Ariana's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:43:06 -0700 60 Ariana's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Suite Scarlett (Scarlett, #1) 2328841
Scarlett is the third of four children in the Martin family. The Martins live in and manage a shabby hotel in NYC that dates back to the 1920s. When Scarlett turns 15, she is put in charge of one of the hotel's 27 rooms- the Empire Suite. Into this room moves Mrs. Amberson, a failed 1970s starlet who has returned to New York to write her memoirs. Soon, Scarlett is taking dictation, running around town with Mrs. Amberson, and getting caught up in her Auntie Mame-meets-Bianca Jagger adventures.]]> 368 Maureen Johnson 0439899273 Ariana 0 to-read 3.61 2008 Suite Scarlett (Scarlett, #1)
author: Maureen Johnson
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.61
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]]> A Thousand Mornings: Poems 13588404 A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments.

Our most precious chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver opens our eyes to the nature within, to its wild and its quiet. With startling clarity, humor, and kindness, AĚýThousand Mornings explores the mysteries of our daily experience.]]> 82 Mary Oliver 1594204772 Ariana 0 to-read 4.20 2012 A Thousand Mornings: Poems
author: Mary Oliver
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]]> Pretty Little Wife 53441185 Debut author Darby Kane thrills with this twisty domestic suspense novel that asks one central question: shouldn’t a dead husband stay dead?

Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn’t what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila’s husband, Aaron, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences until it’s discovered the student is really the third of three unexplained disappearances over the last few years. The police are desperate to find the connection, if there even is one. Little do they know they might be stumbling over only part of the truth�.

With the small town in an uproar, everyone is worried about the whereabouts of their beloved high school teacher. Everyone except Lila, his wife. She’s definitely confused about her missing husband but only because she was the last person to see his body, and now it’s gone.]]> 403 Darby Kane 0063016400 Ariana 0 to-read 3.89 2020 Pretty Little Wife
author: Darby Kane
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.89
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]]> The Three Women 51325886 272 Valerie Keogh Ariana 0 currently-reading 3.99 2020 The Three Women
author: Valerie Keogh
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.99
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]]> Go Ask Alice 46799
Read her diary.

Enter her world.

You will never forget her.

]]> 213 Beatrice Sparks 1416914633 Ariana 0 3.75 1971 Go Ask Alice
author: Beatrice Sparks
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1971
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]]> Gone Girl 12837725
As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn't do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?]]> 419 Gillian Flynn Ariana 0 3.99 2012 Gone Girl
author: Gillian Flynn
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[Inquebrantable: Mi historia, a mi manera]]> 18729987
"No puedo dejarme atrapar en lo negativo porque eso me destruye. Tal vez lo mejor que puedo hacer es tratar de alejarme de mis problemas y concentrarme en lo positivo. Soy una mujer como cualquier otra y me ocurren cosas feas como a cualquier otra mujer. El nĂşmero de veces que me he caĂ­do es igual al nĂşmero de veces que me he levantado."

Estas son las últimas palabras que la admirada cantante mexicanoamericana Jenni Rivera pronunció públicamente antes de subir al avión que al colapsar interrumpió su vida el 9 de diciembre de 2012. Sin embargo, esas no fueron las palabras finales que La Diva de la Banda tenía para el mundo. Esas se encuentran en las páginas que usted tiene en la mano, la propia narración de Jenni sobre las altas y bajas de su extraordinaria e inspiradora jornada.

Jenni se convirtió en la más aclamada cantante en español en Estados Unidos y vendió más de 15 millones de discos por todo el mundo. Era una madre soltera con cinco hijos y abuela de dos nietas, además de ser también actriz, productora de televisión, estrella de su propio programa de telerrealidad y empresaria.

En Inquebrantable, Jenni, con la honestidad que la caracterizaba, relata los momentos cruciales en su pasado y revela sus experiencias de violencia doméstica y abuso sexual, divorcio y problemas de imagen corporal, así como la manera en que logró avanzar en una industria dominada por hombres mientras criaba a sus hijos como madre soltera.

Aunque ya no está con nosotros, Jenni siempre será la "rebelde Rivera de Long Beach", la chica que mantuvo su sentido del humor y su espíritu luchador en toda circunstancia. En este extraordinario libro, Jenni deja detrás un legado de inspiración y determinación que vivirá para siempre a través de su preciada familia, sus amigos y sus admiradores. En ese sentido, Jenni Rivera es verdaderamente Inquebrantable.]]> 210 Jenni Rivera Ariana 5 4.40 2013 Inquebrantable: Mi historia, a mi manera
author: Jenni Rivera
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Little Women (Little Women, #1+#2)]]> 20981075 Knickerbocker Classics is proud to present Little Women, a coming of age storyĚýof virtue and true love in 19th Century America. Share this classic American tale with the next generation.

A true classic, Little WomenĚýfollowsĚýthe lives of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March,Ěýfour spirited sisters living in Civil War era America. Experience 19th Century America with the MarchesĚýas they navigate New EnglandĚýlife with a father at war, financial hardships, and the lure and intrigue of the handsome young man who lives next door.Ěý

Originally published in 1868,ĚýLittle WomenĚýwas an immediate best seller that inspired three sequels:ĚýGood Wives, Little Men, and Jo's Boys.ĚýLittle WomenĚýis based directly onĚýauthor Louisa MayĚýAlcott's own early life. Alcott's father, a reformist and staunch abolitionist, was able to often meet with luminary Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other figures that would influence her to become one of the great American authors of the post-Civil War era.]]> 500 Louisa May Alcott 1631060198 Ariana 0 to-read 4.26 1868 Little Women (Little Women, #1+#2)
author: Louisa May Alcott
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> The Journals of Sylvia Plath 11632 The Journals of Sylvia Plath provide unique insight, and are essential reading for all those who have been moved and fascinated by Plath’s life and work.]]> 400 Sylvia Plath 0385493916 Ariana 0 to-read 4.26 1982 The Journals of Sylvia Plath
author: Sylvia Plath
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> I Love My Love 34296927 The debut collection from 22-year-old poet Reyna Biddy, I Love My LoveĚýtells the story of Reyna'sĚýchildhood, her parentsâ€� toxic relationship, and how, against all odds, she learned to love herself.]]> 122 Reyna Biddy 1449486959 Ariana 3 4.00 2015 I Love My Love
author: Reyna Biddy
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 3
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]]> Whiskey, Words & a Shovel I 34467890
Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel, Vol. 1,Ěý is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healthy relationship. It is a testament to choosing to love yourself, even if it means heartbreak.

