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Dante's End (The Jailor, #1)
by Ariana Nash
Genres: Fantasy, M M Romance, Romance, Dark, Paranormal, LGBT, Queer
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.92


 Monsters are made, not born... 
Most called him the Jailor. Some called him a monster. If he had a name, nobody had survived meeting him long enough to tell it. They said he sat atop a mound of skulls and marked each death on his throne, like notches on a bedpost. Some tales told of how he had wings as dark as night, and of how he wore a crown of razor wire woven around four horns. Dante had heard all the stories before. The only tale he cared for was the one that said the jailor could bleed. If the jailor could bleed, then he could die, and Dante was going to be the one to finally kill him. This is the story of how all those tales were wrong. And so was Dante.
Coolidge
by Amity Shlaes
Genres: Biography, History, Presidents, Nonfiction, Politics, American History, Us Presidents
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.78

Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Vermonter, nicknamed "Silent Cal," has long been dismissed as quiet and passive. History has remembered the decade in which he served as a frivolous, extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes, the author known for her riveting, unexpected portrait of the 1930s, provides a similarly fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president. Shlaes shows that the mid-1920s was, in fact, a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: the nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus. Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism.Although Coolidge was sometimes considered old-fashioned, he was the most modern of presidents, advancing not only the automobile trade but also aviation, through his spirited support of Charles Lindbergh. Coolidge's discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength. First as governor of Massachusetts then as president, Coolidge proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups.Perhaps more than any other president, Coolidge understood that doing less could yield more. He reduced the federal budget during his time in office even as the economy grew, wages rose, tax rates fell, and unemployment dropped. As a husband, father, and citizen, the thirtieth president made an equally firm commitment to moderation, shunning lavish parties and special presidential treatment; to him the presidency was not a bully pulpit but a place for humble service. Overcoming private tragedy while in office, including the death of a son, Coolidge showed the nation how to persevere by persevering himself. For a nation looking for a steady hand, he was a welcome pilot.In this illuminating, magisterial biography, AmityShlaes finally captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his leadership.
Charleston
by John Jakes
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Civil War, Historical, Novels, Adult, American History
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.93

No missing pages, Water Damage, or stains. Spine shows creasing. This is a readable copy.
Leap: Lifetime Economic Acceleration Process
by Robert Castiglione
Genres: Finance, Nonfiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.62

 Lifetime Economic Acceleration Process
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by Stephen King
Genres: Horror, Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Thriller
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.73

Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: "Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams...and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares.
The Reivers
by William Faulkner
Genres: Fiction, Classics, Literature, Historical Fiction, American, Novels, Humor
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.78

One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues--involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail.
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by Steve Coll
Genres: History, Nonfiction, Politics, War, Military Fiction, Terrorism, Espionage
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.31

The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the Bush White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeda's evolution. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005.Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, explores how this sowed the seeds of Bin Laden's rise, traces how he built his global network and brings to life the dramatic battles within the US government over national security. Above all, he lays bare American intelligence's continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrorism in the years leading to 9/11 - and its devastating consequences.
رجال في الشمس
by غسان كنفاني
Genres: Fiction, Novels, Short Stories, Classics, Literature, Politics, Historical Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.19

يمثل غسان كنفاني مؤلف هذه الرواية نموذجاً خاصاً للكاتب السياسي والروائي والقاص والناقد، فكان مبدعاً في كتاباته كما كان مبدعاً في حياته ونضاله واستشهاده. وقد نال عام 1966 جائزة أصدقاء الكتاب في لبنان "لأفضل رواية عن روايته" ما تبقى لكم كما نال جائزة منظمة الصحافيين العالمية (I.O.J) عام 1974، ونال جائزة "اللوتس" التي يمنحها اتحاد كتاب آسيا وأفريقيا عام 1975. وتعد روايته رجال في الشمس التي صدرت في بيروت عام 1963 من أوائل الأعمال الروائية الفلسطينية التي تكتب عن التشرد والموت والحيرة. وفيها يروي حكاية ثلاثة فلسطينيين من أجيال مختلفة، يلتقون حول ضرورة إيجاد حل فردي لمشكلة الإنسان الفلسطيني المعيشية عبر الهرب إلى الكويت، حيث النفط والثروة. أبو قيس. الرجل العجوز الذي يحلم ببناء غرفة في مكان ما خارج المخيم، أسعد: الشاب الذي يحلم بدنانير الكويت وبحياة جديدة، ومروان: الصغير الذي يحاول أن يتغلب على مأساته المعيشية، فشقيقه في الكويت تركهم دون معيل لأنه تزوج، والده ترك أمه ليتزوج بامرأة تملك بيتاً عليه إذن أن يعيل العائلة فيقرر الوصول إلى الكويت. يدين غسان كنفاني في روايته كل الأطراف التي تسببت في نكبة فلسطين، القيادات العاجزة،والقيادات الخائنة،والشعب المستسلم،والذينتخلوا عن الأرض ليبحثوا عن خلاصهم الخاص
Legends of the Fall
by Jim Harrison
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Westerns, Short Stories, Classics, Historical, American
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.05

