Sydney's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:17:35 -0800 60 Sydney's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg I Who Have Never Known Men 43208407 ｀For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed¨

Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before.

As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.]]> 188 Jacqueline Harpman 152911179X Sydney 0 currently-reading 4.24 1995 I Who Have Never Known Men
author: Jacqueline Harpman
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> Y/N 58523626 Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction.

It¨s as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away when she beholds the idol in concert, where Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field; on live streams, as fans from around the world comment in dozens of languages; even on skincare products endorsed by the wildly popular Korean boyband, of which Moon is the youngest, most luminous member. Seized by ineffable desire, our unnamed narrator begins writing Y/N fanfic！in which you, the reader, insert [Your/Name] and play out an intimate relationship with the unattainable star.

Then Moon suddenly retires, vanishing from the public eye. As Y/N flies from Berlin to Seoul to be with Moon, our narrator, too, journeys to Korea in search of the object of her love. An escalating series of mistranslations and misidentifications lands her at the headquarters of the Kafkaesque entertainment company that manages the boyband until, at a secret location, together with Moon at last, art and real life approach their final convergence.

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant, Y/N is a provocative literary debut about the universal longing for transcendence and the tragic struggle to assert one¨s singular story amidst the amnesiac effects of globalization. Esther Yi¨s prose unsettles the boundary between high and mass art, exploding our expectations of a novel about ＾identity￣ and offering in its place a sui generis picture of the loneliness that afflicts modern life.]]> 204 Esther Yi 1662601549 Sydney 4 want-to-read-2-0 2.92 2023 Y/N
author: Esther Yi
name: Sydney
average rating: 2.92
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> The Metamorphosis 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing！though absurdly comic！meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 Sydney 5 3.90 1915 The Metamorphosis
author: Franz Kafka
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.90
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rating: 5
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]]> Pizza Girl: A Novel 49801478
Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial. She's grieving the death of her father, avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future.

Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighborhood, who comes to depend on weekly deliveries of pickled-covered pizzas for her son's happiness. As one woman looks toward motherhood and the other toward middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange, complicated, and ultimately heartbreaking ways.]]> 208 Jean Kyoung Frazier 1984899007 Sydney 3 3.45 2020 Pizza Girl: A Novel
author: Jean Kyoung Frazier
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[OMG! All About Me Diary! (Dork Diaries, #6.5)]]> 17558132 Narrate your very own Dork Diary with this write-in journal, filled with questions for every day and complete with art and quotes from Nikki Maxwell herself!

As Nikki Maxwell knows, keeping a journal is a great way to get to know the most important person in your life: YOU! This special Dork Diaries guided journal features questions for every day of the year.

If you could swap places with anyone for a day, who would it be and why? What song could you listen to 100 times? What TV show are you totally obsessed with right now and why? What¨s the fiercest outfit in your closet? Put your personal spin on these questions and many more！and since this is an authentic Dork Diary, Nikki chimes in with her answers and artwork as well!]]> 272 Rachel Ren└e Russell 1442487704 Sydney 5 4.08 OMG! All About Me Diary! (Dork Diaries, #6.5)
author: Rachel Ren└e Russell
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]]> The Gift 63945326 It¨s Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke.

She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can¨t even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade.

Stella wants more than anything to buy her husband the Christmas gift of his dreams. But will it come at a terrible price?


The Gift is a gripping Christmas-themed thriller inspired by the classic O. Henry tale, The Gift of the Magi.]]> 47 Freida McFadden Sydney 0 to-read 3.24 2022 The Gift
author: Freida McFadden
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.24
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]]> Lemon 56773168
Seventeen years pass without any resolution for those who knew and loved Hae-on, and the grief and uncertainty take a cruel toll on her younger sister, Da-on, in particular. Unable to move on with her life, Da-on tries in her own twisted way to recover some of what she's lost, ultimately setting out to find the truth of what happened.

Told at different points in time from the perspectives of Da-on and two of Hae-on's classmates, Lemon loosely follows the structure of a detective novel. But finding the perpetrator is not the main objective here. Instead, the work explores grief and trauma, raising important questions about guilt, retribution, and the meaning of death and life.]]> 176 Kwon Yeo-Sun Sydney 0 to-read, want-to-read-2-0 3.24 2019 Lemon
author: Kwon Yeo-Sun
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.24
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]]> You Should Have Left 32855689 From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse

"It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air."

These are the opening lines of the journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel: the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany！a house that thwarts the expectations of his recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. The narrator is eager to finish a screenplay, entitled Marriage, for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around him！and in himself.]]> 113 Daniel Kehlmann 1101871989 Sydney 0 to-read, want-to-read-2-0 3.40 2016 You Should Have Left
author: Daniel Kehlmann
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2016
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]]> A Short Stay in Hell 13456414
In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.]]> 110 Steven L. Peck 098374842X Sydney 0 to-read, want-to-read-2-0 4.17 2011 A Short Stay in Hell
author: Steven L. Peck
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2011
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]]> Helpmeet 60301701 94 Naben Ruthnum 1988964385 Sydney 0 to-read, want-to-read-2-0 3.31 2022 Helpmeet
author: Naben Ruthnum
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.31
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]]> <![CDATA[Walk the Edge (Thunder Road, #2)]]> 30687805 432 Katie McGarry 0373212186 Sydney 0 to-read 4.21 2016 Walk the Edge (Thunder Road, #2)
author: Katie McGarry
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2016
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]]> I¨m Glad My Mom Died 59366244
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother¨s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called ＾calorie restriction,￣ eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, ＾Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn¨t tint hers?￣ She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I¨m Glad My Mom Died , Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail！just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (＾Hi Gale!￣), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I¨m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.]]> 304 Jennette McCurdy 1982185821 Sydney 5
I really love reading books that talk about the ＾dark side￣ of these glamorous careers or lifestyles. So thank you so much for writing this book. I wish Jenette the best future possible! ]]> 4.42 2022 I¨m Glad My Mom Died
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average rating: 4.42
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This was a really great book. I related a little too much at some points but still. Amazing read, well worth it!

I really love reading books that talk about the ＾dark side￣ of these glamorous careers or lifestyles. So thank you so much for writing this book. I wish Jenette the best future possible!
]]> Lord of the Fly Fest 58484063
Rafi Francisco needs something really special to put her true crime podcast on the map. She sets her sights on River Stone, the hearthrob musician who rose to stardom after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. Rafi lands herself a ticket to the exclusive Fly Fest, where River will be the headliner.

