Peregrine's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:18:00 -0700 60 Peregrine's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Blindsight (Firefall, #1) 48484 Two months since the stars fell...

Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.

Two months of silence while a world holds its breath.

Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever’s out there isn’t talking to us. It’s talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route.

So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn’t want to meet?

You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees X-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won’t be needed, and a fainter hope she’ll do any good if she is needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called “vampire,� recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist � an informational topologist with half his mind gone � as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge.

You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.

But you’d give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them…]]> 384 Peter Watts 0765312182 Peregrine 0 to-read 4.01 2006 Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
author: Peter Watts
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Letters to Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World]]> 462755
A profound and beautiful collection of intimate writings, Henry J.M. Nouwen’s Letters to Marc About Jesus recalls the author’s correspondences with his teenage nephew, a boy struggling with issues of faith and spirituality in an apathetic age. The much-beloved author of The Wounded Healer and With Open Hands —named alongside such notables as C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton as one of the most important Christian writers of the 20 th century—Nouwen writes from the heart in the deeply personal Letters to Marc About Jesus , as he imparts a powerful wisdom born of an unassailable faith.]]> 96 Henri J.M. Nouwen 0060663677 Peregrine 3 non-fiction 4.11 Letters to Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World
author: Henri J.M. Nouwen
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.11
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rating: 3
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]]> Son-Rise 1123214 0 Barry Neil Kaufman 0446359505 Peregrine 5 memoir-biography, autism 4.12 Son-Rise
author: Barry Neil Kaufman
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.12
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rating: 5
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date added: 2024/08/07
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]]> <![CDATA[Morning at Jalna (Whiteoaks Of Jalna, #2)]]> 447723
It is 1863 and life at Jalna is peaceful. Philip, who will grow up to become the master of Jalna, has just come into the world, while Augusta, Nicholas, and Ernest are children. However, the Sinclairs come to visit and the Whiteoaks begin to suspect that the Sinclairs have a deep and dangerous secret.]]> 263 Mazo de la Roche 0333039335 Peregrine 4 fiction 3.78 1935 Morning at Jalna (Whiteoaks Of Jalna, #2)
author: Mazo de la Roche
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1935
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction]]> 429983 250 Ursula K. Le Guin 0060168358 Peregrine 0 to-read 4.25 1979 The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)]]> 873884 569 Dan Brown 1416529365 Peregrine 4 fiction 3.82 2000 Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
author: Dan Brown
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> The Outsider 15686 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me'

Meursault will not conform. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach, his lack of remorse only compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and law.

Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurdity of human life became an existentialist classic. Yet it is also a book filled with quiet joy in the "tender indifference" of the physical world, and Sandra Smith's new translation based on listening to a recording of Camus reading aloud, sensitively renders the subtleties and dreamlike atmosphere of The Outsider.]]> 119 Albert Camus 0141182504 Peregrine 4 fiction 4.02 1942 The Outsider
author: Albert Camus
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1942
rating: 4
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]]> Sheila: Kenangan yang Hilang 1617199
Dan Sheila yang sekarang, sama bermasalahnya dengan Sheila kecil yang tega membakar seorang anak lelaki berusia tiga tahun sampai nyaris mati.

Pilu melihat betapa kasih dan usahanya mengajarkan cinta kepada Sheila seolah tak berarti apa-apa, Torey tetap tak mau menyerah. Meski Sheila kembali menculik seorang anak lelaki, meski Sheila berkali-kali kabur darinya, meski Sheila masih menaruh dendam kepadanya, mseki Sheila tak mau mendengar kata-katanya. Akan berhasilkah Torey membantu Sheila bangkit dari lingkaran trauma?]]> 528 Torey L. Hayden 9793269073 Peregrine 2 memoir-biography 3.68 1995 Sheila: Kenangan yang Hilang
author: Torey L. Hayden
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1995
rating: 2
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]]> Anna Karenina 153
Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.]]> 838 Leo Tolstoy 0140449175 Peregrine 0 to-read 4.21 1878 Anna Karenina
author: Leo Tolstoy
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1878
rating: 0
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]]> Les Misérables 33175 1232 Victor Hugo 0140444300 Peregrine 4 read-in-2010, fiction 4.34 1862 Les Misérables
author: Victor Hugo
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1862
rating: 4
read at: 2010/01/24
date added: 2020/08/02
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]]> <![CDATA[Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)]]> 83346 228 Lewis Carroll 0688120490 Peregrine 4 fantasy, kids 4.05 1871 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
author: Lewis Carroll
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1871
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Stardust: Being a Romance within the Realms of Faerie]]> 128946 Alternate cover edition can be found here

Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.]]> 212 Neil Gaiman 156389470X Peregrine 4 fantasy 4.30 1999 Stardust: Being a Romance within the Realms of Faerie
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> The Book of Negroes 2088385 487 Lawrence Hill 1554681561 Peregrine 5 fiction 4.46 2007 The Book of Negroes
author: Lawrence Hill
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> Every Man Dies Alone 6921128
It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a world of terrified neighbors and cynical snitches ready to turn them in.

In the end, it’s more than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order—it’s a deeply stirring story of two people standing up for what’s right, and for each other.]]> 539 Hans Fallada 1935554042 Peregrine 0 to-read 4.18 1947 Every Man Dies Alone
author: Hans Fallada
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1947
rating: 0
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]]> Don Quixote 3835 Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don Quixote in English until you've read this masterful translation.]]> 940 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 0060934344 Peregrine 3 read-in-2009, fiction 4.12 1615 Don Quixote
author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1615
rating: 3
read at: 2009/08/23
date added: 2016/01/05
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]]> The Commons (Robert Sawyer) 1508746
For 100,000 years, Old Earth's Institute for Historical Inquiry has mapped the collective unconscious of the human race. They have encountered all the archetypal figures - the Wise Man and the Fool, the Destroyer and the Redeemer - the "usual suspects" that populate the myths and legends at the back of the human mind.

And now young Guth Bandar suspects the collective unconscious has become aware of itself. Worse, it has an agenda. And worst of all, it can force Bandar to go deep into the darkest forests of the mind, where the only escape from madness is death.

