Eitanli/goodreads huggingface dataset:
Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)
by Robin Hobb
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Dragons, Science Fiction Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.19

King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz--or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and soul. The kingdom also teeters toward ruin: Regal has plundered and abandoned the capital, while the rightful heir, Prince Verity, is lost to his mad quest--perhaps to death. Only Verity's return--or the heir his princess carries--can save the Six Duchies.But Fitz will not wait. Driven by loss and bitter memories, he undertakes a quest: to kill Regal. The journey casts him into deep waters, as he discovers wild currents of magic within him--currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
by Peter M. Senge
Genres: Business, Leadership, Nonfiction, Management, Education, Self Help, Psychology
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.92

MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINT • “One of the seminal management books of the past seventy-five years.”— Harvard Business Review This revised edition of the bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting Peter Senge’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas of the Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published, have become deeply integrated into people’s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices. Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning blocks that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations, in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create the results they truly desire. Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will: • Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them• Bridge teamwork into macrocreativity• Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets• Teach you to see the forest and the trees• End the struggle between work and personal time This updated edition contains more than one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies such as BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, and Saudi Aramco and organizations such as Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank.
The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith
by Irshad Manji
Genres: Nonfiction, Islam, Religion, Politics, Feminism, Philosophy, Memoir
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.66

"I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me.... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We're in crisis and we're dragging the rest of the world with us. If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?"In this open letter, Irshad Manji unearths the troubling cornerstones of mainstream Islam today: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-Semitism, and an uncritical acceptance of the Koran as the final, and therefore superior, manifesto of God's will. But her message is ultimately positive. She offers a practical vision of how Islam can undergo a reformation that empowers women, promotes respect for religious minorities, and fosters a competition of ideas. Her vision revives "ijtihad," Islam's lost tradition of independent thinking. In that spirit, Irshad has a refreshing challenge for both Muslims and non-Muslims: Don't silence yourselves. Ask questions---out loud. The Trouble with Islam Today is a clarion call for a fatwa-free future.
Thirteen
by Richard K. Morgan
Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Cyberpunk, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Audiobook
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.90

The future isn’t what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs–private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero–into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies, winning the Philip K. Dick Award in the process. In Market Forces, he launched corporate gladiator Chris Faulkner into the brave new business of war-for-profit. Now, in Thirteen, Morgan radically reshapes and recharges science fiction yet again, with a new and unforgettable hero in Carl Marsalis: hybrid, hired gun, and a man without a country . . . or a planet.Marsalis is one of a new breed. Literally. Genetically engineered by the U.S. government to embody the naked aggression and primal survival skills that centuries of civilization have erased from humankind, Thirteens were intended to be the ultimate military fighting force. The project was scuttled, however, when a fearful public branded the supersoldiers dangerous mutants, dooming the Thirteens to forced exile on Earth’s distant, desolate Mars colony. But Marsalis found a way to slip back–and into a lucrative living as a bounty hunter and hit man before a police sting landed him in prison–a fate worse than Mars, and much more dangerous.Luckily, his “enhanced” life also seems to be a charmed one. A new chance at freedom beckons, courtesy of the government. All Marsalis has to do is use his superior skills to bring in another fugitive. But this one is no common criminal. He’s another Thirteen–one who’s already shanghaied a space shuttle, butchered its crew, and left a trail of bodies in his wake on a bloody cross-country spree. And like his pursuer, he was bred to fight to the death. Still, there’s no question Marsalis will take the job. Though it will draw him deep into violence, treachery, corruption, and painful confrontation with himself, anything is better than remaining a prisoner. The real question is: can he remain sane–and alive–long enough to succeed?2007 1st Ed Del Rey 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)
by R.S. Belcher
Genres: Fantasy, Westerns, Steampunk, Horror, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Weird West
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.78

Buffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasyNevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker’s wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone’s business, may know more about the town’s true origins than he’s letting on.A haven for the blessed and the damned, Golgotha has known many strange events, but nothing like the primordial darkness stirring in the abandoned silver mine overlooking the town. Bleeding midnight, an ancient evil is spilling into the world, and unless the sheriff and his posse can saddle up in time, Golgotha will have seen its last dawn…and so will all of Creation.
Catching Lightning Without the Bottle
by Timothy F. Bouvine
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.29

Washed up star catcher for the Chicago Cubs Blake Benson dodges death and gains a chance to redeem both himself and the team. Blake Benson was a star catcher in his prime. Now he's addicted to alcohol and finds himself in the unenviable position of third stringer with the Chicago Cubs team as it enjoys a 10-game lead heading into the home stretch of the season. Drunk and late once too many times, Benson is kicked off the team in Hotlanta, Georgia and sent packing to rehab...or so he thinks. The team plane crashes outside St. Louis and everyone perishes. Benson is the only remaining team member on the roster. He is given a chance to rebuild the team as player/manager and reconstruct an alcohol-free life. Benson struggles with the temptation of the bottle and the management of an unruly bunch of rejects, has-beens like himself, and some awesome rookie talent as he tries to win the division against the streaking, hot, and well-managed St. Louis Cardinals. It's a race to the end of the season where awesome self-discoveries await.
Lobster Tales, Life Lessons, and Laughter
by Dennis M. (Pap) Dupuis
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.58

If you're looking for a book that'll entertain you (no matter how close you are to exceeding the limits of your medication), this is it. It's fun, and funny, and filled with crazy adventures.It's about a guy and his boat having way too much fun off the seacoast of New Hampshire and Maine. The guy's name is Dennis. The boat's name is Aislyn, and she is the place upon which magic becomes possible.The "characters" in these stories are real people who are really characters. Join Dennis and his family & friends as they do their worst to do their best. If you think that mistakes and bad decisions make for great stories, then you're in luck. Lobster Tales, Life Lessons, and Laughter is chunkin' full of them!You will...learn pantloads about lobsters and lobstering.pick up some skinny on boat navigation, saltwater fishing, and nautical knot tying.gain a few choice recipes for the next time you decide to eat a few bugs. (lobsters)build an armory of snappy comebacks, New England style.enjoy more than a couple of interesting insights into human nature.acquire the scoop on some prime eateries, retailers, and services providers that the locals love to visit.have a ball looking at the pictures and using the QRC codes and web-links to visit most of the businesses & attractions mentioned, as well as nautical charts of the waters they played in.And that's only part of the fun. Scope out the Table of Contents and you'll see what we're talking about.Go on, do yourself a favor. Read this book. After all, it comes with the author's personal guarantee:"If you don't laugh out loud at least five times while reading this book,I'll be go to hell."
Edgy Conversations: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Outrageous Success
by Dan Waldschmidt
Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Self Help, Personal Development, Psychology, Audiobook, Leadership
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.86

"Everything you think you know about success is wrong! Set Goals. Work Hard. Be Persistent. That's the typical success advice you can probably repeat in your sleep. The type of advice that doesn't seem to work for you -- or anyone you know, for that matter." You work your butt off, but at the end of the day, you're no closer to success than you were yesterday. The ugly truth is that it's not what you're doing that is holding you back. It's who you are. It's the baggage between your ears that keeps you from achieving your dreams and goals. That's why Dan Waldschmidt is changing the conversation about success. It's why you need to have an EDGY conversation. EDGY Conversations is a gut-wrenchingly honest, no-holds-barred discussion about what it takes to be success today. It's based on the stories of 1,000 ordinary people in business, math, politics, sports and science who achieved mind-blowing feats of extraordinary greatness. EDGY is how ordinary people become extraordinary. EDGY is how a master chef, a World War II veteran, a 15-year-old girl, a homeless retired paramedic, an Australian potato farmer and a shoe executive became amazing, did the unthinkable and forever changed their corner of the world. And EDGY is how you can achieve outrageous success, regardless of who or where you are in life right now. You don't need another book on success. You just need to be more EDGY. Let's talk about it.
Science of Happiness
by Manuel Kraus
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.62

