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Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1)
by Charlotte M. Mason
Genres: Education, Parenting, Nonfiction, Homeschool, Christian, School, Family
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.53

Book by Mason, Charlotte M.
Brief einer Unbekannten
by Zweig S.
Genres: Classics, Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, German Literature, Literature, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.12

Ein Liebesbrief erreicht den Romancier und Lebemann R. an seinem einundvierzigsten Geburtstag – die leidenschaftliche Lebensbeichte einer Frau, deren Lebensmittelpunkt er war.Doch sie ist für ihn nur eine belanglose Geliebte unter vielen geblieben, letztlich eine Unbekannte. »Ich klage Dich nicht an, mein Geliebter, nein, ich klage Dich nicht an«, verspricht sie, und doch stellen ihre glühenden Worten das Leben dieses Mannes, der »nur das Leichte, das Spielende, das Gewichtlose« lieben kann und vor Bindungen zurückscheut aus »Angst, in ein Schicksal einzugreifen«, vollständig in Frage.
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
by J. Maarten Troost
Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Humor, Memoir, Biography, Adventure, Biography Memoir
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.87

At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the Earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better. The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas, toxic fish, and worst of all, no television or coffee. And that's just the first day. Sunburned, emaciated, and stinging with sea lice, Troost spends the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options. He contends with a cast of bizarre local characters, including "Half-Dead Fred" and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who's never written a poem in his life), and eventually settles into the ebb and flow of island life, just before his return to the culture shock of civilization. With the rollicking wit of Bill Bryson, the brilliant travel exposition of Paul Theroux, and a hipster edge that is entirely Troost's own, The Sex Lives of Cannibals is the ultimate vicarious adventure. Readers may never long to set foot on Tarawa, but they'll want to travel with Troost time and time again.
Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Shopaholic, #3)
by Sophie Kinsella
Genres: Chick Lit, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Humor, Adult, Adult Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.79

For once in Becky Bloomwood's life, things are going smoothly. She's got the dream job as a personal shopper (spending other people's money - and getting paid for it). She's got a fabulous Manhattan apartment with her boyfriend Luke. They've even opened a joint bank account (although they can't quite agree on whether a Miu Miu skirt counts as a household expense).Then Luke proposes - and all of a sudden life gets hectic. Becky's mum in rural Surrey wants one thing, Luke's mother in New York wants the complete opposite. Becky knows she has to sit down and decide - but to be honest, it's a lot more fun testing cake, trying on dresses and registering wedding presents. But time's ticking by, plans are being made both sides of the Atlantic and soon she realizes she's in trouble...
Poems of Paul Celan
by Paul Celan
Genres: Poetry, Classics, German Literature, Fiction, Literature, Romania, 20th Century
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.35

"In the writing of Paul Celan even we readers who can hear poetry only dimly in German can sense the greatness of his invention: the cadences of a music tilted against music's complacency; words punished for their plausibility by being reinvented and fused together and broken apart; syntax chopped and stretched to crack and expose its crust of dead rhetoric Michael Hamburger has earned our gratitude for rendering these poems into a reasonably inventive English "Robert Pinsky, THE NEW REPUBLIC.Parallel German text and English translation.
Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom, #2)
by John Updike
Genres: Fiction, Classics, American, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, 20th Century
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.80

In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.
Kubrick
by Michael Herr
Genres: Nonfiction, Film, Biography, Media Tie In, American, Biography Memoir, Memoir
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.82

A screenwriter and author of Dispatches provides a firsthand portrait of his friend and colleague, Stanley Kubrick, describing the life and career of the legendary director, dispelling myths about him, and reflecting on his seminal influence on the world of filmmaking.
The Sleeping Beauty Killer (Under Suspicion, #4)
by Mary Higgins Clark
Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Audiobook, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.98

