Cinco's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:11:58 -0700 60 Cinco's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories]]> 99300
Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naĂŻve servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and three other outstanding stories.

These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women � and how they might be improved.

Collects:
—The Yellow Wallpaper
—Three Thanksgivings
—The Cottagette
—TłÜ°ů˛Ô±đ»ĺ
—Making a Change
—If I Were a Man
—Mr. Peebles' Heart]]> 129 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 0486298574 Cinco 2 fiction 4.05 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1892
rating: 2
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]]> The Jeeves Collection 6439124
My Man Jeeves
Extricating Young Gussie
Right Ho, Jeeves]]> 528 P.G. Wodehouse Cinco 0 to-read 4.53 The Jeeves Collection
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]]> Complete Tales and Poems 23920 Collected here is the ultimate Kindle edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe—all of his tales and poems in one convenient, easy-to-use volume at a fantastic price.

Included in Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems are:

The complete text of all of the tales and poems written by Edgar Allan Poe (over 125 works), each elegantly formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your Kindle reader.
Links to free, full-length audio recordings of the poems and tales in this collection.
An individual, active Table of Contents for each section accessible from the Kindle “go to� feature.
Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle’s Text-to-Speech features.
A low, can't-say-no price!
The Complete Tales and Poems
All of Poe's tales, poems, and essays are included—over 125 works. Some of the most notable are:

Tales:
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"The Premature Burial"
"The Purloined Letter"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Poems:
"Annabel Lee"
"The Bells"
"The City in the Sea"
"A Dream Within a Dream"
"To Helen"
"Lenore"
"The Raven"
"Ulalume"
Other Works:
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket—Poe's only complete novel
Collected Essays
Additional Fan Resources
Also included are special features for any Poe enthusiast, including:

A list of films and television series, both directly and indirectly inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
A Reading Guide to fictional works that feature the historical Edgar Allan Poe as a character.
Links to free, full-length audio recordings of the major poems and short stories in this collection.]]> 864 Edgar Allan Poe 0785814531 Cinco 5 shortstories, poetry 4.42 1849 Complete Tales and Poems
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1849
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories]]> 9889 here.

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

This edition also contains three stories: 'House of Flowers', 'A Diamond Guitar' and 'A Christmas Memory'.]]> 157 Truman Capote Cinco 0 to-read, fiction 3.76 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
author: Truman Capote
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1958
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]]> Lady Windermere’s Fan 11398359 56 Oscar Wilde Cinco 3 theater 4.10 1892 Lady Windermere’s Fan
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1892
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged]]> 376329 607 Robert Frost 0805005021 Cinco 4 poetry 4.41 1969 The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
author: Robert Frost
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1969
rating: 4
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]]> An Italian Education 119017 352 Tim Parks 0380727609 Cinco 0 travel, to-read 3.86 1995 An Italian Education
author: Tim Parks
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Blythes Are Quoted (Anne of Green Gables, #9)]]> 6616668
Adultery, illegitimacy, revenge, murder, and death � these are not the first terms we associate with L.M. Montgomery. But in The Blythes Are Quoted, completed at the end of her life,the author brings topics such as these to the fore.

Intended by Montgomery to be the ninth volume in her bestselling series featuring Anne Shirley Blythe, The Blythes Are Quoted takes Anne and her family a full two decades beyond anything else she published about them, and some of its subject matter is darker than we might expect.

Divided into two sections, one set before and one after the Great War of 1914�1918, it contains fifteen short stories set in and around the Blythes� Prince Edward Island community of Glen St. Mary. Binding these stories are sketches featuring Anne and Gilbert Blythe discussing poems by Anne and their middle son, Walter, who dies as a soldier in the war. By blending together poetry, prose, and dialogue in this way, Montgomery was at the end of her career experimenting with storytelling methods in an entirely new manner.

This publication of Montgomery's rediscovered original work � previously published only in severely abridged form as The Road to Yesterday � invites readers to return to her earlier books with a renewed appreciation and perspective.]]> 527 L.M. Montgomery 0670063916 Cinco 0 to-read 3.77 2009 The Blythes Are Quoted (Anne of Green Gables, #9)
author: L.M. Montgomery
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.77
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]]> <![CDATA[The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass]]> 121804 352 Lewis Carroll 0517189208 Cinco 0 youngadult, fiction, to-read 4.42 1871 The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
author: Lewis Carroll
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.42
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Everyone is horrified when they hear I haven't read Alice in Wonderland. Truth be told, I'm mildly horrified too.
]]> <![CDATA[The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace, #1)]]> 11516221 The world is at peace, said the Utterances. And really, if the odd princess has a hard day, is that too much to ask?

Greta is a duchess and crown princess—and a hostage to peace. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Go to war and your hostage dies.

Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday. Until then she lives in the Precepture school with the daughters and sons of the world’s leaders. Like them, she is taught to obey the machines that control their lives. Like them, she is prepared to die with dignity, if she must. But everything changes when a new hostage arrives. Elián is a boy who refuses to play by the rules, a boy who defies everything Greta has ever been taught. And he opens Greta’s eyes to the brutality of the system they live under—and to her own power.

As Greta and Elián watch their nations tip closer to war, Greta becomes a target in a new kind of game. A game that will end up killing them both—unless she can find a way to break all the rules.]]> 374 Erin Bow 1481442716 Cinco 0 to-read 3.38 2015 The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace, #1)
author: Erin Bow
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.38
book published: 2015
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]]> Release 31194576
Time is running out though, because way across town a ghost as risen from the lake. Searching, yearning, she leaves a trail of destruction in her wake…]]> 287 Patrick Ness 1406377279 Cinco 0 to-read 3.65 2017 Release
author: Patrick Ness
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.65
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]]> <![CDATA[Song of the Current (Song of the Current, #1)]]> 31450960
Caro decides to take her future into her own hands when her father is arrested for refusing to transport a mysterious crate. By agreeing to deliver it in exchange for his release, Caro finds herself caught in a web of politics and lies, with dangerous pirates after the cargo—an arrogant courier with a secret—and without the river god to help her. With so much at stake, Caro must choose between the life she always wanted and the one she never could have imagined for herself.

From debut author Sarah Tolcser comes an immersive and romantic fantasy set along the waterways of a magical world with a headstrong heroine determined to make her mark.]]> 373 Sarah Tolcser 1681192977 Cinco 0 to-read 3.84 2017 Song of the Current (Song of the Current, #1)
author: Sarah Tolcser
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2017
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]]> When the Moon Was Ours 28220826 273 Anna-Marie McLemore 125005866X Cinco 0 to-read 3.90 2016 When the Moon Was Ours
author: Anna-Marie McLemore
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[At Home: A Short History of Private Life]]> 7507825
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.� The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.
(front flap)]]> 497 Bill Bryson 0767919386 Cinco 0 to-read 3.98 2010 At Home: A Short History of Private Life
author: Bill Bryson
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.98
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]]> Carry On (Simon Snow, #1) 23734628
That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right.

Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around wearing Simon’s face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here—it’s their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon’s infuriating nemesis didn’t even bother to show up.

Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just as much kissing and talking as you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell story—but far, far more monsters.]]> 522 Rainbow Rowell 1250049555 Cinco 0 to-read 4.14 2015 Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
author: Rainbow Rowell
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)]]> 10335308
Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you've come to the right book, mostly!