Originally released in 2015, this re-rerelease packs the same punch as the first version, but makes an even greater connection with the soul of the reader. Each piece has been re-seen and revamped to reflect the author’s continuing journey with his partner, Samantha King, without whom this book would not exist. Samantha is the muse, the “sheâ€� the writer speaks of; she is every woman who has felt like she wasn’t good enough, and every woman who struggles to find love. Ěý
Ěý±Ő±Ő> 296 R.H. Sin 1449488064 Ariana 0 to-read 3.72 2015 Whiskey, Words & a Shovel I
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]]> <![CDATA[The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)]]> 30075802
A poetry collection divided into four different parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, & you. the princess, the damsel, & the queen piece together the life of the author in three stages, while you serves as a note to the reader & all of humankind. Explores life & all of its love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, & inspirations.]]> 156 Amanda Lovelace 1532913680 Ariana 3 3.83 2016 The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
author: Amanda Lovelace
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average rating: 3.83
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Personally, I couldn't relate to many parts and "poems" of this book. This is very, very, personal work; the author talks about her issues with family, especially her mother, and to that I can not relate. She talks about love and heartbreak, and even abuse. I enjoyed my time reading this, but if you don't like reading this type of book if you can not relate, do consider this.
]]> Fahrenheit 451 17470674
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.

Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

--back cover]]> 227 Ray Bradbury 0007491565 Ariana 4 4.01 1953 Fahrenheit 451
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]]> Born to Love, Cursed to Feel 30312512
Born to Love, Cursed to Feel is about love—the good, the bad, and the confusing. It touches on morals and how when emotions are involved it’s not as black and white. The poetry is frequently written in a narrative manner that evocatively pulls you in and makes you feel. This book is about falling in love, bad decisions, and ultimately growth. The essence of it all is to show that no matter how far one falls all the mistakes don’t have to be what defines them.]]> 160 Samantha King 1449480950 Ariana 0 to-read 3.82 2016 Born to Love, Cursed to Feel
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]]> The Girl on the Train 22557272
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.]]> 336 Paula Hawkins 1594633665 Ariana 0 3.97 2015 The Girl on the Train
author: Paula Hawkins
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> Bitter Sweet Love 30227846 208 Michael Faudet 1449481019 Ariana 0 to-read 3.72 2016 Bitter Sweet Love
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]]> Dirty Pretty Things 23627418 274 Michael Faudet 047329950X Ariana 0 to-read 3.73 2014 Dirty Pretty Things
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average rating: 3.73
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]]> Rest in the Mourning 33275462 127 R.H. Sin 1449486924 Ariana 0 to-read 3.82 2016 Rest in the Mourning
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]]> Whiskey Words & a Shovel III 32894545 Whiskey Words & a Shovel III!His raw voice delivers gritty, impassioned truths on matters of loving, living, and leaving in this final book in the series.
r.h. Sin s final volume in the Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel series expands on the passion and vigor of his first two installments. His stanzas inspire strength through the raw, emotional energy and the vulnerability of his poems. Relationships, love, pain, and fortitude are powerfully rendered in his poetry, and his message of perseverance in the face of emotional turmoil cuts to the heart of modern-day life. At roughly 300 pages, this culminating volume will be his lengthiest yet.
"]]> 336 R.H. Sin 144948459X Ariana 0 to-read 3.97 2017 Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
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]]> Whiskey Words & a Shovel II 29499443
R.H. Sin’s second volume continues the passion and vigor of his previous publication. His stanzas inspire strength through the pure emotional energy and the vulnerability of his poems. Relationships, love, pain, and fortitude are powerfully rendered in his poetry, and his message of perseverance in the face of emotional turmoil cuts to the heart of modern-day life.

R.H. Sin’s poems are often only a few lines long, and yet the emotional punch of his language gives these words an enduring power beyond the short page. He doesn't back away from the pains and struggles of life and love, and yet his determined, unapologetic voice provides a measure of comfort and a message of perseverance that is at once realistic and indomitable. This blend of determination and painful vulnerability gives his poetry a distinctive, engaging flavor.]]> 176 R.H. Sin 1449480357 Ariana 0 to-read 3.97 2016 Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
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]]> Milk and honey 23513349 Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.

It is split into four chapters, with each chapter dealing with a different pain. Healing a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them -- because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.]]> 204 Rupi Kaur 1502784270 Ariana 5 3.97 2014 Milk and honey
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name: Ariana
average rating: 3.97
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]]> I'll Be Watching You 22908505
A series of hand-delivered letters leaves Ella scared for her life. Someone is watching her. Wanting her. Someone promising revenge.

Desperate for the nightmare to end, Ella will do anything to discover the truth. Even join forces with a man who comes with his own danger warning . . .]]> 400 Beverly Barton 1847561411 Ariana 0 to-read 3.52 2001 I'll Be Watching You
author: Beverly Barton
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average rating: 3.52
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]]> Lolita 32581 Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.

Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. With an introduction by Martin Amis.]]> 335 Vladimir Nabokov 0679410430 Ariana 5 4.01 1955 Lolita
author: Vladimir Nabokov
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1955
rating: 5
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]]> The Help 10966007
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.]]> 522 Kathryn Stockett 0425245136 Ariana 5 4.42 2009 The Help
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average rating: 4.42
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]]> Mouthful of Forevers 23522212
Clementine von Radics writes of love, loss, and the uncertainties and beauties of life with a ravishing poetic voice and piercing bravura that speak directly not only to the sensibility of her generation, but to anyone who has ever been young.]]> 112 Clementine von Radics 1449470793 Ariana 0 to-read 3.99 2015 Mouthful of Forevers
author: Clementine von Radics
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[I Wrote This for You and Only You (I Wrote This For You #3)]]> 25144676
"I bought the "I Wrote This For You" book in actual, real-life paperback and it soothes my soul. Buy it if you can."Ěý
- Laura Prudom (News Editor for Variety)Ěý

"One of the most beautiful things I have ever read. Ever."Ěý
- BT (Grammy Nominated Composer and Technologist) Ěý

"This is me. This is you. This is us. This is every human being, past and present, old and young, of every ethnicity, race and faith. Our every complex human emotion translated into words. Someone knows and someone understands. This is the essence of what it truly means to be human."Ěý
- Ethar El-Katatney (CNN African Journalist Of The Year, award-winning journalist, blogger and author) Ěý

"The magnificent beauty of I Wrote This For You is quite simply the book is elegantly incomplete without you. No one else in the world can read it the way you do. No one."Ěý
- Matthew E. May (The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit Of Elegance, The Shibumi Strategy) Ěý

About the Book Ěý

"I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you."

The follow-up to the international #1 bestselling collection of prose and photography,Ěý I Wrote This For You And Only Ěýis the third book in the I Wrote This For You series and gathers together the very best entries in the project from 2011 to 2015.Ěý
Started in 2007,Ěý I Wrote This For You Ěýis an internationally acclaimed exploration of hauntingly beautiful words, photography and emotion that's unique to each person that reads it.]]> 214 pleasefindthis 1771680423 Ariana 0 to-read 4.12 2015 I Wrote This for You and Only You (I Wrote This For You #3)
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]]> Salt 18585282 salt. a literary work. 251 Nayyirah Waheed Ariana 0 to-read 4.21 2013 Salt
author: Nayyirah Waheed
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> Frankenstein 18490 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439471

'Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart ...'

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.]]> 288 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Ariana 4 3.77 1818 Frankenstein
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]]> <![CDATA[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)]]> 389627 In the first book of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, introduces us to Greg Heffley: an unforgettable, unlikely hero that every family can relate to.

Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg. He finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. Greg is happy to have Rowley Jefferson, his sidekick, along for the ride. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, Greg tries to use his best friend's newfound popularity to his own advantage, kicking off a chain of events that will test their friendship in hilarious fashion.

The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary. But as Greg says: “Just don’t expect me to be all “Dear Diary� this and “Dear Diary� that.�

Luckily for us, what Greg Heffley says he won’t do and what he actually does are two very different things.]]> 226 Jeff Kinney 0810993139 Ariana 2 3.98 2007 Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> Animal Farm 7613
The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

One night, all the animals at Mr. Jones' Manor Farm assemble in a barn to hear old Major, a pig, describe a dream he had about a world where all animals live free from the tyranny of their human masters. Old Major dies soon after the meeting, but the animals � inspired by his philosophy of Animalism � plot a rebellion against Jones.

Two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, prove themselves important figures and planners of this dangerous enterprise. When Jones forgets to feed the animals, the revolution occurs, and Jones and his men are chased off the farm. Manor Farm is renamed Animal Farm, and the Seven Commandments of Animalism are painted on the barn wall...]]> 129 George Orwell Ariana 3 3.90 1945 Animal Farm
author: George Orwell
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)]]> 38980
Is she ever in for a surprise.

First mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance?]]> 283 Meg Cabot 0613371658 Ariana 3 3.81 2000 The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)
author: Meg Cabot
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.81
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rating: 3
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]]> Where's the Poop? 591581 20 Julie Markes 0060530898 Ariana 5 4.18 2004 Where's the Poop?
author: Julie Markes
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark]]> 1325218
There is a story here for everyone—skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her murderer; and a haunted house where every night a bloody head falls down the chimney.

Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozen scary stories—and even scary songs—all just right for reading alone or for telling aloud in the dark.

If You Dare!]]> 111 Alvin Schwartz 0590431978 Ariana 5 4.09 1981 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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name: Ariana
average rating: 4.09
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]]> Perfect (Impulse, #2) 9917945 Cara’s parents� unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Kendra covets the perfect face and body—no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. To score his perfect home run—on the field and off—Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back. And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he’ll be living a life his ancestors would never understand.
Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect?]]> 622 Ellen Hopkins 1416983244 Ariana 0 4.33 2011 Perfect (Impulse, #2)
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> Impulse (Impulse, #1) 270805 Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.

Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act—suicide.

Vanessa is beautiful and smart, but her secrets keep her answering the call of the blade.

Tony, after suffering a painful childhood, can only find peace through pills.

And Conner, outwardly, has the perfect life. But dig a little deeper and find a boy who is in constant battle with his parents, his life, himself.

In one instant each of these young people decided enough was enough. They grabbed the blade, the bottle, the gun—and tried to end it all. Now they have a second chance, and just maybe, with each other's help, they can find their way to a better life—but only if they're strong and can fight the demons that brought them here in the first place.]]> 666 Ellen Hopkins 1416903569 Ariana 0 4.26 2007 Impulse (Impulse, #1)
author: Ellen Hopkins
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.26
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]]> The Sunflower 133784 "Seek not your destiny, for it is seeking you."
In the wake of personal tragedy, two people meet on a humanitarian mission in Peru. Christine is a shy, unadventurous woman whose fiancee broke off the engagement only a week before the wedding, and Paul is a former emergency room doctor whose glamorous lifestyle, stellar reputation, and beautiful fiancee are cruelly snatched from him one fateful, snowy Christmas Eve. Deep in the Amazon jungle, against a backdrop of poverty and heartbreak, they must confront their deepest fears and, together, learn to trust and love again.]]> 352 Richard Paul Evans 0743287010 Ariana 0 to-read 4.13 2005 The Sunflower
author: Richard Paul Evans
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.13
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]]> Other Words for Love 8253694
When an unexpected inheritance enables Ari to transfer to an elite Manhattan prep school, she makes a wealthy new friend, Leigh. Leigh introduces Ari to the glamorous side of New York—and to her gorgeous cousin, Blake. Ari doesn't think she stands a chance, but amazingly, Blake asks her out. As their romance heats up, they find themselves involved in an intense, consuming relationship. Ari's family worries that she is losing touch with the important things in life, like family, hard work, and planning for the future.