""A fascinating premise. There is interest for the reader here on several levels: in following Guth Bandar's adventures, in the various archetypical personality types he encounters, in his reflections on the more philosophical questions of the nature of consciousness. In "The Commons," Hughes has created a universe with particularly fertile prospects for speculative activity.""
-- Tangent

""Irresistibly good reading.""
-- Booklist on Black Brillion

""Hughes's boldness is admirable.""
-- The New York Review of Science Fiction]]> 256 Matthew Hughes 0889953899 Peregrine 0 to-read 4.00 The Commons (Robert Sawyer)
author: Matthew Hughes
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]]> Never Let Me Go 6335
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.]]> 263 Kazuo Ishiguro 0676977111 Peregrine 0 to-read 3.77 2005 Never Let Me Go
author: Kazuo Ishiguro
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lies Of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)]]> 1136934
A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected "family" of orphans � a group known as the Gentlemen Bastards. Under his tutelage, Locke grows to lead the Bastards, delightedly pulling off one outrageous confidence game after another. Soon he is infamous as the Thorn of Camorr, and no wealthy noble is safe from his sting.

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

Known as the Gray King, he is slowly killing Capa Barsavi's most trusted men � and using Locke as a pawn in his plot to take control of Camorr's underworld. With a bloody coup under way threatening to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the Gray King at his own brutal game � or die trying...]]> 512 Scott Lynch 0575076941 Peregrine 2 read-in-2009, fantasy 4.49 2006 The Lies Of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
author: Scott Lynch
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2006
rating: 2
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There is no peace in the city of Camorr. Just as sharks and devilfish prowl its waters, human predators prowl the land. The very poor band together in gangs to survive. The very rich hold themselves in fragile aloofness. Some questions, particularly for Locke Lamora and his gang, the Gentlemen Bastards, are: Can one survive in a predatory environment without becoming a predator oneself? Is the nature of humanity necessarily brutish? As the city, rich and poor, rocks in upheaval, intrigue, counter-intrigue, and bloodshed, the reader has nothing to do but to look on. Well-written and, for the most part, superbly paced, the book cannot be read without the reader being spattered with figurative gore. For the skill of the writing alone, this book deserves four stars. For the book allowing only a passive view of events from the reader's perspective, no way to foresee, to imagine anything else, or to attain any distance from events, one star.
]]> <![CDATA[A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)]]> 979682 here and here

First published in 1968, this classic fantasy is a coming-of-age tale about a boy destined to become the greatest sorcerer in the world. In the 1001 island realm of Earthsea, Ged is a poor blacksmith's son born with an innate understanding of magic. But when he studies at the Roke Island school, he lets his arrogance and antipathy for another student lead him into a disastrous mistake -- unleashing an evil spirit bent on devouring Ged's essence.]]> 203 Ursula K. Le Guin Peregrine 4 3.88 1968 A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1968
rating: 4
read at: 2009/09/24
date added: 2014/05/18
shelves: read-in-2009, fantasy, young-adult
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Peregrine 3 fantasy, young-adult 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3235662 252 Mark Twain 0448149214 Peregrine 3 kids 3.82 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
author: Mark Twain
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1876
rating: 3
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]]> Villette 31173 Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.]]> 573 Charlotte Brontë Peregrine 0 to-read 3.78 1853 Villette
author: Charlotte Brontë
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1853
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches]]> 822338 247 Jean-Paul Sartre 2070368076 Peregrine 3 plays 4.04 1946 Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches
author: Jean-Paul Sartre
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1946
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood]]> 2584392 240 Deborah Kestel 1424005515 Peregrine 4 kids 3.33 1979 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
author: Deborah Kestel
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1979
rating: 4
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]]> My Posse Don't Do Homework 1457335 278 LouAnne Johnson 0312951639 Peregrine 2 memoir-biography 3.90 1992 My Posse Don't Do Homework
author: LouAnne Johnson
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1992
rating: 2
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]]> The Mistress of Spices 94669
Now immortal, and living in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman, Tilo has set up shop in Oakland, California, where she administers curatives to her customers. But when she's surprised by an unexpected romance with a handsome stranger, she must choose between everlasting life and the vicissitudes of modern society. Spellbinding and hypnotizing, The Mistress of Spices is a tale of joy, sorrow, and one special woman's magical powers.]]> 338 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 0385482388 Peregrine 4 fantasy 3.51 1997 The Mistress of Spices
author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.51
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> Hunger's Brides 2433697
Beulah had disappeared into Mexico two years earlier, following her obsession with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who was born in 1648, entered a convent at age nineteen, and became the greatest poet of her time, only to die of plague in 1695. As a police investigation closes in around Gregory, he examines the box's contents, fearful of incriminating evidence Beulah may have against him—translated poems of Sor Juana, a travel journal, research notes on the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the Inquisition, diary entries concerning him, and a strange manuscript about Sor Juana.

Based on the life of one of literature's most compelling figures, Paul Anderson's astonishing debut unveils a great poet's withdrawal from the world who at the height of her creative powers signs a vow of contrition in her own blood.]]> 1360 W. Paul Anderson 1845291719 Peregrine 0 to-read 3.67 2004 Hunger's Brides
author: W. Paul Anderson
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> Better Days (Serenity, #2.1) 3186100 80 Joss Whedon 1595821627 Peregrine 3 read-in-2009, sci-fi 4.04 2008 Better Days (Serenity, #2.1)
author: Joss Whedon
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2009/09/26
date added: 2012/09/10
shelves: read-in-2009, sci-fi
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]]> <![CDATA[The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations, #1)]]> 4345290 They killed the king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly.

There is no ancient evil to defeat, no orphan destined for greatness, just two guys in the wrong place at the wrong time. Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian Blackwater make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments for conspiring nobles until they become the unwitting scapegoats in a plot to murder the king. Sentenced to death, they have only one way out...and so begins this tale of treachery and adventure, sword fighting and magic, myth and legend.]]> 296 Michael J. Sullivan 0980003431 Peregrine 0 to-read 4.21 2008 The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations, #1)
author: Michael J. Sullivan
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> Adam Bede 20563 The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel is an old and familiar one which George Eliot invests with peculiar and haunting power.

