Sarah's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:39:08 -0700 60 Sarah's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Daily Doctrine: A One-Year Guide to Systematic Theology]]> 208872826
All thoughtful Christians want to better understand the Bible, its author, and its influence on their beliefs. In short—whether they recognize it or not—they want to understandĚýtheology. But many find the subject matter too academic, dense, or difficult to understand, and they lack proper study resources to help expand their knowledge of God and his written word.

Designed to make systematic theology clear and accessible for the everyday Christian, this devotional walks through the most important theology topics over the course of a year.ĚýEach month is categorized into broad themes, starting with the study of God and concluding with the end times.ĚýWritten by bestselling author andĚýassociate professor of systematic theology Kevin DeYoung,Ěýeach concise daily reading contains verses for meditation and application, building upon each other and easingĚýreaders into the study of systematic theology.Ěý

Written for Thoughtful ĚýOffers pastors, ministry leaders, and everyday Christians access to a theologically rich yet accessible studyĚý One-Year ĚýDaily readings build off one another to help ease readers into systematic theologyĚý Covers Important Theological ĚýEach month covers a different broad theological topic, including mankind, salvation, the church, end times, and more Written by Kevin ĚýPastor, bestselling author, and associate professor of systematic theology]]> 432 Kevin DeYoung 1433572850 Sarah 0 currently-reading 4.59 Daily Doctrine: A One-Year Guide to Systematic Theology
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]]> <![CDATA[Make Sense of Your Story: Why Engaging Your Past with Kindness Changes Everything]]> 214974545
In Make Sense of Your Story, trauma therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker Adam Young helps you explore your personal story so you can understand how your experiences have shaped your brain--which, in turn, allows you to understand why your present day-to-day life looks and feels the way it does. He shows you how to confront and process the story of your family of origin, your sexual story, the story your body is telling you, your cultural story, your story with God, and more with kindness rather than judgment so that you can experience healing, self-acceptance, and release.

The secret to making sense of your present life is understanding your past experiences. And if you want to change the narrative, you have to engage your story.]]> 256 Adam Young 1540903753 Sarah 0 to-read 4.75 Make Sense of Your Story: Why Engaging Your Past with Kindness Changes Everything
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]]> My Utmost for His Highest 175510 400 Oswald Chambers 1586608290 Sarah 2 dnf I’m well aware that part of being a Christian is being obedient to what Jesus commands. But honestly, my goal is not to be a “good Christian.� Instead, I just want to be closer to Jesus every day. To me, there are loads of difference between the two.

There are little gold nuggets here and there, but I don’t want to spend my time panning for them. DNF. ]]> 4.38 1926 My Utmost for His Highest
author: Oswald Chambers
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.38
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rating: 2
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I really can’t get into this. Maybe it’s too old fashioned, maybe it’s a bit too “make sure you’re doing this to be a good Christian,� but I can’t finish it. For the second point, I really do tend to be wary of messages that are too “my own efforts� based and not enough “what Jesus accomplished on the cross.�
I’m well aware that part of being a Christian is being obedient to what Jesus commands. But honestly, my goal is not to be a “good Christian.� Instead, I just want to be closer to Jesus every day. To me, there are loads of difference between the two.

There are little gold nuggets here and there, but I don’t want to spend my time panning for them. DNF.
]]> The Labors of Hercules Beal 62120709 From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars, in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill an assignment to perform the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life--and makes discoveries about friendship, community, and himself along the way.

Herc Beal knows who he's named after--a mythical hero--but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod--and not a single Hydra in sight.

Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc figures out how to take his first steps along the road that the great Hercules himself once walked. Soon, new friends, human and animal, are helping him. And though his mythical role model performed his twelve labors by himself, Herc begins to see that he may not have to go it alone.]]> 352 Gary D. Schmidt 0358659639 Sarah 4 4.50 2023 The Labors of Hercules Beal
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average rating: 4.50
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Personal Recollections of Joan Of Arc (Pilgrim Classics)]]> 30057524
So why are we selling these books?

We put our energy in offering a very pleasant reading experience. In our books you will find:
- A perfectly adapted layout for Kindle HDX
- A table of contents
- Annotations from Wikipedia

Thank you for reading Pilgrim Classics. We wish you a pleasant reading moment.]]> 167 Mark Twain Sarah 3 wishbone-classics 4.11 2013 Personal Recollections of Joan Of Arc (Pilgrim Classics)
author: Mark Twain
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[City of Serpents (The Secrets of Ormdale, #4)]]> 211138933
Edith is convinced that Janushek’s former employer, the mysterious Doctor Farley, holds the key to an antidote for dragon venom—her only hope to free the man she loves. Her ruse to obtain it leads her to London’s shadowy East End and a plot as sensational as one of her own detective novels.

As Edith goes deeper into a city far more serpentine than she ever dreamed, she begins to question what Farley is really searching for…and if the cost to save Simon might be more than she can pay.

Book 4 of The Secrets of Ormdale takes Edith from the heights of London society to its darkest slums, where unexpected dragons follow and her survival lies not in her hands, but in the hands of her friends.]]> 308 Christina Baehr Sarah 4 4.39 City of Serpents (The Secrets of Ormdale, #4)
author: Christina Baehr
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> Doctor Zhivago 10434143 675 Boris Pasternak 0307390950 Sarah 0 currently-reading 3.87 1957 Doctor Zhivago
author: Boris Pasternak
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments; Volume 1 of 3]]> 11197480 volume 1 of 3 586 Anonymous Sarah 0 3.90 800 The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments; Volume 1 of 3
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> The Phantom Tollbooth 378 Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.

This beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond.

For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . . .]]> 248 Norton Juster 0394820371 Sarah 0 currently-reading 4.19 1961 The Phantom Tollbooth
author: Norton Juster
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.19
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]]> <![CDATA[Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!]]> 180116
The acknowledged expert in the psychology of change, Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover your true purpose, take control of your life, and harness the forces that shape your destiny.]]> 544 Tony Robbins 0671791540 Sarah 4 4.16 1992 Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
author: Tony Robbins
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Owl at Home (I Can Read, Level 2)]]> 410009
Owl lives all by himself in a cozy little house. But whether he's inviting Winter in on a cold and snowy night, or welcoming a new friend he meets while on a stroll, Owl always has room for visitors!]]> 64 Arnold Lobel 0064440346 Sarah 0 to-read 4.23 1975 Owl at Home (I Can Read, Level 2)
author: Arnold Lobel
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1975
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]]> Ethan Frome 5246
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.