'Legends of the Fall, an epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, exploration and danger at the beginning of the Great War, confirms Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. This magnificent trilogy also contains two other superb short novels. In Revenge, love causes the course of a man's life to be savagely and irrevocably altered. Nordstrom, in The Man Who Gave up his Name, is unable to relinquish his consuming obsessions with women, dancing and food.'
Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5)
by J.R. Ward
Genres: Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Vampires, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.31

The ruthless and brilliant brother Vishous possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time-until a destiny he didn't choose takes him into a future that does not include her...
Lover Enshrined (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #6)
by J.R. Ward
Genres: Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Vampires, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.11

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other—six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. And now, a dutiful twin must choose between two lives...Fiercely loyal to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Phury has sacrificed himself for the good of the race, becoming the male responsible for keeping the Brotherhood's bloodlines alive. As Primale of the Chosen, he is to father the sons and daughters who will ensure that the traditions of the race survive and that there are warriors to fight those who want all vampires extinguished.As his first mate, the Chosen Cormia wants to win not only his body but his heart for herself- she sees the emotionally scarred male behind all his noble responsibility. But while the war with the Lessening Society grows more grim, and tragedy looms over the Brotherhood's mansion, Phury must decide between duty and love.
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by Naomi Oreskes
Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Politics, History, Climate Change, Environment, Economics
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.17

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly—some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it.Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.
From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8)
by Charlaine Harris
Genres: Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Mystery
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.01

After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone human and otherwise is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing. It's clear that things are changing whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And Sookie, Friend to the Pack and blood-bonded to Eric Northman, leader of the local vampire community is caught up in the changes. In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death, and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood finished flowing, her world will be forever altered.
Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)
by Nnedi Okorafor
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Africa, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.94

An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post-apocalyptic Africa.  In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand and instinctively knows that her daughter is different. She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means "Who Fears Death?" in an ancient African tongue. Reared under the tutelage of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers her magical destiny – to end the genocide of her people. The journey to fulfill her destiny will force her to grapple with nature, tradition, history, true love, the spiritual mysteries of her culture – and eventually death itself.
Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)
by Terry Pratchett
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.96

Cameras roll - which means the imps inside have to paint really fast - on the fantastic Discworld when the alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen.But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill?As the alien clichés of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out...THRILL as Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel ("I come from a little town you've probably never even heard of") battle the forces of evil and cinema advertising...SCREAM as Gaspode the Wonder Dog nearly saves the day...EAT POPCORN as you watch the filming of "Blown Away," the oddest Civil War picture ever made...A Passionate Saga Set Against the background of a World Gone Mad!This Will Amaze You!With a Thousand Elephants!("And afterwards, why not dine at Harga's House of Ribs, for the best in international cuisine; only two minutes from this book...")
The Enchantress Returns (The Land of Stories, #2)
by Chris Colfer
Genres: Fantasy, Middle Grade, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Fairy Tales, Adventure
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.45

After decades of hiding, the evil Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty is back with a vengeance.Alex and Conner Bailey have not been back to the magical Land of Stories since their adventures in The Wishing Spell ended. But one night, they learn the famed Enchantress has kidnapped their mother! Against the will of their grandmother, the twins must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the greatest threat it's ever faced.
Enlightenment
by Kim Cormack
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.73

It's like a thousand ways to die with dark comedy and scenes that will make you blush. There also may be cannibalism, dinosaurs, rat spiders, tar lizards and stone lions that hack up ice loogies. Welcome to Immortal Testing.
The Elemental Master
by Glen Garrett
Average rating on Goodreads: 5.00

John Snow begins his adventure into discovering his ability to control the elements. His journey leads him into a dangerous future, full of betrayal, death, battles and heroics. He must use his powers to help mankind, stopping those that would seek to destroy it.
The Golden Sword (Silistra, #2)
by Janet E. Morris
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Science Fiction Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Heroic Fantasy, Dark Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.09

