Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders and worse unknown... more
Book Votes: 7
135
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Danielle W. - |
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
Book Votes: 6
136
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Danielle W. - |
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
In a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches Alexandra Spoffard, sculptress, could create thunderstorms. Jane Smart, a cellist, could fly. The local gossip columnist, Sukie Rougemont, could turn milk into cream.
Divorced but hardly celibate, content but always... more
Book Votes: 6
137
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, Bk 3) by James Ellroy
A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law--three cops treading quicksand in the middle.
Detective Ed Exley wants glory. Haunted by his father's success as a policeman, he will pay any price, break any law to eclipse... more
Book Votes: 6
138
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Atonement by Ian McEwan
On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment's flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony's incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives,... more
Book Votes: 6
139
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work,... more
Book Votes: 6
140
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a... more
Book Votes: 6
141
| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, Bk 1) by Ann Brashares
Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they're great. She'd love to have them.
Lena and... more
Book Votes: 6
142
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Three Musketeers. Soon part of their close band, D'Artagnan's loyalty... more
Book Votes: 6
143
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Danielle W. - |
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, Bk 1) by Janet Evanovich
Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.
She's a product of the "burg," a... more
Book Votes: 6
144
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine
When Miranda decides to hire a housekeeper to care for her three children, her ex-husband Daniel, an unemployed actor, disguises himself as a woman and gets the job. Daniel is happy with this arrangement: he doesn't do much work, and he gets to see his children every day. But the kids find... more
Book Votes: 6
145
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Danielle W. - |
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of the classics It and Insomnia), four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.
Twenty-five years later, the... more
Book Votes: 6
146
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Borrowers (Borrowers, Bk 1) by Mary Norton & Beth Krush (Illustrator) & J...
Beneath the floorboards of a quiet country house lies the miniature world of the Borrowers. The Clock family -- Pod, Homily, and their daughter, Arrietty -- live happily in a home furnished with things they have "borrowed" from the "human beans" living above them: spools of... more
Book Votes: 6
147
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
It all started with the social studies teacher's extra-credit assignment: come up with a plan to change the world for the better, and do it. Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney began by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he asked them to "pay it... more
Book Votes: 6
148
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Danielle W. - |
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the... more
Book Votes: 6
149
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students... more
Book Votes: 6
150
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Dune (Dune Chronicles, Bk 1) by Frank Herbert
Opposing forces struggle for control of the universe when the arch-enemy of the cosmic emperor is banished to a barren world where savages fight for water.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He... more
Book Votes: 6
151
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes... more
Book Votes: 6
152
| Christi W. |
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red by Joyce Reardon & Ellen Rimbaue...
A mysterious and haunting spirit lurks within the walls of Rose Red, the setting for Stephen King's upcoming ABC miniseries tie-in by the same name. Built on a Native American burial ground in early 20th-century Seattle, the mansion which is constantly under construction sets the scene for a... more
Book Votes: 6
153
| Christi W. |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
An American classic, the moving story set in the 1900's, about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the century, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn follows the lives of 11-year-old Francie Nolan, her younger brother Neely, and their parents, Irish immigrants who have settled in the... more
Book Votes: 6
154
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Nancy W. (nanceew) - |
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, Bk 1) by Larry McMurtry
Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an... more
Book Votes: 6
155
| Mar |
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature. Based on local... more
Book Votes: 6
156
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution... more
Book Votes: 6
157
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Lord of the flies by william golding
When lord of the flies appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews for a first nove. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully written, tragic and provocative...vivid and enthralling...this beautiful and desperate book...completely convincing and often very frightening...its progress is... more
Book Votes: 6
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Hamlet (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark:
Shakespeare's classic tragedy of love, madness, and revenge was first enacted in London in 1602. Young Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is in mourning for his dead father, is visited by his father's ghost telling him that he was murdered by his own brother,... more
Book Votes: 6
159
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Danielle W. - |
The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller, Bk 1) by Michael Connelly
Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers -- they're all on Mickey... more
Book Votes: 6
160
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Danielle W. - |
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
All the beautiful people live in the idyllic village of Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent suburban Eden populated with successful, satisfied hubbys and their beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, a recent arrival with her husband and two children, it all seems too perfect to be true --... more
Book Votes: 6
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162
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Brian's Song by William Blinn
TWO MEN
One named Gayle Sayers, the other Brian Piccolo. They came from different parts of the country. They competed fiercely for the same job. One liked to talk; the other was shy.
One was white; the other was black.
This is the story of how they came to know each other, and help each... more
Book Votes: 5
163
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Susan R. (Sue-in-AZ) - |
A Room with a View (Modern Classics) by E.M. Forster
It's time to rediscover the wonderful books we all cherish. Published in 1908, A Room with A View is one of E. M. Forster's most celebrated works. Forster explores love among a cast of eccentric characters gathered in an Italian pension and in a corner of Surrey, England. Caught up in a world... more
Book Votes: 5
165
| Adriane S. (myhotstylist) |
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring...
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors.
This tale is about a remarkable young woman named Coraline (who remains polite, even when you call her Caroline). Recently she... more
Book Votes: 5
166
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, Bk 3) by Tom Clancy
Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west.
The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on...
Book Votes: 5
167
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Man on Fire (Creasy, Bk 1) by A. J. Quinnell
Creasy thought he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong.
An American soldier of fortune far from home -- alcoholic, burnt out, and broken down -- Creasy has accepted a job as a bodyguard just for something to do. An emotionally dead, one-time warrior, he knows that nothing can pierce the... more
Book Votes: 5
168
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Like Water for Chocolate (Como Agua para Chocolate) by Laura Esquivel & Carol Chr...
Like Water for Chocolate's full title is:"Like Water for Chocolate: A novel in monthly installments with recipes, romances and home remedies." Peppered with recipes, remedies and folksy digressions, this novel is a treat. The heroine of this fantastical love story, Tita, the... more
Book Votes: 5
169
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Jessica S. (iluvlibros) - |
Eragon (Inheritance, Bk 1) by Christopher Paolini
WHAT WAS ONCE YOUR LIFE IS NOW YOUR LEGEND.
When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire... more
Book Votes: 5
170
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Two sisters of opposing temperments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme ofr Jane Austin's dramatically human narritive. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the... more
Book Votes: 5
171
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey is the classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves....2001: A Space Odyssey inspired what is perhaps the greatest science fiction film ever made- brilliantly imagined by the late Stanley Kubrick....2001 is finally here....... more
Book Votes: 5
172
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story by Norris Houghton
The tragedy of love thwarted by fate has always intrigued writers. In the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of the world's great plays: Romeo And Juliet. In our own time, Shakespeare's drama has been used as a basis for the... more
Book Votes: 5
173
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith
In the tradition of Jackie Collins, Olivia Goldsmith gives us this sexy, savvy, wickedly funny novel about three first wives who band together to take their due from the men who used them, abused them, then dumped them.
Elise, Brenda, and Annie were all first wives inhabiting the headier... more
Book Votes: 5
174
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
Wanted:
One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy.
Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless-bordering on masochistic
Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived pre-schooler
Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by... more
Book Votes: 5
175
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Danielle W. - |
Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker
Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH)... more
Book Votes: 5
176
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Cocoon by David Saperstein
The last time the Antareans were on our planet, the lost continent of Atlantis was still on the map. Florida's changed a lot in 5000 years...
Now our galactic neighbors are back to revive the Antareans they left here centuries ago. But there's a problem, and the Antareans need some... more
Book Votes: 5
177
| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. The author spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous... more
Book Votes: 5
178
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Danielle W. - |
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, Bk 9) (aka Murder in the Calais Coach)...
Also published as Murder in the Calais Coach.