A bestseller from the moment of publication, Adam Bede, although on one level a rich and loving re-creation of a small community shaken to its core, is more than a charming, faultlessly evoked pastoral. However much the reader may sympathize with Hetty Sorrel and identify with Arthur Donnithorne, her seducer, and with Adam Bede, the man Hetty betrays,it is George Eliots's creation of the distant aesthetic whole - the complex, multifarious life of Hayslope - which so grips the reader's imagination. As Stephen Gill comments: 'Reading the novel is a process of learning simultaneously about the world of Adam Bede and the world of Adam Bede.']]> 624 George Eliot 0375759018 Peregrine 4 fiction 3.81 1859 Adam Bede
author: George Eliot
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1859
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2)]]> 179565
First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump. How they thwart the wicked plans of the evil witch Mombi and overcome the rebellion of General Jinjur and her army of young women is a tale as exciting and endearing today as it was when first published over eighty years ago.]]> 192 L. Frank Baum 0140350411 Peregrine 4 fantasy, kids 3.79 1904 The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2)
author: L. Frank Baum
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1904
rating: 4
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]]> The Talisman 59225 388 Walter Scott 1592247709 Peregrine 3 fiction 3.85 1823 The Talisman
author: Walter Scott
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1823
rating: 3
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]]> Oliver Twist 693015
Rife with Dickens’s disturbing descriptions of street life, the novel is buoyed by the purity of the orphan Oliver. Though he is treated with cruelty and surrounded by coarseness for most of his life, his pious innocence leads him at last to salvation—and the shocking discovery of his true identity. Features illustrations by George Cruikshank. Jill Muller was born in England and educated at Mercy College and Columbia University, and currently teaches at Mercy College and Columbia University. She is working on a book on the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, to be published by Routledge.]]> 560 Charles Dickens 1593080301 Peregrine 4 3.64 1838 Oliver Twist
author: Charles Dickens
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1838
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Soul Types - Matching Your Personality and Spiritual Path]]> 2608322 254 Sandra Krebs Hirsh Peregrine 4 non-fiction 3.62 1998 Soul Types - Matching Your Personality and Spiritual Path
author: Sandra Krebs Hirsh
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Knitted Odd-bod Bunch: 35 Unique and Quirky Knitted Creatures]]> 6372595 128 Donna Wilson 1906525420 Peregrine 2 read-in-2010, non-fiction 3.89 2009 The Knitted Odd-bod Bunch: 35 Unique and Quirky Knitted Creatures
author: Donna Wilson
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2009
rating: 2
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]]> The Tontine Part 1 Of 2 2148584 This tontine (a 19th century combo of lottery, life insurance and last-man's club) starts on the day of Waterloo and ends as the century draws to a close.

The drama touches royalty and millionaires, actresses and sailors, planters and portrait painters. It ranges from London to the Caribbean, driven by a world in high gear, a world powered by greed.

But time flies by. Three survivors wait each other out. Then two, and at last, only one. . .a winner with everything but a future.

]]> Thomas B. Costain 0736625984 Peregrine 4 fiction 4.14 1955 The Tontine Part 1 Of 2
author: Thomas B. Costain
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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]]> The Tontine Part 2 Of 2 2148585 This tontine (a 19th century combo of lottery, life insurance and last-man's club) starts on the day of Waterloo and ends as the century draws to a close.

The drama touches royalty and millionaires, actresses and sailors, planters and portrait painters. It ranges from London to the Caribbean, driven by a world in high gear, a world powered by greed.

But time flies by. Three survivors wait each other out. Then two, and at last, only one. . .a winner with everything but a future.

]]> Thomas B. Costain 0736625992 Peregrine 4 fiction 4.25 1955 The Tontine Part 2 Of 2
author: Thomas B. Costain
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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]]> Son of a Hundred Kings 2222849 465 Thomas B. Costain Peregrine 3 fiction 4.08 1950 Son of a Hundred Kings
author: Thomas B. Costain
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1950
rating: 3
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]]> The Cracker Factory 1832000 Vintage paperback 345 joyce-rebeta-burditt 0553112791 Peregrine 4 fiction 3.93 1977 The Cracker Factory
author: joyce-rebeta-burditt
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1977
rating: 4
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]]> The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 337113 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence and creative freedom.]]> 576 Anne Brontë 0140434747 Peregrine 0 to-read 4.00 1848 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
author: Anne Brontë
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1848
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath/The Mistress of Husaby/The Cross]]> 977345
-- Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs

"As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." -- Montreal Star

"Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously... than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. It is also very probably the noblest work of fiction ever to have been inspired by the Catholic art of life." -- Commonweal

"No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius.... One of the finest minds in European literature."

-- New York Herald Tribune

"This trilogy is the first great story founded upon the normal events of a normal woman's existence. It is as great and as rich, as simple and as profound, as such a story should be."

-- Ruth Suckow in the Des Moines Register]]> 1069 Sigrid Undset 0394432622 Peregrine 0 to-read, suspended 4.36 1920 Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath/The Mistress of Husaby/The Cross
author: Sigrid Undset
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1920
rating: 0
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There oughta be a "to finish" choice. I read halfway through, really enjoyed it, and then the press of other books swept it from my sight. I hope to get back to it soon, but you know how it is with books; always jockeying for position; no orderly ranks and piles for them!
]]> <![CDATA[The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul]]> 6149806 384 Mario Beauregard 0061625981 Peregrine 0 to-read 3.45 2007 The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul
author: Mario Beauregard
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Girl of the Limberlost (Limberlost, #2)]]> 17567
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Synopsis from Huffington Post: Cornfields, soy fields, alfalfa fields � Indiana has long been seen as an agricultural plain. But to make it a lucrative farming state, much of the land had to be deforested, leaving behind devastated habitats. The Limberlost, a wetland in northern Indiana, was mostly destroyed by drainage, logging and oil production. Gene Stratton-Porter, an early 20th-century naturalist and novelist, captured the fading beauty of the swamp in books like A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel about a smart, ambitious girl who lives in the dwindling wetland with her mother and pays for school by collecting local moth specimens to sell to naturalists. The book isn’t exactly an environmentalist tract, but it makes the case nonetheless: It celebrates the beauty and richness of the swampland, while showing how easily economic forces push landowners to strip it away.]]> 217 Gene Stratton-Porter 1576469115 Peregrine 3 young-adult 4.16 1909 A Girl of the Limberlost (Limberlost, #2)
author: Gene Stratton-Porter
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1909
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)]]> 235344 Vintage paperback 447 Thomas B. Costain 0445001038 Peregrine 3 non-fiction 4.09 1962 The Last Plantagenets (The Plantagenets, #4)
author: Thomas B. Costain
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1962
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)]]> 6234064 0 Thomas B. Costain 0736625488 Peregrine 3 non-fiction 3.00 1949 The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)
author: Thomas B. Costain
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1949
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3)]]> 401930
A History of the Plantagenets includes THE CONQUERING FAMILY, THE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY, THE THREE EDWARDS and THE LAST PLANTAGENETS.]]> 480 Thomas B. Costain 0445081864 Peregrine 3 non-fiction 4.10 1958 The Three Edwards (The Plantagenets, #3)
author: Thomas B. Costain
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1958
rating: 3
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]]> A Canticle for Leibowitz 164156 291 Walter M. Miller Jr. Peregrine 0 to-read 3.95 1959 A Canticle for Leibowitz
author: Walter M. Miller Jr.
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1959
rating: 0
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]]> Returning to Earth 494607 288 Jim Harrison 0802143318 Peregrine 0 to-read 3.92 2007 Returning to Earth
author: Jim Harrison
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> Snow Crash 830 Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous� you'll recognize it immediately.]]> 438 Neal Stephenson 0553380958 Peregrine 4 read-in-2010, sci-fi 4.02 1992 Snow Crash
author: Neal Stephenson
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1992
rating: 4
read at: 2010/03/12
date added: 2011/12/03
shelves: read-in-2010, sci-fi
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1)]]> 232109 186 Beverly Cleary 0380709244 Peregrine 4 kids 3.96 1965 The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1)
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1965
rating: 4
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]]> Shadows on a Sword 675673 There Will Be Wolves, Karleen Bradford once again shows her immense talent for combining a sizzling plot, fascinating historical detail and real-life characters whose eleventh-century concerns ring surprisingly true with contemporary young readers.

