Shizue's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 04 Nov 2024 04:43:08 -0800 60 Shizue's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)]]> 205338104 334 Susan Rowland 1685032095 Shizue 5 4.30 2024 Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone, #5)]]> 64860
But something was annoying her. Two days after Christmas she received a bank slip showing a credit of five thousand dollars.

The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn’t made the deposit.

It wasn't long before the phone call came and suddenly everything was clear. The frame-up had clicked in and Kinsey was trapped . . .]]> 320 Sue Grafton 0312939035 Shizue 5 3.91 1988 E is for Evidence (Kinsey Millhone, #5)
author: Sue Grafton
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average rating: 3.91
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]]> <![CDATA[With Vics You Get Eggroll (Mad for Mod Mystery, #3)]]> 25854316 9781941962435.
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Interior Decorator Madison Night has her hands full with a demanding client and a product endorsement, but when the news shifts from reports of recently abducted women to the discovery of a dead body, she can’t deny the danger. Evidence from the scene links the flirtatious Lt. Tex Allen to the crime, putting him off the case. As more abductees are either released or killed, he struggles with his suspension, on the brink of turning vigilante. Madison’s own life is complicated by the return of her hunky handyman, Hudson James. When seemingly unrelated events lead back to the abductions, she exposes a secondary agenda, a copycat crime, and a vengeful plot to destroy someone she loves.]]> 256 Diane Vallere Shizue 2 4.06 2015 With Vics You Get Eggroll (Mad for Mod Mystery, #3)
author: Diane Vallere
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[The 6th Target (Women's Murder Club, #6)]]> 13131 And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies--but the kidnappers aren't demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death.

And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she'd face--with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success.

]]> 390 James Patterson 0316014796 Shizue 4 4.04 2007 The 6th Target (Women's Murder Club, #6)
author: James Patterson
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Singapore Sapphire (Harriet Gordon Mystery, #1)]]> 43704093 Harriet Gordon stumbles into a murderous web of stolen gems and cutthroat thieves as she runs from her tragic past in an enthralling new historical mystery series set in early twentieth century Singapore.

Singapore 1910--Desperate for a fresh start and to distance herself from her tragic past, Harriet Gordon finds herself in Singapore at the height of colonial rule. Hoping to gain some financial independence, she advertises her services as a personal secretary. It is unfortunate that she should discover her first client, Sir Oswald Newbold--explorer, mine magnate and president of the exclusive Explorers and Geographers' Club--dead with a knife in his throat.

When Inspector Robert Curran is put on the case, he realizes that he has an unusual witness in Harriet. Harriet's keen eye for detail and strong sense of duty interests him, as does her distrust of the police and her traumatic past, which she is at pains to keep secret from the gossips of Singapore society.

When a second body is dragged from the canal, Harriet feels compelled to help with the case. She and Curran are soon drawn into a complex web of stolen gemstones and a mysterious gang of thieves who have no qualms about killing again to protect their secrets.]]> 367 A.M. Stuart 198480264X Shizue 3 3.89 2019 Singapore Sapphire (Harriet Gordon Mystery, #1)
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder in a Mill Town (Nell Sweeney Mysteries, #2)]]> 23589496
The lowborn Fallons come to Viola Hewitt with a desperate plea for help. Their wayward daughter, Bridget, a pretty young employee of Hewitt Mills and Dye Works, hasn’t been seen for days. Mrs. Fallon, unwilling to believe that Bridget would just run off without a word, fears that she’s come to a bad end—possibly at the hands of her ex-con lover. Viola, confined to a wheelchair, enlists Nell to locate the missing mill girl. Working with Viola’s black sheep son, Will, Nell uncovers a web of schemes and greed and dark obsession� and what she knows may just be the death of her.

Originally published by Berkley Prime Crime.]]> 272 P.B. Ryan Shizue 4 4.11 2004 Murder in a Mill Town (Nell Sweeney Mysteries, #2)
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> <![CDATA[The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #1)]]> 34728925
But her hunt leads her to Hyde’s daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde, and soon befriends more women, all of whom have been created through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein.

When their investigations lead them to the discovery of a secret society of immoral and power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their past return. Now it is up to the monsters to finally triumph over the monstrous.]]> 402 Theodora Goss 1534409637 Shizue 3 3.81 2017 The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #1)
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]]> The Master and Margarita 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 Shizue 3 4.31 1967 The Master and Margarita
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average rating: 4.31
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]]> <![CDATA[Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)]]> 41716919 Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.

On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they alone have possessed for hundreds of years.

Beyond Kekon's borders, war is brewing. Powerful foreign governments and mercenary criminal kingpins alike turn their eyes on the island nation. Jade, Kekon's most prized resource, could make them rich - or give them the edge they'd need to topple their rivals.

Faced with threats on all sides, the Kaul family is forced to form new and dangerous alliances, confront enemies in the darkest streets and the tallest office towers, and put honor aside in order to do whatever it takes to ensure their own survival - and that of all the Green Bones of Kekon.

Jade War is the second book of the Green Bone Saga, an epic trilogy about family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade.]]> 587 Fonda Lee 0316440922 Shizue 5 4.39 2019 Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2)
author: Fonda Lee
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> <![CDATA[The Winter King (Weathermages of Mystral, #1)]]> 10485751
Khamsin Coruscate, Princess of Summerlea and summoner of Storms, has spent her life exiled to the shadows of her father's palace. Reviled by her father, marriage to Wintercraig's icy king was supposed to be a terrible punishment, but instead offers Kham her first taste of freedom—and her first taste of overwhelming passion.

