Ola's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:23:32 -0700 60 Ola's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg An-Nawawi's Forty Hadith 520249 132 Yahya ibn Sharaf al Nawawi 0946621659 Ola 5 islamic 4.62 An-Nawawi's Forty Hadith
author: Yahya ibn Sharaf al Nawawi
name: Ola
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]]> The Firm (The Firm, #1) 452235 --jgrisham.com]]> 501 John Grisham 044021145X Ola 3 thriller 4.26 1991 The Firm (The Firm, #1)
author: John Grisham
name: Ola
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1991
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Story of My Life (Enriched Classics)]]> 51914
Left blind, deaf, and mute after an illness in infancy, Helen Keller overcame her disabilities with the help of Anne Sullivan, her inspired teacher. Her classic autobiography, first published in 1903, covers her first twenty-two years, including the memorable moment at a water pump when she first made the connection between the word “water� and the cold liquid flowing over her hand. She also discusses her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes and other notables, her education at Radcliffe, her joy at learning to speak, and above all, her extraordinary relationship with her teacher. This deeply moving memoir, full of love and compassion for others, offers an unforgettable portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women.

Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research.

Read with confidence.]]> 304 Helen Keller 1416500324 Ola 5 biography 3.85 1902 The Story of My Life (Enriched Classics)
author: Helen Keller
name: Ola
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1902
rating: 5
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]]> عدة الصابرين وذخيرة الشاكرين 6250737 321 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya 9953340749 Ola 4 4.47 1320 عدة الصابرين وذخيرة الشاكرين
author: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
name: Ola
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1320
rating: 4
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]]> A Tear and a Smile 2549 228 Kahlil Gibran 0394448049 Ola 4 philosophical 4.13 1950 A Tear and a Smile
author: Kahlil Gibran
name: Ola
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1950
rating: 4
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]]> Palace Walk 5489 498 Naguib Mahfouz Ola 2 fiction 3.92 1956 Palace Walk
author: Naguib Mahfouz
name: Ola
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1956
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[In Pursuit of Virtue: The Moral Theology and Psychology of Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi (384-456 AH 994-1064 AD) (Basic Teachings)]]> 529384 أروع ما فيه أن الإمام ابن حزم كان فيه صريحاً، فهو يقول: (كنت متكبر)، و(كنت أحسد..) ثم عافاني الله منهما

فالذي في قلبه على لسانه]]> 224 Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm 090746176X Ola 4 islamic 4.33 2014 In Pursuit of Virtue: The Moral Theology and Psychology of Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi (384-456 AH 994-1064 AD) (Basic Teachings)
author: Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm
name: Ola
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> The Color Purple 373115 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983)

Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.]]> 290 Alice Walker 0151191549 Ola 3 biography 4.15 1982 The Color Purple
author: Alice Walker
name: Ola
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1982
rating: 3
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I read the book after watching the movie, and it was probably the first and only time the movie wins hands down. I couldnt enjoy the book after the movie
]]> <![CDATA[Khalid Bin Al-waleed: Sword of Allah: A Biographical Study of One of the Greatest Military Generals in History]]> 1746031 (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), Khalid bin Al-Waleed, Sword of Allah.

Khalid bin Al-Waleed was one of the greatest generals in history, and one of the greatest heroes of Islam. Besides him, Genghis Khan was the only other general to remain undefeated in his entire military life. A measure of Khalid's genius is that he was the only person to inflict a (temporary) defeat on the Prophet Muhammad, (sallallahu alayhi wasallam).

The original title of the book, "The Sword of Allah: Khalid bin Al-Waleed, His Life and Campaigns" was written by the late Lieutenant-General A.I. Akram of the Pakistan Army, in October 1969. The author learnt Arabic in order to draw on the earliest historical sources and he visited every one of Khalid's battlefields in order to draw analyses from the viewpoint of military strategy, including reconciling conflicting historians' accounts.

The book was originally published by the Army Education Press, Rawalpindi, Pakistan and printed by Feroze Sons Publishers in Lahore, Pakistan. The excellence of the book was such that it has been translated from English into Arabic and is currently sold in bookshops throughout the Arab World.]]> 488 Agha Ali Ibrahim Akram 0954866525 Ola 4 4.49 1997 Khalid Bin Al-waleed: Sword of Allah: A Biographical Study of One of the Greatest Military Generals in History
author: Agha Ali Ibrahim Akram
name: Ola
average rating: 4.49
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> Lord of the Flies 84943 Librarian's note: Alternate cover editions can be found here, here, here and here.

When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. From the prophetic Simon and virtuous Ralph to the lovable Piggy and brutish Jack, each of the boys attempts to establish control as the reality - and brutal savagery - of their situation sets in.

