Beezers's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:13:59 -0700 60 Beezers's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model]]> 58425429 Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts that make you who you are.

Is there just one “you�? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz’s research now challenges this “mono-mind� theory. “All of us are born with many sub-minds—or parts,� says Dr. Schwartz. “These parts are not imaginary or symbolic. They are individuals who exist as an internal family within us—and the key to health and happiness is to honor, understand, and love every part.�

Dr. Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been transforming psychology for decades. With No Bad Parts, you’ll learn why IFS has been so effective in areas such as trauma recovery, addiction therapy, and depression treatment—and how this new understanding of consciousness has the potential to radically change our lives. Here you’ll explore:

� The IFS revolution—how honoring and communicating with our parts changes our approach to mental wellness
� Overturning the cultural, scientific, and spiritual assumptions that reinforce an outdated mono-mind model
� The ego, the inner critic, the saboteur—making these often-maligned parts into powerful allies
� Burdens—why our parts become distorted and stuck in childhood traumas and cultural beliefs
� How IFS demonstrates human goodness by revealing that there are no bad parts
� The Self—discover your wise, compassionate essence of goodness that is the source of healing and harmony
� Exercises for mapping your parts, accessing the Self, working with a challenging protector, identifying each part’s triggers, and more

IFS is a paradigm-changing model because it gives us a powerful approach for healing ourselves, our culture, and our planet. As Dr. Schwartz teaches, “Our parts can sometimes be disruptive or harmful, but once they’re unburdened, they return to their essential goodness. When we learn to love all our parts, we can learn to love all people—and that will contribute to healing the world.�

]]> 200 Richard C. Schwartz 168364669X Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.25 2021 No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
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]]> The Hunger 35570079 "Supernatural suspense at its finest...The best thing about The Hunger is that it will scare the pants off you."--The New York Times Book Review "Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark."--Stephen KingA tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical the Donner Party with a supernatural twist.Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to the point of murder and chaos. They cannot seem to escape tragedy...or the feelings that someone--or something--is stalking them. Whether it's a curse from the beautiful Tamsen Donner (who some think might be a witch), their ill-advised choice of route through uncharted terrain, or just plain bad luck, the ninety men, women, and children of the Donner Party are heading into one of one of the deadliest and most disastrous Western adventures in American history. As members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if there really is something disturbing, and hungry, waiting for them in the mountains...and whether the evil that has unfolded around them may have in fact been growing within them all along.Effortlessly combining the supernatural and the historical, The Hunger is an eerie, thrilling look at the volatility of human nature, pushed to its breaking point.]]> 323 Alma Katsu 073521252X Beezers 5 3.73 2018 The Hunger
author: Alma Katsu
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto]]> 60382737
From the founder and creator of The Nap Ministry,ĚýRest Is ResistanceĚýis a battle cry, a guidebook, a map for a movement, and a field guide for the weary and hopeful. It is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. With captivating storytelling and practical advice, all delivered in Hersey's lyrical voice and informed by her deep experience in theology, activism, and performance art,ĚýRest Is ResistanceĚýis a call to action and manifesto for those who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture.]]> 224 Tricia Hersey 0316365211 Beezers 4 4.06 2022 Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
author: Tricia Hersey
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.06
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]]> The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1) 50520939
Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. Callum Nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. Finally, there is Tristan Caine, who can see through illusions to a new structure of reality—an ability so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications.

When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will.

Most of them.]]> 376 Olivie Blake Beezers 0 currently-reading 3.56 2020 The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
author: Olivie Blake
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.56
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]]> <![CDATA[Unfuck Your Stress: Using Science to Cope with Distress and Embrace Excitement (5-Minute Therapy)]]> 59203606 192 Faith G. Harper 1648411606 Beezers 4 3.83 Unfuck Your Stress: Using Science to Cope with Distress and Embrace Excitement (5-Minute Therapy)
author: Faith G. Harper
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Surprisingly good book on stress, trauma, PTSD, and anxiety. Solid, quick read that covers the physiological and psychological nature of stress and shares some tips for management.
]]> Shuna's Journey 60384799
Shuna, the prince of a poor land, watches in despair as his people work themselves to death harvesting the little grain that grows there. And so, when a traveler presents him with a sample of seeds from a mysterious western land, he sets out to find the source of the golden grain, dreaming of a better life for his subjects.

It is not long before he meets a proud girl named Thea. After freeing her from captivity, he is pursued by her enemies, and while Thea escapes north, Shuna continues toward the west, finally reaching the Land of the God-Folk.

Will Shuna ever see Thea again? And will he make it back home from his quest for the golden grain?]]> 160 Hayao Miyazaki 1250846528 Beezers 5 4.35 1983 Shuna's Journey
author: Hayao Miyazaki
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> The Mabinogion 326248 Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of hanging a pregnant mouse and hunting a magical boar. Dragons, witches, and giants live alongside kings and heroes, and quests of honour, revenge, and love are set against the backdrop of a country struggling to retain its independence.

This new translation, the first for thirty years, recreates the storytelling world of medieval Wales and re-invests the tales with the power of performance.]]> 336 Unknown 0192832425 Beezers 5 english-history-folklore 4.00 1400 The Mabinogion
author: Unknown
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1400
rating: 5
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these are beautiful, moralistic tales that are woven together through a set of heroes, heroines, and villains. these stories are filled with the best and worst of human nature, set in the ethereal realm where history mixes with legend.
]]> <![CDATA[The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)]]> 17406654 The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.

Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.

Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free.

Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.]]> 819 Helene Wecker Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.26 2013 The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
author: Helene Wecker
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[A Touch of Darkness (Hades x Persephone Saga, #1)]]> 55215339
Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible.

