J.'s bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:08:23 -0700 60 J.'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Peloponnesian War 6177216 784 Thucydides 0192821911 J. 4 4.13 -411 The Peloponnesian War
author: Thucydides
name: J.
average rating: 4.13
book published: -411
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/03/31
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]]> Vicontele de Bragelonne 16150414 ֧ܧ ӧاէѧ֧ ާߧԧڧݧ֧ߧߧާ ڧݧݧѧڧާ ٧ѧާ֧ѧ֧ݧߧԧ ֧ܧԧ էاߧڧܧ ѧߧڧݧѧӧ է֧֧ܧ.]]> 2422 Alexandre Dumas 6065392898 J. 0 to-read 4.22 Vicontele de Bragelonne
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: J.
average rating: 4.22
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]]> The Landlady 329892 121 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0938618016 J. 2 fiction 3.40 1847 The Landlady
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: J.
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1847
rating: 2
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date added: 2025/03/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation]]> 7493
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.

During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation--and perhaps any--came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. Ellis focuses on six discrete moments that exemplify the most crucial issues facing the fragile new nation: Burr and Hamilton's deadly duel, and what may have really happened; Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison's secret dinner, during which the seat of the permanent capital was determined in exchange for passage of Hamilton's financial plan; Franklin's petition to end the "peculiar institution" of slavery--his last public act--and Madison's efforts to quash it; Washington's precedent-setting Farewell Address, announcing his retirement from public office and offering his country some final advice; Adams's difficult term as Washington's successor and his alleged scheme to pass the presidency on to his son; and finally, Adams and Jefferson's renewed correspondence at the end of their lives, in which they compared their different views of the Revolution and its legacy.

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger-than-life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

Ellis argues that the checks and balances that permitted the infant American republic to endure were not primarily legal, constitutional, or institutional, but intensely personal, rooted in the dynamic interaction of leaders with quite different visions and values. Revisiting the old-fashioned idea that character matters, Founding Brothers informs our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history.]]> 288 Joseph J. Ellis 0375705244 J. 4 3.94 2000 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
author: Joseph J. Ellis
name: J.
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 2023/07/10
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: american-history, american-biography, biography, history, nonfiction, politics, pres-3-thomas-jefferson, pres-1-george-washington, pres-2-john-adams
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]]> <![CDATA[Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Pivotal Moments in American History)]]> 373588
Adams vs. Jefferson is the gripping account of a turning point in American history, a dramatic struggle between two parties with profoundly different visions of how the nation should be governed. The Federalists, led by Adams, were conservatives who favored a strong central government. The Republicans, led by Jefferson, were more egalitarian and believed that the Federalists had betrayed the Revolution of 1776 and were backsliding toward monarchy. The campaign itself was a barroom brawl every bit as ruthless as any modern contest, with mud-slinging, scare tactics, and backstabbing. The low point came when Alexander Hamilton printed a devastating attack on Adams, the head of his own party, in "fifty-four pages of unremitting vilification." The stalemate in the Electoral College dragged on through dozens of ballots. Tensions ran so high that the Republicans threatened civil war if the Federalists denied Jefferson the presidency. Finally a secret deal that changed a single vote gave
Jefferson the White House. A devastated Adams left Washington before dawn on Inauguration Day, too embittered even to shake his rival's hand.

With magisterial command, Ferling brings to life both the outsize personalities and the hotly contested political questions at stake. He shows not just why this moment was a milestone in U.S. history, but how strongly the issues--and the passions--of 1800 resonate with our own time.]]> 288 John Ferling 019518906X J. 3 3.98 2004 Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Pivotal Moments in American History)
author: John Ferling
name: J.
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/16
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: american-history, history, nonfiction, politics, pres-3-thomas-jefferson, pres-2-john-adams
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]]> <![CDATA[Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams]]> 2209 Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx.


"The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the founding fathers, John Adams knew himself as few men do and preserved his knowledge in a voluminous correspondence that still vibrates. Ellis has used it with great skill and perception not only to bring us the man, warts and all, but more importantly to reveal his extraordinary insights into the problems confronting the founders that resonate today in the republic they created." Edmund S. Morgan, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University]]> 277 Joseph J. Ellis 0393311333 J. 4 4.06 1993 Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
author: Joseph J. Ellis
name: J.
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2024/01/21
date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: american-history, american-biography, biography, history, pres-2-john-adams
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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 J. 4 childrens, fiction, fantasy 4.05 1871 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
author: Lewis Carroll
name: J.
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1871
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/03/25
shelves: childrens, fiction, fantasy
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]]> <![CDATA[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]> 60671823 Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuous hardback and jacketed edition. A perfect gift for families, children and all fans of this much-loved favourite classic.

First published by Macmillan more than 150 years ago, Lewis Carrolls iconic story has been loved and enjoyed by generations of children.

This edition presents Lewis Carroll's complete text, with new illustrations from Costa Award- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Chris Riddell. Published 200 years after the birth of Alices first illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, also the political cartoonist of his time, Chris Riddell's illustrations set a new bar in terms of excellence with his unique, rich and evocative interpretation of Carroll's world.

With the curious, quick-witted Alice at its heart, readers will not only rediscover characters such as the charming White Rabbit, the formidable Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and the grinning Cheshire Cat but will find fresh and wonderful creations of these characters by a true master of his art,; images that will live in our hearts and minds for generations to come.]]> 320 Lewis Carroll 152900246X J. 3 childrens, fiction, fantasy 4.08 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
author: Lewis Carroll
name: J.
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1865
rating: 3
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date added: 2025/03/25
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]]> Lair of the White Worm 35819
Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula, is one of the most enduring and masterful influences on the literature of terror.]]> 120 Bram Stoker 0646418424 J. 2 fantasy, fiction, horror 2.81 1911 Lair of the White Worm
author: Bram Stoker
name: J.
average rating: 2.81
book published: 1911
rating: 2
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date added: 2025/03/24
shelves: fantasy, fiction, horror
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]]> <![CDATA[South Sea Tales (Modern Library Classics)]]> 349429 384 Jack London 0375759298 J. 4 3.81 1911 South Sea Tales (Modern Library Classics)
author: Jack London
name: J.
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1911
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/22
date added: 2025/03/23
shelves: adventure, fiction, jack-london
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]]> <![CDATA[Ranma 1/2 (2-in-1 Edition), Vol. 6: Includes Volumes 11 & 12]]> 21412163 InuYasha, Urusei Yatsura, RIN-NE) smash hit of martial arts mayhem, presented remastered and unflipped for the first time.

CREATIVE CURES

Furinkan High gets a new principal with some very radical ideas about student discipline and a rather unexpected relationship with blustering upperclassman Kuno. Then, poor lovesick Ryoga finally gets a break when a magical bar of soap cures his porcine transformations. If its not too good to be true, then it ɴDzԡ all come out in the wash.]]> 368 Rumiko Takahashi 1421566192 J. 2 4.21 1988 Ranma 1/2 (2-in-1 Edition), Vol. 6: Includes Volumes 11 & 12
author: Rumiko Takahashi
name: J.
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1988
rating: 2
read at: 2025/03/12
date added: 2025/03/12
shelves: comics-own, comics-read, fiction
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]]> In Cold Blood 5096865 The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever written; In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.?