The boys' struggle to find a way of existing in a community with no fixed boundaries invites readers to evaluate the concepts involved in social and political constructs and moral frameworks. Ideas of community, leadership, and the rule of law are called into question as the reader has to consider who has a right to power, why, and what the consequences of the acquisition of power may be. Often compared to Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies also represents a coming-of-age story of innocence lost.]]> 202 William Golding Ola 3 fiction 3.64 1954 Lord of the Flies
author: William Golding
name: Ola
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1954
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[You Can Be The Happiest Woman in the World: A Treasure Chest of Reminders]]> 544852 270 عائض القرني 9960850897 Ola 4 islamic 4.23 2005 You Can Be The Happiest Woman in the World: A Treasure Chest of Reminders
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name: Ola
average rating: 4.23
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]]> <![CDATA[You Can Be The Happiest Woman in the World]]> 1111639
You are holding in your hands a treasure chest of reminders that will help you learn important lessons and set you on the path to happiness in this world and in the hereafter, insha'Allah.]]> 270 عائض القرني 9960850900 Ola 4 islamic 4.02 2005 You Can Be The Happiest Woman in the World
author: عائض القرني
name: Ola
average rating: 4.02
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]]> A Thousand Splendid Suns 834713 An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. The book, which spans a period of over 40 years, from the 1960s to 2003, focuses on the tumultuous lives and relationship of Mariam and Laila, two Afghan women. Mariam, an illegitimate child, suffers from the stigma surrounding her birth and the abuse she faces throughout her marriage. Laila, born a generation later, is comparatively privileged during her youth until their lives intersect and she is also forced to accept a marriage proposal from Rasheed, Mariam's husband.]]> 372 Khaled Hosseini 0747582971 Ola 4 fiction 4.46 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: Ola
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2007/11/20
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]]> <![CDATA[Return of the Pharaoh: Memoir in Nasir's Prison]]> 467054 213 زينب الغزالي 0860372405 Ola 5 biography 4.34 1987 Return of the Pharaoh: Memoir in Nasir's Prison
author: زينب الغزالي
name: Ola
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Children Are from Heaven: Positive Parenting Skills for Raising Cooperative, Confident, and Compassionate Children]]> 124544 400 John Gray 0060930993 Ola 0 waiting-to-be-read 3.92 2000 Children Are from Heaven: Positive Parenting Skills for Raising Cooperative, Confident, and Compassionate Children
author: John Gray
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 2000
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]]> <![CDATA[Cry, Freedom: A Story of Friendship]]> 2222653 Cry Freedom - based on the true story of the friendship between Steve Biko and Donald Woods - has won immense critical acclaim.]]> 272 John Briley 0140108912 Ola 4 fiction 3.84 1987 Cry, Freedom: A Story of Friendship
author: John Briley
name: Ola
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> Garden of Beasts 1292509
The instant Paul sets foot in Berlin his mission becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse chase, with danger and betrayal lurking at every turn. For the next forty-eight hours, as the city prepares for the coming summer Olympics, Schumann stalks Ernst, while a dogged criminal police officer and the entire Third Reich security apparatus search frantically for the American. Packed with fascinating period detail and featuring a cast of perfectly realized local characters, Olympic athletes, and senior Nazi officials—some real, some fictional—Garden of Beasts dishes up breathtaking action, a wrenching look at Nazi-era Berlin, and a series of stunning plot twists. It is classic Deaver. (And there is also a slight Lincoln Rhyme connection for the discerning reader to find.)]]> 416 Jeffery Deaver 0743222016 Ola 5 thriller 3.84 2004 Garden of Beasts
author: Jeffery Deaver
name: Ola
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> The Kite Runner 437129 340 Khaled Hosseini 0747566534 Ola 4 fiction 4.27 2003 The Kite Runner
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: Ola
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez Ola 0 to-read 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Ola
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1967
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]]> <![CDATA[Gangs : A Journey into the Heart of the British Underworld]]> 891828 Book by Thompson, Tony Tony Thompson 0340830522 Ola 3 non-fiction 3.17 2004 Gangs : A Journey into the Heart of the British Underworld
author: Tony Thompson
name: Ola
average rating: 3.17
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)]]> 310459 288 Mildred D. Taylor 014034893X Ola 4 fiction 3.88 1976 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
author: Mildred D. Taylor
name: Ola
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1976
rating: 4
read at: 1995/01/01
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Was made to read/study it for school - I remember really liking it back then!
]]> <![CDATA[The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales]]> 63697 243 Oliver Sacks Ola 5 non-fiction 4.08 1985 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
author: Oliver Sacks
name: Ola
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1985
rating: 5
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Absolutely wonderful insight into the world of people with neurological problems that cause them to function a little bit different to what we are 'used to'....fascinating book.
]]> <![CDATA[The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme, #2)]]> 187499
Three witnesses to a murder could put a millionaire arms dealer behind bars for good. When one of them, the co-owner of Hudson Air, is blown up in a plane bombing with the Dancer's fingerprints all over it, the FBI takes the other witnesses into protective custody. Only Rhyme can decipher a crime scene, read the residue of a bombing or identify a handful of dirt well enough to keep up with the killer. Helped by Amelia Sachs, his brilliant and able-bodied assistant, Rhyme traces the Dancer through Manhattan streets, airports and subways. The psychological tension builds rapidly from page one all the way through to the stunning and unexpected denouement. At the same time, Jeffery Deaver slowly develops the against-all-odds love affair between Rhyme and Sachs. Fans of Patricia Cornwell and others in the growing subgenre of forensic thrillers will find a lot to enjoy in Deaver's latest. --Jane Adams]]> 390 Jeffery Deaver 0340712511 Ola 5 thriller 4.03 1998 The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme, #2)
author: Jeffery Deaver
name: Ola
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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Fantastically amazing! Kinda the book version of the Usual Suspects, lots of twists and parts that make you stop and go, 'Woah!'
]]> Good Omens 386282 The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.

So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .]]> 415 Terry Pratchett Ola 5 sci-fi
Around long before Harry Potter, the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett in my opinion is also incomparably better. If you like Harry Potter, give it a try. (note: this book is not in the discworld series but the other ones on my list are)]]> 4.28 1990 Good Omens
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Ola
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1990
rating: 5
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This was the first book I ever bought as an 'adult', and the sheer cleverness and wittiness of it quickly made me a Terry Pratchett fan.

Around long before Harry Potter, the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett in my opinion is also incomparably better. If you like Harry Potter, give it a try. (note: this book is not in the discworld series but the other ones on my list are)
]]> Ugly 1047113 400 Constance Briscoe 0340895993 Ola 4 biography ]]> 4.03 2006 Ugly
author: Constance Briscoe
name: Ola
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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Makes you apreciate the blessings of whatever situation you are in, as the saying goes: the key to happiness/contentment is to look at those who have less than you. Unbelievable to know that people like her mother still exist in this day and age. May Allaah protect us from such people, ameen.

]]> <![CDATA[Our Decline: Its Causes and Remedies]]> 1448260 Amir Shakib Arsalan 9839154540 Ola 4 non-fiction
Read More (why reinvent the wheel?)....]]> 4.27 2013 Our Decline: Its Causes and Remedies
author: Amir Shakib Arsalan
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average rating: 4.27
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Sometimes people find themselves in such a mess that the only consolation seems to be to relive the past. In fact so impotent are Muslims now that even their glorious past is relived through orientalist works. Thus we find hundreds of books on Muslim achievements of the so-called academic and objective bent, written by Muslims and non-Muslims, as if even the Muslim mind were colonised. Hundreds of books also flood libraries on Islamic laws and principles, ideals and beauty, without considering whether these principles can be put into practice at a time when Muslims are in the worst situation � humiliated and subjugated despite the enormous amounts of wealth flooding their cities.