After a chance encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead and the terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever.

The bet does more than expose Persephone’s failure as a goddess, however. As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows—and it’s forbidden.]]> 379 Scarlett St. Clair Beezers 0 currently-reading 3.78 2019 A Touch of Darkness (Hades x Persephone Saga, #1)
author: Scarlett St. Clair
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2019
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]]> Circe 50164163
When love drives Circe to cast a dark spell, wrathful Zeus banishes her to the remote island of Aiaia. There she learns to harness her occult craft, drawing strength from nature. But she will not always be alone; many are destined to pass through Circe's place of exile, entwining their fates with hers. The messenger god, Hermes. The craftsman, Daedalus. A ship bearing a golden fleece. And wily Odysseus, on his epic voyage home.

There is danger for a solitary woman in this world, and Circe's independence draws the wrath of men and gods alike. To protect what she holds dear, Circe must decide whether she belongs with the deities she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.]]> 433 Madeline Miller Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.32 2018 Circe
author: Madeline Miller
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.32
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]]> <![CDATA[Persephone's Pathway: Wisdom, Magick & Growth]]> 55538535 190 Jennifer Heather Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.28 Persephone's Pathway: Wisdom, Magick & Growth
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]]> <![CDATA[Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)]]> 20603758 A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?
It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.

And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.

And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.

Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.]]> 386 Ernest Cline Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.38 2011 Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
author: Ernest Cline
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.38
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]]> <![CDATA[It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand]]> 35993689 Challenging conventional wisdom on grief, a pioneering therapist offers a new resource for those experiencing loss

When a painful loss or life-shattering event upends your world, here is the first thing to know: there is nothing wrong with grief. “Grief is simply love in its most wild and painful form,� says Megan Devine. “It is a natural and sane response to loss.�

So, why does our culture treat grief like a disease to be cured as quickly as possible?

In It’s OK That You’re Not OK, Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we try to help others who have endured tragedy. Having experienced grief from both sides—as both a therapist and as a woman who witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner—Megan writes with deep insight about the unspoken truths of loss, love, and healing. She debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to a normal, “happy� life, replacing it with a far healthier middle path, one that invites us to build a life alongside grief rather than seeking to overcome it. In this compelling and heartful book, you’ll learn:

� Why well-meaning advice, therapy, and spiritual wisdom so often end up making it harder for people in grief
� How challenging the myths of grief—doing away with stages, timetables, and unrealistic ideals about how grief should unfold—allows us to accept grief as a mystery to be honored instead of a problem to solve
� Practical guidance for managing stress, improving sleep, and decreasing anxiety without trying to “fix� your pain
� How to help the people you love—with essays to teach us the best skills, checklists, and suggestions for supporting and comforting others through the grieving process

Many people who have suffered a loss feel judged, dismissed, and misunderstood by a culture that wants to “solve� grief. Megan writes, “Grief no more needs a solution than love needs a solution.� Through stories, research, life tips, and creative and mindfulness-based practices, she offers a unique guide through an experience we all must face—in our personal lives, in the lives of those we love, and in the wider world.

It’s OK That You’re Not OK is a book for grieving people, those who love them, and all those seeking to love themselves—and each other—better.]]> 282 Megan Devine 1622039084 Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.42 2017 It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
author: Megan Devine
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average rating: 4.42
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]]> <![CDATA[Dragonsong (Pern: Harper Hall series)]]> 25938618 290 Anne McCaffrey Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.66 1976 Dragonsong (Pern: Harper Hall series)
author: Anne McCaffrey
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.66
book published: 1976
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Peace (Shambhala Classics)]]> 19091062
This edition is a much-expanded version of the original miniature edition that appeared in the Shambhala Pocket Classics series. It features a wealth of new material, including a biography of Ueshiba; an essay by John Stevens that presents Ueshiba's views on "The Art of War versus the Art of Peace"; newly translated doka, didactic "poems of the Way"; and Ueshiba's own calligraphies.]]> 103 Morihei Ueshiba 0834821680 Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.16 1992 The Art of Peace (Shambhala Classics)
author: Morihei Ueshiba
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold]]> 33512527
Set against the backdrop of Glome, a barbaric, pre-Christian world, the struggles between sacred and profane love are illuminated as Orual learns that we cannot understand the intent of the gods "till we have faces" and sincerity in our souls and selves.]]> 356 C.S. Lewis Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.28 1956 Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
author: C.S. Lewis
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average rating: 4.28
book published: 1956
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help]]> 23533786
Even while Amanda is both celebrated and attacked for her fearlessness in asking for help, she finds that there are important things she cannot ask for-as a musician, as a friend, and as a wife. She learns that she isn't alone in this, that so many people are afraid to ask for help, and it paralyzes their lives and relationships. In this groundbreaking book, she explores these barriers in her own life and in the lives of those around her, and discovers the emotional, philosophical, and practical aspects of THE ART OF ASKING.

Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet. THE ART OF ASKING will inspire readers to rethink their own ideas about asking, giving, art, and love.
]]> 352 Amanda Palmer 1455581070 Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.17 2014 The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
author: Amanda Palmer
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1)]]> 30341482 'Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.'

In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant tells stories of sorcery, folklore and the Winter King to the children of the family, tales of old magic frowned upon by the church.

But for the young, wild Vasya these are far more than just stories. She alone can see the house spirits that guard her home, and sense the growing forces of dark magic in the woods...

Atmospheric and enchanting, with an engrossing adventure at its core, The Bear and the Nightingale is perfect for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman.]]> 324 Katherine Arden 1785035231 Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.12 2017 The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1)
author: Katherine Arden
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> The Girl on the Train 22754100 326 Paula Hawkins Beezers 5 4.07 2015 The Girl on the Train
author: Paula Hawkins
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> The Girl With All the Gifts 19827903
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.