When misfortune befalls Blake's family, he pulls away, and Ari's world drains of color. As she struggles to get over the breakup, Ari must finally ask herself: were their feelings true love . . . or something else?]]> 355 Lorraine Zago Rosenthal 038573901X Ariana 0 to-read 3.86 2011 Other Words for Love
author: Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.86
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]]> <![CDATA[Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"]]> 20588698 Not That Kind of Girl. These are stories about getting your butt touched by your boss, about friendship and dieting (kind of) and having two existential crises before the age of 20. Stories about travel, both successful and less so, and about having the kind of sex where you feel like keeping your sneakers on in case you have to run away during the act. Stories about proving yourself to a room of 50-year-old men in Hollywood and showing up to "an outlandishly high-fashion event with the crustiest red nose you ever saw." Fearless, smart, and as heartbreakingly honest as ever, Not That Kind of Girl establishes Lena Dunham as more than a hugely talented director, actress and producer-it announces her as a fresh and vibrant new literary voice.]]> 265 Lena Dunham 081299499X Ariana 0 3.28 2014 Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
author: Lena Dunham
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.28
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]]> The Longest Ride 17407748
A few miles away, at a local rodeo, a Wake Forest College senior’s life is about to change. Recovering from a recent break-up, Sophia Danko meets a young cowboy named Luke, who bears little resemblance to the privileged frat boys she has encountered at school. Through Luke, Sophia is introduced to a world in which the stakes of survival and success, ruin and reward -- even life and death � loom large in everyday life. As she and Luke fall in love, Sophia finds herself imagining a future far removed from her plans -- a future that Luke has the power to rewrite . . . if the secret he’s keeping doesn’t destroy it first.

Ira and Ruth. Sophia and Luke. Two couples who have little in common, and who are separated by years and experience. Yet their lives will converge with unexpected poignancy, reminding us all that even the most difficult decisions can yield extraordinary journeys: beyond despair, beyond death, to the farthest reaches of the human heart.]]> 398 Nicholas Sparks Ariana 4 4.15 2012 The Longest Ride
author: Nicholas Sparks
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> Our Bodies, Ourselves 10711352 Our Bodies, Ourselves is the resource that women of all ages turn to for information about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. Completely revised and updated, these pages provide women with the information and tools they need to make key health decisions—accurate, evidence-based information, input from leading experts, and personal stories from women who share their experiences. This new edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves includes the latest vital information on:

� CHANGES IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM�especially how health care reform affects women and how to get the care you need.

� SAFER SEX�how to engage in pleasurable, satisfying sexual experiences while protecting your health and the health of your partner.

� ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISKS�including minimizing exposure to everyday pollutants that endanger reproductive health.

� BODY IMAGE�resisting negative media stereotypes and embracing healthier approaches to looking and feeling good.

� LOCAL AND GLOBAL ACTIVISM�using social media and organizing tactics to build community and advocate for policies that improve women’s lives. � As well as crucial information about gender identity, sexual orientation, birth control, abortion, pregnancy and birth, perimenopause, and sexuality and sexual health as we age.

Together with its companion website, ourbodiesourselves.org, Our Bodies, Ourselves is a one-stop resource for women of all generations.

]]> 944 Ariana 0 to-read 4.47 1970 Our Bodies, Ourselves
author: Boston Women's Health Book Collective
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.47
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]]> One Step Too Far 17404760 352 Tina Seskis 0957544324 Ariana 0 to-read 3.49 2013 One Step Too Far
author: Tina Seskis
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.49
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]]> The Tale of Despereaux 37190 A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal–winning tale.

Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out.]]> 272 Kate DiCamillo 0763625299 Ariana 5 favorites 4.07 2003 The Tale of Despereaux
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average rating: 4.07
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rating: 5
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]]> After You (Me Before You, #2) 25020381
Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started.

Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .

For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.

After You is quintessential Jojo Moyes—a novel that will make you laugh, cry, and rejoice at being back in the world she creates. Here she does what few novelists can do—revisits beloved characters and takes them to places neither they nor we ever expected.]]> 12 Jojo Moyes 0698411412 Ariana 0 to-read 3.66 2015 After You (Me Before You, #2)
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]]> Diary of an Oxygen Thief 1561703
Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.]]> 140 Anonymous 908105841X Ariana 0 to-read 2.72 2006 Diary of an Oxygen Thief
author: Anonymous
name: Ariana
average rating: 2.72
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]]> The Glass Castle 7445 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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

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

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.]]> 288 Jeannette Walls 074324754X Ariana 4 4.32 2005 The Glass Castle
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]]> The Space Between Us 218357 321 Thrity Umrigar 006079156X Ariana 0 to-read 4.02 2005 The Space Between Us
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]]> A Thousand Splendid Suns 128029
With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.]]> 372 Khaled Hosseini 1594489505 Ariana 0 to-read 4.44 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns
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]]> The Kite Runner 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X Ariana 0 to-read 4.34 2003 The Kite Runner
author: Khaled Hosseini
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]]> <![CDATA[Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #2)]]> 12396528 September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them � but she’s trapped in the body of a bird.

The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom.

Hollow City draws readers into a richly imagined world of telepathy and time loops, of sideshows and shapeshifters. Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with never-before-published vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.]]> 399 Ransom Riggs 1594746125 Ariana 3 favorites 4.00 2014 Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #2)
author: Ransom Riggs
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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Not too bad but not as great as the first installment :(
]]> <![CDATA[No Backup: A Female Agent's Life in the FBI]]> 202500 320 Rosemary Dew 0786712783 Ariana 4 3.45 2003 No Backup: A Female Agent's Life in the FBI
author: Rosemary Dew
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives]]> 22875069 The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from an impoverished city in Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever.

It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of--so she chose it.
Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. There were only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got the first one.

That letter was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives.