Read More (why reinvent the wheel?)....
]]> The Tenderness of Wolves 315340
The year is 1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, a tiny isolated settlement in the Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. Laurent Jammett had been a voyageur for the Hudson Bay Company before an accident lamed him four years earlier. The same accident afforded him the little parcel of land in Dove River, land that the locals called unlucky due to the untimely death of the previous owner.

A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees the tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. It is Mrs. Ross's knock on the door of the largest house in Caulfield that launches the investigation. Within hours she will regret that knock with a mother's love -- for soon she makes another discovery: her seventeen-year-old son Francis has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect.

In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the crime and to the township -- Andrew Knox, Dove River's elder statesman; Thomas Sturrock, a wily American itinerant trader; Donald Moody, the clumsy young Company representative; William Parker, a half-breed Native American and trapper who was briefly detained for Jammett's murder before becoming Mrs. Ross's guide. But the question remains: do these men want to solve the crime or exploit it?

One by one, the searchers set out from Dove River following the tracks across a desolate landscape -- home to only wild animals, madmen, and fugitives -- variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for seventeen years, and a forgotten Native American culture before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good.

In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney deftly weaves adventure, suspense, revelation, and humor into an exhilarating thriller; a panoramic historical romance; a gripping murder mystery; and, ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, an epic for the ages.]]> 384 Stef Penney 1416540741 Ola 0 currently-reading 3.73 2006 The Tenderness of Wolves
author: Stef Penney
name: Ola
average rating: 3.73
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]]> <![CDATA[An Introduction to the Hadith (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)]]> 1115194 210 John Burton 0748604359 Ola 3 3.18 1994 An Introduction to the Hadith (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)
author: John Burton
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average rating: 3.18
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[An Introduction to the Science of Hadith]]> 1014119 64 Suhaib Hasan 9960740617 Ola 0 4.24 An Introduction to the Science of Hadith
author: Suhaib Hasan
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East]]> 52142 1111 Robert Fisk 1400075173 Ola 0 currently-reading 4.41 2005 The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
author: Robert Fisk
name: Ola
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State]]> 993142
Western powers call it a threat to democracy. Islamist movements are winning elections on it. Terrorists use it to justify their crimes. What, then, is the shari'a? Given the severity of some of its provisions, why is it popular among Muslims? Can the Islamic state succeed--should it? Feldman reveals how the classical Islamic constitution governed through and was legitimated by law. He shows how executive power was balanced by the scholars who interpreted and administered the shari'a, and how this balance of power was finally destroyed by the tragically incomplete reforms of the modern era. The result has been the unchecked executive dominance that now distorts politics in so many Muslim states. Feldman argues that a modern Islamic state could provide political and legal justice to today's Muslims, but only if new institutions emerge that restore this constitutional balance of power.

"The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State" gives us the sweeping history of the traditional Islamic constitution--its noble beginnings, its downfall, and the renewed promise it could hold for Muslims and Westerners alike.]]> 200 Noah Feldman 0691120455 Ola 0 currently-reading 3.96 2008 The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
author: Noah Feldman
name: Ola
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2008
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]]> <![CDATA[How To Talk So Kids Can Learn (The How To Talk Series)]]> 829768
Using the unique communication strategies, down-to-earth dialogues, and delightful cartoons that are the hallmark of their multimillion-copy bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk , Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish show parents and teachers how to help children handle the everyday problems that interfere with learning.

This breakthrough book demonstrates how parents and teachers can join forces to inspire kids to be self-directed, self-disciplined, and responsive to the wonders of learning.]]> 272 Adele Faber 0684824728 Ola 0 currently-reading, teaching 4.10 1995 How To Talk So Kids Can Learn (The How To Talk Series)
author: Adele Faber
name: Ola
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[An Introduction to the Sciences of the Qu'raan]]> 892659 The book provides the English reader with a detailed analysis of classic Muslim scholarship regarding: the process of Inspiration (wahy); the various means of classifying verses of the Qur'aan; the history of the compilation of the Qur'aan; the meaning of the seven ahruf and the ten qira'aat of the Qur'aan; the miraculous nature of the Qur'aan; the concept of abrogation in the Qur'aan; the procedure and methodology of tafseer; and many other topics.
The work has a number of sections dedicated to explaining the traditional Muslim refutations of certain beliefs of the Ash'arees with regards to the Qur'aan. This book also includes detailed discussions on modern Western scholarship of the Qur'aan. After presenting a history of the English translation of the Qur'aan, along with a critical review of some translations, the author discusses and refutes common Orientalist polemic literature on the Qur'aan.
The work is unique in that it presents classic material in a simple and modern style, while maintaining a high academic level. It is the most advanced work of its kind in the English language, and a necessary reference for all serious students of Islamic knowledge.]]> 288 abu-ammaar-yasir-qadhi 1898649324 Ola 5 4.53 1999 An Introduction to the Sciences of the Qu'raan
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name: Ola
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> Who Moved My Cheese? 77231
Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are "Littlepeople" - beings the size of mice who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw.

"Cheese" is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it's a good job, a loving relationship, money, a possession, health, or spiritual peace of mind.

And the "Maze" is where you look for what you want - the organisation you work in or the family or community you live in.

In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change. Eventually, one of them deals with it successfully, and writes what he has learned from his experience on the Maze walls.

When you come to see "The Handwriting on the Wall," you can discover for yourself how to deal with change, so that you can enjoy less stress and more success (however you define it) in your work and in your life.

Written for all ages, the story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.]]> 94 Spencer Johnson 0399144463 Ola 3 3.77 1999 Who Moved My Cheese?
author: Spencer Johnson
name: Ola
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]> 675551 Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results.