Snowbound in the Balkan hills, the passengers on the Orient Express awaken to shocking news: one of their number has been viciously murdered in the night. With a business more grim than murder afoot, Poirot has not a moment to waste. For the... more
Book Votes: 5
179
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories by Norman MacLean
Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, the title novella has established itself as one of the most moving stories of our time; it captivates readers with vivid descriptions of life along Montana's Big Blackfoot River and its near magical blend of fly fishing with the troubling... more
Book Votes: 5
180
| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Syl...
How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner.
"Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical... more
Book Votes: 5
181
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown
Elle Wood, University of Southern California sorority president and sociopolitical jewelry design major, is blonde, spoiled, creative and desperately in love with her college sweetheart, Warner Huntingdon III. But when Warner announces he's off to Stanford Law School, and that while there he... more
Book Votes: 5
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Danielle W. - |
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Jess Aarons' greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in his grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new girl boldly crosses over to the boys' side and outruns everyone.
That's not a... more
Book Votes: 5
184
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Congo by Michael Crichton
Deep in the darkest region of the Congo, a field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes...
In San Francisco, an extraordinary gorilla named Amy, who has a 620 "sign" vocabulary, may hold the secret to that fierce carnage.
Movie tie-in.
Book Votes: 5
185
| Elizabeth W. (pandagirl) |
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as... more
Book Votes: 5
186
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Love Story by Erich Segal
This is the wonderful, tumultuous, heartfelt story of Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri--the story of a rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major who have nothing in common but love . . . and everything else to share but... more
Book Votes: 5
187
| Christi W. |
Hearts In Atlantis by Stephen King
Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in... more
Book Votes: 5
188
| Christi W. |
Night Shift by Stephen King
Excursions into horror by the author of Carrie and The Shining, Introduction by: John MacDonald
A spine tingling, bizarre collection of tales about sinister forces and unspeakable things that are working the night shift.
Book Votes: 5
189
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Shannon R. (alien12) - |
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: "Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made... more
Book Votes: 5
190
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Cassie S. (cassie86) - |
And Then There Were None (aka Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie
First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to... more
Book Votes: 5
191
| Mar |
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters,... more
Book Votes: 5
192
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Bk 1) by Doug...
Don't leave earth without this story of the end of the world and the happy-go-lucky days that follow. The writing of New York Times best-selling author, Douglas Adams, has been brilliantly successful on both sides of the Atlantic in radio, television, theatre and spoken word audio.
Book Votes: 5
193
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
For nineteen-year-old Edmond Dantes, life is sweet. Soon to be captain of his own ship, he is also about to be married to his true love, Mercedes. But suddenly everything turns sour. On the joyous day of his wedding he is arrested and -- without a fair trial -- condemned to solitary confinement... more
Book Votes: 5
194
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Danielle W. - |
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
There was a time when the world was sweeter ... when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats ...
Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two,... more
Book Votes: 5
195
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Imagine coming upon a fountain of youth in a forest. To live forever--isn't that everyone's ideal? For the Tuck family, eternal life is a reality, but their reaction to their fate is surprising. Award winner Natalie Babbitt (Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious) outdoes herself in... more
Book Votes: 5
196
| Mar |
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish... more
Book Votes: 5
197
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Danielle W. - |
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Contemporary readers of Peyton Place will be captivated by its vivid characters, earthy prose, and shocking incidents. Through her riveting, uninhibited narrative, Metalious skillfully exposes the intricate social anatomy of a small community, examining the lives of its people-their passions and... more
Book Votes: 4
198
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
In a novel filled with his signatures -- nerve-shattering suspense, crackling dialogue, scathing wit -- Elmore Leonard proves once again why he sets the standard against which all other crime novels are measured.??In GET SHORTY, he takes a mobster to Hollywood, where the women are gorgeous, the... more
Book Votes: 4
199
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Shogun by James Clavell
Shipwrecked English adventurer, John Blackthorn, finds himself a key figure in a vast power struggle that is to plunge medieval Japan into civil war. Set in the exotic world of Oriental intrigue, passions, discipline, courage, and rigid moral and martial codes.
Book Votes: 4
200
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Precious by Sapphire
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16-years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey... more
Book Votes: 4
202
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The African Queen (Oxford Bookworms Library) by Cecil Scott Forester
The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would take a boat like that down a dangerous river through the jungles of Central Africa during the First World War. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut do just that. They come close to death many times, but no one would expect... more
Book Votes: 4
203
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, Bk 6) by Tom Clancy
A NEW WORLD ORDER...ON THE BRINK OF DESTRUCTION
Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East -- as Jack Ryan lays the groundwork for a plan that could end centuries of conflict. But ruthless terrorists have a final, desperate card to play; with one terrible act, distrust mounts,forces... more
Book Votes: 4
204
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
In his journal, John Steinbeck called 'East of Eden' "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and... more
Book Votes: 4
205
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International... more
Book Votes: 4
206
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him and he's both miserable and relieved. After all, he could have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection.
Rob seeks refuge in the company of Barry and Dick, the... more
Book Votes: 4
207
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Jessica S. (iluvlibros) - |
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home... Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at... more
Book Votes: 4
208
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Marathon Man by William Goldman
William Goldman's remarkable career spans more than five decades, and his credentials run the gamut from bestselling novelist to Oscar-winning screenwriter to Hollywood raconteur. He's beloved by millions of readers as the author of the classic comic-romantic fantasy The Princess Bride. And he's... more
Book Votes: 4
209
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
Anna Leonowens, a proper Englishwoman, was an unlikley candidate to change the course of Siamese (Thai) history. A young widow and mother, her services were engaged in the 1860's by King Mongkut of Siam to help him communicate with foreign governments and be the tutor to his children and favored... more
Book Votes: 4
210
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Beaches by Iris R. Dart
Loudmouthed, redheaded Cee Cee Bloom has her sights set on Hollywood. Bertie White, quiet and conservative, dreams of getting married and having children. In 1951, their childhood worlds collide in Atlantic City. Keeping in touch as pen pals, they reunite over the years ... always near the... more
Book Votes: 4
211
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
One enemy spy knows the secret if the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name: "The Needle"--who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the... more
Book Votes: 4
212
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
The Day Of The Jackal" features a plot you know is going to fail, a protagonist who you never know much about other than he's up to no good, and a henpecked hero looked upon with contempt by most of his superiors. The Bond lovers who made up this novel's key audience back in 1971 must have... more
Book Votes: 4
213
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius... even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.
Book Votes: 4
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Danielle W. - |
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.... more
Book Votes: 4
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| Suzanne Z. (Mom2Ty) |
Phantoms by Dean Koontz
An ancient, awesome force has spirited away almost the entire population of Snowfield, a small town in California. The bodies of those remaining have been bizarrely disfigured. What hope can there be for the few people still alive?
The lights are on in Snowfield, California, a cozy ski... more
Book Votes: 4
216
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Romancing the Stone by Cathering Lanigan writing as Joan Wilder
Romance is what makes Joan Wilder's world go round-that is, her professional world. In real life, the best-selling romance author is a shy, quiet young woman whose first few timid brushes with love have eft her gun-shy. And while her heroine lives for passion and danger, Joan prefers serenity.... more
Book Votes: 4
217
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the... more
Book Votes: 4
218
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Jungle Book (Watermill Classic) by Rudyard Kipling
This retelling of The Jungle Book is exciting and accessible to younger readers. "The man-cub is mine. Give him to me!" roars Shere Khan, the lame tiger. But Mowgli the man-cub is already deep in a cave, adopted by a family of wolves. Here, in the heart of the Indian jungle, Mowgli learns the... more
Book Votes: 4
219
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
He was a cultural icon. A world-class athlete. A champion who triumphed over terrible handicaps to become a legend of the racetrack. No other racehorse has rivaled Seabiscuit's fame or his sway over the nation's imagination. Now Laura Hillenbrand unfolds the spellbinding story of this... more
Book Votes: 4
220
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as... more
Book Votes: 4
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Aimee B. (mommy2girlz) - |
Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, Bk 1) by Thomas Harris
Will Graham stands in a silent, empty house communing with a killer. An FBI instructor with a gift for hunting madmen, Graham knows what his murderer looks like, how he thinks, and what he did to his victims after they died. Now Graham must try to catch him. But to do it, he must feel the heat... more
Book Votes: 4
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He’s all Marine-fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble.