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy.?In Cold Blood?is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.]]> 368 Truman Capote J. 0 4.20 1966 In Cold Blood
author: Truman Capote
name: J.
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1966
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe, #2)]]> 77609
'Paul Chapin's college cronies never forgave themselves for the prank that crippled their friend. Yet with Harvard days long behind them, they thought they were forgiven -- until a class reunion ends in a fatal fall (for one of them). Now this league of frightened men is desperate for Nero Wolfe's help. But are Wolfe's brilliance and Archie's tenacity enough to outwit a most cunning killer?']]> 302 Rex Stout 0553762982 J. 3 fiction, mystery 4.07 1935 The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe, #2)
author: Rex Stout
name: J.
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1935
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/29
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves: fiction, mystery
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]]> Lamu: Urusei Yatsura, 1 22823 416 Rumiko Takahashi 8484497267 J. 3 comics-read 3.84 1989 Lamu: Urusei Yatsura, 1
author: Rumiko Takahashi
name: J.
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1989
rating: 3
read at: 2018/11/01
date added: 2024/12/21
shelves: comics-read
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]]> Home (Myron Bolitar, #11) 29430007
A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken? And most critically: What can he tell Myron and Win about the fate of his missing friend? Drawing on his singular talent, Harlan Coben delivers an explosive and deeply moving thriller about friendship, family, and the meaning of home.]]> 387 Harlan Coben 0525955100 J. 3 4.08 2016 Home (Myron Bolitar, #11)
author: Harlan Coben
name: J.
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/07
date added: 2024/12/07
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]]> <![CDATA[Live Wire (Myron Bolitar, #10)]]> 8437667 #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben proves once again that "nobody writes them better" in a thriller that asks a provocative question: Is a pretty lie better than the ugly truth?

Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, Deal Breaker, in 1995, introducing a hero that would captivate millions. Over the years we have watched Myron walk a tight rope between sports agent, friend, problem solver and private eye, his big heart quick to defend his client's interests so fiercely that he can't help but jump in to save them, no matter the cost.

When former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, encounter an anonymous Facebook post questioning the paternity of their unborn child, Lex runs off, and Suzze - at eight months pregnant - asks Myron to save her marriage, and perhaps her husband's life. But when he finds Lex, he also finds someone he wasn't looking for: his sister-in-law, Kitty, who along with Myron's brother abandoned the Bolitar family long ago.

As Myron races to locate his missing brother while their father clings to life, he must face the lies that led to the estrangement - including the ones told by Myron himself.]]> 371 Harlan Coben 0525952063 J. 2 4.06 2011 Live Wire (Myron Bolitar, #10)
author: Harlan Coben
name: J.
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2011
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/29
date added: 2024/11/30
shelves: fiction, harlan-coben, mystery
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]]> <![CDATA[Long Lost (Myron Bolitar, #9)]]> 3675828 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Cobens blistering new Myron Bolitar thriller takes Myronand his millions of fanswhere they have never gone before

Myron Bolitar hasnt heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. In a shattering admission, Terese reveals the tragic story behind her disappearanceher struggles to get pregnant, the greatest moment of her life when her baby was bornand the fatal accident that robbed her of it all: her marriage, her happiness and her beloved only daughter.

Now a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, Terese has nowhere else to turn for help. Myron heeds the call. But then a startling piece of evidence turns the entire case upside down, laying bare Tereses long-buried family secretsand the very real possibility that her daughter may still be alive.

In grave danger from unknown assailants in a country where nothing is as it seems, Myron and Terese race to stay a step ahead of Homeland Security, Interpol, and Mossad. Soon they are working at breakneck pace, not only to learn what really happened to Tereses long-lost little girl but to uncover a sinister plot with shocking global implications.]]> 374 Harlan Coben 0525951059 J. 2 3.95 2009 Long Lost (Myron Bolitar, #9)
author: Harlan Coben
name: J.
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2009
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/26
date added: 2024/11/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Promise Me (Myron Bolitar, #8)]]> 43924 504 Harlan Coben 0451219244 J. 2 3.99 2006 Promise Me (Myron Bolitar, #8)
author: Harlan Coben
name: J.
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2006
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/24
date added: 2024/11/25
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]]> The Sea Wolf 43049 425 Jack London 1598184318 J. 3 fiction, jack-london 4.05 1904 The Sea Wolf
author: Jack London
name: J.
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1904
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/21
date added: 2024/11/21
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]]> <![CDATA[Darkest Fear (Myron Bolitar, #7)]]> 43929 /book/show/5...

Myron Bolitar's father's recent heart attack brings Myron smack into a midlife encounter with issues of adulthood and mortality. And if that's not enough to turn his life upside down, the reappearance of his first serious girlfriend is. The basketball star turned sports agent, who does a little detecting when business is slow, is saddened by the news that Emily Downing's 13-year-old son is dying and desperately needs a bone marrow transplant; even if she did leave him for the man who destroyed his basketball career, he wouldn't wish tsuris like that on anyone. And he's not at all interested in getting involved with Emily again, not even to track down the one mysterious donor who may be able to save the boy. But when Myron learns that Jeremy Downing is his own son, conceived the night before Emily and Greg Downing married, he embarks on a search for someone who disappeared a lifetime ago. And what he finds leads him to a powerful family determined to keep an old secret, a disgraced reporter who may have plagiarized a novel to create a serial killer, a very interested FBI agent, and a missing child.

This is the seventh outing in a series that's been gaining in popularity since Bolitar's first appearance, in Harlan Coben's Deal Breaker. Myron's a bit of a baby, but he's not afraid to get rough when the situation calls for it, he's eminently likable, and his heart's in the right place. The fireworks are supplied by his friend and partner, Win, who really deserves a series of his own, and Esperanza, the lesbian wrestler-lawyer who has finally talked Myron into making her a partner in the business. Like Coben's other Bolitar novels, she's worth every penny. --Jane Adams

]]> 354 Harlan Coben 0752849190 J. 2 4.02 1999 Darkest Fear (Myron Bolitar, #7)
author: Harlan Coben
name: J.
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1999
rating: 2
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date added: 2024/11/20
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]]> <![CDATA[The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar, #6)]]> 372384
Myron Bolitars colleague at MB SportsReps, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of a client, a fallen baseball star attempting a comeback. Myron is determined to prove Esperanzas innocenceeven if she ɴDzԡ speak to him on the advice of her lawyer, who warns Myron to keep away from both the case and his client. But Myron is already too close, too involved, and has too much at stake. And the closer Myron gets to the truth, the more the evidence points to the only viable suspect besides Esperanza: Myron himself.]]> 384 Harlan Coben 0440225450 J. 2 4.00 1999 The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar, #6)
author: Harlan Coben
name: J.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1999
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/19
date added: 2024/11/19
shelves: fiction, harlan-coben, mystery
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]]> White Fang 43035 252 Jack London J. 4 fiction, jack-london 4.00 1906 White Fang
author: Jack London
name: J.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1906
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/17
date added: 2024/11/17
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]]> <![CDATA[One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)]]> 382680
Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life.

