Susanna's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 30 Dec 2020 01:01:26 -0800 60 Susanna's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Grim Tuesday (The Keys to the Kingdom, #2)]]> 8703285
Arthur Penhaligon's magical adventures continue as he faces a new grave danger -- in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday. More amazing fantasy from best-selling author Garth Nix.Arthur doesn't think he will ever have to return to the strange house that nearly killed him on Monday -- the house that contains an entire world. But Tuesday brings new challenges -- in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday, who threatens the well-being of both Arthur's family and his world. Arthur must retrieve the Second Key from Grim Tuesday in order to save everything -- an adventure that will include stealing a Sunship, surviving a very weird work camp, befriending a bearlike spirit, fighting the voidlike Nithlings, and traveling to the scary Far Reaches for the ultimate showdown.]]> 336 Garth Nix 0545278872 Susanna 0 to-read 4.21 2004 Grim Tuesday (The Keys to the Kingdom, #2)
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> Starsight (Skyward, #2) 42769202
Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars--and it was terrifying. Everything Spensa has been taught about her world is a lie.

But Spensa also discovered a few other things about herself--and she'll travel to the end of the galaxy to save humankind if she needs to.]]> 461 Brandon Sanderson 1473217903 Susanna 0 4.33 2019 Starsight (Skyward, #2)
author: Brandon Sanderson
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> Skyward (Skyward, #1) 36642458 513 Brandon Sanderson 1473217857 Susanna 0 4.45 2018 Skyward (Skyward, #1)
author: Brandon Sanderson
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average rating: 4.45
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]]> <![CDATA[Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between]]> 6393891
The new book by the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality and immortality. That is, Death. The authors pry open the coffin lid on this one, looking at the Big D and also its prequel, Life, and its sequel, the Hereafter. Philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre have been wrestling with the meaning of death for as long as they have been wrestling with the meaning of life. Fortunately, humorists have been keeping pace with the major thinkers by creating gags about dying. Death’s funny that way—it gets everybody’s attention.

Death has gotten a bad rap. It’s time to take a closer look at what the Deep Thinkers have to say on the subject, and there are no better guides than Cathcart and Klein.]]> 224 Thomas Cathcart 0670020834 Susanna 0 3.58 2009 Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between
author: Thomas Cathcart
name: Susanna
average rating: 3.58
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]]> <![CDATA[The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You]]> 8048177 Create a New Relationship with Your Emotions for Insight and Healing

Your emotions contain brilliant information. When you learn to welcome them as your allies, they can reveal creative solutions to any situation. For 35 years, empathic counselor and researcher Karla McLaren has developed a set of practical tools for the real-world stresses of family, career, and the quest for personal fulfillment. On The Language of Emotions, she presents her breakthrough teachings for a new and empowering relationship with your feeling states.

How to Harness the Energy of Your Emotions

Your emotions--especially the dark and dishonored ones--hold a tremendous amount of energy. We've all seen what happens when we repress or blindly express them. However, there is a powerful alternative.

On The Language of Emotions, you'll learn to meet your emotions and engage with them to safely move toward resolution and equilibrium. Through experiential exercises covering a full spectrum of feelings from anger, fear, and shame to jealousy, grief, joy, and more, you will discover how to work with your own and others' emotions with fluency and expertise.

Your Direct Link to Inner Wisdom

When we relate to our emotions with respect and authenticity, we can directly access our innermost wisdom, unfold the deepest parts of ourselves, and heal our most painful wounds. The Language of Emotions gives us a much-needed resource for self-understanding and freedom.

Karla McLaren is an award-winning author and pioneering educator who has specialized in the study of emotions as an integrated system for more than 35 years. She is the author of five books and six audio courses on self-healing.

