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Just as I Am
by Billy Graham
Genres: Biography, Christian, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Christianity, Religion, Christian Non Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.29

Hailed as "the world's preacher," Billy Graham has enjoyed a career that has spanned six decades and his ministry of faith has touched the hearts and souls of millions. In Just As I Am Graham reveals his life story in what the Chicago Tribune calls "a disarmingly honest autobiography." Now, in this revised and updated edition, we hear from this "lion in winter" (Time) on his role over the past ten years as America's pastor during our national crisis of the Oklahoma bombing and 9/11; his knighthood; his passing of the torch to his son, Franklin, to head the organization that bears his name; and his commitment to do the Lord's work in the years of his and his wife Ruth's physical decline.
He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle
by Max Lucado
Genres: Christian, Nonfiction, Christian Living, Inspirational, Religion, Spirituality, Christian Non Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.29

It's what happens when obstacles prevent you from seeing what God has done for you ...He still moves stones.People with questions. The Bible is absolutely full of them. A crook on a cross. A wild man in a cemetery. A five-time divorcee. A despondent cripple. A grieving sister. A father at the end of his rope.Why are these portraits in the Bible? So we can look back in amazement at what Jesus did? No ... these aren't just Sunday school stories. They are historic moments in which a real God met real pain so we could answer the question. "Does God care when I hurt?"On every page of this powerfully moving book, Max Lucado reminds us, the God who spoke to Moses at the burning bush still speaks loudly to you today. The God who forgave King David still offers you forgiveness. The God who helped men and women in ages past still comes into your world, and he comes to do what you can't, to move the stone away so you can see his answer.
The Company of Women
by Khushwant Singh
Genres: Fiction, Erotica, Indian Literature, Novels, India, Adult, Collections
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.26

Recently separated from his nagging, ill-tempered wife of thirteen years, millionaire businessman Mohan Kumar decides to reinvent his life. Convinced that 'lust is the true foundation of love', he embarks on an audacious plan: he will advertise for paid lady companions to share his bed and his life. Thus begins his journey of easy, unbridled sexuality in the company of some remarkable women.There is Sarojini Bharadwai, the demure professor from small-town Haryana who surprises Mohan with her ardour and sexual energy; Molly Gomes, the free-spirited masseuse from Goa, mistress of the sensual impulse; and Susanthika Goonatilleke, the diminutive seductress from Sri Lanka. After each affair ends and before the next begins, Mohan finds solace in the practiced charms of his obliging maid, Dhanno, and in the memories of his first lovers: the American Jessica Browne, to whom he lost his virginity, and the Pakistani Yasmeen Wanchoo, who brought him the heady passion of an older woman. In The Company of Women, Khushwant Singh, India's most widely read author, has produced an uninhibited, erotic and endlessly entertaining celebration of love, sex and passion.
This Lullaby
by Sarah Dessen
Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Chick Lit, Realistic Fiction, Teen
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.02

There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.The science of breaking up...Remy always knows when to give a guy "the speech" - right after the initial romantic rush, but before anything gets too serious. She's had her fair share of boyfriends, and she's learned all there is to learn from her mother, who's currently working on husband number five. So why is it that's Remy can't seem to dump Dexter? It can't be his name. It can't be that he's messy and disorganized. And it certainly isn't that he's a musician - just like Remy's father, a man she never knew because he left before she was born. Could it be that Remy's romantic rules to live by don't apply anymore?
Believing Christ: The Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News
by Stephen E. Robinson
Genres: Religion, Lds, Nonfiction, Church, Spirituality, Inspirational, Christian
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.51