Twenty years before, Brenda's mother deserted her. And just as Brenda is making it to the top of the women's pro basketball world, her father disappears too. A big-time New York sports agent with a foundering love life, Myron has a professional interest in Brenda. Then a personal one. But between them isn't just the difference in their backgrounds or the color of their skin. Between them is a chasm of corruption and lies, a vicious young mafioso on the make, and one secret that some people are dying to keep -- and others are killing to protect....]]> 383 Harlan Coben 0440225442 J. 2 4.06 1998 One False Move (Myron Bolitar, #5)
author: Harlan Coben
name: J.
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1998
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/16
date added: 2024/11/16
shelves: harlan-coben, mystery, fiction
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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 J. 3 fiction, horror, scifi 3.77 1818 Frankenstein
author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
name: J.
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1818
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/14
date added: 2024/11/15
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great]]> 20567804 List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Beginnings of Greece & the Heroic Age
Expansion of Greece
Growth of Sparta, Fall of the Aristocracies
Union of Attica & the Foundation of the Athenian Democracy
Growth of Athens in the 6th Century
Advance of Persia to the Aegean
Perils of Greece, The Persian & Punic Invasions
Foundation of the Athenian Empire
Athenian Empire Under the Guidance of Pericles
War of Athens with the Peloponnesians
Decline & Downfall of the Athenian Empire
Spartan Supremacy & the Persian War
Revival of Athens & Her 2nd League
Hegemony of Thebes
Syracusan Empire & the Struggle with Carthage
Rise of Macedonia
Conquest of Persia
Conquest of the Far East
Chronological Table
List of Abbreviations
Bibliographies
Notes to Text
Notes to Illustrations
Notes to Maps
Glossary
Index]]> 885 John Bagnell Bury J. 0 to-read 4.27 1900 A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great
author: John Bagnell Bury
name: J.
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1900
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Claymore, Vol. 6: The Endless Gravestones (Claymore, #6)]]> 777419 200 Norihiro Yagi 1421510480 J. 3 comics-read, fiction 4.31 2004 Claymore, Vol. 6: The Endless Gravestones (Claymore, #6)
author: Norihiro Yagi
name: J.
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/13
date added: 2024/11/13
shelves: comics-read, fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Claymore, Vol. 5: The Slashers (Claymore, #5)]]> 777420 195 Norihiro Yagi 142150622X J. 3 comics-read, fiction 4.36 2003 Claymore, Vol. 5: The Slashers (Claymore, #5)
author: Norihiro Yagi
name: J.
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/13
date added: 2024/11/13
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]]> Dracula 17238 528 Bram Stoker 0743477367 J. 4 fiction, horror 3.96 1897 Dracula
author: Bram Stoker
name: J.
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1897
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/12
date added: 2024/11/12
shelves: fiction, horror
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]]> The Call of the Wild 1852 The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.]]> 172 Jack London J. 4 3.89 1903 The Call of the Wild
author: Jack London
name: J.
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1903
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/11
date added: 2024/11/11
shelves: adventure, fiction, jack-london
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]]> <![CDATA[Claymore, Vol. 4: Marked for the Death (Claymore, #4)]]> 777424
In a world where monsters called Yoma prey on humans and live among them in disguise, humanity's only hope is a new breed of warrior known as Claymores. Half human, half monster, these silver-eyed slayers possess supernatural strength but are condemned to fight their savage impulses or lose their humanity completely.

Teresa, a powerful Claymore, saves a young girl from her bandit captors and leaves the child in the care of some villagers. But triumph quickly gives way to despair when the situation takes a tragic turn, and Teresa is forced to kill a human--an act that will condemn her to death at the hands of her own kind.]]> 200 Norihiro Yagi 1421506211 J. 3 comics-read, fiction 4.36 2003 Claymore, Vol. 4: Marked for the Death (Claymore, #4)
author: Norihiro Yagi
name: J.
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/11
date added: 2024/11/11
shelves: comics-read, fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Claymore, Vol. 3: Teresa of the Faint Smile (Claymore, #3)]]> 808828
In a world where monsters called Yoma prey on humans and live among them in disguise, humanity's only hope is a new breed of warrior known as Claymores. Half human, half monster, these silver-eyed slayers possess supernatural strength but are condemned to fight their savage impulses or lose their humanity completely.

Clare's first battle with the Yoma of Rabona has left her body drained and shattered. With no time to recover, she must face the creature again after it chooses Raki as its next victim. Luckily, Raki remembers that he is carrying Clare's trusted broadsword and manages to get it into her hands. But unlike Clare, the Yoma is fighting at full strength and thirsting for blood...]]> 200 Norihiro Yagi 1421506203 J. 2 comics-read, fiction 4.32 2002 Claymore, Vol. 3: Teresa of the Faint Smile (Claymore, #3)
author: Norihiro Yagi
name: J.
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2002
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/11
date added: 2024/11/11
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]]> <![CDATA[Claymore, Vol. 2: Darkness in Paradise (Claymore, #2)]]> 1359900
In a world where monsters called Yoma prey on humans and live among them in disguise, humanity's only hope is a new breed of warrior known as Claymores. Half human, half monster, these silver-eyed slayers possess supernatural strength but are condemned to fight their savage impulses or lose their humanity completely.

Claire and the orphan Raki travel to the town of Rabona, where a Yoma has been stalking the priests inside the cathedral. The creature could be one of the guards, or even a priest, but this time Claire won't be able to sense its aura. Does she stand a chance against the stealthy Yoma?]]> 185 Norihiro Yagi 142150619X J. 2 comics-read, fiction 4.19 2002 Claymore, Vol. 2: Darkness in Paradise (Claymore, #2)
author: Norihiro Yagi
name: J.
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2002
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/11
date added: 2024/11/11
shelves: comics-read, fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Claymore, Vol. 1: Silver-eyed Slayer (Claymore, #1)]]> 777423 187 Norihiro Yagi 1421506181 J. 3 comics-read, fiction 4.10 2002 Claymore, Vol. 1: Silver-eyed Slayer (Claymore, #1)
author: Norihiro Yagi
name: J.
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/11
date added: 2024/11/11
shelves: comics-read, fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose]]> 174147176
The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter , has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.]]> 616 Alexander Pushkin 0307959643 J. 0 to-read 4.00 2016 Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose
author: Alexander Pushkin
name: J.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Walden and "Civil Disobedience"]]> 13542476 Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyleand only then can you reenter society, as an enlightened being.

These simple but profound musingsas well as "Civil Disobedience," his protest against the government's interference with civil libertyhave inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature. More than a century and a half later, his message is more timely than ever.

With an Introduction by W. S. Merwin and a New Afterword by Will Howarth.]]> 318 Henry David Thoreau 0451532163 J. 0 3.90 1849 Walden and "Civil Disobedience"
author: Henry David Thoreau
name: J.
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1849
rating: 0
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]]> Back Spin (Myron Bolitar, #4) 372385 In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction--Myron Bolitar--a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance. "From the Paperback edition."]]> 358 Harlan Coben 0440222702 J. 2 3.95 1997 Back Spin (Myron Bolitar, #4)
author: Harlan Coben
name: J.
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1997
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/10
date added: 2024/11/11
shelves: fiction, harlan-coben, mystery
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]]> Fer-de-lance 1214077 462 Rex Stout 0816132224 J. 3 fiction, mystery 3.50 1934 Fer-de-lance
author: Rex Stout
name: J.
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1934
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/09
date added: 2024/11/09
shelves: fiction, mystery
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]]> An Arsne Lupin Omnibus 38818670
Maurice Leblancs stories are lively and witty, occasionally taking on the air of burlesque, especially when Lupin pits his wits against the English detective named variously Holmlock Shears and Herlock Sholmes

These are significant tales in the history of crime fiction but, more importantly, they are great fun.