Program Highlights

Hours of practical insights and guided exercises for partnering with your emotions for wisdom and healing
- How to overcome addictions, distractions, and unresolved trauma--the three primary impediments to emotional ease
- Using the energy of anger to protect and restore personal boundaries
- Step-by-step guidance in the five skills of the empath (someone skilled in reading emotions)
- How to balance your "quaternity," a metaphor for the interplay of mind, body, spirit, and emotions
- Honoring sadness as a source of release and rejuvenation
- Joy, the natural response to beauty and communion]]> 432 Karla McLaren 159179773X Susanna 0 4.17 2010 The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You
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]]> <![CDATA[Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]]> 23692271 512 Yuval Noah Harari Susanna 0 4.34 2011 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
author: Yuval Noah Harari
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]]> A Brief History of Time 3869
Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,� of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.]]> 226 Stephen Hawking 0553380168 Susanna 0 4.22 1988 A Brief History of Time
author: Stephen Hawking
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> <![CDATA[Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future]]> 25541028 392 Ashlee Vance 0062301233 Susanna 4 4.12 2015 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
author: Ashlee Vance
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail]]> 9791 A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).]]> 397 Bill Bryson 0307279464 Susanna 0 4.07 1998 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
author: Bill Bryson
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1998
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]]> The Graveyard Book 2213661
There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.

But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.

A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.]]> 312 Neil Gaiman 0060530928 Susanna 5 4.15 2008 The Graveyard Book
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.15
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rating: 5
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]]> The Supernaturalist 45432 267 Eoin Colfer 078685149X Susanna 0 3.87 2004 The Supernaturalist
author: Eoin Colfer
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Guardian (Artemis Fowl, #8)]]> 9307674
Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen.

If she succeeds, the spirits of long-dead fairy warriors will rise from the earth, inhabit the nearest available bodies and wreak mass destruction. But what happens if those nearest bodies include crows, or deer, or badgers - or two curious little boys by the names of Myles and Beckett Fowl?

Yes, it's true. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl's four-year-old brothers could be involved in destroying the human race. Can Artemis and Captain Holly Short of the Lower Elements Police stop Opal and prevent the end of the world?]]> 328 Eoin Colfer 1423161610 Susanna 0 4.15 2012 The Last Guardian (Artemis Fowl, #8)
author: Eoin Colfer
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> <![CDATA[The Atlantis Complex (Artemis Fowl #7)]]> 7005865 Young Artemis has frequently used high-tech fairy magic to mastermind the most devious criminal activity of the new century. Now, at a conference in Iceland, Artemis has gathered the fairies to present his latest idea to save the world from global warming. But Artemis is behaving strangely - he seems different. Something terrible has happened to him . . . Artemis Fowl has become nice. The fairies diagnose Atlantis Complex (that's obsessive compulsive disorder to you and I) - it seems dabbling in magic has damaged Artemis' main his mind. Fairy ally Captain Holly Short doesn't know what to do. The subterranean volcanoes are under attack from vicious robots and Artemis cannot fight them. Can Holly get the real Artemis back ---before the robot probes destroy every human and life form? This eagerly-awaited adventure is now out in paperback with a fabulous new cover-look to celebrate ten years of Artemis action.]]> 357 Eoin Colfer 1423128192 Susanna 0 3.98 2010 The Atlantis Complex (Artemis Fowl #7)
author: Eoin Colfer
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> <![CDATA[The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, #6)]]> 2179276 Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN: 9781423108368

After disappearing for three years, Artemis Fowl has returned to a life different from the one he left. Now he's a big brother, and spends his days teaching his twin siblings the important things in life, such as how to properly summon a waiter at a French restaurant.

But when Artemis Fowl's mother contracts a life-threatening illness, his world is turned upside down. The only hope for a cure lies in the brain fluid of the silky sifaka lemur. Unfortunately, the animal is extinct due to a heartless bargain Artemis himself made as a younger boy.

Though the odds are stacked against him, Artemis is not willing to give up. With the help of his fairy friends, the young genius travels back in time to save the lemur and bring it back to the present. But to do so, Artemis will have to defeat a maniacal poacher, who has set his sights on new prey: Holly Short.