In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door - not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.]]> 222 Mindy Kaling 0307886263 Cinco 0 to-read 3.86 2011 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
author: Mindy Kaling
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2011
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]]> Between the World and Me 25489625 “This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.�
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In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,� a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Ěý
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.]]> 152 Ta-Nehisi Coates Cinco 0 to-read 4.40 2015 Between the World and Me
author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2015
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]]> Big Little Lies 19486412
A murder . . . a tragic accident . . . or just parents behaving badly?
What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.
But who did what?

Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads:

Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline’s youngest (how is this possible?). And to top it all off, Madeline’s teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline’s ex-husband over her. (How. Is. This. Possible?).

Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay.

New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.

Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.]]> 458 Liane Moriarty 0399167064 Cinco 0 to-read 4.24 2014 Big Little Lies
author: Liane Moriarty
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2014
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]]> Station Eleven 20170404 An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.]]> 333 Emily St. John Mandel 0385353308 Cinco 0 to-read 4.05 2014 Station Eleven
author: Emily St. John Mandel
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks]]> 6493208
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored� ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia � a land of wooden quarters for enslaved people, faith healings, and voodoo � to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality� until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family � past and present � is inextricably connected to the history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?

Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.]]> 370 Rebecca Skloot 1400052173 Cinco 0 to-read 4.12 2010 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
author: Rebecca Skloot
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> Room 7937843
Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience—and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough ... not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.

Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.]]> 321 Emma Donoghue Cinco 4 4.04 2010 Room
author: Emma Donoghue
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.04
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rating: 4
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]]> Modern Romance 23453112
Some of our problems are unique to our time.Ěý“Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?”Ěý“Should I go out with this girl even though sheĚýlisted Combos as one of her favorite snack foods?ĚýCombos?!â€� “My girlfriend just got a message fromĚýsome dude named Nathan. Who’s Nathan? Did heĚýjust send her a photo of his penis? Should I checkĚýjust to be sure?”Ě�

But the transformation of our romantic livesĚýcan’t be explained by technology alone. In a shortĚýperiod of time, the whole culture of finding loveĚýhas changed dramatically. A few decades ago,Ěýpeople would find a decent person who lived inĚýtheir neighborhood. Their families would meetĚýand, after deciding neither party seemed like aĚýmurderer, they would get married and soon haveĚýa kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today,Ěýpeople marry later than ever and spend years ofĚýtheir lives on a quest to find the perfect person, aĚýsoul mate.

For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming hisĚýcomic insight at modern romance, but for ModernĚýRomance, the book, he decided he needed to takeĚýthings to another level. He teamed up with NYUĚýsociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massiveĚýresearch project, including hundreds of interviewsĚýand focus groups conducted everywhere fromĚýTokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzedĚýbehavioral data and surveys and created their ownĚýonline research forum on Reddit, which drewĚýthousands of messages. They enlisted the world’sĚýleading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, HelenĚýFisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, SherryĚýTurkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike anyĚýsocial science or humor book we’ve seen before.

In Modern Romance, Ansari combines hisĚýirreverent humor with cutting-edge social scienceĚýto give us an unforgettable tour of our newĚýromantic world.]]> 279 Aziz Ansari 1594206279 Cinco 0 to-read 3.79 2015 Modern Romance
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]]> Why Not Me? 22716447 Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it’s falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, or most important, believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you’re constantly reminded that no one looks like you.

In “How to Look Spectacular: A Starlet’s Confessions,� Kaling gives her tongue-in-cheek secrets for surefire on-camera beauty, (“Your natural hair color may be appropriate for your skin tone, but this isn’t the land of appropriate–this is Hollywood, baby. Out here, a dark-skinned woman’s traditional hair color is honey blonde.�) “Player� tells the story of Kaling being seduced and dumped by a female friend in L.A. (“I had been replaced by a younger model. And now they had matching bangs.�) In “Unlikely Leading Lady,� she muses on America’s fixation with the weight of actresses, (“Most women we see onscreen are either so thin that they’re walking clavicles or so huge that their only scenes involve them breaking furniture.�) And in “Soup Snakes,� Kaling spills some secrets on her relationship with her ex-boyfriend and close friend, B.J. Novak (“I will freely admit: my relationship with B.J. Novak is weird as hell.�)

Mindy turns the anxieties, the glamour, and the celebrations of her second coming-of-age into a laugh-out-loud funny collection of essays that anyone who’s ever been at a turning point in their life or career can relate to. And those who’ve never been at a turning point can skip to the parts where she talks about meeting Bradley Cooper.]]> 228 Mindy Kaling 0804138141 Cinco 0 to-read 3.85 2015 Why Not Me?
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles, #1)]]> 25855506 Are you a special snowflake?
Do you enjoy networking to advance your career?
Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared?

Ugh. Please go away.

This book is for the rest of us. These comics document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas, and wondering when, exactly, this adulthood thing begins. In other words, the horrors and awkwardnesses of young modern life.

Sarah Andersen is a young Brooklyn artist. This book is totally not autobiographical. At all.]]> 110 Sarah Andersen 1449474195 Cinco 0 to-read 4.10 2016 Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles, #1)
author: Sarah Andersen
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.10
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]]> <![CDATA[La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)]]> 34128219
Malcolm's father runs an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his dæmon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm catches wind of something new: intrigue.

He finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust--and the spy it was intended for finds him.

When she asks Malcolm to keep his eyes open, Malcolm sees suspicious characters everywhere; Lord Asriel, clearly on the run; enforcement agents from the Magisterium; an Egyptian named Coram with warnings just for Malcolm; and a beautiful woman with an evil monkey for a dæmon. All are asking about the same thing: a girl--just a baby--named Lyra.

Lyra is the kind of person who draws people in like magnets. And Malcolm will brave any danger, and make shocking sacrifices, to bring her safely through the storm.]]> 449 Philip Pullman 0375815309 Cinco 0 to-read 4.11 2017 La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
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name: Cinco
average rating: 4.11
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]]> We Are Okay 28243032 You go through life thinking there’s so much you need�

Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother.

Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.]]> 236 Nina LaCour 0525425896 Cinco 0 to-read 3.94 2017 We Are Okay
author: Nina LaCour
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> The Sun and Her Flowers 35606560 256 Rupi Kaur 1449486797 Cinco 0 to-read 4.09 2018 The Sun and Her Flowers
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average rating: 4.09
book published: 2018
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]]> <![CDATA[Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too]]> 32497911 Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn TooĚýis the illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth,Ěýonly toĚýmeet all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness,ĚýallĚýwhile learning to feel a little better about being an alien—based on the enormously popular Twitter account, @jonnysun.

Here is the unforgettable story of Jomny, a lonely alienĚýwho, for the first time ever,ĚýfindsĚýa homeĚýon our planetĚýafter learning that earthlings can feel lonely too.ĚýJomny finds friendship in a bear tired of other creatures running away in fear, an egg struggling to decide what to hatch into, an owl working its way to being wise, a tree feeling stuck in one place, a tadpole coming to terms with turning into a frog, a dying ghost, a puppyĚýunable to express itself, and many more.

Through this story of a lost, lonely and confused alien finding friendship, acceptance, and love among the creatures of Earth, we will all learn how to be a little more human. And for all of us earth-bound creatures here on this planet, we can all be reminded that sometimes, it takes an outsider to help us see ourselves for who we truly are.