Contents:

Arsene Lupin vs Holmlock Shears
The Confessions of Arsene Lupin
The Golden Triangle
The Eight Strokes of the Clock]]> 752 Maurice Leblanc J. 2 fiction, mystery 3.57 1930 An Arsne Lupin Omnibus
author: Maurice Leblanc
name: J.
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1930
rating: 2
read at: 2024/11/08
date added: 2024/11/08
shelves: fiction, mystery
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]]> The Art of War 10534 170 Sun Tzu J. 3 3.98 -400 The Art of War
author: Sun Tzu
name: J.
average rating: 3.98
book published: -400
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/06
date added: 2024/11/06
shelves: history, military, military-history, nonfiction, philosophy, politics
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]]> The King in Yellow 32277642 The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a masterful collection of short stories that will transport you to a realm of eerie mystery, madness, and supernatural horror, where the boundaries between reality and the unknown are blurred.

The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler, S. T. Joshi and T. E. D. Klein as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which ("The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon", and "The Yellow Sign") mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it. "The Yellow Sign" inspired a film of the same name released in 2001.

Stories:
- The Repairer of Reputations
- The Mask
- In the Court of the Dragon
- The Yellow Sign
- The Demoiselle D'ys
- The Prophets' Paradise
- The Street of the Four Winds
- The Street of the First Shell
- The Street of Our Lady of the Fields
- Rue Barree]]> 224 Robert W. Chambers 153905344X J. 3 fiction 3.58 1895 The King in Yellow
author: Robert W. Chambers
name: J.
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1895
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/11/04
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]]> <![CDATA[The Scarlet Plague (The Radium Age Science Fiction Series)]]> 13238295 128 Jack London 1935869507 J. 3 fiction, jack-london, scifi 3.50 1912 The Scarlet Plague (The Radium Age Science Fiction Series)
author: Jack London
name: J.
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1912
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/03
date added: 2024/11/03
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]]> Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, #3) 272607
The home is top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room is Martha Stewart. The basement is Legosand blood. The signs of a violent struggle. For Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he once competed against is bringing back memoriesof the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wannabes, the gamblers, and the groupies, Myron is embarking upon the strange ride of a sports hero gone wrong that just may lead to certain death. Namely, his own.]]> 368 Harlan Coben 0440222680 J. 3 3.98 1996 Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, #3)
author: Harlan Coben
name: J.
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1996
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/02
date added: 2024/11/02
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]]> Cinderella 27410530 300 Jacob Grimm 1616409592 J. 3 3.71 1812 Cinderella
author: Jacob Grimm
name: J.
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1812
rating: 3
read at: 2021/07/15
date added: 2024/10/07
shelves: fiction, childrens, short-story
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]]> <![CDATA[Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)]]> 19416701 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes the first novel in his Natchez Burning trilogywhich also includes The Bone Tree and the upcoming Mississippi Bloodan epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage.

Raised in the southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows of duty from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor has been accused of murdering the African American nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the 1960s. Once a crusading prosecutor, Penn is determined to save his father, but Tom, stubbornly invoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses even to speak in his own defense.

Penn's quest for the truth sends him deep into his father's past, where a sexually charged secret lies. More chilling, this long-buried sin is only one thread in a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the vicious Double Eagles, an offshoot of the KKK controlled by some of the most powerful men in the state. Aided by a dedicated reporter privy to Natchez's oldest secrets and by his fiance, Caitlin Masters, Penn uncovers a trail of corruption and brutality that places his family squarely in the Double Eagles' crosshairs.

With every step costing blood and faith, Penn is forced to confront the most wrenching dilemma of his Does a man of honor choose his father or the truth?]]> 865 Greg Iles 0062311107 J. 3 fiction, greg-iles, mystery 4.27 2014 Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)
author: Greg Iles
name: J.
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2021/10/22
date added: 2024/09/24
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Rednecks & White Liberals]]> 10969190 373 Thomas Sowell 1594032769 J. 4 4.61 2005 Black Rednecks & White Liberals
author: Thomas Sowell
name: J.
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2020/12/04
date added: 2024/09/20
shelves: american-history, audiobooks, history, nonfiction, politics
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]]> Collected Ghost Stories 30288341 A View from a Hill, Rats, A School Story, The Ash Tree, and The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance. Read by BAFTA and Emmy-award winning actor Derek Jacobi, and with haunting and evocative music, these tales cannot fail to send a shiver down your spine.]]> 356 M.R. James 1840225513 J. 0 to-read 3.69 1931 Collected Ghost Stories
author: M.R. James
name: J.
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1931
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream]]> 20813135 Ich denke, also bin ich109 Jahre nach dem Ende des Dritten Weltkriegs leben nur noch fnf Menschen. Sie hausen in unterirdischen Stollen, immer am Rande des Verhungerns, und werden jede Minute ihres Lebens von einem Supercomputer gefoltert, der ein Bewusstsein erlangt hat C und mit ihm unendlichen Hass auf seine Erbauer. Es gibt nur einen einzigen Ausweg fr die gequ?lten Menschen C doch welcher von ihnen wird stark genug sein, ihn zu w?hlen? Die Kurzgeschichte ?Ich muss schreien und habe keinen Mund erscheint als exklusives E-Book Only bei Heyne und ist zusammen mit weiteren Stories von Harlan Ellison auch in dem Sammelband ?Ich muss schreien und habe keinen Mund enthalten. Sie umfasst ca. 22 Buchseiten.]]> 20 Harlan Ellison J. 5 3.72 1967 I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
author: Harlan Ellison
name: J.
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1967
rating: 5
read at: 2020/05/31
date added: 2024/08/23
shelves: favorites, fiction, reread, scifi
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]]> Twenty Years After 38113973
Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.

Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.]]> 908 Alexandre Dumas J. 0 to-read 4.00 1845 Twenty Years After
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: J.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1845
rating: 0
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]]> McTeague 866903 352 Frank Norris 0451524217 J. 4 fiction 3.57 1899 McTeague
author: Frank Norris
name: J.
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1899
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/31
date added: 2024/07/31
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]]> The Golden Man 34787847 336 Philip K. Dick J. 0 to-read 3.97 1980 The Golden Man
author: Philip K. Dick
name: J.
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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]]> Curse of the Vampires 3333473 89 Margaret Ronan 0590300628 J. 2 3.40 1979 Curse of the Vampires
author: Margaret Ronan
name: J.
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1979
rating: 2
read at: 2024/07/19
date added: 2024/07/22
shelves: european-history, history, horror, nonfiction
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]]> Truman 2279
The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid charactersRoosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Achesonand dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the mana more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imaginedbut also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Trumans story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Trumans own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary man from Missouri who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.]]> 1120 David McCullough 0671869205 J. 0 4.15 1992 Truman
author: David McCullough
name: J.
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> Unintended Consequences 78082 Unintended Consequences is a novel by John Ross, first published in 1996 by Accurate Press. The story chronicles the history of the gun culture, gun rights, and gun control in the United States from the early 1900s through the late 1990s. Although clearly a work of fiction, the story is heavily laced with historical information, including real-life historical figures who play minor supporting roles. The novel also features unusually detailed and intricate facts, figures and explanations of many firearms-related topics. The cover has a picture of Lady Justice being assaulted by an ATF agent. The book was listed by The New York Times' Sunday Book Review as one of the most sought after out-of-print books of 2013.]]> 863 John Ross 1888118040 J. 0 to-read 4.47 1996 Unintended Consequences
author: John Ross
name: J.
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> On the Road 48656150
Inspired by Jack Kerouacs adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivet and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouacs love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.]]> 293 Jack Kerouac 0140283293 J. 3 3.68 1957 On the Road
author: Jack Kerouac
name: J.
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1957
rating: 3
read at: 2024/02/16
date added: 2024/02/16
shelves: adventure, fiction, nonfiction
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]]> Pnin 1319715 Pnin features his funniest and most heartrending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian migr precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.]]> 160 Vladimir Nabokov 0140085599 J. 5 fiction 3.72 1957 Pnin
author: Vladimir Nabokov
name: J.
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1957
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/06
date added: 2024/02/08
shelves: fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson]]> 1986673 Twilight at Monticello is something entirely new: an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at the intimate Jefferson in his final years that will change the way readers think about this true American icon. It was during these yearsCfrom his return to Monticello in 1809 after two terms as president until his death in 1826Cthat Jeffersons idealism would be most severely, and heartbreakingly, tested.

