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isbn13,isbn10,title,subtitle,authors,categories,thumbnail,description,published_year,average_rating,num_pages,ratings_count
9780002005883,0002005883,Gilead,,Marilynne Robinson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KQZCPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A NOVEL THAT READERS and critics have been eagerly anticipating for over a decade, Gilead is an astonishingly imagined story of remarkable lives. John Ames is a preacher, the son of a preacher and the grandson (both maternal and paternal) of preachers. It’s 1956 in Gilead, Iowa, towards the end of the Reverend Ames’s life, and he is absorbed in recording his family’s story, a legacy for the young son he will never see grow up. Haunted by his grandfather’s presence, John tells of the rift between his grandfather and his father: the elder, an angry visionary who fought for the abolitionist cause, and his son, an ardent pacifist. He is troubled, too, by his prodigal namesake, Jack (John Ames) Boughton, his best friend’s lost son who returns to Gilead searching for forgiveness and redemption. Told in John Ames’s joyous, rambling voice that finds beauty, humour and truth in the smallest of life’s details, Gilead is a song of celebration and acceptance of the best and the worst the world has to offer. At its heart is a tale of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, pitch-perfect in style and story, set to dazzle critics and readers alike.",2004,3.85,247,361
9780002261982,0002261987,Spider's Web,A Novel,Charles Osborne;Agatha Christie,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gA5GPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new 'Christie for Christmas' -- a full-length novel adapted from her acclaimed play by Charles Osborne Following BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three house guests to become accessories and accomplices. It seems that the murdered man was not unknown to certain members of the house party (but which ones?), and the search begins for the murderer and the motive, while at the same time trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been no murder at all... SPIDER'S WEB was written in 1954 specifically for Margaret Lockwood and opened first at the Theatre Royal Nottingham before moving to the Savoy Theatre in London on 14 December 1954. With THE MOUSETRAP and WI",2000,3.83,241,5164
9780006163831,0006163831,The One Tree,,Stephen R. Donaldson,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OmQawwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Volume Two of Stephen Donaldson's acclaimed second trilogy featuing the compelling anti-hero Thomas Covenant.,1982,3.97,479,172
9780006178736,0006178731,Rage of angels,,Sidney Sheldon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FKo2TgANz74C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A memorable, mesmerizing heroine Jennifer -- brilliant, beautiful, an attorney on the way up until the Mafia's schemes win her the hatred of an implacable enemy -- and a love more destructive than hate. A dangerous, dramatic world The Dark Arena of organized crime and flashbulb lit courtrooms where ambitious prosecutors begin their climb to political power.",1993,3.93,512,29532
9780006280897,0006280897,The Four Loves,,Clive Staples Lewis,Christian life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XhQ5XsFcpGIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lewis' work on the nature of love divides love into four categories; Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three come naturally to humanity. Charity, however, the Gift-love of God, is divine, and without this supernatural love, the natural loves become distorted and even dangerous.",2002,4.15,170,33684
9780006280934,0006280935,The Problem of Pain,,Clive Staples Lewis,Christian life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Kk-uVe5QK-gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""In The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis, one of the most renowned Christian authors and thinkers, examines a universally applicable question within the human condition: If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain? With his signature wealth of compassion and insight, C.S. Lewis offers answers to these crucial questions and shares his hope and wisdom to help heal a world hungering for a true understanding of human nature.""--Amazon.",2002,4.09,176,37569
9780006353287,0006353282,An Autobiography,,Agatha Christie,"Authors, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c49GQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Donation.,1977,4.27,560,3975
9780006380832,0006380832,Empires of the Monsoon,A History of the Indian Ocean and Its Invaders,Richard Hall,"Africa, East",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MuPEQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Until Vasco da Gama discovered the sea-route to the East in 1497-9 almost nothing was known in the West of the exotic cultures and wealth of the Indian Ocean and its peoples. It is this civilization and its destruction at the hands of the West that Richard Hall recreates in this book. Hall's history of the exploration and exploitation by Chinese and Arab travellers, and by the Portuguese, Dutch and British alike is one of brutality, betrayal and colonial ambition.",1998,4.41,608,65
9780006470229,000647022X,The Gap Into Madness,Chaos and Order,Stephen R. Donaldson,"Hyland, Morn (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4oXavLNDWocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new-cover reissue of the fourth book in the bestselling five-volume sf series created by the world-famous author of the Thomas Covenant chronicles -- and acclaimed as the 'best work of his career'. Events were not moving as the Amnion had intended. Once again humans had been false in their dealings with the aliens. As the planetoid Thanatos Minor exploded into atoms, the Trumpet hurtled into space only one step ahead of hostile pursuers. On board were Morn Hyland and her force-grown son Davies, cyborg Angus Thermopyle and Captain Nick Succorso -- old enemies thrown together in a desperate bid for survival. For both the Amnion and the UMCP, the immediate capture of the fleeing ship and the secrets it contained was imperative. But for Trumpet's exhausted crew the only hope lay in an illegal lab in the distant binary solar system of Valdor Industrial. It would be a journey of unpredictable danger -- from which not all would return...",1994,4.15,743,103
9780006472612,0006472613,Master of the Game,,Sidney Sheldon,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TkTYp-Tp6_IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Kate Blackwell is an enigma and one of the most powerful women in the world. But at her ninetieth birthday celebrations there are ghosts of absent friends and absent enemies.,1982,4.11,489,43540
9780006479673,0006479677,If Tomorrow Comes,,Sidney Sheldon,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l2tBi_jLuk8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans.",1994,4.04,501,49170
9780006480099,0006480098,Assassin's Apprentice,,Robin Hobb,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qTaGQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Fantasy-roman.,1996,4.15,460,133972