The rules of time travel are far from simple, but to save his mother, Artemis will have to break them all.and outsmart his most cunning adversary yet: Artemis Fowl, age ten.]]> 391 Eoin Colfer Susanna 0 4.08 2008 The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl, #3)]]> 227865 329 Eoin Colfer 0141321318 Susanna 0 4.05 2003 The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, #4)]]> 114954
After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis had his mind wiped of his memories of the world belowground. But they have not forgotten about him. Once again, he must stop the human and fairy worlds from colliding—only this time, Artemis faces an enemy who may have finally outsmarted him.]]> 528 Eoin Colfer 1423103998 Susanna 0 4.06 2005 The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, #4)
author: Eoin Colfer
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl, #5)]]> 37586 Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN: 9780786849567

Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilisation underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the eighth family, the demons.

The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on the humans once more. However, the time spell went wrong, and the island of Hybras was catapulted into Limbo, where it has remained for ten thousand years.

Now, the tainted time spell is deteriorating and demons are being sucked back into the present space and time. The fairy Council are naturally concerned about this and are monitoring any materialisations. When the spell’s deterioration accelerates, the materialisations become unpredictable. Even the fairy scientists cannot figure out where the next demon will pop up.

But someone can. Artemis Fowl, the teenage criminal mastermind, has solved temporal equations that no normal human should be intelligent enough to understand. But Artemis Fowl is no normal human.

So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis Fowl is there to meet him. Unfortunately, he is not the only one. A second, mysterious party has also solved the temporal equations, and manages to abduct the demon before Artemis can secure him.

This is a disaster for the fairy People, because this demon was no ordinary fairy. He was the last demon warlock, and as such held the key to the survival of the entire demon race.

It is up to Artemis and his old comrade, Captain Holly Short to track down the missing demon and rescue him before the time spell dissolves completely and the lost demon colony returns violently to Earth.]]> 385 Eoin Colfer Susanna 0 4.01 2006 The Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl, #5)
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average rating: 4.01
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]]> <![CDATA[The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2)]]> 114955
The world that Colfer creates is as vivid and fantastical as any shire, gotham, or galaxy far, far away in recent memory. Grade: A-.]]> 398 Eoin Colfer Susanna 0 3.96 2002 The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2)
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)]]> 249747 Artemis Fowl is a riveting, magical adventure.]]> 396 Eoin Colfer Susanna 0 3.86 2001 Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
author: Eoin Colfer
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> <![CDATA[Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)]]> 24337
Gail Carson Levine's examination of traditional female roles in fairy tales takes some satisfying twists and deviations from the original. Ella is bound by obedience against her will, and takes matters in her own hands with ambition and verve. Her relationship with the prince is balanced and based on humor and mutual respect; in fact, it is she who ultimately rescues him. Ella Enchanted has won many well-deserved awards, including a Newbery Honor.]]> 240 Gail Carson Levine 0590920685 Susanna 0 4.01 1997 Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
author: Gail Carson Levine
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1997
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]]> The Devil in the White City 21996
Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.

The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.]]> 496 Erik Larson 0739303406 Susanna 0 to-read 3.99 2003 The Devil in the White City
author: Erik Larson
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[Outliers: The Story of Success]]> 3228917 Learn what sets high achievers apart � from Bill Gates to the Beatles � in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).

In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.

Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.]]> 309 Malcolm Gladwell 0316017922 Susanna 5 4.19 2008 Outliers: The Story of Success
author: Malcolm Gladwell
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.19
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Four Cups: God's Timeless Promises for a Life of Fulfillment]]> 18228205 144 Chris Hodges 1414371276 Susanna 0 4.19 2014 Four Cups: God's Timeless Promises for a Life of Fulfillment
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]]> <![CDATA[Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything]]> 1202
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.

Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
(front flap)]]> 268 Steven D. Levitt 0061234001 Susanna 0 4.01 2005 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
author: Steven D. Levitt
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate]]> 567795 Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that's the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?

In the #1 New York Times international bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you'll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman's proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today.

The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work.]]> 204 Gary Chapman 1881273156 Susanna 0 to-read 4.21 1990 The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> 1984 5470 328 George Orwell Susanna 0 4.15 1949 1984
author: George Orwell
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1949
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Win Friends & Influence People]]> 4865
Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 30 million copies. Dale Carnegie's first book is a timeless bestseller, packed with rock-solid advice that has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.