But when Rafi arrives on the Caribbean island location of Fly Fest with hundreds of other influencers and (very minor) celebrities, they quickly discover that the dream trip is more of a nightmare. And it¨s not just confronting beauty gurus-gone-wild and spotty WiFi. Soon, Rafi goes from fighting for an interview to fighting for her life. And, as she gets closer to River, she discovers that he might be hiding even darker secrets than she suspected . . .]]> 320 Goldy Moldavsky 1250230128 Sydney 0 to-read 3.09 2022 Lord of the Fly Fest
author: Goldy Moldavsky
name: Sydney
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]]> <![CDATA[It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth]]> 60760105 196 Zoe Thorogood 1534323864 Sydney 0 to-read 4.19 2022 It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
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]]> Daisy Jones & The Six 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it¨s the rock ¨n¨ roll she loves most. By the time she¨s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she¨s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]> 368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 Sydney 0 4.20 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
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]]> White Noise 28251250
White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra?modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys！radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings！pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition]]> 320 Don DeLillo 0143129554 Sydney 0 to-read 3.88 1985 White Noise
author: Don DeLillo
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.88
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]]> No Longer Human 194746 No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title).

Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: "His world ´ suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, ´ but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.

Cover painting by Noe Nojechowiz, from the collection of John and Barbara Duncan; design by Gertrude Huston]]> 176 Osamu Dazai Sydney 0 to-read 3.99 1948 No Longer Human
author: Osamu Dazai
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1948
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]]> Misery 10614 #1, #2, #3, #4

Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.]]> 370 Stephen King 0450417395 Sydney 0 to-read 4.22 1987 Misery
author: Stephen King
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1987
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]]> Boy Parts 49083140
Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina¨s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention´

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.]]> 304 Eliza Clark 1910312649 Sydney 0 to-read 3.74 2020 Boy Parts
author: Eliza Clark
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.74
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]]> Icebreaker (UCMH, #1) 61767292
Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins.

Nate¨s focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means they are forced to share a rink with the figure skating team！including Anastasia, who clearly can¨t stand him.

But when Anastasia¨s skating partner faces an uncertain future, she may have to look to Nate to take her shot.

Sparks fly, but Anastasia isn¨t worried . . . because she could never like a hockey player, right?]]> 447 Hannah Grace Sydney 0 to-read 3.75 2022 Icebreaker (UCMH, #1)
author: Hannah Grace
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> Daisy Jones & The Six 50392746
Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend, Camila, finds out she's pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting novel, written as if it were the oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. In Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid brilliantly captures an unforgettable place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]> 382 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798649 Sydney 0 to-read 4.25 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
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]]> Grown 49397758 384 Tiffany D. Jackson 0062840355 Sydney 0 to-read, want-to-read-2-0 4.24 2020 Grown
author: Tiffany D. Jackson
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average rating: 4.24
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]]> My Dark Vanessa 44890081
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.

2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager！and who professed to worship only her！may be far different from what she has always believed?

Alternating between Vanessa¨s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.]]> 373 Kate Elizabeth Russell 006294150X Sydney 0 to-read, want-to-read-2-0 4.09 2020 My Dark Vanessa
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]]> Bunny (Bunny, #1) 42815544
But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.]]> 307 Mona Awad 0525559736 Sydney 0 to-read, want-to-read-2-0 3.53 2019 Bunny (Bunny, #1)
author: Mona Awad
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.53
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]]> Becoming Human (Exilon 5 #1) 18078340 First an alien species emerged from the shadows. Then his wife disappeared...

Bill Taggart is done following rules. After losing his wife and his last shred of happiness on humanity¨s new home, he focuses his attention on the hostile alien race living there. Sent to observe them before a population transfer from Earth, Bill hopes to find a clue to explain his wife¨s disappearance. But when his study of the non-aggressive natives clashes with official reports, the investigator suspects there¨s more to this relocation.

Laura O¨Halloran hates to deviate from the rule book. But when she uncovers a sinister government conspiracy involving the aliens and Bill Taggart¨s wife, she knows she can¨t stay silent. The truth not only puts the entire transfer plan at risk, but the investigator¨s life too.]]> 358 Eliza Green Sydney 0 to-read 3.41 2012 Becoming Human (Exilon 5 #1)
author: Eliza Green
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> New Kid (New Kid #1) 39893619 A graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real.

Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade.

As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds！and not really fitting into either one. Can Jordan learn to navigate his new school culture while keeping his neighborhood friends and staying true to himself?]]> 256 Jerry Craft Sydney 0 to-read 4.13 2019 New Kid (New Kid #1)
author: Jerry Craft
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2019
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]]> Desperate 18223042
Brimming with suspense and unrelenting twists, acclaimed author Daniel Palmer's latest thriller delves into the waking nightmare of a well meaning couple whose biggest--and most ordinary--dream has gone terrifyingly awry. . .
Gage Dekker still blames himself for the car accident that claimed the lives of his first wife and young son. Then he meets Anna, who understands grief all too well. Within a year, Gage and Anna are married, his career is thriving, and both feel ready to become parents once more.

After a heartbreaking miscarriage, they begin the long adoption process, until fate brings Lily into their lives. Young, pregnant, and homeless, Lily agrees to give her baby to Gage and Anna in exchange for financial support. It's the perfect arrangement for everyone. Seeing his wife's happiness and optimism for their new life and child, Gage begins to feel a sense of hope he thought he'd lost forever.

But something isn't right once Lily enters their lives. At work and at home, Gage is being sabotaged, first in subtle ways, then things take a more sinister turn. Every attempt he makes to uncover the truth only drives a wedge between him and Anna. Even as he's propelled toward an unthinkable choice to save his marriage and his job, Gage discovers that the most chilling revelations are still to come. . .

]]> 330 Daniel Palmer 0758293437 Sydney 0 to-read, help-me-write 3.73 2014 Desperate
author: Daniel Palmer
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> Delirious 8997981 371 Daniel Palmer 0758246641 Sydney 0 to-read, help-me-write 3.66 2011 Delirious
author: Daniel Palmer
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2011
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]]> Behind Closed Doors 29437949
But it¨s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.

Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn¨t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.

Some might wonder what¨s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.]]> 293 B.A. Paris 1250121000 Sydney 0 to-read, help-me-write 3.96 2016 Behind Closed Doors
author: B.A. Paris
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock, #1)]]> 28187230 341 Ruth Ware 1501132938 Sydney 0 to-read, help-me-write 3.73 2016 The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock, #1)
author: Ruth Ware
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2016
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]]> The Woman in the Window 40389527
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn¨t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare.

What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one！and nothing！is what it seems.]]> 455 A.J. Finn Sydney 0 3.94 2018 The Woman in the Window
author: A.J. Finn
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> From Handguns to Paintbrushes 35567593
Jeff de Leyer is the grandson of a Dutch immigrant and equestrian champion, Harry de Leyer. This in itself, created an impression of a young man born into a world of privilege and entitlement. However, this could not be any further from the truth. His biological mother and father abandoned him on a doorstep when he was only three years old, leaving him with a void that was nearly impossible to fill. Jeff spent his teen and young adult years on the streets of New York making a name for himself as a drug dealer. This is where he not only found acceptance, but also a sense of family he so desperately wanted and needed.