She had the power to create planets. The sixty carved bones of the Yris-tera foretold her ancient fate.  Her heritage of power took her beyond time and space and stole from her the one man she loved. Enslaved on the planet Silistra tomorrow's most beautiful courtesan unleashes the powers of the gods.
Freedom Road
by Howard Fast
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Race, Civil War, Historical, War
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.13

"Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which Fast is a master". -- Chicago Daily News
World Order
by Henry Kissinger
Genres: Politics, History, Nonfiction, International Relations, Political Science, Economics, World History
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.06

Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades—Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.There has never been a true “world order,” Kissinger observes. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the Emperor at its pinnacle. In Europe, Rome imagined itself surrounded by barbarians; when Rome fragmented, European peoples refined a concept of an equilibrium of sovereign states and sought to export it across the world. Islam, in its early centuries, considered itself the world’s sole legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until the world was brought into harmony by religious principles. The United States was born of a conviction about the universal applicability of democracy—a conviction that has guided its policies ever since.Now international affairs take place on a global basis, and these historical concepts of world order are meeting. Every region participates in questions of high policy in every other, often instantaneously. Yet there is no consensus among the major actors about the rules and limits guiding this process, or its ultimate destination. The result is mounting tension.Grounded in Kissinger’s deep study of history and his experience as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, World Order guides readers through crucial episodes in recent world history. Kissinger offers a unique glimpse into the inner deliberations of the Nixon administration’s negotiations with Hanoi over the end of the Vietnam War, as well as Ronald Reagan’s tense debates with Soviet Premier Gorbachev in Reykjavík. He offers compelling insights into the future of U.S.–China relations and the evolution of the European Union, and examines lessons of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taking readers from his analysis of nuclear negotiations with Iran through the West’s response to the Arab Spring and tensions with Russia over Ukraine, World Order anchors Kissinger’s historical analysis in the decisive events of our time.Provocative and articulate, blending historical insight with geopolitical prognostication, World Order is a unique work that could come only from a lifelong policymaker and diplomat.
Magician: Master (The Riftwar Saga, #2)
by Raymond E. Feist
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.25

He held the fate of two worlds in his hands... Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself.
The Au Pair
by Eva Goldsby
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.36

An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.A disjointed and unpredictable journey from captivity to freedom. Lisa, a young, poor and naive girl pursues her dream of traveling by becoming an au pair; but within the glamourous households of her host families, reality turns out to be far different than she ever expected. Her name was Lisa. Like many other young people of her age, she was full of energy, enthusiasm and illusions of youth. Her dearest wish was to travel around the world. How could a young graduate with no money or connections undertake such a journey? As a recent education graduate, Lisa decided to participate in a famous au pair exchange program and spent a year abroad as an equal member of her host family. Without any acquaintances and sufficient language knowledge, Lisa, a poor and naive girl, becomes dependent on her host family in a foreign country.  Behind the curtain of the glamorous house of her host families, the reality turns out to be different than she ever expected it would be...
Nine Lives
by William Dalrymple
Genres: India, Nonfiction, Travel, Religion, History, Spirituality, Asia
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.05

From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never have known.A middle-class woman from Calcutta finds unexpected fulfillment living as a Tantric in an isolated, skull-filled cremation ground . . . A prison warder from Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year . . . A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death . . . The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile with his son’s wish to study computer engineering . . . An illiterate goatherd keeps alive in his memory an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic . . . A temple prostitute, who resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the trade she nonetheless regards as a sacred calling.William Dalrymple tells these stories, among others, with expansive insight and a spellbinding evocation of remarkable circumstance, giving us a dazzling travelogue of both place and spirit
Mr. Ives' Christmas
by Oscar Hijuelos
Genres: Fiction, Christmas, Religion, Novels, Literary Fiction, Holiday, New York
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.76

Hijuelos' novel tells the story of Mr. Ives, who was adopted from a foundling's home as a child. When we first meet him in the 1950s, Mr. Ives is very much a product of his time. He has a successful career in advertising, a wife and two children, and believes he is on his way to pursuing the typical American dream. But the dream is shattered when his son Robert, who is studying for the priesthood, is killed violently at Christmas. Overwhelmed by grief and threatened by a loss of faith in humankind, Mr. Ives begins to question the very foundations of his life. Part love story—of a man for his wife, for his children, for God—and part meditation on how a person can find spiritual peace in the midst of crisis, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a beautifully written, tender and passionate story of a man trying to put his life in perspective. In the expert hands of Oscar Hijuelos, the novel speaks eloquently to the most basic and fulfilling aspects of life for all of us.