9780006482079,0006482074,Warhost of Vastmark,,Janny Wurts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uOL0fpS9WZkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer, Lord of Light, arrives at the tiny harbor town of Merior to find that Arithon's ship yards have been abandoned and meticulously destroyed, and that the Master of Shadow has disappeared as if into thin air. Meanwhile Arithon and the Mad Prophet Dakar are traveling on foot through the treacherous Kelhorn Mountains towards the Vastmark clans, there to raise further support for his cause. But raising a warhost is a costly business. Is it mere coincidence that Princess Talith—Lysaer's beautiful, headstrong wife—is taken captive and held for a vast ransom by a master brigand? The forces of light and shadow circle and feint, drawing ever closer to a huge conflict. And in the background the Fellowship of Seven Sorcerers and the Koriani Enchantresses watch and plan, and wait.",1995,4.03,522,2966
9780006483014,0006483011,The Once and Future King,,Terence Hanbury White,Arthurian romances,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Jx6BvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An omnibus volume of the author's complete story of the Arthurian epic which includes: ""The sword in the stone"" (1939), ""The witch in the wood"" (1939), ""The ill-made knight"" (1940), ""The candle in the wind"" (published for the first time), and ""The book of Merlyn."" 1996.",1996,4.04,823,2805
9780006483892,0006483895,Murder in LaMut,,Raymond E. Feist;Joel Rosenberg,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I2jbBlMHlAMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Available in the U.S. for the first time, this is the second volume in the exceptional Legends of the Riftwar series from ""New York Times""-bestselling authors Feist and Rosenberg.",2003,3.7,337,5083
9780006483908,0006483909,Jimmy the Hand,,Raymond E. Feist;S. M. Stirling,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hV4-oITYFN8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jimmy the Hand, boy thief of Krondor, lived in the shadows of the city. Though gifted beyond his peers, Jimmy is merely a pickpocket with potential--until he aids Prince Arutha in the rescue of Princess Anita from Duke Guy du Bas-Tyra, and runs afoul of ""Black Guy's"" secret police. Facing a choice between disappearing on his own or in a weighted barrel at the bottom of Krondor's harbor, Jimmy chooses the former. Forced to flee the only home he's ever known, Jimmy finds himself among the unsuspecting rural villagers of Land's End, where he hopes to prosper with his talents for con and thievery. But Land's End is home to many who tread the crooked path--and to a dark, dangerous presence even the local smugglers don't recognize. And suddenly Jimmy's youthful bravado and courage are leading him into the maw of chaos . . . and, quite possibly, to his doom.",2003,3.95,368,5579
9780006486145,0006486142,Well of Darkness,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XrwaAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gareth is just a frightened young lad when he is drafted in to be the whipping-boy for the unruly Prince Dagnarus. Yet as they grow to be men, an unshakable bond is formed. And it is their destiny for them to become the two most powerful - and feared - men in the kingdom. But when Dagnarus decides to become a knight himself, he begins a chain of evil events that threaten to destroy the entire kingdom. Only by uniting the Sovereign Stone can peace be restored, and it is up to Dagnarus' brother Helmos to try to achieve this impossible task, using his father's soldiers against his brother's army. All the while, Gareth is gaining mastery over the sinister Void magic, and he is devoted to helping his childhood companion.. This gripping story of magical power and corruption takes the unique viewpoint of focusing on the evil characters, as we follow them from boys to men. Filled with action, suspense and wonderfully imaginative characters, Water From the Well of Darkness is set to elevate the careers of bestselling authors Weis & Hickman to spectacular new heights.",2001,3.66,599,68
9780006490456,000649045X,Witness for the Prosecution & Selected Plays,,Agatha Christie,English drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_9u7AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Newly-Jacketed Edition Designed To Celebrate The 50Th Anniversary Of Christie S Faultlessly Plotted Witness For The Prosecution And Other Outstanding Plays. The Perfect Complement To The Latest Edition Of The Mousetrap And Selected Plays (50Th Aniversary Edition). Headlining This Book Is Witness For The Prosecution Christie S Highly Successful Stage Play Which Won The New York Drama Critics Circle Award For Best Foreign Play. A Stunning Courtroom Drama, It Tells The Story Of A Scheming Wife Testifying Against Her Husband In A Shocking Murder Trial. The Wild Beauty Of A Seaside House Perched High On The Devonshire River Tern Provides A Stunning Back-Drop In Towards Zero As A Psychopathic Murderer Homes In On The Unsuspecting Victims. Passion, Murder And Love Are The Deadly Ingredients In Verdict, Making It One Of Christie S More Unusual Thrillers And Prompting Her To Label It The Best Play I Have Written With The Exception Of Witness For The Prosecution . Go Back For Murder Tells The Story Of The Young And Feisty Carla Who, Orphaned At The Tender Age Of Five, Discovers Her Mother Was Imprisioned For Murdering Her Father And Determines To Prove Her Innocence.",1995,4.05,352,3908
9780006496434,0006496431,The Little House,,Philippa Gregory,Country life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rbvUPps9vKsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth's son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up. This thriller examines what women want and what they fear, as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity.",1998,3.66,368,1832
9780006496878,0006496873,Mystical Paths,,Susan Howatch,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=by4ytBy63o0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,1968 finds Nicholas Darrow wrestling with personal problems. How can he marry Rosalind when he is unable to avoid promiscuity? How can he become a priest when he finds it so difficult to live as one? And can he break his dangerous dependence on his father?,1996,4.23,576,1023
9780006496892,000649689X,Glittering Images,,Susan Howatch,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rDHbn0ORKhQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It is 1937, and Charles Ashworth, a Canon to the Archbishop of Canterbury, is sent to untangle a web of self-delusion and corruption at the episcopal palace of the charismatic Bishop of Starbridge.",1996,4.07,512,2045
9780006496922,000649692X,Glamorous Powers,,Susan Howatch,Clergy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_bhPYWs6RrYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reissue of the author's most famous and well-loved work, the Starbridge series, six self-contained yet interconnected novels that explore the history of the Church of England through the 20th century.",1996,4.2,512,1441
9780006498865,0006498868,The Mad Ship,,Robin Hobb,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2iWezkfdBE8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fantasy master Robin Hobb delivers the stunning second volume of her Liveship Traders trilogy, returning to the timeless city of Bingtown, where pirates now plague the coasts and the dreaded slave trade flourishes. Althea Vestrit doesnt have time to be afraid, for her familys newly awakened Liveship, Vivacia, has been seized by the ruthless pirate Kennit. So Althea hatches a bold plan. But to carry it out, she must recruit a Liveship that has already slain two crews -- and is said to be insane.",2000,4.24,906,36101