In 1998 at 21 years of age, Jeff was arrested and later convicted of a gang-related murder, after a drug deal went horribly wrong. In prison, he was a high-ranking member of the United Blood Nation, involving him in gang wars, fights, and riots. Rock bottom came years later at the age of 39. At this point, the only thing he was looking for was redemption. He decided it was time to walk away from the only life he had ever known.

This is the compelling and true story of the rise and fall of a New York Ecstasy Kingpin. It is an eye-opening excursion through the pulse of the drug world, street life, drug addiction, prison, art and true love. Through his passion for art, desire for education and love, he rose above his circumstances to embrace a new vision of the world around him.]]> 231 Joseph "Jeff" Deleyer 0692908331 Sydney 2 4.44 2017 From Handguns to Paintbrushes
author: Joseph "Jeff" Deleyer
name: Sydney
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]]> Awakened (Awakened, #1) 35181004 The star of truTV¨s hit show Impractical Jokers！alongside veteran sci-fi and horror writer Darren Wearmouth！delivers a chilling and wickedly fun supernatural novel in the vein of The Strain, in which a beautiful new subway line in New York City unearths an ancient dark horror that threatens the city¨s utter destruction and the balance of civilization itself.

After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready, an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning communities across the Hudson River. The shining jewel of this state-of-the-art line is a breathtaking visitors¨ pavilion beneath the river.? Major dignitaries, including New York City¨s Mayor and the President of the United States, are in attendance for the inaugural run, as the first train slowly pulls in.

Under the station¨s bright ceiling lights, the shiny silver cars gleam. But as the train comes closer into view, a far different scene becomes visible.

All the train¨s cars are empty.

All the cars¨ interiors are drenched in blood.

As chaos descends, all those in the pavilion scramble to get out. But the horror is only beginning. High levels of deadly methane fill the tunnels. The structure begins to flood. For those who don¨t drown, choke or spark an explosion, another terrifying danger awaits！the thing that killed all those people on the train. It¨s out there´and it¨s coming.

There's something living beneath New York City, and it's not happy we've woken it up.]]> 0 James S. Murray 0062800388 Sydney 0 3.12 2018 Awakened (Awakened, #1)
author: James S. Murray
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.12
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2018/10/11
date added: 2019/01/17
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]]> <![CDATA[Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)]]> 6424171 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind¨s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them！for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . .--back cover]]> 416 Michael Crichton 0345370775 Sydney 0 to-read 4.25 1990 Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
author: Michael Crichton
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't]]> 39718404 307 Edward Humes 1524742139 Sydney 0 to-read, true-crime 3.37 2019 Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't
author: Edward Humes
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story]]> 15654 The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us, worked alongside of us, appeared as one of us. With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America. He would confess to killing at least thirty-six young women from coast to coast, and was eventually executed for three of those cases. Drawing from their correspondence that endured until shortly before Bundy's death, and striking a seamless balance between her deeply personal perspective and her role as a crime reporter on the hunt for a savage serial killer -- the brilliant and charismatic Bundy, the man she thought she knew -- Rule changed the course of true-crime literature with this unforgettable chronicle.]]> 548 Ann Rule 0451203267 Sydney 0 to-read, true-crime 4.13 1980 The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
author: Ann Rule
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students]]> 39776287 The definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican studentsOn September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers¨ College were en route to a protest when intercepted by local police. A confrontation ensued. Come the morning, the students were nowhere to be found. The crime that had transpired and the resultant cover-up brought the profound depths of corruption in the Mexican government and police force！as well as the vulnerability of ordinary Mexicans！into stark relief.

Investigative reporter Anabel Hern│ndez reconstructs the terrible events of that night and its aftermath, giving us the most complete picture available. Her sources are unparalleled. In researching this book, she secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public and to surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. Hern│ndez demolishes the Mexican state¨s official version of events, which the Pe?a Nieto government cynically dubbed the ＾historic truth.￣ As her research shows, state officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of government, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing and manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of ＾suspects,￣ procuring forced confessions to back up the official lie. By following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, A Massacre in Mexico shows with exacting precision precisely who is responsible for this monumental crime and who needs to be held accountable.]]> 449 Anabel Hern│ndez 1788731514 Sydney 0 to-read, true-crime 3.77 2016 A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students
author: Anabel Hern│ndez
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2016
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]]> Pumpkinheads 40864790 In Pumpkinheads author Rainbow Rowell and artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this tender and hilarious story about two irresistible teens discovering what it means to leave behind a placeDand a personDwith no regrets.

Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.

Every autumn, all through high school, they¨ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye every Halloween, and they¨re reunited every September 1.

But this Halloween is different！Josiah and Deja are finally seniors, and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last good-bye.

Josiah¨s ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn¨t ready to let him. She¨s got a plan: What if！instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut！they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he¨s been mooning over for three years . . .

What if their last shift was an adventure?]]> 209 Rainbow Rowell 125031285X Sydney 0 to-read 4.01 2019 Pumpkinheads
author: Rainbow Rowell
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong (Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, 1)]]> 16002011
Bad sportsmanship? Sure.

Chainsaws? Why not.

Running away from home on Thanksgiving? Nothing can possibly go wrong.]]> 280 Prudence Shen 159643659X Sydney 5 3.84 2013 Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong (Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, 1)
author: Prudence Shen
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2018/08/20
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]]> Nimona 19351043
Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from N.D. Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel is perfect for the legions of fans of the web comic and is sure to win Noelle many new ones.

Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.

But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.]]> 272 N.D. Stevenson Sydney 5 ar-book-reading 4.16 2015 Nimona
author: N.D. Stevenson
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation]]> 5199185 "Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes."

For Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene is perfume, this is not just an official slogan. It is a mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden.

In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world's most unforgettable dystopian futures, and in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the artist Tim Hamilton translates this frightening modern masterpiece into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature.

Including an original foreword by Ray Bradbury and fully depicting the brilliance and force of his canonic and beloved masterwork, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is an exceptional, haunting work of graphic literature.]]> 151 Tim Hamilton 080905101X Sydney 5 3.93 2009 Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation
author: Tim Hamilton
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel]]> 12959045 Derf Backderf, ＾Jeff￣ was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides.