In this compelling dual memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became best friends --and better people--through letters. Their story will inspire readers to look beyond their own lives and wonder about the world at large and their place in it.]]> 392 Caitlin Alifirenka 0316241318 Ariana 0 to-read 4.36 2015 I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
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]]> <![CDATA[If There Be Thorns (Dollanganger, #3)]]> 226706 374 V.C. Andrews 0671729454 Ariana 2 3.78 1981 If There Be Thorns (Dollanganger, #3)
author: V.C. Andrews
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1981
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[If There Be Thorns / Seeds of Yesterday (Dollanganger, #3-4)]]> 7095132 Two books in one: If There Be Thorns and Seeds of Yesterday, from V.C. Andrews's classic series that begins with Flowers in the Attic.

]]> 816 V.C. Andrews 1442406569 Ariana 2 4.21 2010 If There Be Thorns / Seeds of Yesterday (Dollanganger, #3-4)
author: V.C. Andrews
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average rating: 4.21
book published: 2010
rating: 2
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]]> Public Displays of Affection 73101
DEA agent Joe Bellacera isn't crazy about having to hide out in Minton, Ohio before testifying at the trial of a notorious drug lord. But he's handling it just fine...until he lays eyes on a fiery redhead and a hot little body he'd recognize anywhere. Joe's never had another woman like Charlotte since that day thirteen years ago. Now she's his neighbor-and strictly off-limits...

Amid the balmy, honeysuckle-scented breezes of a Midwestern summer, sense and sensibility are about to be subverted by an ice cream-loving dog, conspiring kids, and nosy neighbors. And when the Widow Tasker's fantasies meet the rock-hard reality of Agent Bellacera, let the fireworks begin...
]]> 352 Susan Donovan 0312992327 Ariana 0 to-read 3.85 2004 Public Displays of Affection
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> 172 Hours on the Moon 12810834
It's been more than forty years since NASA sent the first men to the moon, and to grab some much-needed funding and attention, they decide to launch an historic international lottery in which three lucky teenagers can win a week-long trip to moon base DARLAH 2 - a place that no one but top government officials even knew existed until now.

The three winners, Antoine, Midori, and Mia, come from all over the world. But just before the scheduled launch, the teenagers each experience strange, inexplicable events. Little do they know that there was a reason NASA never sent anyone back there until now-a sinister reason. But the countdown has already begun. . .]]> 368 Johan Harstad 1907411518 Ariana 0 to-read 3.54 2008 172 Hours on the Moon
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average rating: 3.54
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]]> <![CDATA[Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War]]> 16075929 In Salt, Printz Honor author Helen Frost offers a compelling look at a difficult time in history.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013

A Frances Foster Book]]> 160 Helen Frost 0374363870 Ariana 0 to-read 3.78 2013 Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
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]]> To the Lighthouse 59716
As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.]]> 209 Virginia Woolf Ariana 0 to-read 3.81 1927 To the Lighthouse
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.81
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]]> The Silver Linings Playbook 13539044
In this enchanting novel, Matthew Quick takes us inside Pat's mind, showing us the world from his distorted yet endearing perspective.]]> 291 Matthew Quick 0374533571 Ariana 0 to-read 3.98 2008 The Silver Linings Playbook
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]]> Paper Towns 6442769 Who is the real Margo?

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...]]> 305 John Green 014241493X Ariana 3 3.68 2008 Paper Towns
author: John Green
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)]]> 226709 They were such brave children to withstand such suffering. Such clever children to escape such terror!

For Carrie, Chris and Cathy, the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds, even while they built bright, promising new lives. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist.

And Grandmother was convinced they had the devil in them.

But that wasn't their fault. Was it? Cathy knew what to do.

She now had the powers she had learned from her beautiful mother. She knew it in the way her brother still yearned for her, in the way her guardian touched her, in the way all men looked at her.

She knew it was time to put what she knew to the test. To show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten... Show them.

Show them—once and for all.
--back cover]]> 439 V.C. Andrews 0671729470 Ariana 5 3.83 1980 Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)
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name: Ariana
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1980
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)]]> 43448 Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father. So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic. Just for a little while. But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed.... 'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive....']]> 389 V.C. Andrews 0743496310 Ariana 4 3.84 1979 Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
author: V.C. Andrews
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1979
rating: 4
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Very interesting story! Could not set this down for more than 15 minutes and with such time on my hands at school, I managed to finish in a day or so! Very intriguing story and plot--my brain just kept asking for more and more and what came next! I thought this had a different story to it--the reason the children were locked up--but I discovered there was a very powerful truth untold. These children spent several years in a room and attic while being given little to eat and attempted to be poisioned... By their own mother! The secrets just spilled and spilled and I craved for more! Yay for these 2 in 1 books they published!
]]> <![CDATA[Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind (Dollganger, #1-2)]]> 25071448 Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind.]]> 868 V.C. Andrews 0329785427 Ariana 4 favorites 3.80 1979 Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind (Dollganger, #1-2)
author: V.C. Andrews
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average rating: 3.80
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]]> Violet & Claire 14569 169 Francesca Lia Block 0064472531 Ariana 0 to-read 3.81 1999 Violet & Claire
author: Francesca Lia Block
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.81
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]]> You Don't Know Me 457557 Moving, wholly involving, original, and emotionally true, You Don't Know Me is a multilayered novel that presents a winning portrait of an understandably angst-ridden adolescent.

]]> 352 David Klass 0064473783 Ariana 0 to-read 3.89 2001 You Don't Know Me
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name: Ariana
average rating: 3.89
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]]> Shug 259068 SHUG

is clever and brave and true (on the inside, anyway). And she's about to become your new best friend.

Annemarie Wilcox, or Shug as her family calls her, is beginning to think there's nothing worse than being twelve. She's too tall, too freckled, and way too flat-chested. Shug is sure that there's not one good or amazing thing about her. And now she has to start junior high, where the friends she counts most dear aren't acting so dear anymore -- especially Mark, the boy she's known her whole life through. Life is growing up all around her, and all Shug wants is for things to be like they used to be. How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?

]]> 248 Jenny Han 1416909427 Ariana 0 to-read 3.98 2006 Shug
author: Jenny Han
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.98
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]]> Love That Dog (Jack, #1) 53498 look like a poem
when you see it
typed up
like that."

Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels empty. But his teacher, Ms. Stretchberry, won't stop giving her class poetry assignments—and Jack can't avoid them. But then something amazing happens. The more he writes, the more he learns he does have something to say.]]> 112 Sharon Creech 0064409597 Ariana 0 to-read 4.03 2001 Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
author: Sharon Creech
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.03
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]]> The Best of Me 10766509
Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined.

As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?]]> 292 Nicholas Sparks 0446547654 Ariana 5 favorites 3.97 2010 The Best of Me
author: Nicholas Sparks
name: Ariana
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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I love this book (I've read it three times)! Teenage love can be so beautiful yet so heartbreaking, especially when you are practically forced to let that special someone go. I can connect.. Or will soon enough... I cry everytime. 10/10 ! (Not really feeling the upcomibg film, but still a lil excited!)
]]> Flowers for Algernon 402059 (back cover)]]> 216 Daniel Keyes 0553274503 Ariana 5 favorites 4.07 1966 Flowers for Algernon
author: Daniel Keyes
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1966
rating: 5
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With its epistolary format and how much details Charly gives us, this book made top 10 of my favorites automatically! I read this book for the first time in the 5th grade--it was a gift from my favorite aunt. Seeing how Charly developed his writing and relationship skills was fascinating and enthusiastic! Reading about his difficult times and memories was sad! This book was just a whole turmoil of emotions--I really did "get into it". I love love love this book and there really are no right words to review this book to where it'll make it sound perfect but to me it is. I've read this book about 3 or 4 times since and I love it every time. Sadly, my book is now in bad condition but I will definitely buy another copy once it is illegible. I also recommend watching the film for it is very good too.
]]> <![CDATA[The Perks of Being a Wallflower]]> 13573503 The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a story about what it’s like to travel that strange course through the uncharted territory of high school. The world of first dates, family dramas, and new friends. Of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Of those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.]]> 213 Stephen Chbosky 1451696191 Ariana 5 4.17 1999 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
author: Stephen Chbosky
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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From its epistolary format to the plot itself, this book is all I thought it would be. I did read this after watching the movie and I'm glad I did! As I was reading, I visualized that particular scene from the movie in my head and it helped a lot. This book is one of the saddest most emotional-draining books I've ever read from Charlie's personality to Patrick's incident to Charlie in general and back again. All of the characters (Charlie's friends rather) have such a detailed personality! I think we can all identify with being a "Wallflower" every once in a while. I love epistolary books and this definitely made top 10. 5 stars of course!
]]> <![CDATA[You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir]]> 29474 128 Eireann Corrigan 0439297710 Ariana 0 to-read 3.97 2002 You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir
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]]> Us 21423525
The timing couldn’t be worse. Hoping to encourage her son’s artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead with the original plan is for the best anyway. Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage and might even help him bond with Albie.

Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger.]]> 400 David Nicholls 034089699X Ariana 0 to-read 3.69 2014 Us
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]]> The Infinite Moment of Us 17290266
Charlie Parker, on the other hand, is painfully aware of his heart’s desire. A gentle boy with a troubled past, Charlie has loved Wren since the day he first saw her. But a girl like Wren would never fall for a guy like Charlie—at least not the sort of guy Charlie believes himself to be.

And yet certain things are written in the stars. And in the summer after high school, Wren and Charlie’s souls will collide. But souls are complicated, as are the bodies that house them...

Sexy, romantic, and oh-so-true to life, this is an unforgettable look at first love from one of young adult fiction’s greatest writers.]]> 316 Lauren Myracle 1419707930 Ariana 0 to-read 3.17 2013 The Infinite Moment of Us
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 8331206
Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age and grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful. The painting, which reflects each of Gray's sins and transgressions, haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable. In this dark tale of duplicity and mortality, Wilde creates a world where art and reality collide.]]> 224 Oscar Wilde Ariana 4 4.06 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Ariana
average rating: 4.06
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait]]> 91760
Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo’s amazing, illustrated journal documents the last 10 years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions in the complex personal life of this remarkable artist.

The 170-page journal contains the artist’s thoughts, poems, and dreams—many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera—along with 70 mesmerizing watercolor illustrations. Her views of love, politics, and more come into sharp focus in a kaleidoscope of creativity and thought.

In his introduction, award-winner Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico’s most important writers and critics, ties Kahlo’s images of pain, loss, mutilation, and transcendence to Mexico’s historic cycles of revolution and reaction. Sprinkled with irony, black humor, even gaiety, and augmented with translations of the diary entries plus commentaries and photographs, her diary stands as a reminder of not only Kahlo’s formidable talent, but also her resilience and courage.

The text entries, written in Frida’s round, full script in brightly colored inks, make the journal as captivating to look at as it is to read. Her writing reveals the artist’s political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her enormous courage in the face of more than 35 operations to correct injuries she had sustained in an accident at the age of 18.

This intimate portal into her life is sure to fascinate fans of the artist, art historians, and women’s culturalists alike.]]> 296 Frida Kahlo 0810959542 Ariana 5 favorites 3.91 1995 The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
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average rating: 3.91
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Beautiful and very intimate... a wonderful inside look at Frida's thoughts, feelings, and boredom. I've been wanting to read this book for a very long time and now that I finally got my hands on it, I was not dissapointed. I'll admit that the introduction is way too long and I didn't read it all, but the rest of the book including the translation was amazing. I had some difficulty reading her writing sometimes, but the translated parts helped. Great book!
]]> <![CDATA[How They Met, and Other Stories]]> 954001 244 David Levithan 037584886X Ariana 4 3.77 2008 How They Met, and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life]]> 15843166 The #1 New York Times Bestseller You Are A Badass is the self-help book for people who desperately want to improve their lives but don't want to get busted doing it.

In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word. If you're ready to make some serious changes around here, You Are a Badass will help you: Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want, blast past your fears so you can take big exciting risks, figure out how to make some damn money already, learn to love yourself and others, set big goals and reach them - it will basically show you how to create a life you totally love, and how to create it now.

By the end of You Are a Badass, you'll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.]]> 254 Jen Sincero 0762447699 Ariana 0 to-read 3.95 2013 You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
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]]> The Art of Being Normal 23058402
David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he’s gay. The school bully thinks he’s a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth � David wants to be a girl.