Set against the violence of the Holy Crusades, Shadows On A Sword is the tale of Theo, a passionate young knight; Emma, a strong and subversive girl bound by her position in life; and Amalric, a young man ready for war - holy or not. Confronted by life-or-death consequences, the injustices of war and politics and the joys of first love, the trio are believable players in a riveting, yet sensitive coming of age story.]]> 264 Karleen Bradford 0006480543 Peregrine 4 young-adult 3.41 1997 Shadows on a Sword
author: Karleen Bradford
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.41
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings]]> 5338 An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.

'Merry Christmas!...every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'

Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas. Dickens' other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton', the short story from The Pickwick Papers on which A Christmas Carol was based; The Haunted Man, a tale of a man tormented by painful memories; along with shorter pieces, some drawn from the 'Christmas Stories' that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates the season as one of geniality, charity and remembrance.

This new selection contains an introduction by distinguished Dickens scholar Michael Slater discussing how the author has shaped ideas about the Christmas spirit, an appendix on Dickens' use of The Arabian Nights, a further reading list and explanatory notes.]]> 288 Charles Dickens Peregrine 3 read-in-2010, fantasy 4.15 1843 A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
author: Charles Dickens
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1843
rating: 3
read at: 2010/02/05
date added: 2011/08/13
shelves: read-in-2010, fantasy
review:
A Christmas Carol, of course, gets five stars. Tightly and movingly written, it's a masterpiece of a Christmas story. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain can't decide whether to be frightening or sentimental and, while it does have its moving and its funny bits, does neither frightening nor sentimental very well. The other pieces in this collection come as random pictures meant to spark emotion and feed its flame, to the satiety, or perhaps exhaustion, of the reader. There is something of "staring into a fire, watching the pictures in the flames" about these pieces; Dickens, however, is not content to let the reader meditate, but must be calling, "Oh look!," and commenting on everything in a too loud and enthusiastic tone. Dickens' Christmas celebrations given here, while amusing in a certain frame of mind to read, are too boisterous and heavy-laden with crowded and repetitive cheer to allow the Spirit of Christmas to draw uncramped breath.
]]> The Lovely Bones 12232938
So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.]]> 372 Alice Sebold 0316166685 Peregrine 1 fiction 3.87 2002 The Lovely Bones
author: Alice Sebold
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2002
rating: 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction]]> 40160 The Chronicles of Prydain), Diana Wynne Jones (The Merlin Conspiracy), Garth Nix (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Patricia A. McKillip (Ombria in Shadow), Meredith Ann Pierce (The Darkangel Trilogy), and Nancy Farmer (The House of the Scorpion), each with his or her own inimitable style, tell stories that will entertain, provoke, startle, amuse, and resonate long after the last page has been turned.The writers featured in Firebirds all share a connection to Firebird Books, an imprint that is dedicated to publishing the best fantasy and science fiction for teenage and adult readers.]]> 422 Sharyn November 0142403202 Peregrine 0 currently-reading 3.95 2003 Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction
author: Sharyn November
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)]]> 535073
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.

Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

The Culture Series
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata]]> 527 Iain M. Banks 031600538X Peregrine 3 read-in-2009, sci-fi
That Consider Phlebas articulates and puts movement into these questions is a grand imaginative feat. There are flaws in the telling, however, which take away much of the potential sense of wonder. Divinity is most commonly represented as a unity, "God", and "He." Homophobia seems to be taken for granted, as it is not challenged. Banks overuses simile to the point of distraction. That, and the number of words used in action sequences, makes many of the high points tedious. "Are we done yet?" is not the question a reader probably wants to be asking while reading a battle scene. There are scenes of gruesome and ugly violence in the first half of the book which seem to have little bearing on the story. These flaws were the reason that my sigh at the end of the book was one of relief at being done, rather than one of satisfaction.

There is a beauty, a tender fragility which stays, though, as the surrounding lights dim towards the end of the story. One light is shining in the whole galaxy, shining on the group in the last chapter and scene. There is a small gasp of wonder, after all.]]> 3.76 1987 Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
author: Iain M. Banks
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1987
rating: 3
read at: 2009/11/02
date added: 2011/06/29
shelves: read-in-2009, sci-fi
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This story, vast in scope, is perhaps best viewed from a distance. On the galactic stage, lights pick out and follow chaotic action, swinging wildly for the first half of the book. Alternately stretched in the attempt to understand and follow, and compressed by the huge scale, the reader can feel overwhelmed. This is in keeping with the experience of most of the characters in the book. Who am I as an individual, among trillions, where just about everything is a power greater than myself? Where do I belong, where planets can be blown up and billions live on constructed habitats? What does community mean, among different planets, religions, humanoid species?

That Consider Phlebas articulates and puts movement into these questions is a grand imaginative feat. There are flaws in the telling, however, which take away much of the potential sense of wonder. Divinity is most commonly represented as a unity, "God", and "He." Homophobia seems to be taken for granted, as it is not challenged. Banks overuses simile to the point of distraction. That, and the number of words used in action sequences, makes many of the high points tedious. "Are we done yet?" is not the question a reader probably wants to be asking while reading a battle scene. There are scenes of gruesome and ugly violence in the first half of the book which seem to have little bearing on the story. These flaws were the reason that my sigh at the end of the book was one of relief at being done, rather than one of satisfaction.

There is a beauty, a tender fragility which stays, though, as the surrounding lights dim towards the end of the story. One light is shining in the whole galaxy, shining on the group in the last chapter and scene. There is a small gasp of wonder, after all.
]]> <![CDATA[Those Who Hunt the Night (James Asher #1)]]> 1241305 Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.