Ben is the oldest,... more
Book Votes: 4
223
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
A triumphant, modern-day Horatio Alger story—based on the life that inspired the major motion picture—The Pursuit of Happyness is a memoir that will have you rooting for the underdog as it stirs you to pursue your own dreams. Abandoned by his own father and left to the vicious rage... more
Book Votes: 4
224
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex.
Set in a near-future... more
Book Votes: 4
225
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of this timeless classic with a special edition featuring a new foreword by the author and a message that is as relevant today as when it was first published. Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With... more
Book Votes: 4
226
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
K-Pax (K-Pax, Bk 1) by Gene Brewer
Psychiatrist Gene Brewer doesn't have a diagnosis for the mysterious new patient who calls himself "prot" (rhymes with goat). But this strange and likeable man cannot be -- as he claims -- from the planet K-PAX.
Or can he? Prot knows facts about space that are confounding the... more
Book Votes: 4
227
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, Tom Ripley is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly like him. Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral,... more
Book Votes: 4
228
| Mar |
Pygmalion (Enriched Classics) by George Bernard Shaw
When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an Academy Award³-winning motion picture. Generations of readers and theatergoers have... more
Book Votes: 4
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of... more
Book Votes: 4
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one Autumn midnight. How these two innocents,... more
Book Votes: 4
231
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Les Miserables: A New Unabridged Translation by Victor Hugo & Lee Fahnestock (Tra...
Hugo's wrenching story centers on Jean Valjean, an honest peasant sentenced to five years' hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread, then 19 more for trying to escape. Turned into a hardened and ruthless criminal by his experiences, he reforms, becomes mayor of a French town, but is... more
Book Votes: 4
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Bridge On The River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
One of the finest war novels ever written, The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway.
The Bridge on the River Kwai was awarded the Prix Ste Beuve in 1952. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.
Book Votes: 4
233
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All... more
Book Votes: 4
234
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
Meet Peter Joseph, aka Peejoe, a wide-eyed believer in the unbelievable, raised by his Meemaw in Pigeon Creek for a good part of his life. But it was his aunt Lucille who raised him for the better. And it all happened during that summer everyone was driven crazy in Alabama, with Lucille at the... more
Book Votes: 3
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236
| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
A KILLER WITH NO FACE, NO IDENTITY, AND A NAME THE WORLD WANTED TO FORGET: JASON BOURNEReenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For someone else has taken on the Bourne... more
Book Votes: 3
237
| Joanne R. (joanne-kelly) |
The Bourne Ultimatum (Bourne, Bk 3) by Robert Ludlum
The world's two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne's true identity and... more
Book Votes: 3
238
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Danielle W. - |
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded tragic... more
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Danielle W. - |
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Bk 1) by Philip Pullman
Lyra Belaqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar Pantalaimon always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle—a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans... more
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits... more
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242
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, Bk 1) by James Ellroy
On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.
In this fictionalized... more
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243
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice -- and indeed, the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill... more
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244
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished the author's two previous bestsellers, Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising. Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war -- the international battle of terrorism.Years... more
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have stumbled into a traditional... more
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246
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society -- against whose rigid mores she often rebelled -- Edith Wharton bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries in her rich and glamorous life. The House of Mirth (1905), her tenth book, is the story of young Lily Bart and her... more
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247
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Big Trouble by Dave Barry
Dave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida.
In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything--written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has... more
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248
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr.... more
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249
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Cameron Crowe
Welcome to lunch court. That's Spicoli over there, trying hard to unwrap a bologna sandwich. His eyes are still red-rimmed from the three bowls of dope he smoked after his morning surf. Stacy Hamilton doesn't look any different ever though she finally lost her virginity last night. Linda... more
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250
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare?s King Lear cast... more
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251
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Danielle W. - |
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
First published in 1966, Valley of the Dolls rocketed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list and went on to sell an unprecedented eight million copies. Unavailable in paperback for over fifteen years, Jacqueline Susann's sensational story of three pill-popping, Gucci-clad show-biz... more
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252
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, THE ENGLISH PATIENT tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of... more
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253
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Anywhere But Here (Mayan Stevenson, Bk 1) by Mona Simpson
Anywhere But Here is a moving, often comic portrait of wise child Ann August and her mother, Adele, a larger-than-life American dreamer. As they travel through the landscape of their often conflicting ambitions, Ann and Adele bring to life a novel that is a brilliant exploration of the perennial... more
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254
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and... more
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255
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Macon Leary, a travel writer who hates travel, with a lonely, somewhat odd domestic life, is about to embark on a surprising new journey. It's called love & arrives in the unlikely shape of a fuzzy-haired dog-obedience trainer who promises to turn the Accidental Tourist into a happy traveler.
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256
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All the President's Men by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
In the most devastating political detective story of the century, two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened.
Beginning with the story of a simple... more
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Danielle W. - |
Practical Magic (Practical Magic, Bk 1) by Alice Hoffman
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, but all... more
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258
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Waiting to Exhale (Waiting To Exhale, Bk 1) by Terry McMillan
ROBIN STOKES is a successful insurance professional recovering from a dead-end love affair. "They say love is a two-way street. But I don't believe it because the one I've been on for the last two years was a dirt road." After months of depression , shopping and dating all the... more
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does... more
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260
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Princess Diaries (Princess Diaries, Bk 1) by Meg Cabot
She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom...
News Flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo meets her at the airport!)
Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.)
Shock of the Century: Like it or not, Mia Thermopolis is... more
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261
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Indian in the Cupboard (Indian in the Cupboard, Bk 1) by Lynne Reid Banks
It all started with a birthday present Omri didn't want -- a small, plastic Indian that no use to him at all.
But an old wooden cupboard and a special key brought his unusual toy to life. And then even stranger things began to happen- wonderful, secret, dangerous...magical things.
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262
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
Winner of Best Screenplay Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. In another family drama, after his internationally acclaimed Sense and Sensibility success, director Ang Lee takes his moving and comic sensibility to the American suburbs of the 1970s. 20 b/w photos. The Newmarket Shooting... more
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263
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Das Boot : The Boat by Lothar Gunther Buchheim
The thrilling wartime novel that inspired Wolfgang Petersen's Academy Award-nominated, blockbuster film!
In autumn 1941, a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they brave the ocean's... more
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264
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) by Philip K. Dick
A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living... more
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| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne & Michael Glencross (Translator) &...
Jules Verne's career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction -- stories that combined popular science and exploration. In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty... more
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266
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, Bk 1) by Martin Cruz Smith
"Brilliant...One of the best books of the season."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except... more
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267
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels."
So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived,... more
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268
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Mermaids by Patty Dann & Patty Dann
"Mrs. Flax was happiest when she was leaving a place, but I wanted to stay put long enough to fall down crazy and hear the Word of God. I always called my mother Mrs. Flax."So begins this extraordinary first novel about one wild year in the life of fourteen-year-old Charlotte Flax, when she and... more
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269
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The Hours by Michael Cunningham
A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood.
In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a... more
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270
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Master and Commander (Aubrey / Maturin, Bk 1) by Patrick O'Brian
It is the dawn of the 19th century; Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, has been promoted to captain, and inherits command of HMS Sophie. A brave and gifted seaman, Aubrey's thirst for adventure and glory is satisfied as he embarks on thrilling battles with his crew.