The Girl with All the Gifts is a groundbreaking thriller, emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end.]]> 420 M.R. Carey Beezers 4 4.08 2014 The Girl With All the Gifts
author: M.R. Carey
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.08
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]]> <![CDATA[The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)]]> 28147302 The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin.

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.

The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring -- madman, world-crusher, savior -- has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.

It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy.

It continues with the obelisks, and an ancient mystery converging on answers at last.

The Stillness is the wall which stands against the flow of tradition, the spark of hope long buried under the thickening ashfall. And it will not be broken.
]]> 321 N.K. Jemisin Beezers 5 4.44 2016 The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
author: N.K. Jemisin
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average rating: 4.44
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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]]> The Fifth Season 19887474
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.

Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.]]> 496 N.K. Jemisin Beezers 5 4.40 2015 The Fifth Season
author: N.K. Jemisin
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> Hannibal Rising 8122946 He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed.Ěý Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki. Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France. But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.]]> 386 Thomas Harris Beezers 0 4.01 2006 Hannibal Rising
author: Thomas Harris
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2006
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]]> <![CDATA[Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)]]> 6667654 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •Ěý“Is it as good as Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs? No . . . this one is better.”—Stephen King, The New York Times Book ReviewYou remember Hannibal gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he’s been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world. But intruders have entered Dr. Lecter’s world, piercing his new identity, sensing the evil that surrounds him. For the multimillionaire Hannibal left maimed, for a corrupt Italian policeman, and for FBI agent Clarice Starling, who once stood before Lecter and who has never been the same, the final hunt for Hannibal Lecter has begun. All of them, in their separate ways, want to find Dr. Lecter. And all three will get their wish. But only one will live long enough to savor the reward. . . .ĚýPraise for Hannibal“Interested in getting the hell scared out of you? Buy this book on a Friday . . . lock all doors and windows. And by Monday , you might just be able to sleep without a night-light.â€�—N±đ·É˛ő»ĺ˛ą˛â“Strap yourself in for one heck of a ride. . . . It’ll scare your socks off.â€�—Denver Post “A stunner . . . writing in language as bright and precise as a surgeon’s scalpel, Harris has created a world as mysterious as Hannibal’s memory palace and as disturbing as a Goya painting. This is one book you don’t want to read alone at night.â€�—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“Relentless . . . endlessly terrifying . . . 486 fast-paced pages, in which every respite is but a prelude to further furious action . . . Hannibal begins with a murderous paroxysm that leaves the reader breathless. . . . Hannibal speaks to the imagination, to the feelings, to the passions, to exalted senses and to debased ones. Harris’s voice will be heard for a while.â€�—Los Angeles Times“A pleasurable sense of dread.â€�—The Wall Street Journal“Enormously satisfying . . . a smashing good time, turning the pages for thrills, chills, horror and finally, a bracing, deliciously wicked slap in the face . . . perhaps the very best the thriller/horror genre is capable of producing.â€�—San Diego Union-Tribune]]> 530 Thomas Harris Beezers 5 4.12 1999 Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
author: Thomas Harris
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)]]> 6098657 464 Thomas Harris Beezers 5 4.22 1981 Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
author: Thomas Harris
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail]]> 13367541 Ěý
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.� But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.
Ěý
Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.]]> 318 Cheryl Strayed 0307957659 Beezers 5 4.18 2012 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
author: Cheryl Strayed
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Phoenix Rising (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, #1)]]> 10590627 A steampunk sci-fi fantasy featuring a duo of British investigators determined to uncover a dark conspiracy in Victorian London.Evil is most assuredly afoot—and Britain’s fate rests in the hands of an alluring renegadeĚý.Ěý.Ěý. and a librarian.These are dark days indeed in Victoria’s England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences—the Crown’s clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling—will not allow its agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however, with her bulletproof corset and a disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to let the matter restĚý.Ěý.Ěý. and she’s prepared to drag her timorous new partner, Wellington Books, along with her into the perilous fray.For a malevolent brotherhood is operating in the deepening London shadows, intent upon the enslavement of all Britons. And Books and Braun—he with his encyclopedic brain and she with her remarkable devices—must get to the twisted roots of a most nefarious plotĚý.Ěý.Ěý. or see England fall to the Phoenix!“I enjoyed this book more than I think I can express in a single review. The moment I finished it I wanted the next one in the series. The steampunk world is incredible, all the way from awesome weaponry to colorful clothing. Eliza’s sassy attitude kept me upbeat throughout the entire book, even when I was scared for the charactersâ€� lives.â€� —All About Romance]]> 421 Pip Ballantine Beezers 5 3.86 2011 Phoenix Rising (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, #1)
author: Pip Ballantine
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> Allegiant (Divergent, #3) 17406183 What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything?
What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?

The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.]]> 545 Veronica Roth Beezers 4 3.84 2013 Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
author: Veronica Roth
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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]]> Divergent (Divergent, #1) 9717320 This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B004CFA9RS.
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Now includes an excerpt from the upcoming Four: A Divergent Collection.

This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers.

Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and Maze Runner series, Divergent and its sequels, Insurgent and Allegiant, are the gripping story of a dystopian world transformed by courage, self-sacrifice, and love. Fans of the Divergent movie will find the book packed with just as much emotional depth and exhilarating action as the film, all told in beautiful, rich language.

One choice can transform you. Beatrice Prior's society is divided into five factions—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). Beatrice must choose between staying with her Abnegation family and transferring factions. Her choice will shock her community and herself. But the newly christened Tris also has a secret, one she's determined to keep hidden, because in this world, what makes you different makes you dangerous.

