Steve's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 20 Mar 2023 05:04:29 -0700 60 Steve's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Real (Tea) Realty: A Collection of Funny Original Real Estate Stories]]> 108517431 171 Athanasia Adam Steve 5 5.00 Real (Tea) Realty: A Collection of Funny Original Real Estate Stories
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Opposite of Always 35380157 Debut author Justin A. Reynolds delivers a hilarious and heartfelt novel about the choices we make, the people we choose, and the moments that make a life worth reliving.

When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling—hard. Soon she’s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack.

But then Kate dies. And their story should end there.

Yet Kate’s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate’s there again. Healthy, happy, and charming as ever. Jack isn’t sure if he’s losing his mind.

Still, if he has a chance to prevent Kate’s death, he’ll take it. Even if that means believing in time travel. However, Jack will learn that his actions are not without consequences. And when one choice turns deadly for someone else close to him, he has to figure out what he’s willing to do to save the people he loves.]]>
451 Justin A. Reynolds 0062748394 Steve 0 currently-reading 3.66 2019 Opposite of Always
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<![CDATA[Changes That Heal: Four Practical Steps to a Happier, Healthier You]]> 20578993 335 Henry Cloud Steve 0 currently-reading 4.45 1992 Changes That Heal: Four Practical Steps to a Happier, Healthier You
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<![CDATA[White Satin & Murder (Val Masters, Wedding Planner #1)]]> 41464150 A missing fifty-thousand-dollar wedding dress. A clingy Yorkie. And a dead Maid of Honor.

It’s the first wedding Valerie Masters has ever planned and the start of her new business.

There’s money flowing in Buckingham Downs, California, a small coastal town largely taken over by the rich, where weddings are a billion-dollar business. Val works tirelessly to make sure this one- the very first that she’s been hired to plan- is perfect, juggling a temperamental florist, a diva cake baker, and a self-obsessed DJ who’s threatened to walk off the job if the Chicken Dance is requested.

Not to mention the biggest Bridezilla Val has ever seen, the bride’s “unique� family and snooty Maid of Honor.

Starting a new business is hard, and this first wedding is turning out to be more than Val bargained for. Right before the wedding, Val finds the Maid of Honor dead and the expensive, one-of-a-kind wedding dress missing!

Now, on top of getting a hitch-filled wedding to go off without a…well…you know, she has no choice but to solve this mystery. No wonder half of all new businesses fail!

The stakes couldn’t be higher. This socially influential family has already threatened to ruin Val if any part of the wedding is ruined.

But who among this motley cast of characters could be a murderer and a dress thief? And will Val figure it out in time to pull off the perfect wedding? Or will her business crash before it’s even started?

White Satin & Murder is a full length cozy mystery novel full of humor, intrigue, and an adorable furry friend named Buttons. It's the first book in the Val Masters Wedding Planner series, which can be read in any order and are best enjoyed together.

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154 Harper Harris Steve 0 currently-reading 4.11 White Satin & Murder (Val Masters, Wedding Planner #1)
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<![CDATA[Tantric Sex: The How to Guide on Tantric Sex: Over 50 Hacks to Turn your Sex Life on its Head]]> 42262123 A book brimming with over 50 simple hacks and tricks on Tantric Sex. A manual With Tom and Jane in mind. A manual that makes having multiple orgasm seem like a breeze and not a dream

So far, Tantric Sex seems to be the stuff reserved for gurus, rock stars, that weird hermit down the street and the bizarre sex cultist. Oodles of books peddling the stuff like you have to be Doctor Strange. Chakras, Gods, Hindu practices, more trippie insanity than that time someone slipped you acid at a Grateful Dead concert. Well, I’m here to tell you that Tantra, once you filter it out a bit and pluck out the practical methods, is a cinch. It’s as easy as pie. Boosting up your sexual prowess shouldn’t be a daring task requiring you to get a master in eastern philosophy. This is THE go-to manual on how to do the Tantric Sex jig with over 50 valuable tips.


Jesus, please, stop, I haven’t been to work in a week. I think that’s the police knocking at the door, Please stop, I’m dehydrated, What you still have something more to show me? O.K. screw it, if the Federales burst in I’ll just tell them to snap some photos.

Sex is an art form. One that anybody with the right guide can master.


What You Will Learn From This Book


•� How to Tantra your ass off. It’s not just for Sting, it’s for you too. How to become multi-orgasmic. How to take your lover to seven heaven. How to surf the wave of erotism. Over 50 ways to strut into the bedroom and rock their world.