In My Friend Dahmer, a haunting and original graphic novel, writer-artist Backderf creates a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man struggling against the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche ！ a shy kid, a teenage alcoholic, and a goofball who never quite fit in with his classmates. With profound insight, what emerges is a Jeffrey Dahmer that few ever really knew, and one readers will never forget.]]> 224 Derf Backderf 1419702173 Sydney 5 3.91 2012 My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel
author: Derf Backderf
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Giant Days, Vol. 2 (Giant Days, #2)]]> 25814105
Collects issues #5-8.]]> 128 John Allison 1608868044 Sydney 4 3.99 2016 Giant Days, Vol. 2 (Giant Days, #2)
author: John Allison
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Giant Days, Vol. 1 (Giant Days, #1)]]> 25785993
Collects issues #1-4.]]> 112 John Allison 1608867897 Sydney 0 cruise 3.92 2015 Giant Days, Vol. 1 (Giant Days, #1)
author: John Allison
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> This One Summer 18465566
In This One Summer two stellar creators redefine the teen graphic novel. Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, the team behind Skim, have collaborated on this gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful story about a girl on the cusp of her teen age！a story of renewal and revelation.]]> 324 Mariko Tamaki 1626720940 Sydney 0 3.70 2014 This One Summer
author: Mariko Tamaki
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at: 2018/05/20
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]]> 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 Sydney 0 4.01 1953 Fahrenheit 451
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1953
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]]> Reality Boy 17332968
Nothing is ever going to change. No one cares that he¨s tried to learn to control himself, and the girl he likes has no idea who he really is. Everyone¨s just waiting for him to snap´and he¨s starting to feel dangerously close to doing just that.

In this fearless portrayal of a boy on the edge, highly acclaimed Printz Honor author A.S. King explores the desperate reality of a former child ＾star￣ who finally breaks free of his anger by creating possibilities he never knew he deserved.]]> 353 A.S. King 0316222704 Sydney 0 3.81 2013 Reality Boy
author: A.S. King
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine]]> 716094
Now, for the first time, Brown, with journalist Rob Merritt, gets to tell his full version of the story. He describes the warning signs that were missed or ignored, and the evidence that was kept hidden from the public after the murders. He takes on those who say that rock music or video games caused Klebold and Harris to kill their classmates and explores what it might have been that pushed these two young men, from supposedly stable families, to harbor such violent and apocalyptic dreams.

Shocking as well as inspirational and insightful, No Easy Answers is an authentic wake-up call for all the psychologists, authorities, parents, and law enforcement personnel who have attempted to understand the murders at Columbine High School. As the title suggests, the book offers no easy answers, but instead presents the unvarnished facts about growing up as an alienated teenager in America today.

Brooks Brown graduated from Columbine High School in 1999; this is his first book. Most recently, Brooks worked and consulted on Michael Moores latest documentary called Bowling for Columbine. He lives in Littleton, Colorado. Rob Merritt graduated from the University of Iowa School of Journalism in 1998 and currently works as a newspaper writer in Marshalltown, Iowa.]]> 277 Brooks Brown 1590560310 Sydney 0 to-read, history, true-crime 4.01 2002 No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine
author: Brooks Brown
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.01
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]]> <![CDATA[A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy]]> 30259656 The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine.

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives.



For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And how, as his mother, had she not known something was wrong? Were there subtle signs she had missed? What, if anything, could she have done differently?

These are questions that Klebold has grappled with every day since the Columbine tragedy. In A Mother's Reckoning, she chronicles with unflinching honesty her journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the incomprehensible. In the hope that the insights and understanding she has gained may help other families recognize when a child is in distress, she tells her story in full, drawing upon her personal journals, the videos and writings that Dylan left behind, and on countless interviews with mental health experts.

Filled with hard-won wisdom and compassion, A Mother's Reckoning is a powerful and haunting book that sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of our time. And with fresh wounds from the Newtown and Charleston shootings, never has the need for understanding been more urgent.

All author profits from the book will be donated to research and to charitable organizations focusing on mental health issues.

-- Washington Post, Best Memoirs of 2016]]> 305 Sue Klebold 1101902779 Sydney 0 to-read, history, true-crime 4.21 2016 A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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name: Sydney
average rating: 4.21
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]]> <![CDATA[If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer]]> 1797248
In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book, titled If I Did It, in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the Goldmans in August 2007 to partially satisfy the unpaid civil judgment, which has risen to over $38 million with interest.

The Goldman family views this book as his confession and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is the original manuscript approved by O.J. Simpson, with a subtitle added by the Goldman family and up to 14,000 words of additional commentary.]]> 208 O.J. Simpson 0825305888 Sydney 0 to-read, true-crime, history 3.27 2006 If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
author: O.J. Simpson
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ultimate Survival Guide (HarperEssentials)]]> 369682
This is the definitive survival guide and essential resource for all travelers, campers, hikers, and outdoor adventurers. Already a worldwide million-copy bestseller, The Ultimate Survival Guide covers everything from basic first aid to disaster preparedness, from setting up camp to making it through a hurricane -- an absolute must-have volume for anyone who has ever placed him or herself at the mercy of Mother Nature.


What to pack, carry, and wear in hostile environments
First aid and rescue
Finding food, water, shelter, and making fire
Dealing with wild animals, snake bites, and fierce climatic hazards
Surviving flood, avalanche, tornado, and other violent natural catastrophes
Fully illustrated and easy to use]]> 304 John Wiseman 0060734345 Sydney 0 to-read, survival 4.41 2004 The Ultimate Survival Guide (HarperEssentials)
author: John Wiseman
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> The Outsiders 231804 The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.

Librarian note: This record is for one of the three editions published with different covers and with ISBN 0-140-38572-X / 978-0-14-038572-4. The records are for the 1988 cover (this record), the 1995 cover, and the 2008 cover which is also the current in-print cover.]]> 208 S.E. Hinton 0670532576 Sydney 0 4.13 1967 The Outsiders
author: S.E. Hinton
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust]]> 48834 What is life all about?

So wonders thirteen-year-old- Elli Friedmann, just one of the many innocent Holocaust victims, as she fights for her life in a concentration camp. It wasn't long ago that Elli led a normal life; a life rich and full that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet.

But these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors. Then she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes a scarcity. Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust somehow, but what Elli doesn't know is that this is only the beginning and the worst is yet to come....

A remarkable memoir. I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance and love.]]> 234 Livia Bitton-Jackson 0689823959 Sydney 0 4.18 1997 I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
author: Livia Bitton-Jackson
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1997
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]]> Endgame 83338
Award-winning novelist Nancy Garden, author of the groundbreaking novel Annie on My Mind , once again goes out on a limb, this time to show readers the cruelty of bullying and the devastating effects it can have.]]> 304 Nancy Garden 0152054162 Sydney 0 to-read 3.76 2006 Endgame
author: Nancy Garden
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2006
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]]> Speak: The Graphic Novel 34495927 The modern classic Speak is now a graphic novel.

"Speak up for yourself！we want to know what you have to say."

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless！an outcast！because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened that night: She was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.]]> 372 Laurie Halse Anderson 0374300283 Sydney 0 to-read 4.39 2018 Speak: The Graphic Novel
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2018
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]]> Give a Boy a Gun 350507 208 Todd Strasser 0689848935 Sydney 0 to-read 3.86 2000 Give a Boy a Gun
author: Todd Strasser
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2000
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]]> Batman: Nightwalker 29749090
The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list.