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271
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
True Grit by Charles Portis
Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as... more
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272
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway once remarked that all modern American literature comes from Twain's adventure-filled story of Huck Finn and the mighty Mississippi. This Giant Literary Classics edition pairs two of Twain's best-loved novels, which introduced new territory to American readers when first... more
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273
| Christi W. |
The Godfather Returns by Mark Winegardner
THE MISSING YEARS FROM THE GREATEST CRIME SAGA OF ALL TIMEThirty-five years ago, Mario Puzo’s great American tale, The Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly changed. Now, in The Godfather Returns, acclaimed novelist Mark Winegardner continues the story–the years... more
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274
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Danielle W. - |
Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard
Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier—with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life with a well-placed bullet. The New... more
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against... more
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Man in the Iron Mask (Tor Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All... more
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
This edition of Wuthering Heights includes a Biographical Note and Foreward by Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
The dark, wild gypsy orphan Heathcliff loved only one person on earth, beautiful, willful Cathy Earnshaw. But Cathy's brother Hindley--the cruel, drunken master of Wuthering Heights--hated... more
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: the master thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, Bill... more
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279
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Danielle W. - |
Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Bk 4) by Stephenie Meyer
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire... more
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280
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Danielle W. - |
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A young Boston trial lawyer is drawn into a case involving two industrial chemical plants and a cluster of childhood leukemia victims that is to encompass nine difficult years and bring him to near bankruptcy.
This is the true story of an epic courtroom showdown. Two of the nation's largest... more
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Danielle W. - |
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
"Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother... gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus....
At the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and... more
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282
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Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board by ...
When Bethany Hamilton lost her arm in the fall of 2003 to a shark attack, it looked as if the career of one of the country's top amateur surfers was over. But just ten weeks later, she returned to competition in her native Hawaii, vowing never to give up the sport she loves. She has since... more
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Danielle W. - |
Contact by Carl Sagan
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension.
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there?
In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future --... more
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284
| Zinn B. (ZinnBeck) |
Sphere by Michael Crichton
In the middle of the South Pacific, 1,000 feet below the surface, a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the ocean floor.... it seems undamaged by its fall from the sky, and it appears to be at least three hundred years old. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who... more
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Danielle W. - |
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door to door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard -- their secret hiding place -- and promises... more
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286
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student... more
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287
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
The phenomenal bestseller that inspired the classic motion picture--newly re-released in a version you've never seen before!
Chris MacNeil - adored film star, divorced single mother - has come to Washington, D. C. to finish a movie. Swept up by the demands of her busy, flourishing career,... more
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hille...
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was... more
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Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Twenty-six-year-old Wurtzel, a former critic of popular music for New York and the New Yorker, recounts in this luridly intimate memoir the 10 years of chronic, debilitating depression that preceded her treatment with Prozac in 1990. After her parents' acrimonious divorce, Wurtzel was raised by... more
Book Votes: 2
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Chariots of Fire by W. J. Weatherby
The story of the two British runners -- Harold Abrahams and Eric LIddell -- who competed in the 1924 Olympics in Paris to prove something to the world. Two men, one a Jew who runs to triumph over bigotry, the other a Scots missionary who runs to glorify God. Two men who race toward... more
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Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
In his latest work, the unrivaled master of the crime novel once again breaks all the rules as he redefines the standards of the art. Out of Sight crackles with originality and wicked brilliance, displaying all the razor-sharp dialogue, inimitable wit, and memorable characters who have become... more
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The Third Man by Graham Greene
The Third Man is one of the truly great post-war films, the Oscar winner starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton. This complete novella is the original basis for that film. The story centers on a pulp-fiction writer who is searching for an old friend in post-World War II Vienna. When he... more
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293
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall
What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is about to find out in Jim Stovall's The Ultimate Gift. Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits... more
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
Something Borrowed (Darcy & Rachel, Bk 1) by Emily Giffin
Meet Rachel White, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl--until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend Darcy throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiance'.
Although... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dolly family will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, sixteen-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive.... more
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296
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century -- the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
One of Waugh's most famous books, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. Taking place in the years after World War I,... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher
"I'm expecting a breakthrough any decade now..." POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE Suzanne Vale is funny and famous, a thirty-ish actress who has crash-landed in rehab, and navigated the humorous and harrowing byways of all of her addictions...even love. Tough yet fragile, she's hanging on -- and she's... more
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299
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and ...
A gripping and vibrant book soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and directed by Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson’s War was a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times best seller when it was published in 2003. Crile’s book is... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons-beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's tough yet charming portait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival.
Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. It traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
Inventive and haunting, How to Make an American Quilt powerfully captures the rites of passage in women's lives. The art of quiltmaking becomes a metaphor for the realities of being a woman in America as the unforgettable stories of seven members of a contemporary California quilting group... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Harriet the Spy (Harriet the Spy, Bk 1) by Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The End of the Affair (Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene
The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the relationship. It seemed impossible that there could be a rival for her heart. Yet two years later, driven by... more
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308
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his red Maserati, has run over a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, in his obsession for all things Scottish, appoints him as... more
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The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets b...
The Basketball Diaries chronicles Jim Carroll's alternatively hilarious and horrifying urban coming-of-age from twelve to fifteen. The excerpts published in The Paris Review in the 1970s created a sensation -- a response that continues to this day. Here is Carroll prowling the streets... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
About a Boy stars a guy called Will, who doesn't really want any children. He wonders why it bothers people that he lives so happily alone in his fashionable, Lego-free flat, with massive speakers, and an expensive cream-colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on. Then Will meets Angie.
He... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille
Read by Ken Howard2 cassettes / 3 hoursWhen a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up paraphernalia and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions. The chief investigator is reluctant to take the case when he... more
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| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
Beezus and Ramona (Ramona Quimby, Bk 1) by Beverly Cleary & Tracy Dockray (Illust...
Ramona Quimby is the youngest of all the famous characters in Mrs. Cleary's wonderful Henry Huggins stories. She is also far and away the most deadly. Readers of the earlier books will remember that Ramona has always been a menace to Beezus, her older sister, to Henry, and to his dog Ribsy.... more
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The Beach by Alex Garland
The Khao San Road, Bangkok--first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach." The Beach, as... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Hostage by Robert Crais
An ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief... more
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Jumper (Jumper, Bk 1) by Steven Gould
What if you could go anywhere in the world, in the blink of an eye? Where would you go? What would you do?
Davy can teleport.
To survive, Davy must learn to use and control his power in a world that is more violent and complex than he ever imagined. But mere survival is not enough for... more
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| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Russia House : A Novel by John le Carre
John le Carré has earned worldwide acclaim with extraordinary spy novels, including The Russia House, an unequivocal classic. Navigating readers through the shadow worlds of international espionage with critical knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carré tracks... more
Book Votes: 2
317
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea,... more
Book Votes: 2
318
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Primary Colors : A Novel of Politics by Anonymous
A brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures. When a former congressional aide becomes part of the staff of the governor of a small... more
Book Votes: 2
319
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Island by Peter Benchley
In the Caribbean a few steps may lead from the sunlit villas of tanned lovers, to something evil rotting in the tropical underbrush. In the Caribbean 610 seagoing boats and 2000 innocent people have simply vanished, apparently lost forever. How could it happen? Why does no one know or care to know?
Book Votes: 2
320
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Sideways (Sideways, Bk 1) by Rex Pickett
Sideways is the story of two friends -- Miles and Jack -- going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa... more
Book Votes: 2
321
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Timeline by Michael Crichton
In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the... more
Book Votes: 2
322
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne & Mendor T. Brunetti (Translator)
A thrilling-and prophetic-voyage into the depths of the unknown aboard the legendary submarine Nautilus, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea explores the limitless possibilities of the imagination-and the darkest labyrinth of human nature...