As fierce, indomitable Wynter weathers even Khamsin's wildest storms, surprising her with a tenderness she never expected, Kham wants more than Wynter's passion—she yearns for his love. But the power of the Ice Heart is growing, dangerous forces are gathering, and a devastating betrayal puts Khamsin and Wynter to the ultimate test.]]> 594 C.L. Wilson 0062018973 Shizue 3 3.97 2014 The Winter King (Weathermages of Mystral, #1)
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> <![CDATA[The Three Witches and the Master]]> 156150514 Adam, who has been dabbling with spells from a book he has found in the basement of a derelict house, decides to play along with her until he learns more. Adam soon discovers that she is a witch, and she somehow, has been transported from the 1950s to the present day.
Meanwhile, he has been having some terrible nightmares. A being, who calls himself The Master is haunting him and is after his book of magic. In recurring dreams, Adam meets his demise several times in the Master’s hands and is unable to find a way to escape him.
Adam can’t tell if Eve is going to turn out to be his friend or a foe and tries to keep his own abilities a secret from her. He is also hiding another terrible secret from her, which he knows will have to come out sooner or later. Meanwhile, his worst nightmare is about to come true as the Master turns out to be real. Adam is in a fight for his very survival and is not sure if he can win. All the time he also has to maintain the semblance of normality in his hectic, day-to-day very stressful life, which is also about to fall apart as the police are out to get him for something they suspect he has done.
The book is a dark-humoured, fast-paced, fun Urban fantasy thriller.]]> 353 Max Nowaz 1803134747 Shizue 4 4.30 The Three Witches and the Master
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]]> <![CDATA[A Shadow in the Ember (Flesh and Fire, #1)]]> 57282383
However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania—she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission—one target. Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then…end him. If she fails, she dooms her kingdom to a slow demise at the hands of the Rot.Ěý

Sera has always known what she is. Chosen. Consort. Assassin. Weapon. A specter never fully formed yet drenched in blood. A monster. UntilĚýhim.ĚýUntil the Primal of Death’s unexpected words and deeds chase away the darkness gathering inside her. And his seductive touch ignites a passion she’s never allowed herself to feel and cannot feel for him. But Sera has never had a choice. Either way, her life is forfeit—it always has been, as she has been forever touched by Life and Death.]]> 647 Jennifer L. Armentrout Shizue 5 4.43 2021 A Shadow in the Ember (Flesh and Fire, #1)
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average rating: 4.43
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives]]> 25105 256 Neil Gaiman 1563891379 Shizue 5 4.55 1993 The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
author: Neil Gaiman
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average rating: 4.55
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]]> Son (The Giver, #4) 13324841
Son thrusts readers once again into the chilling world of the Newbery Medal winning book, The Giver, as well as Gathering Blue and Messenger where a new hero emerges. In this thrilling series finale, the startling and long-awaited conclusion to Lois Lowry’s epic tale culminates in a final clash between good and evil.]]> 393 Lois Lowry 0547887205 Shizue 5 3.98 2012 Son (The Giver, #4)
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> The Elite (The Selection, #2) 16248068
America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want—and America's chance to choose is about to slip away.]]> 336 Kiera Cass 0062059963 Shizue 5 3.94 2013 The Elite (The Selection, #2)
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> <![CDATA[Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)]]> 76713323 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don't.

With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by her side, and her fealty pledged to the people she is determined to save, Aelin will delve into the depths of her power to protect those she loves. But as monsters emerge from the horrors of the past, and dark forces become poised to claim her world, the only chance for salvation will lie in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear.

In this breathtaking fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series, Aelin will have to choose what—and who—to sacrifice if she's to keep the world of Erilea from breaking apart.]]> 693 Sarah J. Maas 1639731024 Shizue 5 4.65 2016 Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)
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average rating: 4.65
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]]> <![CDATA[A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)]]> 22055262
Kell was raised in Arnes—Red London—and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see.

Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.

After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure.

Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive.]]> 400 Victoria E. Schwab 0765376458 Shizue 5 4.04 2015 A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
author: Victoria E. Schwab
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)]]> 27266
College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town's terror or will she drown like everyone else?]]> 239 Rachel Caine 0451219945 Shizue 4 3.92 2006 Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> Crossed (Matched, #2) 15812814
The books you read.
The music you listen to.
The person you love.

Yet for Cassia the rules have changed. Ky has been taken and she will sacrifice everything to find him.

And when Cassia discovers Ky has escaped to the wild frontiers beyond the Society there is hope.

But on the edge of society nothing is as it seems...

A rebellion is rising.

And a tangled web of lies and double-crosses could destroy everything.]]> 367 Ally Condie 0142421715 Shizue 5 3.52 2011 Crossed (Matched, #2)
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average rating: 3.52
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]]> <![CDATA[Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For]]> 34186576 Kirkus Reviews � Verdict: Get it.]]> 380 Sara Pascoe 0993574734 Shizue 5 4.29 2015 Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)]]> 51204046
No one seems to take Naomi Pine's disappearance seriously, not even her father-with one exception. Hester Crimstein, a television criminal attorney, knows through her grandson that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at school. Hester asks Wilde-with whom she shares a tragic connection-to use his unique skills to help find Naomi.

Wilde can't ignore an outcast in trouble, but in order to find Naomi he must venture back into the community where he has never fit in, a place where the powerful are protected even when they harbor secrets that could destroy the lives of millions . . . secrets that Wilde must uncover before it's too late.]]> 371 Harlan Coben 1538748142 Shizue 3 3.84 2020 The Boy from the Woods (Wilde, #1)
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> <![CDATA[The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest]]> 2213117
With the right lifestyle, experts say, chances are that you may live up to a decade longer. What’s the prescription for success? National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has traveled the globe to uncover the best strategies for longevity found in the Blue places in the world where higher percentages of people enjoy remarkably long, full lives. And in this dynamic book he discloses the recipe, blending this unique lifestyle formula with the latest scientific findings to inspire easy, lasting change that may add years to your life.