Supports the Common Core State Standards

]]> 342 Veronica Roth Beezers 4 4.18 2011 Divergent (Divergent, #1)
author: Veronica Roth
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn]]> 8272531 Alternate cover edition can be found here

Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world's most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines. Now acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir has drawn on myriad sources from the Tudor era to give us the first book that examines, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn's final days.

The tempestuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scandalized Christendom and altered forever the religious landscape of England. Anne's ascent from private gentlewoman to queen was astonishing, but equally compelling was her shockingly swift downfall. Charged with high treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London in May 1536, Anne met her terrible end all the while protesting her innocence. There remains, however, much mystery surrounding the queen's arrest and the events leading up to it: Were charges against her fabricated because she stood in the way of Henry VIII making a third marriage and siring an heir, or was she the victim of a more complex plot fueled by court politics and deadly rivalry?

The Lady in the Tower examines in engrossing detail the motives and intrigues of those who helped to seal the queen's fate. Weir unravels the tragic tale of Anne's fall, from her miscarriage of the son who would have saved her to the horrors of her incarceration and that final, dramatic scene on the scaffold. What emerges is an extraordinary portrayal of a woman of great courage whose enemies were bent on utterly destroying her, and who was tested to the extreme by the terrible plight in which she found herself.Ěý

Richly researched and utterly captivating, The Lady in the Tower presents the full array of evidence of Anne Boleyn's guilt—or innocence. Only in Alison Weir's capable hands can readers learn the truth about the fate of one of the most influential and important women in English history.

BONUS: This edition contains a The Lady in the TowerĚýdiscussion guide and an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn.]]> 464 Alison Weir Beezers 5 4.05 2009 The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
author: Alison Weir
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) 13453029
The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months.

This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.

Alternate cover for B0071XO8RA]]> 509 Hugh Howey Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.22 2012 Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
author: Hugh Howey
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Beezers 5 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> The Six Wives of Henry VIII 18922208 A “brilliantly written and meticulously researchedâ€� biography of royal family life during England’s second Tudor monarch (San Francisco Chronicle). Ěý Either annulled, executed, died in childbirth, or widowed, these were the well-known fates of the six queens during the tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England from 1509 to 1547. But in this “exquisite treatment, sure to become a classicâ€� (Booklist), they take on more fully realized flesh and blood than ever before. Katherine of Aragon emerges as a staunch though misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn, an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour, a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves, a good-natured woman who jumped at the chance of independence; Katherine Howard, an empty-headed wanton; and Katherine Parr, a warm-blooded bluestocking who survived King Henry to marry a fourth time. Ěý “Combin[ing] the accessibility of a popular history with the highest standards of a scholarly thesisâ€�, Alison Weir draws on the entire labyrinth of Tudor history, employing every known archive—early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports—to bring vividly to life the fates of the six queens, the machinations of the monarch they married and the myriad and ceaselessly plotting courtiers in their intimate circle (The Detroit News). Ěý In this extraordinary work of sound and brilliant scholarship, “at last we have the truth about Henry VIII’s wivesâ€� (Evening Standard).]]> 676 Alison Weir Beezers 4 4.30 1992 The Six Wives of Henry VIII
author: Alison Weir
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn With Notes]]> 11456431 70 Henry VIII Beezers 4 3.67 1720 The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn With Notes
author: Henry VIII
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1720
rating: 4
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]]> Autobiography of a Yogi 639864
Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. The author clearly explains the subtle but definite laws behind both the ordinary events of everyday life and the extraordinary events commonly termed miracles. His absorbing life story thus becomes the background for a penetrating and unforgettable look at the ultimate mysteries of human existence.

Considered a modern spiritual classic, the book has been translated into more than twenty languages and is widely used as a text and reference work in colleges and universities. A perennial bestseller since it was first published sixty years ago, Autobiography of a Yogi has found its way into the hearts of millions of readers around the world.]]> 503 Paramahansa Yogananda 0876120834 Beezers 5 4.22 1946 Autobiography of a Yogi
author: Paramahansa Yogananda
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1946
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It]]> 10128759 NATIONAL BESTSELLER â€� “Taubes stands the received wisdom about diet and exercise on its head.”Ěý—The New York TimesWhat’s making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions.Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-outâ€� model of why we get fat—and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid? Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat is an essential guide to nutrition and weight management.

Complete with an easy-to-follow diet.Ěý Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions.Ěý]]> 288 Gary Taubes 030759551X Beezers 0 currently-reading 4.20 2010 Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
author: Gary Taubes
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> Conscious Eating 171662 880 Gabriel Cousens 1556432852 Beezers 0 currently-reading <br /> <br /> 4.11 1992 Conscious Eating
author: Gabriel Cousens
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> The House of the Spirits 9328
The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.]]> 448 Isabel Allende 0553383809 Beezers 3 4.26 1982 The House of the Spirits
author: Isabel Allende
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1982
rating: 3
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]]> The Wives of Henry VIII 530793 482 Antonia Fraser 0140132937 Beezers 5 4.11 1992 The Wives of Henry VIII
author: Antonia Fraser
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tudor Chronicles: 1485-1603]]> 6122701 The Tudor Chronicles is a compelling, year-by-year chronology of this tumultuous and critical period in the development of the modern English nation. Each year is covered by a concise, informative and accessible narrative, amplified by extensive quotations from contemporary sources and accompanied by generously captioned and stunning images of the period � including portraits, maps, illuminations, royal seals, tapestries and other artifacts.