One by one, the city's elites are being executed as their mansions' security systems turn against them, trapping them like prey. Meanwhile, Bruce is turning eighteen and about to inherit his family's fortune, not to mention the keys to Wayne Enterprises and all the tech gadgetry his heart could ever desire. But after a run-in with the police, he's forced to do community service at Arkham Asylum, the infamous prison that holds the city's most brutal criminals.

Madeleine Wallace is a brilliant killer . . . and Bruce's only hope.

In Arkham, Bruce meets Madeleine, a brilliant girl with ties to the Nightwalkers. What is she hiding? And why will she speak only to Bruce? Madeleine is the mystery Bruce must unravel. But is he getting her to divulge her secrets, or is he feeding her the information she needs to bring Gotham City to its knees? Bruce will walk the dark line between trust and betrayal as the Nightwalkers circle closer.]]> 272 Marie Lu 0399549781 Sydney 0 to-read 3.73 2018 Batman: Nightwalker
author: Marie Lu
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2018
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]]> Because I Am Furniture 4294292 352 Thalia Chaltas 0670062987 Sydney 0 to-read 3.84 2009 Because I Am Furniture
author: Thalia Chaltas
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2009
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]]> <![CDATA[Confessions of an Angry Girl (Confessions, #1)]]> 13515025 Rose Zarelli, self-proclaimed word geek and angry girl, has some confessions to make´

1. I'm livid all the time. Why? My dad died. My mom barely talks. My brother abandoned us. I think I'm allowed to be irate, don't you?

2. I make people furious regularly. Want an example? I kissed Jamie Forta, a badass guy who might be dating a cheerleader. She is now enraged and out for blood. Mine.

3. High school might as well be Mars. My best friend has been replaced by an alien, and I see red all the time. (Mars is red and "seeing red" means being angry！get it?)

Here are some other vocab words that describe my life: Inadequate. Insufferable. Intolerable.

(Don't know what they mean? Look them up yourself.)

(Sorry. That was rude.)]]> 266 Louise Rozett 0373210485 Sydney 0 to-read 3.68 2012 Confessions of an Angry Girl (Confessions, #1)
author: Louise Rozett
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)]]> 15197 Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.

This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.]]> 144 Art Spiegelman 0679729771 Sydney 5 4.42 1991 Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
author: Art Spiegelman
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1991
rating: 5
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]]> IQ (IQ, #1) 28962895 A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores.
East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch.
They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which might be a set of tires or a homemade casserole. To get by, he's forced to take on clients that can pay.
This time, it's a rap mogul whose life is in danger. As Isaiah investigates, he encounters a vengeful ex-wife, a crew of notorious cutthroats, a monstrous attack dog, and a hit man who even other hit men say is a lunatic. The deeper Isaiah digs, the more far reaching and dangerous the case becomes.

Winner of the Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus Awards]]> 325 Joe Ide 0316267724 Sydney 0 to-read 3.72 2016 IQ (IQ, #1)
author: Joe Ide
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2016
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]]> The Wave 481743 The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.

The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long The Wave, with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action", sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of The Wave and realize they must stop it before it's too late.

]]> 138 Todd Strasser 0440993717 Sydney 4 3.53 1981 The Wave
author: Todd Strasser
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.53
book published: 1981
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)]]> 18131
It was a dark and stormy night.

Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure！one that will threaten their lives and our universe.

A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet.]]> 211 Madeleine L'Engle 0440498058 Sydney 5 4.04 1962 A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
author: Madeleine L'Engle
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1962
rating: 5
read at: 2017/12/03
date added: 2017/12/20
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]]> Carry On (Simon Snow, #1) 32768522
That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.

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

Carry On - The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters.]]> 522 Rainbow Rowell 1250135028 Sydney 0 to-read 4.17 2015 Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
author: Rainbow Rowell
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal 20898019
COLLECTING: MS. MARVEL 1-5, MATERIAL FROM ALL-NEW MARVEL NOW! POINT ONE]]> 120 G. Willow Wilson 078519021X Sydney 5 4.10 2014 Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
author: G. Willow Wilson
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> The Contender 50053 Before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender.

Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a highschool dropout and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are after him for something he didn't even do. So Alfred begins going to Donatelli's Gym, a boxing club in Harlem that has trained champions. There he learns it's the effort, not the win, that makes the man -- that last desperate struggle to get back on your feet when you thought you were down for the count.]]> 190 Robert Lipsyte 0064471527 Sydney 0 3.65 1967 The Contender
author: Robert Lipsyte
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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]]> H2O (The Rain, #1) 26216193
It's a number that marks the percentage of the population that survived. It's a number that means she's one of the "lucky" few still standing . And it's a number that says her father is probably dead.

Against all odds, Ruby has survived the catastrophic onset of the killer rain. Two weeks after the radio started broadcasting the warning "It's in the rain. It's fatal, it's contagious, and there's no cure," the drinkable water is running out. Ruby's left with two options: persevere on her own, or embark on a treacherous journey across the country to find her father--If he's even still alive.]]> 327 Virginia Bergin 1492615323 Sydney 5 3.47 2014 H2O (The Rain, #1)
author: Virginia Bergin
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2016/05/11
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]]> Posted 31371695 Ms. Bixby¨s Last Day, comes a humorous, poignant, and original contemporary story about bullying, broken friendships, and the failures of communication between kids.

In middle school, words aren¨t just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever.

When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are leaving notes！though for every kind and friendly one, there is a cutting and cruel one as well.

In the middle of this, a new girl named Rose arrives at school and sits at Frost¨s lunch table. Rose is not like anyone else at Branton Middle School, and it¨s clear that the close circle of friends Frost has made for himself won¨t easily hold another. As the sticky-note war escalates, and the pressure to choose sides mounts, Frost soon realizes that after this year, nothing will ever be the same.]]> 384 John David Anderson 006233820X Sydney 0 to-read 4.05 2017 Posted
author: John David Anderson
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.05
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]]> The Silence of Our Friends 11311549
The Silence of Our Friends draws from the childhood of Mark Long, who, with co-author Jim Demonakos, has created a powerful portrait of a volatile moment in US history. With art from the brilliant Nate Powell (Swallow Me Whole) bringing the tale to heart-wrenching life, The Silence of Our Friends is a new and important entry in the body of civil rights literature.]]> 201 Mark Long 1596436182 Sydney 0 to-read 3.86 2012 The Silence of Our Friends
author: Mark Long
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2012
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]]> If I Ever Get Out of Here 17071488
Acclaimed adult author Eric Gansworth makes his YA debut with this wry and powerful novel about friendship, memory, and the joy of rock 'n' roll.]]> 368 Eric Gansworth 0545417309 Sydney 0 to-read 3.91 2013 If I Ever Get Out of Here
author: Eric Gansworth
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.91
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian]]> 693208
Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

With a foreward by Markus Zusak & interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney
]]> 230 Sherman Alexie 0316013684 Sydney 5 4.05 2007 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
author: Sherman Alexie
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty]]> 3239487
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty relives the confusion of these traumatic days from the point of view of Roger, a neighborhood boy who struggles to understand the senseless violence swirling through the streets around him. Awakened by the tragedy, Roger seeks out answers to difficult questions ！ was Yummy a killer or a victim? Was he responsible for his actions or are others to blame?]]> 96 G. Neri 1584302674 Sydney 0 to-read 3.99 2010 Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
author: G. Neri
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2010
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]]> Before I Let Go 33918883
Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. Corey is devastatedDand confused. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones about the town's lost daughter, saying her death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she's a stranger.