In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book.]]> 99 Edith Wharton Sarah 4 3.42 1911 Ethan Frome
author: Edith Wharton
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.42
book published: 1911
rating: 4
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Beautifully written and I loved the MA setting, but I didn’t care much for the plot.
]]> <![CDATA[Who’s Afraid of Modern Art?: Essays on Modern Art and Theology in Conversation]]> 24908681 180 Daniel A. Siedell 1630877913 Sarah 0 to-read 4.09 2015 Who’s Afraid of Modern Art?: Essays on Modern Art and Theology in Conversation
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> The Prince 28862
1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people.
2. If a Prince is not given to vices that make him hated, it is unsusal for his subjects to show their affection for him.
3. Opportunity made Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others; their virtue domi-nated the opportunity, making their homelands noble and happy. Armed prophets win; the disarmed lose.
4. Without faith and religion, man achieves power but not glory.
5. Prominent citizens want to command and oppress; the populace only wants to be free of oppression.
6. A Prince needs a friendly populace; otherwise in diversity there is no hope.
7. A Prince, who rules as a man of valor, avoids disasters,
8. Nations based on mercenary forces will never be solid or secure.
9. Mercenaries are dangerous because of their cowardice
10. There are two ways to fight: one with laws, the other with force. The first is rightly man’s way; the second, the way of beasts.]]> 144 Niccolò Machiavelli 0937832383 Sarah 3 easton-press-100-greatest 3.85 1513 The Prince
author: Niccolò Machiavelli
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average rating: 3.85
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rating: 3
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I can see how this could be influential, but the idea of people following this advice scares me.
]]> A Room with a View 3087
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.

Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?]]> 119 E.M. Forster 1420925431 Sarah 3 3.92 1908 A Room with a View
author: E.M. Forster
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1908
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[This Is How You Lose the Time War]]> 43352954 Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.]]> 209 Amal El-Mohtar Sarah 0 to-read 3.86 2019 This Is How You Lose the Time War
author: Amal El-Mohtar
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.86
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]]> <![CDATA[No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model]]> 55384168 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.�

]]> 216 Richard C. Schwartz 1683646681 Sarah 0 to-read 4.13 2021 No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
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]]> The Martian 18007564
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error� are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills � and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit � he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

]]> 384 Andy Weir 0804139024 Sarah 0 to-read 4.41 2011 The Martian
author: Andy Weir
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average rating: 4.41
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]]> <![CDATA[Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age]]> 60354443
In this powerful book, Rosaria Butterfield uses Scripture to confront 5 common lies about sexuality, faith, feminism, gender roles, and modesty often promoted in our secular culture today. Written in the style of a memoir, this book explores Butterfield’s personal battle with these lies―interwoven with cultural studies, literary criticism, and theology―to help readers see the beauty in biblical womanhood, marriage, and motherhood.]]> 368 Rosaria Champagne Butterfield 1433573539 Sarah 3 4.49 Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age
author: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.49
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Some good points, and I could appreciate a firm stance in some ways. However, I couldn’t get over how harsh it comes across. No pastoral tone here. Also, so very one sided- as if only women are reading this in regards to their daughters. Not sure why that choice was made. Either way, it gives me some fodder for the brain.
]]> <![CDATA[Upon Waking: 60 Daily Reflections to Discover Ourselves and the God We Were Made For]]> 98181060
What do you wake up to each day? What do you discover once your eyes have opened and you put your feet to the floor? A mountain of notifications? An endless feed of headlines that make you angry? A flood of tasks that you can’t possibly get done in the next twenty-four hours?
Ěý
What if you could wake up each day to discover something so much bigger—and so much better for you—than all that chaos? What if you could discover God? What if you could discover yourself in light of that God? What if your eyes could be opened to the things that really mattered? What if, in one simple devotional a day, you could glean principles from timeless wisdom to sharpen you for each day's inevitable challenges?
Ěý
In her lyrical, compelling, and poignant voice, bestselling author and Bible teacher Jackie Hill Perry offers sixty short, daily reflections on specific passages from Scripture to help you awaken to the God you were made for, the life you were made for, and the person you were made to be.ĚýĚý
Ěý]]> 208 Jackie Hill Perry 1087783712 Sarah 5 4.71 Upon Waking: 60 Daily Reflections to Discover Ourselves and the God We Were Made For
author: Jackie Hill Perry
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.71
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]]> <![CDATA[Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)]]> 91253 190 Beverly Cleary Sarah 4 4.10 1981 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1981
rating: 4
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Cute quick read with good writing. Really reminded me of how being in 3rd grade felt.
]]> <![CDATA[Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1)]]> 198096255
Wormwood Abbey isn't just full of curious beasts and ancient family secrets: there’s also a tall, dark, and entirely too handsome neighbour who is strangely reluctant for her to leave.

An unexpected bond with her prickly cousin Gwendolyn gives Edith a reason to stay in this strange world � especially when it turns out that Edith herself may have a role in guarding her family's legacy.

But not all of the mysteries of Ormdale are small enough to fit in her lap...and some of them have teeth.

WORMWOOD ABBEY, Book 1 of The Secrets of Ormdale, is a cosy gothic novel of mystery, dragons, and the perils of friendship, perfect for fans of EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES and Maria Grace.

Preorder today to explore the hidden valley of Ormdale, the first in a new 5 book series!]]> 208 Christina Baehr Sarah 5 4.20 2023 Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1)
author: Christina Baehr
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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]]> The Color Purple 52892857 Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.