9780006499169,0006499163,Post Captain,,Patrick O'Brian,"Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S761k-z51Q4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubrey's adventures in escaping from France and the debtors' prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea.",1996,4.29,474,7815
9780006499268,0006499260,The Reverse of the Medal,,Patrick O'Brian,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YtjxFRb39Z4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this book, Jack Aubrey returns from his duties protecting whalers off the South American coast and is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make investments in the City on the strength of supposedly certain information. From there he is led into the half-worlds of the London criminal underground and of government espionage - the province of his friend, Stephen Maturin.",1997,4.41,261,177
9780006499626,0006499627,Miss Marple,The Complete Short Stories,Agatha Christie,"Detective and mystery stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a96qPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Miss Marple featured in 20 short stories, published in a number of different collections in Britain and America. Presented here in their order of publication, Miss Marple uses her unique insight to deduce the truth about a series of unsolved crimes.",1997,4.2,359,6235
9780006511489,0006511481,The Years of Rice and Salt,,Kim Stanley Robinson,Black Death,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I38CFD1RnmsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hailed by ""The New York Times Book Review"" as ""eye-opening, "" this alternative history of the last 600 years begins as the Black Death kills nearly everyone in Europe, and China, India, and the nations of Islam now control the world.",2003,3.73,772,194
9780006512677,0006512674,Spares,,Michael Marshall Smith,Human cloning,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=83RrAdP9y5UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye - but some people are doing all the taking. The story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference.",1998,4.13,317,2481
9780006513087,0006513085,Gravity,,Tess Gerritsen,Science fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KI66cH39n6sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Emma Watson a research physician has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living organisms in the microgravity of space. But the true and lethal nature of the experiment has not been revealed to NASA and once aboard the space station things start to go wrong. A culture of single-celled Archaeons, gathered from the deep sea, begin to rapidly multiply and infect the crew - with deadly and agonising results. As her estranged husband and ground crew at NASA work against the clock to launch a rescue Emma stuggles to contain the lethal microbe. But with the contagion threatening Earth's population, there are those who would leave the astronauts stranded in orbit, quarantined aboard the station.",2004,4.04,342,8024
9780006514640,0006514642,The Wise Woman,,Philippa Gregory,Great Britain,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BEr9wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Alone and vulnerable, Alys joins a nunnery in an attempt to escape poverty but finds herself thrown back into the outside world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. With nothing but her looks, her magic and her own instinctive cunning, Alys has to tread a perilous path between the faith of her childhood and her own female power. When she falls in love with Hugo, the feudal lord and another woman's husband, she dips into witchcraft to defeat her rival and to win her lover, only to find that magic makes a poor servant but a dominant master. Since heresy against the new church means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys's danger is mortal. A woman's powers are not longer safe to use...",2002,3.31,640,6583
9780006514855,0006514855,Girls' Night in,,Jessica Adams;Chris Manby;Fiona Walker,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xLwHHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Girls' Night In' features stories about growing up, growing out of, moving out, moving on, falling apart and getting it all together. So turn off your cell phone and curl up on the couch: this is one 'Girls' Night In' you won't want to miss.",2000,3.26,586,140
9780006545866,0006545866,The White Album,,Joan Didion,American essays,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qauOPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This collection of essays recounts what took place on the long morning after the 1960s, when everyone was coming down from their particular bad trip. Didion observes the dramas that explode as America goes into collective detox: the mother abandoning her five-year-old daughter on the central reservation of Interstate 5; Huey Newton and the Black Panthers preaching from their cells; students, in unconscious parody, simulating the disaffection of the 1960s.",1993,4.17,224,91
9780006550433,0006550436,The Bonesetter's Daughter,,Amy Tan,China,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4KHT6mIMDt4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tells the story of three generations of Chinese women, beginning at the turn of the century.",2001,3.98,352,414
9780006551393,0006551394,The Lexus and the Olive Tree,,Thomas L. Friedman,Capitalism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u8zxpq6o7HYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Half of this new, post-Cold War world is intent on building a better Lexus, on streamlining their societies and economies for the global marketplace, while the other half is locked in elemental struggles over who owns which olive tree, which strip of land.",2000,3.59,352,87
9780006551812,0006551815,'Tis,A Memoir,Frank McCourt,Ireland,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q3BhQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"FROM THE PULIZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE #1 ""NEW YORK TIMES"" BESTSELLER ""ANGELA'S ASHES"" Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, ""Angela's Ashes, "" has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the ""Los Angeles Times"" Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have ""'Tis, "" the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen and gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this ""classless country,"" and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and type reports. It is Frank's incomparable voice that renders these experiences spellbinding. When Frank returns to America in 1953, he works on the docks, always resisting what everyone tells him. He knows that he should be getting an education, and though he left school at fourteen, he talks his way into New York University. There, he falls in love with the quintessential Yankee and tries to live his dream. But it is not until he starts to teach that Frank finds his place in the world.",2000,3.68,495,44179
9780006646006,000664600X,Ocean Star Express,,Mark Haddon;Peter Sutton,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I2QZAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Joe and his parents are enjoying a summer holiday by the sea at the Ocean Star Hotel. The sky is bright blue, the sun shines and Joe loves all that the seaside has to offer. But when the fog rolls in and rain falls Joe begins to wish that he was back at home again. Things change, however, when the owner of the hotel invites Joe to share in a magical world, only a few steps away. The loft is black as night but then above Joe's head a thousand tiny stars begin to sparkle and in the distance he hears the chug-chug-chug of a model train. A whole world is soon to open up before Joe's eyes, a world of snow-capped mountains, great deserts, and rocking fishing boats.",2002,3.5,32,1