As relevant as ever before, Dale Carnegie's principles endure, and will help you achieve your maximum potential in the complex and competitive modern age.

Learn the six ways to make people like you, the twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking, and the nine ways to change people without arousing resentment.]]> 288 Dale Carnegie Susanna 0 4.22 1936 How to Win Friends & Influence People
author: Dale Carnegie
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1936
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]]> The Sparrow Princess 33132801 122 Russell Whitehead 1482640112 Susanna 0 to-read 4.12 2016 The Sparrow Princess
author: Russell Whitehead
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]> 21 544 Bill Bryson 076790818X Susanna 5 4.21 2003 A Short History of Nearly Everything
author: Bill Bryson
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.21
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]]> Antwerp 27231484 Antwerp’s signature elements—crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits—mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolaño. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition. As Bolaño’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaño’s fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolaño’s enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard—which Bolaño chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he’d written it (“and even that I can’t be certain of�)—as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.

Antwerp’s fractured narration in 54 sections—voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from “Roberto Bolaño� all speak—moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone. .]]> 78 Roberto Bolaño Susanna 0 to-read 3.84 2002 Antwerp
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> Yes Please 20910157 Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by.]]> 329 Amy Poehler 0062268341 Susanna 0 3.85 2014 Yes Please
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]]> Bossypants 9418327
She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.]]> 283 Tina Fey Susanna 0 3.97 2011 Bossypants
author: Tina Fey
name: Susanna
average rating: 3.97
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932]]> 19809 When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. Yet within a few years, the Empire would hover on the brink of a catastrophic new era. This first volume of the best-selling biography of the adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman covers the first 58 years of the remarkable man whose courageous vision guided the destiny of those darkly troubled times and who looms today as one of the greatest figures of the 20th century.

Black and white photos & illustrations.]]> 992 William Manchester 0385313489 Susanna 0 to-read 4.31 1983 The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
author: William Manchester
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.31
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40]]> 55751 Ěý
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“Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character . . . that he can claim the considerable achievement of having assembled enough powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin’s judgment of Churchill as â€the largest human being of our time.’â€�â€�The New Yorker
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“Stirring . . . As Manchester points out several times, it’s as if the age, having produced a Hitler, then summoned Churchill as the only figure equal to the task of vanquishing him. The years Alone are the pivotal years of Churchill’s career.��The Boston Sunday Globe
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“The best Churchill biography [for] this generation . . . Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new.��Newsweek
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“A triumph . . . equal in stature to the first volume of the series.��Newsday
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“Vivid . . . history in the grand manner.� —The Washington Post
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“Compelling reading.��The Times (London)]]> 832 William Manchester 0385313314 Susanna 0 to-read 4.37 1988 The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965]]> 746673 The Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action.

The Last Lion brilliantly recounts how Churchill organized his nation's military response and defense; compelled FDR into supporting America's beleaguered cousins, and personified the "never surrender" ethos that helped the Allies win the war, while at the same time adapting himself and his country to the inevitable shift of world power from the British Empire to the United States.

More than twenty years in the making, The Last Lion presents a revelatory and unparalleled portrait of this brilliant, flawed, and dynamic leader. This is popular history at its most stirring.

]]> 1182 William Manchester 0316547700 Susanna 0 to-read 4.42 2012 The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
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]]> Paper Towns 6442769 Who is the real Margo?