Buettner’s colossal research effort, funded in part by the National Institute on Aging, has taken him from Costa Rica to Italy to Japan and beyond. In the societies he visits, it’s no coincidence that the way people interact with each other, shed stress, nourish their bodies, and view their world yields more good years of life. You’ll meet a 94-year-old farmer and self-confessed "ladies man" in Costa Rica, an 102-year-old grandmother in Okinawa, a 102-year-old Sardinian who hikes at least six miles a day, and others. By observing their lifestyles, Buettner’s teams have identified critical everyday choices that correspond with the cutting edge of longevity research—and distilled them into a few simple but powerful habits that anyone can embrace.]]> 304 Dan Buettner 1426202741 Shizue 3 4.02 2008 The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days]]> 23972780 256 John Hargrave Shizue 5 3.74 2015 Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> The Charioteer 67699
Originally published in the United States in 1959, The Charioteer is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature.]]> 347 Mary Renault 0375714189 Shizue 4 4.10 1953 The Charioteer
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> Salt Houses 30971664 Ěý
Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus;ĚýAlia’s brother gets pulled into a politically militarized world heĚýcan’t escape;ĚýandĚýAlia and her gentle-spirited husband move to Kuwait City, where they reluctantly build a life with their three children. When Saddam HusseinĚýinvadesĚýKuwait inĚý1990, Alia and her familyĚýonce againĚýlose their home, their land, and their story as they know it,Ěýscattering toĚýBeirut,ĚýParis, Boston, and beyond. Soon Alia’s children begin families of their own, once again navigating the burdens (and blessings)Ěýof assimilation in foreign cities.ĚýĚý
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Lyrical and heartbreaking,ĚýSalt HousesĚýis a remarkableĚýdebut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflictĚýweĚýmightĚýthink we understand—one that asks us toĚýconfrontĚýthat most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again.Ěý
]]> 312 Hala Alyan 0544912586 Shizue 5 4.00 2017 Salt Houses
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends]]> 1056050 Tom Hanks introduces the "remarkable" (Publishers Weekly) story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.

William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron were among the first paratroopers of the U.S. Army members of an elite unit of the 101st Airborne Division called Easy Company. The crack unit was called upon for every high-risk operation of the war, including D-Day, Operation Market Garden in Holland, the Battle of the Bulge, and the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden. Both men fought side by side& until Guarnere lost his leg in the Battle of the Bulge and was sent home. Heffron went on to liberate concentration camps and take Hitler's Eagle's Nest hideout. United by their experience, they reconnected at the war's end and have been best friends ever since. Their story is a tribute to the lasting bond forged between comrades in arms and to all those who fought for freedom.

]]> 320 William Guarnere 0425217280 Shizue 5 4.26 2007 Brothers In Battle, Best of Friends
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military]]> 44157732 592 Neil deGrasse Tyson 0393357465 Shizue 3 3.71 2018 Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
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average rating: 3.71
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]]> <![CDATA[A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One]]> 60657747 Volume Two Has been completed and is available from starts with a recap of Ricard Nixon's War followed by the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea after which the Pol Pot Regime fled into the jungle. That is followed by the stories of the Vietnamese "Boat People" and their trials and problems of coming to Australia and becoming Aussie citizens and successful business people after many hard times. In both the case of Volume Two, the eBook edition of Volume Two shall be released on the 7th of October 2022.
Kind regards - Michael G Kramer OMIEAust.]]> 470 Michael G. Kramer Shizue 4 4.28 2022 A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
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]]> <![CDATA[Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II]]> 273197 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.

Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order.]]> 676 John W. Dower 0393320278 Shizue 3 4.14 1999 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
author: John W. Dower
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> Semper Fi (The Corps, #1) 1052648 352 W.E.B. Griffin 0515087491 Shizue 4 4.28 1986 Semper Fi (The Corps, #1)
author: W.E.B. Griffin
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average rating: 4.28
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Brimstone (Pendergast, #5; Diogenes, #1)]]> 136637
Teaming with Police Officer Vincent D'Agosta (The Relic), Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy everything except supernatural logic.

©2004 Douglas Preston (P)2011 Hachette]]> 740 Douglas Preston 0446612758 Shizue 5 4.14 2004 Brimstone (Pendergast, #5; Diogenes, #1)
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)]]> 6381205 Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations.

First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.

Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire--and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.

With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?]]> 357 Gail Carriger 0316056634 Shizue 2 3.90 2009 Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[Lost Identity (Remmich/Miller, #1)]]> 59245765
The US Army acquires a new top-secret energy source. News of this discovery leaked into the wrong hands, Iraq’s Tariq'Allah. They offer Captain Eric Miller a bribe to participate in espionage for a kickback. The military intelligence officer refuses. This clandestine encounter leaves one of the foreign emissaries dead.

The lethal outcome forces Miller to flee Stockholm and take refuge at a US Army station in Germany to work with his West Point friend, Captain Paul Remmich. But the pursuit is renewed, and the Iraqi agents devise a new strategy to achieve their goal that ups the ante. Then Remmich makes a crucial mistake that plays into the Iraqi agents� hands. Remmich now functions from a controlled personality while his true self lies dormant. His colleagues are oblivious to his duplicity except for Miller, who senses something is off.