•� Over 50 ways to really build up your sexual portfolio. Learn the secrets of the Yoni massage. Explore the wonders of the Venus Butterfly. Dominate foreplay once and for all.

•� A step by step guide on Chakras, religions, sex magic and all those trippy concept we can either take to heart or ignore.

•� A practical, please hold off the insane religious clap-trap and New Age spiel, manual on Tantric Love.

•� Fetishes, Fantasies, Paraphilias and all manner of depraved behavior to get your rocks off.

•� A guide that will take you from masturbation, to foreplay, to coitus, and all the way around. Yes, kids, spanking the monkey will be a requisite in this class

•� Quotes from actors, comedians, adult film stars, your neighbors and complete strangers on the streets.

•� Real life sexual interactions. An encyclopedia Tantric enthusiast confessing.

•� A checklist of why your libido or your lover’s libido decided to take a 3 year nap.


    And so much more. Pages and pages and pages filled to the rafters with filth. You’ll get strap-ons. You’ll get spunk sandwiches. You’ll get ads to stave off Mescaline. You’ll get positions. You’ll get instruction on what lube to buy. You’ll get the inside scoop on what to avoid.


   Discover the secrets of Tantric Love. Grab hold of your lover and ride them like tomorrow is the Apocalypse, ride them till� you’re both emaciated and in need of nourishment.

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109 Tracy Queen Steve 0 currently-reading 2.00 Tantric Sex: The How to Guide on Tantric Sex: Over 50 Hacks to Turn your Sex Life on its Head
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<![CDATA[Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!]]> 8179122 225 Rory Freedman Steve 0 currently-reading 3.49 2005 Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!
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The Wright Brothers 22609391 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot.

Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?

David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, and they never stopped reading.

When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education, little money and no contacts in high places, never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed.

In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.]]>
320 David McCullough Steve 5 4.14 2015 The Wright Brothers
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<![CDATA[Kindle Fire Owner's Manual: The ultimate Kindle Fire guide to getting started, advanced user tips, and finding unlimited free books, videos and apps on Amazon and beyond]]> 15768664 154 Steve Weber 1936560119 Steve 5 3.74 2012 Kindle Fire Owner's Manual: The ultimate Kindle Fire guide to getting started, advanced user tips, and finding unlimited free books, videos and apps on Amazon and beyond
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<![CDATA[Dan Poynter's Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book]]> 992011 463 Dan Poynter 1568601425 Steve 0 4.03 1979 Dan Poynter's Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book
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<![CDATA[Etsy 101: Sell Your Crafts on Etsy, the DIY Marketplace for Handmade, Vintage and Crafting Supplies]]> 13418392 240 Steve Weber 1936560097 Steve 0 3.62 2012 Etsy 101: Sell Your Crafts on Etsy, the DIY Marketplace for Handmade, Vintage and Crafting Supplies
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<![CDATA[Barcode Booty: How I found and sold $2 million of 'junk' on eBay and Amazon, And you can, too, using your phone]]> 11210953 154 Steve Weber 1936560062 Steve 5 3.67 2011 Barcode Booty: How I found and sold $2 million of 'junk' on eBay and Amazon, And you can, too, using your phone
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<![CDATA[Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World]]> 195631 War and Peace in order to win a birthday bet with Larry, the Goldstones' love affair with old books began. Over the next three years they haunted every used and rare bookshop between New York and Boston that they could find, from dingy, dust-filled barns to elegant Park Avenue galleries. Starting small on cheap, out-of-print used books, their addiction soon graduated to first editions and, finally, to three-quarter morocco, custom-bound antiquarian classics that they could not afford. Along the way, they gained an education in books—and in people—that we can all savor. This warm and witty story is filled with eccentric characters, from a punk book dealer peddling fifty-thousand-dollar modern firsts to a golf-obsessed Shakespearean scholar with books on demonic possession in his basement. Part travel story, part love story, and part memoir, Used and Rare is an absorbing and delightful journey and a love letter to book lovers everywhere.]]> 215 Lawrence Goldstone 0312187688 Steve 5 3.94 1997 Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
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The Wisdom of Crowds 68143 306 James Surowiecki 0385721706 Steve 5 3.82 2004 The Wisdom of Crowds
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<![CDATA[Free: The Future of a Radical Price]]> 6150530 288 Chris Anderson 1401322905 Steve 0 3.88 2009 Free: The Future of a Radical Price
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<![CDATA[The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More]]> 2574 226 Chris Anderson 1401302378 Steve 0 3.83 2006 The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
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<![CDATA[Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts into Books]]> 82007 144 Dan Poynter 1568601107 Steve 5 3.75 2000 Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts into Books
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<![CDATA[eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income, Beginner to PowerSeller in 90 Days]]> 6177659 255 Steve Weber Steve 5 3.02 2008 eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income, Beginner to PowerSeller in 90 Days
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<![CDATA[Wired for Work: Get a Job FAST using LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter]]> 7982877 110 Steve Weber 0977240673 Steve 5 3.03 2010 Wired for Work: Get a Job FAST using LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter
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<![CDATA[Aiming at Amazon: The New Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Your Books with Print on Demand and Online Book Marketing]]> 75258
There has never been a self publishing manual like this.