Translated and with an introduction by Mendor T.... more
Book Votes: 2
323
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The story deals with the tri-cornered relationship between Charles Smithson, Ernestina, his fianc?e, and Sarah Woodruff, reputed and professing to be a French Lieutenant's discarded woman. Charles is a well-born young man of scientific bent and dilettante pursuits; Ernestina, up from trade, is... more
Book Votes: 2
324
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine
An anonymous love letter arrives in Helen MacFarquhar's mail one summer morning. Written by an unknown lover to a mysterious beloved, the letter becomes Helen's obsession. The proprietress of a bookstore in a quaint New England town, Helen is content with her calm, controlled world, running her... more
Book Votes: 2
325
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly heartbreaking and haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. A Map of the World is the riveting story of how a... more
Book Votes: 2
326
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig & Thomas Colchie (Translator)
In this "extremely moving tale", Puig keenly depicts and examines the relationship between Molina, a homosexual window dresser, and Valentin, a fierce revolutionary, two men imprisoned in the same cell in a country in Latin America.
Book Votes: 2
327
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Danielle W. - |
Emma by Jane Austen & Steven Marcus (Introduction)
Emma, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the... more
Book Votes: 2
328
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Red by Jack Ketchum
The old man hears them before he sees them, the three boys coming over the hill, disturbing the peace by the river where he's fishing. He smells gun oil too, too much oil on a brand-new shotgun. These aren't hunters, they're rich kids who don't care about the river and the fish and the old man. ... more
Book Votes: 2
329
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Catch-22 (Catch-22, Bk 1) by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.
At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes... more
Book Votes: 2
330
| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, Bk 4) by Pauline Baynes & C. S. Lewis
Four children help Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts to free Narnia from evil. Troubled times have come to Narnia as it is gripped by civil war. Prince Caspian is forced to blow The Great Horn of Narnia, summoning the help of past hero Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Now they must... more
Book Votes: 2
331
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Danielle W. - |
The Town by Chuck Hogan
Some criminals get a second chance. Will Doug MacRay be one of them? Four masked men -- thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown -- take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple. But career criminal... more
Book Votes: 2
332
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Shannon R. (alien12) - |
The Tale of Despereaux : Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spoo...
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
Book Votes: 2
333
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
"Belongs in the category ... of enduring American literature." Saturday Review Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a... more
Book Votes: 2
334
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a... more
Book Votes: 2
335
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Three Faces of Eve by Corbett H. Thigpen & Hervey M. Cleckley
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Book Votes: 2
336
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist & Ebba Segerberg (Translator)
It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last -- revenge for the bullying he... more
Book Votes: 2
337
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are... more
Book Votes: 2
338
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The product of an East Bronx upbringing by his half-crazy Irish Catholic mother, after his Jewish father... more
Book Votes: 2
339
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Sissy Hankshaw, an almost flawlessly beautiful small-town girl with big-time dreams, hitchhikes her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bag in Tom Robbins's magical, funny, and most famous novel. Follow Sissy's amazing odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota... more
Book Votes: 2
340
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco & William Weaver (Translator)
There's a murderer loose in the Abbey. Enter the labyrinth. Unravel the mystery. You will never look at death... or life in quite to same way again.
Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and an English Brother, William of Baskerville, is sent to investigate. His... more
Book Votes: 2
341
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Danielle W. - |
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
Relates the story behind the founding of Facebook by Harvard University undergraduates, and describes how conflicting ideas for the future of the site destroyed the friendship of co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
Book Votes: 2
342
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Danielle W. - |
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for M...
#1 National Bestseller!The amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T.students who beat the system in Vegas -- and lived to tell how.Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric... more
Book Votes: 2
343
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Danielle W. - |
He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behre...
He says:
Oh sure, they say they're busy. They say that they didn't have even a moment in their insanely busy day to pick up the phone. It was just that crazy. All lies. With the advent of cell phones and speed dialing, it is almost impossible not to call you. Sometimes I call people from my... more
Book Votes: 2
344
| Zinn B. (ZinnBeck) |
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi
"At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." -- Henry Hill Wiseguy is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of... more
Book Votes: 2
345
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Danielle W. - |
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly... more
Book Votes: 2
346
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Susan R. (Sue-in-AZ) - |
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Bk 1) by Philip Pullman
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered... more
Book Votes: 2
347
| Will (bgrx) |
Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan, Bk 2) by Tom Clancy
The US ambassador to Columbia has been murdered by drug lords. Enemy covert agents filter into the jungles of South America---and Central America is ready to explode. CIA man Jack Ryan is in the eye of a storm---and for the US the stakes have never been greater.
Book Votes: 2
348
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by Peter Conradi & Mark...
Based on the recently discovered diaries of Lionel Logue, this book recounts an inspiring real-life tale of triumph over adversity, when an Australian taught a British king with a crippling speech defect how to speak to his subjects.
At the urging of his wife Elizabeth, the Duke of York... more
Book Votes: 2
349
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque & A. W. Wheen (Translator)
Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a... more
Book Votes: 2
350
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Saving Private Ryan by Max Allan Collins
June 6, 1944. Military forces converge on the beaches of Normandy for one of the most decisive battles of World War II. America would call it a victory. History would call it D-Day. But for Captain John Miler and his squad of young soldiers, this fateful day would become something much more.... more
Book Votes: 2
351
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, Bk 1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Raised by a fierce she-ape of the tribe of Kerchak deep in the African jungle, the baby Tarzan grew to learn the secrets of the wild to survive--how to talk with animals, swing through trees, and fight against the great predators. He grew to the strength and courage of his fellow apes. And in... more
Book Votes: 2
352
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Sherry G. (Shervivor) - |
The Agony and the Ecstasy : A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone's classic biographical novel-in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of... more
Book Votes: 1
353
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. Now a major motion picture from Fine Line Features, starring Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Piper... more
Book Votes: 1
354
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries.... more
Book Votes: 1
355
| Adriane S. (myhotstylist) |
200 Cigarettes by Spencer Johns
New Year's Eve, 1981. The year is coming to an end. But for one group of misfits, friends, and lovers, the party is just getting started. Celebrating New Year's Eve in New York City is always an adventure. This evening, however, is going to be stranger than most, as a kaleidoscope of actors,... more
Book Votes: 1
356
| Adriane S. (myhotstylist) |
10 Things I Hate About You by David Levithan
Meet Bianca Stratford, the most wanted sophomore at Padua High. She's sweet and pretty ant totally boy-crazy. Meet Cameron James and Joey Donner. They're both totally crazy for Bianca. Which one has her heart? Alas, neither. For there's a hitch to the sitch: Bianca's dad, who decrees, "No... more
Book Votes: 1
357
| Adriane S. (myhotstylist) |
Just Like Heaven by Marc Levy
What do you do when you find a stranger in your closet, particularly when she's surprised that you can even see her -- and she can disappear and reappear at whim? What if she then tells you that her body is actually in a coma on the other side of town? Should you have her see a psychiatrist or... more
Book Votes: 1
358
| Adriane S. (myhotstylist) |
Beastly (Beastly, Bk 1) by Alex Flinn
I am a beast. A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright — a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster. You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now.... more
Book Votes: 1
359
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Under Siege by Stephen Coonts
In a novel as Immediate and gripping as tomorrow's headlines, Stephen Coonts Captures a chilling nightmare scenario that has already devastated Colombia and Sent shockwaves around the world. The war against teh drug lords is exploding within the borders of the United States. When the Kingpin of... more
Book Votes: 1
360
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Heartburn (Vintage Contemporaries) by Nora Ephron
Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy... more
Book Votes: 1
361
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson remains one of the... more
Book Votes: 1
362
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
On the surface, Myra Breckinridge is an outrageous story about a man-hating transsexual. At its core, however, Myra is sophisticated satire with Hollywood as the vehicle for making fun of just about every American convention.