"The taller, older man motioned toward the pile of money with his left hand, and his partner’s eyes followed. As the two looked down at the bundles of cash, Miller stepped to the side and quickly pulled the 9mm out of his coat’s inner breast pocket. The short thug with the silencer looked up and turned as Miller fired two rounds in quick succession."

All that stands between the agents and their prize is intrigue, twists, and high-octane confrontation. If you like deception and determination, you’ll love this tight, fast-paced adventure.]]> 258 Karl Braungart Shizue 5 4.28 Lost Identity (Remmich/Miller, #1)
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]]> In My Dreams I Hold a Knife 50485649 Six friends.
One college reunion.
One unsolved murder.

A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade.

Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent—not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year. Ten years ago, everything fell apart, including the dreams she worked for her whole life—and her relationship with the one person she wasn’t supposed to love.

But not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather’s murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to make the guilty pay. When the six friends are reunited, they will be forced to confront what happened that night—and the years� worth of secrets each of them would do anything to keep hidden.

Told in racing dual timelines, with a dark campus setting and a darker look at friendship, love, obsession, and ambition, In My Dreams I Hold A Knife is an addictive, propulsive read you won’t be able to put down.]]> 345 Ashley Winstead 172822988X Shizue 4 3.79 2021 In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
author: Ashley Winstead
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)]]> 7869 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Who is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief? Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account? Why has someone tried to murder him?...

Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he is Jason Bourne. What manner of man is he? What are his secrets? Who has he killed?]]> 566 Robert Ludlum 0752864327 Shizue 5 4.06 1980 The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)
author: Robert Ludlum
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1980
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5)]]> 15814458
There are forces at work in the town that that threaten all that Ruth holds dear. But, in the final showdown on Blackpool Pleasure Beach, it is Cathbad who faces the greatest danger of all.]]> 391 Elly Griffiths 0547798164 Shizue 3 3.98 2012 A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5)
author: Elly Griffiths
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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]]> Disappointment with God 53829
Philip Yancey has a gift for articulating the knotty issues of faith. In Disappointment with God, he poses three questions that Christians wonder but seldom ask aloud: Is God unfair? Is he silent? Is he hidden? This insightful and deeply personal book points to the odd disparity between our concept of God and the realities of life. Why, if God is so hungry for relationship with us, does he seem so distant? Why, if he cares for us, do bad things happen? What can we expect from him after all? Yancey answers these questions with clarity, richness, and biblical assurance. He takes us beyond the things that make for disillusionment to a deeper faith, a certitude of God's love, and a thirst to reach not just for what God gives, but for who he is.]]> 304 Philip Yancey 0310517818 Shizue 5 4.17 1988 Disappointment with God
author: Philip Yancey
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time]]> 49064
From the television to the Internet, print media to videos, men are constantly faced with the assault of sensual images. It is impossible to avoid such temptations...but, thankfully, not impossible to rise above them.
Shattering the perception that men are unable to control their thought lives and roving eyes, Every Man's Battle shares the stories of dozens who have escaped the trap of sexual immorality and presents a practical, detailed plan for any man who desires sexual purity-perfect for men who have fallen in the past, those who want to remain strong today, and all who want to overcome temptation in the future.




Includes a special section for women, designed to help them understand and support the men they love.]]> 256 Stephen F. Arterburn 1578563682 Shizue 5 3.86 2000 Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time
author: Stephen F. Arterburn
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Now You See Me (Lacey Flint, #1)]]> 9783200
No one believes the connections are anything more than a sadistic killer’s game, not even Lacey, whom the killer seems to be taunting specifically. However, as they investigate the details of the case start reminding her more and more of a part of her past she’d rather keep hidden. And the only way to do that is to catch the killer herself.]]> 400 Sharon J. Bolton 0312600526 Shizue 5 4.02 2011 Now You See Me (Lacey Flint, #1)
author: Sharon J. Bolton
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> The Client 5359 483 John Grisham 0385339089 Shizue 4 4.06 1993 The Client
author: John Grisham
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)]]> 61093300
It's 1978 in New York City, and disco is prominent. As are mobsters, gritty streets, needle parks and graffiti-stained subways.

Jake Barnum lives in Hell's Kitchen. He's a petty thief selling hot coats with his buddy Maggs to make ends meet and help his sick kid brother. At a Halloween party downtown, he meets a woman with a Marilyn Monroe mask who works for an organization called The Desire Card-an underground operation promising its exclusive clients "Any Wish Fulfilled for the Right Price."

As Jake becomes taken with its leader, a pseudo father and sociopath at heart, he starts stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. In other words...himself. But as he dives deeper in with the Card, begins falling love with Marilyn, and sees the money rolling in, clients' wishes start becoming more and more suspect-some leading to murder.

The first book in the Desire Card series, Immoral Origins follows those indebted to this sinister organization-where the ultimate price is the cost of one's soul.]]> 276 Lee Matthew Goldberg 1685490859 Shizue 5 4.28 Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)
author: Lee Matthew Goldberg
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.28
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]]> <![CDATA[Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #32)]]> 38204677
Renée Ballard is working the night beat again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but then checks into the case herself and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger.

Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally murdered and her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy and finally bring her killer to justice.]]> 400 Michael Connelly Shizue 4 4.22 2018 Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #32)
author: Michael Connelly
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Silence of the Grave (Inspector Erlendur #4)]]> 82991 280 Arnaldur IndriĂ°ason 0312340710 Shizue 4 3.97 2001 Silence of the Grave (Inspector Erlendur #4)
author: Arnaldur IndriĂ°ason
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)]]> 2247142
It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.� Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game.