Author Stephen Robinson illustrates the power of the Savior as he uses analogies and parables, such as his own bicycle story, and scriptures and personal experiences in this moving, best-selling book. “Mortals have finite liabilities,” he explains, “and Jesus has unlimited assets.” By merging the two, exaltation can come. As long as we progress in some degree, the Lord will be pleased and will bless us. We must not only believe in Christ but also believe him — believe that he has the power to exalt us, that he can do what he claims. People will better understand the doctrines of mercy, justification, and salvation by grace after reading this book.
Täällä Pohjantähden alla 1–3
by Väinö Linna
Genres: Classics, Finnish Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, War, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.54

Väinö Linnan suurteos Täällä Pohjantähden alla on piirtynyt suomalaisten muistiin lähihistorian näkemyksellisenä kuvauksena. Sen sivuilla syrjäinen hämäläiskylä elää alkuvoimaista, maanläheistä elämäänsä kansamme suurina murroskausina. Trilogian ajallisina rajakohtina ovat helmikuun manifestia edeltänyt vuosikymmen, josta edetään torppariperheiden tragedian kautta kansalaissotaan ja Suomen itsenäisyyden vuosikymmeniin aina 1950-luvulle saakka. Varttuneempi lukijapolvi tuntee katselevansa silmästä silmään omiakin kokemuksiaan, nuoremmille avautuu ennen tuntemattomia näkymiä kansakunnan kulkemalta tieltä.
Thirteen Moons
by Charles Frazier
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Audiobook, Novels, Southern, Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.72

At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the uncharted wilderness of the Cherokee Nation. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Will’s character. All the while, his love of Claire, the enigmatic and captivating charge of volatile and powerful Featherstone, will forever rule Will’s heart. In a voice filled with both humor and yearning, Will tells of a lifelong search for home, the hunger for fortune and adventure, the rebuilding of a trampled culture, and above all an enduring pursuit of passion.
गुनाहों का देवता
by Dharamvir Bharati
Genres: Fiction, Classics, India, Indian Literature, Romance, Novels, Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.31

In the idyllic university town, young women daydreamed as they lay on the grass and gazed up at the clouds. Young men took morning walks at Alfred Park. Hot summer afternoons were for drinking sherbet and eating watermelons, and evenings were meant for reading poetry. It was also a time of stifling social mores, and love was an unattainable ideal seldom realized. Allahabad of the 1940s is the serene backdrop to the turbulence of Chander s love for his professor s daughter Sudha. Driven by his passionate belief in the transcending purity of their love, Chander persuades Sudha to marry another man, to devastating consequences. Unhinged by his separation from Sudha and consumed by a restless desire to make sense of love Is it really about sex? Is the purity of love a lie? Chander spirals into a destructive affair with the seductive Pammi. Immensely popular since its publication more half a century ago, Chander & Sudha continues to seduce readers with its potent mix of tender passion and heartbreaking tragedy.
The Great Collapse (Survivors of the Pulse, #1)
by Jeff W. Horton
Genres: Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Christian Fiction, Apocalyptic, Fiction, Thriller, Dystopia
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.89

While scientists prepare for a massive solar flare heading towards the earth, a hostile foreign government steals a top-secret, experimental weapon. When they use the EMP weapon to attack America however, the result is the immediate and catastrophic loss of modern technology all over the planet. The president calls upon Dr. James White to lead a group of scientists and theologians in an effort to develop a plan that will offer humanity a second chance at civilization. When societies begin to unravel, refugees flee the anarchy in the cities as people learn how to survive in a world without technology, a world for which they are not prepared. Will humanity survive this catastrophic event? Join author Jeff Horton for a journey into the chaotic and perilous new world of The Great Collapse.
The End of Alice
by A.M. Homes
Genres: Fiction, Horror, Contemporary, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Dark
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.53

From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be ForgivenOnly a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal—and revel in—their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.
Flotsam
by David Wiesner
Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Fantasy, Fiction, Animals, Art, Adventure
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.24