On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal � to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in year eleven is definitely not part of that plan.

When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long…]]> 353 Lisa Williamson 1910200328 Ariana 0 to-read 3.90 2015 The Art of Being Normal
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]]> Love, Lucy 20911403
In this stunning novel, April Lindner perfectly captures the highs and lows of a summer love that might just be meant to last beyond the season.]]> 304 April Lindner 0316400696 Ariana 0 to-read 3.47 2015 Love, Lucy
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]]> <![CDATA[My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories]]> 20309175 336 Stephanie Perkins 1250059305 Ariana 3 3.67 2014 My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
author: Stephanie Perkins
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rating: 3
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]]> Lark 9266790 192 Tracey Porter 0061122874 Ariana 2 3.40 2011 Lark
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rating: 2
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I gave this book a 2 only because I think the story could've gone better... The idea was nice but it failed. Honestly I was only interested in the parts labeled Lark and even then the story was not that great.
]]> Maybe I Will 15715618
It's about how one secret act of violence changes everything--how best friends can desert you when you need them most, how nobody understands. It's about the drinking and stealing and lying and wondering who you can trust. It's about parents and teachers, police officers and counselors--all the people who are supposed to help you, but who may not even believe you.

It's about how suddenly all of your hopes and dreams can vanish, and you can find yourself all alone, with nothing and no one. Your only choice is to end it all or to start over... and all you can think is Maybe I Will.

Author Laurie Gray presents a compelling picture of the realities of sexual assault in Maybe I Will, drawing on her years of experience as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, dealing with crimes against children. The twist in the story is that we never know for sure if the victim is a boy or a girl, and we realize that it doesn't matter, because it's not about sex.]]> 200 Laurie Gray 1935462717 Ariana 4 3.55 2013 Maybe I Will
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]]> Frida Kahlo (Spanish Edition) 1292609 245 Frida] Earl [Kahlo 9706514546 Ariana 0 to-read 4.25 2001 Frida Kahlo (Spanish Edition)
author: Frida] Earl [Kahlo
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]]> Keeping You a Secret 272315
At least, it seems to be.

But when Cece Goddard comes to school, everything changes. Cece and Holland have undeniable feelings for each other, but how will others react to their developing relationship?]]> 250 Julie Anne Peters 0316009857 Ariana 4 3.94 2003 Keeping You a Secret
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]]> <![CDATA[Cool Women, Hot Jobs: And How You Can Go for It, Too!]]> 2116622 240 Tina Schwager 1575421097 Ariana 0 to-read 3.80 2002 Cool Women, Hot Jobs: And How You Can Go for It, Too!
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]]> <![CDATA[The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation]]> 371859
An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect’s wool jacket . . . A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer’s precise geographical path . . . A gluttonous criminal’s fingerprints are lifted from a chocolate truffle. . . .

Filled with these and many other intriguing true stories, and packed with black and white illustrations and photographs, The Forensic Casebook draws on interviews with police personnel and forensic scientists—including animal examiners, botanists, zoologists, firearms specialists, and autoposists—to uncover the vast and detailed underworkings of criminal investigation. Encyclopedic in scope, this riveting, authoritative book leaves no aspect of forensic science untouched, covering such fascinating topics

� Securing a crime scene
� Identifying blood splatter patterns
� Collecting fingerprints� and feet, lip, and ear prints
� Interpreting the stages of a body’s decay
� Examining hair and fiber evidence
� Trace evidence from firearms and explosives
� “Lifting� DNA prints
� Computer crime and forensic photography
� Career paths in criminal science

Lucidly written and spiked with real crime stories, The Forensic Casebook exposes the nitty gritty that other books only touch upon. Here is a reference book as addictive as a page-turning novel of suspense.]]> 332 Ngaire E. Genge 0345452038 Ariana 0 to-read 3.90 2002 The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation
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]]> Essential Forensic Biology 7520252
The coverage of molecular techniques has been expanded throughout with additional material on bioterrorism and wildlife forensics now included. The use of DNA and RNA for the identification of individuals and their personal characteristics is now covered along with a discussion of the ethical issues associated with the maintenance of DNA databases.

- Fully revised and updated new edition of this highly successful textbook.

- Includes self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter and case studies.

- Now in full colour throughout.

- Includes a supplementary website () covering additional material and self-test questions to reinforce student understanding.


From the reviews of the first edition:

""The author does an excellent job of demonstrating how biological science can, and does, contribute to legal investigations..."" THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

.".".a super book ...not a book that will languish on library shelves. Buy it "" JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL EDUCATION

.".".naturalists and biologists will find much of interest within these books...new light on the application of their own specialism..."" THE NATURALIST

""Overall, I give it my highest recommendation. I was unable to find a single paragraph that was no fascinating, despite being sad or gruesome at times."" E-STREAMS]]> 436 Alan Gunn 0470758031 Ariana 0 to-read 4.22 2009 Essential Forensic Biology
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]]> <![CDATA[The Real World of a Forensic Scientist: Renowned Experts Reveal What It Takes to Solve Crimes]]> 6165904 349 Henry C. Lee 1591027292 Ariana 0 to-read 3.63 2009 The Real World of a Forensic Scientist: Renowned Experts Reveal What It Takes to Solve Crimes
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]]> <![CDATA[Special Agent: My Life On the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI]]> 190619 320 Candice Delong 0786867078 Ariana 0 to-read 3.95 2001 Special Agent: My Life On the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI
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]]> The Host (The Host, #1) 1656001
As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love.

Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]
ACE #1 - ACE #2 ]]> 619 Stephenie Meyer 0316068047 Ariana 0 to-read 3.85 2008 The Host (The Host, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)]]> 24337
Gail Carson Levine's examination of traditional female roles in fairy tales takes some satisfying twists and deviations from the original. Ella is bound by obedience against her will, and takes matters in her own hands with ambition and verve. Her relationship with the prince is balanced and based on humor and mutual respect; in fact, it is she who ultimately rescues him. Ella Enchanted has won many well-deserved awards, including a Newbery Honor.]]> 240 Gail Carson Levine 0590920685 Ariana 4 4.01 1997 Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
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]]> Bridge to Terabithia 2839
That's not a very promising beginning for a friendship, but Jess and Leslie Burke become inseparable. Together they create Terabithia, a magical kingdom in the woods where the two of them reign as king and queen, and their imaginations set the only limits.]]> 128 Katherine Paterson 0439366771 Ariana 4 3.99 1977 Bridge to Terabithia
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> Esperanza Rising 89763 304 Pam Muñoz Ryan 043912042X Ariana 4 4.03 2000 Esperanza Rising
author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
name: Ariana
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World]]> 207802
That's why she's so happy to be homeschooled and to spend every free second outside with the trees and the brook.

Then some not-so-great things happen in her world. Ida B has to go back to that Place of Slow but Sure Body-Cramping, Mind-Numbing, Fun-Killing Torture—school. She feels her heart getting smaller and smaller and hardening into a sharp, black stone.

How can things go from righter than right to a million miles beyond wrong? Can Ida B put together a plan to get things back to just-about perfect again?]]> 272 Katherine Hannigan 0060730269 Ariana 0 to-read 3.89 2004 Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World
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]]> No Matter the Wreckage: Poems 18288210 No Matter the Wreckage presents readers with new and beloved work that showcases Kay's knack for celebrating family, love, travel, history, and unlikely love affairs between inanimate objects ("Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tire"), among other curious topics.

Both fresh and wise, Kay's poetry allows readers to join in on her journey of discovering herself and the world around her. It's an honest and powerful collection.]]> 143 Sarah Kay 1938912489 Ariana 0 to-read 4.20 2014 No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
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]]> You Can Make Anything Sad 21327039 82 Spencer Madsen Ariana 0 to-read 4.08 2014 You Can Make Anything Sad
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]]> <![CDATA[Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights]]> 20518909
Forty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, "abortion" is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least one pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman's right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a "bad thing," an "agonizing decision," making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive. Meanwhile, with each passing day, the rights upheld by the Supreme Court are being systematically eroded by state laws designed to end abortion outright. In this urgent, controversial book, Katha Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a woman's reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. In Pro , Pollitt takes on the personhood argument, reaffirms the priority of a woman's life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for good for women, families, and society. It is time, Pollitt argues, that we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers.]]> 258 Katha Pollitt 0312620543 Ariana 0 to-read 4.27 2014 Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
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]]> <![CDATA[From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds]]> 970557
What’s happening with the baby now? All expectant parents ask this question throughout the exhilirating months of pregnancy. Fuzzy sonograms and doctor’s explanations can provide basic information, but through Alexander Tsiaras� remarkable achievements in medical imaging technology, parents can see , for the first time, the awe-inspiring process of a new life unfolding, in stunning, vivid detail.

The milestones of pregnancy which before could only be described can now be the heart’s first beats; the appearance of color in the eye; the emergence of toes and teeth; the brain and nervous system directing development; the first movement of tiny legs and arms; the first indications of gender; the wondrous symbiosis of mother and child; the symphony of the body’s systems coming into being and working in concert. The book tracks the development of a baby from the moment of conception, through the explosively complex early stages of development and the amazing stages of growth as the baby is nurtured by the mother, ending with the joy of birth.

All this is made possible by revolutions in two sciences. As biologists have decoded the molecular basis of life, computer scientists have developed non-invasive, three-dimensional techniques for visualizing the body. Alexander Tsiaras has been a pioneer in merging these explorations and discoveries. He has created a virtual camera studio that enables him to view a human body or any part of it individually, scan it, enlarge it, rotate it, adjust its transparency so that we can view inside a living being, and light it from any angle. The result is an ability to illuminate the unseen elements that make us who we are, and the miraculous images in From Conception to Birth .]]> 304 Alexander Tsiaras 0385503180 Ariana 3 4.34 2002 From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds
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]]> <![CDATA[A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France]]> 22173463 Ěý
In 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, Miranda's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of France. Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking the typewriter and their children. Aside from one brief encounter, the two never saw or spoke to each other again, never remarried, and never revealed what had divided them forever.

A Fifty-Year Silence is the deeply involving account of Miranda Richmond Mouillot's journey to find out what happened between her grandmother, a physician, and her grandfather, an interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, who refused to utter his wife's name aloud after she left him. To discover the roots of their embittered and entrenched silence, Miranda abandons her plans for the future and moves to their stone house, now a crumbling ruin; immerses herself in letters, archival materials, and secondary sources; and teases stories out of her reticent, and declining, grandparents. As she reconstructs how Anna and Armand braved overwhelming odds and how the knowledge her grandfather acquired at Nuremberg destroyed their relationship, Miranda wrestles with the legacy of trauma, the burden of history, and the complexities of memory. She also finds herself learning how not only to survive but to thrive--making a home in the village and falling in love.

With warmth, humor, and rich, evocative details that bring her grandparents' outsize characters and their daily struggles vividly to life, A Fifty-Year Silence is a heartbreaking, uplifting love story spanning two continents and three generations.]]> 288 Miranda Richmond Mouillot 0804140642 Ariana 0 to-read 3.58 2015 A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
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]]> All the Bright Places 18460392 The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning!
Ěý
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.
Ěý
Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.
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When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders� of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink.
Ěý
This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven.]]> 388 Jennifer Niven 0385755880 Ariana 0 to-read 4.12 2015 All the Bright Places
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]]> Fixing Delilah 7074259
She used to be a good student, but she can't seem to keep it together anymore. Her "boyfriend" isn't much of a boyfriend. And her mother refuses to discuss the fight that divided their family eight years ago. Falling apart, it seems, is a Hannaford tradition.

Over a summer of new friendships, unexpected romance, and moments that test the complex bonds between mothers and daughters, Delilah must face her family's painful past. Can even her most shattered relationships be pieced together again?

Rich with emotion, Sarah Ockler delivers a powerful story of family, love, and self-discovery.]]> 308 Sarah Ockler 0316052094 Ariana 0 to-read 3.81 2010 Fixing Delilah
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average rating: 3.81
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