â€Áč±đ˛ą»ĺľ±˛Ô˛µ The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women’s literature as world literature. In writing us into the world—bravely, unapologetically, and honestly—Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay.â€� —Tayari Jones

�The Color Purple was what church should have been, what honest familial reckoning could have been, and it is still the only art object in the world by which all three generations of Black artists in my family judge American art.� —Kiese Laymon]]> 287 Alice Walker 0143135694 Sarah 2 4.40 1982 The Color Purple
author: Alice Walker
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1982
rating: 2
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This was almost a DNF, and would have been if it had kept going in the same graphic direction that it was about 1/3 of the way through. I’m glad I read it so I know what people are talking about, but it’s not one I’m going to recommend to anyone.
]]> Little Dorrit 22093143 The Definitive Edition of LITTLE DORRIT
-Illustrated with all 40 original Phiz illustrations from its first publication
-Complete, unabridged, and formatted for kindle to improve your reading experience
-Linked table of contents to reach your chapter quickly

“One of the 1000 novels everyone must read.� The Guardian

"Little Dorrit," Dickens' story of money, debt and love in the 1820s -- and whose depiction of a Bernie Madoff-style scandal gives it an eerie currency.� LA Times

“Little Dorrit is a wonderful read - a tragical-comical-satirical-poetical mystery story that turns out to be an allegory of love.� Ann Stevenson, The Guardian

“Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is arguably one of the very best fiction books I've read in my entire life. I would unhesitatingly recommend this book to anyone. It was captivating, engaging, and at times humorous, and at other times sad; with romance, mystery, and intrigue. Dickens' plotting is amazing, his characters intriguing, and his descriptions solidly place you in the midst of London in the Victorian Age in all social classes.� Christopher H

“No one knew better than Dickens how to generate suspense, how many separate related mysteries can be sustained at once, how a daring author can keep introducing new characters, long after a more conventional writer would have felt compelled to corral the entire cast on stage. The novel begins in a prison in Marseilles and features two convicts (one a wife-murderer) on a boat quarantined off the coast. Questions of what happens next are such an integral element that it is hard to reveal details of the plot without ruining its surprises.� Francine Prose, Books Of A Lifetime, The Independent

LITTLE DORRIT is one of the most profound, exciting, and entertaining novels of all time. It has been made into film and television adaptations and captivated generations of readers. This is Dickens� masterpiece presented as it was meant to be read, with all the original illustrations.
]]> 533 Charles Dickens Sarah 4 4.19 1857 Little Dorrit
author: Charles Dickens
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1857
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)]]> 9591398 Ěý
With exquisite illustrations by acclaimed artist Ana Juan, Fairyland lives up to the sensation it created when the author first posted it online. For readers of all ages who love the charm of Alice in Wonderland and the soul of The Golden Compass, here is a reading experience unto itself: unforgettable, and so very beautiful.
]]> 247 Catherynne M. Valente 0312649614 Sarah 4 3.95 2011 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
author: Catherynne M. Valente
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)]]> 29127 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451450524

She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and completely alone...

The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: "Unicorns are gone from the world."

Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set out to learn the truth. but she feared even her immortal wisdom meant nothing in a world where a mad king's curse and terror incarnate lived only to stalk the last unicorn to her doom...]]> 294 Peter S. Beagle Sarah 5 4.16 1968 The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
author: Peter S. Beagle
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1968
rating: 5
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]]> A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 14891 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.]]> 496 Betty Smith 0061120073 Sarah 5 4.29 1943 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
author: Betty Smith
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1943
rating: 5
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Tell the truth, write the story.
]]> <![CDATA[Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)]]> 569429
“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”� The New York Times Book Review

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose.

Hell takes a number of there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one.Ěý

Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?

“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist. . . . He is anything but harmless.”� The Washington Post Book World]]> 288 Douglas Adams 0345379330 Sarah 4 3.99 1992 Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
author: Douglas Adams
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)]]> 776407 180 A.A. Milne 0525444440 Sarah 5 4.37 1928 The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
author: A.A. Milne
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1928
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (Mary Poppins, #6)]]> 1582795
Then a new, but not unknown, tenant arrives, and peace in the lane is gravely threatened. Can Mary Poppins, in her own magical, whimsical way, resolve the crisis?]]> 96 P.L. Travers 0140327789 Sarah 4 3.89 1988 Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (Mary Poppins, #6)
author: P.L. Travers
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)]]> 15613 --back cover]]> 166 Herman Melville 1416523723 Sarah 3 easton-press-100-greatest 3.16 1924 Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
author: Herman Melville
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.16
book published: 1924
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion]]> 42248511 239 Rebecca McLaughlin 1433564238 Sarah 5 4.29 2019 Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion
author: Rebecca McLaughlin
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> Mine Boy 712960 184 Peter Abrahams 0435905627 Sarah 0 to-read 3.92 1946 Mine Boy
author: Peter Abrahams
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1946
rating: 0
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]]> The Selfish Giant 1206334 0 Oscar Wilde 0590444603 Sarah 0 3.95 1888 The Selfish Giant
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1888
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]]> <![CDATA[So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)]]> 6091075
God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it's light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new?]]> 225 Douglas Adams 0307497909 Sarah 3 4.14 1984 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
author: Douglas Adams
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1984
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Valley of Dragons (The Secrets of Ormdale, #5)]]> 216248520
In this suspenseful and joyous conclusion to the bestselling series, Edith must free herself and those she loves from the final secrets of Ormdale.

September, 1899. Edith and her friends have everything they need to ransom Simon back, while hope and change seems to be in the air of Ormdale at last.

But then a surprising invitation from her past leads to a disturbing clue to the identity of the mysterious Barrington. Meanwhile, Dr Farley issues a sinister ultimatum.

Now, Edith must decide not only where her own future might lie, but the future of England’s last Dragon Keepers.]]> 515 Christina Baehr Sarah 0 to-read 4.55 Valley of Dragons (The Secrets of Ormdale, #5)
author: Christina Baehr
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]]> <![CDATA[Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)]]> 8694
“Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”� Chicago Tribune

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.

They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.

How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert “universal� Armageddon and save life as we know it—and don’t know it!