9780006754893,0006754899,A Small Pinch of Weather,And Other Stories,Joan Aiken,"Children's stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QiFhOBpYZoYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A magical and fantastic collection of early stories by one of the most original children's authors of the 20th century. For 8-11 year olds.,2000,4.27,239,116
9780006906018,000690601X,The Princess of the Chalet School,,Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EJcQPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2000,4.1,159,446
9780007103676,0007103670,Koko,,Peter Straub,Male friendship,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QV_XQKj4OMkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Koko is Peter Straub's foray into the psychological horror of the Vietnam War.,2001,3.56,634,7586
9780007105045,0007105045,Tree and Leaf,The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth : Beorhthelm's Son,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aPb_AAIcwZ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The two works 'On fairy-stories' and 'Leaf by Niggle' were first brought together to form the book 'Tree and leaf' in 1964. In this new edition a third element is added: the poem Mythopoeia, the making of myths...""--Preface.",2001,4.09,176,2245
9780007111503,0007111509,Partners in Crime,,Agatha Christie,"Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L0bfy0zgkegC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Famous Volume Of Tommy & Tuppence Linked Short Stories, Reissued In A New Look To Coincide With The Brand New Series Of Tommy & Tuppence Bbc Movies. Tommy And Tuppence Beresford Were Restless For Adventure, So When They Were Asked To Take Over Blunt S International Detective Agency, They Leapt At The Chance. After Their Triumphant Recovery Of A Pink Pearl, Intriguing Cases Kept On Coming Their Way: A Stabbing On Sunningdale Golf Course; Cryptic Messages In The Personal Columns Of Newspapers; And Even A Box Of Poisoned Chocolates.",2001,3.77,347,9506
9780007113804,0007113803,Murder in Mesopotamia,,Agatha Christie,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oFkbc7BbYN0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq... It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of 'Lovely Louise', wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr Leidner. In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late...",2001,3.89,264,25692
9780007116263,0007116268,"The Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King",Visual Companion,Jude Fisher,Imaginary wars and battles,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kNBnQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A visual guide to the third in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. A large-format, full-colour guide to the characters, places, landscapes, artefacts, battles, and costumes as seen in the film, it features images, informative text and specially commissioned extras.",2003,4.59,72,22
9780007117536,0007117531,All Families are Psychotic,,Douglas Coupland,Dysfunctional families,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jYBsNp6NPVoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together... Warm, witty and wise, All Families Are Psychotic is Coupland at the very top of his form: 'Irresistibly hilarious, unique and wonderful' Independent on Sunday In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond takes her medication, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her children. Wade has spent the night in jail; suicidal Bryan is due to arrive at any moment with his vowel-free girlfriend, Shw; and then there is Sarah, 'a bolt of lightning frozen in midflash' -- here in Orlando to be the star of Friday's shuttle mission. With Janet's ex-husband and his trophy wife also in town, Janet spends a moment contemplating her family, and where it all went wrong. Or did it?",2002,3.69,279,350
9780007119332,000711933X,Death in the Clouds,,Agatha Christie,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M8iyckq4GQ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane... From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.",2001,3.8,333,21123
9780007119356,0007119356,Appointment with Death,,Agatha Christie,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lSYwsRkcw4YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra... Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met...",2001,3.86,303,24859
9780007120680,0007120680,Hallowe'en Party,,Agatha Christie,"Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qlx98EGK_jMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"No one believes a little girl when she insists that she has witnessed a murder until she herself turns up drowned, and Hercule Poirot sets out to catch the killer.",2001,3.66,336,18820
9780007120697,0007120699,Hercule Poirot's Christmas,,Agatha Christie,Christmas stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EA0j4Jzn4vAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the night before Christmas, cruel, tyrannical, filthy-rich Simeon Lee is found in his locked bedroom with his throat cut. Now Hercule Poirot must put his deductive powers to the test to solve one of his most chilling cases--and to prevent a clever killer from spilling more blood.",2001,3.93,335,23113
9780007120819,0007120818,The Big Four,,Agatha Christie,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wcOQUSWQEdUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination... Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man's gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about 'Number Four'.",2002,3.59,272,22155
9780007120864,0007120869,The Thirteen Problems,,Agatha Christie,"Detective and mystery stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MK9JNwoZAncC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes... One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes... The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read 'heap of fish'; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that 'Blue Geranium' meant death... Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the 'Tuesday Night Club'.,2002,3.89,315,12840
9780007120871,0007120877,They Do it with Mirrors,,Agatha Christie,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HUuQYGppZi8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home - but someone else dies... Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitiation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious visitor, Mr Gilbrandsen, is less fortunate - shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building. Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and vows to discover the real reason for Mr Gilbrandsen's visit.",2002,3.75,284,415
9780007120963,0007120966,A Murder is Announced,,Agatha Christie,"Detective and mystery stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QEEvzeAkdzoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are amazed by an advertisement in the local paper which reads ""A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm. Unable to resist, a crowd begins to gather at the house at the appointed time. But when a man is killed in what looks like an attempted robbery, Miss Marple becomes involved.",2002,3.98,382,680