Ěý]]> 304 Jomny Sun 0062569023 Cinco 0 to-read 4.25 2017 Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
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]]> <![CDATA[On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century]]> 33917107
On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible: the election of Donald Trump as president. Against all predictions, one of the most-disliked presidential candidates in history had swept the electoral college, elevating a man with open contempt for democratic norms and institutions to the height of power.

Timothy Snyder is one of the most celebrated historians of the Holocaust. In his books Bloodlands and Black Earth, he has carefully dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, “Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.�

Twenty Lessons is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.]]> 127 Timothy Snyder 0804190119 Cinco 0 to-read 4.24 2017 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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]]> <![CDATA[When We Rise: My Life in the Movement]]> 27917674
Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom.

Jones found community--in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers, in the city's bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud, and in the burgeoning gay district, the Castro, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop, began shouting through his bullhorn, and soon became the nation's most outspoken gay elected official. With Milk's encouragement, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in "the movement." When Milk was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1978, Jones took up his mentor's progressive mantle--only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again.

By turns tender and uproarious--and written entirely in his own words--When We Rise is Jones' account of his remarkable life. He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS, which very nearly killed him, too; his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the largest community art project in history; the bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco and the magnetic spell it cast for thousands of young gay people and other misfits; and the harrowing, sexy, and sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve's passionate relationships with friends and lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom and possibility, and prejudice and violence alike.

When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life--an activist whose work continues today.]]> 291 Cleve Jones 0316315435 Cinco 0 to-read 4.31 2016 When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
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]]> Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body 26074156 New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.�

In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,� Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.]]> 306 Roxane Gay 0062362593 Cinco 0 to-read 4.17 2017 Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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]]> <![CDATA[No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need]]> 35105799 New York Times Bestseller
National Book Award Longlist
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017

“This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover of shocks and crises, it could get a lot worse. And it’s a plan for how, if we keep our heads, we might just be able to flip the script and arrive at a radically better future.�
–From the Introduction

Donald Trump’s takeover of the White House is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda—including a corporate coup in government, aggressive scapegoating and warmongering, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a fossil fuel frenzy—will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the economy, national security, and the environment.

Acclaimed journalist, activist, and bestselling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks, climate change, and “brand bullies.� From this unique perspective, she argues that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst, most dangerous trends of the past half-century—the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism the world over. It is not enough, she tells us, to merely resist, to say “no.� Our historical moment demands more: a credible and inspiring “yes,� a roadmap to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us—one that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need.

This timely, urgent book from one of our most influential thinkers offers a bracing positive shock of its own, helping us understand just how we got here, and how we can, collectively, come together and heal.]]> 288 Naomi Klein 1608468909 Cinco 0 to-read 4.13 2017 No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
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]]> <![CDATA[We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy]]> 33916061
But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period--and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation's old and unreconciled history. Coates powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective--the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president.

We Were Eight Years in Power features Coates's iconic essays first published in The Atlantic, including Fear of a Black President, The Case for Reparations and The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration, along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates's own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by a bracingly original assessment of the election that fully illuminated the tragedy of the Obama era. We Were Eight Years in Power is a vital account of modern America, from one of the definitive voices of this historic moment.]]> 367 Ta-Nehisi Coates 0399590560 Cinco 0 to-read 4.37 2017 We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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]]> <![CDATA[The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian]]> 32337904 The New York Times or The New Yorker, about his intersectional progressivism gimmick: he treats racial, gay, and women's issues as inseparable.

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell is a humorous, well-informed take on the world today, tackling a wide range of evergreen issues, such as race relations; fatherhood; the state of law enforcement today; comedians and superheroes; right-wing politics; failure; his interracial marriage; his upbringing by very strong-willed, race-conscious, yet ideologically opposite parents; his early days struggling to find his comedic voice, then his later days struggling to find his comedic voice; why he never seemed to fit in with the Black comedy scene . . . or the white comedy scene; how he was a Black nerd way before that became a thing; how it took his wife and an East Bay lesbian to teach him that racism and sexism often walk hand in hand; and much, much more.
]]> 340 W. Kamau Bell 1101985879 Cinco 0 to-read 3.98 2017 The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
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]]> <![CDATA[We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.]]> 33381433 We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making "adult" budgets, explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette--she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"--detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes, sharing awkward sexual encounters, or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms--hang in there for the Costco loot--she's as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.

Chapter titles:

My Bachelorette application --
A blues for Fred --
The miracle porker --
Do you guys pay your fucking bills or what? --
You don't have to be grateful for sex --
A Christmas carol --
Happy birthday --
A case for remaining indoors --
A total attack of the heart --
A civil union --
Mavis --
Fuck it, bitch. Stay fat --
Nashville hot chicken --
I'm in love and it's boring --
A bomb, probably --
The real housewife of Kalamazoo --
Thirteen questions to ask before getting married --
Yo, I need a job --
Feelings are a mistake --
We are never meeting in real life]]> 275 Samantha Irby 1101912197 Cinco 0 to-read 3.90 2017 We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
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]]> <![CDATA[Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between]]> 30253864 Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um, make it?� She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (“Strangers were worried about me; that’s how long I was single!�), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge on Project Runway (“It’s like I had a fashion-induced blackout�).

In “What It Was Like, Part One,� Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay “What It Was Like, Part Two� reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her.

Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (“If you’re meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you’ve already set the bar too high�), and she’s a card-carrying REI shopper (“My bungee cords now earn points!�).

Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and—of course—talking as fast as you can.]]> 205 Lauren Graham 0425285170 Cinco 0 to-read 3.96 2016 Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
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]]> <![CDATA[The Golem and the Djinni (The Golem and the Djinni #1)]]> 17624060
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.

Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free.

Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.]]> 484 Helene Wecker 0007480164 Cinco 0 to-read 4.15 2013 The Golem and the Djinni (The Golem and the Djinni #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm]]> 102786

"To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world."--Stan Crawford]]> 255 Stanley Crawford 0826319602 Cinco 0 to-read 4.02 1992 A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
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]]> <![CDATA[Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World]]> 6762511 Bi+ people make up more than 50% of the LGBTQ community. Yet bi+ people can often experience isolation and invisibility--even from each other.

Getting Bi addresses this by collecting 220 personal essays from 185 bi+ authors from 42 countries (from Australia to Zimbabwe).

This book is a safe haven where bi people are celebrated and understood. Bi+ readers will feel comforted, heartened, nourished, and validated. You will find yourself nodding in agreement as you read. You will laugh at relatable experiences. You will receive validation about lived experiences you thought were unique to you. This book is a lifeline to those struggling. You will feel hope and a sense of relief. You will realize that, no matter how isolated as you are, you are not alone.

You will hear many stories (which the mainstream leaves out) on the joys of being bisexual.

Authors discuss their potential to be attracted--romantically and/or sexually--to people with genders similar to and different from their own. They describe liking, having feelings for, and falling in love with others. Many relate their identity to knowing who they desire, are interested in, and have crushes on. Therefore, many knew who they were bi long before they started dating. Others may never date more than one gender, but accept being bi as crucial to who they are.

Each author questioned and subsequently arrived at a greater understanding of their sexuality. So these stories are helpful for anyone undergoing an identity exploration.

Authors also bare their souls while processing feelings of anger, angst, doubt, fear, frustration, guilt, sadness, shame, and just being uncomfortable.