“Adams is one of those rare an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading.”� Arizona Daily Star]]> 224 Douglas Adams 0345418905 Sarah 4 4.20 1982 Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
author: Douglas Adams
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1982
rating: 4
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]]> Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Sarah 0 to-read 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
author: Jane Austen
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1814
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]]> <![CDATA[Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)]]> 52397
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.

When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.]]> 345 Octavia E. Butler 0446675504 Sarah 3 4.21 1993 Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1993
rating: 3
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]]> The Communist Manifesto 30474
Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom.

This new edition includes an extensive introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones, Britain's leading expert on Marx and Marxism, providing a complete course for students of The Communist Manifesto, and demonstrating not only the historical importance of the text, but also its place in the world today.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 288 Karl Marx 0140447571 Sarah 3 3.67 1848 The Communist Manifesto
author: Karl Marx
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1848
rating: 3
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]]> Faust 406373 Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0385031149 Sarah 0 3.90 1808 Faust
author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
name: Sarah
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]]> <![CDATA[The Happy Prince and Other Tales]]> 779021 96 Oscar Wilde 0679444734 Sarah 4 4.16 1888 The Happy Prince and Other Tales
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1888
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Castle of the Winds (The Secrets of Ormdale, #3)]]> 204484207
Following this mysterious invitation, Edith sets off on a quest to the Castle of the Winds to find a lost family of dragon keepers in the mountains of Wild Wales. But all is not as it seems. Edith must guard her own hidden power, or she might not return to her friends in Ormdale—including the man who has come to love her. Will Edith make an alliance with the legendary Red Dragon of her dreams to safeguard her ancestral charge, or will she lose everything she has tried to protect?

Book 3 of The Secrets of Ormdale is a breathtaking adventure that will take Edith to exhilarating new heights…and deeper into peril than ever before.]]> 260 Christina Baehr Sarah 4 4.41 2024 Castle of the Winds (The Secrets of Ormdale, #3)
author: Christina Baehr
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2024
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]]> <![CDATA[Drake Hall (The Secrets of Ormdale, #2)]]> 200499587
As the new dragon keeper in the hidden valley of Ormdale, Edith expects her first dragon mating season to involve venomous bites and amorous wyverns.

She doesn’t expect to find herself growing closer to an inconveniently appealing suitor next door, or to stumble upon a dragon poacher lurking in the outbuildings, or to uncover a family scandal in the Abbey.

Fortunately, Edith has a mentor to help her sort things out, the spellbinding Helena Drake of Drake Hall. Or does Helena harbour secrets of her own?

For Edith, the dragons were always going to be the easy part.

DRAKE HALL, Book 2 of The Secrets of Ormdale, takes Edith deeper into the cosy gothic world of Yorkshire dragons and the mysterious families who guard them.]]> 242 Christina Baehr Sarah 4 4.34 2024 Drake Hall (The Secrets of Ormdale, #2)
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average rating: 4.34
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rating: 4
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]]> Inferno 15645
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences. Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with scholars, teachers, and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.

Esolen's edition also provides a critical ntroduction and endnotes, with appendices containing Dante's most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and beyond —that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.

Verse Translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré]]> 490 Dante Alighieri 0812970063 Sarah 0 4.02 1320 Inferno
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]]> <![CDATA[Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)]]> 77395 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553269215

Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert, and is the mother of six mischievousĚýchildren. These boys and girls discover a special place all their own, but they never dream of what will happen when a strange family moves into an old mansion nearby. The Meredith clan is two boys and two girls—and a runaway named Mary Vance.ĚýSoon the Merediths join Anne's children inĚýtheir private hideout, intent on carrying out their plans to saveĚýMary from the orphanage, to help the lonelyĚýminister find happiness, and to keep a pet rooster fromĚýthe soup pot. There's always an adventure brewingĚýin the sun-dappled world of Rainbow Valley.]]> 225 L.M. Montgomery Sarah 0 4.01 1919 Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)
author: L.M. Montgomery
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.01
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6)]]> 77391 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213157

Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now, with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt Mary Maria visiting—and wearing out her welcome—Anne's life is full to bursting.

Still, Mrs. Doctor can't think of any place she'd rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn't love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she's still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead—the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. She's ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again!]]> 274 L.M. Montgomery Sarah 0 4.04 1939 Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6)
author: L.M. Montgomery
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average rating: 4.04
book published: 1939
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]]> <![CDATA[Skippyjon Jones: Cirque de Olé (Skippyjon Jones, #7)]]> 13588406 New York Times bestselling kitty boy goes to the circus!

In his newest adventure, the irresistible Skippyjon Jones swings out of his closet and into the spectacular Cirque de Olé, where his pals, the Chimichango gang, perform feats of derring-do. There are many acts to see, but only Skippito the Strong can perform the trickiest stunt of all. Judy Schachner's vivacious art and riotous text make for mucho read-aloud fun.

Come one, come all--with Skippyjon Jones as the circus star, the Greatest Show on Earth just got even better!

Includes a CD of the author reading!]]> 32 Judy Schachner 0803737823 Sarah 0 4.08 2012 Skippyjon Jones: Cirque de Olé (Skippyjon Jones, #7)
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]]> Skippyjon Jones 803171 His ears are too big for his head. His head is too big for his body.

"I am not a Siamese cat..." says Skippyjon Jones, a rambunctious kitty boy with an overactive imagination. He would rather be El Skippito, his Zorro-like alter ego. Skippito, the great sword fighter can do anything. He knows just how to save a roving band of Mexican Chihuahuas from a humongous bumblebeeto that is tormenting them. Skippito gets the job done—yes indeed-o.

You can join Skippyjon Jones on his great adventures. But be warned—he's a rascal who stops at nothing. And he is out to steal your heart.

Judy Schnachner has a Siamese cat named Skippy who served as the inspiration for Skippyjon Jones. She also owns a dog and another Siamese cat. Ms. Schachner's books have been aclaimed by reviewers and readers. The Grannyman, a book about an old Siamese cat, won the Nebraska Golden Sower Awarn, and Yo, Vikings! won the Chapman Award from PlanetEsme for Best Classroom Read-Aloud for 2002.