Based on new research and documents culled from the Library of Congress, the Virginia Historical Society, and other special collections, including hitherto unexamined letters from family, friends, and Monticello neighbors, Alan Pell Crawford paints an authoritative and deeply moving portrait of Thomas Jefferson as private citizenCthe first original depiction of the man in more than a generation.

Here, told with grace and masterly detail, is Jefferson with his family at Monticello, dealing with illness and the indignities wrought by early-nineteenth-century medicine; coping with massive debt and the immense costs associated with running a grand residence; navigating public disputes and mediating family squabbles; receiving dignitaries and corresponding
with close friends, including John Adams, the Marquis de Lafayette, and other heroes from the Revolution. Enmeshed as he was in these affairs during his final years, Jefferson was still a viable political force, advising his son-in-law Thomas Randolph during his terms as Virginia governor, helping the administration of his good friend President James Madison during the internal improvements controversy, and establishing the first wholly secular American institution of higher learning, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. We also see Jeffersons views on slavery evolve, along with his awareness of the costs to civil harmony exacted by the Founding Fathers failure to effectively reconcile slaveholding within a republic dedicated to liberty.

Right up until his death on the fiftieth anniversary of Americas founding, Thomas Jefferson remained an indispensable man, albeit a supremely human one. And it is precisely that figure Alan Pell Crawford introduces to us in the revelatory Twilight at Monticello.

'Crawford (Thunder on the Right) offers his own equally compelling look, in this case at Jefferson's life, post-presidency, from 1809 until his death in 1826. Then a private citizen, Jefferson was burdened by financial and personal and political struggles within his extended family. His beloved estate, Monticello, was costly to maintain and Jefferson was in debt. Newly studying primary sources, Crawford thoroughly conveys the pathos of Jefferson's last years, even as he successfully established the University of Virginia (America's first wholly secular university) and maintained contact with James Madison, John Adams, and other luminaries. He personally struggled with political, moral, and religious issues; Crawford shows us a complex, self-contradictory, idealistic, yet tragic figure, helpless to stabilize his family and finances. Historians and informed readers alike will find much to relish in both of these distinctive works of original scholarship. Both are recommended for academic and large public libraries.
CLibrary Journal

In "Twilight at Monticello," Alan Pell Crawford treats his subject with grace and sympathetic understanding, and with keen penetration as well, showing the great man's contradictions (and hypocrisies) for what they were.
CWall Street Journal


Like all people, famous or almost unknown, Jefferson was a mass of contradictions. Crawford explores them masterfully, thus indeed presenting a new Jefferson for a new generation.
CHouston Chronicle

a worthy addition to the already enormous body of Thomas Jefferson scholarship. Crawford did his homework well, using literally dozens of sources to give us an unvarnished picture of the human side of one of Americas greatest leaders in an entertaining, fast-moving narrative. You might never loom at Monticello in quite the same way again after reading this book.
CThe Fredericksburg (Va.) Free-Lance Star]]> 352 Alan Pell Crawford 1400060796 J. 3 3.96 2008 Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
author: Alan Pell Crawford
name: J.
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/02/07
shelves: biography, american-biography, american-history, history, nonfiction, pres-3-thomas-jefferson
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]]> <![CDATA[Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves]]> 7943029 ?
The brilliantly reported? New York Times? bestseller that goes behind the scenes of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington to give the definitive account of the crisis, the basis for the HBO film
?
Too Big To Fail? is too good to put down. . . . It is the story of the actors in the most extraordinary financial spectacle in 80 years, and it is told brilliantly. The Economist
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In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkina? New York Times ?columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reportersdelivers the first definitive blow-by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never-before-disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self-preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.]]> 618 Andrew Ross Sorkin 0143118242 J. 3 4.19 2009 Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
author: Andrew Ross Sorkin
name: J.
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/13
date added: 2024/01/13
shelves: american-history, nonfiction, politics
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]]> Oblomov 254308 586 Ivan Goncharov 1933480092 J. 0 to-read 4.09 1859 Oblomov
author: Ivan Goncharov
name: J.
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1859
rating: 0
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]]> Snow Country 14028 Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.

At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages, a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.]]> 175 Yasunari Kawabata 0679761047 J. 0 to-read 3.63 1948 Snow Country
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: J.
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1948
rating: 0
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]]> Mixtape Hyperborea 123915684 Return to the halls, classrooms, and parking lots of Golden Sierra Preparatory Academy.
The year is 2007.
Welcome to the future. " Light and breezy, like a more focused version of Harassment Architecture. I hate to say it but the arrogance appears warranted ."
- Zulu Alitspa, Modem Waves

" Throughout there is a surprising, compelling honesty in the exploration of friendship, well-paced against the twists and turns; combining an emotional effect with excitement. The authorial voice is rhythmic, engaging and realizes the characters artfully. The innate humor and joy of the work relates to the powerful emotions of that age."
- Ben List , Austin Macauley

" So lame it cuts back to being cool again. "
-Ogden Nesmer, I Pray to the Hungry God]]> 237 Adem Luz Rienspects J. 0 to-read 4.34 Mixtape Hyperborea
author: Adem Luz Rienspects
name: J.
average rating: 4.34
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]]> Hunger 32585 134 Knut Hamsun 0486431681 J. 0 to-read 4.09 1890 Hunger
author: Knut Hamsun
name: J.
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1890
rating: 0
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]]> Omensetter's Luck 156188 Omensetter's Luck is the quirky, impressionistic, and breathtakingly original story of an ordinary community galvanized by the presence of an extraordinary man. Set in a small Ohio town in the 1890s, it chronicles - through the voices of various participants and observers - the confrontation between Brackett Omensetter, a man of preternatural goodness, and the Reverend Jethro Furber, a preacher crazed with a propensity for violent thoughts. Omensetter's Luck meticulously brings to life a specific time and place as it illuminates timeless questions about life, love, good and evil.]]> 315 William H. Gass 0141180102 J. 0 to-read 4.00 1966 Omensetter's Luck
author: William H. Gass
name: J.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1966
rating: 0
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]]> The Things They Carried 133518
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim OBrien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.

Taught everywherefrom high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writingit has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.]]> 246 Tim O'Brien 0767902890 J. 3 4.14 1990 The Things They Carried
author: Tim O'Brien
name: J.
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1990
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/16
date added: 2023/12/16
shelves: american-history, fiction, military, military-history
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]]> <![CDATA[Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America]]> 89307 472 Thomas Fleming 0465017371 J. 3 3.81 1999 Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America
author: Thomas Fleming
name: J.
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1999
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/09
date added: 2023/12/09
shelves: american-history, history, nonfiction, politics
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]]> I Am Legend 929864
An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.