9780007120987,0007120982,The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side,,Agatha Christie,"Marple, Jane (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lTYId7FIJEsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One Minute, Silly Heather Badcock Had Been Gabbling On At Her Movie Idol, The Glamorous Marina Gregg. The Next, Heather Suffered A Massive Seizure. But For Whom Was The Deadly Poison Really Intended? Marina S Frozen Expression Suggested She Had Witnessed Something Horrific. But, While Others Searched For Material Evidence, Jane Marple Conducted A Very Different Investigation Into Human Nature.",2002,3.91,351,23249
9780007121007,0007121008,Mrs McGinty's Dead,,Agatha Christie,Belgians,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gcS0d5HhGEEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage... Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows - what he didn't realise was that his own life was now in great danger...",2002,3.83,328,525
9780007121014,0007121016,Taken at the Flood,,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3gWlxIFlMEwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Few Weeks After Marrying An Attractive Young Widow, Gordon Cloade Is Tragically Killed By A Bomb Blast In The London Blitz. Overnight, The Former Mrs Underhay Finds Herself In Sole Possession Of The Cloade Family Fortune. Shortly Afterwards, Hercule Poirot Receives A Visit From The Dead Man S Sister-In-Law Who Claims She Has Been Warned By Spirits That Mrs Underhay S First Husband Is Still Alive. Poirot Has His Suspicions When He Is Asked To Find A Missing Person Guided Only By The Spirit World. Yet What Mystifies Poirot Most Is The Woman S True Motive For Approaching Him&",2002,3.71,352,8852
9780007121021,0007121024,The Hollow,,Agatha Christie,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-f1h4e0hl0oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lucy Angkatell Invited Hercule Poirot To Lunch. To Tease The Great Detective, Her Guests Stage A Mock Murder Beside The Swimming Pool. Unfortunately, The Victim Plays The Scene For Real. As His Blood Drips Into The Water, John Christow Gasps One Final Word: Henrietta . In The Confusion, A Gun Sinks To The Bottom Of The Pool. Poirot S Enquiries Reveal A Complex Web Of Romantic Attachments. It Seems Everyone In The Drama Is A Suspect And Each A Victim Of Love.",2002,3.79,384,13022
9780007121106,0007121105,Third Girl,,Agatha Christie,Belgians,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Dbh7nUkG_6cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone... Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer. Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it would take all Poirot's tenacity to establish whether the third girl was guilty innocent or insane...",2002,3.62,365,13705
9780007122585,0007122586,The Secret of Chimneys,,Agatha Christie,"Battle, Superintendent (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1OluX5g96OcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house...,2001,3.86,400,11110
9780007124015,0007124015,The Lord of the Rings,,J. R. R. Tolkien,"Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character)",,"Sauron has gathered the Rings of Power - the means by which he will be able to rule the world. All he needs now is the Ruling Ring, which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. Frodo Baggins is entrusted to foil Sauron's plans.",2001,4.49,1546,187
9780007126903,0007126905,The Metaphysical Club,,Louis Menand,Cambridge (Mass.),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C3Gkwi3SfmMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce. 21 photos.",2002,4.07,560,3311
9780007127740,000712774X,The illustrated man,,Ray Bradbury,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kePqlVft1bQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2002,4.14,186,56781
9780007129652,0007129653,Wilkins' Tooth,,Diana Wynne Jones,Business enterprises,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lXUSHqQfOD8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"OWN BACK LIMITEDREVENGE ARRANGED, PRICE ACCORDING TO TASK, ALL DIFFICULT TASKS UNDERTAKEN, TREASURE HUNTED, ETC. It seemed like a marvellous scheme at the time! Frank and Jess had set up the business because they needed money - their pocket-money had been stopped just when Frank owed Buster Knell ten pence. Their father had put a quick stop to ERRANDS RUN, so why not try something that was bad instead? Offering to do dreadful things that other people didn't dare to do? So they pinned up the notice on the potting-shed and waited for customers. But of course, nothing's ever THAT straightforward.",2002,3.59,207,69
9780007130313,0007130317,Cut,,Patricia McCormick,Emotional problems,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q140Mlie138C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fifteen-year old Callie is so withdrawn that she's not speaking to anyone - including her therapist at Sea Pines, known to its guests as 'Sick Minds' - the residential treatment facility where her parents and doctor send her after discovering that she cuts herself. Her story unfolds primarily through dramatic monologues, gradually revealing the family turmoil that led to her self-destructive behaviour.",2002,3.76,173,107
9780007135653,0007135653,The Lord of the Rings,The Art of The Return of the King,Gary Russell,Characters and characteristics in motion pictures,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oEZ6AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With complete access to artwork created over a five-year period, this guide illustrates the creative development of The Return of the King. It contains over 600 images, from the earliest pencil sketches and conceptual drawings to magnificent paintings, sculptures and digital imagery that shaped the look of the film. Contributing artists include John Howe and Alan Lee, artists who have inspired Peter Jackson's vision of Middle-earth and worked with him to bring the trilogy to the big screen. Peter Jackson himself provides the afterword in which he discusses the importance of the conceptual art to the film. It covers most aspects of the eagerly awaited finale to the enormously successful trilogy, from locations and costumes to weaponry and creatures. The artists who created all of these diverse elements explain how they contributed to the development of the film.",2004,4.54,224,28
9780007136582,0007136587,The Lord of the Rings,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,"Fantasy fiction, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LwO-vgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since it was first published in 1954, 'The Lord of the Rings' has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike. Well over 100 million copies of its many editions have been sold around the world, and occasional collectors’ editions become prized and valuable items of publishing. With the epic trilogy now being released on film, images of the characters and landscapes have become eagerly sought after. Much of the look of the movies is based on Alan Lee’s paintings, giving this Centenary edition of Tolkien’s great work new relevance for the ever-growing number of fans.",2002,4.49,1200,680
9780007136599,0007136595,The Fellowship of the Ring,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien;Alan Lee,"Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K7xSPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tolkien's classic fantasy about the quest to save Middle-Earth--and the basis for Peter Jackson's Academy Award(-winning film trilogy--is now available in these Young Reader's Editions. Each book of the trilogy is available individually, or together in a three-volume paperback boxed set.",2002,4.35,410,56
9780007137336,0007137338,Lirael,Daughter of the Clayr,Garth Nix,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sDzU8TpKvQAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies. Suggested level: secondary.",2004,4.3,527,1339