Edition MSRP: $15âąâą USA / $24â°â° (ISBN: 0-535-47134-0)]]> 32 Judy Schachner 0525471340 Sarah 0 4.22 2003 Skippyjon Jones
author: Judy Schachner
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)]]> 77394 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213188

Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor.

A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises. Anne and Gilbert will make new friends and meet their neighbors: Captain Jim, the lighthouse attendant, with his sad stories of the sea; Miss Cornelia Bryant, the lady who speaks from the heart—and speaks her mind; and the tragically beautiful Leslie Moore, into whose dark life Anne shines a brilliant light.]]> 227 L.M. Montgomery Sarah 0 4.17 1917 Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
author: L.M. Montgomery
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]]> Eloise 782854
Eloise is a very special little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. She may not be pretty yet, but she’s definitely already a real person. She loves learning about people who aren’t boring. Take Eloise home with you and she’ll introduce you to life at The Plaza. You’ll be glad you did!]]> 65 Kay Thompson 067122350X Sarah 0 4.17 1955 Eloise
author: Kay Thompson
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1955
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)]]> 65840 they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty--and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. As Anne learns Summerside's strangest secrets, winning the support of the prickly Pringles becomes only the first of her delicious triumphs.]]> 288 L.M. Montgomery 0808516965 Sarah 0 4.04 1936 Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
author: L.M. Montgomery
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1936
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]]> Kitten's First Full Moon 237665
From one of the most celebrated and beloved picture book creators working in the field today comes a memorable new character and a suspenseful adventure just right for reading and sharing at home and in the classroom. It is Kitten's first full moon, and when she sees it she thinks it is a bowl of milk in the sky. And she wants it. Does she get it? Well, no . . . and yes. What a night!

A brief text, large type, and luminescent pictures play second fiddle to the star of this classic picture book—brave, sweet and lucky Kitten! "Henkes's text, reminiscent of Margaret Wise Brown's work in the elemental words, rhythms, and appealing sounds, tells a warm, humorous story that's beautifully extended in his shimmering, gray-toned artwork."�ALA Booklist

Winner of the Caldecott Medal, an ALA Notable Book, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book, and winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award

Supports the Common Core State Standards]]> 40 Kevin Henkes 0060588284 Sarah 0 4.09 2004 Kitten's First Full Moon
author: Kevin Henkes
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes]]> 6871646 Don't miss the first and bestselling book in the beloved Pete the Cat series!

Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand-new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes!

But no matter what color his shoes are, Pete keeps movin' and groovin' and singing his song...because it's all good.ĚýPete the Cat: I Love My White ShoesĚýasks the reader questions about the colors of different foods and objects—kids love to interact with the story.

The fun never stops—download the free groovin� song.

Ěý]]> 40 Eric Litwin 0061906220 Sarah 0 4.34 2010 Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
author: Eric Litwin
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average rating: 4.34
book published: 2010
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]]> Stone Soup 193093 48 Marcia Brown 0689878362 Sarah 0 4.25 1947 Stone Soup
author: Marcia Brown
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.25
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]]> Miss Rumphius 334818
Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went. Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award in the year of publication.

The illustrations have been reoriginated, going back to the original art to ensure state-of-the-art reproduction of Cooney's exquisite artwork. The art for Miss Rumphius has a permanent home in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.]]> 32 Barbara Cooney 0140505393 Sarah 0 4.44 1982 Miss Rumphius
author: Barbara Cooney
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.44
book published: 1982
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]]> <![CDATA[Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)]]> 824734
Where did the tree house come from?

Before Jack and Annie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home. Can they do it before dark . . . or will they become a dinosaur's dinner?]]> 68 Mary Pope Osborne 0679824111 Sarah 0 to-read 3.97 1992 Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)
author: Mary Pope Osborne
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)]]> 123280461 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With her old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and her frivolous new friend Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises . . . including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide whether she's ready for love.]]> 243 L.M. Montgomery 0553213172 Sarah 0 4.39 1915 Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
author: L.M. Montgomery
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average rating: 4.39
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]]> <![CDATA[Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel]]> 153542 46 Virginia Lee Burton 0395169615 Sarah 0 4.21 1938 Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
author: Virginia Lee Burton
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]]> Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? 105552 Oh, the wonderful things Mr. Brown can do!

In this "Book of Wonderful Noises," Mr. Brown struts his stuff, as he imitates everything from popping corks to horse feet ("pop pop pop pop" and "klopp klopp klopp," respectively) while inviting everyone to join him in the fun.

Young readers who are still learning their sounds and letters will get a wacky workout as they follow along with the very serious-looking, squinty-eyed Mr. Brown. Whether it's eggs frying in a pan or a hippo chewing gum, the skillful Mr. Brown just keeps topping himself, with a "sizzle sizzle" or a "grum grum grum." "Mr. Brown is so smart he can even do this: he can even make a noise like a goldfish kiss!... pip!"

As usual, the words and pictures of Dr. Seuss make reading (and making all sorts of funny noises) impossible to resist. Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? will stay fresh through many a giggling reading.]]> 32 Dr. Seuss 0007169914 Sarah 0 4.14 1970 Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
author: Dr. Seuss
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)]]> 77390 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

When twelve-year-old Anne Shirley came to Avonlea, she quickly won everyone’s heart. Now, she’s five years older, almost a woman, and about to embark on a new adventure: becoming the teacher in her old Avonlea school. It’s an exciting year as Anne struggles to win over all her students, welcomes two new members to her family, and feels the first stirrings of love.]]> 276 L.M. Montgomery 0553213148 Sarah 0 4.23 1909 Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)
author: L.M. Montgomery
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> <![CDATA[Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery (Bunnicula, #1)]]> 281235 BEWARE THE HARE!
Is he or isn't he a vampire?

Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits... and fangs!]]> 98 Deborah Howe 1416928170 Sarah 0 3.88 1979 Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery (Bunnicula, #1)
author: Deborah Howe
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.88
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]]> The Runaway Bunny 58922
The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its reassuring words and loving pictures.]]> 48 Margaret Wise Brown 0060775823 Sarah 0 4.09 1942 The Runaway Bunny
author: Margaret Wise Brown
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> Alice in Wonderland 13023 This is an adaptation. For the editions of the original book, see here .