Authoritative, informative and sumptuous, and compiled by a scholar who is steeped in knowledge of the period, The Tudor Chronicles brings a glorious era of English history dramatically and vividly to life. It is the perfect gift book for anyone with a love of, or fascination for, 16th-century English history.]]> 416 Susan Doran 1435109392 Beezers 5 4.28 2008 The Tudor Chronicles: 1485-1603
author: Susan Doran
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> The Lace Reader 1951125
Can you read your future in a piece of lace? All of the Whitney women can. But the last time Towner read, it killed her sister and nearly robbed Towner of her own sanity. Vowing never to read lace again, her resolve is tested when faced with the mysterious, unsolvable disappearance of her beloved Great Aunt Eva, Salem s original Lace Reader. Told from opposing and often unreliable perspectives, the story engages the reader s own beliefs. Should we listen to Towner, who may be losing her mind for the second time? Or should we believe John Rafferty, a no nonsense New York detective, who ran away from the city to a simpler place only to find himself inextricably involved in a psychic tug of war with all three generations of Whitney women? Does either have the whole story? Or does the truth lie somewhere in the swirling pattern of the lace?

(back cover)]]> 368 Brunonia Barry 097915930X Beezers 5 3.47 2006 The Lace Reader
author: Brunonia Barry
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)]]> 7260188 My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.

It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss.

The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.]]> 390 Suzanne Collins 0439023513 Beezers 4 4.10 2010 Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez Beezers 4 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1967
rating: 4
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]]> The Lovely Bones 12232938
So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.]]> 372 Alice Sebold 0316166685 Beezers 5
but it's a really touching, beautiful story that kept me guessing the whole way through. the prose is so touching, so stream-of-consciousness that I just melted into it.

beautiful.]]> 3.87 2002 The Lovely Bones
author: Alice Sebold
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at: 2007/11/01
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I heard about this book when it was in Uber Popularity mode... it made me shy from reading it, afraid it was tailor-made bullshit.

but it's a really touching, beautiful story that kept me guessing the whole way through. the prose is so touching, so stream-of-consciousness that I just melted into it.

beautiful.
]]> <![CDATA[Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)]]> 1162543 "Don't be afraid," I murmured. "We belong together."
I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words.
This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it.
His arms wrapped around me,
holding me against him....
It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire.
"Forever," he agreed.

WHEN YOU LOVED THE ONE WHO WAS KILLING YOU, IT LEFT YOU NO OPTIONS. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?

TO BE IRREVOCABLY IN LOVE WITH A VAMPIRE is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.

NOW THAT BELLA HAS MADE HER DECISION, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever?

THE ASTONISHING, BREATHLESSLY anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.]]> 756 Stephenie Meyer 031606792X Beezers 2 3.74 2008 Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
author: Stephenie Meyer
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2008
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)]]> 428263 "BELLA?"
Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.
This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

READERS CAPTIVATED BY Twilight AND New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga.]]> 629 Stephenie Meyer 0316160202 Beezers 3 3.73 2007 Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
author: Stephenie Meyer
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)]]> 49041 There is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13 9780316160193 here.

I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.

I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING NIGHTMARES, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.

FOR BELLA SWAN THERE IS ONE THING more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning....

LEGIONS OF READERS ENTRANCED BY THE New York Times bestseller Twilight are hungry for the continuing story of star-crossed lovers Bell and Edward. In New Moon, Stephanie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural spin. passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.]]> 563 Stephenie Meyer 0316160199 Beezers 4 fantasy-sci-fi 3.61 2006 New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
author: Stephenie Meyer
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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meh... not bad. But I kind of want to kick Edward in the face.
]]> <![CDATA[Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking]]> 40102 The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.

Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work - in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing" - filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.]]> 296 Malcolm Gladwell 0316010669 Beezers 0 to-read 3.97 2005 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
author: Malcolm Gladwell
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2005
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]]> The First Elizabeth 234676
With the special skill for which she is acclaimed, Carolly Erickson electrifies the senses as she evokes with total fidelity the brilliant colors of Elizabethan clothing and jewelry, the texture of tapestries, and even the close, perfumed air of castle rooms. Erickson demonstrates her extraordinary ability to discern and bring to life psychological and physical reality.]]> 448 Carolly Erickson 031216842X Beezers 3 english-history-folklore 4.03 1983 The First Elizabeth
author: Carolly Erickson
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1983
rating: 3
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]]> Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1) 14975 515 Kate Mosse 0425213978 Beezers 2
The main female characters were both so spineless and vapid, yet also portrayed as strong and adventurous during key plot moments. Their personalities just made no sense. And the men were all selfish, gullible and boring.

If you want a really derivative, cheesy fantasy book that you don't really have to think about and can guess every major plot point, then go for it. But I wish I hadn't.]]> 3.62 2005 Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)
author: Kate Mosse
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2005
rating: 2
read at: 2008/09/04
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This book was one of those really cheesy ones that references secret societies, anti-Christian Establishment and parallel lives through the past and present. Usually I'd love this type of book, but this one was just so poorly executed that I couldn't get through it quickly enough.

The main female characters were both so spineless and vapid, yet also portrayed as strong and adventurous during key plot moments. Their personalities just made no sense. And the men were all selfish, gullible and boring.

If you want a really derivative, cheesy fantasy book that you don't really have to think about and can guess every major plot point, then go for it. But I wish I hadn't.
]]> <![CDATA[The Looking Glass Wars (The Looking Glass Wars, #1)]]> 44170 Alyss of Wonderland?
When Alyss Heart, newly orphaned heir to the Wonderland throne, flees through the Pool of Tears to escape her murderous Aunt Redd, she finds herself lost and alone in Victorian London. Befriended by an aspiring author named Lewis Carrol, Alyss tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Alyss trusts this author to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere will find her and bring her home. But he gets the story all wrong. He even spells her name incorrectly!