This book explores many common struggles of bi+ people:

- Authors describe dealing with external (or internalized) oppression of all types: biases, biphobia, bi-erasure, heterosexism, homophobia, stereotypes, myths, and general negativity.

- Authors describe repeatedly being told they are 'confused' or 'going through a phase.'

- Authors describe their struggles with labels. Many get creative and create new terms for themselves or use none at all (demonstrating the broad possibilities of self-identification).

- Authors describe the fatigue of having to come out, not once, but over and over again.

- Authors describe monosexual partners (and potential partners) who are insecure, feel inadequate, and fearful about dating bi people.

- Authors describe seeking refuge in the larger LGBTQ+ community only to realize it may not the safe haven they hoped for. After joining organizations, they have found the 'B' in the LGBT to be in name only (despite all that bi+ people have contributed to the movement).

Instead of - or in addition to - trying to fit into potentially less-inclusive LGBTQ+ groups, these authors show that you can seek out and become a member of your own bi+ community which proudly waves its own bi flag.

For those who do not yet have bisexual friends, this book offers a peek inside your own community. Reading about others is a great first step to being a part of a supportive and accepting bisexual culture. It will likely inspire you to network, find allies, and build a strong supportive social circle.

You will learn about bi+ community leaders, activists, and conferences advocating for the interests of bisexual people. You will learn about bi people who, over the decades, have been organizing movements to fight for social justice, equality, and the rights of each one of us.

Drawing from so many different people who have many decades of reflection, you can't help but leave with a deeper understanding and eye-opening epiphanies.

It will make you feel empowered and inspired to exercise your freedom of expression. It will give you more courage because of what others, like you, have done.

As one reviewer wrote, "This book will make you laugh, cry, get angry, and hopefully open your eyes to the wide range of bisexual experiences."]]> 288 Robyn Ochs 0965388158 Cinco 0 to-read 3.93 2005 Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World
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]]> <![CDATA[The Japanese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Japanese Thought and Culture]]> 277965 394 Boyé Lafayette De Mente 0844283169 Cinco 0 to-read 3.52 1997 The Japanese Have a Word for It: The Complete Guide to Japanese Thought and Culture
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]]> <![CDATA[Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck]]> 914027 323 Chip Heath 009950569X Cinco 0 to-read 4.06 2006 Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck
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]]> Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir 207660
Smith's Hartford neighborhood is small-town America, where everyone’s door is unlocked and the school, church, library, drugstore, 5 & 10, grocery, and tavern are all within walking distance. Her family is peopled with memorable characters—her possibly psychic mother who's always on the verge of a nervous breakdown, her adoring father who makes sure she has something to eat in the morning beyond her usual gulp of Hershey’s syrup, her grandfather who teaches her to bash in the heads of the eels they catch on Long Island Sound, Uncle Guido who makes the annual bagna cauda, and the numerous aunts and cousins who parade through her life with love and food and endless stories of the old days. And then there’s her brother, Tyler.

Smith's household was “different.� Little Mary-Ann couldn't have friends over because her older brother, Tyler, an autistic before anyone knew what that meant, was unable to bear noise of any kind. To him, the sound of crying, laughing, phones ringing, or toilets flushing was “a cloud of barbed needles� flying into his face. Subject to such an assault, he would substitute that pain with he'd try to chew his arm off. Tyler was Mary-Ann's real-life Boo Radley, albeit one whose bookshelves sagged under the weight of the World War II books he collected and read obsessively.

Hanging over this rough-and-tumble American childhood is the sinister shadow of an approaching serial killer. The menacing Bob Malm lurks throughout this joyous and chaotic family portrait, and the havoc he unleashes when the paths of innocence and evil cross one early December evening in 1953 forever alters the landscape of Smith's childhood.

Girls of Tender Age is one of those books that will forever change its readers because of its beauty and power and remarkable wit.]]> 289 Mary-Ann Tirone Smith 0743279786 Cinco 0 to-read 3.93 2005 Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
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]]> The Glass Castle 7445 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.]]> 288 Jeannette Walls 074324754X Cinco 0 to-read 4.32 2005 The Glass Castle
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]]> The Woman and the War Baby 6899708 Book by Bill Ransom 160 Bill Ransom 0911287620 Cinco 0 to-read 4.14 2008 The Woman and the War Baby
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]]> <![CDATA[Where the Mountain Meets the Moon]]> 5983694
In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the fields and her nights listening to her father spin fantastic tales about the Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon. Minli's mother, tired of their poor life, chides him for filling her head with nonsense. But Minli believes these enchanting stories and embarks on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man of the Moon and ask him how her family can change their fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest.

Source: Jacket flap]]> 278 Grace Lin Cinco 0 to-read 4.31 2009 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
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]]> <![CDATA[Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service]]> 25967971 0 Disney Institute 1494562332 Cinco 0 to-read 3.78 2015 Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service
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]]> <![CDATA[Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service]]> 205979 208 Walt Disney Company 0786853948 Cinco 0 to-read 3.88 2001 Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service
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]]> <![CDATA[Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance]]> 140969 Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance charts Disneyland's evolution from one man's personal dream to a multinational enterprise, a process in which the Disney "magic" has moved ever closer to the real world. This is a unique perspective on one of the great post-war American icons.]]> 224 Karal Ann Marling 2080136399 Cinco 0 to-read 4.31 1997 Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wonderful World of Customer Service at Disney]]> 6137602 150 J. Jeff Kober 0615265774 Cinco 0 to-read 4.11 2009 The Wonderful World of Customer Service at Disney
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]]> <![CDATA[Disney U: How Disney University Develops the World's Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees]]> 16189537 240 Doug Lipp 0071808078 Cinco 0 to-read 3.88 2013 Disney U: How Disney University Develops the World's Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees
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]]> <![CDATA[Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World]]> 18330870 248 Cher Krause Knight 0813049121 Cinco 0 to-read 4.04 2014 Power and Paradise in Walt Disney's World
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]]> <![CDATA[Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking]]> 19552 The most important, consulted, and enjoyed Italian cookbook of all time, from the woman who introduced Americans to a whole new world of Italian food.

Essentials of Italian Cooking is a culinary bible for anyone looking to master the art of Italian cooking, bringing together Marcella Hazan’s most beloved books, The Classic Italian Cook Book and More Classic Italian Cooking, in a single volume, updated and expanded with new entries and 50 new recipes. Designed as a basic manual for cooks of all levels of expertise—from beginners to accomplished professionals—it offers both an accessible and comprehensive guide to techniques and ingredients and a collection of the most delicious recipes from the Italian repertoire. As home cooks who have used Marcella’s classic books for years (and whose copies are now splattered and worn) know, there is no one more gifted at teaching us just what we need to know about the taste and texture of a dish and how to achieve it, and there is no one more passionate and inspiring about authentic Italian food.]]> 704 Marcella Hazan 039458404X Cinco 0 to-read 4.06 1976 Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
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]]> <![CDATA[There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love]]> 28257714
When someone you know is hurting, you want to let her know that you care. But many people don’t know what words to use—or are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. This thoughtful, instructive guide, from empathy expert Dr. Kelsey Crowe and greeting card maverick Emily McDowell, blends well-researched, actionable advice with the no-nonsense humor and the signature illustration style of McDowell's immensely popular Empathy Cards, to help you feel confident in connecting with anyone experiencing grief, loss, illness, or any other difficult situation.