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...]]> 305 John Green 014241493X Susanna 0 3.68 2008 Paper Towns
author: John Green
name: Susanna
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2008
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]]> Joan of Arc 826706 Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none." --Mark Twain]]> 452 Mark Twain 0898702682 Susanna 4 4.09 1896 Joan of Arc
author: Mark Twain
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1896
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Riddle-Master (Riddle-Master, #1-3)]]> 19821
It is considered her most enduring and beloved work. Now it is collected in one volume for the first time–the epic journeys of a young prince in a strange land, where wizards have long since vanished...but where magic is waiting to be reborn.]]> 578 Patricia A. McKillip 0441005969 Susanna 0 4.22 1976 Riddle-Master (Riddle-Master, #1-3)
author: Patricia A. McKillip
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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]]> The Maiden's Bequest 541915 288 George MacDonald 0871238233 Susanna 5 4.10 1890 The Maiden's Bequest
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1890
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Susanna 3 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)]]> 3 309 J.K. Rowling 0439554934 Susanna 5 4.47 1997 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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]]> The Children of Húrin 597790 The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales , also edited by Tolkien's son, Christopher, only hinted at the depth and power of the tragic story of Túrin and Niënor, the children of Húrin, the lord of Dor-lómin, who achieved renown for having confronted Morgoth, who was the master of Sauron, the manifestation of evil in the Lord of the Rings.

Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth. The greatest warriors among elves and men have perished, and all is in darkness and despair. But a deadly new leader rises, TĂşrin, son of HĂşrin, and with his grim band of outlaws begins to turn the tide in the war for Middle-earth -- awaiting the day he confronts his destiny and the deadly curse laid upon him.]]> 315 J.R.R. Tolkien 0007246226 Susanna 4 4.04 2007 The Children of HĂşrin
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) 13345 311 Garth Nix 0060575816 Susanna 4 4.05 1995 Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)
author: Garth Nix
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Donal Grant (George Macdonald Original Works)]]> 1231578 397 George MacDonald 1881084027 Susanna 3 4.42 1883 Donal Grant (George Macdonald Original Works)
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1883
rating: 3
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]]> The Baronet's Song 1018666 208 George MacDonald 087123291X Susanna 4 4.21 1879 The Baronet's Song
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1879
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Princess and the Goblin / Princess and Curdie]]> 2817028 200 George MacDonald 0613848268 Susanna 3 4.26 1970 The Princess and the Goblin / Princess and Curdie
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1970
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shepherd's Castle (Sir Gibbie, #2)]]> 658665 298 George MacDonald 1556616333 Susanna 4 4.16 1883 The Shepherd's Castle (Sir Gibbie, #2)
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.16
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Marquis' Secret (Malcolm, #2)]]> 1058939 228 George MacDonald 087123324X Susanna 4 4.22 1877 The Marquis' Secret (Malcolm, #2)
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1877
rating: 4
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]]> Sir Gibbie (Sir Gibbie, #1) 541924 George MacDonald 1406923397 Susanna 3 4.33 1879 Sir Gibbie (Sir Gibbie, #1)
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.33
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fisherman's Lady (Malcolm, #1)]]> 1307109 First published in 1875

Malcolm MacPhail has lived, for all of his twenty or so years, in a fishing village on the north coast of Scotland. He lives with his grandfather and, though he has never met his parents, has no curiosity about the details of his birth. However, others in the town have their own curiosity, and their own suspicions, about where this highland man and his infant grandson came from, those twenty or so years ago. When the local marquis and his daughter come to live in their grand estate just outside the town, unoccupied for many years, events begin to move which introduce to them the humble Malcolm, and which may shed some light on Malcolm's past while changing the course of his future. (Devorah Allen)]]> 278 George MacDonald 0871231972 Susanna 4 4.17 1875 The Fisherman's Lady (Malcolm, #1)
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.17
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]]> Lilith 268187 Lilith is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation.

After he followed the old man through the mirror, nothing in his life was ever right again. It was a special mirror and the man he followed was a special man - a man who led him to the things that underlie the fate of all creation. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation. In the story, MacDonald mentions a cosmic sleep that heals tortured souls, preceding the salvation of all.]]> 226 George MacDonald 1587159260 Susanna 3 3.91 1895 Lilith
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1895
rating: 3
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]]> The Light Princess 179579 0 George MacDonald 1596440430 Susanna 4 4.05 1864 The Light Princess
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1864
rating: 4
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]]> At the Back of the North Wind 269713
Leaving his little hayloft behind, Diamond sets off with North Wind, flying through the night on all sorts of strange, beautiful and sometimes even dangerous missions.