The story begins soon after the homosexual film critic Myron... more
Book Votes: 1
363
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Ben Hur: A Modern Adaptation by Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace's classic novel, subtitled A Tale of the Christ, is abridged for easy reading. Follow the story of the young Jew Ben-Hur, who thirsts for revenge against the hated Roman Empire—until he meets another young Jew named Jesus.
Book Votes: 1
364
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century and the basis for director David Lean’s Academy Award-winning film, A Passage to India tells of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. In exquisite prose, Forster reveals the menace that lurks just beneath... more
Book Votes: 1
365
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Steve Martin’s New York Times bestseller Shopgirl is now a major motion picture, in theaters October ’05, starring Steve Martin and Claire Danes. Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at... more
Book Votes: 1
366
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Danielle W. - |
A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl by Mariane Pearl ...
In A Mighty Heart, an astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and worried about Danny Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. And then came the news of his... more
Book Votes: 1
367
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested... more
Book Votes: 1
368
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
Nick Naylor likes his job. In the neo-puritanical nineties, it's a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a little when you're compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick says he's just doing what it takes to pay the mortgage... more
Book Votes: 1
370
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Just Cause by John Katzenbach
At first report Matt Cowart doesn't believe the claims of innocence from Robert Earl Ferguson, Death Row inmate. But the more Coward digs into his case, the more he believes that, as a black man, Ferguson is a victim of hate and prejudice, and that the wrong man is going to be... more
Book Votes: 1
371
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Born On the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic
"A great, courageous fellow, a man of deep moral convictions and an uncompromising disposition."-John Kerry on Ron Kovic
"As relevant as ever, this book is an education. Ron is a true American, and his great heart and hard-won wisdom shine through these pages." -Oliver... more
Book Votes: 1
372
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs
Judith Singer, the protagonist of Compromising Positions, is intelligent, brash and witty. But she is trapped by her lifestyle in Shorehaven ("minutes from Fitzgerald's East Egg"); a stuffy husband ("Judith, don't tell me you haven't gained weight. I can see it in your waist."); demanding... more
Book Votes: 1
373
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Le Divorce (William Abrahams Book) by Diane Johnson
This delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder follows smart, sexy, and impeccably dressed American Isabel Walker as she lands in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy, a poet whose marriage to an aristocratic French painter has assured her a coveted place in Parisian... more
Book Votes: 1
374
| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud tells the haunting story of a young man who narrowly survives a terrible car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries separating life and death. Charlie St. Cloud... more
Book Votes: 1
375
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Danielle W. - |
Blindness by Jose Saramago & Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven... more
Book Votes: 1
376
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
A Good Year (MTI) by Peter Mayle
The writer with a claim to being the world’s foremost literary escape artist is back, with an intoxicating novel about the business and pleasure of wine, set in his beloved Provence. Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he... more
Book Votes: 1
377
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Hotel For Dogs (Hotel for Dogs, Bk 1) by Lois Duncan
The Walkers are moving to a new town, and staying with an aunt who's allergic to dogs. Too bad for Andi and her brother Bruce, who love dogs -- and happen to meet a stray that needs help.
Soon, Andi hatches a plan, turning the abandoned house down the block into a hotel for dogs. But as... more
Book Votes: 1
378
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Prizzis Honor by Richard Condon
PRIZZI'S HONOR is no ordinary story of boy-meets-girl. Charley Partanna is a faithful lieutenant for the Prizzis, New York's most powerful Mafia family. The object of his affections is Irene Walker, a Los Angeles-based tax consultant. But it's her freelancing that pays--she's a hit woman for the... more
Book Votes: 1
379
| Stefan B. (stefanbourque) |
Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer
"A novel that is as brash and brooding and ultimately as mesmerizing as the author himself...The dazzling balance betwen humor and horror keeps us plunging on....As for characters, each is a gem....It is a book to read with infinite pleasures."NEW YORK DAILY NEWSTim Madden awakes one morning... more
Book Votes: 1
380
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Searching for Bobby Fischer: World of Chess Observed by the Father of a Child Prodigy...
This story reveals much about the obsessiveness involved in the international game of chess. Bobby Fischer and his father were drawn into the bizarre world of Manhattan's seedy chess parlours and Park Square in Washington where chess fanatics sleep rough and hustle for two-dollar games. By... more
Book Votes: 1
381
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Classic) by Jules Verne
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All... more
Book Votes: 1
382
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Freedomland by Richard Price
In 1998, Richard Price returned to the gritty urban landscape of his national bestseller Clockers to produce Freedomland, a searing and unforgettable novel about a hijacked car, a missing child, and an embattled neighborhood polarized by racism, distrust, and accusation. Freedomland... more
Book Votes: 1
383
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Dangerous Minds by Louanne Johnson
She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school.And if that didn't work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she'd been trained to kill with her bare hands.They were called the class from Hell-thirty-four inner city sophomores she inherited from a teacher who'd been... more
Book Votes: 1
384
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Father of the Bride (SS Classic Editions) by Edward Streeter & Gluyas Williams
The 50th anniversary edition of Edward Streeter's heartwarming classic, Father of the Bride. Poor Mr. Banks! His jacket is too tight, he can't get a cocktail, and he's footing the bill....He's the father of the bride. Stanley Banks is just your ordinary suburban dad. He's the kind of guy who... more
Book Votes: 1
385
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Danielle W. - |
Gone, Baby, Gone (Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro, Bk 4) by Dennis Lehane
The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and... more
Book Votes: 1
386
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer & Richard Graves (Translator)
Seven Years in Tibet is the autobiographical account of a young Austrian adventurer and the escape from an internment camp that changed his life forever. In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a noted mountain climber and skier, slipped out of captivity in India and made his way through the Himalayan passes... more
Book Votes: 1
388
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Up in the Air by Walter Kirn
Ryan Bingha's job as a Career Transition Counselor (he fires people) has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls "Airworld" finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms,... more
Book Votes: 1
389
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Dark Wind (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 5) by Tony Hillerman
SNOW KILLS...
The vast Indian-owned lands of the Southwest held mysteries the white man's logic could not solve. A dead man's boots left on a dusty trail. A bloody corpse with the palms and soles sliced off. A low-flying plane circling in the night sky before crashing miles from any... more
Book Votes: 1
390
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
High Crimes by Joseph Finder
HONOR YOUR WIFE.SERVE YOUR COUNTRY.CONCEAL THE TRUTH.Do you ever really know the person you married?Claire Heller Chapman, a Harvard Law School professor and a high-powered attorney, has just attained a national reputation for her work on several high-profile cases. Her second husband, Tom... more
Book Votes: 1
391
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
LOST HORIZON is the tale of three men and a woman seeking escape from a political upheaval in the Orient. Their airplane crashes high on a Tibetan plateau. They are saved by a party of natives and taken to Shangri-La. Finding themselves prisoners at first, then visitors, they soon become... more
Book Votes: 1
392
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edi...
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this... more
Book Votes: 1
393
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Christine M. (Neon635) - |
Night Watch (Watch, Bk 1) by Sergei Lukyanenko & Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
The Night Watch series has caused a sensation never before seen in Russia -- its popularity is frenzied and unprecedented, and driven by a truly great, epic story.
Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and imaginative as Tolkien or the best Asimov. Living among us... more
Book Votes: 1
394
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Beezus and Ramona (Ramona Quimby, Bk 1) by Beverly Cleary & Louis Darling (Illus...
Ramona Quimby is the youngest of all the famous characters in Mrs. Cleary's wonderful Henry Huggins stories. She is also far and away the most deadly. Readers of the earlier books will remember that Ramona has always been a menace to Beezus, her older sister, to Henry, and to his dog Ribsy.... more
Book Votes: 1
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history.??The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from... more
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396
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later. A More...poetic... more
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397
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Life with Father had always been a challenge. A fiercely self-reliant man, he demanded no less of his family, especially of his two young sons. And though he often expected too much, they would follow him to the ends of the earth.
