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Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)
by Anthony Trollope
Genres: Classics, Fiction, Victorian, Literature, 19th Century, British Literature, Historical Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.98

The second of Trollope's "Palliser" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented but naive doctor's son from Ireland with Parliamentary aspirations. He must make numerous practical and ethical choices regarding his career, his political beliefs, and his romantic life, in hopes of emerging with his character, reputation, and prospects intact.
Man of the Family (Little Britches, #2)
by Ralph Moody
Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Classics, Memoir, Westerns, Childrens, History
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.51

Early 1900s Colorado. Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new ranch life. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Determined Grace and religious Mother cooks beans, bread and repair lace curtains while Ralph builds frames and delivers baking.
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
by Jaclyn Friedman
Genres: Feminism, Nonfiction, Gender Studies, Sexuality, Gender, Essays, Social Justice
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.20

In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Friedman and Full Frontal Feminism and He’s A Stud, She’s A Slut author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. Feminist, political, and activist writers alike will present their ideas for a paradigm shift from the “No Means No” model—an approach that while necessary for where we were in 1974, needs an overhaul today.Yes Means Yes will bring to the table a dazzling variety of perspectives and experiences focused on the theory that educating all people to value female sexuality and pleasure leads to viewing women differently, and ending rape. Yes Means Yes aims to have radical and far-reaching effects: from teaching men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, encouraging men and women that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it, and ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished. With commentary on public sex education, pornography, mass media, Yes Means Yes is a powerful and revolutionary anthology.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Graphic Novel)
by Bo Hampton
Genres: Classics, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories, Mystery, Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.98

Please note that this is the graphic novel adaptation of Sleepy Hollow. If you're looking for the short story, go here.This is Bo Hampton's 1993 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a faithful adaptation of Washington Irving's tale surrounding the ghostly inhabitants of Tarrytown, New York around the time of the American Revolution. The cast of characters is headed up by the Headless Horseman himself. This edition boasts new covers and 16 pages of new material, including numerous preliminary sketches of scenes and characters.
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Nature, Science, Animals, Biography Memoir, Biography
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.14

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of her own confined place in the world. Intrigued by the snail’s molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision making, hydraulic locomotion, and mysterious courtship activities, Bailey becomes an astute and amused observer, providing a candid and engaging look into the curious life of this underappreciated small animal.  Told with wit and grace, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a remarkable journey of survival and resilience, showing us how a small part of the natural world illuminates our own human existence and provides an appreciation of what it means to be fully alive.
Best of S J Perelman
by S.J. Perelman
Genres: Humor, Essays, Short Stories, Nonfiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.13

In this collection, Perelman puzzles over the nature of the secret chocolate blend in Hostess Cupcakes, captures the excesses of Russian prose style in a story about cigarettes, and ponders the question of our time: poisonous mushrooms--yes or no?
On Dublin Street (On Dublin Street, #1)
by Samantha Young
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, New Adult, Adult, Erotica, Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.17

Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare ...Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well - until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street, where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he's determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship, Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached.But after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts, she realizes that Braden won't be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her . . . down to the very soul.
From the Earth to the Moon
by Jules Verne
Genres: Science Fiction, Classics, Fiction, Adventure, France, Fantasy, Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.77

Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Even the return to earth happened in more-or-less the same place. Coincidence -- or fact!? We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge.
Lie Down with Lions
by Ken Follett
Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Espionage, Adventure
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.87

A romantic adventure with twisting suspense from the author of Night Over Water and Pillars of the Earth.
بائعة الخبز
by Xavier de Montepin
Genres: Novels, Classics, Fiction, Literature, Romance, Historical Fiction, French Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.72