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.]]> 96 Jane Carruth 0517223627 Sarah 0 4.03 1865 Alice in Wonderland
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]]> The Mitten 967494
One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in; first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse and what happens next makes for a wonderfully funny climax.

As the story of the animals in the mitten unfolds, the reader can see Nicki in the boarders of each page, walking through the woods unaware of what is going on.

Once again Jan Brett has created a dramatic and beautiful picture book in her distinctive style. She brings the animals to life with warmth and humor, and her illustrations are full of visual delights and details faithful to the Ukrainian tradition from which the story comes.]]> 32 Jan Brett 039921920X Sarah 0 4.28 1989 The Mitten
author: Jan Brett
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> Stellaluna 786256 Stellaluna is the tender story of a lost young bat who finally finds her way safely home to her mother and friends. This award-winning book by Janell Cannon has sold over 500,000 copies and was on the bestseller list for more than two years.]]> 46 Janell Cannon Sarah 0 4.27 1993 Stellaluna
author: Janell Cannon
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1)]]> 297249 Book #1 from the series: The Boxcar Children Mysteries

After becoming orphans, four siblings run away to live in an abandoned boxcar but find their adventure halted by the possibility of being caught in this classic tale! “A compelling story� (Publishers Weekly) with over 63,000 five-star ratings, read by an Earphones Award–winning narrator.

Four orphaned siblings, determined to stay together as a family, decide to inhabit an abandoned boxcar and turn it into their new home in the woods. When one of the siblings falls ill, the others go out to seek a doctor to save their sister. Meanwhile, their wealthy grandfather has offered a sizable reward to anyone who has information about his grandchildren, hoping that they can all be reunited once more. As the children continue to evade being found out, will they ever know peace?]]> 176 Gertrude Chandler Warner 0807508527 Sarah 0 to-read 4.13 1924 The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1)
author: Gertrude Chandler Warner
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1924
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs]]> 125507 You thought you knew the story of the “The Three Little Pigs”� You thought wrong.
Ěý
In this hysterical and clever fracture fairy tale picture book that twists point of view and perspective, young readers will finally hear the other side of the story of “The Three Little Pigs.”]]> 32 Jon Scieszka 0140544518 Sarah 0 4.32 1989 The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
author: Jon Scieszka
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day]]> 46677
And it got worse...

His best friend deserted him. There was no dessert in his lunch bag. And, on top of all that, there were lima beans for dinner and kissing on TV!]]> 32 Judith Viorst 0689711735 Sarah 0 to-read 4.24 1972 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
author: Judith Viorst
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1972
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)]]> 40604658
Until something goes wrong. . . .

In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.]]> 450 Michael Crichton 0307763056 Sarah 0 to-read 4.38 1990 Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
author: Michael Crichton
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> Mattimeo (Redwall, #3) 201342 448 Brian Jacques 0441006108 Sarah 4 4.08 1989 Mattimeo (Redwall, #3)
author: Brian Jacques
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1989
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/01
date added: 2024/11/01
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]]> <![CDATA[Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)]]> 201345 376 Brian Jacques 0441001866 Sarah 0 to-read 4.16 1993 Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)
author: Brian Jacques
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World]]> 34348320 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

On All Hallow’s Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther’s now famous Ninety-five Theses appeared, Eric Metaxas, acclaimed biographer of the bestselling Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy and Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and dragged medieval Europe into the future. Written in riveting prose and impeccably researched, Martin Luther tells the searing tale of a humble man who, by bringing ugly truths to the highest seats of power, caused the explosion whose sound is still ringing in our ears. Luther’s monumental faith and courage gave birth to the ideals of liberty, equality, and individualism that today lie at the heart of all modern life.]]> 480 Eric Metaxas 110198001X Sarah 5 4.07 2017 Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
author: Eric Metaxas
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot]]> 9551
The circumstances of the death of these men are by now known throughout the world in one of the great missionary adventure stories of modern times. But this is the first account of the whole life of one of them, a life that, though "hid with Christ in God", was in part revealed in some of the most poignant and moving spiritual writings of our time. Shadow of the Almighty is a tremendous biography of an adventurous and inspirational life.]]> 256 Elisabeth Elliot 006062213X Sarah 4 4.21 1958 Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
author: Elisabeth Elliot
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1958
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (Mary Poppins, #5)]]> 436148 90 P.L. Travers 0440457939 Sarah 4 3.89 1982 Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (Mary Poppins, #5)
author: P.L. Travers
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1982
rating: 4
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]]> Hokey Pokey 13642591
Master storyteller Jerry Spinelli has written a dizzingly inventive fable of growing up and letting go, of leaving childhood and its imagination play behind for the more dazzling adventures of adolescence, and of learning to accept not only the sunny part of day, but the unwelcome arrival of night, as well.]]> 304 Jerry Spinelli 0375831983 Sarah 3 3.33 2013 Hokey Pokey
author: Jerry Spinelli
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/02
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]]> <![CDATA[Mary Poppins in the Park (Mary Poppins, #4)]]> 152381 282 P.L. Travers 0152058281 Sarah 4 4.10 1952 Mary Poppins in the Park (Mary Poppins, #4)
author: P.L. Travers
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1952
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Black Reckoning (The Books of Beginning, #3)]]> 16075836 The adventures of siblings Kate, Michael, and Emma come to a stunning conclusion when they must find the last Book of Beginning--the Book of Death--before the Dire Magnus does, for when all three books are united, their combined power will be unstoppable.
Soon Emma is on a journey to places both worldly and otherworldly, confronting terrifying monsters and ghosts, and what is darkest within herself. As the fabric of time begins to fray, she becomes the final piece of an extraordinary puzzle. Only if she can master the powers of this most dangerous book will she, Kate, and Michael be able to save the world from the dramatic, deadly final confrontation between magical and ordinary people that the Dire Magnus has in store.]]> 421 John Stephens 0385755783 Sarah 5 4.23 2015 The Black Reckoning (The Books of Beginning, #3)
author: John Stephens
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/20
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]]> The Covenant of Water 180357146 From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.