With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers.]]> 288 Ken Kesey 014028334X Ola 5 fiction One of my favourites 4.19 1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
author: Ken Kesey
name: Ola
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1962
rating: 5
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One of my favourites
]]> Beyond Ugly 1047114 228 Constance Briscoe 0340933232 Ola 3 biography 3.67 2008 Beyond Ugly
author: Constance Briscoe
name: Ola
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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]]> Inkheart (Inkworld, #1) 28194 9780439709101

From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback!

One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever.

This is INKHEART--a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud.]]> 563 Cornelia Funke Ola 3 fiction 3.91 2003 Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)
author: Cornelia Funke
name: Ola
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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If YOU could read someone out of a book, who would it be?
]]> <![CDATA[The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature]]> 1964924 499 Steven Pinker 1846140501 Ola 0 currently-reading, language 3.47 2007 The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
author: Steven Pinker
name: Ola
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> Brick Lane 18723 As a good Muslim girl, Nazneen struggles to not question why things happen. She submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes herself to her husband and daughters. Yet to her amazement, she begins an affair with a handsome young radical, and her erotic awakening throws her old certainties into chaos.
Monica Ali's splendid novel is about journeys both external and internal, where the marvelous and the terrifying spiral together.]]> 432 Monica Ali 0743243315 Ola 0 fiction 3.45 2003 Brick Lane
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]]> Never Let Me Go 6334
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.]]> 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Ola 5 fiction 3.85 2005 Never Let Me Go
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]]> <![CDATA[The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World]]> 855189
Did you know that people in Bolivia have a word that means "I was rather too drunk last night and it's all their fault"? That there's no Italian equivalent for the word "blue"? That the Dutch word for skimming stones is "plimpplamppletteren"? This delightful book, which draws on the collective wisdom of more than 254 languages, includes not only those words for which there is no direct counterpart in English ("pana po'o" in Hawaiian means to scratch your head in order to remember something important), but also a frank discussion of exactly how many Eskimo words there are for snow and the longest known palindrome in any language ("saippuakivikauppias"--Finland).

And all right, what in fact is "tingo"? In the Pascuense language of Easter Island, it's to take all the objects one desires from the house of a friend, one at a time, by asking to borrow them. Well, of course it is. Enhanced by its ingenious and irresistible little Schott's Miscellany/Eats Shoots and Leaves package and piquant black-and-white illustrations throughout, The Meaning of Tingo is a heady feast for word lovers of all persuasions. Viva Tingo!]]> 209 Adam Jacot de Boinod 1594200866 Ola 5 language Fantastic fun! 3.51 1999 The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from around the World
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Fantastic fun!
]]> The Memory Keeper's Daughter 10441 401 Kim Edwards 0143037145 Ola 5 fiction 3.70 2005 The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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]]> The Secret Life of Bees 37435 The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.]]> 302 Sue Monk Kidd 0142001740 Ola 3 fiction 4.10 2001 The Secret Life of Bees
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]]> My Story 73865 A CHILD CALLED 'IT' is Dave Pelzer's story of a child beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable games that left one of her three sons nearly dead.

Dave was no longer considered a son, or a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement and when he was allowed food it was scraps from the dogs' bowl.

Throughout, Dave kept alive the dream of finding a family who would love and care for him.

THE LOST BOY: the harrowing but ultimately uplifting true story of Dave's journey through the foster-care system in search of a family who will love him.

A MAN NAMED DAVE: the gripping conclusion to this inspirational trilogy. With extraordinary generosity of spirit, Dave takes us on a journey into his past. At last he confronts his father and ultimately his mother. Finally, Dave finds the courage to break the chains of the past and learn to love, trust and live for the future.]]> 437 Dave Pelzer 0752864017 Ola 5 biography 4.29 1995 My Story
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme, #7)]]> 310762
Rhyme, a quadriplegic long confined to his wheelchair, immediately taps his trusted partner and longtime love, Amelia Sachs, to walk the grid and be his eyes and ears on the street. But Sachs has other commitments now -- namely, her first assignment as lead detective on a homicide of her own. As she struggles to balance her pursuit of the infuriatingly elusive Watchmaker with her own case, Sachs unearths shocking revelations about the police force that threaten to undermine her career, her sense of self and her relationship with Rhyme. As the Rhyme-Sachs team shows evi-dence of fissures, the Watchmaker is methodically stalking his victims and planning a diabolical criminal masterwork.... Indeed, the Watchmaker may be the most cunning and mesmerizing villain Rhyme and Sachs have ever encountered.]]> 630 Jeffery Deaver 0743491572 Ola 5 thriller 3.85 2006 The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme, #7)
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]]> Sleeping Doll (LARGE PRINT) 1515766
But the girl never spoke about that night, nor did the crime's mastermind. Indeed, Pell has long been both reticent and unrepentant about the crime. And so with the murderer transported from the Capitola superprison to an interrogation room in the Monterey County Courthouse, Dance sees an opportunity to pry a confession from him for the recent murder -- and to learn more about the depraved mind of this career criminal who considers himself a master of control, a dark Svengali, forcing people to do what they otherwise would never conceive of doing. In an electrifying psychological jousting match, Dance calls up all her skills as an interrogator and kinesics -- body language -- expert to get to the truth behind Daniel Pell.

But when Dance's plan goes terribly wrong and Pell escapes, leaving behind a trail of dead and injured, she finds herself in charge of her first-ever manhunt. But far from simply fleeing, Pell turns on his pursuers -- and other innocents -- for reasons Dance and her colleagues can't discern. As the idyllic Monterey Peninsula is paralyzed by the elusive killer, Dance turns to the past to find the truth about what Daniel Pell is really up to. She tracks down the now teenage Sleeping Doll to learn what really happened that night, and she arranges a reunion of three women who were in his cult at the time of the killings. The lies of the past and the evasions of the present boil up under the relentless probing of Kathryn Dance, but will the truth about Daniel Pell emerge in time to stop him from killing again?]]> 448 Jeffery Deaver 1416550631 Ola 4 thriller 3.80 2007 Sleeping Doll (LARGE PRINT)
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]]> Married to a Bedouin 925598 279 Marguerite van Geldermalsen 1844082199 Ola 2 biography 3.56 2006 Married to a Bedouin
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]]> <![CDATA[Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping]]> 242583
Without consumer goods and experiences, Judith and Paul pursue their careers, nurture relationships, and try to keep their sanity, their identities, and their sense of humor intact. Tracking their progress -- and inevitable lapses -- Levine contemplates need and desire, scarcity and security, consumerism and citizenship. She asks the Big Questions: Can the economy survive without shopping? Are Q-tips necessary?