Fortunately, Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan knows all too well the awful truth of Alyss' story - and he's searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland, to battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.

The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges our Wonderland assumptions of mad tea parties, grinning Cheshire cats, and a curious little blond girl to reveal an epic battle in the endless war for Imagination.]]> 384 Frank Beddor 0803731531 Beezers 5
Well, as you can see, number two one. This book is a dark and riveting retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story. In this book, Alice is just turning six years old and lives an idyllic life with her parents, the King and Queen of hearts. Everything is going perfectly when, all of a sudden, her evil Aunt Red returns from exile and the slaughter begins...

I would suggest this to anyone who likes dark, gothic tales with a female driven protagonist. It was an easy listen with a wonderful plot full of twists and turns.]]> 3.94 2004 The Looking Glass Wars (The Looking Glass Wars, #1)
author: Frank Beddor
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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The hubby brought this home from the library as a book-on-CD for me to listen to on my commute, as he knows full well that I am a sucker for anything dealing with Alice in Wonderland. Now, when he handed it to me, I said, "This can go one of two ways. One: it's a re-imagining in Carol's style and will totally suck and be cheesy... or Two: it will claim its own style but reference the story and be awesome."

Well, as you can see, number two one. This book is a dark and riveting retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story. In this book, Alice is just turning six years old and lives an idyllic life with her parents, the King and Queen of hearts. Everything is going perfectly when, all of a sudden, her evil Aunt Red returns from exile and the slaughter begins...

I would suggest this to anyone who likes dark, gothic tales with a female driven protagonist. It was an easy listen with a wonderful plot full of twists and turns.
]]> <![CDATA[Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)]]> 41865
First, Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him - and I didn't know how dominant that part might be - that thirsted for my blood.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

Deeply seductive and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight is a love story with bite.]]> 498 Stephenie Meyer 0316015849 Beezers 4 fantasy-sci-fi 3.66 2005 Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
author: Stephenie Meyer
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2008/08/19
date added: 2008/08/29
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I hate to admit how much I loved this book. It just hit me on all the appropriate angles- vampires, cheesy teenage romance, drama... Dear Lord it was trashy as sin but I LOVED it.
]]> <![CDATA[Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)]]> 11312 196 Susan Cooper 068987121X Beezers 3 3.86 1965 Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
author: Susan Cooper
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1965
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)]]> 210329 This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

It's Midwinter's Eve, the day before Will's eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. This will be a birthday like no other. Will discovers that he has the power of the Old Ones, and that he must embark on a quest to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark.

The second novel in Susan Cooper's highly acclaimed Dark is Rising sequence.]]> 244 Susan Cooper 1416949658 Beezers 4 currently-reading 4.04 1973 The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
author: Susan Cooper
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1973
rating: 4
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Really decent young adult fantasy. I'm a sucker for Arthurian legend, though :)
]]> <![CDATA[I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight]]> 217119
With all her notorious, righteous comic rage, Margaret Cho lays out in no uncertain terms what's wrong, what's right, and what's definitely worth fighting for.

That includes: freedom of expression, gay rights, racial equality, the right to choose, and the right to life-a real life, on your own freethinking, liberty-loving all-American terms.

Cho's is a vehement, principled, and resoundingly funny political agenda, and with this manifesto she encourages us all to go through our warrior rituals now-it's time to get visible, get loud, and "get your war on."]]> 272 Margaret Cho 1594482209 Beezers 1 crap
this was just terrible

totally conceited, toally full of self-righteous, shallow crap, hiding under the veil of socially-conscious information

blech]]> 3.42 2005 I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
author: Margaret Cho
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2005
rating: 1
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sorry, margaret.

this was just terrible

totally conceited, toally full of self-righteous, shallow crap, hiding under the veil of socially-conscious information

blech
]]> <![CDATA[Time of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #1)]]> 29187 New York Times–bestselling series: The War of the Lance has ended, and the darkness has passed. Or has it?

Sequestered in the blackness of the dreaded Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas, and surrounded by nameless creatures of evil, archmage Raistlin Majere weaves a plan to conquer the darkness—to bring it under his control.

Two people alone can stop him. One is Crysania, a beautiful and devoted cleric of Paladine, who tries to use her faith to lead Raistlin from the darkness. She is blind to his shadowed designs, and he draws her slowly into his neatly woven trap.

The other is Raistlin’s twin, Caramon. Made aware of his brother’s plan, a distraught Caramon travels back in time to the doomed city of Istar in the days before the Cataclysm. There, together with the ever-present kender Tasslehoff, Caramon will make his stand to save Raistlin’s soul.

Or so he believes.

The first title in the second Dragonlance novel trilogy is now being released for the first time ever in a trade hardcover edition. Featuring the stunning art and design that graced the cover of the paperback edition, this new version is a follow-up to the release of the Dragonlance novels Chronicles trilogy in hardcover in 2003. It also continues the planned release of all of the core Weis & Hickman titles in trade hardcover, allowing fans and collectors alike the chance to obtain the entire set in hardcover.
]]> 389 Margaret Weis 0786931582 Beezers 4 fantasy-sci-fi 4.18 1986 Time of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #1)
author: Margaret Weis
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Test of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #3)]]> 260025
At the same time, Caramon and Tasslehoff are transported to the future. There they come to understand the consequences of Raistlin's quest-and Caramon at last realizes the painful sacrifice he must make to prevent his brother's success. Old friends and strange allies come together to aid him, but Caramon must take the last, greatest step alone.