“Sinister and strangely alluring,� (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.]]> 271 Patricia Highsmith Shizue 4 3.96 1955 The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
author: Patricia Highsmith
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)]]> 6688087 304 Elly Griffiths 0547229895 Shizue 5 3.88 2009 The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
author: Elly Griffiths
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Witness in Death (In Death, #10)]]> 213975 359 J.D. Robb 0749934360 Shizue 3 4.29 2000 Witness in Death (In Death, #10)
author: J.D. Robb
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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]]> Naked in Death (In Death, #1) 479309 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780425148297

Here is the novel that started it all- the first book in J.D. Robb's number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series, featuring New York homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.

It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing: passion.

When a senator's daughter is killed, the secret life of prostitution she'd been leading is revealed. The high-profile case takes Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the rarefied circles of Washington politics and society. Further complicating matters is Eve's growing attraction to Roarke, who is one of the wealthiest and most influential men on the planet, devilishly handsome... and the leading suspect in the investigation.]]> 306 J.D. Robb Shizue 3 4.11 1995 Naked in Death (In Death, #1)
author: J.D. Robb
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1995
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit]]> 126584 Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, and the man who ushered in a new age in behavorial science and criminal profiling. Recently retired after twenty-five years of service, John Douglas can finally tell his unique and compelling story.]]> 397 John E. Douglas 0671528904 Shizue 5 4.08 1995 Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
author: John E. Douglas
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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]]> Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4) 2999282 304 Jeff Lindsay 0752885170 Shizue 5 3.77 2008 Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
author: Jeff Lindsay
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average rating: 3.77
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1) 27824826 A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.

In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.

Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier.

But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke's death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.

]]> 336 Jane Harper Shizue 5 4.04 2016 The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
author: Jane Harper
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors]]> 401514
This is their story—one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.]]> 318 Piers Paul Read 038000321X Shizue 4 4.13 1974 Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
author: Piers Paul Read
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1974
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)]]> 213753
Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.]]> 337 Susan Beth Pfeffer Shizue 2 3.89 2006 Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2006
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4)]]> 140077 291 Charlaine Harris 0441012183 Shizue 3 4.13 2004 Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4)
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> Chickenhawk 63699 Ěý
More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger.

"Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]> 512 Robert Mason 0143035711 Shizue 4 4.20 1983 Chickenhawk
author: Robert Mason
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time]]> 46190 224 Rob Sheffield 1400083028 Shizue 4 3.87 2007 Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
author: Rob Sheffield
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> A Grief Observed 49221
Written in longhand in notebooks that Lewis found in his home, A Grief Observed probes the "mad midnight moments" of Lewis's mourning and loss, moments in which he questioned what he had previously believed about life and death, marriage, and even God. Indecision and self-pity assailed Lewis. "We are under the harrow and can't escape," he writes. "I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get. The old life, the jokes, the drinks, the arguments, the lovemaking, the tiny, heartbreaking commonplace." Writing A Grief Observed as "a defense against total collapse, a safety valve," he came to recognize that "bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."

Lewis writes his statement of faith with precision, humor, and grace. Yet neither is Lewis reluctant to confess his continuing doubts and his awareness of his own human frailty. This is precisely the quality which suggests that A Grief Observed may become "among the great devotional books of our age."]]> 76 C.S. Lewis 0060652381 Shizue 4 4.18 1961 A Grief Observed
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1961
rating: 4
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]]> The Art of Racing in the Rain 3153910
Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast. On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through.

A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it.]]> 336 Garth Stein 1554681723 Shizue 5 4.22 2008 The Art of Racing in the Rain
author: Garth Stein
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Persepolis. The story of a childhood (Persepolis, #1)]]> 9516
Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.]]> 153 Marjane Satrapi 037571457X Shizue 4 4.27 2003 Persepolis. The story of a childhood (Persepolis, #1)
author: Marjane Satrapi
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia]]> 613283
NY times bestseller

"Absolutely riveting and profoundly sad�" —People magazine"
A chilling story� a vivid account of an air-conditioned nightmare..." —Entertainment Weekly"
Must-reading for anyone interested in human rights." —USA Today
"Shocking� candid� sad, sobering, and compassionate" —San Francisco Chronicle]]> 296 jean-sasson 0967673747 Shizue 5 4.02 1993 Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
author: jean-sasson
name: Shizue
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> And the Mountains Echoed 16115612 404 Khaled Hosseini 159463176X Shizue 1 4.06 2012 And the Mountains Echoed
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 2012
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)]]> 237209
Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.]]> 429 Tana French 0670038601 Shizue 4 3.75 2007 In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
author: Tana French
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)]]> 6678 From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG comes an autobiographical account of his exploits as a World War II pilot!

'Going Solo' tells of how, when he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa and a series of daring and dangerous adventures began. From tales of plane crashes to surviving snake bites, read all about Roald Dahl's life before becoming the world's number-one storyteller.

This book is full of exciting and strange things—some funny, some frightening, all true.

Here is the action-packed sequel to 'Boy' (1984), a tale of Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Roald Dahl one the world's best-loved writers, Going Solo brings you directly into the action and into the mind of this fascinating man.