الناشر:تجري أحداث الرواية في النصف الثاني من القرن التاسع عشر، وهي الفترة التي برزت فيها الروايات الشعبية التي كانت تنشر على حلقات بهدف جذب أكبر عدد من قراء الصحيفة التي كانت تلحقها في ذيل كل عدد من أعدادها, وكانت "بائعة الخبز" الرواية الأكثر رواجاً من بين الروايات المعاصرة، بحيث عرفت طريقها بعد إقبال القراء عليها إلى المسرح والسينما والتلفزيون.شخصيات الرواية كما رسمها دومنبان تتنازعها عواطف شتى، هي عواطف إنسانية تنبض بالمشاعر والأحاسيس تستحضر الماضي سعياً وراء كشف الحقيقة التي تبقى غاية الإنسان.فجاء فورتييه تتنازعها عاطفة الأمومة والوفاء لذكرى زوج أحبت والأمل في العثور على ولديها بعد سنين طويلة قضتها في البحث عنهما. بينما تتنازع جاك جارود سلطة المال وحب تملك امرأة يهيم بها، وهو حب دفع به إلى ارتكاب جريمة ثلاثية اضطر بسببها إلى إلصاق التهمة بالمرأة التي أحب. وحين تفتح الدنيا له ذراعيها يتملكه حزن الأب على ابنته الوحيدة المريضة، والتي من أجل إسعادها سعى إلى الخلاص من الفتاة التي تنافسها في حب الشاب الذي رأت فيه فارس أحلامها. والواقع أن جاك هذا قضى على حياة المرأة التي أحبها، وحاول بالتالي قتل ابنتها حباً بابنته.إنها حالة من المشاعر المتداخلة تتأرجح بين الموت والحياة، الإخلاص والانتقام، الحب والكراهية، واليأس والأمل، وهي تلك المشاعر التي راجت في روايات القرن التاسع عشر، والتي حفلت بها صحف تلك الحقبة من الزمان.
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga, #2)
by Peter F. Hamilton
Genres: Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Audiobook, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.30

Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy. The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare. Coexistence is impossible with the technologically advanced aliens, who are genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. Twenty-three planets have already fallen to the invaders, with casualties in the hundreds of millions. And no one knows when or where the genocidal Prime will strike next. Nor are the Prime the only threat. For more than a hundred years, a shadowy cult, the Guardians of Selfhood, has warned that an alien with mind-control abilities impossible to detect or resist -- the Starflyer -- has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth. Branded as terrorists, the Guardians and their leader, Bradley Johansson, have been hunted by relentless investigator Paula Myo. But now evidence suggests that the Guardians were right all along, and that the Starflyer has placed agents in vital posts throughout the Commonwealth -- agents who are now sabotaging the war effort. Is the Starflyer an ally of the Prime, or has it orchestrated a fight to the death between the two species for its own advantage? Caught between two deadly enemies, one a brutal invader striking from without, the other a remorseless cancer killing from within, the fractious Commonwealth must unite as never before...
Point of Impact (Bob Lee Swagger, #1)
by Stephen Hunter
Genres: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Action, Military Fiction, Suspense, Mystery Thriller
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.28

He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the killing behind.But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too late that the game is rigged.The assassination plot is executed to perfection—until Bob Lee Swagger, alleged lone gunman, comes out of the operation alive, the target of a nationwide manhunt, his only allies a woman he just met and a discredited FBI agent.Now Bob Lee Swagger is on the run, using his lethal skills once more—but this time to track down the men who set him up and to break a dark conspiracy aimed at the very heart of America.
Adventures in the Screen Trade A Personal View of Hollywood
by William Goldman
Genres: Nonfiction, Film, Writing, Memoir, Biography, Media Tie In, History
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.10

The book is divided into three parts. "Part One: Hollywood Realities" is a collection of essays on various subjects ranging from movie stars and studio executives to his thoughts on how to begin and end a screenplay and how to write for a movie star."Part Two: Adventures" has stories from 11 projects that Goldman has been involved with, from Charly and Masquerade, to the Academy Award-winning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, to some projects that remained unrealised, such as a musical remake of Grand Hotel.In "Part Three: Da Vinci", Goldman shows the reader how he would go about adapting his own short story "Da Vinci" into a screenplay. The full text of "Da Vinci" and the subsequent screenplay that he wrote are included, followed by interviews with key movie industry figures, including director George Roy Hill, cinematographer Gordon Willis, and composer Dave Grusin.'I don't know if it's ever been equalled: both a guide to how to write and a guide to how to navigate the experience of being a professional in the industry. Even though he existed at the most exalted level, it never felt like that. It felt democratic and egalitarian in the way he wrote. Before his book, people never really gave thought to screenwriters, their craft, or their place in the ecosystem of movie-making. Bill not only shone a light on that and inspired a whole new generation of writers, he also made movie-making and showbusiness understandable to a vast general audience' Peter Morgan, writer of The Crown and Frost/NixonAs befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men and Marathon Man, Adventures in the Screen Trade is an intimate view of movie-making, of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman and Hoffman, and of the trials and rewards of working inside the most
The Children of the New Forest
by Frederick Marryat
Genres: Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Childrens, Historical, Young Adult, 19th Century
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.87

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during the war, and hide from their Roundhead oppressors in the shelter of the New Forest where they learn to live off the land.
The Blind Owl
by Sadegh Hedayat
Genres: Fiction, Iran, Classics, Novels, Horror, Literature, Philosophy
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.98

Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic facts become obscure and the reader soon realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although the Blind Owl has been compared to the works of the Kafka, Rilke and Poe, this work defies categorization. Lescot's French translation made the Blind Owl world-famous, while D.P. Costello's English translation made it largely accessible. Sadly, this work has yet to find its way into the English pantheon of Classics. This 75th anniversary edition, translated by award-winning writer Naveed Noori and published in conjunction with the Hedayat Foundation, aims to change this and is notable for a number of firsts: *The only translation endorsed by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation *The first translation to use the definitive Bombay edition (Hedayat's handwritten text) *The only available English translation by a native Persian and English speaker *The preface includes a detailed textual analysis of the Blind Owl Finally, by largely preserving the spirit as well as the structure of Hedayat's writing, this edition brings the English reader into the world of the Hedayat's Blind Owl as never before. Extensive footnotes (explaining Persian words, phrases, and customs ignored in previous translations) provide deeper understanding of this work for both the causal reader and the serious student of literature. .."..There are indeed marked differences between Costello's and Noori's translations. As Noori indicates, his attempt to preserve the overabundance of dashes gives the reader a more immediate sense of the narrator's agitation...The first sentence flows on in Noori's translation, piling sensation upon sensation never allowing us to pause and catch our breath or separate out the images from the sensations. In his discussion of the relationship between his translation and Costello's, Noori also draws on translation theory and sees Costello's focus on the fluidity of the text in English as a "domestication" of Hedayat's original. Noori's new English translation and his preface are a welcome addition and will no doubt draw the attention of scholars interested in Hedayat's works. The close textual and comparative analysis of the type Noori offers marks a new and long-overdue critical approach to the translation of the most celebrated work of modern Persian prose." -Professor Nasrin Rahimieh in Middle Eastern Literatures
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
by Shel Silverstein
Genres: Poetry, Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Comics, Inspirational
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.36

From Shel Silverstein, the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, comes The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, a charming fable that gently probes the nature of individuality and self-fulfillment."The missing piece sat alonewaiting for someoneto come alongand take it somewhere..."The different ones it encounters – and what it discovers in its helplessness – are portrayed with simplicity and compassion in the words and drawings of Shel Silverstein.And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns (2017), the new sequel and book from Shel Silverstein!
Puck of Pook's Hill
by Rudyard Kipling
Genres: Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Young Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.86

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history.
White Hot Kiss (The Dark Elements, #1)
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult, Paranormal, Demons, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.19

This is a previously published edition of ASIN B00DSX0QRS. There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN here and here.One kiss could be the last. Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses. Raised among the Wardens—a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons and keeping humanity safe—Layla tries to fit in, but that means hiding her own dark side from those she loves the most. Especially Zayne, the swoon-worthy, incredibly gorgeous and completely off-limits Warden she's crushed on since forever. Then she meets Roth—a tattooed, sinfully hot demon who claims to know all her secrets. Layla knows she should stay away, but she's not sure she wants to—especially when that whole no-kissing thing isn't an issue, considering Roth has no soul. But when Layla discovers she's the reason for the violent demon uprising, trusting Roth could not only ruin her chances with Zayne… it could brand her a traitor to her family. Worse yet, it could become a one-way ticket to the end of the world.
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
by Charles Bukowski
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry, Literature, Classics, American, Literary Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.91

Revolving around themes of alcoholism, gambling, sex, and violence, this short story collection demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style and mastery of visceral language and depiction of seamy underworlds.Bukowski's writings have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France, where he is published by the great publishing houses), Bukowski is critically recognized as one of America's greatest realist writers.
On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality, #1)
by Piers Anthony
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Paranormal
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.13

When Zane shoots Death, he has to take the job, speeding over the world riding Mortis, his pale horse/limo, measuring souls for the exact balance of Good and Evil, sending each to Heaven or Hell instead of Purgatory. The new Thanatos is superbly competent, ends pain when he ends lives. But Satan is forging a trap for Luna, the woman Death loves.
The Prisoner of Zenda (The Ruritania Trilogy, #2)
by Anthony Hope
Genres: Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.84

Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to the throne, Black Michael of Strelsau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability. Rassendyll endures a trial of strength in his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia. Five times filmed, The Prisoner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894.
Taras Bulba
by Nikolai Gogol
Genres: Classics, Russia, Fiction, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.72

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The Giver (Giver Quartet) | Book Summary
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Average rating on Goodreads: 5.00

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