The step into the Abyss.]]> 320 Margaret Weis 0786933887 Beezers 4 fantasy-sci-fi 4.21 1986 Test of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #3)
author: Margaret Weis
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Soulforge (Dragonlance: Raistlin Chronicles, #1)]]> 28524
Raistlin Majere is six years old when he is introduced to an archmage who enrolls him in a school for the study of magic. There the gifted - but tormented boy comes to secretly, for they see shadows darkening over Raistlin even as the same shadows lengthen over all of Ansalon.

As Raistlin draws near his goal of becoming a wizard, he must first take the Dread Test in the Tower of High Sorcery. It will change his life forever.]]> 408 Margaret Weis 0786913142 Beezers 3 fantasy-sci-fi 4.18 1997 The Soulforge (Dragonlance: Raistlin Chronicles, #1)
author: Margaret Weis
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1997
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3)]]> 18116
These thrilling adventures tell the story of Lyra and Will—two ordinary children on a perilous journey through shimmering haunted otherworlds. They will meet witches and armored bears, fallen angels and soul-eating specters. And in the end, the fate of both the living—and the dead—will rely on them.

Phillip Pullman’s spellbinding His Dark Materials trilogy has captivated readers for over twenty years and won acclaim at every turn. It will have you questioning everything you know about your world and wondering what really lies just out of reach.]]> 1088 Philip Pullman 0440238609 Beezers 5 fantasy-sci-fi
A wonderful series that follows a strong, female protagonist through a chilling and suspense-filled story where religion and science collide.

kick ass.]]> 4.26 2000 His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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The best fantasy series I've ever read. Yeah, it trumps Tolkein.

A wonderful series that follows a strong, female protagonist through a chilling and suspense-filled story where religion and science collide.

kick ass.
]]> <![CDATA[The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)]]> 119322
Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.]]> 399 Philip Pullman 0679879242 Beezers 5 fantasy-sci-fi 4.02 1995 The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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This book is the best of the His Dark Materials series... though they're all worth reading. My favorite series of all time.
]]> <![CDATA[The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)]]> 18122
But how can he go looking for Lord Asriel when Lyra is gone? Only with her help can he fathom the myriad plots and intrigues that beset him.

The two great powers of the many worlds are lining up for war, and Will must find Lyra, for together they are on their way to battle, an inevitable journey that will even take them to the world of the dead...]]> 465 Philip Pullman 0440238153 Beezers 4 4.11 2000 The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)]]> 119324
Each is searching—Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father—but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, and their destinies are bound together... until they are split apart.]]> 326 Philip Pullman 0679879250 Beezers 5 4.12 1997 The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
author: Philip Pullman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)]]> 402045 884 Marion Zimmer Bradley 0345350499 Beezers 4 4.12 1982 The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1982
rating: 4
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yeah... this book is kind of cheesy. but, it's the BEST kind of cheesy. All kinds of female power, tell-it-like-it-is approach to english folklore.
]]> Stardust 16793 Alternate cover edition can be found here

Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.]]> 248 Neil Gaiman 0061142026 Beezers 4 fiction 4.11 1999 Stardust
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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one of my absolute favorite Neil Gaiman books.
]]> <![CDATA[The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You]]> 25102 The Doll's House, who here finds herself a princess in a vivid dreamworld. collecting The Sandman #32�37]]> 192 Neil Gaiman 1563890933 Beezers 5 4.43 1992 The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Knitter's Companion: Expanded and Updated (The Companion series)]]> 1251897 136 Vicki Square 1596680016 Beezers 5 crafts 4.31 1996 The Knitter's Companion: Expanded and Updated (The Companion series)
author: Vicki Square
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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an invaluable tool for beginner and pro knitters alike!
]]> <![CDATA[Death: The High Cost of Living]]> 16791 104 Neil Gaiman 1852864982 Beezers 5 4.20 1993 Death: The High Cost of Living
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> Coraline 17061
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.

The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only it's different.

At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.

Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.]]> 176 Neil Gaiman 0061139378 Beezers 0 to-read 4.13 2002 Coraline
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes]]> 23754
In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey, Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman.

This book also includes the story "The Sound of Her Wings," which introduces us to the pragmatic and perky goth girl Death.

Includes issues 1-8 of the original series.]]> 240 Neil Gaiman 1563892278 Beezers 5 4.25 1988 The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> Neverwhere (London Below, #1) 14497
"Neverwhere" is the London of the people who have fallen between the cracks.

Strange destinies lie in wait in London below - a world that seems eerily familiar. But a world that is utterly bizarre, peopled by unearthly characters such as the Angel called Islington, the girl named Door, and the Earl who holds Court on a tube train.

Now a single act of kindness has catapulted young businessman Richard Mayhew out of his safe and predictable life - and into the realms of "Neverwhere." Richard is about to find out more than he ever wanted to know about this other London. Which is a pity. Because Richard just wants to go home...]]> 370 Neil Gaiman 0060557818 Beezers 5 4.17 1996 Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[American Gods (American Gods, #1)]]> 4407
Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...

This is the author's preferred text, never before published in the UK, and is about 12,000 words longer than the previous UK edition.

]]> 635 Neil Gaiman Beezers 4 fiction 4.10 2001 American Gods (American Gods, #1)
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)]]> 78876
... a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the wings...
... where dying the death on stage is a little bit more than just a metaphor...
... where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress..

Where...

... there's a couple of old ladies in pointy hats eating peanuts in the gods and looking up at the big chandelier and saying things like: "There's an accident waiting to happen if I ever saw one."

Yes... Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's greatest witches, are back for an innocent night out at the opera.