First published in 1871, this was the first and best-known children's book by George MacDonald, who mentored Lewis Carroll and inspired writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.]]> 346 George MacDonald 0375413359 Susanna 3 4.01 1871 At the Back of the North Wind
author: George MacDonald
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.01
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom]]> 561909
Corrie ten Boom and her family became leaders in the Dutch Underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis. For their help, all but Corrie found death in a concentration camp. The Hiding Place is their story.]]> 242 Corrie ten Boom 0553256696 Susanna 4 4.46 1971 The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
author: Corrie ten Boom
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.46
book published: 1971
rating: 4
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]]> Hinds' Feet on High Places 821056 Hinds� Feet on High Places remains Hannah Hurnard’s best known and most beloved book: a timeless allegory dramatizing the yearning of God’s children to be led to new heights of love, joy, and victory. In this moving tale, follow Much-Afraid on her spiritual journey as she overcomes many dangers and mounts at last to the High Places. There she gains a new name and is transformed by her union with the loving Shepherd. Included in this special edition (February 2009 release) is Hannah Hurnard’s own account of the circumstances that led her to write Hinds� Feet, and a brief autobiography. Special edition also features a new cover design.]]> 320 Hannah Hurnard 0842314296 Susanna 3 4.32 1955 Hinds' Feet on High Places
author: Hannah Hurnard
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1955
rating: 3
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]]> Tortured for Christ 78629
Months of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, constant suffering from hunger and cold, the anguish of brainwashing and mental cruelty—these are the experiences of a Romanian pastor during his 14 years in Communist prisons.

His crime, like that of thousands of others, was his fervant belief in Jesus Christ and his public witness concerning that faith.

Meeting in homes, in basements, and in woods—sometimes daring to preach in public on street corners—these faithful souls persisted in their Christian witness knowing full well the ultimate cost of their actions.

This is their story—a classic account of courage, tenacious faith, and unbelievable endurance. This history of the Underground Church reflects the continuing struggle in many parts of the world today.]]> 155 Richard Wurmbrand 0340863684 Susanna 4 4.36 1967 Tortured for Christ
author: Richard Wurmbrand
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1967
rating: 4
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]]> The Giving Tree 370493
So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.

Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave.

This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.]]> 64 Shel Silverstein 0060256656 Susanna 4 4.38 1964 The Giving Tree
author: Shel Silverstein
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1964
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)]]> 11127 Librarian note: An alternate cover for this edition can be found here: 2005.

Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil—what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia.

For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre to become part of the canon of classic literature. Each of the seven books is a masterpiece, drawing the reader into a land where magic meets reality, and the result is a fictional world whose scope has fascinated generations.

This edition presents all seven books—unabridged—in one impressive volume. The books are presented here in chronlogical order, each chapter graced with an illustration by the original artist, Pauline Baynes. Deceptively simple and direct, The Chronicles of Narnia continue to captivate fans with adventures, characters, and truths that speak to readers of all ages, even fifty years after they were first published.]]> 767 C.S. Lewis 0066238501 Susanna 4 4.27 1956 The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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name: Susanna
average rating: 4.27
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)]]> 78411
I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.

In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.

It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.

With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket]]> 162 Lemony Snicket 0439206472 Susanna 4 4.02 1999 The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
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name: Susanna
average rating: 4.02
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)]]> 307791
But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?]]> 270 Jeanne DuPrau 0375822747 Susanna 3 3.89 2003 The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
author: Jeanne DuPrau
name: Susanna
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)]]> 113436 An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780375826696 can be found here.

One boy...
One dragon...
A world of adventure.

When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.

Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds.

Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands.]]> 503 Christopher Paolini 0375826696 Susanna 4 3.96 2002 Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
author: Christopher Paolini
name: Susanna
average rating: 3.96
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3)]]> 77276 278 Madeleine L'Engle 0440401585 Susanna 3 4.09 1978 A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3)
author: Madeleine L'Engle
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1978
rating: 3
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]]> Tikki Tikki Tembo 551876 Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-
chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo!

Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.]]> 48 Arlene Mosel 0312367481 Susanna 3 4.20 1968 Tikki Tikki Tembo
author: Arlene Mosel
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1968
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)]]> 85990
Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen and win the heart of her childhood best friend. But when bandits seek out the academy to kidnap the future princess, Miri must rally the girls together and use a power unique to the mountain dwellers to save herself and her classmates.]]> 314 Shannon Hale 1599900734 Susanna 4 4.03 2005 Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
author: Shannon Hale
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.03
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rating: 4
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]]> Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1) 769483
The 7th son of the 7th son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a newborn girl with violet eyes. The Heaps take this helpless newborn into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son, Septimus?

The first part of this enthralling new series leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters, clever charms, potions and spells, and a yearning to uncover the mystery at the heart of this story...who is Septimus Heap?

Angie Sage writes in the tradition of great British storytellers. Her inventive fantasy is filled with humor and heart: Magyk will have readers laughing and begging for more.]]> 564 Angie Sage 0060577312 Susanna 3 3.85 2005 Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1)
author: Angie Sage
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre, #1)]]> 183656
But when Meryl falls ill with the dreaded Gray Death, Addie must gather her courage and set off alone on a quest to find the cure and save her beloved sister. Addie takes the seven-league boots and magic spyglass left to her by her mother and the enchanted tablecloth and cloak given to her by Rhys - along with a shy declaration of his love. She prevails in encounters with tricky specters (spiders too) and outwits a wickedly personable dragon in adventures touched with romance and a bittersweet ending.]]> 304 Gail Carson Levine 0060575808 Susanna 3 4.06 2001 The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre, #1)
author: Gail Carson Levine
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> The Screwtape Letters 11149 The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging and humorous account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.^]]> 209 C.S. Lewis 0060652896 Susanna 3 4.17 1942 The Screwtape Letters
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.17
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rating: 3
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]]> Don't Waste Your Life 347656
"God created us to live with a single passion to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives."

Most people slip by in life without a passion for God, spending their lives on trivial diversions, living for comfort and pleasure, and perhaps trying to avoid sin. This book will warn you not to get caught up in a life that counts for nothing. It will challenge you to live and die boasting in the cross of Christ and making the glory of God your singular passion. If you believe that to live is Christ and to die is gain, read this book, learn to live for Christ, and don't waste your life!]]> 192 John Piper 1581344988 Susanna 2 4.13 2003 Don't Waste Your Life
author: John Piper
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.13
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]]> <![CDATA[Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control]]> 56480 Passion and Purity covers dating issues such as:
•how to know which person is the right one to marry
•loving passionately while remaining sexually pure
•the man's and woman's role in relationships
•putting God's desires ahead of personal desires
•how far is too far, physically

This best-selling book now has a new cover, an updated interior design, and a foreword from popular author Joshua Harris. Quest for Love will be redesigned in a similar manner to help readers identify the books as a pair. While Passion and Purity shares the love story of Elisabeth and Jim, Quest for Love is a compilation of stories on how other men and women discovered love through God's direction. Together, these two remarkable books accentuate our need to commit daily to Christ all matters of the heart and to wait on his timing.]]> 192 Elisabeth Elliot 0800758188 Susanna 4 4.13 1984 Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
author: Elisabeth Elliot
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1984
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master, #1)]]> 92755 229 Patricia A. McKillip 0345331044 Susanna 4 4.00 1976 The Riddle-Master of Hed (Riddle-Master, #1)
author: Patricia A. McKillip
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)]]> 2767052
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . .

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.]]> 374 Suzanne Collins 0439023483 Susanna 4 4.34 2008 The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2008
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]]> <![CDATA[The Autobiography and Other Writings]]> 874809 270 Benjamin Franklin 0140390529 Susanna 3 3.88 1791 The Autobiography and Other Writings
author: Benjamin Franklin
name: Susanna
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1791
rating: 3
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]]> Emma 6969 The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here.