At the turn of the twentieth century, a former spy is called into service to hunt down a vampire killer...

Once a spy for Queen Victoria, James Asher has fought for Britain on every continent, using his quick wits to protect the Empire at all costs. After years of grueling service, he marries and retires to a simple academic’s life at Oxford. But his peace is shattered one night with the arrival of a Spanish vampire named Don Simon. Don Simon can disappear into fog, move faster than the eye can see, and immobilize Asher—and his young bride—with a wave of his hand. Asher is at his mercy, and has no choice but to give his help.

Because someone is killing the vampires of London, and James Asher must find out who—before he becomes a victim himself.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.]]> 296 Barbara Hambly 0345343808 Peregrine 4 read-in-2009, fantasy 3.72 1988 Those Who Hunt the Night (James Asher #1)
author: Barbara Hambly
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1988
rating: 4
read at: 2009/10/03
date added: 2011/03/20
shelves: read-in-2009, fantasy
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What made this otherwise average vampire tale stand out for me was the view into the "life" of the undead. What one carries and what one loses from the human; living through the passing of centuries; the "making" of a vampire and its gift and its price; relations between vampires; all this engaged me in the story. At midlife myself, I can feel the pull of changing society, of the loss of people I have known, of having undergone some metamorphoses myself. The vampires, while definitely other in their need for human blood and human life, nevertheless had some connection for me which nourishes after the end of the book.
]]> <![CDATA[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo]]> 3048 An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.

A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.

Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.

Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s.

The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.]]> 214 Unknown Peregrine 0 to-read 3.82 1975 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo
author: Unknown
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1975
rating: 0
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]]> The Brain Chemistry Plan 2153318 368 Michael Lesser 0399528490 Peregrine 0 to-read 3.67 2001 The Brain Chemistry Plan
author: Michael Lesser
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> Moonheart 618174
Now, with their friends and enemies alike--Blue, the biker; Keiran, the folk musician; the Inspector from the RCMP; and the mysterious Tom Hengyr--Sara and Jamie are drawn into this enchanted land through the portals of Tamson House, that sprawling downtown edifice that straddles two worlds.

Sweeping from ancient Wales to the streets of Ottawa today, Moonheart will entrance you with its tale of this world and the other one at the very edge of sight...and the unforgettable people caught up in the affairs of both. A tale of music, and motorcycles, and fey folk beyond the shadows of the moon. A tale of true magic; the tale of Moonheart.]]> 447 Charles de Lint 0312890044 Peregrine 0 to-read 4.04 1984 Moonheart
author: Charles de Lint
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1984
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose]]> 2590505 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780452289963.

With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived “in the now.� In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.

Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life—and for building a better world.]]> 309 Eckhart Tolle Peregrine 0 to-read 4.13 2005 A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
author: Eckhart Tolle
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 910999 Ěý
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ď¬rst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray .â€� Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I Lord Henry what the world thinks Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”]]> 254 Oscar Wilde 0679600019 Peregrine 2 fiction, read-in-2010 3.98 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1890
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)]]> 946340 238 Nevada Barr 0399138242 Peregrine 0 currently-reading 3.67 1993 Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
author: Nevada Barr
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> The Merry Wives of Windsor 104779 “Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”—The Merry Wives of Windsor Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, and merriment—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including an original Introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers photographs of key RSC productions an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career and chronology of his plays Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.]]> 256 William Shakespeare 0451529960 Peregrine 0 currently-reading 3.58 1597 The Merry Wives of Windsor
author: William Shakespeare
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1597
rating: 0
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]]> The Painted Veil 395183 The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.

The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.]]> 246 W. Somerset Maugham 1400034213 Peregrine 5 fiction, read-in-2010 3.95 1925 The Painted Veil
author: W. Somerset Maugham
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1925
rating: 5
read at: 2010/05/19
date added: 2010/05/19
shelves: fiction, read-in-2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Miss Nelson Is Missing! (Miss Nelson, #1)]]> 147732 Miss Nelson is missing!

Miss Nelson was the nicest teacher in the school. She never yelled and she gave the easiest assignments. She was always smiling and cheery, even when her students cut up in class or would not open their arithmetic books nor pay attention during story hour.

Until one day Miss Nelson did not come to school � a substitute teacher came instead. What an opportunity for everyone to be even more naughty. Not so! Miss Swamp immediately laid down the law � no talking, no goofing off in class � and she gave every student loads of homework.

Where was Miss Nelson? Where was the wonderful unappreciated Miss Nelson? And so the students hunted for her high and low, with the dubious help of detective McSmogg.

Harry Allard and James Marshall, with their incisive feel for the nuances of relationships, point out with imagination and humor the folly of being inconsiderate or unappreciative.]]> 32 Harry Allard 0395401461 Peregrine 4 kids, picture-books 4.31 1977 Miss Nelson Is Missing! (Miss Nelson, #1)
author: Harry Allard
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1977
rating: 4
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]]> Life Among the Savages 131191 "The Lottery", was known for her terse, haunting prose. But the writer possessed another side, one which is delightfully exposed in this hilariously charming memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont. Fans of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Cheaper by the Dozen, and anything Erma Bombeck ever wrote will find much to recognize in Shirley Jackson's home and neighborhood: children who won't behave, cars that won't start, furnaces that break down, a pugnacious corner bully, household help that never stays, and a patient, capable husband who remains lovingly oblivious to the many thousands of things mothers and wives accomplish every single day.