The third thrilling installment in the bestselling Under Suspicion series from #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke—television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to help a woman she thinks was wrongfully convicted of murder.Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiancé—famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III—fifteen years ago. And Casey claims—has always claimed—she’s innocent. Although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living “under suspicion.” She hears whispers at the grocery store. She can’t get a job. Even her own mother treats her like she’s guilty. Her story attracts the attention of Laurie Moran and the Under Suspicion news team—it’s Casey’s last chance to finally clear her name, and Laurie pledges to exonerate her. With Alex Buckley taking a break from the show—cooling his potential romance with Laurie—Under Suspicion introduces a new on-air host named Ryan Nichols, a young legal whiz with a Harvard Law degree, Supreme Court clerkship, experience as a federal prosecutor, and regular stints on the cable news circuit. He’s got a big reputation and the attitude to match it. Ryan has no problems with steering—and stealing—the show, and even tries to stop Laurie from taking on Casey’s case because he’s so certain she’s guilty. An egomaniacal new co-host, a relentless gossip columnist who seems to have all the dirt (and a surprising informant), and Casey’s longstanding bad reputation: Laurie must face this and more to do what she believes is right, to once and for all prove Casey’s innocence—that is, if she’s innocent… The Sleeping Beauty Killer will keep you guessing until the very end.
King of the Murgos (The Malloreon, #2)
by David Eddings
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Young Adult, Adventure
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.10

In this second book of The Malloreon, Garion and Ce'nedra continue the quest begun in Guardians of the West. In their party travel the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer, his daughter Polgara the Sorceress, and the little Drasnian, Silk.Garion knows that it is the mysterious figure Zandramas who is responsible for the abduction of his infant son, and he and his companions journey many miles and encounter many strange beings in their search for him.Their way leads through the foul swamps of Nyissa, ruled over by the Snake-Queen, and on into the dark kingdom of the Murgos, where human sacrifices are still made to the dead god Torak. Further on, however, even beyond those forbidding lands, they must face the ultimate danger - not only to themselves but to all mankind...THUS CONTINUES BOOK TWO OF THE MALLOREON
Flashforward
by Robert J. Sawyer
Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Time Travel, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Thriller
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.64

FLASHFORWARDTwo minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the worldSuddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each other.But that’s the least of the survivors’ challenges. During the blackout, everyone experienced a glimpse of what his or her future holds—and the interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens to unravel the present.
Andersonville
by MacKinlay Kantor
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Civil War, War, Classics, American Civil War, Historical
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.10

The 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.
Burn Zone (Alex Duarte, #2)
by James O. Born
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Crime
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.79

It was supposed to be a low-level bust for ATF agent Alex Duarte, with the hope that he could work it up the ladder to someone important. He just didn't know how important. In New Orleans to check out a mysterious Panamanian named Ortiz who likes to trade guns illegally and import marijuana by the truckload, Duarte suddenly finds himself in the middle of something bigger than he has ever known. Because guns and drugs are bad enough-but there are other things that are much, much worse. A shadowy colonel who is not what he seems . . . a white supremacist intent on becoming "the man who changed America". . . an attractive FBI agent with a lot of pull and a lot of secrets . . . Alex Duarte knows he's in deep with these characters. He just hopes he's not over his head.
The Demigod Files
by Rick Riordan
Genres: Fantasy, Mythology, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Fiction, Short Stories, Adventure
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.04

How do you handle an encounter with Medusa on the New Jersey interstate? What's the best way to take down a minotaur? Become an expert on everything in Percy's world with this must-have guide to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Complete with interviews, puzzles, games, and original short stories by Rick Riordan.
The Black Rose
by Thomas B. Costain
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Historical, Romance, Adventure, Medieval
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.10

As stated by the author, this story "grows out of a legend, a most beguiling and romantic legened which is found in a very few old English histories"."Solid in its facts, colorful and romantic...a rich and remarkable historical tapestry." —Christian Science Monitor
The Birth of Tragedy
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Classics, German Literature, Art, History, 19th Century
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.99

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime. He believed the combination of these states produced the highest forms of music and tragic drama, which not only reveal the truth about suffering in life, but also provide a consolation for it. Impassioned and exhilarating in its conviction, The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture and in literary criticism.
Hungry for You (Argeneau, #14)
by Lynsay Sands
Genres: Paranormal Romance, Romance, Vampires, Paranormal, Fantasy, Adult, Urban Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.26