A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . . . and to keep. In each of his amazing picture books, David Wiesner has revealed the magical possibilities of some ordinary thing or happening--a frog on a lily pad, a trip to the Empire State Building, a well-known nursery tale. This time, a day at the beach is the springboard into a wildly imaginative exploration of the mysteries of the deep, and of the qualities that enable us to witness these wonders and delight in them.
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim
Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Entrepreneurship, Management, Buisness, Leadership, Economics
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

Este libro, éxito de ventas a nivel mundial, desafía todo lo que creías saber sobre los requisitos imprescindibles para tener éxito en tus negocios. Actualizado con nuevo contenido, La estrategia del océano azul sostiene que la competencia encarnizada queda reducida a un océano ensangrentado de rivales que luchan por unos beneficios cada vez más pequeños. Basado en un estudio de 150 estrategias (que cubre más de 100 años a través de 30 sectores empresariales), los autores muestran que el éxito duradero no tiene su origen en las batallas libradas con los competidores sino en la creación de "océanos azules" -nuevos espacios de mercado sin explotar que están maduros para el crecimiento.
Run Baby Run
by Nicky Cruz
Genres: Christian, Biography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Christianity, Religion, Autobiography
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.22

This is the thrilling story of Nicky Cruz's desperate battle against drugs, alcoholism, and a violent environment, as he searched for a better way of life on the streets of New York City.
The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk
by Sudha Murty
Genres: Nonfiction, Short Stories, India, Indian Literature, Marathi, Autobiography, Contemporary
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.99

Extraordinary stories about ordinary peoples lives by the inimitable Sudha Murty Over the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating people whose lives make for interesting stories and have astonishing lessons to reveal. Take Vishnu, who achieves every material success but never knows happiness; or Venkat, who talks so much that he has no time to listen. In other stories, a young girl goes on a train journey that changes her life forever; an impoverished village woman provides bathing water to hundreds of people in a drought-stricken area; a do-gooder ghost decides to teach a disconsolate young man Sanskrit; and in the title story, a woman in a flooded village in Odisha teaches the author a life lesson she will never forget.
Hurt Go Happy
by Ginny Rorby
Genres: Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Animals, Fiction, Middle Grade, Disability, Contemporary
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.25

Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis is used to being left out of conversations. Though she's been deaf since the age of six, Joey's mother has never allowed her to learn sign language. She strains to read the lips of those around her, but often fails.Everything changes when Joey meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, Sukari. Her new friends use sign language to communicate, and Joey secretly begins to learn to sign. Spending time with Charlie and Sukari, Joey has never been happier. She even starts making friends at school for the first time. But as Joey's world blooms with possibilities, Charlie's and Sukari's choices begin to narrow--until Sukari's very survival is in doubt.
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
by Ray Bradbury
Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Time Travel, Science Fiction Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.20

A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun. . .a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love. . .an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time. . . These strange and wonderful tales of beauty and terror will transport you from the begininng of time to the outermost limits of the future. Selected from his best-selling collections "The Golden Apples Of The Sun" and "R Is For Rocket," here are thirty-two superb stories from one of the master fantastics of our age--the inimitable Ray Bradbury.
The Sunset Limited
by Cormac McCarthy
Genres: Fiction, Plays, Drama, Philosophy, American, Religion, Theatre
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.98

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, Black and White, as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life. Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.
Secret Daughter
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Genres: Fiction, India, Contemporary, Adoption, Book Club, Canada, Adult Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.99

Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be — she's newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco — until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children.The same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to save her newborn daughter's life by giving her away. It is a decision that will haunt Kavita for the rest of her life, and cause a ripple effect that travels across the world and back again.Asha, adopted out of a Mumbai orphanage, is the child that binds the destinies of these two women. We follow both families, invisibly connected until Asha's journey of self-discovery leads her back to India.Compulsively readable and deeply touching, SECRET DAUGHTER is a story of the unforeseen ways in which our choices and families affect our lives, and the indelible power of love in all its many forms.
We are Called to Rise
by Laura  McBride
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Book Club, War, Audiobook
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.94