Now, in the steaming jungles fit only for savages and... more
Book Votes: 1
398
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school,... more
Book Votes: 1
399
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (York Notes) by Edward Albee
"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Like her, neither audiences nor critics could get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife... more
Book Votes: 1
400
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the social ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs for caddish soldier George.
As the two heroines... more
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401
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and... more
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402
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
All the Pretty Horses (Border, Bk 1) by Cormac McCarthy
The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions,... more
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403
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Danielle W. - |
Morning Glory by Diana Peterfreund
BREAKING NEWS: Ambitious young TV producer Becky Fuller is fired from a local morning show in New Jersey, and her career begins to look as bleak as her hapless love life.
Desperately in need of a job, yet still full of boundless optimism, Becky vows to land on her feet and stumbles... more
Book Votes: 1
404
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Danielle W. - |
Reservation Road (Vintage Contemporaries) (Vintage Contemporaries) by John Burnham S...
A cycle of violence and retribution is set in motion as two haunted men are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death.Ethan, a respected professor at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession for revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Dwight,... more
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405
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Danielle W. - |
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the... more
Book Votes: 1
406
| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, Bk 1) by Pittacus Lore
Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic... more
Book Votes: 1
407
| WENDY C. (wendyk96) |
City of Bones (Mortal Instruments, Bk 1) by Cassandra Clare
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to... more
Book Votes: 1
408
| Zinn B. (ZinnBeck) |
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings--but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea....From the Trade... more
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409
| Mar |
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons is the epic story of an America family's traumatic tumble from the dizzying heights of fame and fortune. A dynasty spanning three generations, the Ambersons' pre-eminence as society's elite is threatened--not only by a hungry new breed of industrial entrepreneur--but... more
Book Votes: 1
410
| Mar |
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
In this massive novel, Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk recreates the most dramatic years of the twentieth century -- 1939-1941, when the world's nations descended reluctantly but inexorably into the maelstrom of World War II. The Winds of War pulses with the life of those terrific days --... more
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411
| hsteacher |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby...
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20... more
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412
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Danielle W. - |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his year yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it.
Charlie is attempting to... more
Book Votes: 1
413
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Seth Grahame-Smith's revision of a Jane Austen classic blew readers' minds and became an instant national bestseller. Now, he tackles our greatest president...
When Abraham Lincoln was nine years old, his mother died from an ailment called the "milk sickness." Only later... more
Book Votes: 1
414
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by An...
The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there?s a... more
Book Votes: 1
415
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music ...
Scurrying back to his office one day, Lopez, a columnist for the L.A. Times, is stopped short by the ethereal strains of a violin. Searching for the sound, he spots a homeless man coaxing those beautiful sounds from a battered two-string violin. When the man finishes, Lopez compliments him... more
Book Votes: 1
416
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life,... more
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417
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Welcome to the magical underworld of Venice, Italy. Here, hidden canals and crumbling rooftops shelter runaways and children with incredible secrets....
After escaping from their cruel aunt and uncle, orphans Prosper and Bo meet a mysterious boy who calls himself he "Thief Lord." Clever and... more
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418
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Inkheart (Inkheart, Bk 1) by Cornelia Funke
One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART -- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the... more
Book Votes: 1
419
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.This is... more
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420
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, Bk 1) by Cressida Cowell
Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.
Bulging with good jokes, funny drawings and dramatic scenes, it is... more
Book Votes: 1
421
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, Bk 1) by Diana Wynne Jones
In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter.
After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing... more
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422
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
John Carter of Mars: The Collection - A Princess of Mars; The Gods of Mars; The Warlo...
This Purple Rose book is a collection of the first five stories in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series: A Princess of Mars (1917), The Gods of Mars (1918), The Warlord of Mars (1919), Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920) and The Chessmen of Mars (1922). It contains all of the original frontispieces by... more
Book Votes: 1
423
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Conan the Barbarian by L. Sprague De Camp & Lin Carter
Thief, Warrior, Gladiator...King.
The epic tale of child sold into slavery who grows into a man who seeks revenge against the warlord who massacred his tribe.
Book Votes: 1
424
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug called Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D -- which Arctor takes in massive doses -- gradually splits... more
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425
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Holly D. - |
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematic...
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America?s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn... more
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426
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Holly D. - |
Casino Royale (James Bond) by Ian Fleming
At the Casino in Deauville Bond's game is baccarat-- for stakes that run into millions of francs. But away from the discreet salons, the caviar and ruthless agents-- and the prize is a bullet in the head from a trained S.M.E.R.S.H. assassin....
Book Votes: 1
427
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation... more
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428
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Danielle W. - |
Election by Tom Perotta
Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She's one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister, thinks the students deserve better. So he persuades... more
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429
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Danielle W. - |
Evening (MTI) (Vintage Contemporaries) by Susan Minot
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARJuly 1954. An island off the coast of Maine. Ann Grant—a 25-year-old New York career girl—is a bridesmaid at her best friend's lavish wedding. Also present is a man named Harris Arden, whom Ann has never met . . .After three marriages and five... more
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430
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Man and Boy (Harry Silver, Bk 1) by Tony Parsons
HE HAD TO FACE THE TOUGHEST JOB OF HIS LIFE. AND HE NEVER ONCE THOUGHT HE'D BE ON HIS OWN.
Harry had it all: a beautiful wife, an adorable four-year-old son, and a high-paying media job. But on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, with one irresponsible act, he threw it all away. Suddenly... more
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431
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Woe to Live on by Daniel Woodrell
Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri during the American Civil War Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes and thoughts of Jake Roedel. During the winter of 1861 Roedel grows up fast, experiencing a brutal parody of war... more
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432
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Ride With the Devil by James Schamus & Daniel Woe to Live on Woodrell
A riveting civil war epic, from the award-winning screenwriter of The Ice Storm. Ride with the Devil continues writer-producer James Schamus's collaboration with Ang Lee, who also directed Sense and Sensibility. Following up on the success of Lee's The Ice Storm, for which Schamus was awarded... more
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433
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The Snapper (Barrytown, Bk 2) by Roddy Doyle
Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. She's also unmarried, living at home, working in a grocery store, and keeping the father's identity a secret. Her own father, Jimmy Sr., is shocked by the news. Her mother says very little. Her friends and neighbors all want to know whose... more
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434
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Christine M. (Neon635) - |
Another Day in Paradise by Eddie Little
This debut novel - slick, raw, searing - of Eddie Little: ex-addict, ex-con, natural-born writer. It's the graphic first-person story of Bobbie, an adolescent petty thief whose lonely life among the flotsam of America is a hellish mix of hustle, drug highs, sex, and survivor humor. Bobbie finds... more
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435
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
American Hero by Larry Beinhart
"A funny, ingenious and outrageous political thriller joining Hollywood and the Bush administration in a revisionist fiction about the Gulf War." Los Angeles Times.Once upon a time, there was a mean, dying GOP chairman named Lee Atwater who had the most brilliant, insane, frightening and do-able... more
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436
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Danielle W. - |
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys. His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah Green,... more
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437
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
About Schmidt by Louis Begley
Proud, traditional, and impeccably organized, Albert Schmidt is a button-down lawyer of the old school.??But now, after years of carefulmanagement, his life is slowly unraveling.??His beloved wife has recently died.??He stumbles--or is he being pushed?--into early retirement.??And his daughter,... more
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438
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
In J.L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the... more
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439
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Danielle W. - |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, Bk 1) by Robert C. O'Brien & Zena...