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian, and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World's No. 1 Storyteller.]]> 209 Roald Dahl 0141311428 Shizue 1 4.04 1986 Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
author: Roald Dahl
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average rating: 4.04
book published: 1986
rating: 1
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]]> I Am Not Myself These Days 109520 New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoir of a young New Yorker's daring dual life—advertising art director by day, glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by night—was a smash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular Planet Green television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. His story begins here—before the homemade goat milk soaps and hand-gathered honeys, before his memoir of the city mouse’s move to the country, The Bucolic Plague—i˛Ô I Am Not Myself These Days, Ěýwith “plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delightâ€� (WashingtonPost).]]> 305 Josh Kilmer-Purcell 0060817321 Shizue 5 3.95 2006 I Am Not Myself These Days
author: Josh Kilmer-Purcell
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?]]> 181120
Before the age of thirty-five, Dorothy Parker was known as the wittiest woman in America. Her most casual remarks were repeated and printed. In fact, there was scarcely a bon mot of the day that was not attributed to her. She lived with hedonistic flair: luncheons at the Algonquin Round Table with George S. Kaufman, Alexander Woolcott, and Franklin P. Adams; evenings at the theater and later a tour of the fashionable speakeasies and brothels with Robert Benchley; weekends at the Long Island house parties that Fitzgeralds would memorialize in The Great Gatsby; vacations in France with Sara and Gerald Murphy. During the Depression, she and her husband were earning $5200 a week in Hollywood, where her friends and fellow writers included Lillian Hellman, S. J. Perelman, Nathanael West, and William Faulkner. Her commitment to left-wing politics added high drama to her life during the 1930s and later during the McCarthy period.

Superficially, at least, she seemed to have everything worth having and to know everyone worth knowing. Yet behind the wisecracks, the dazzling wordplay, and the whirlwind of high living was a wealth of private sadness: two broken marriages and a succession of lacerating love affairs, a string of suicide attempts and abortions, heavy debts, and even heavier drinking. The rage behind her wit had indeed turned in on her. She became a victim of her own neuroses, not unlike her friend Zelda Fitzgerald.

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? is the definitive biography of a uniquely colorful woman and a glittering portrait of her times. This is an enthralling, authoritative, and entertaining study of an extremely complex woman who was at the epicenter of an electrifying age.]]> 460 Marion Meade 0140116168 Shizue 5 3.97 1987 Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
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name: Shizue
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)]]> 127455 Ocean's Eleven, and entirely enthralling...

An orphan's life is harsh � and often short � in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains � a man who is neither blind nor a priest.

A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected "family" of orphans � a group known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. Soon he is infamous as the Thorn of Camorr, and no wealthy noble is safe from his sting.

Passing themselves off as petty thieves, the brilliant Locke and his tightly knit band of light-fingered brothers have fooled even the criminal underworld's most feared ruler, Capa Barsavi. But there is someone in the shadows more powerful � and more ambitious � than Locke has yet imagined.

Known as the Gray King, he is slowly killing Capa Barsavi's most trusted men � and using Locke as a pawn in his plot to take control of Camorr's underworld. With a bloody coup under way threatening to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the Gray King at his own brutal game � or die trying...

]]> 499 Scott Lynch 0553804677 Shizue 2 4.28 2006 The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> <![CDATA[Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)]]> 10025305
With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them.

Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?

As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.]]> 498 Cassandra Clare 1416975888 Shizue 5 4.42 2011 Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Hard Eight (Stephanie Plum, #8)]]> 6425
Evelyn's estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. During the divorce proceedings, he and Evelyn signed a child custody bond, and Steven is demanding the money guaranteed by the bond to find Annie. The money was secured by a mortgage on Evelyn's grandmother's house, and the True Blue Bonds Bail Agency wants to take possession of the house.

Finding a kidnapped child is not an assignment for a bounty hunter. But Evelyn's grandmother lives next door to Stephanie's parents, and Stephanie's mother and grandmother are not about to see their neighbor lose her house because of abduction.

Even though Stephanie's plate is full with miscreants who missed their court dates, including old nemesis and violent drunk Andy Bender and an elusive little old lady accused of grand theft auto, she can't disappoint Grandma Mazur! So she follows the trail left by Annie and Evelyn-- and finds a lot more than she bargained for. Steven is somehow linked with a very scary Eddie Abruzzi. Trenton cop and on-again, off-again fiance Joe Morelli and Stephanie's mentor and tormentor, Ranger, warn Stephanie about Abruzzi, but it's Abruzzi's eyes and mannerisms that frighten Stephanie the most. Stephanie needs Ranger's savvy and expertise, and she's willing to accept his help to find Annie even though it might mean becoming too involved with Ranger.

Stephanie, Ranger, Lula (who's not going to miss riding with Ranger), and Evelyn's lawyer/laundromat manager set out to find Annie. The search turns out to be a race among Stephanie's posse, the True Blue Bonds' agent, a Rangerette known as Jeanne Ellen Burrows, and the Abruzzi crew. Not to mention the fact that there's a killer rabbit on the loose!

Strap on your helmet and get ready for the ride of your life. Hard Eight. The world of Plum has never been wilder.]]> 326 Janet Evanovich 0312983867 Shizue 1 4.16 2002 Hard Eight (Stephanie Plum, #8)
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]]> The Periodic Table 427282 The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during, and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly beautiful prose. It has been named the best science book ever by the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and is considered to be Levi's crowning achievement.]]> 233 Primo Levi 0805210415 Shizue 4 4.17 1975 The Periodic Table
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name: Shizue
average rating: 4.17
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]]> Madness: A Bipolar Life 2177563
When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disorder.

In Madness, in her trademark wry and utterly self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. Through scenes of astonishing visceral and emotional power, she takes us inside her own desperate attempts to counteract violently careening mood swings by self-starvation, substance abuse, numbing sex, and self-mutilation. How Hornbacher fights her way up from a madness that all but destroys her, and what it is like to live in a difficult and sometimes beautiful life and marriage -- where bipolar always beckons -- is at the center of this brave and heart-stopping memoir.

Madness delivers the revelation that Hornbacher is not alone: millions of people in America today are struggling with a variety of disorders that may disguise their bipolar disease. And Hornbacher's fiercely self-aware portrait of her own bipolar as early as age four will powerfully change, too, the current debate on whether bipolar in children actually exists.