Use the Science of Happiness to Life a Happy LifeDo you want to learn how to be happy?Do you want to apply scientifically-tested techniques to life a happy life?If yes – the Science of Happiness the book for you. It offers 30 days of happiness activities and insights from positive psychology; delivered in a structured format and with many examples and personal stories. It’s the right blend of evidence-based strategies and stories. Here’s what you will take away from the Science of Happiness:Make a real, positive differenceThat’s what makes the Science of Happiness stand out. It’s packed with real-life activities and exercises that are not only scientifically tested but also easy to use. At the core, the Science of Happiness is a practical guide to enable you to become happier. It's not only written to make you understand how to be happy. The ultimate goal of the book is to help you actually make a positive change in your life.Be sure it will workScience of Happiness is not just another self-help book about happiness. You will learn to use insights and strategies that are scientifically test. Hundreds of scientific experiments from positive psychology (= the science of happiness) have been done to prove the techniques work and really do bring more happiness to your life. The research evidence is the quality label on the Science of Happiness.Feel the difference – in 30 daysThe structure of the book is unique. It will take you through 30 days, each day with another activity to engage in. After this 30-day happiness project, you will certainly see a noticeable difference in your life. You will have learned a wide range of positive psychology strategies: You will engage in a series of writing interventions, techniques to cultivate positive emotions in your life, mindfulness, self-compassion, and kindness. We will also learn about the common mistakes people make when they pursue happiness, how positive emotions affect our brains and much more. After the 30-day period, you will see a difference. Guaranteed.
Psychaotic: See The World In Red And Black
by Irum Zahra
Genres: Poetry, Mental Health, Nonfiction, Mental Illness
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.08

Pakistan's only Free Verse Gothic Poetry Book and Goodreads Choice Awards Semi Finalist, Psychaotic is not a happy song. It's a collection of poetry and passages that depict struggle of a human mind with it's veiled and untamed nature. It show how far we can go if we incline ourselves to that side and how much we are willing to give up.Psychaotic tells you the harsh realities of life rather than filling your head with fantasies and dreams that will never happen.In that reality check, this book will change how you think about certain things. It will tell you, that wrongs can be right and right can be wrongs as well as, bad can be good and good can turn out to be bad.
Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)
by Dan Simmons
Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Time Travel
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.18

The multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion--to tell a story of love and memory, triumph and terror in a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, still more are raised here. Raoul's quest will continue.
On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew and the Goy Boy
by Michael Kroft
Genres: Fiction, Modern, Canada
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.25

"...an easy read with characters I fell in love with. It's a wonderful story, at times laugh-out-loud funny and others sad." -Julie S., NYAn introverted old Jew, his doting but ill wife, and his unlikely friendship with the lonely child of his racist neighbor.Once an amusing extrovert with a reputation as a prankster, Mr. Rosen is entering his senior years as a stoic, thirty-year converted introvert who hates change, has little to no interest in people and is more than content to have his wife sit in the navigator's seat of his life. Since becoming a practicing introvert, there have been almost no changes in his life, and for the few that there were, his wife had walked him through them, including the recent move to a much smaller home in a lower/middle-class neighborhood where he lives directly next door to a racist whose pint-sized son addresses him as Mr. Jew.Mr. Rosen had seen the move coming, and he is very much aware of the enormous change to come sometime in the, hopefully, far-off future; though, he refuses to give it any attention. That change will come on slowly and painfully and will eventually force him to chart his own life's route.Experience an emotional roller coaster as Mr. Rosen's world implodes while on a collision course with that of a young mother, her lonely and naive son, and her vengeful husband.ABOUT THE SERIESTaking place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the series follows the sometimes amusing and sometimes heartbreaking events following an extremely introverted old Jewish man's retirement as he reluctantly befriends a young and struggling single mother, her naive and lonely son, and then, lastly, a boy streetwise beyond his years.​"I don't usually enjoy books in a series but this was an exception. It was uplifting, and interesting with some twists I didn't see coming...It wasn't all sweet and goody two shoes either. It had some dark and realistic moments and characters. Very well written." (Amazon Customer) Volume 1) On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb AnxietyVolume 2) Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, DeathVolume 3) Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being BlueVolume 4) Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop
The Last of Her Kind
by JoAnn Rackear Goldrich
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.67