By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn....]]> 312 Richard Matheson 0765357151 J. 4 fiction, scifi 3.79 1954 I Am Legend
author: Richard Matheson
name: J.
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1954
rating: 4
read at: 2023/11/29
date added: 2023/11/29
shelves: fiction, scifi
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]]> The Lord of the Rings 57531079 J.R.R. Tolkiens grand masterwork in a new hardcover illustrated with the art created by Tolkien himself as he envisioned Middle-earth

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

From Saurons fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

This new edition is illustrated with J.R.R. Tolkiens own artwork, created as he wrote the original text.
?]]> 1178 J.R.R. Tolkien 0358653037 J. 0 currently-reading 4.88 1955 The Lord of the Rings
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: J.
average rating: 4.88
book published: 1955
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street]]> 59452453 Sleazoid Express was one part film journal and one part anthropological study, seriously critiquing the grindhouse movies that played the theaters of 42nd Street while also documenting the dying subculture that had grown up around them. Profiled in Film Comment and Rolling Stone for his pioneering work, Landis' over-the-top "Mr. Sleazoid" persona and double-life as an adult film star masked the pain behind the excess: a child genius whose intellect alienated him from his peers; a sexual abuse survivor who numbed his trauma with drugs; a consummate outcast who only felt at home among other outcasts. After settling into life as a husband, father, and author in the 90s, it seemed that Landis had turned a corner-but the ghosts of Times Square were never far behind him.



Dead at the age of 49 on the eve of what should have been a successful comeback, his legacy has nominally been forgotten, most of his work lost, and his memory relegated to a footnote in journalism history. Now, award-winning author and journalist Preston Fassel (Our Lady of the Inferno; Fangoria magazine; The Daily Grindhouse) pieces together the full story of his life for the first time, from his turbulent childhood, to his meteoric rise in the New York vice scene, to his tragic demise on the streets of Chicago.



Featuring exclusive interviews with Kurt Loder (MTV; Rolling Stone), Michael J. Weldon (Psychotronic Video), Art Ettinger (Ultra Violent Magazine), Carl Abrahamsson, Mike McPadden (Heavy Metal Movies; Teen Movie Hell), and others, plus excerpts from Landis' unpublished autobiographical novella Last Exit in Manattan and a reprint of Landis' seminal Fangoria interview with Andy Milligan, Landis at last pulls back the curtain on one of genre writing's most influential-yet unknown-figures.



In that lost, damned, golden age called the 80s, there was a movie star named Bobby Spector and a writer named Mr. Sleazoid. Most importantly, there was a man named Bill Landis. This is his story.]]> 148 Preston Fassel 0578304805 J. 3 4.10 2021 Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street
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name: J.
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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]]> Postcards from the Edge 1085502 221 Carrie Fisher 5551598896 J. 3 nonfiction, fiction 3.56 1987 Postcards from the Edge
author: Carrie Fisher
name: J.
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1987
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film]]> 996383
From the slightly offbeat to the outlandishly bizarre...from the no-budget quickie to the multimillion-dollar box-office smash...

Psychotronic films range from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes to E.T....from Angel's Wild Women and Hellcats of the Navy to/Dismember Mama and Let Me Die A Woman...from sincere social commentary to utter trash.

Psychotronic stars are ex-models, ex-sports heroes, dead rock idols, future presidents, would-be Marilyns, and has-beens of all types.

Psychotronic films keep sleepless fans glued to their TVs and lined up outside revival houses in big cities and small towns all over the country.

See these outrageous films through the eyes of Michael Weldon, the world's leading authority on Psychotronic films!

Arranged from A to Z!
Crammed with rare illustrations!
Featuring cast, crew, and characters!
Uniquely eccentric reviews of over 3,000 movies!

The author of this book has been watching these movies obsessively since the age of 6. He is now unfit for conventional employment. Because of the addictive nature of these films, we the publishers cannot guarantee that your sanity won't be endangered by reading this book.]]> 814 Michael J. Weldon 034534345X J. 0 to-read 4.57 1983 Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film
author: Michael J. Weldon
name: J.
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1983
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]]> <![CDATA[Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square]]> 374226 In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the grindhouses along 42nd Street. If the gore epics, women-in-prison films, and shockumentaries showcased within their mildewed walls didn't live up to their outrageous billing, the audience shouted, threw food, and even vandalized the theaters. For dedicated lovers of extreme cinema, buying a movie ticket on the Deuce meant putting your life on the line.
Authors Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford came to know those grindhouses better than anyone else, and although the theaters were gone by the mid-1980s, the films remained. In Sleazoid Express, Landis and Clifford reproduce what no home video can -- the experience of watching an exploitation film in its original fight-for-your-life Deuce setting. Both a travelogue of the infamous grindhouses of yore and a comprehensive overview of the sleaze canon, Sleazoid Express offers detailed reviews of landmark exploitation classics and paints intimate portraits of directors whose notorious creations played the back end of triple bills for years on end. With wit, intelligence, and an unflinching eye, Landis and Clifford offer the definitive document of cinema's most intense and shocking moments as they came to life at a legendary place.]]> 336 Bill Landis 0743215834 J. 0 to-read 4.16 2002 Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square
author: Bill Landis
name: J.
average rating: 4.16
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]]> The Fall of Baghdad 1042419 New Yorker were hailed as the best writing published anywhere on the war. The Fall of Baghdad is a masterpiece of literary reportage about the experience of ordinary Iraqis living through the endgame of the Saddam Hussein regime, its violent fall, and the troubled American occupation. In channeling a tragedy of epic dimensions through the stories of real people caught up in the whirlwind of history, Jon Lee Anderson has written a book of timeless significance.]]> 389 Jon Lee Anderson 0143035851 J. 2 4.00 2004 The Fall of Baghdad
author: Jon Lee Anderson
name: J.
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2004
rating: 2
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date added: 2023/10/23
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]]> <![CDATA[Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets]]> 30200112
Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of Communism.

As in all her books, Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in the official narratives of nation-states, creating a powerful alternative history from the personal and private stories of individuals.]]> 496 Svetlana Alexievich 1922253995 J. 0 to-read 4.44 2013 Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
author: Svetlana Alexievich
name: J.
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2013
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]]> War's Unwomanly Face 4025275 247 Svetlana Alexievich 5010004941 J. 0 to-read 4.50 1983 War's Unwomanly Face
author: Svetlana Alexievich
name: J.
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1983
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]]> <![CDATA[Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster]]> 357486 Written by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdownfrom innocent citizens to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disasterand their stories reveal the fear, anger, and uncertainty with which they still live. Composed of interviews in monologue form, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucially important work of immense force, unforgettable in its emotional power and honesty.]]> 236 Svetlana Alexievich 0312425848 J. 0 to-read 4.39 1997 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
author: Svetlana Alexievich
name: J.
average rating: 4.39
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]]> Zabiba and the King 193107 204 Saddam Hussein 1589396138 J. 0 to-read 2.89 Zabiba and the King
author: Saddam Hussein
name: J.
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]]> Treasure Island 3079200 The timeless adventure

From young Jim Hawkinss first encounter with the sinister Blind Pew to the climactic battle with the most memorable villain in literature, Long John Silver, Treasure Island continues to thrill generations of readers.]]> 224 Robert Louis Stevenson 0451530977 J. 2 adventure, fiction 3.60 1882 Treasure Island
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: J.
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1882
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11]]> 110890
The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal.