Ten years after Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, this storm of a memoir will revolutionize our understanding of bipolar disorder.]]> 299 Marya Hornbacher 0618754458 Shizue 5 4.02 2008 Madness: A Bipolar Life
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]]> <![CDATA[A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)]]> 3682
It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?]]> 403 Libba Bray 0689875347 Shizue 4 3.80 2003 A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
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average rating: 3.80
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]]> Under the Dome 6320534
When food, electricity and water run short, the normal rules of society are changed. A new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, a young Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late...]]> 1074 Stephen King 1439148503 Shizue 5 3.92 2009 Under the Dome
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]]> <![CDATA[Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith]]> 10847
A multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyielding faith. This is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.

Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this "divinely inspired" crime, Krakauer constructs a multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyielding faith. Along the way, he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest-growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.

Krakauer takes readers inside isolated communities in the American West, Canada, and Mexico, where some forty-thousand Mormon Fundamentalists believe the mainstream Mormon Church went unforgivably astray when it renounced polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the leaders of these outlaw sects are zealots who answer only to God. Marrying prodigiously and with virtual impunity (the leader of the largest fundamentalist church took seventy-five "plural wives," several of whom were wed to him when they were fourteen or fifteen and he was in his eighties), fundamentalist prophets exercise absolute control over the lives of their followers, and preach that any day now the world will be swept clean in a hurricane of fire, sparing only their most obedient adherents.

Weaving the story of the Lafferty brothers and their fanatical brethren with a clear-eyed look at Mormonism’s violent past, Krakauer examines the underbelly of the most successful homegrown faith in the United States, and finds a distinctly American brand of religious extremism. The result is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.]]> 400 Jon Krakauer 0330419129 Shizue 5 4.01 2003 Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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]]> The Sense of an Ending 10746542 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse.

This intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.]]> 150 Julian Barnes 0224094157 Shizue 1 3.73 2011 The Sense of an Ending
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]]> <![CDATA[Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim]]> 10176 --davidsedarisbooks.com]]> 257 David Sedaris 0965904830 Shizue 4 4.12 2004 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
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]]> Dark Ramblings of the Phoenix 13647475 73 J.D. Stockholm 1471693201 Shizue 5 3.70 2012 Dark Ramblings of the Phoenix
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]]> <![CDATA[A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812]]> 15594
Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.]]> 444 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 0679733760 Shizue 5 3.96 1990 A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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]]> This Boy's Life 11466 304 Tobias Wolff 0802136680 Shizue 5 3.97 1989 This Boy's Life
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 1989
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]]> <![CDATA[Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail]]> 12262741 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State � and she would do it alone.

Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.]]> 336 Cheryl Strayed 0307592731 Shizue 5 4.06 2012 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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]]> The Fault in Our Stars 11870085
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green Shizue 4 4.13 2012 The Fault in Our Stars
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]]> Water for Elephants 43641
Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.]]> 368 Sara Gruen 1565125606 Shizue 1 4.11 2006 Water for Elephants
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]]> Just Mercy 20342617
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit law office in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to defending the poor, the incarcerated, and the wrongly condemned.

Just Mercy tells the story of EJI, from the early days with a small staff facing the nation’s highest death sentencing and execution rates, through a successful campaign to challenge the cruel practice of sentencing children to die in prison, to revolutionary projects designed to confront Americans with our history of racial injustice.

One of EJI’s first clients was Walter McMillian, a young Black man who was sentenced to die for the murder of a young white woman that he didn’t commit. The case exemplifies how the death penalty in America is a direct descendant of lynching � a system that treats the rich and guilty better than the poor and innocent.]]> 336 Bryan Stevenson Shizue 5 4.62 2014 Just Mercy
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]]> <![CDATA[Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo]]> 47301 The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic becomes a witness to food shortages, the deaths of friends, and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor’s cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. The result is a book that has the power to move and instruct readers a world away.]]> 256 Zlata Filipović 0143036874 Shizue 5 3.77 1993 Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
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]]> <![CDATA[A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana]]> 15171
To three-year-old Zippy, it made perfect sense to strike a bargain with her father to keep her baby bottle—never mind that when she did, it was the first time she'd ever spoken. In her nonplussed family, Zippy has the perfect supporting cast: her beautiful yet dour brother, Danny, a seeker of the true faith; her sweetly sensible sister, Lindy, who wins the local beauty pageant; her mother, Delonda, who dispenses wisdom from the corner of the couch; and her father, Bob Jarvis, who never met a bet he didn't like.

Whether describing a serious case of chicken love, another episode with the evil Edythe across the street, or the night Zippy's dad borrowed thirty-six coon dogs and a raccoon to prove to the complaining neighbors just how quiet his two dogs were, Kimmel treats readers to a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and shy as she navigates the quirky adult world surrounding Zippy.]]> 275 Haven Kimmel 0965030067 Shizue 4 3.79 2001 A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
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]]> The Tender Bar: A Memoir 144977
J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice.

At eight years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J.R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. Cops and poets, bookies and soldiers, movie stars and stumblebums, all sorts of men gathered in the bar to tell their stories and forget their cares. The alphas along the bar—i˛Ôcluding J.R.'s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; and Joey D, a softhearted brawler—took J.R. to the beach, to ballgames, and ultimately into their circle. They taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood-by-committee.

Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys—from his grandfather's tumbledown house to the hallowed towers and spires of Yale; from his absurd stint selling housewares at Lord & Taylor to his dream job at the New York Times, which became a nightmare when he found himself a faulty cog in a vast machine. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak--and eventually from reality.