A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.]]> 715 Abraham Verghese 0802162177 Sarah 4 4.34 2023 The Covenant of Water
author: Abraham Verghese
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Around the World in Eighty Days]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Sarah 5 3.95 1872 Around the World in Eighty Days
author: Jules Verne
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1872
rating: 5
read at: 2014/07/05
date added: 2024/08/29
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Incredible adventure made even better when read by Jim Dale. Perfect perfect perfect.
]]> <![CDATA[A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories]]> 48464
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
"The River"
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
"A Stroke of Good Fortune"
"A Temple of the Holy Ghost"
"The Artificial Nigger"
"A Circle in the Fire"
"A Late Encounter with the Enemy"
"Good Country People"
"The Displaced Person"
©1955 Flannery O'Connor; 1954, 1953, 1948 by Flannery O'Connor; renewed 1983, 1981 by Regina O'Connor; renewed 1976 by Mrs. Edward F. O'Connor; (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.]]> 252 Flannery O'Connor 0151365040 Sarah 2 4.19 1955 A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
author: Flannery O'Connor
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1955
rating: 2
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I could tell it was good writing, but I didn’t care for the characters in their obvious racism and small-minded ways.
]]> <![CDATA[The Fire Chronicle (The Books of Beginning, #2)]]> 13262797
The children are soon discovered by their enemies, and a frantic chase sends Kate a hundred years into the past, to a perilous, enchanted New York City. Searching for a way back to her brother and sister, she meets a mysterious boy whose fate is intricately—and dangerously—tied to her own.

Meanwhile, Michael and Emma have set off to find the second of the Books of Beginning. A series of clues leads them into a hidden world where they must brave harsh polar storms, track down an ancient order of warriors, and confront terrible monsters. Will Michael and Emma find the legendary book of fire—and master its powers—before Kate is lost to them forever?Ěý

Exciting, suspenseful, and brimming with humor and heart, the next installment of the bestselling Books of Beginning trilogy will lead Kate, Michael, and Emma closer to their family—and to the magic that could save, or destroy, them all.]]> 437 John Stephens 0375868712 Sarah 5 4.23 2012 The Fire Chronicle (The Books of Beginning, #2)
author: John Stephens
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> Grimm's Fairy Tales 19351490
This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Included in this collection are Hansel and Gretel, Briar Rose, The Fisherman and His Wife, Rapunzel, The Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, Tom Thumb, and many more. These stories are a delight to read and will rekindle up many childhood memories as they are reread. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.]]> 688 Jacob Grimm Sarah 4 4.21 1812 Grimm's Fairy Tales
author: Jacob Grimm
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1812
rating: 4
read at: 2016/11/26
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]]> Bedknob and Broomstick 474211 The Magic Bedknob, Carey, Charles and Paul 6 find prim Miss Price injured by falling off her broomstick. For their silence, she bespells a bedknob to carry them where-ever and when-ever. In Bonfires and Broomsticks two years later, they bring necromancer Emelius Jones to visit. But his neighbors want to burn him at the stake for disappearing in the Great Fire of London.]]> 188 Mary Norton 0140304452 Sarah 4 4.05 1957 Bedknob and Broomstick
author: Mary Norton
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1957
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/04
date added: 2024/08/04
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]]> <![CDATA[The Emerald Atlas (The Books of Beginning, #1)]]> 8619814 New York Times and perfect for fans of the His Dark Materials series, The Emerald Atlas brims with humor and action as it charts Kate, Michael, and Emma's extraordinary adventures through an unforgettable, enchanted world.

These three siblings have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage.

Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about.

Until now.

Before long, Kate, Michael, and Emma are on a journey through time to dangerous and secret corners of the world...a journey of allies and enemies, of magic and mayhem. And � if an ancient prophesy is correct � what they do can change history, and it is up to them to set things right.]]> 417 John Stephens 0375868704 Sarah 5
As far as I'm concerned, this is an excellent series for Harry Potter fans- it even seems like it doesn't contradict a HP world of magic. Not the same world, for sure, but what you learn about magical creatures from one world helps inform the other. I can imagine them coinciding. ]]> 3.96 2011 The Emerald Atlas (The Books of Beginning, #1)
author: John Stephens
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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I wanted to give this book five stars after the first 2 chapters! Simply incredible. Kept me riveted until the very end, wonderfully well written- excellent pacing, no agonizing over-written prose in which the main character over-analyzes his/her actions. It kept me guessing until the very end, and even now I wish the library wasn't closed already! Oh well, I'll start book 2 tomorrow.

As far as I'm concerned, this is an excellent series for Harry Potter fans- it even seems like it doesn't contradict a HP world of magic. Not the same world, for sure, but what you learn about magical creatures from one world helps inform the other. I can imagine them coinciding.
]]> <![CDATA[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay]]> 3985 639 Michael Chabon 0312282990 Sarah 3 dnf 4.18 2000 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
author: Michael Chabon
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at: 2020/09/27
date added: 2024/07/19
shelves: dnf
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I really wanted to like this book. And truly I did, til about halfway through. I think something that helped was that I was reading it by audiobook at 1.5-1.8x speed. I actually really liked his prose. But I really don’t put up with gratuitous sex scenes, least of all homosexual ones. When I first suspected this might be the case, I read some reviews and my suspicions were confirmed. So I’d rather abandon this book midway and imagine my own ending (and save myself 10 hours) than ruin the first half with the last.
]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez Sarah 1 dnf 4.10 1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1967
rating: 1
read at: 2018/03/28
date added: 2024/07/19
shelves: dnf
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I have made the final decision NOT to finish this book. After a dedicated read of 1-2 weeks, I’m tired of its vulgarity (you never know when you’re suddenly going to be reading a surprisingly graphic sex scene) and meandering plot line (“wait, but I thought he was dead...?�). After reading reviews of how it just gets more confusing the more characters are given the same names, I gladly give it up in search of better literature. Life’s too short to read bad books.
]]> If Beale Street Could Talk 38463 197 James Baldwin 0307275930 Sarah 1 dnf 4.28 1974 If Beale Street Could Talk
author: James Baldwin
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1974
rating: 1
read at: 2024/07/20
date added: 2024/07/19
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Maybe the story is good, but to get there you have to slog through the filthy language and sex. No thank you. Only 16% before deciding this is not what I want to spend my time reading.
]]> Light from Uncommon Stars 56179360
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline. As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 372 Ryka Aoki 1250789060 Sarah 3 4.03 2021 Light from Uncommon Stars
author: Ryka Aoki
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of OrĂŻsha, #1)]]> 34728667 They killed my mother.
They took our magic.
They tried to bury us.