As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole . . . O'Neill's heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers . . . Prince Turki's transformation from bin Laden's ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks.

The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O'Neill's high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal life--he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others' existence--and the nitty-gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies.

Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September 11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat.]]> 469 Lawrence Wright 037541486X J. 5 4.34 2006 The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
author: Lawrence Wright
name: J.
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind]]> 23366257 216 Stephen Mitford Goodson 0992736536 J. 0 to-read 4.11 2014 A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind
author: Stephen Mitford Goodson
name: J.
average rating: 4.11
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]]> <![CDATA[All You Need Is Kill (All You Need Is Kill Manga, #1-2)]]> 22545976 425 Rysuke Takeuchi 1421576015 J. 3 4.11 2014 All You Need Is Kill (All You Need Is Kill Manga, #1-2)
author: Rysuke Takeuchi
name: J.
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Prince of Tennis, Volume 24: Reunited (The Prince of Tennis, #24)]]> 1959970 192 Takeshi Konomi 1421516462 J. 0 to-read 4.17 2004 The Prince of Tennis, Volume 24: Reunited (The Prince of Tennis, #24)
author: Takeshi Konomi
name: J.
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2004
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]]> Child of God 293625 197 Cormac McCarthy 0679728740 J. 3 fiction 3.82 1973 Child of God
author: Cormac McCarthy
name: J.
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1973
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories]]> 323328 Death in Venice, this volume includes "Mario and the Magician," "Disorder and Early Sorrow," "A Man and His Dog," "Felix Krull," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "Tristan," and "Tonio Kr?ger."

These stories, as direct as Thomas Mann's novels are complex, are perfect illustrations of their author's belief that "a story must tell itself." Varying in theme, in style, in tone, each is in its own way characteristic of Mann's prodigious talents. From the high art of the famous title novella ("A story," Mann said, "of death...of the voluptuousness of doom"), to the irony of "Felix Krull," the early story on which he later based his comic novel The Confessions of Felix Krull, they are stunning testimony to the mastery and virtuosity of a literary giant.

Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter.]]> 402 Thomas Mann 0679722068 J. 2 short-story, fiction 3.90 1936 Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories
author: Thomas Mann
name: J.
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1936
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them]]> 9595216 A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. A New York Times Notable Book of 2011. One of NPR's Best Books of 2011. One of Janet Maslin's Ten Picks for 2011.

When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away. Hohn's accidental odyssey pulls him into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates, the daring work of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors, and the shadowy world of Chinese toy factories.

Moby-Duck is a journey into the heart of the sea and an adventure through science, myth, the global economy, and some of the worst weather imaginable. With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, and with each successive chase, he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from and where it goes. In the grand tradition of Tony Horwitz and David Quammen, Moby-Duck is a compulsively readable narrative of whimsy and curiosity.]]> 416 Donovan Hohn 0670022195 J. 3 3.30 2011 Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
author: Donovan Hohn
name: J.
average rating: 3.30
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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]]> Den of Thieves 1972
Pulitzer PrizeCwinner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties biggest names on Wall StreetMichael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levinecreated the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of Americas most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.

Based on secret grand jury transcripts, interviews, and actual trading records, and containing explosive new revelations about Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, Den of Thieves weaves all the facts into an unforgettable narrativea portrait of human nature, big business, and crime of unparalleled proportions.]]> 587 James B. Stewart 067179227X J. 3 4.15 1991 Den of Thieves
author: James B. Stewart
name: J.
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1991
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner, #1)]]> 34403549
The Inspiration for the Film BLADE RUNNER.

Originally published in 1968, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? remains a masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future. Now comes a striking new edition of the classic for future fans to enjoy.

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN-13 9780345404473.]]> 224 Philip K. Dick J. 5 3.90 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner, #1)
author: Philip K. Dick
name: J.
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1968
rating: 5
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date added: 2023/05/30
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]]> <![CDATA[Persecution and the Art of Writing]]> 679913 Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problemthe relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas.
]]> 204 Leo Strauss 0226777111 J. 0 to-read 4.13 1952 Persecution and the Art of Writing
author: Leo Strauss
name: J.
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1952
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]]> Make Room! Make Room! 1875580
In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone....

Acclaimed on its original publication in 1966, Make Room! Make Room! was adapted into the movie Soylent Green in 1973, starring Charlton Heston along with Edward G. Robinson in his last role.]]> 288 Harry Harrison 0765318857 J. 4 fiction, scifi 3.62 1966 Make Room! Make Room!
author: Harry Harrison
name: J.
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1966
rating: 4
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date added: 2023/04/24
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]]> The Long Tomorrow 91109
Rumors abound of a secret place known as "Bartorstown", where science is untrammelled by interference or hatred. A youth named Len Colter, developing an unhealthy thirst for knowledge exacerbated by the discovery of a forbidden radio, sets out on a long road. During this journey, he will change his mind many times before determining the correct direction for himself, and the benighted America in which he lives.]]> 223 Leigh Brackett 0441061354 J. 0 to-read 3.66 1955 The Long Tomorrow
author: Leigh Brackett
name: J.
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1955
rating: 0
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]]> The Breaks of the Game 75406
David Halberstam, best-selling author of THE FIFTIES and THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST, turns his keen reporter's eye on the sport of basketball -- the players and the coaches, the long road trips, what happens on court, in front of television cameras, and off-court, where no eyes have followed -- until now.]]> 362 David Halberstam 0345296257 J. 4 4.21 1981 The Breaks of the Game
author: David Halberstam
name: J.
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1981
rating: 4
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date added: 2023/04/23
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]]> <![CDATA[Memoirs of Service Afloat During the Civil War]]> 52493513 "Memoirs of Service Afloat During the Civil War" is a book of Raphael Semmes' Civil War recollections. In this work Semmes defended both his actions at sea and the political actions of the southern states. The book is viewed as one of the most cogent but bitter defenses written about the South's "Lost Cause."]]> 830 Raphael Semmes J. 0 to-read 5.00 1869 Memoirs of Service Afloat During the Civil War
author: Raphael Semmes
name: J.
average rating: 5.00
book published: 1869
rating: 0
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]]> The Decameron 20663766 Witty, earthy, and filled with bawdy irreverence, the one hundred stories of The Decameron offer more than simple escapism; they are also a life-affirming balm for trying times. The Decameron is a joyously comic book that has earned its place in world literature not just because it makes us laugh, but more importantly because it shows us how essential laughter is to the human condition.


Published on the 700th anniversary of Boccaccios birth, Wayne A. Rebhorn's new translation of The Decameron introduces a generation of readers to this "rich late-medieval feast" in a "lively, contemporary, American-inflected English" (Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University) even as it retains the distinctly medieval flavor of Boccaccio's rhetorically expressive prose.


An extensive introduction provides useful details about Boccaccio's historical and cultural milieu, the themes and particularities of the text, and the lines of influence flowing into and out of this towering monument of world literature.]]> 947 Giovanni Boccaccio 0393350266 J. 0 to-read 4.10 1349 The Decameron
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name: J.
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1349
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]]> <![CDATA[Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco]]> 6512049 624 Bryan Burrough 0061655554 J. 3 4.42 1989 Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
author: Bryan Burrough
name: J.
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1989
rating: 3
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date added: 2023/04/15
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]]> Ringmaster! 1062150 273 Jerry Springer 0312201885 J. 3 3.00 1998 Ringmaster!
author: Jerry Springer
name: J.
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1998
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[A Long Time Until Now (1) (Temporal Displacement)]]> 27276209
Ten soldiers on convoy in Afghanistan suddenly find themselves lost in time. Somehow, they arrive in Earth's Paleolithic Asia. With no idea how they arrived or how to get back, the shock of the event is severe. They discover groups of the similarly Imperial Romans, Neolithic Europeans and a small cadre of East Indian peasants. Despite their technological advantage, the soldiers only have ten people, and know no way home. Then two more time travelers arrive from a future far beyond the present with a treacherous agenda that may very well lead to the death of the displaced in a harsh and dangerous era.