Written in a how-to, relatable, we’ve-all-been-that-deer-in-the-headlights kind of way, There Is No Good Card for This isn’t a spiritual treatise on how to make you a better person or a scientific argument about why compassion matters. It is a helpful illustrated guide to effective compassion that takes you, step by step by step, past the paralysis of thinking about someone in a difficult time to actually doing something (or nothing) with good judgment instead of fear.

There Is No Good Card for This features workbook exercises, sample dialogs, and real-life examples from Dr. Crowe’s research, including her popular "Empathy Bootcamps" that give people tools for building relationships when it really counts. Whether it’s a coworker whose mother has died, a neighbor whose husband has been in a car accident, or a friend who is seriously ill, There Is No Good Card for This teaches you how to be the best friend you can be to someone in need.]]> 272 Kelsey Crowe 0062470000 Cinco 0 to-read 4.18 2017 There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love
author: Kelsey Crowe
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]]> <![CDATA[Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)]]> 13538873
Clay Jannon tells how serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has sent him from Web Drone to night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. After just a few days on the job, Clay realizes just how curious this store is.

A few customers come in repeatedly without buying anything. Instead they “check out� obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. All runs according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes.

He embarks on a complex analysis of the customers� behavior and ropes in friends to help. Once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. A quest to New York City dips in a world conspiracy for eternal life. The current of romance pulls Clay onward.]]> 288 Robin Sloan 0374214913 Cinco 0 to-read 3.71 2012 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
author: Robin Sloan
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.71
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]]> <![CDATA[Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder]]> 33911349 Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls—the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser—the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series—masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books.

The Little House books, for all the hardships they describe, are paeans to the pioneer spirit, portraying it as triumphant against all odds. But Wilder’s real life was harder and grittier than that, a story of relentless struggle, rootlessness, and poverty. It was only in her sixties, after losing nearly everything in the Great Depression, that she turned to children’s books, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a celebratory vision of homesteading—and achieving fame and fortune in the process, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches episodes in American letters.

Spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder’s dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries, Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books]]> 640 Caroline Fraser 1627792767 Cinco 0 to-read 3.93 2017 Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
author: Caroline Fraser
name: Cinco
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]]> <![CDATA[Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything]]> 34713218 211 Anne Bogel 1493412280 Cinco 0 to-read 3.69 2017 Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
author: Anne Bogel
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.69
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]]> Sing, Unburied, Sing 32920226 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501126062

In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers.

Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie’s children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise.

Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward’s distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature.]]> 285 Jesmyn Ward Cinco 0 to-read 4.00 2017 Sing, Unburied, Sing
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]]> My Not So Perfect Life 30688763 Part love story, part workplace dramedy, part witty critique of the false judgments we make in a social-media-obsessed world, this is New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella’s most timely and sharply observed novel yet.

Everywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living the life she longs for, particularly her boss, Demeter Farlowe. Demeter is brilliant and creative, lives with her perfect family in a posh townhouse, and wears the coolest clothes. Katie’s life, meanwhile, is a daily struggle—from her dismal rental to her oddball flatmates to the tense office politics she’s trying to negotiate. The final, demeaning straw comes when Demeter makes Katie dye her roots in the office. No wonder Katie takes refuge in not-quite-true Instagram posts, especially as she’s desperate to make her dad proud.

Then, just as she’s finding her feet—not to mention a possible new romance—the worst happens. Demeter fires Katie. Shattered but determined to stay positive, Katie retreats to her family’s farm in Somerset to help them set up a vacation business. London has never seemed so far away—until Demeter unexpectedly turns up as a guest. Secrets are spilled and relationships rejiggered, and as the stakes for Katie’s future get higher, she must question her own assumptions about what makes for a truly meaningful life.

Sophie Kinsella is celebrated for her vibrant, relatable characters and her great storytelling gifts. Now she returns with all of the wit, warmth, and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her bestsellers to spin this fresh, modern story about presenting the perfect life when the reality is far from the image.]]> 439 Sophie Kinsella 081299826X Cinco 0 to-read 3.68 2017 My Not So Perfect Life
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name: Cinco
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)]]> 32075671 An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062498533 can be found here.

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.

But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice.]]> 454 Angie Thomas 0062498533 Cinco 0 to-read 4.46 2017 The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah's Scribbles, #2)]]> 30754980 128 Sarah Andersen 1449479618 Cinco 0 to-read 4.21 2017 Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah's Scribbles, #2)
author: Sarah Andersen
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.21
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]]> What Happened 34138013 “In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.� —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened

For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.

In these pages, she describes what it was like to run against Donald Trump, the mistakes she made, how she has coped with a shocking and devastating loss, and how she found the strength to pick herself back up afterward. With humor and candor, she tells readers what it took to get back on her feet—the rituals, relationships, and reading that got her through, and what the experience has taught her about life. She speaks about the challenges of being a strong woman in the public eye, the criticism over her voice, age, and appearance, and the double standard confronting women in politics.

She lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on our democracy by a foreign adversary. By analyzing the evidence and connecting the dots, Hillary shows just how dangerous the forces are that shaped the outcome, and why Americans need to understand them to protect our values and our democracy in the future.

The election of 2016 was unprecedented and historic. What Happened is the story of that campaign and its aftermath—both a deeply intimate account and a cautionary tale for the nation.]]> 494 Hillary Rodham Clinton 1501175564 Cinco 0 to-read 3.90 2017 What Happened
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]]> <![CDATA[At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe]]> 30649506
At Home in the WorldĚýfollows their journey from China to New Zealand, Ethiopia to England, and more. And all the while Tsh grapples with the concept of home, as she learns what it means to be lost—yet at home—in the world.]]> 288 Tsh Oxenreider 140020559X Cinco 0 to-read 3.99 2017 At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
author: Tsh Oxenreider
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[Under Different Stars (Kricket, #1)]]> 23378781
Kricket Hollowell never wished upon stars. She was too busy hiding in plain sight, eluding Chicago’s foster care system. As her eighteenth birthday approaches, she now eagerly anticipates the day she’ll stop running and finally find her place in the world.

That day comes when she meets a young Etharian soldier named Trey Allairis, who has been charged with coming to Earth to find Kricket and transport her to her true home. As danger draws close, he must protect her until she can wield the powers she cannot use on Earth…and he soon realizes that counting a galaxy of stars would be easier than losing this extraordinary girl.

Kyon Ensin knows the powerful depths of Kricket’s gifts—gifts he’ll control when he takes her for his tribe and leads the forces that will claim Ethar and destroy his enemies, starting with Trey Allairis. Now, Kricket faces the most difficult choice of her life: whether to wage a battle for survival, or a fight for love.]]> 296 Amy A. Bartol 147787111X Cinco 0 to-read 4.23 2013 Under Different Stars (Kricket, #1)
author: Amy A. Bartol
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2013
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]]> James and the Giant Peach 232188 A little magic can take you a long way...