"Our house," writes Jackson, "is old, noisy, and full. When we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books; I expect that when we finally overflow and move out again we will have perhaps twenty children and easily half a million books." Jackson's literary talents are in evidence everywhere, as is her trenchant, unsentimental wit. Yet there is no mistaking the happiness and love in these pages, which are crowded with the raucous voices of an extraordinary family living a wonderfully ordinary life.]]> 256 Shirley Jackson 0140267670 Peregrine 5 3.97 1953 Life Among the Savages
author: Shirley Jackson
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1953
rating: 5
read at: 2010/05/16
date added: 2010/05/16
shelves: memoir-biography, read-in-2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Play)]]> 1027438 112 Ann-Marie MacDonald 0676971695 Peregrine 3 read-in-2010, plays 3.54 1997 Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Play)
author: Ann-Marie MacDonald
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at: 2010/05/14
date added: 2010/05/14
shelves: read-in-2010, plays
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]]> Lovey: A Very Special Child 1056362 mass market paperback 189 Mary MacCracken 0451085396 Peregrine 4 memoir-biography 4.25 1976 Lovey: A Very Special Child
author: Mary MacCracken
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1976
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[One, Two, Three ...: The Story of Matt, a Feral Child]]> 1189161 294 Eleanor Craig 0070133425 Peregrine 4 memoir-biography 4.13 1978 One, Two, Three ...: The Story of Matt, a Feral Child
author: Eleanor Craig
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1978
rating: 4
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]]> A Circle of Children 1056364 213 Mary MacCracken 0451165527 Peregrine 4 memoir-biography 4.29 1974 A Circle of Children
author: Mary MacCracken
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1974
rating: 4
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]]> P.S. Your Not Listening 140140
Five children, five universes, five enemies - and Eleanor Craig, teacher extraordinaire, who battled to make them face the real world and survive.]]> 215 Eleanor Craig 0451157303 Peregrine 4 memoir-biography 4.12 1972 P.S. Your Not Listening
author: Eleanor Craig
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1972
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[She Walks for Days Inside a Thousand Eyes: A Two-spirit Story]]> 4293682
she walks for days inside a thousand eye (a two-spirit story) creatively juxtaposes first-person narratives and traditional stories with the voices of contemporary two-spirit women, voices taken from nature, and the teachings of Water, Air, Fire and Mother Earth. The author restores the reputation of two-spirit woman that had been long under attack from Western culture as she re-appropriates the lives of these individuals from the writings of Western anthropologists and missionaries.

Sharron Proulx-Turner creates a new kind of epic as she bears witness to the past. With gracious concern for tradition, and sly, soaring language, she retells a vital chapter from Canada's First Nations story.]]> 183 Sharron Proulx-Turner 0888013264 Peregrine 0 currently-reading 4.62 2008 She Walks for Days Inside a Thousand Eyes: A Two-spirit Story
author: Sharron Proulx-Turner
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> 100 Best-Loved Poems 463475 Among them are Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; Shakespeare: "Sonnet XVIII" ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"); Donne: "Holy Sonnet X" ("Death, be not proud"); Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"; Wordsworth: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; Shelley: "Ode to the West Wind"; Longfellow: "The Children's Hour"; Poe: "The Raven"; Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"; Whitman: "O Captain! My Captain!"; Dickinson: "This Is My Letter to the World"; Yeats: "When You Are Old"; Frost: "The Road Not Taken"; Millay: "First Fig."
Works by many other poets � Milton, Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Emerson, the Brownings, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Pound, and Auden among them � are included in this treasury, a perfect companion for quiet moments of reflection.]]> 101 Philip Smith Peregrine 4 poetry, read-in-2010 3.90 1995 100 Best-Loved Poems
author: Philip Smith
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 2010/05/14
date added: 2010/05/14
shelves: poetry, read-in-2010
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]]> Watch (WWW, #2) 7942632 350 Robert J. Sawyer 0670067423 Peregrine 5 3.90 2010 Watch (WWW, #2)
author: Robert J. Sawyer
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2010/05/13
date added: 2010/05/13
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]]> <![CDATA[The True Game (Land of the True Game, #1-3)]]> 89581 Grass, has helped redefine speculative fiction. Award winner, national bestseller, and one of the genre's most respected and acclaimed talents, she has transcended the boundaries of science fiction and fantasy with her widespread success. Available for the first time in one volume, this is the long out-of-print trilogy that launched her remarkable career: King's Blood Four, Necromancer Nine, and Wizard's Eleven.Ěý

In the lands of the True Game, your lifelong identity emerges as you play-Prince or Sorcerer, Demon or Doyen. Raising the dead is the least of the Necromancer's Talents-he is a wild card who threatens the True Game itself. A giant stalks the mountains. Shadowpeople gather by the light of the moon. Bonedancers raise up armies of the dead. And the Wizard's Eleven sleep trapped in their dreams. Players, take your places. The final Game begins now...

Ěý]]> 512 Sheri S. Tepper 0441003311 Peregrine 0 to-read 4.22 1996 The True Game (Land of the True Game, #1-3)
author: Sheri S. Tepper
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> The Library Dragon 834688
"She kept a fiery eye out to make sure no one removed any books from the shelves...
The very thought of sticky little fingers
touching
and
clutching,
pawing
and
clawing,
smearing
and
tearing
her precious books just made her hot under the collar."

The teachers, singed and scorched, formed a delegation. But not even sweet Miss Lemon could convince Miss Lotta Scales that "the library belonged to the children."

Fortunately, nearsighted Molly Brickmeyer stumbles into a copy of "Snuff the Magic Dragon" and reads the tale out loud. Her storytelling beckons the children back to the library and brings them face to face with the Library Dragon.

Can an open book temper the flames of the school's hot-headed librarian?]]> 32 Carmen Agra Deedy 156145091X Peregrine 4 funny, both in text and illustrations. Miss Lotta Scales, for instance, wears a dragonfly print dress, and has a crabapple on her desk. Check the pictures for more in the "dragon" theme. The confrontation in the story between the librarian and the teachers is a hoot. And the pretext for the heroine of the tale to wander into the library is personally hilarious to this reader, who's been in similar situations as an adult. ]]> 3.99 1994 The Library Dragon
author: Carmen Agra Deedy
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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This book is for slightly older kids, who are at an age where they can appreciate puns and running gags. This book is funny, both in text and illustrations. Miss Lotta Scales, for instance, wears a dragonfly print dress, and has a crabapple on her desk. Check the pictures for more in the "dragon" theme. The confrontation in the story between the librarian and the teachers is a hoot. And the pretext for the heroine of the tale to wander into the library is personally hilarious to this reader, who's been in similar situations as an adult.
]]> And the Good Brown Earth 170198
Gram and Joe are great friends, and they love to spend time together, taking care of the vegetable patch-with a little help from nature, of course. But it takes a lot of patience. There’s digging time, planting time, weeding time, watering time, even thinking time. Meanwhile, the seasons change, and Gram does things her way, while Joe does things his way. Come harvest time, they each will find wondrous surprises, thanks to the benevolence of the good brown earth.]]> 40 Kathy Henderson 0763623016 Peregrine 5 3.98 2004 And the Good Brown Earth
author: Kathy Henderson
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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Gorgeous, detailed illustrations fill this book, a story told from a child's sense of time. An adult reader will put a more measured perspective over this, but only as a transparency, not to obscure. Whole weeks and months disappear, telescoped into remembered highlights piercing in their vividness and joy. One visit for weeding, with no mention of potato bugs or cabbage worms. Strawberries and pumpkins are not in season at the same time, of course, but for Joe, the harvest is one long undifferentiated feast. With fresh berry juice stains on face and shirt.
]]> A Seed Is Sleepy 863910 40 Dianna Hutts Aston 0811855201 Peregrine 5 4.34 2007 A Seed Is Sleepy
author: Dianna Hutts Aston
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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Detailed and vibrant illustrations; exquisite text, both to look at and to read. And I learned of drift seeds!
]]> All Clear (All Clear, #2) 7519231 Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060—the setting for several of her most celebrated works—and sent three Oxford historians to World War II Eng;and: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler’s bombers attempt to pummel London into submission.