Alone on post-apocalyptic Earth, young Charly Willow struggles to survive nuclear winter and find her family, until her chance meeting with a dying stranger. His last request propels her forward with a mystery she must solve, and leads to a life altering journey…one that places the ultimate fate of the entire planet in her hands. This book is suitable for ages 16 - Adult.
Home (Gilead, #2)
by Marilynne Robinson
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Religion, Contemporary
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.04

Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith.Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.
Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #1-3)
by Cassandra Clare
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Fiction, Paranormal, Steampunk, Young Adult Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.66

All three books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy are now together in one boxed set!Step back in time with the Shadowhunters with this eBook collection of the New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy. Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment. The Shadowhunters of the Victorian Age delve into all of these—in addition to darkness and danger—in the Infernal Devices trilogy, packaged in an eBook collection that includes Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess.
Shivaratri, How I Saw God
by Susana Franco
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.33

Shivaratri – How I saw God is a story of personal and spiritual development, as well as testament to a passage from bad karma to good. The author alerts us to the existence of an intelligent force that moves everything in the universe, and to the fact that suddenly anything in our lives can change.  With her mind completely lost after a troubled life, Susana decides to travel to India where she is charmed and somehow feels reborn into a new life. Her experiences in the main religious centres of Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism; a meeting with the Dalai Lama; and a whirlwind of emotions that cause her immense inner suffering, motivate her to improve herself spiritually.  Meanwhile, Susana meets her twin soul who ends up leaving her. But fate is pragmatic, insisting on coincidences and discreetly pointing the way to Africa. The action of this story takes place amid the bustle and smells of India, the magic of Africa and chaos of a Portugal submerged in financial crisis.  Yoga and Transcendental Meditation appear as an escape from reality by the author who lives immersed in an ocean of existential questions.  The answers to all these questions come to her through karmic astrology, past life regression and two trips to Uganda. Finally, Susana returns to India where meets her Guru who invites her to plunge deeper into Transcendental Meditation and to see the Divinity.  This book tells a wonderful story that is not just a story of life guided by delivery and abandonment, love and loneliness, altruism and disappointment. This story is also about self-knowledge, Karma, Dharma, Faith and evolution of the soul. It is above all, a story that shows us how meeting with our spirituality becomes a refuge in our everyday problems.
Cut from the Same Cloth (My Notorious Aunt, #3)
by Kathleen Baldwin
Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Regency, Historical, Historical Fiction, Regency Romance, Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.90

All is not as it seams...Why does the powerfully built, golden-haired, Lord St. Cleve dress like an overdone Dandy? His outlandish wardrobe belies the hard unyielding lines of his face. Whoever he is, he’s ruining Elizabeth Hampton’s desperate scheme to secure a rich husband. Terribly vexing, to arrive at the most fashionable Breakfast Party of the Season wearing a perfectly stunning Chinese silk gown, only to discover Lord St. Cleve is clad in unmentionables cut from identical cloth.Lord St. Cleve despises pretension of any kind. He cannot abide the self-important airs put on by some members of the Ton and takes pleasure in making a mockery of Brummell’s fashion strictures. Conceited frauds! Hadn't his grandfather’s snobbery made his mother’s life a misery? Maddening to discover the one woman who captures his interest is the biggest pretender of all! He vows to teach Miss Elizabeth Hampton a lesson she won’t soon forget.