So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum...)]]> 285 Terry Pratchett 0575058080 Beezers 4 4.10 1995 Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)]]> 34510
But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill?

As the alien clichés of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out...

THRILL as Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel ("I come from a little town you've probably never even heard of") battle the forces of evil and cinema advertising...

SCREAM as Gaspode the Wonder Dog nearly saves the day...

EAT POPCORN as you watch the filming of "Blown Away," the oddest Civil War picture ever made...

A Passionate Saga Set Against the background of a World Gone Mad!

This Will Amaze You!

With a Thousand Elephants!

("And afterwards, why not dine at Harga's House of Ribs, for the best in international cuisine; only two minutes from this book...")]]> 396 Terry Pratchett 0552152943 Beezers 4 3.97 1990 Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)]]> 34529
Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves.

It's Midsummer Night.

No time for dreaming...

With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.]]> 352 Terry Pratchett 055215315X Beezers 5 4.19 1992 Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)]]> 34541
There're the witches - young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything; Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing,.. and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble.

And the vampires are intelligent - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or by going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying, "I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?" They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future.

Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe.]]> 296 Terry Pratchett 0061051586 Beezers 4 4.16 1998 Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> The Truth: Stage Adaptation 34498 336 Stephen Briggs 0413771164 Beezers 4 4.25 2000 The Truth: Stage Adaptation
author: Stephen Briggs
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)]]> 63720
Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberworld.

Now he was nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilisation there's going to be a terrible war.

But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves - and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time, out of luck and already out of breath...]]> 464 Terry Pratchett 0552154229 Beezers 3 4.29 1999 The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)]]> 2442
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unfortunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it's up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn't marry the Prince.

But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who'll stop at nothing to achieve a proper "happy ending"—even if it means destroying a kingdom.]]> 374 Terry Pratchett 0061020613 Beezers 4 4.24 1991 Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)]]> 34502 288 Terry Pratchett 057506689X Beezers 5 4.05 1994 Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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]]> Hogfather 34532
Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker...

Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again...

The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too).

As they say: "You'd better watch out..."]]> 448 Terry Pratchett 0552154288 Beezers 5 4.25 1996 Hogfather
author: Terry Pratchett
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average rating: 4.25
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)]]> 34507 240 Terry Pratchett 0060855908 Beezers 4 4.06 1987 Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)]]> 400354
But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance constable Detritus (a troll), Lance constable Angua (a woman... most of the time), and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).

And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is Ankh-Morpork we're talking about...]]> 377 Terry Pratchett 0061092193 Beezers 4 4.39 1993 Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)]]> 34517
Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn.

Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be gathered in...]]> 289 Terry Pratchett 0552152951 Beezers 5 4.28 1991 Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1991
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)]]> 34504
Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.

But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe...]]> 265 Terry Pratchett 0061020664 Beezers 5 4.15 1988 Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)]]> 386372
Death is the Grim Reaper of the Discworld, a black-robed skeleton with a scythe who ushers souls into the next world. He is also fond of cats and endlessly baffled by humanity. Soon Death is yearning to experience what humanity really has to offer, but to do that, he'll need to hire some help.

It's an offer Mort can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse—and being dead isn't compulsory. It's a dream job—until Mort falls in love with Death's daughter, Ysabell, and discovers that your boss can be a killer on your love life…]]> 243 Terry Pratchett 0061020680 Beezers 5 4.24 1987 Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)]]> 47989
Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper, and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future.

A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen, and other children of the revolution.

Truth! Justice! Freedom!
And a Hard-boiled Egg!]]> 480 Terry Pratchett 055215430X Beezers 5 4.49 2002 Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
author: Terry Pratchett
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average rating: 4.49
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]]> Small Gods (Discworld, #13) 34484
And the Word was: "Hey, you!"

For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love.

He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...]]> 389 Terry Pratchett 0552152978 Beezers 5 4.32 1992 Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)]]> 34497 228 Terry Pratchett 0060855924 Beezers 4 4.04 1983 The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch]]> 12067
People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons � well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel � would quite like the Rapture not to happen.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist…]]> 491 Terry Pratchett Beezers 5 4.27 1990 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Beezers
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1990
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch, #7)]]> 62530
But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.

With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him.

Oh... and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read "Where's My Cow?," with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy.

There are some things you HAVE to do!]]> 439 Terry Pratchett Beezers 4 4.34 2005 Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch, #7)
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]]> Love in the Time of Cholera 9712 348 Gabriel García Márquez 140003468X Beezers 5 3.92 1985 Love in the Time of Cholera
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]]> Breakfast of Champions 4980 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.]]> 303 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 0385334206 Beezers 4 4.08 1973 Breakfast of Champions
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]]> <![CDATA[The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)]]> 38447
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.]]> 311 Margaret Atwood 038549081X Beezers 5 4.15 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)]]> 34
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkeness bind them

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

In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.
--back cover]]> 398 J.R.R. Tolkien 0618346252 Beezers 5 4.36 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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]]> Romeo and Juliet 18135 Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.

In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers� final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.]]> 281 William Shakespeare 0743477111 Beezers 4 3.74 1597 Romeo and Juliet
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> Life of Pi 4214 460 Yann Martel 0770430074 Beezers 5 3.94 2001 Life of Pi
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]> 2956 327 Mark Twain 0142437174 Beezers 3 3.82 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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]]> Brave New World 5129 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]> 268 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Beezers 3 3.99 1932 Brave New World
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]]> Middlesex 2187 Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.]]> 529 Jeffrey Eugenides 0312422156 Beezers 5 4.03 2002 Middlesex
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hobbit, or There and Back Again]]> 5907 Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).]]> 366 J.R.R. Tolkien Beezers 3 4.29 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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