"Aiming at Amazon" is NOT about getting your book into bookstores. Instead, it lays out an innovative approach that targets sales on Amazon.com. It reveals how to make a book sell well online, with tips never before offered. And it doesn't stop there -- it gives you a way to publish your book with print on demand that can double your profit per copy.

Avoid publishing plans that handicap you almost before you begin. Let "Aiming at Amazon" introduce you to the NEW business of self publishing.

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Aaron Shepard is a foremost proponent of the new business of profitable self publishing through print on demand, which he has practiced and helped develop since 1998. Unlike most authorities on self publishing, he makes the bulk of his living from his self-published books -- not from consulting, speaking, freelance writing, or selling publishing services. In a parallel life, Aaron is an award-winning children's author with numerous books from publishers large and small.

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"Aaron Shepard has been more successful selling through Amazon than any other self publisher I know. If you want to self publish and get the most from it, this book is for you." -- Morris Rosenthal, author, "Print-on-Demand Book Publishing"

"Solid gold advice. . . . Aiming At Amazon will dramatically increase your odds of success. A few hours with this book will give you the benefit of years worth of hard-earned experience." -- Steve Weber, author, "The Home-Based Bookstore"

"If you want to learn how to sell more books on Amazon, this is the best book I've read on the subject. . . . Thanks to books like this, self-published authors have a chance to succeed against traditionally-published competitors." -- Stacie Vander Pol, author, "Top Self Publishing Firms"

"Shepard is considered one of the pioneers of marketing print-on-demand (POD) books through Amazon. . . . I highly recommend Aiming At Amazon to self-publishers and authors who want to publish a book at little cost. The model pioneered by Shepard, Rosenthal, and others is probably the best way for a newcomer to enter the world of self-publishing." -- Peter Hupalo, Midwest Book Review

"An essential read for anyone having to market a self-published or POD-published book -- and has a wealth of information for small press publishers, novice freelance book publicists, and mid-list authors of the larger publishing houses." -- Jim Cox, Jim Cox Reports, March 2007

"I've published ten other books through regular publishers, and this route is much more fun and rewarding!" -- Ellen Hodgson Brown, Third Millenium Press

"Buy it! Study it! Learn from it! Apply its lessons! It will be the least expensive yet most valuable book marketing training you will ever get." -- Walt Shiel, Slipdown Mountain Publications

"Shepard boils it down to the essentials so you can get done what you need to get done and get out." -- Zoe Winter, Indie Books Journal (blog of IndieReader.com), Apr. 12, 2010

"Shepard comes across as honest, likeable and brimming with common sense. . . . Would be helpful to all writers with books on Amazon, not just those who self-published." -- Catherine Ryan Howard, Catherine, Caffeinated, July 21, 2010

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230 Aaron Shepard 093849743X Steve 5 3.86 2006 Aiming at Amazon: The New Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Your Books with Print on Demand and Online Book Marketing
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<![CDATA[1001 Ways to Market Your Books: For Authors and Publishers, 6th Edition]]> 301075 704 John Kremer 091241149X Steve 5 4.36 1986 1001 Ways to Market Your Books: For Authors and Publishers, 6th Edition
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<![CDATA[Twitter Marketing: Promote Yourself and Your Business on Earth's Hottest Social Network]]> 6908872 110 Steve Weber 0977240665 Steve 5 4.00 2009 Twitter Marketing: Promote Yourself and Your Business on Earth's Hottest Social Network
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<![CDATA[eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income]]> 2879008 254 Steve Weber 0977240630 Steve 5 3.26 2008 eBay 101: Selling on eBay For Part-time or Full-time Income
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<![CDATA[ePublish: Self-Publish Fast and Profitably for Kindle, iPhone, CreateSpace and Print on Demand]]> 6609920 110 Steve Weber 0977240657 Steve 5 3.60 2009 ePublish: Self-Publish Fast and Profitably for Kindle, iPhone, CreateSpace and Print on Demand
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<![CDATA[Sell on Amazon: A Guide to Amazon's Marketplace, Seller Central, and Fulfillment by Amazon Programs]]> 4163849 192 Steve Weber 0977240649 Steve 5 3.73 2008 Sell on Amazon: A Guide to Amazon's Marketplace, Seller Central, and Fulfillment by Amazon Programs
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<![CDATA[The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site]]> 180644 168 Steve Weber 0977240606 Steve 5 3.55 2005 The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site
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<![CDATA[Plug Your Book! Online Book Marketing for Authors, Book Publicity through Social Networking]]> 176010
"I don't care if you're writing a computer book, a science fictionnovel or the next great self-help guide, you need to get your hands on a copy of Steve Weber's Plug Your Book! ... I highly recommend this one toevery author out there."
-- Joe Wikert, executive publisher, John Wiley & Sons Inc., professional/trade division