This vampire has been alone for far too long . . .As one of the most ancient in the Argeneau clan, Cale Valens has given up on finding a life mate. His friends and family, however, have not. In fact, they believe they've finally found his perfect match. Getting them together, however, requires one little white lie . . .Alexandra Willan is in a panic. Her restaurant is due to open in two weeks, but her chef just walked out. Then a highly recommended replacement arrives, an impossibly handsome culinary genius who sends electric tingles racing through her body . . .Except he can't cook. In fact, Cale hasn't eaten real food in two thousand years. Yet he's determined to prove to Alex his prowess in the kitchen . . . and elsewhere. Because never has he hungered so for any mortal woman. And not just for a taste of her, but for the whole delicious feast!
Thorn Queen (Dark Swan, #2)
by Richelle Mead
Genres: Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Fae, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.12

Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire. She's paidto bind and banish creatures from theOtherworld.But something happened after her last battle. She became queen of the Thorn Land. With her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind, the job's really not all it's cracked up to be.Now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld, and no one seems willing to find out why. Or to put an end to it. Not that Eugenie's fazed by spilling fey blood, but this enemy is shrewd, subtle, and dangerous -- and nursing a very personal grudge.Eugenie must venture deep into the Otherworld and trust in a power she can barely control. She may be a reluctant queen, but she's vowed to do her duty, even if it means facing the darkest and deadliest side of her nature.
La mujer habitada
by Gioconda Belli
Genres: Fiction, Feminism, Magical Realism, Spanish Literature, Historical Fiction, Latin American, Womens
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.20


Ganadora del Premio Casa de las Américas, la escritora nicaragüense Gioconda Belli es una de las voces más importantes de la nueva literatura latinoamericana.
La mujer habitada sumerge al lector en un mundo mágico y vital donde la resistencia ancestral del indígena al español se vincula a la rebelión femenina y a la insurgencia política de hoy. Lavinia abandona la casa de sus padres para iniciar una vida de mujer independiente. Piensa que por fin empezará a escribir su historia. Pero ignora que, junto con el amor, llegará la oportunidad de escribir La Historia. Una voz íntima que habita en su sangre la incita a unirse a los cazadores de utopías... Gioconda Belli narra con poesía e inteligencia una historia tan antigua y apasionante como el mundo: el amor entre un hombre y una mujer, y la lucha de un pueblo por la libertad.
Життєпис Бенвенуто, сина маестро Джованні Челліні, флорентинця, написаний ним самим у Флоренції
by Benvenuto Cellini
Genres: Biography, History, Art, Nonfiction, Classics, Italy, Autobiography
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.98

Benvenuto Cellini (11/3/1500–2/13/1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier & musician. He was one of the most important Mannerist artists. His autobiography was started in 1558 & ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around the year 1563 when he was about 63 years old. The memoirs give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions & delights, written in an energetic, direct & racy style. They show a great self-regard & self-assertion, sometimes running into extravagances which are impossible to credit. He even writes in a complacent way of how he contemplated his murders before carrying them out.  The autobiography has been translated into English by Thomas Roscoe, by John Addington Symonds & by Anne Macdonell. It's been considered & published as a classic, & commonly regarded as one of the most colourful autobiographies (certainly the most important autobiography from the Renaissance). Cellini also wrote treatises on the goldsmith's art, on sculpture & on design.
Magic Hour
by Kristin Hannah
Genres: Fiction, Romance, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Mystery, Drama, Adult Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.16

Dr. Julia Cates was one of the country's preeminent child psychiatrists until a shocking tragedy ruined her career. Retreating to her small western Washington hometown, Julia meets an extraordinary six-year-old girl who has inexplicably emerged from the deep woods nearby—a child locked in a world of unimaginable fear and isolation. To Julia, nothing is more important than saving the girl she now calls Alice. But Julia will need help from others, including the sister she barely knows and a handsome doctor with secrets of his own. What follows will test the limits of Julia's faith and strength, as she struggles to find a home for Alice . . . and for herself.
The Golden Bowl
by Henry James
Genres: Classics, Fiction, Literature, American, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.78