About A Long Time Until Now :
[A] classic story of survival. They may not like each other, but must to depend upon each other. Williamson shows how they pull together to create a solid society. . . . outstanding entertainment. Each character is different and fully developed. Even those you may dislike seem worth caring about. . . . [G]rabs readers from the beginning and keep them reading to the end. Galveston County Daily News

About Michael Z.
A fast-paced, compulsive readwill appeal to fans of John Ringo, David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and David Weber. Kliatt

Williamson's military expertise is impressive. SF Reviews]]> 960 Michael Z. Williamson 1476781729 J. 2 fiction, scifi 3.66 2015 A Long Time Until Now (1) (Temporal Displacement)
author: Michael Z. Williamson
name: J.
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2015
rating: 2
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]]> Batman: The Killing Joke 96358
After shooting and permanently paralyzing his daughter Barbara (a.k.a. Batgirl), the Joker kidnaps the commissioner and attacks his mind in hopes of breaking the man.

But refusing to give up, Gordon maintains his sanity with the help of Batman in an effort to beset the madman.]]> 50 Alan Moore 0930289455 J. 4 4.37 1988 Batman: The Killing Joke
author: Alan Moore
name: J.
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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date added: 2023/04/01
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]]> The Lightning and the Sun 921692 Savitri Devi 0937944149 J. 0 to-read 4.15 1958 The Lightning and the Sun
author: Savitri Devi
name: J.
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1958
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]]> Defiance 10267352
On 7 September 1948, Savitri Devi entered Germany with eleven thousand propaganda posters and leaflets condemning the Allies, proclaiming that Adolf Hitler was still alive (which she believed to be true at the time), and urging Germans to resist the occupation and to hope and wait for his return.

It was a quixotic, futile gesture, born of a spirit of defiance and a thirst for martyrdom.

For more than four months, Savitri Devi traveled throughout western Germany distributing thousands of posters and leaflets, making contact with the underground network of faithful National Socialists, and writing her book Gold in the Furnace.

On the night of 20C21 February 1949, Savitri Devi was arrested in Cologne, interrogated, and taken to the Werl Prison. She was tried in Dsseldorf on 5 April 1949, convicted, and sentenced to three years imprisonment in Werl.

While in Werl, Savitri Devi befriended a number of German women imprisoned as war criminals. She also completed Gold in the Furnace and continued work on her magnum opus, The Lightning and the Sun. Defiance can be read as the companion volume to Gold in the Furnace, since it takes place at the same time and tells the story of its creation.

Savitri Devi was released early from prison on 18 August 1949 at the request of the government of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Defiance is Savitri Devis most readable book. It is not primarily a work of philosophy or history, but a gripping first-person narrative that often reads like a novel. Defiance does, however, contain Savitri Devis most profound and moving philosophical meditation, The Way of Absolute Detachment, in which she uses the teachings of the Bhagavad-Gita to console herself before the prospect of the destruction of her writings and to explain the proper National Socialist view of the relationship between duty and practical consequences.

Reading Defiance, one quickly understands why the Allies imprisoned Savitri Devi and, once she was behind bars, tried to keep her away from the other political her spirit of defiance is contagious.

Until now, Defiance has been almost impossible to find. Published in a tiny edition by Savitri Devis husband A. K. Mukherji in Calcutta in 1951, it was distributed privately by the authoress to her friends and comrades, and it has not been reprinted since.

CONTENTS

Editors Preface
Foreword

Part Triumph
1. The Empty Train
2. The Arrest
3. Questions and Answers
4. On Remand
5. The Glorious Day

Part Whispers
6. The Doors Close
7. Humiliation
8. Clandestine Conversations
9. More Secret Joys

Part Silence
10. The Search
11. Anguish
12. The Way of Absolute Detachment
13. We Shall Begin Again

Epilogue
Index

ABOUT THE AUTHORESS

Savitri Devi (1905C1982) is one of the most original and influential National Socialist thinkers of the post-World War II era. Born Maximine Julia Portaz in Lyons, France, she was of English, Greek, and Italian ancestry and described her nationality as Indo-European. She earned Masters degrees in philosophy and chemistry and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Lyons. Her books include A Warning to the Hindus (1939), LEtang aux lotus (The Lotus Pond) (1940), A Son of The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt (1946), later republished as Son of the Sun (1956), A Play (1948), Gold in the Furnace (1952), The Lightning and the Sun (1958), Pilgrimage (1958), Impeachment of Man (1959), Long-Whiskers and the Two-Legged Goddess (1965), Souvenirs et rflexions dune Aryenne (Memories and Reflections of an Aryan Woman) (1976), and And Time Rolls The Savitri Devi Interviews (2005).]]> 0 Savitri Devi J. 0 to-read 4.25 1951 Defiance
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]]> Death on the Installment Plan 106096 Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called "creative confessions," they told of the author's childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of service in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing unmitigated despair with Gargantuan comedy, they also created a new style, in which invective and obscenity were laced with phrases of unforgettable poetry. Cline's influence revolutionized the contemporary approach to fiction. Under a cloud for a period, his work is now acknowledged as the forerunner of today's "black comedy."

Death on the Installment Plan is the story of young Ferdinand's first 18 years. His life is one of hatred, of the grinding struggle of small shopkeepers to survive, of childhood sensations and fantasieslusty, scatological, violent, but also poetic. There is a running battle with his ineffectual insurance clerk of a father, with his mother, who lives and whines around the junkshop she runs for the boys benefit; there is also the superbly funny Meanwell College in England, where the boy went briefly, a Dickensian, nightmare institution. Always there is humiliation, failure, and boredom, at least until he teams up with the "scientist" des Pereires. This inventor, con-man, incorrigible optimistwhose last project is to grow enormous potatoes by electricityrescues him, if only temporarily; for the reader he is one of the most lovable charlatans in French literature.]]> 592 Louis-Ferdinand Cline 0811200175 J. 0 to-read 4.25 1936 Death on the Installment Plan
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A half-century after its original publication, Hunter S. Thompsons Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72 remains a cornerstone of American political journalism and one of the bestselling campaign books of all time. Thompsons searing account of the battle for the 1972 presidencyfrom the Democratic primaries to the eventual showdown between George McGovern and Richard Nixonis infused with the characteristic wit, intensity, and emotional engagement that made Thompson the flamboyant apostle and avatar of gonzo journalism ( The New York Times ). Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72 is an epic political adventure that captures the feel of the American democratic process better than any other book ever writtenand that is just as relevant to the many ills and issues roiling the nation today. As Johnny Knoxville writes in his foreword to this 50th anniversary Hunter predicted it all.]]> 481 Hunter S. Thompson 1451691572 J. 5 4.30 1973 Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
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]]> <![CDATA[Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon]]> 99826 752 Robert Fisk 1560254424 J. 0 to-read 4.42 Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon
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