"An amazingly rich collection of cutting-edge promotional tactics andstrategies. Makes most other books about online publicity look sickly."
-- Aaron Shepard, Aiming at Amazon

"In-depth information about using Amazon as a marketing platform."
-- Christine McNeil Montano, Amazon Top Reviewer

"...I have launched online campaigns for more than 1,000 books. I'veworked with most of America's largest book publishers, helping many ofthem build online marketing departments. The book you're holding now isthe new training manual."
-- Steve O'Keefe, Publicity on the Internet

"Practical, pragmatic, low-cost ideas for promoting the heck out of your own book, whether it's fiction, nonfiction, technical, business oranything else."
-- Dave Taylor, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Growing Your Business with Google

"The first comprehensive guide to Internet book publicity."
-- Morris Rosenthal, publisher, Foner Books

"A wealth of ideas for making your book stand out, including many techniques for Internet buzz you won't find elsewhere."
-- Jane Corn, Amazon Top Reviewer

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Taking control of your book sales
One big caveat
How to use this book
Staying current

Electric word of mouth
Riding the big river
Amazon's 'long tail'
Getting recommended
Personalized bookstores

Amazon Bestseller Campaigns
Making the list
How Bestseller Campaigns work
... and this is success?
Haywired recommendations
Is it worth it?

Amateur book reviews
Credibility through peers
Getting more Amazon reviews
Amazon Top Reviewers
Contacting Top Reviewers
Etiquette in approaching reviewers
Finding more Amazon reviewers
More ways to get reviews

Building your author Web site
Getting involved
Your domain
Building blocks of your site
A survey of author Web sites
Your online press kit
Multimedia for books

Advanced Amazon tools
Buy X, Get Y
Weaknesses of BXGY
Free paired placement
Single New Product e-mails
Amazon Connect
Listmania

Google, Amazon, digital content Google Book Search
Accidental book discovery
Instant Online Access
Ad-Supported Access
Google Print on Demand

Pay-per-click advertising
Google AdWords
Yahoo Search Marketing

Power tools
Amazon Sales Rank
TitleZ
Affiliate partnerships
Analyzing your traffic
Linking strategy
Search engine optimization
Keyword density
Length of your lease
Publishers Portal
Privacy policies
Web site cardinal sins

Selling on Amazon, beyond
Print on demand
Amazon Advantage
Amazon Marketplace
Catalog accuracy
Handling sales on your site
Google Checkout

Other major online retailers
Barnes & Noble
BookSense

Ethics of online marketing
Shill reviews
Spam]]>
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<![CDATA[Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America]]> 1869
Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.

Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.]]>
240 Barbara Ehrenreich 0805063897 Steve 4 3.65 2001 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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<![CDATA[Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal]]> 1097
Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate.
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383 Eric Schlosser 0060838582 Steve 5 3.75 2001 Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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<![CDATA[Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything]]> 1202
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.

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

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

Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
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268 Steven D. Levitt 0061234001 Steve 5 4.01 2005 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Me Talk Pretty One Day 4137 272 David Sedaris 0349113912 Steve 5 4.01 2000 Me Talk Pretty One Day
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The Great Gatsby 4671 The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.

This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]>
180 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0743273567 Steve 5 3.93 1925 The Great Gatsby
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average rating: 3.93
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The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919�2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]>
277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Steve 5 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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Gone from These Woods 6318425
Nothing has been the same for Daniel since that morning in the woods when Uncle Clay went down. Mom tries to hold the family together. Mrs. Hardy, Daniel’s guidance counselor, tries to help Daniel after he loses his role model and best friend. Daniel’s alcoholic father just makes the situation worse. The memory of that cold morning will stay with Daniel forever. But somehow, he must find a way to go on . . . for Uncle Clay . . . and most of all, for himself.]]>
192 Donny Bailey Seagraves 0385736290 Steve 5 3.65 2009 Gone from These Woods
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