Corey knows something is wrong. With every hour, her suspicion grows. Lost is keeping secretsDchilling secrets. But piecing together the truth about what happened to her best friend may prove as difficult as lighting the sky in an Alaskan winter...]]> 358 Marieke Nijkamp 1492642282 Sydney 0 to-read 3.33 2018 Before I Let Go
author: Marieke Nijkamp
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2018
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]]> Feral Youth 31556153
Inspired by The Canterbury Tales, Feral Youth features characters, each complex and damaged in their own ways, who are enticed to tell a story (or two) with the promise of a cash prize. The stories range from noir-inspired revenge tales to mythological stories of fierce heroines and angry gods. And while few of the stories are claimed to be based in truth, they ultimately reveal more about the teller than the truth ever could.]]> 310 Shaun David Hutchinson 1481491113 Sydney 0 to-read 3.54 2017 Feral Youth
author: Shaun David Hutchinson
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.54
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]]> This Is Where It Ends 24529123 The #1 New York Times Bestseller
 A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Decade
A Paste Magazine Best Book of the Decade

 Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun´

10:00 a.m.: The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.

10:02 a.m.: The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.

10:03: The auditorium doors won't open.

10:05: Someone starts shooting.

In 54 minutes, four students must confront their greatest hopes, and darkest fears, as they come face-to-face with the boy with the gun.

Includes special bonus content: a letter from the author, discussion questions, two bonus chapters, a conversation with the author, and a playlist!

Praise for This Is Where It Ends:
A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Decade
A Paste Magazine Best Book of the Decade
A BookRiot Best Book of the Decade
A Professional Book Nerds Best Book of the Decade

"Marieke Nijkamp's brutal, powerful fictional account of a school shooting is important in its timeliness." ！Bustle.com

"A gritty, emotional, and suspenseful read and although fictionalized, it reflects on a problematic and harrowing issue across the nation." ！Buzzfeed

"A compelling, brutal story of an unfortunately all-too familiar situation: a school shooting. Nijkamp portrays the events thoughtfully, recounting fifty-four intense minutes of bravery, love, and loss." ！BookRiot

]]> 288 Marieke Nijkamp 149262246X Sydney 3 (This is going to be bias.)

So, Tyler, the shooter, seems to have had problems before he decided enough was enough. But, it didn't say why he did it. What made him want to kill his classmates and teachers? What I got was that he had everything/everyone taken away from him. But, does that explain why he did it? The intensity wasn't good, in my opinion. Plus, a lack of connections with characters. The connections are really sad and depressing. I'm fine with the depressing stuff ,but I don't like the lack of connections. But, I should at least say this book is good in some ways.]]> 3.67 2016 This Is Where It Ends
author: Marieke Nijkamp
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2016
rating: 3
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When I got this book I thought it was going to be exciting and explain a problem around the world, mainly American (no offense). But, it wasn't that amazing.
(This is going to be bias.)

So, Tyler, the shooter, seems to have had problems before he decided enough was enough. But, it didn't say why he did it. What made him want to kill his classmates and teachers? What I got was that he had everything/everyone taken away from him. But, does that explain why he did it? The intensity wasn't good, in my opinion. Plus, a lack of connections with characters. The connections are really sad and depressing. I'm fine with the depressing stuff ,but I don't like the lack of connections. But, I should at least say this book is good in some ways.
]]> <![CDATA[Middle School Mayhem (Misadventures of Max Crumbly, #2)]]> 32333283
When we last left our hero, Max Crumbly, he had crash-landed on top of a Mighty Meat Monster pizza after taking a late night tumble through the vents at South Ridge Middle School！and he was completely surrounded by three ruthless criminals!

Will Max be shredded to bits like mozzarella cheese on the hard and crunchy pizza crust of doom?

Can his friend and sidekick, computer whiz Erin, help get him out of this sticky situation alive?]]> 240 Rachel Ren└e Russell 148146003X Sydney 5 4.12 2017 Middle School Mayhem (Misadventures of Max Crumbly, #2)
author: Rachel Ren└e Russell
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)]]> 15196
A brutally moving work of art！widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written！Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author¨s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author¨s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.]]> 159 Art Spiegelman 0394541553 Sydney 5 4.39 1986 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
author: Art Spiegelman
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1986
rating: 5
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]]> In the Shadow of No Towers 17001 In the Shadow of No Towers. As in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, cartoonist Spiegelman presents a highly personalized, political, and confessional diary of his experience of September 11 and its aftermath. In 10 large-scale pages of original, hard-hitting material (composed from September 11, 2001 to August 31, 2003), two essays, and 10 old comic strip reproductions from the early 20th century, Spiegelman expresses his feelings of dislocation, grief, anxiety, and outrage over the horror of the attacks！and the subsequent "hijacking" of the event by the Bush administration to serve what he believes is a misguided and immoral political agenda. Readers who agree with Spiegelman's point of view will marvel at the brilliance of his images and the wit and accuracy of his commentary. Others, no doubt, will be jolted by his candor and, perhaps, be challenged to reexamine their position.

The central image in the sequence of original broadsides, which returns as a leitmotif in each strip, is Spiegelman's Impressionistic "vision of disintegration," of the North Tower, its "glowing bones...just before it vaporized." (As downtown New Yorkers, Spiegelman and his family experienced the event firsthand.) But the images and styles in the book are as fragmentary and ever-shifting as Spiegelman's reflections and reactions. The author's closing comment that "The towers have come to loom far larger than life...but they seem to get smaller every day" reflects a larger and more chilling irony that permeates In the Shadow of No Towers. Despite the ephemeral nature of the comic strip form, the old comics at the back of the book have outlasted the seemingly indestructible towers. In the same way, Spiegelman's heartfelt impressions have immortalized the towers that, imponderably, have now vanished. ！Silvana Tropea]]> 48 Art Spiegelman 0670915416 Sydney 0 to-read 3.67 2004 In the Shadow of No Towers
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name: Sydney
average rating: 3.67
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]]> <![CDATA[One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)]]> 32571395 This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B01M98J44U.
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One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.

On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.

Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.
Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.
Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.
Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.
And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app.

Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention, Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn't an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he'd planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who's still on the loose?

Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.]]> 360 Karen M. McManus Sydney 0 to-read 4.00 2017 One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
author: Karen M. McManus
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.00
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]]> Rules for Writers 823086 585 Diana Hacker 0312406851 Sydney 0 to-read 3.87 1985 Rules for Writers
author: Diana Hacker
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1985
rating: 0
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]]> The Devil's Arithmetic 91357 170 Jane Yolen 0142401099 Sydney 5 4.02 1988 The Devil's Arithmetic
author: Jane Yolen
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[埖侵富溺勸鍋くん 2 [Gekkan Sh┃jo Nozaki-kun 2]]]> 17703212
槻徨互丕伏でありながら繁殄拇只鮫社でもある?勸鍋歎湊隻?。泳の巓りに鹿まってくるのはなぜか、勸鍋くんにも減けず喪らずのかなり倖來議な繁器ばかりで´。いよいよメインキャラクタ`器が竃Bって、ますますラブΕャグが紗堀する、富溺只鮫社槻徨コメディ`及２!!液液> 146 Izumi Tsubaki 4757537778 Sydney 0 to-read 4.38 2012 埖侵富溺勸鍋くん 2 [Gekkan Sh┃jo Nozaki-kun 2]
author: Izumi Tsubaki
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[ワンパンマン 3 g [One Punch Man 3: Uwasa]]]> 17694058 208 ONE 4088707249 Sydney 5 4.43 2013 ワンパンマン 3 g [One Punch Man 3: Uwasa]
author: ONE
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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]]> Alex, Approximately 34787673 Life is a whole lot messier than the movies... Bailey Rydell has found the boy of her dreams. They share a love of films and talk all day - Alex is perfect. The only problem? They haven't actually met... When Bailey moves to sunny California to live with her dad, who happens to live in the same town as Alex, she decides to track?him down. But finding?someone?based on online conversations alone proves harder than Bailey thought, and with her irritating but charismatic (and potentially attractive?) colleague Porter Roth distracting her at every turn, will she ever get to meet the mysterious Alex?One of MTV UK's 35 hottest YA Beach Reads for Summer 2017 "An irresistible tribute to classic screwball-comedy romances that captures the "delicious whirling, twirling, buzzing" of falling in love."?-?Kirkus, Starred Review "If you like Rainbow Rowell, Jandy Nelson and John Green, then you are going to want to check out Jenn Bennett."?-?Sugarscape "A charming read, and uplifting story and a Hollywood ending worth staying up for" -?Culturefly A modern-day YA reminiscent of?You've Got Mail,?Alex, Approximately,?is a story of summer, first love, and hidden identity.]]> 339 Jenn Bennett 1471161056 Sydney 0 to-read 3.94 2017 Alex, Approximately
author: Jenn Bennett
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.94
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]]> <![CDATA[Geekerella (Once Upon a Con, #1)]]> 30724132 Cinderella goes to the con in this fandom-fueled twist on the classic fairy tale.

Part romance, part love letter to nerd culture, and all totally adorbs, Geekerella is a fairy tale for anyone who believes in the magic of fandom. Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes Starfield, the classic sci-fi series she grew up watching with her late father. So when she sees a cosplay contest for a new Starfield movie, she has to enter. The prize? An invitation to the ExcelsiCon Cosplay Ball, and a meet-and-greet with the actor slated to play Federation Prince Carmindor in the reboot. With savings from her gig at the Magic Pumpkin food truck (and her dad¨s old costume), Elle¨s determined to win´unless her stepsisters get there first.

Teen actor Darien Freeman used to live for cons！before he was famous. Now they¨re nothing but autographs and awkward meet-and-greets. Playing Carmindor is all he¨s ever wanted, but the Starfield fandom has written him off as just another dumb heartthrob. As ExcelsiCon draws near, Darien feels more and more like a fake！until he meets a girl who shows him otherwise.]]> 320 Ashley Poston 1594749477 Sydney 0 to-read 3.88 2017 Geekerella (Once Upon a Con, #1)
author: Ashley Poston
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.88
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]]> The Takedown 31423554 It would have been funny, if it just wasn¨t.

Kyla Cheng doesn¨t expect you to like her. For the record, she doesn¨t need you to. On track to be valedictorian, she¨s president of her community club and a debate team champ, plus the yummy Mackenzie Rodriguez has firmly attached himself to her hip. She and her three high-powered best friends don¨t just own their senior year at their exclusive Park Slope, Brooklyn high school, they practically define the hated species Popular. Kyla¨s even managed to make it through high school completely unscathed.

Until someone takes issue with this arrangement.

A week before college applications are due, a video of Kyla ＾doing it￣ with her crush-worthy English teacher is uploaded to her school¨s website. It instantly goes viral, but here¨s the thing: it¨s not Kyla in the video. With time running out, Kyla delves into a world of hackers, haters and creepy stalkers in an attempt to do the impossible！take something off the internet！all while dealing with the fallout from her own karmic footprint.]]> 384 Corrie Wang 1484757424 Sydney 0 to-read 3.46 2017 The Takedown
author: Corrie Wang
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.46
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]]> Things I Should Have Known 30971706 Things Chloe knew: Her sister, Ivy, was lonely. Ethan was a perfect match. Ethan¨s brother, David, was an arrogant jerk.

Things Chloe should have known: Setups are complicated. Ivy can make her own decisions. David may be the only person who really gets Chloe.

Meet Chloe Mitchell, a popular Los Angeles girl who¨s decided that her older sister, Ivy, who¨s on the autism spectrum, could use a boyfriend. Chloe already has someone in mind: Ethan Fields, a sweet, movie-obsessed boy from Ivy¨s special needs class.

Chloe would like to ignore Ethan¨s brother, David, but she can¨t！Ivy and Ethan aren¨t comfortable going out on their own, so Chloe and David have to tag along. Soon Chloe, Ivy, David, and Ethan form a quirky and wholly lovable circle. And as the group bonds over frozen-yogurt dates and movie nights, Chloe is forced to confront her own romantic choices！and the realization that it¨s okay to be a different kind of normal.]]> 320 Claire LaZebnik 0544829697 Sydney 0 to-read 3.78 2017 Things I Should Have Known
author: Claire LaZebnik
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Which is not True?: The Quiz Book]]> 33380862 219 Nayden Kostov 9995998033 Sydney 0 to-read 3.70 Which is not True?: The Quiz Book
author: Nayden Kostov
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.70
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]]> It 830502
It¨s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.]]> 1184 Stephen King 0450411435 Sydney 0 to-read 4.28 1986 It
author: Stephen King
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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]]> Radio Silence 25322449
What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?

Frances has been a study machine with one goal. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret C not even the person she is on the inside. Then Frances meets Aled, and for the first time she's unafraid to be herself.