When an ice cream van is stopped at a cross roads, its brake light out, what are the chances its driver will be terrified by the police, his wife unable to communicate her distress as she tries to protect her children?  What are the chances that the brand new police officer on duty will be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, fresh from his third tour in Iraq. That he'll pull out his gun, blinded by memories of war? What are the chances that the only hope of happiness left to that broken family inside the van will begin with a letter from a man desperate for redemption, to do something good?  And will Bashkim Ahmeti, our eight-year-old hero, let him?
A History of Western Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell
Genres: Philosophy, History, Nonfiction, Classics, Reference, Religion, Politics
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.12

Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, James, Dewey, and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, co-author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica.
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Economics
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.27

For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they have to. This clever and accessible book shows that the difference between tyrants and democrats is just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters, or backs that need scratching. The size of this group determines almost everything about politics: what leaders can get away with, and the quality of life or misery under them. The picture the authors paint is not pretty. But it just may be the truth, which is a good starting point for anyone seeking to improve human governance.
Five Years - The Meeting
by Leonard Belmont
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.48

Do you remember when you knew you were falling in love?What starts with a lucky encounter during their college years turns out to be a moment that will forever define their futures.That breathless, electric feeling in the air; giddy with the excitement of a new day.We have all experienced it in some way. Through the recollection of friends & family, through tender embraces between mother and child, but the most poignant is that of the writings of a love struck man who has already seen the end.In this contemporary romance, author Leonard Belmont takes us on an unhindered emotional journey into the lives of a young couple from the moment they lay eyes on one another. Beginning with the end of their life together, these unhindered thoughts open us up to what love is like in its earliest moments.“It did not take long to understand what I was living in that moment.Love at first sight.My soul mate”
Everblaze (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #3)
by Shannon Messenger
Genres: Fantasy, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Magic, Childrens
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.53

Sophie uncovers shocking secrets—and faces treacherous new enemies—in this electrifying third book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series.Sophie Foster is ready to fight back.Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she’s determined to find her kidnappers—before they come after her again.But a daring mistake leaves her world teetering on the edge of war, and causes many to fear that she has finally gone too far. And the deeper Sophie searches, the farther the conspiracy stretches, proving that her most dangerous enemy might be closer than she realizes.
Aparição
by Vergílio Ferreira
Genres: Portuguese Literature, Classics, Fiction, Romance, Portugal, Literature, Philosophy
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.67

Aparição é um romance de Vergílio Ferreira que discute teorias filosóficas relacionadas com o existencialismo, escrito em primeira pessoa.Do livro:"Sento-me aqui nesta sala vazia e relembro. Uma lua quente de Verão entra pela varanda, ilumina uma jarra de flores sobre a mesa. Olho essa jarra, essas flores, e escuto o índicio de um rumor de vida, o sinal obscuro de uma memória de origens. (...)"
Engleby
by Sebastian Faulks
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Crime, Novels, British Literature, Literary Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.75

Bestselling British author Sebastian Faulks reinvents the unreliable narrator with his singular, haunting creation—Mike Engleby."My name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancient university." With that brief introduction we meet one of the most mesmerizing, singular voices in a long tradition of disturbing narrators. Despite his obvious intelligence and compelling voice, it is clear that something about solitary, odd Mike is not quite right. When he becomes fixated on a classmate named Jennifer Arkland and she goes missing, we are left with the looming question: Is Mike Engleby involved? As he grows up, finding a job and even a girlfriend in London, Mike only becomes more and more detached from those around him in an almost anti-coming-of-age. His inability to relate to others and his undependable memory (able to recall countless lines of text yet sometimes incapable of summoning up his own experiences from mere days before) lead the reader down an unclear and often darkly humorous path where one is never completely comfortable or confident about what is true.Mike Engleby is a chilling and unforgettable character, and Engleby is a novel that will surprise and beguile Sebastian Faulks' readership.