Not Buying It is the confession of a woman any reader can identify with: someone who can't live without French roast coffee or SmartWool socks but who has had it up to here with overconsumption and its effects on the earth and everyone who dwells there.

For the humor and intelligence of its insights, the refreshment of its skepticism, and the surprises of its conclusions, Not Buying It is sure to be on anyone's list of Necessities.]]> 288 Judith Levine 0743269365 Ola 3 pop-psych 2.92 2006 Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
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]]> <![CDATA[The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil]]> 30098 We live in the most brutal century in human history, but instead of stepping forward to take the credit, the devil has rendered himself invisible. The very notion of evil seems incompatible with modern life, from which the ideas of transgression and the accountable self are fast receding. Yet despite this loss of old words and moral concepts - Satan, sin, evil - we cannot do without some conceptual means for thinking about the universal human experience of cruelty and pain. My driving motive in writing this book has been the conviction that if evil, with all its insidious complexity, escapes the reach of our imagination, it will have established dominion over us all.'

Americans once believed in God and in Satan; they were known to be obsessed with sin, and they pictured their own history as a struggle with evil. Today, however, while the repetoire of evil seems never to have been richer, as we daily encounter (and even relish) images of unimaginable horror, our grasp on the reality of evil seems weak and uncertain, our responses to it flustered and sometimes indifferent. How has this crisis of incompetence come about?

In this important new book, the brilliant scholar Andrew Delbanco proposes a fresh, persuasive interpretation of the American past - and present - that offers a way to resolve this crisis of moral imagination. In a kind of spiritual biography of the American nation, he shows us how the writers of the past three centuries have depicted evil and how, by giving it form and meaning, they have tried to defy and subdue it. His nuanced and yet tough-minded analyses of religious leaders like Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards, political redeemers such as Jefferson and Lincoln, classic writers like Emerson and Melville, Thoreau and Whitman, and more recent figures, including Niebuhr and Trilling, Rachel Carson and Susan Sontag, show us the strategies by which these writers have recognized and done battle with evil.

One way of talking about evil is to demonize and satanize it, depict it as the foreign "other," a monstrous reality far from ourselves. This way of understanding evil as remote and alien seems to be on the rise again today. But as Mr. Delbanco's superb study shows us, Satan has sometimes had a very different meaning in our history - as a symbol of our own deficient love, our potential for envy and rancor toward creation. Americans have always been engaged in a contest between these two ways of understanding evil; and it remains a struggle in which nothing less than America's destiny is at stake.]]> 274 Andrew Delbanco 0374524866 Ola 5 non-fiction 3.61 1995 The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil
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]]> <![CDATA[Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume III (History of Linguistic Thought)]]> 900725 The reader is introduced to the major issues and themes that have determined the development of the Arabic linguistic tradition. Each chapter contains a short extract from a translated `landmark' text followed by a commentary which places the text in its social and intellectual context. The chosen texts frequently offer scope for comparison with the Western tradition. By contrasting the two systems, the Western and the Middle Eastern, this book serves to highlight the characteristics of two very different systems and thus stimulate new ideas about the history of linguistics.
This book presumes no prior knowledge of Arabo-Islamic culture and Arabic language, and is invaluable to anyone with an interest in the History of Linguistics. Kees Versteegh is currently Professor of Arabic and Islam at the Middle East Institute of the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His publications include The Explanation of Linguistic Causes (1995),Ed. Arabic Outside the Arab World (1994)]]> 216 Kees Versteegh 0415157579 Ola 4 language 4.50 1997 Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume III (History of Linguistic Thought)
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]]> The Arabic Language 789236 288 Kees Versteegh 0231111525 Ola 5 language 4.32 1997 The Arabic Language
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]]> <![CDATA[The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in ta‘līl]]> 1050999 Yasir Suleiman 0748606971 Ola 5 language 5.00 1999 The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in ta‘līl
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]]> <![CDATA[A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 19)]]> 1050990 286 Yasir Suleiman 0521546567 Ola 5 language 4.16 2004 A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 19)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology]]> 789225
Straddling the domains of cultural and political nationalism, Suleiman examines the Arab past (looking at the interpretation and reinvention of tradition, and myth-making); the clash between Arab and Turkish cultural nationalism in the 19th and early 20th century; readings of canonical treatises on the topic of Arab cultural nationalism, the major ideological trends linking language to territorial nationalism; and provides a research agenda for the study of language and nationalism in the Arab context.

This the first full-scale study of this important topic and will be of interest to students of nationalism, Arab and comparative politics, Arabic Studies, history, cultural studies and sociolinguistics.]]> 288 Yasir Suleiman 0878403957 Ola 4 language 3.70 2002 The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology
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]]> <![CDATA[Arabic English Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (English and Arabic Edition)]]> 211639
The author provides a useful introduction in which he discusses, clearly and precisely, the present state of the Arabic language. He points out the situations in which written and spoken varieties of Arabic are used, and remarks on the forces that influenced the development of the lexicon of Modern Arabic. He discusses both the purist movement with its normative tradition, and what might be called the laissez-faire actual usage of writers and journalists under the influence of Western modes of expression, of their everyday colloquial, or both. He then moves on to the problem of local terminology, especially for public institutions, offices, administrative matters, titles, and foods. Although such terms are included for most of the Arab countries, the list is not complete, as indeed the author recognizes (viii); readers of Arabic material characterized by a distinct regional coloring are advised to refer to dialect dictionaries and glossaries."]]> 1301 Hans Wehr 0879500034 Ola 5 language 4.52 1961 Arabic English Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (English and Arabic Edition)
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]]> Language Death (Canto) 329508 210 David Crystal 0521012716 Ola 4 language 3.94 2000 Language Death (Canto)
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]]> <![CDATA[Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World]]> 166433 615 Nicholas Ostler 0060935723 Ola 4 language 4.08 2005 Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
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]]> English as a Global Language 578543 228 David Crystal 0521530326 Ola 4 language 3.71 1997 English as a Global Language
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language]]> 901145 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language is one of the publishing phenomena of recent times. Rarely has a book so packed with accurate and well researched factual information been so widely read and popularly acclaimed. It has played a key role in the spread of general interest in language matters, generating further publications and broadcasting events for an avid audience. Its First Edition appeared in hardback in 1995 and a revised paperback in 1997. There have been numerous subsequent updated reprintings; but this Second Edition now presents an overhaul of the subject for a new generation of language-lovers and of teachers, students and professional English-users concerned with their own linguistic legacy.