Now the situation has grown even more dire. Small discrepancies in the historical record seem to indicate that one or all of them have somehow affected the past, changing the outcome of the war. The belief that the past can be observed but never altered has always been a core belief of time-travel theory—but suddenly it seems that the theory is horribly, tragically wrong.

Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians� supervisor, Mr. Dunworthy, and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who nurses a powerful crush on Polly, are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle of their own—to find three missing needles in the haystack of history.

Told with compassion, humor, and an artistry both uplifting and devastating, All Clear is more than just the triumphant culmination of the adventure that began with Blackout. It’s Connie Willis’s most humane, heartfelt novel yet—a clear-eyed celebration of faith, love, and the quiet, ordinary acts of heroism and sacrifice too often overlooked by history.]]> 656 Connie Willis 0553807676 Peregrine 0 to-read 4.06 2010 All Clear (All Clear, #2)
author: Connie Willis
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> Curiosity 7904475
More than 40 years before the publication of The Origin of Species , 12-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoric dolphin-like creature, and spent a year chipping it from the soft cliffs near Lyme Regis. This was only the first of many important discoveries made by this incredible woman, perhaps the most important paleontologist of her day.

Henry de la Beche was the son of a gentry family, owners of a slave-worked estate in Jamaica where he spent his childhood. As an adolescent back in England, he ran away from military college, and soon found himself living with his elegant, cynical mother in Lyme Regis, where he pursued his passion for drawing and painting the landscapes and fossils of the area. One morning on an expedition to see an extraordinary discovery � a giant fossil � he meets a young woman unlike anyone he has ever met…]]> 416 Joan Thomas 077108417X Peregrine 0 to-read 3.62 2010 Curiosity
author: Joan Thomas
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> Wake (WWW, #1) 4418395
]]> 354 Robert J. Sawyer 0441016790 Peregrine 4 autism, read-in-2010, sci-fi 3.82 2009 Wake (WWW, #1)
author: Robert J. Sawyer
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2010/05/09
date added: 2010/05/09
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]]> Skim 2418888 Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensitive graphic novel of the highest literary and artistic quality, by and about young women.

"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When Skim's classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. As concerned guidance counselors provide lectures on the "cycle of grief," and the popular clique starts a new club (Girls Celebrate Life!) to bolster school spirit, Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression.

And falling in love only makes things worse...

Suicide, depression, love, being gay or not, crushes, cliques, and finding a way to be your own fully human self—are all explored in this brilliant collaboration by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. An edgy, keenly observed and poignant glimpse into the heartache of being young.]]> 143 Mariko Tamaki 0888997531 Peregrine 5 young-adult, queer 3.77 2008 Skim
author: Mariko Tamaki
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far)]]> 2009054

In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of nonfiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer experience, from coming out to “passing� as straight to growing old to living proud. These are the stories of contemporary gay and lesbian life—and by definition, are funny, sad, hopeful, and truthful. Representing a diversity of genders, ages, races, and orientations, and edited by two acclaimed writers and anthologists (who between them have written or edited almost one hundred books), First Person Queer puts the “personal� back into “queer.�

]]> 224 Richard Labonté 1551522276 Peregrine 4 queer, memoir-biography 3.91 2007 First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far)
author: Richard Labonté
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Mind of My Own: The Woman Who Was Known As "Eve" Tells the Story of Her Triumph over Multiple Personality Disorder]]> 516711 The Three Faces of Eve and the author's 1976 autobiography, I'm Eve, has fascinated millions. Here is Chris' personal story of the integration of her several personalities into the woman she is today.]]> 299 Chris Costner Sizemore 0688081991 Peregrine 3 d-i-d, memoir-biography 4.00 1989 Mind of My Own: The Woman Who Was Known As "Eve" Tells the Story of Her Triumph over Multiple Personality Disorder
author: Chris Costner Sizemore
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1989
rating: 3
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]]> The Three Faces of Eve 462534 The Three Faces of Eve was the first popular account of a case of multiple personalities (now called dissociative identity disorder). The authors had previously published a research article on their patient 'Eve' in 1954, documenting the psychiatric sessions and how they came to view it as a case of 'multiple personality'.]]> 264 Corbett H. Thigpen 0685487792 Peregrine 3 d-i-d, memoir-biography 3.69 1957 The Three Faces of Eve
author: Corbett H. Thigpen
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1957
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke]]> 213548
The What the public did not see was Anna Marie Duke, a young girl whose life changed forever at age seven when tyrannical mangers stripped her of nearly all that wasĚýĚýfamiliar, beginning with her name. She was deprived of family and friends. Her every word wasĚýĚýprogrammed, her every action monitored and criticized. She was fed liquor and prescription drugs, taught to lie to get work, and relentlessly drilled to win roles.

The Out of this nightmare emergedĚýĚýPatty Duke, a show business legend still searching for the child, Anna. She won three Emmy Awards and divorced three husbands. A starring role inĚý Valley of the Dolls nearly ruined her career. She was notorious for wild spending sprees, turbulent liaisons, and an uncontrollable temper. Until a long hidden illness was diagnosed, and her amazing recovery recovery began.

The Ěý Call Me Anna is an American success story that grew out of a bizarre and desperate struggle for survival. A harrowing, ultimately triumphant story told by Patty Duke herself—wife, mother, political activist, President of the Screen Actors Guild, and at last, a happy, fulfilled woman whose miracle is her own life.]]> 311 Patty Duke 0553272055 Peregrine 4 memoir-biography, bipolar 3.91 1987 Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke
author: Patty Duke
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence]]> 119716 Unprecedented autobiographies of religious life

Nuns. Alien in their dramatic garb. Set apart from us in their regimented communities, by their singular dedication.

Nuns. Different . . . Fascinating. Their lives intrigue us all.