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.]]> 474 Jane Austen 0141439580 Susanna 3 4.05 1815 Emma
author: Jane Austen
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]]> The Scarlet Pimpernel 136116 182 Emmuska Orczy 1576469239 Susanna 5 4.07 1905 The Scarlet Pimpernel
author: Emmuska Orczy
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.07
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 Susanna 4 4.28 1813 Pride and Prejudice
author: Jane Austen
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.28
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]]> <![CDATA[J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings]]> 30
19 CDs. 17 hrs 30 mins.]]> 1728 J.R.R. Tolkien 0345538374 Susanna 4 4.61 1954 J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.61
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hobbit, or There and Back Again]]> 5907 Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).]]> 366 J.R.R. Tolkien Susanna 5 4.29 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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average rating: 4.29
book published: 1937
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset (The Hunger Games, #1-3)]]> 7938275 1155 Suzanne Collins 0545265355 Susanna 4 4.49 2010 The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset (The Hunger Games, #1-3)
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name: Susanna
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)]]> 2
Harry has had enough. He is beginning to think he must do something, anything, to change his situation, when the summer holidays come to an end in a very dramatic fashion. What Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down...]]> 912 J.K. Rowling Susanna 3 4.50 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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average rating: 4.50
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)]]> 6 734 J.K. Rowling 0439139597 Susanna 3 4.56 2000 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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average rating: 4.56
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)]]> 5 435 J.K. Rowling 043965548X Susanna 3 4.57 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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average rating: 4.57
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)]]> 15881
And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls� bathroom. But then the real trouble begins � someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects� Harry Potter himself!]]> 352 J.K. Rowling Susanna 3 4.42 1998 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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average rating: 4.42
book published: 1998
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)]]> 136251
In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]> 759 J.K. Rowling Susanna 4 4.61 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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average rating: 4.61
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rating: 4
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]]> Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3) 334643 The Ninth was strong and fought with might
But lone Orannis was put out of the light
Broken in two and buried under hill
Forever to lie there, wishing us ill.

So says the song. But Orannis, the Destroyer, is no longer buried under hill. It has been freed from its subterranean prison and now seeks to escape the silver hemispheres, the final barrier to the unleashing of its terrible powers.

Only Lirael, newly come into her inheritance as the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, has any chance of stopping the Destroyer. She and her companions -- Sam, the Disreputable Dog, and Mogget -- have to take that chance. For the Destroyer is the enemy of all Life, and it must be stopped, though Lirael does not know how.

To make matters worse, Sam's best friend, Nick, is helping the Destroyer, as are the necromancer Hedge and the Greater Dead Chlorr, and there has been no word from the Abhorsen Sabriel or King Touchstone.

Everything depends upon Lirael. A heavy, perhaps even impossible burden for a young woman who just days ago was merely a Second Assistant Librarian. With only a vision from the Clayr to guide her, and the rather mixed help of her companions, Lirael must search in both Life and Death for some means to defeat the Destroyer.

Before it is too late. . . .]]> 358 Garth Nix 0060278250 Susanna 4 4.24 2003 Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3)
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> The Count of Monte Cristo 7126 The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translation

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas� epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here]]> 1276 Alexandre Dumas 0140449264 Susanna 4 4.29 1846 The Count of Monte Cristo
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average rating: 4.29
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rating: 4
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]]> The Giver (The Giver, #1) 3636 208 Lois Lowry 0385732554 Susanna 4 4.12 1993 The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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average rating: 4.12
book published: 1993
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]]> Dear John 5526
But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else.

Dear John, the letter read... and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love—and face the hardest decision of his life.]]> 276 Nicholas Sparks 0446528056 Susanna 3 4.05 2006 Dear John
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average rating: 4.05
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rating: 3
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]]> A Walk to Remember 3473 A high school rebel and a minister's daughter find strength in each other in this star-crossed tale of "young but everlasting love" (Chicago Sun-Times).There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks's sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet....]]> 240 Nicholas Sparks 0446693804 Susanna 4 4.16 1999 A Walk to Remember
author: Nicholas Sparks
name: Susanna
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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