So when the fragile trust between them is broken, Frances is caught between who she was and who she longs to be. Now Frances knows that she has to confront her past. To confess why Carys disappeared´

Frances is going to need every bit of courage she has.

Engaging with themes of identity, diversity and the freedom to choose, Radio Silence is a tour de force by the most exciting writer of her generation.]]> 496 Alice Oseman Sydney 0 to-read 4.18 2016 Radio Silence
author: Alice Oseman
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2016
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]]> Goodbye Days 30649795 What if you could spend one last day with someone you lost?

One day Carver Briggs had it all！three best friends, a supportive family, and a reputation as a talented writer at his high school, Nashville Academy for the Arts.

The next day he lost it all when he sent a simple text to his friend Mars, right before Mars, Eli, and Blake were killed in a car crash.

Now Carver can¨t stop blaming himself for the accident, and he¨s not the only one. Eli¨s twin sister is trying to freeze him out of school with her death-ray stare. And Mars¨s father, a powerful judge, is pressuring the district attorney to open a criminal investigation into Carver¨s actions.

Luckily, Carver has some unexpected allies: Eli¨s girlfriend, the only person to stand by him at school; Dr. Mendez, his new therapist; and Blake¨s grandmother, who asks Carver to spend a Goodbye Day with her to share their memories and say a proper goodbye to his friend.

Soon the other families are asking for a Goodbye Day with Carver, but he¨s unsure of their motives. Will they all be able to make peace with their losses, or will these Goodbye Days bring Carver one step closer to a complete breakdown or！even worse！prison?]]> 399 Jeff Zentner 0553524062 Sydney 0 to-read 4.09 2017 Goodbye Days
author: Jeff Zentner
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.09
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]]> Bookish: Adult Coloring Book 29600801
Find some of your favorite book terms and phrases to color: book lover, so many books so little time, once upon a time, and much more.

Each page is single-sided, allowing those who prefer markers to color also. (Note: A divider is recommended when using markers.)]]> 94 Martha Sweeney 0997463708 Sydney 0 to-read 4.52 2016 Bookish: Adult Coloring Book
author: Martha Sweeney
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2016
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]]> Movie Game 23635534
It¨s been three years since Joe¨s father vanished. Now seventeen, he is unaware that government agents are watching him in case his dad makes contact. Joe is too distracted by his secret girlfriend, midnight swims in the pools of strangers, free drinks from his buddies at the movie game and the glamorous college student, Felicity. But his movie-esque existence and addiction to fiction is set to collide with a heavy dose of reality this summer when he discovers everything is not what it seems: his secret girlfriend wants to be the real thing. His college fling may have ulterior motives. And the government agents want co-operation to catch his missing father. All this and the three year old death of Joe¨s first girlfriend Alice are going to cause him to face some dark truths.

It¨s no longer a movie game. This is his life and he wants to win.]]> 302 Michael Ebner 0993061303 Sydney 0 to-read 3.44 2015 Movie Game
author: Michael Ebner
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[Playing with Fire (Tales of an Extraordinary Girl, #1)]]> 102259 Earth, Wind & Fire aren't just a band anymore . . .

Used to be my greatest achievement was holding a job more than three days. Now suddenly I can shoot fireballs, chill your drink, or blow-dry your hair at fifty paces with a blink of my eye!

It all started when this crazy scientist dropped something in my Grande Mocha Latte. Of course I got wicked sick. Next morning I'm waking up with this total hottie bending over me. He tells me 1)his name's Rome Masters, 2)he's a government agent and 3)I can control the four elements with a thought.

He seems even less pleased by my (apparently irreversible) transformation than I am . . . Because now he'll have to kill me.]]> 384 Gena Showalter 0373771290 Sydney 0 to-read 3.94 2006 Playing with Fire (Tales of an Extraordinary Girl, #1)
author: Gena Showalter
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2006
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]]> The Giver (The Giver, #1) 3636 208 Lois Lowry 0385732554 Sydney 0 to-read 4.12 1993 The Giver (The Giver, #1)
author: Lois Lowry
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1993
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]]> All Grown Up 30971707
Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she¨s a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it¨s what she leaves unsaid！she¨s alone, a drinker, a former artist, a shrieker in bed, captain of the sinking ship that is her flesh！that feels the most true. Everyone around her seems to have an entirely different idea of what it means to be an adult: her best friend, Indigo, is getting married; her brother！who miraculously seems unscathed by their shared tumultuous childhood！and sister-in-law are having a hoped-for baby; and her friend Matthew continues to wholly devote himself to making dark paintings at the cost of being flat broke.

But when Andrea¨s niece finally arrives, born with a heartbreaking ailment, the Bern family is forced to reexamine what really matters. Will this drive them together or tear them apart? Told in gut-wrenchingly honest, mordantly comic vignettes, All Grown Up is a breathtaking display of Jami Attenberg¨s power as a storyteller, a whip-smart examination of one woman¨s life, lived entirely on her own terms.]]> 197 Jami Attenberg 0544824245 Sydney 0 to-read 3.38 2017 All Grown Up
author: Jami Attenberg
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.38
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]]> The 100 (The 100, #1) 17332969 No one has set foot on Earth in centuries！until now.

Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents！considered expendable by society！are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission.

CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves！but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth.

Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope.]]> 323 Kass Morgan 0316234478 Sydney 0 to-read 3.59 2013 The 100 (The 100, #1)
author: Kass Morgan
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2013
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]]> Silenced 32859753
Until Rylee Anderson´

When Rylee spots Killian hopping over a fence next door, she follows him, unprepared for the boy she¨d find！or the relationship that would unfold over the next seven years.

Or the silence that would follow.

Fighting between the hate of his past and the promise of his future, Killian must make choices！ones that would affect more than himself. Choices that would test the lines of right and wrong. Decisions that could break the bond of the only love Killian knew.

Hate or love.
Revenge or forgiveness.
Silence or his voice.]]> 269 Leddy Harper 137030708X Sydney 0 to-read 3.88 2017 Silenced
author: Leddy Harper
name: Sydney
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2017
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]]> I Let You Go 23125266 A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn't have prevented it. Could she?

In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever.

Slowly, Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future. But her past is about to catch up with her, and the consequences will be devastating . . .]]> 371 Clare Mackintosh 0751554154 Sydney 0 to-read 4.04 2014 I Let You Go
author: Clare Mackintosh
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 3 (The Promise, #3)]]> 13611440 The final chapter!

The Harmony Restoration Movement has failed, and the world is plunged back into war! In the midst of the battle, can Avatar Aang and Fire Lord Zuko mend the rift between them, or will Aang be forced to take actions that can't be undone?]]> 76 Gene Luen Yang 1595829415 Sydney 0 to-read 4.41 2012 Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise, Part 3 (The Promise, #3)
author: Gene Luen Yang
name: Sydney
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2012
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