In these unique and compelling revelations, both ex-nuns and present nuns unlock the most secret doors in their closed and mysterious communities. Under rigidly enforced rules of behavior, where women's lives are consecrated and subjugated to the most sacred of vows, where "particular friendships" are ruthlessly eradicated under pain of sin and expulsion, still the power of love manages to emerge and survive. Each nun in these stories describes the individual and searing path she has journeyed to discover and face and experience the truth of herself: that she is a Lesbian nun.]]> 338 Rosemary Curb 0446326593 Peregrine 2 memoir-biography, queer 3.97 1985 Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence
author: Rosemary Curb
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1985
rating: 2
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]]> Testament of Youth 374388 Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,� it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.]]> 688 Vera Brittain 0143039237 Peregrine 5 memoir-biography 4.09 1933 Testament of Youth
author: Vera Brittain
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1933
rating: 5
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shelves: memoir-biography
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]]> A Miracle to Believe In 1872384
Somewhere behind Robertito's wide-eyed, vacant stare lay a gentle little boy, totally alone and out of reach. He was, after all, a "hopeless" case -- "uneducable" and "autistic." Even the medical world had given up on Robertito. Until, at last, his parents found the the loving couple who had rescued their own "incurable" child. Volunteers joined Robertito's parents in their journey. Before their eyes, a miracle of love and learning took place as Barry and Suzi Kaufman taught everyone how to love themselves and to nurture a "little boy back to life."]]> 384 Barry Neil Kaufman 0449201082 Peregrine 4 memoir-biography, autism 4.03 1981 A Miracle to Believe In
author: Barry Neil Kaufman
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1981
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families]]> 781844 288 Elisabeth KĂĽbler-Ross 0684839385 Peregrine 3 non-fiction 4.17 1969 On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
author: Elisabeth KĂĽbler-Ross
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1969
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Witches of Karres (The Witches of Karres, #1)]]> 317621
Captain Pausert thought his luck had finally turned—but he did not yet realize it was a turn for the worse. On second thought, make that a turn for the disastrous*.

Unlucky in love, unsuccessful in business, he thought he had finally made good with his battered starship Venture, cruising around the fringes of the Empire and successfully selling off odd-ball cargoes which no one else had been able to sell. He was all set to return home, where his true love was faithfully waiting for him ... he hoped.

But then he made the fatal mistake of freeing three slave children from their masters (who were suspiciously eager to part with them). They were just trying to be helpful, but those three adorable little girls quickly made Pausert the mortal enemy of his fiancee, his home planet, the Empire, warlike Sirians, psychopathic Uldanians, the dread pirate chieftain Laes Yango—and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space.

And all because those harmless-looking little girls were in fact three of the notorious and universally feared Witches of Karres.]]> 394 James H. Schmitz 1416509151 Peregrine 4 sci-fi, young-adult 4.15 1966 The Witches of Karres (The Witches of Karres, #1)
author: James H. Schmitz
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1966
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple]]> 379992 A Note from Dr. Cameron West

... First of all, for those of you who have read First Person Plural, thank you. Rikki, Kyle, and I have been very moved by the kind words many of you have sent, and for the stories some of you have shared about overcoming your own challenges.

I'd like to share something with you that Leonardo da Vinci wrote, which I think of as "Leonardo's Rule." He said, "Every object yields to effort." I remind myself of that every day, and when I'm having a difficult time, Rikki reminds me that this rule applies not only to the obstacles "out there," but to the more important ones-the ones we face in our own minds. Rikki lives by Leonardo's Rule; it comes to her naturally. Even though they are Leonardo's words, it is Rikki's actions that guide me and inspire me to work toward becoming a healthier and better person. ]]> 368 Cameron West 0786889780 Peregrine 4 memoir-biography, d-i-d 4.12 1999 First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple
author: Cameron West
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism]]> 1030713 256 Donna Williams 0812925246 Peregrine 3 memoir-biography, autism 3.96 1994 Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism
author: Donna Williams
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl]]> 240236 219 Donna Williams 0380722178 Peregrine 3 memoir-biography, autism 4.00 1992 Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl
author: Donna Williams
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1992
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Son Rise: The Miracle Continues]]> 128235 372 Barry Neil Kaufman 0915811618 Peregrine 0 to-read 3.95 1976 Son Rise: The Miracle Continues
author: Barry Neil Kaufman
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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]]> The First Circle 98969
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician.

At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps.

His story is interwoven with the stories of a dozen fellow prisoners - each an unforgettable human being - from the prison janitor to the tormented Marxist intellectual who designed the Dnieper dam; of the reigning elite and their conflicted subordinates; and of the women, wretched or privileged, bound to these men.

A landmark of Soviet literature, 'The First Circle' is as powerful today as it was when it was first published, nearly thirty years ago.]]> 580 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 0810115905 Peregrine 3 fiction 4.22 1968 The First Circle
author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1968
rating: 3
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]]> Drag King Dreams 183728 Drag King Dreams, the story of Max Rabinowitz, a butch lesbian bartender at an East Village club where drag kings, dykes dressed as men, perform.

A veteran of the women's and gay movement of the past 30 years, Max's mid-life crisis hits in the midst of the post-9/11 world. Max is lonely and uncertain about her future � fearful, in fact, of America's future with its War on Terror and War in Iraq � with only a core group of friends to turn to for reassurance. Max is shaken from her crisis, however, by the news that her friend Vickie, a transvestite, has been found murdered on her way home late one night. As the community of cross-dressers, drag queens, lesbian and gay men, and "genderqueers" of all kinds stand up together in the face of this tragedy, Max taps into the activist spirit she thought had long disappeared and for the first time in years discovers hope for her future.
]]> 302 Leslie Feinberg 0786717637 Peregrine 0 to-read 3.76 2006 Drag King Dreams
author: Leslie Feinberg
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> Girl in Translation 7362158 Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family’s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition. Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

Through Kimberly’s story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about.

Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant--a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.]]> 305 Jean Kwok 1594487561 Peregrine 0 to-read 3.98 2010 Girl in Translation
author: Jean Kwok
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Old Woman Who Named Things]]> 3189332 32 Cynthia Rylant 0152578099 Peregrine 4 4.36 1996 The Old Woman Who Named Things
author: Cynthia Rylant
name: Peregrine
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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shelves: kids, picture-books, read-in-2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Astrology for Yourself: How to Understand and Interpret Your Own Birth Chart]]> 3341937 224 Douglas Bloch 091472861X Peregrine 4 astrology 3.89 1987 Astrology for Yourself: How to Understand and Interpret Your Own Birth Chart
author: Douglas Bloch
name: Peregrine
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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date added: 2010/05/07
shelves: astrology
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