The book offers a unique experience of the English language, exploring its past, present and future. David Crystal systematically explains the history, structure, variety and range of uses of English worldwide, employing a rich apparatus of text, pictures, tables, maps and graphics.

The length of the Second Edition has increased by 16 pages and there are 44 new illustrations, a new chapter, extensive new material on world English and Internet English, and a complete updating of statistics, further reading suggestions and other references throughout the book.]]> 499 David Crystal 0521530334 Ola 5 language 4.32 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
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]]> How the Mind Works 835623 The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the wit that prompted Mark Ridley to write in the New York Times Book Review, "No other science writer makes me laugh so much. . . . [Pinker] deserves the superlatives that are lavished on him." The arguments in the book are as bold as its title. Pinker rehabilitates some unfashionable ideas, such as that the mind is a computer and that human nature was shaped by natural selection, and challenges fashionable ones, such as that passionate emotions are irrational, that parents socialize their children, and that nature is good and modern society corrupting. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997 Featured in Time magazine, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nature, Science, Lingua Franca, and Science Times Front-page reviews in the Washington Post Book World, the Boston Globe Book Section, and the San Diego Union Book Review]]> 660 Steven Pinker 0393318486 Ola 4 non-fiction 3.99 1997 How the Mind Works
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]]> <![CDATA[The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language]]> 5755 The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind.

In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution.The Language Instinctreceived the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language sinceThe Language Instinctwas first published.]]> 448 Steven Pinker 0060958332 Ola 4 language 4.01 1994 The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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]]> <![CDATA[Ibn Taymiyya Against the Greek Logicians]]> 155865

Ibn Taymiyya, one of the greatest and most prolific thinkers of medieval Islam, held Greek logic responsible for the "heretical" metaphysical conclusions reached by Islamic philosophers, theologians, mystics, and others. Unlike Ghazali, who rejected philosophical metaphysics but embraced logic, Ibn Taymiyya considered the two inextricably connected. He therefore set out to refute philosophical logic, a task which culminated in one of the most devastating attacks ever levelled against the logical system upheld by the early Greeks, the later commentators, and their Muslim followers. His argument is grounded in an empirical approach that in many respects prefigures the philosophies of the British empiricists.


Professor Hallaq's translation, with a substantial introduction and extensive notes, makes available to a wider audience for the first time an important work that will be of interest to specialists in ancient and medieval philosophy and to historians of logic and empiricist philosophy, as well as to scholars of Islam and Middle Eastern thought.
]]> 368 ابن تيمية Ola 4 islamic 4.10 1993 Ibn Taymiyya Against the Greek Logicians
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]]> <![CDATA[Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet]]> 27310 290 Karen Armstrong 0062508865 Ola 3 islamic 4.20 1991 Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
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]]> <![CDATA[Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives]]> 2255 217 Dan Millman 1932073205 Ola 5 philosophical 4.13 1980 Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
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]]> <![CDATA[Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence]]> 1047688 368 Jane M. Healy 0385469306 Ola 0 waiting-to-be-read 4.09 1986 Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence
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average rating: 4.09
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I bought this book in 1999 and my sister in law borrowed it right away. She liked it so much, I've only just gotten it back!
]]> The Little Friend 775346
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents� yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.]]> 624 Donna Tartt 1400031699 Ola 2 3.47 2002 The Little Friend
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]]> <![CDATA[The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme, #6)]]> 106312
Assisted by Fred Dellray, Mel Cooper and Lon Sellitto (suffering from a severe case of shattered nerves due to a near miss by the killer), Rhyme and partner Amelia Sachs work frantically to learn who the hit man and his partner are and when they will strike next, all the while trying to crack a very “cold� case: Rhyme believes that Geneva may have been targeted because of a paper she’s writing about her ancestor, Charles Singleton, a former slave who was instrumental in the civil rights movement in the 1860s, but who was arrested for theft and disgraced.

In his correspondence Charles wrote about a “secret,� that could have tragic consequences if revealed. This secret, which Rhyme is convinced will provide the key to why Geneva is in danger, revolves around some mysterious doings in the area known as Gallows Heights, a neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that in the 1860s was a tense mix of wealthy financiers, civil rights leaders, political crooks like Boss Tweed, and working-class laborers and thugs. What was the truth behind the crime Charles was accused of? And what was his secret? Does it have to do with stolen gold? Or does it have a far broader implications?]]> 816 Jeffery Deaver 0739455834 Ola 5 thriller 3.99 2005 The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[Al-ʻUbudiyyah: Being a True Slave of Allah]]> 603298
Şeyhulislam İbn Teymiyye, kulluğu en güzel şekilde anlatan Rabbani alimlerden biridir. O bunu hem teoride hem de pratikte uygulamıştır. Teorik uygulamasının örneği başta elimizdeki eser olmak üzere bütün kitaplarıdır. Pratikteki uygulaması ise tüm yaşantısıdır.

Öyledir ki ömrünü hapislerde ve sürgünlerde geçirecek kadar kulluk şuuruyla hareket edip Allah yolunda mücadele ve cihad eden, kulluk bilincinden ayrılmayan bir Rabbani alimden daha güzel bir şekilde "Kulluk"u kimse hakkıyla anlatamaz.