Roald Dahl was a champion of the underdog and all things little—in this case, an orphaned boy oppressed by two nasty, self-centered aunts. How James escapes his miserable life with the horrible aunts and becomes a hero is a Dahlicious fantasy of the highest order. You will never forget resourceful little James and his new family of magically overgrown insects—a ladybug, a spider, a grasshopper, a glowworm, a silkworm, and the chronic complainer, a centipede with a hundred gorgeous shoes. Their adventures aboard a luscious peach as large as a house take them across the Atlantic Ocean, through waters infested with peach-eating sharks and skies inhabited by malevolent Cloudmen, to a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

This happily ever after contemporary fairy tale is a twentieth-century classic that every child deserves to know. And Lane Smith's endearingly funny illustrations are a perfect match for the text.
]]> 126 Roald Dahl 0140374248 Cinco 4 fantasy, childrens 3.96 1961 James and the Giant Peach
author: Roald Dahl
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1961
rating: 4
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]]> Reboot (Reboot, #1) 13517455
Wren’s favorite part of the job is training new Reboots, but her latest newbie is the worst she’s ever seen. As a 22, Callum Reyes is practically human. His reflexes are too slow, he’s always asking questions, and his ever-present smile is freaking her out. Yet there’s something about him she can’t ignore. When Callum refuses to follow an order, Wren is given one last chance to get him in line—or she’ll have to eliminate him. Wren has never disobeyed before and knows if she does, she’ll be eliminated, too. But she has also never felt as alive as she does around Callum.

The perfect soldier is done taking orders.]]> 365 Amy Tintera 0062217070 Cinco 0 to-read 3.90 2013 Reboot (Reboot, #1)
author: Amy Tintera
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2013
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]]> <![CDATA[Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts #1)]]> 12001925 Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata WitchĚýweaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world.Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a "free agent" with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?

Ursula K. Le Guin and John Green are Nnedi Okorafor fans. As soon as you start reading Akata Witch, you will be, too!Ěý]]> 369 Nnedi Okorafor Cinco 0 to-read 4.23 2011 Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts #1)
author: Nnedi Okorafor
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2011
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]]> American Gods 983100
One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.
--back cover]]> 592 Neil Gaiman 0060558121 Cinco 4 fantasy, parentsgarage 4.04 2001 American Gods
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> Hamilton: The Revolution 26200563 Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best traditions of theater, this once-in-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap, and claims our country's origins for a diverse new generation.

Hamilton: The Revolution gives readers an unprecedented view of both revolutions, from the only two writers able to provide it. Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, a cultural critic and theater artist who was involved in the project from its earliest stages--"since before this was even a show," according to Miranda--trace its development from an improbable perfor­mance at the White House to its landmark opening night on Broadway six years later. In addition, Miranda has written more than 200 funny, revealing footnotes for his award-winning libretto, the full text of which is published here.

Their account features photos by the renowned Frank Ockenfels and veteran Broadway photographer Joan Marcus; exclusive looks at notebooks and emails; interviews with Questlove, Stephen Sond­heim, leading political commentators, and more than 40 people involved with the production; and multiple appearances by Presi­dent Obama himself. The book does more than tell the surprising story of how a Broadway musical became a national phenomenon: It demonstrates that America has always been renewed by the brash upstarts and brilliant outsiders, the men and women who don't throw away their shot.]]> 285 Lin-Manuel Miranda 1455539740 Cinco 0 to-read 4.45 2015 Hamilton: The Revolution
author: Lin-Manuel Miranda
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.45
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]]> Where Am I Now? 29429875 For readers of Lena Dunham, Allie Brosh and Roxane Gay, this funny, poignant, daringly honest collection of personal essays introduces Mara Wilson—the former child actress best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire�as a brilliant new chronicler of the experience that is growing up young and female.
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Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of the cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and one of the few former child actors who has never been in jail or rehab. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place, to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being “cute� enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young woman’s journey from accidental fame to relative (but happy) obscurity. But they also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. Exquisitely crafted, revelatory, and full of the crack comic timing that has made Mara Wilson a sought-after live storyteller and Twitter star, Where Am I Now? introduces a witty, perceptive, and refreshingly candid new literary voice.]]> 259 Mara Wilson 0143128221 Cinco 4 biography, nonfiction, essays 3.84 2016 Where Am I Now?
author: Mara Wilson
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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Very enjoyable essay-collection style autobiography. Wilson is witty and interesting and I didn't want the book to end.
]]> <![CDATA[Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)]]> 6571744
In the new edition of this highly acclaimedĚýbestseller, Robert Cialdini—New York TimesĚýbestselling author ofĚýPre-SuasionĚýand the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion—explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically in business and everyday settings. Using memorable stories and relatable examples, Cialdini makes this crucially important subject surprisingly easy. With Cialdini as a guide, you don’t have to be a scientist to learn how to use this science.

You’ll learn Cialdini’s Universal Principles of Influence, including new research and new uses so you can become an even more skilled persuader—and just as importantly, you’ll learn how to defend yourself against unethical influence attempts. You may think you know these principles, but without understanding their intricacies, you may be ceding their power to someone else.

Cialdini’s Principles of

ReciprocationCommitment and ConsistencySocial ProofĚýLikingĚýAuthorityScarcityUnity, the newest principle for this editionUnderstanding and applying the principles ethically is cost-free and deceptively easy. Backed by Dr. Cialdini’s 35 years of evidence-based, peer-reviewed scientific research—including a three-year field study on what leads people to change—InfluenceĚýis a comprehensive guide to using these principles to move others in your direction.]]> 334 Robert B. Cialdini Cinco 3 to-read, nonfiction 4.26 1984 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)
author: Robert B. Cialdini
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1984
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Networking Is Not Working: Stop Collecting Business Cards and Start Making Meaningful Connections]]> 22055379 163 Derek Coburn 1940858097 Cinco 2 nonfiction 3.55 2014 Networking Is Not Working: Stop Collecting Business Cards and Start Making Meaningful Connections
author: Derek Coburn
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2014
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)]]> 25792894
Damianos of Akielos has returned.

His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill.

On the brink of a momentous battle, the future of both their countries hangs in the balance. In the south, Kastor’s forces are massing. In the north, the Regent’s armies are mobilising for war. Damen’s only hope of reclaiming his throne is to fight together with Laurent against their usurpers.

Forced into an uneasy alliance the two princes journey deep into Akielos, where they face their most dangerous opposition yet. But even if the fragile trust they have built survives the revelation of Damen’s identity � can it stand against the Regent’s final, deadly play for the throne?]]> 368 C.S. Pacat 0698154320 Cinco 4 4.51 2016 Kings Rising (Captive Prince, #3)
author: C.S. Pacat
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High]]> 13041257
Prepare for high-stakes situations Transform anger and hurt feelings into powerful dialogue Make it safe to talk about almost anything Be persuasive, not abrasive]]> 273 Kerry Patterson 0071772200 Cinco 0 to-read 4.27 2002 Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
author: Kerry Patterson
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2002
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]]> <![CDATA[Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide]]> 25113167

If you want to take action to build a truly transformative movement for justice, pick up this engaging and insightful guide and read it with a few others. And then take a leap of faith. This guide can be your launching pad.
—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow


Whether you've been working on this issue for years, or are just starting out, you'll find tips and stories to inspire and help you bring down the New Jim Crow!]]> 82 Daniel Hunter 0988550822 Cinco 0 to-read 4.47 2015 Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide
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name: Cinco
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]]> <![CDATA[A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative]]> 12276637 331 Roger Von Oech 0911121137 Cinco 0 to-read 4.05 1973 A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
author: Roger Von Oech
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1973
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]]> <![CDATA[The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior]]> 25437695 165 Sarah Kendzior Cinco 0 to-read 4.11 2015 The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
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]]> Bad Feminist: Essays 22032533 A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay.

�Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink—all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I’m not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.�

In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.

Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.

]]> 339 Roxane Gay Cinco 0 to-read 3.97 2014 Bad Feminist: Essays
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]]> All the Birds in the Sky 25372807
As the battle between magic and science wages in San Francisco against the backdrop of international chaos, Laurence and Patricia are forced to choose sides. But their choices will determine the fate of the planet and all mankind.

In a fashion unique to Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky offers a humorous and, at times, heart-breaking exploration of growing up extraordinary in a world filled with cruelty, scientific ingenuity, and magic.]]> 317 Charlie Jane Anders 1466871121 Cinco 0 to-read 3.78 2016 All the Birds in the Sky
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name: Cinco
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2016
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]]> Only Ever Yours 21805717
For the girls left behind, the future � as a concubine or a teacher � is grim.

Best friends Freida and Isabel are sure they’ll be chosen as companions � they are among the most highly rated girls in their year.

But as the intensity of final year takes hold, Isabel does the unthinkable and starts to put on weight. ..
And then, into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride.

Freida must fight for her future � even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known. . .]]> 400 Louise O'Neill Cinco 3 fiction, youngadult 3.77 2014 Only Ever Yours
author: Louise O'Neill
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The True Meaning of Smekday (The Smek Smeries, #1)]]> 5976052
When twelve-year-old Gratuity ("Tip") Tucci is assigned to write five pages on "The True Meaning of Smekday" for the National Time Capsule contest, she's not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre spaceships descended on the Earth and the aliens-called Boov-abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth a colony, renamed it "Smekland" (in honor of glorious Captain Smek), and forced all Americans to relocate to Florida via rocketpod?

In any case, Gratuity's story is much, much bigger than the assignment. It involves her unlikely friendship with a renegade Boov mechanic named J.Lo.; a futile journey south to find Gratuity's mother at the Happy Mouse Kingdom; a cross-country road trip in a hovercar called Slushious; and an outrageous plan to save the Earth from yet another alien invasion.


Fully illustrated with "photos," drawings, newspaper clippings, and comics sequences, this is a hilarious, perceptive, genre-bending novel from best-selling author Adam Rex.
]]> 423 Adam Rex 0786849010 Cinco 5 4.14 2007 The True Meaning of Smekday (The Smek Smeries, #1)
author: Adam Rex
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 2017/01/22
date added: 2017/01/23
shelves: fiction, sciencefiction, youngadult
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]]> The Juniper Game 118768 240 Sherryl Jordan 0590447297 Cinco 5 3.99 1991 The Juniper Game
author: Sherryl Jordan
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1991
rating: 5
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date added: 2017/01/22
shelves: timetravel, fantasy, paranormal, youngadult, favorites, own
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I haven't liked Jordan's more recent novels (all much more fantasy-based: dragons seem to be featured frequently), but this one I adore, mainly due to excellent characterization.
]]> Like Water for Chocolate 6951
The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes.

A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation, Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her, so that Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds.]]> 242 Laura Esquivel 0385474016 Cinco 5 3.88 1989 Like Water for Chocolate
author: Laura Esquivel
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1989
rating: 5
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date added: 2017/01/16
shelves: fiction, paranormal, favorites, own
review:
I love this book, although reading it always makes me really hungry.
]]> <![CDATA[The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)]]> 21979832
As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenth-century China, the land from One Thousand and One Nights, a mythic version of Africa. Along the way they have found crewmates and friends, and even a disarming thief who could come to mean much more to Nix.

But the end to it all looms closer every day.

Her father is obsessed with obtaining the one map, 1868 Honolulu, that could take him back to his lost love, Nix’s mother. Even though getting it—and going there—could erase Nix’s very existence.

For the first time, Nix is entering unknown waters.

She could find herself, find her family, find her own fantastical ability, her own epic love.

Or she could disappear.]]> 454 Heidi Heilig 0062380753 Cinco 0 to-read 3.67 2016 The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)
author: Heidi Heilig
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/12/11
shelves: to-read
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]]> The Cartographer's Daughter 13350377
A GUTSY YOUNG WOMAN MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN SAVING HER LOVER AND EXPOSING HER FAMILY’S FORBIDDEN POWERS TO THE HATE OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION IN THIS HISTORICAL FANTASY FILLED WITH ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE.

Like the rest of her kind, Lianna Reinel has the power to redraw the earth. Living secretly amongst humans, her kind have made a pact never to use their power for fear of the repercussions exposure could bring.

In fifteenth century Portugal, Lianna’s love for a human faces opposition not only from her family, but from Prince Henry, rogue brother to Portugal’s king. Determined to defeat the Moors in North Africa, Henry makes an alliance with Lianna’s wealthy uncle in order to finance his venture.

The price?

Lianna’s hand in marriage.

When the Prince sends Lianna’s human love on a doomed mission to sail to the ends of the earth, he sets events in motion that threaten to expose and exterminate Lianna’s family.

Now Lianna must rescue her love from the ends of the earth, or preserve her family and community. Whatever her choice, Prince Henry stands against her.

If you like historical fantasy, you’ll love The Cartographer’s Daughter , a story of love and the magic that holds the world together. Click buy above.]]> 318 Karen L. Abrahamson 0987780123 Cinco 0 to-read 3.20 2011 The Cartographer's Daughter
author: Karen L. Abrahamson
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.20
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/11/24
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]]> The Prince of Tides 548473 664 Pat Conroy Cinco 1 fiction 3.99 1986 The Prince of Tides
author: Pat Conroy
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1986
rating: 1
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date added: 2016/10/07
shelves: fiction
review:
I got about three chapters into this book before throwing it across the room. Who needs a 600-page book about awful people being wordily awful to one another?
]]> <![CDATA[The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)]]> 16101128 unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.]]> 457 Rick Yancey 0399162410 Cinco 0 to-read 4.01 2013 The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
author: Rick Yancey
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/09/19
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]]> <![CDATA[The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)]]> 179064 She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste.

Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his name, Falada.

From the Grimm’s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original, and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she has made her own.]]> 383 Shannon Hale 1582349908 Cinco 3 4.14 2003 The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
author: Shannon Hale
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe]]> 534606 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present--for Evelyn and for us--will never be quite the same again. . . .]]> 402 Fannie Flagg 0804115613 Cinco 5 fiction 4.16 1987 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
author: Fannie Flagg
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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date added: 2016/08/29
shelves: fiction
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A former housemate, a male good-old-boy type, discovered in conversation that I had not seen this movie, one of his favorites. He was horrified and drove directly to Blockbuster to pick it up. I loved it and was mystified by the fact that he did also, but, you know, good for him. A few years later I found the book for $1, used, and decided to take it on a trip to the UK as plane reading. I was absorbed immediately and loved it as much or more than the movie.
]]> Richard II 82398
When he seizes the title and property that should be Bolingbroke’s, Richard threatens the very structure of the kingdom. Bolingbroke returns with an army that is supported by nobles and commoners alike, both believing themselves oppressed by Richard. This sets the stage for a confrontation between his army and the tradition of sacred kingship supporting the isolated but now more sympathetic Richard.