Now we rise.

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.

But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving ZĂ©lie without a mother and her people without hope.

Now ZĂ©lie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, ZĂ©lie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.

Danger lurks in OrĂŻsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be ZĂ©lie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.]]> 544 Tomi Adeyemi 1250170974 Sarah 4 4.10 2018 Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of OrĂŻsha, #1)
author: Tomi Adeyemi
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Seabiscuit: An American Legend]]> 110737 There's an alternate cover edition here

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:

Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon.

Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 457 Laura Hillenbrand 0345465083 Sarah 4 4.22 1999 Seabiscuit: An American Legend
author: Laura Hillenbrand
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1999
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[In My Father's House : The Years Before the Hiding Place]]> 286453 160 Corrie ten Boom 0340863757 Sarah 5 4.41 1976 In My Father's House : The Years Before the Hiding Place
author: Corrie ten Boom
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1976
rating: 5
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]]> Remarkably Bright Creatures 58733693 Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.]]> 368 Shelby Van Pelt 0063204150 Sarah 4 4.35 2022 Remarkably Bright Creatures
author: Shelby Van Pelt
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/17
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]]> My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1) 200572 My Man Jeeves is sure to please anyone with a taste for pithy buffoonery, moronic misunderstandings, gaffes, and aristocratic slapstick.

Contents:
"Leave It to Jeeves"
"Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"
"Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg"
"Absent Treatment"
"Helping Freddie"
"Rallying Round Old George"
"Doing Clarence a Bit of Good"
"The Aunt and the Sluggard"

Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Bertie Wooster.

Revised versions of all the Jeeves stories in this collection were later published in the 1925 short story collection Carry On, Jeeves. One of the Reggie Pepper stories in this collection was later rewritten as a Jeeves story, which was also included in Carry On, Jeeves.]]> 256 P.G. Wodehouse 1585678759 Sarah 4 4.07 1919 My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
author: P.G. Wodehouse
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1919
rating: 4
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I was a little confused by the Reggie Pepper stories randomly inserted, but all in all, quite diverting.
]]> <![CDATA[The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles]]> 10336 209 Julie Andrews Edwards 0060218053 Sarah 0 to-read 4.25 1974 The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
author: Julie Andrews Edwards
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1974
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years]]> 123220671 Ěý
This courageous, no-nonsense Christian went on to write dozens of books, host a long-running radio show, and speak at conferences all over the world. She was a pillar of coherent, committed faith—a beloved and sometimes controversial icon. And while things in the limelight might have looked golden, her suffering continued refining her in many different and unexpected ways.
Ěý
Her early years, related in Becoming Elisabeth Elliot , traced the transition of a young woman who dealt in “certainties� to the woman who lived with the unknown.
Ěý
Now, being Elisabeth Elliot increasingly meant confronting how much she did not understand. She sought her reference point beyond her own experiences, always pondering what she called the “impenetrable mystery� of the interplay between God’s will and human choices.
Ěý
And it is that strange mystery which shaped the rest of her startling life story.]]> 304 Ellen Vaughn 1087750997 Sarah 0 to-read 4.36 2023 Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years
author: Ellen Vaughn
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Becoming Elisabeth Elliot 53419962
This courageous, no-nonsense Christian went on to write dozens of books, host a long-running radio show, and speak at conferences all over the world. She was a pillar of coherent, committed faith; a beloved and sometimes controversial icon. In this authorized biography, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, bestselling author Ellen Vaughn uses Elisabeth’s private, unpublished journals, and candid interviews with her family and friends, to paint the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one of the most influential women in modern church history. It’s the story of a hilarious, sensual, brilliant, witty, self-deprecating, sensitive, radical, and surprisingly relatable person utterly submitted to doing God’s will, no matter how high the cost. For Elisabeth, the central question was not, “How does this make me feel?� but, simply, “is this true?� If so, then the next question was, “what do I need to do about it to obey God?�
Ěý
“My life is on Thy Altar, Lord—for Thee to consume. Set the fire, Father! Bind me with cords of love to the Altar. Hold me there. Let me remember the Cross.� –Elisabeth Elliot, age 21
Ěý
Ěý]]> 320 Ellen Vaughn 1535910933 Sarah 5 4.60 2020 Becoming Elisabeth Elliot
author: Ellen Vaughn
name: Sarah
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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]]> Eggs 169413 224 Jerry Spinelli 0316166464 Sarah 3 3.61 2007 Eggs
author: Jerry Spinelli
name: Sarah
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2024/05/05
date added: 2024/05/05
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]]> The God Who Is There 80116 The God Who Is There has been the landmark book that changed the way the church sees the world. In Francis Schaeffer's remarkable analysis, we learn where the clashing ideas about God, science, history and art came from and where they are going. Now this completely retypeset edition includes a new introduction by James W. Sire that places Schaeffer's seminal work in the context of the intellectual turbulence of the early twenty-first century. More than ever, The God Who Is There demonstrates how historic Christianity can fearlessly confront the competing philosophies of the world. The God who has always been there continues to provide the anchor of truth and the power of love to meet the world's deepest problems.]]> 226 Francis A. Schaeffer 0830819479 Sarah 4 4.13 1968 The God Who Is There
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name: Sarah
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1968
rating: 4
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]]> The Art of Racing in the Rain 3153910
Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast. On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through.

A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it.]]> 336 Garth Stein 1554681723 Sarah 4 4.22 2008 The Art of Racing in the Rain
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name: Sarah
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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I’m so glad this had a good ending.
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