İşte her satırı bu büyük kulluk mücadelesinin ışığında okunup değerlendirilmesi gereken bu eser; umarız ki Allah'a kulluk ve Allah'ın dini uğrunda, tevhid yolunda istikamet üzere olmamıza katkı sağlar.]]> 144 ابن تيمية 1897940882 Ola 4 islamic 4.57 1999 Al-ʻUbudiyyah: Being a True Slave of Allah
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]]> Language, Truth and Logic 584608
First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teachers, students, and general readers alike.
Mr. Ayers sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. You will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience � those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis.

Reprint of the 1936 edition.]]> 160 Alfred Jules Ayer 0486200108 Ola 4 philosophical 3.75 1936 Language, Truth and Logic
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]]> The Runaway Jury 24192
The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior.

Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more importantly, why?

From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 464 John Grisham 0385339690 Ola 4 thriller 4.03 1996 The Runaway Jury
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]]> The Pelican Brief 32499 400 John Grisham 0385339704 Ola 4 thriller 4.06 1992 The Pelican Brief
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]]> <![CDATA[Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity]]> 254489 Dean Simonton convincingly argues that creativity can best be understood as a Darwinian process of variation and selection. The artist or scientist generates a wealth of ideas, and then subjects these ideas to aesthetic or scientific judgment, selecting only those that have the best chance to survive and reproduce. Indeed, the true test of genius is the ability to bequeath an impressive and influential body of work to future generations. Simonton draws on the latest research into creativity and explores such topics as the personality type of the genius, whether genius is genetic or produced by environment and education, the links between genius and mental illness (Darwin himself was emotionally and mentally unwell), the high incidence of childhood trauma, especially loss of a parent, amongst Nobel Prize winners, the importance of unconscious incubation in creative problem-solving, and much more. Simonton substantiates his theory by examining and quoting from the work of such eminent
figures as Henri Poincare, W. H. Auden, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Niels Bohr, and many others.
For anyone intrigued by the spectacular feats of the human mind, The Origins of Genius offers a revolutionary new way of understanding the very nature of creativity.]]> 320 Dean Keith Simonton 0195128796 Ola 4 non-fiction 3.74 1999 Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity
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]]> <![CDATA[Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice]]> 294029
Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence, known as Multiple Intelligences theory, has changed the face of education. Tens of thousands of educators, parents, and researchers have explored the practical implications and applications of this powerful notion, that there is not one type of intelligence but several, ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in self-understanding.

Multiple Intelligences distills nearly three decades of research on Multiple Intelligences theory and practice, covering its central arguments and numerous developments since its introduction in 1983. Gardner includes discussions of global applications, Multiple Intelligences in the workplace, an assessment of Multiple Intelligences practice in the current conservative educational climate, new evidence about brain functioning, and much more.]]> 320 Howard Gardner 0465047688 Ola 4 non-fiction 4.00 1993 Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice
author: Howard Gardner
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]]> <![CDATA[Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi]]> 294036 Frames of Mind, he undermined the common notion that intelligence is a single capacity that every human being possesses to a greater or lesser extent. Now building on the framework he developed for understanding intelligence, Gardner gives us a path breaking view of creativity, along with riveting portraits of seven figures who each reinvented an area of human endeavor. Using as a point of departure his concept of seven “intelligences,� ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in understanding oneself, Gardner examines seven extraordinary individuals—Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, Martha Graham, and Mahatma Gandhi—each an outstanding exemplar of one kind of intelligence. Understanding the nature of their disparate creative breakthroughs not only sheds light on their achievements but also helps to elucidate the “modern era”—the times that formed these creators and which they in turn helped to define. While focusing on the moment of each creator’s most significant breakthrough, Gardner discovers patterns crucial to our understanding of the creative process. Not surprisingly, Gardner believes that a single variety of creativity is a myth. But he supplies evidence that certain personality configurations and needs characterize creative individuals in our time, and that numerous commonalities color the ways in which ideas are conceived, articulated, and disseminated to the public. He notes, for example, that it almost invariably takes ten years to make the initial creative breakthrough and another ten years for subsequent breakthroughs. Creative people feature unusual combinations of intelligence and personality, and Gardner delineates the indispensable role of the circumstances in which an individual works and the crucial reactions of the surrounding group of informed peers. He finds that an essential element of the creative process is the support of caring individuals who believe in the revolutionary ideas of the creators. And he documents the fact that extraordinary creativity almost always carries with it extraordinary costs in human terms.]]> 464 Howard Gardner 0465014542 Ola 5 non-fiction 3.91 1993 Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi
author: Howard Gardner
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]]> <![CDATA[Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life]]> 66321
What makes a good life? Is it money? An important job? Leisure time? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes our obsessive focus on such measures has led us astray. Work fills our days with anxiety and pressure, so that during our free time, we tend to live in boredom, absorbed by our screens.

What are we missing? To answer this question, Csikszentmihalyi studied thousands of people, and he found the key. People are happiest when they challenge themselves with tasks that demand a high degree of skill and commitment, and which are undertaken for their own sake. Instead of scrolling on your phone, play the piano. Take a routine chore and figure out how to do it better, faster, more efficiently. In short, learn the hidden power of complete engagement, a psychological state the author callsflow. Though they appear simple, the lessons in Finding Flow are life-changing.]]> 181 Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 0465024114 Ola 5 non-fiction 3.89 1995 Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience]]> 66354 303 Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 0060920432 Ola 5 non-fiction 4.11 1990 Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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name: Ola
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]]> <![CDATA[Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention]]> 66322 372 Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 0060928204 Ola 5 non-fiction 4.07 1996 Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
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name: Ola
average rating: 4.07
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]]> Teach Your Child How to Think 98485 313 Edward de Bono 0140238301 Ola 5 non-fiction 3.67 1994 Teach Your Child How to Think
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> Lateral Thinking 829616 THE classic work about improving creativity from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de Bono.

In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. What then?

Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination. Through a series of special techniques, in groups or working alone, Edward de Bono shows how to stimulate the mind in new and exciting ways.