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats... more
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440
| DARYL D. (bookworm-51) |
Memoirs of an Invisible Man by Harry F. Saint
When a scientific experiment goes awry, a securities analyst suddenly finds himself rendered invisible and wanted by the CIA for "medical study." To avoid becoming a laboratory animal, he goes on the lam, hiding in plain sight among the throngs of New York City, conducting his financial affairs... more
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441
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Be Cool (Chili Palmer, Bk 2) by Elmore Leonard
GET SHORTY'S CHILI PALMER IS BACK. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY.
After a smash hit in Get Leo and a flop in Get Lost, B-movie-producer Chili Palmer is looking for another score. Lunching with a record company executive, Chili's exploring a hot new idea -- until the exec, a former... more
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442
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Man, Woman and Child by Erich Segal
From Eric Segal comes an unforgettable story of love....the drama of a father and the son he never knew... And a marriage that must stand the greatest test of all. Man, Woman And Child. Bob and Sheila Beckwith had everything: rewarding... more
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443
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades. Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a... more
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444
| Christi W. |
The Godfather's Revenge by Mark Winegardner
The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family -- one of the most enduring lineages in American literature and cinema -- achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the assassination of a young, charismatic... more
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445
| ANNA S. (SanJoseCa) |
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain. Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff's The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense.
It is 1875, and... more
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446
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
When The Sheltering Sky was first published in 1949, it established Paul Bowles as one of the most singular and promising writers of the postwar generation. Its startlingly original vision has withstood the test of time and confirmed Tennessee Williams's early estimation: "The... more
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447
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each other. Maggie has all the innocent charm of so... more
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448
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
KAFKA/THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka
The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in Franz Kafka’s The Trial is one of the twentieth century’s master parables, reflecting the central spiritual crises of modern life. Kafka’s method–one that has influenced, in some way,... more
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449
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Doblin & Eugene Jol...
Alfred Doblin (1878-1957) studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in the treatment of nervous diseases. Along with his experiences as a psychiatrist in the workers' quarter of Berlin, his writing was inspired by the work of Holderlin, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and was first published in... more
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450
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Kristin K. (escapeartistk) - |
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret.
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451
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Danielle W. - |
Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE & OTHER DRUGS by Jamie Reidy
Jamie Reidy is the guy who's been there, done that, and walked away with the insider stories. Inside Hard Sell: Now a Major Motion Picture LOVE and OTHER DRUGS, you'll find yourself rooting for Reidy and shocked by the realities of the world that paid his salary.This comedic expose traces... more
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452
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Danielle W. - |
Limitless (aka The Dark Fields) by Alan Glynn
A burnout at thirty-five, months behind on his book, low on cash, and something of a loser, Eddie Spinola could use a shot in the arm. One day he randomly runs into Vernon, his ex-wife's brother, and his ex-dealer. Now employed by a shadowy pharmaceutical company, Vernon has... more
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453
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Danielle W. - |
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her... more
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454
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Danielle W. - |
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his... more
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455
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Danielle W. - |
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People [movie tie-in]: A Memoir by Toby Young & ...
With a major motion picture of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People about to be released (starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, and Jeff Bridges), there has never been a better time to savor this laugh-out-loud memoir from everyone?s favorite ?professional failurist.? In his dishy assault on... more
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456
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Danielle W. - |
Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government by Valerie Plame Wi...
FROM THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE BOURNE FILMS COMES THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SEAN PENN AND NAOMI WATTS Based on Fair Game, Valerie Plame Wilson?s historic and unvarnished account of the personal and international consequences of speaking truth to power.
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457
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Danielle W. - |
I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, Allison Pearson’s smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as “The national anthem for working mothers.” Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and... more
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458
| Will (bgrx) |
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law -- in the person... more
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459
| Will (bgrx) |
A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror.
Great Expectations follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble... more
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461
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Danielle W. - |
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought.In major league baseball the biggest wallet is supposed to win: rich teams spend four times as much on talent as poor teams. But over the past four years, the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor... more
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462
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Danielle W. - |
The Prince, the Showgirl and Me: The Colin Clark Diaries by Colin Clark
Leaving college in the 1950s, Colin Clark got a job as a gofer on the London set of a new motion picture called The Prince and the Showgirl. It was no ordinary production: Uniting Britain's premier classical actor, Sir Laurence Olivier (also the director), with Hollywood's ultimate sex... more
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463
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Pi Patel, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, had a fervent love of stories and practices not only within his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas,... more
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464
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Beautiful Creatures (Beautiful Creatures, Bk 1) by Margaret Stohl & Kami Garcia
There were no surprises in Gatlin County.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.
Lena Duchannes is... more
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465
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.
A reluctant voyager... more
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466
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, Bk 1) by Isaac Marion
What if everything came down to a single test? If your life was defined at seventeen, could you handle it? Could you accept your fate leaving the ones you love, or would you risk it all and stay?
One test stands between Vanessa and Central. One chance to make the leap across the walls to a... more
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467
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Push by Sapphire
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey... more
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468
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Exuberant and mad, youthful and energetic, The Rum... more
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469
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.
Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had... more
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470
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry
Eva never really wanted to be a mother-and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two... more
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471
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Bk 1) by Jeff Kinney
Boys don't keep diaries -- or do they?
It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely... more
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472
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Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
A tender story of hope and joy, of sacrifice and forgiveness -- a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it.
NIGHTS IN RODANTHE
At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a... more
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473
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, Book 1: Second Edition) by Frank Miller
Legendary artist Frank Miller opened a noir opus in Sin City. This critically-acclaimed triumph-honored by both an Eisner Award and the prestigious National Cartoonists' Award-combines the pulp intensity of writers like Spillane and Cain with the gritty graphic storytelling that only Miller can... more
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474
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New... more
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475
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina & Tom Zoellner
The riveting life story of Paul Rusesabagina—the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina—the "Oskar Schindler of Africa"—refused to bow to the madness ... more
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476
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Fortunes have changed for the King family, descendants of Hawaiian royalty and one of the state’s largest landowners. Matthew King’s daughters—Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a seventeen-year-old recovering drug addict—are out of control, and their charismatic,... more
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| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: A Novel (Random House Movie Tie-In Books) by Deborah ...
Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Billy Nighy, and Dev Patel
When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: ?Can?t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far... more
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478
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
One Day by David Nicholls
It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. As the years go by, Dex and Em begin to lead separate... more
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479
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
The City of Ember (Ember, Bk 1) by Jeanne Duprau
Citizens of Ember shall be assigned work at twelve years of age.… LINA MAYFLEET desperately wants to be a messenger. Instead, she draws the dreaded job of Pipeworks laborer, which means she'll be working in damp tunnels deep underground. DOON HARROW draws messenger -- and asks Lina to... more
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480
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Watership Down by Richard Adams
One of the most beloved novels of our time, Richard Adams's Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage, leadership and survival; an epic... more
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| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday... more
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482
| Kt L. (shagschain) |
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. Or at least that's what he told his son. Faced with the prospect of his father's death, William Bloom sets about to discover who the man really is. Daniel Wallace's magical first novel, Big Fish, is told as a series of legends and myths... more
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The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themse...
Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable,... more
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe -- and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and... more
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485
| Amanda P. (amandalparks) |
The Hunger by Whitley Strieber
Eternal youth is a wonderful thing for the few who have it, but for Miriam Blaylock, it is a curse -- an existence marred by death and sorrow. Because for the everlasting Miriam, everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband's imminent demise, Miriam sets out... more
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| Amanda P. (amandalparks) |
The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries) by John Wyndham
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”Bill Masen, bandages over his... more
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Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, Bk 1) by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl is a one of the greatest criminal minds the world has ever seen. He is heir to the Fowl family empire—a centuries old clan of international underworld figures and con artists. He is arguably the most cunning Fowl of all. He is also twelve years old.
Artemis' interest in... more
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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and... more
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