In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.]]> 416 J.R. Moehringer 0786888768 Shizue 3 3.96 2005 The Tender Bar: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy]]> 145269 366 Sarah Bradford 0143035959 Shizue 5 3.74 2004 Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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]]> Quidditch Through the Ages 111450
If you have ever asked yourself where the Golden Snitch came from, how the Bludgers came into existence, or why the Wigtown Wanderers have pictures of meat cleavers on their robes, you need QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES. This invaluable volume is consulted by young Quidditch fans on an almost daily basis.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Comic Relief, who will use your money to continue improving and changing lives -- work that is even more important and astonishing than the three-and-a-half-second capture of the Golden Snitch by Roderick Plumpton in 1921.]]> 105 Kennilworthy Whisp 0439321611 Shizue 5 3.79 2001 Quidditch Through the Ages
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]]> <![CDATA[Snow Flower and the Secret Fan]]> 1103
As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. Together, they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their deep friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.]]> 269 Lisa See 0812968069 Shizue 2 4.06 2005 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 2005
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)]]> 15196
A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.]]> 159 Art Spiegelman 0394541553 Shizue 4 4.39 1986 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
author: Art Spiegelman
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average rating: 4.39
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> Gently Does It 10708111 250 Alan Hunter 1849014981 Shizue 5 3.76 1955 Gently Does It
author: Alan Hunter
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average rating: 3.76
book published: 1955
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]]> <![CDATA[The Delicate Storm (John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery, #2)]]> 150448
A gruesome discovery in the wilderness north of Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote cabin that has served as an abattoir for a cold-blooded killer�

But the same woods hide other horrors and soon a second body is discovered, naked and shrouded in ice. When one of the victims is identified as an American, the RCMP is called in, but it's the involvement of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service that arouses Cardinal's true mistrust. Is their interference due to a suspected terrorist link, or is there something even more sinister behind it?

With Northern Ontario in the grip of an ice storm of once-in-a-hundred-years severity, the woods take on a glittering, lethal beauty. In this winter wonderland John Cardinal must hunt down and confront a killer.

Librarian's note: the characters, settings, pub dates, etc. have been done for the six novels in the author's John Cardinal series: 1. Forty Words for Sorrow (2000), 2. The Delicate Storm (2003), 3. Blackfly Season (2005), 4. The Fields of Grief (2006), 5. Crime Machine (2010), and 6. Until the Night (2012).]]> 352 Giles Blunt 042519678X Shizue 4 3.75 2002 The Delicate Storm (John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[8th Confession (Women's Murder Club, #8)]]> 4110198 360 James Patterson 1846052580 Shizue 2 4.06 2009 8th Confession (Women's Murder Club, #8)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)]]> 25176 272 Martha Grimes 0451410815 Shizue 5 3.99 1981 The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ottoman Cage (Inspector Ikmen, #2)]]> 651594 320 Barbara Nadel 0312337698 Shizue 5 3.89 2000 The Ottoman Cage (Inspector Ikmen, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Narrows (Harry Bosch, #10; Harry Bosch Universe, #14)]]> 409918 Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict spot in the California desert where the feds are unearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rachel. Now the two are at odds with the FBI...and squarely in the path of the Poet, who will lead them on a wicked ride out of the heat, through the narrows of evil, and into a darkness all his own...

]]> 436 Michael Connelly 0446699543 Shizue 4 4.12 2004 The Narrows (Harry Bosch, #10; Harry Bosch Universe, #14)
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]]> <![CDATA[Belshazzar's Daughter (Inspector Ikmen, #1)]]> 32122
A racist murder? Inspector Ikmen has his doubts, and begins tracking down the few people who might have known the old man, including a faded prostitute, a shadowy family of Russian emigres, a dispairing rabbi, and a high-strung young Englishman in the throes of erotic obsession.

The first in a stunningly atmospheric new series from a writer who has deservedly been compared with Michael Dibdin and Donna Leon.]]> 448 Barbara Nadel 1933397497 Shizue 4 3.68 1999 Belshazzar's Daughter (Inspector Ikmen, #1)
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]]> Eleanor & Park 15745753 "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers.
"I'm not kidding," he says.
"You should be," she says, "we're 16."
"What about Romeo and Juliet?"
"Shallow, confused, then dead."
"I love you," Park says.
"Wherefore art thou," Eleanor answers.
"I'm not kidding," he says.
"You should be."

Set over one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.]]> 328 Rainbow Rowell 1250012570 Shizue 3 3.92 2012 Eleanor & Park
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]]> A Tale of Two Cities 1953 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.]]> 489 Charles Dickens 0141439602 Shizue 1 3.86 1859 A Tale of Two Cities
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)]]> 19691 Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on...

]]> 432 Tom Clancy 0425172902 Shizue 5 4.11 1984 The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
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]]> Prometheus Bound 297593 144 Aeschylus 0195061659 Shizue 4 3.92 -480 Prometheus Bound
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average rating: 3.92
book published: -480
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Padua holds many suitors for the hand of fair Bianca, but Bianca may not be married until her spinster sister, Kate, is wed. Could any man be rash enough to take on Kate?

The witty adventurer Petruchio undertakes the task. While he sets about transforming Kate from foul-tempered termagant to loving wife, young Lucentio and his clever servant, Tranio, plot to win Bianca.

Frances Barber and Roger Allam are Kate and Petruchio. Lucentio is played by Alan Cox.]]> 291 William Shakespeare 074347757X Shizue 4 3.76 1593 The Taming of the Shrew
author: William Shakespeare
name: Shizue
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1593
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