9780007149124,0007149123,Tales from the Perilous Realm,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,"Fairy tales, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wla7NwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas (""Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major,"" and ""Roverandom"") and one book of poems (""The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"") are gathered together in a fully illustrated set.",2002,4.08,178,2964
9780007149612,0007149611,Breaking Open the Head,A Visionary Journey from Cynicism to Shamanism,Daniel Pinchbeck,Hallucinogenic drugs,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QIMaviqqoQoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A new 'The Doors of Perception' for the 21st century? A visionary journey from cynicism to shamanism by a brilliant young US writer.,2004,4.06,336,46
9780007149827,0007149824,The Yiddish Policemen's Union,A Novel,Michael Chabon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-reD1g77BfsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a ""temporary"" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. But homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner, Berko Shemets, can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life—and also his worst nightmare. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under Landsman's nose. Out of habit, obligation, and a mysterious sense that it somehow offers him a shot at redeeming himself, Landsman begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. But when word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage—and with the unfinished business of his marriage to Bina Gelbfish, the one person who understands his darkest fears. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, an homage to 1940s noir, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.",2007,3.7,414,51219
9780007150304,000715030X,"Beware, Princess Elizabeth",,Carolyn Meyer,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wPBpR4AFNJ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A matter of life and death - and the Throne of England,2003,3.88,242,78
9780007151240,0007151241,The Family Way,,Tony Parsons,Parenthood,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dJEIxdYmnU8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It should be the most natural thing in the world. But in Tony Parsons' latest bestseller, three couples discover that Mother Nature can be one hell of a bitch.",2005,3.51,400,2095
9780007151677,0007151675,Endless Night,,Agatha Christie,FICTION,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kY1wuNfgmFQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gipsy S Acre Was A Truly Beautiful Upland Site With Views Out To Sea And In Michael Rogers It Stirred A Child-Like Fantasy. There, Among The Dark Fir Trees, He Planned To Build A House, Find A Wonderful Girl And Live Happily Ever After, Yet, As He Left The Village, A Shadow Of Menace Hung Over The Land. For This Was The Place Where Accidents Happened. Perhaps Michael Should Have Heeded The Locals Warnings: There S No Luck For Them As Meddles With Gipsy S Acre .",2002,3.77,303,12740
9780007153589,0007153589,How to be Alone,,Jonathan Franzen,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ozVWaXd9xvwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'The Harper's Essay' is reprinted in this volume alongside personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage. Although his subjects range widely, each piece wrestles with the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern America.",2004,3.6,306,327
9780007154845,0007154844,The Mysterious Mr. Quin,,Agatha Christie,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n0aMDV7Lm4sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A mysterious stranger appears at a New Year's Eve party, becoming the enigmatic sleuthing sidekick to the snobbish Mr Satterthwaite... So far, it had been a typical New Year's Eve house party. But Mr Satterthwaite - a keen observer of human nature - sensed that the real drama of the evening was yet to unfold. So it proved when a mysterious stranger arrived after midnight. Who was this Mr Quin? And why did his presence have such a pronounced effect on Eleanor Portal, the woman with the dyed-black hair?",2003,3.72,396,7514
9780007154883,0007154887,The Listerdale Mystery,,Agatha Christie,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J1tLGz5G84EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A selection of mysteries, some light-hearted, some romantic, some very deadly... Twelve tantalizing cases... the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiance; a strange encounter on a train; a domestic murder investigation; a wild man's sudden personality change; a retired inspector's hunt for a murderess; a young woman's impersonation of a duchess; a necklace hidden in a basket of cherries; a mystery writer's arrest for murder; an astonishing marriage proposal; a soprano's hatred for a baritone; the case of the rajah's emerald. All have one thing in common: the skilful hand of Agatha Christie.",2003,3.55,317,178
9780007158058,000715805X,The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde,,Merlin Holland,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QfNgQfTKcg0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's most explosive love affairs with Lord Alfred ""Bosie"" Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Club addressed to ""Oscar Wilde posing as sodomite."" With Bosie's encouragement, Wilde sued the Marquess for libel. He not only lost but he was tried twice for ""gross indecency"" and sent to prison with two years' hard labor. With this publication of the uncensored trial transcripts, readers can for the first time in more than a century hear Wilde at his most articulate and brilliant. The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde documents an alarmingly swift fall from grace; it is also a supremely moving testament to the right to live, work, and love as one's heart dictates.",2004,4.04,384,183
9780007158515,0007158513,I Can Read with Me Eyes Shut!,,Dr. Seuss,"Authors, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oyF8U9BRTQwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Nonsense rhyming story. 4 yrs+,2003,4.2,48,16561
9780007158522,0007158521,"Oh, the Places You'll Go!",,Dr. Seuss,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ev4Llq5fv4IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,From bang-ups and hang-ups to lurches and slumps. Dr. Seuss takes a hilarious look at the mishaps and misadventures that life may have in store for us.,2003,4.35,48,926
9780007162994,0007162995,If I Die in a Combat Zone,,Tim O'Brien,"Vietnam War, 1961-1975",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0qUtSvo_MiEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Perhaps the best book to emerge from the Vietnam War -- reissued alongside five other jewels of the Flamingo backlist from the 1970s. First published in1973, this intensely personal novel about one foot soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam established Tim O'Brien's reputation as the outstanding chronicler of the Vietnam experience for a generation of Americans. From basic training to the front line and back again, he takes the reader on an unforgettable journey -- walking the minefields of My Lai, fighting the heat and the snipers in an alien land, crawling into the ghostly tunnels -- as he explores the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war no one believes in.",2003,3.95,208,11