Soon you will be looking at problems from a variety of angles and offering up solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective. You will become much more productive and a formidable thinker in your own right.]]> 272 Edward de Bono 0140137793 Ola 5 non-fiction 3.81 Lateral Thinking
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]]> Six Thinking Hats 97030 Edward de Bono invented the concept of lateral thinking. A world-renowned writer and philosopher, he is the leading authority in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. Dr de Bono has written more than 60 books, in 40 languages, with people now teaching his methods worldwide. He has chaired a special summit of Nobel Prize laureates, and been hailed as one of the 250 people who have contributed most to mankind]]> 177 Edward de Bono 0140296662 Ola 4 non-fiction 3.75 1985 Six Thinking Hats
author: Edward de Bono
name: Ola
average rating: 3.75
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]]> <![CDATA[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]]> 1618 226 Mark Haddon 1400032717 Ola 1 fiction 3.89 2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
author: Mark Haddon
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average rating: 3.89
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I really did not like this book, and there are not that many books that I don't like!
]]> Memoirs of a Geisha 930
In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable.]]> 434 Arthur Golden 0739326228 Ola 4 biography 4.07 1997 Memoirs of a Geisha
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name: Ola
average rating: 4.07
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]]> Dune (Dune, #1) 234225 Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...

When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul's family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.]]> 604 Frank Herbert 0340839937 Ola 4 sci-fi 4.21 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)
author: Frank Herbert
name: Ola
average rating: 4.21
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rating: 4
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]]> Seeing Voices 66723
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture.In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect—a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."]]> 222 Oliver Sacks 0375704078 Ola 5 non-fiction 4.08 1989 Seeing Voices
author: Oliver Sacks
name: Ola
average rating: 4.08
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]]> Awakenings 14456 464 Oliver Sacks 0375704051 Ola 5 non-fiction 4.11 1973 Awakenings
author: Oliver Sacks
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]]> <![CDATA[Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)]]> 43448 Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father. So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic. Just for a little while. But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed.... 'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive....']]> 389 V.C. Andrews 0743496310 Ola 4 fiction 3.84 1979 Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
author: V.C. Andrews
name: Ola
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1979
rating: 4
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]]> Flowers for Algernon 18373 Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.

Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence � a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?]]> 311 Daniel Keyes 015603008X Ola 5 fiction 4.19 1966 Flowers for Algernon
author: Daniel Keyes
name: Ola
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1966
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2)]]> 842574 679 Robert Ludlum 0752858513 Ola 5 thriller 3.71 1986 The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2)
author: Robert Ludlum
name: Ola
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1986
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)]]> 546927 544 Robert Ludlum 0752858548 Ola 5 thriller 3.79 1980 The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)
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name: Ola
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1980
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)]]> 64218
All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff.

But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and the extremely intractable and hostile form of travel accessory known as the Luggage.

With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish (quite fervently) again - this time that he's never been born.]]> 197 Terry Pratchett 0380821214 Ola 5 sci-fi 3.76 1990 Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Ola
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1990
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)]]> 34541
There're the witches - young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything; Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing,.. and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble.

And the vampires are intelligent - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or by going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying, "I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?" They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future.

Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe.]]> 296 Terry Pratchett 0061051586 Ola 5 sci-fi 4.16 1998 Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
author: Terry Pratchett
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)]]> 34529
Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves.

It's Midsummer Night.

No time for dreaming...

With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.]]> 352 Terry Pratchett 055215315X Ola 5 sci-fi 4.19 1992 Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> Interesting Times: The Play 34508 A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels

The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor.

He's assisted by toy-rabbit-wielding rebels, an army of terracotta warriors, a tax gatherer and a group of seven very elderly barbarian heroes lead by Cohen the Barbarian. Opposing him, though, is the evil and manipulative Lord Hong and his army of 750,000 men.

Oh?Rincewind is also aided by Twoflower - Discworld's first tourist and the author of a subversive book, about his visit to Ankh-Morpork, which has inspired the rebels in their struggle for freedom.

The book is called "What I Did On My Holidays".



]]> 102 Stephen Briggs 0413772195 Ola 5 sci-fi 4.23 1995 Interesting Times: The Play
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)]]> 63720
Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberworld.

Now he was nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilisation there's going to be a terrible war.

But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves - and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time, out of luck and already out of breath...]]> 464 Terry Pratchett 0552154229 Ola 5 sci-fi 4.29 1999 The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)]]> 400354
But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance constable Detritus (a troll), Lance constable Angua (a woman... most of the time), and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).

And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is Ankh-Morpork we're talking about...]]> 377 Terry Pratchett 0061092193 Ola 5 sci-fi 4.39 1993 Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)
author: Terry Pratchett
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> <![CDATA[Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)]]> 34502 288 Terry Pratchett 057506689X Ola 5 sci-fi 4.05 1994 Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
author: Terry Pratchett
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average rating: 4.05
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)]]> 386372
Death is the Grim Reaper of the Discworld, a black-robed skeleton with a scythe who ushers souls into the next world. He is also fond of cats and endlessly baffled by humanity. Soon Death is yearning to experience what humanity really has to offer, but to do that, he'll need to hire some help.

It's an offer Mort can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse—and being dead isn't compulsory. It's a dream job—until Mort falls in love with Death's daughter, Ysabell, and discovers that your boss can be a killer on your love life…]]> 243 Terry Pratchett 0061020680 Ola 5 sci-fi 4.24 1987 Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
author: Terry Pratchett
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average rating: 4.24
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)]]> 2442
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unfortunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it's up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn't marry the Prince.

But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who'll stop at nothing to achieve a proper "happy ending"—even if it means destroying a kingdom.]]> 374 Terry Pratchett 0061020613 Ola 5 sci-fi 4.24 1991 Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)
author: Terry Pratchett
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average rating: 4.24
book published: 1991
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]]> <![CDATA[Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)]]> 34507 240 Terry Pratchett 0060855908 Ola 5 sci-fi 4.06 1987 Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)]]> 34517
Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn.

Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be gathered in...]]> 289 Terry Pratchett 0552152951 Ola 5 sci-fi 4.28 1991 Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
author: Terry Pratchett
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average rating: 4.28
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