Shy Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, shares an uncommonly close bond with her father. Widower Adam Verver, a financier and art connoisseur, has bought everything he wants, including a titled husband for his daughter. Maggie is charmed by Prince Amerigo, an Italian nobleman of reduced means. Wishing to provide her father with companionship, she persuades him to marry her best friend, Charlotte Stant. But unbeknownst to Maggie and Adam, Charlotte and the Prince are concealing a guilty secret that will strike at the foundations of both marriages.Henry James explores his favorite themes in this novel — money, class, desire, and the collision of European and American cultures.Excerpt:He handled it with tenderness, with ceremony, making a place for it on a small satin mat. "My Golden Bowl," he observed--and it sounded on his lips as if it said everything. He left the important object--for as "important" it did somehow present itself--to produce its certain effect. Simple but singularly elegant, it stood on a circular foot, a short pedestal with a slightly spreading base, and, though not of signal depth, justified its title by the charm of its shape as well as by the tone of its surface. It might have been a large goblet diminished, to the enhancement of its happy curve, by half its original height.
The Ice House
by Minette Walters
Genres: Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Suspense
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.83

The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange - not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly, inexplicably vanished. Ten years later a corpse is discovered in the grounds and Phoebe's nightmare begins.
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
by Richard Fariña
Genres: Fiction, Novels, Classics, Literature, American, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.80

Who is gnosso?A young wanderer, a rebel, a seeker. The unforgettable hero of one of the finest novels of our time- the supreme creation of the one and only Richard Fariña, the greatest, wildest, most beautiful voice of his generation.
My Girl
by Patricia Hermes
Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Coming Of Age, Media Tie In, Middle Grade, 20th Century
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.21

When your Dad's an undertaker,your Mom's in heaven,and your Grandma's got a screw loose...it's good to have a friend who understands you.Even if he is a boy.Thomas J. is Vada's best friend. They live near enough to each other to bike ride over and play, or even just hang out. The two are always together, sharing their afternoons, their adventures in the lake, and all of their secrets. Then something terrible happens to Thomas J. and Vada has to learn to fill her days without her best friend around.
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks
Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Psychology, Medicine, Neuroscience, Medical, History
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.11

Awakenings is a 1973 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks. It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic. Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, New York.
Easter Island: A Novel
by Jennifer Vanderbes
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Travel, Historical, Mystery, Book Club, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.69

Join two intrepid young women as they delve into the centuries-old mysteries of Easter Island. Slowly unearthing the island's haunting past, they are forced to confront turbulent discoveries about themselves and the people they love, changing their lives forever.In this extraordinary fiction debut—rich with love and betrayal, history and intellectual passion—two remarkable narratives converge on Easter Island, one of the most remote places in the world.It is 1913. Elsa Pendleton travels from England to Easter Island with her husband, an anthropologist sent by the Royal Geographical Society to study the colossal moai statues, and her younger sister. What begins as familial duty for Elsa becomes a grand adventure; on Easter Island she discovers her true calling. But, out of contact with the outside world, she is unaware that World War I has been declared and that a German naval squadron, fleeing the British across the South Pacific, is heading toward the island she now considers home.Sixty years later, Dr. Greer Farraday, an American botanist, travels to Easter Island to research the island's ancient pollen, but more important, to put back the pieces of her life after the death of her husband.A series of brilliant revelations brings to life the parallel quests of these two intrepid young women as they delve into the centuries-old mysteries of Easter Island. Slowly unearthing the island's haunting past, they are forced to confront turbulent discoveries about themselves and the people they love, changing their lives forever.Easter Island is a tour de force of storytelling that will establish Jennifer Vanderbes as one of the most gifted writers of her generation.
The Good Companions
by J.B. Priestley
Genres: Fiction, Classics, Novels, Literature, British Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.13

Probably the most popular of Priestley's novels, The Good Companions was an instant best-seller when it was first published in July 1929, and, while JBP came to feel its success subsequently overshadowed many more important works, the book has remained popular. It was his third novel and it is certainly well-written and very readable. It is, too, an enjoyable romp, all about a stranded theatrical group the Dinky Doos rescued by Miss Trant and coverted into the Good Companions, and involving their adventures with such characters as Jess Oakroyd, the middle-aged joiner from Bruddersford, who breaks free from his miserable domestic existence, Susie Dean and Inigo Jollifant.
The Firebrand
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Genres: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mythology, Historical, Science Fiction Fantasy, Historical Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.06

Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle that dooms both the victors and the vanquished, their fate seen through the eyes of Kassandra-priestess, princess, and passionate woman with the spirit of a warrior.