9780007171996,0007171994,The Return of the King,Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings,J. R. R. Tolkien,"Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PI9zPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarmed out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggled deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron's power. To defeat the Dark Lord, the accursed Ring of Power had to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way was impossibly hard, and Frodo was weakening. Weighed down by the compulsion of the Ring he began finally to despair. The awesome conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, beloved by millions of readers around the world.",2003,4.52,554,253
9780007173020,0007173024,The Silmarillion,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien;Ted Nasmith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hLH0dtl5NVwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. This pivotal work features the revised, corrected text and includes, by way of an introduction, a fascinating letter written by Tolkien in 1951 in which he gives a full explanation of how he conceived the early Ages of Middle-earth.""",2004,3.91,386,49
9780007173136,000717313X,I Wish that I Had Duck Feet,,Dr. Seuss;Barney Tobey,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m9cZAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A boy imagines what it would be like if he had such things as duck feet, a whale spout, and an elephant's trunk.",2004,4.16,64,8903
9780007175222,0007175221,Oh Say Can You Say?,,Dr. Seuss,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r4l8AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Tie your tongue in terrible knots as you try to read aloud. Nonsense rhyming story.,2004,4.01,36,5726
9780007178636,0007178638,There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom,,Louis Sachar,Boys,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jHE-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A study guide for the novel There's a Boy in the Girl's bathroom.,2004,3.98,208,174
9780007179817,0007179812,Microserfs,,Douglas Coupland,Computer programmers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N3AmmJIsK6wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At computer giant Microsoft, Dan, Susan, Abe, Todd and Bug are struggling to get a life. The job may be super cool, the pay may be astronomical, but they're heading nowhere, and however hard they work, however many shares they earn, they're never going to be as rich as Bill. And besides, with all the hours they're putting in, their best relationships are on e-mail. Something's got to give.",2004,3.88,371,436
9780007179824,0007179820,Miss Wyoming,,Douglas Coupland,Actors,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2zoTKFNdxpIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The brilliant new novel from the bestselling cult author of them all. Susan and John need to disappear -- Susan and John need to find each other. Meet Susan Colgate -- Miss Wyoming. Winner of a hundred teen pageants, child TV soap star, owner of a hideously pushy mother... and now reduced to small, brainless parts in small, brainless movies. Oh, and sole survivor of Flight 802. If she were to walk away from the wreckage now, before the emergency crews get here, she could disappear and nobody would ever know... Meet John Johnson -- action film producer (Bel Air P. I... um, Bel Air P. I. 2), occasional sado-masochist, junkie. He just died -- but only for 5 minutes. But while he was gone, he saw a vision of a woman's face and realized that it was time to escape, to ditch the baggage of being horny, rich, lonely John Johnson and to lose himself. To disappear. Wouldn't it be nice if they were to find themselves and get together?In many ways a reprise of Girlfriend in a Coma, Miss Wyoming represents a further leap forwards into the World According to Coupland -- a witty, genuinely funny look at who we are, how we can change, and how we can make a difference.",2004,3.48,320,110
9780007189953,0007189958,Where Rainbows End,,Cecelia Ahern,Friendship,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PA7t62vA7SAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The new warm and absorbing story from the author of PS, I LOVE YOU is a bittersweet tale of childhood friends Rosie and Alex whose relationship must survive many trials and tribulations, not least the discovery of their true feelings for one another.From naughty children to rebellious teenagers and mixed-up twenty- and thirty-somethings, Rosie and Alex have stuck by each other through thick and thin, even when Alex moved across the Atlantic to Boston and Rosie fell pregnant as a teenager. Alex supportsRosie through one of the most difficult times of her life -- a time when she should be out partying and going to university but is instead changing nappies and coping with a screaming baby. In return, Rosie is there for Alex when he strugglesthrough his medical internship and copes with a messy divorce. Throughout the ups and downs of each other's lives, they have remained a constant, a shoulder to cry on, someone to laugh and share their innermost feelings with.But can their friendship survive the years and the miles and, more critically, when they each marry someone else? Were they meant to be more than just good friends all along? Misunderstandings, circumstances and sheer bad luck",2004,3.94,454,642
9780007190683,0007190689,Poirot,The Complete Ariadne Oliver,Agatha Christie,Authors,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lbOOJGLxM9MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The final POIROT omnibus, featuring the last four appearances of the detective's side-kick, the sleuthing crime novelist Ariadne Oliver: Third Girl, Hallowe'en Party, Elephants Can Remember and The Pale Horse. Poirot and Mrs Oliver continue their sleuthing in the 1960s in four uncharacteristically 'modern' novels with an added twist of danger...Third Girl Poirot finally admits he is growing old as a perplexed girl thinks she may have killed someone. Here Christie dragged Poirot into the swinging 60s and effectively squared him up against a world featuring sex, drugs and hippies. Hallowe'en Party A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. This was only the second time Christie wrote about the death of a child, and is all the more engrossing for it. Elephants Can Remember An old husband and wife double murder has never been solved -- until now. This was the very last Poirot story that Agatha Christie wrote, and garnered good reviews. The Pale Horse A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country inn. This bonus novel featured Mrs Oliver for once without Poirot and was one of Christie's darkest stories, blending witchcraft and murder.",2005,4.2,727,83
9780007191925,0007191928,The Art of The Lord of the Rings,,Gary Russell,Costume,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zl-PPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The definitive guide to the design of the movie, incorporating the best artwork from the trilogy plus many never-before-published paintings, sketches, digital shots and photos.With complete access to artwork created over a five-year period, this authoritative and insightful book illustrates the creative development of the entire Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.This official book contains over 400 exclusive images; the very best artworks from the first three Art books are collected together, many much larger than they have been seen before, with all-new text and information and new interviews with many of the artists. In addition, the book includes 100 unpublished artworks from the extended Director's cuts of the three films, and digital imagery and designs not available when the first books were published.Printed on high-quality art paper, this lavish book is ideal for Tolkien collectors, film enthusiasts and art students and finally allows the massive undertaking of making The Lord of the Rings trilogy to be fully appreciated.",2004,4.52,224,12