The authoritative edition of Richard II from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:

-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries
-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases
-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books
-An annotated guide to further reading

Essay by Harry Berger, Jr.

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.]]> 290 William Shakespeare 0743484916 Cinco 3 theater 3.77 1595 Richard II
author: William Shakespeare
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1595
rating: 3
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]]> Divergent (Divergent, #1) 8306857 In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

]]> 487 Veronica Roth 0062024027 Cinco 4 4.28 2011 Divergent (Divergent, #1)
author: Veronica Roth
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2014/04/20
date added: 2016/05/28
shelves: youngadult, speculativefuture, sciencefiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Emerald Green (The Precious Stone Trilogy #3)]]> 20518884 ĚýĚýĚý ĚýShe’s only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her. And she’s just learned that her charming time-traveling partner, Gideon, has probably been using her all along.
ĚýĚýĚý ĚýEmerald Green is theĚýstunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy,Ěýpicking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.]]> 480 Kerstin Gier 1250050812 Cinco 4 4.07 2010 Emerald Green (The Precious Stone Trilogy #3)
author: Kerstin Gier
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2013/10/17
date added: 2016/04/03
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]]> <![CDATA[Sapphire Blue (Precious Stone Trilogy, #2)]]> 12637458
Gwen’s life has been a rollercoaster since she discovered she was the Ruby, the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. In between searching through history for the other time-travelers and asking for a bit of their blood (gross!), she’s been trying to figure out what all the mysteries and prophecies surrounding the Circle really mean.
Ěý
At least Gwen has plenty of help. Her best friend Lesley follows every lead diligently on the Internet. James the ghost teaches Gwen how to fit in at an eighteenth century party. And Xemerius, the gargoyle demon who has been following Gwen since he caught her kissing Gideon in a church, offers advice on everything. Oh, yes. And of course there is Gideon, the Diamond. One minute he’s very warm indeed; the next he’s freezing cold. Gwen’s not sure what’s going on there, but she’s pretty much destined to find out.
]]> 354 Kerstin Gier 1250034167 Cinco 3 4.07 2010 Sapphire Blue (Precious Stone Trilogy, #2)
author: Kerstin Gier
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2012/11/01
date added: 2016/03/31
shelves: youngadult, sciencefiction, fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Every Girl's Dream (The Mediator, #3.5)]]> 15989191 12 Meg Cabot Cinco 3 3.94 2004 Every Girl's Dream (The Mediator, #3.5)
author: Meg Cabot
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 2016/03/11
date added: 2016/03/11
shelves: fiction, youngadult, paranormal
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]]> <![CDATA[Remembrance (The Mediator, #7)]]> 25573701
All Susannah Simon wants is to make a good impression at her first job since graduating from college (and since becoming engaged to Dr. Jesse de Silva). But when she’s hired as a guidance counselor at her alma mater, she stumbles across a decade-old murder, and soon ancient history isn’t all that’s coming back to haunt her. Old ghosts as well as new ones are coming out of the woodwork, some to test her, some to vex her, and it isn’t only because she’s a mediator, gifted with second sight.Ěý

What happens when old ghosts come back to haunt you?

If you’re a mediator, you might have to kick a little ass.

From a sophomore haunted by the murderous specter of a child to ghosts of a very different kind—including Paul Slater, Suze’s ex, who shows up to make a bargain Suze is certain must have come from the Devil himself—Suze isn’t sure she’ll make it through the semester, let alone to her wedding night. Suze is used to striking first and asking questions later. But what happens when ghosts from her past—including one she found nearly impossible to resist—strike first?]]> 388 Meg Cabot 006237902X Cinco 0 to-read 3.99 2016 Remembrance (The Mediator, #7)
author: Meg Cabot
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/03/11
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]]> <![CDATA[Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My Life]]> 18874016 214 Maria Ross 0984893911 Cinco 3 3.96 2012 Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My Life
author: Maria Ross
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2016/02/13
date added: 2016/02/13
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]]> Tank Girl 1246930 Tank Girl 0 Alan C. Martin 0140243143 Cinco 3 4.13 1990 Tank Girl
author: Alan C. Martin
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1990
rating: 3
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]]> The Color Purple 800545 The Color Purple is the story of two sisters--one a missionary to Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who remain loyal to one another across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.]]> 304 Alice Walker Cinco 5 fiction, favorites, own 4.28 1982 The Color Purple
author: Alice Walker
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1982
rating: 5
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]]> The Royal We (Royal We, #1) 22875451 "I might be Cinderella today, but I dread who they'll think I am tomorrow. I guess it depends on what I do next."

American Rebecca Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister, Lacey, has always been the romantic who fantasized about glamour and royalty, fame and fortune. Yet it's Bex who seeks adventure at Oxford and finds herself living down the hall from Prince Nicholas, Great Britain's future king. And when Bex can't resist falling for Nick, the person behind the prince, it propels her into a world she did not expect to inhabit, under a spotlight she is not prepared to face.

Dating Nick immerses Bex in ritzy society, dazzling ski trips, and dinners at Kensington Palace with him and his charming, troublesome brother, Freddie. But the relationship also comes with unimaginable baggage: hysterical tabloids, Nick's sparkling and far more suitable ex-girlfriends, and a royal family whose private life is much thornier and more tragic than anyone on the outside knows. The pressures are almost too much to bear, as Bex struggles to reconcile the man she loves with the monarch he's fated to become.

Which is how she gets into trouble.

Now, on the eve of the wedding of the century, Bex is faced with whether everything she's sacrificed for love-her career, her home, her family, maybe even herself-will have been for nothing.]]> 454 Heather Cocks 1455557102 Cinco 4 fiction 3.78 2015 The Royal We (Royal We, #1)
author: Heather Cocks
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2015/08/01
date added: 2016/01/06
shelves: fiction
review:
Really fun, and quite a page turner! I enjoyed this very much.
]]> <![CDATA[The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars, #1)]]> 18209454 From Rob Thomas, the creator of groundbreaking television series and movie Veronica Mars, comes the first book in a thrilling new mystery series.

Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun, sand, crime, and corruption. She's traded in her law degree for her old private investigating license, struggling to keep Mars Investigations afloat on the scant cash earned by catching cheating spouses until she can score her first big case.

Now it's spring break, and college students descend on Neptune, transforming the beaches and boardwalks into a frenzied, week-long rave. When a girl disappears from a party, Veronica is called in to investigate. But this is not a simple missing person's case. The house the girl vanished from belongs to a man with serious criminal ties, and soon Veronica is plunged into a dangerous underworld of drugs and organized crime. And when a major break in the investigation has a shocking connection to Veronica's past, the case hits closer to home than she ever imagined.]]> 324 Rob Thomas 0804170703 Cinco 3 fiction 3.97 2014 The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars, #1)
author: Rob Thomas
name: Cinco
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2016/01/06
date added: 2016/01/06
shelves: fiction
review:
I listened to the audiobook, which was very enjoyable and narrated by Kristen Bell (who does a very good impression of Keith Mars!). I thought it was a little overlong, but I enjoyed the mystery and spending more time with these characters. I hope this becomes a series, all with audiobooks by Bell! More Mac in future installments would be appreciated, too.
]]> <![CDATA[Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination]]> 23731881
Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important questions with acuity and emotional force.]]> 74 J.K. Rowling 0316369152 Cinco 0 to-read 4.09 2015 Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Cinco
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/12/14
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