9780007195305,0007195303,The Known World,,Edward P. Jones,African American plantation owners,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CVS9a6lC5CwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An epic narrative that takes a look at slavery in all of its moral complexities.,2004,3.83,388,437
9780007195718,0007195710,Discover Your Destiny with the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,The 7 Stages of Self-Awakening,Robin Sharma,Conduct of life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4hVbNc8rRfEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A potent pathway to self-awakening that will help you to live your greatest life and claim the happiness, prosperity and inner peace that you deserve. From the author of the international bestseller, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.",2004,3.9,240,1956
9780007204441,0007204442,Naked Lunch,The Restored Text,William S. Burroughs,Alienation (Social psychology),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1B36S7t4k5AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats: revitalised with a cool new jacket. WELCOME TO INTERZONE...Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Attend international playboy A.J.'s annual party, where the punch is to be treated with extreme caution. Meet Dr 'Fingers' Schafer, the Lobotomy Kid and his giant centipede, 'The Complete American De-anxietized Man.' And enter the dark and infernal mind of Bill Lee as he pursues his daily quest for the ultimate merchandise...Provocative, influential, morbidly fascinating, Naked Lunch is an apocalyptic ride through the darker recesses of the human psyche.",2005,3.44,289,478
9780007204465,0007204469,Tropic of Cancer,,Henry Miller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ProgRjTL8FIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse, Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years.",2005,3.69,336,709
9780007205585,0007205589,Close Range,Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories,Annie Proulx,Cowboys,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f-zI3bgDiCAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The title story in this collection of shorts now a film from Ang Lee.,2006,3.99,318,466
9780020199854,0020199856,The Love of the Last Tycoon,The Authorized Text,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3EDbEHca_k8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Depicts the inner-workings of the Hollywood movie industry and its impact on the fabric of American life.,1994,3.65,169,6836
9780020264736,0020264739,The Song of Rhiannon,The Third Branch of the Mabinogion,Evangeline Walton,Fiction,,"A retelling of The Mabinogion in novel form. Manawydon finally unites with Rhiannon - an aspect of the Goddess - but his happiness is shaken by the appearance of the Gray Man, who seeks vengeance against the living and especially against one who would claim the Goddess.",1992,4.02,208,247
9780020360759,0020360754,Heart Songs and Other Stories,,Annie Proulx,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_K2fswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized. These stories reverberate with rural tradition, the rites of nature, and the rituals of small-town life. The country is blue-collar New England; the characters are native families and the dispossessed working class, whose heritage is challenged by the neorural bourgeoisie from the city; and the themes are as elemental as the landscape: revenge, malice, greed, passion. Told with skill and profundity and crafted by a master storyteller, these are lean, tough tales of an extraordinary place and its people.",1995,3.93,203,1822
9780020442608,0020442602,The voyage of the Dawn Treader,,Clive Staples Lewis,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fDD3CfYb70cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The ""Dawn Treader"" is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Mizaz banished when he usurped the throne. The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, and their cousin Eustace to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan's country at the End of the World. Illustrations.",1970,4.09,216,2869
9780020442806,0020442807,"The Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, the witch and the wardrobe",,Clive Staples Lewis,Fairy tales,,,1978,4.26,1425,1446
9780020518600,0020518609,The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway,,Ernest Hemingway,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Len1AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Forty-nine stories reflect much of the intensity of Hemingway's own life and environment,1986,4.26,499,106
9780020867401,0020867409,"The Screwtape Letters ; With, Screwtape Proposes a Toast",,Clive Staples Lewis,Christianity,,"One of C.S. Lewis's most imaginative creations, this world-famous book is a humorous correspondence between the devil Screwtape and his apprentice Wormwood, whose job is to produce a human's soul for eternity in hell. Filled with astute insights into temptation, repentance, and grace, this wonderful tale intelligently explores what it means to live a good, honest life and is a favorite of Lewis fans.",1982,4.22,172,313
9780023513206,0023513209,Reason in History,A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History,Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BCvcYQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1953,3.64,95,430
9780024181909,0024181900,The Elements of Style,,William Strunk;Elwyn Brooks White,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ADaMf2tEB7sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The only style manual ever to appear on the best-seller lists offers practical, fundamental advice on improving writing skills, promoting a style marked by simplicity, orderliness, and sincerity",1979,4.2,85,204
9780024266408,002426640X,The Presocratics,,Philip Wheelwright,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V45eMgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Library of Liberal Arts title.,1966,4.04,352,199
9780026995016,0026995018,Spandau,The Secret Diaries,Albert Speer,History,,,1976,4.12,463,6
9780027054903,002705490X,The Rumble Seat Pony,,Clarence William Anderson,"Animals, Treatment of",,"While riding in the rumble seat of their old yellow car, three children spot and adopt a neglected pony.",1971,4.17,46,24
9780027897500,0027897508,The Journey with Grandmother,,Edith Unnerstad,Grandmothers,,"A Swedish boy long ago accompanies his ... [relatives] fromn their Scandinavian farm to ... Russia in an attempt to earn money by making unusual objects from human hair."" - Book Buyer's Guide.",1960,3.75,197,3
9780029131695,0029131693,Tyranny of the Majority,Funamental Fairness in Representative Democracy,Lani Guinier,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aRF7XdcCLq0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At last...the public hearing she was denied...These essays reveal keen powers of analysis applied to some of the most obdurate problems that bedevil electoral politics. Anyone who cares about the mechanisms of democracy should be engaged by her tough-minded explorations. It doesn't matter where you think you stand: it's all here, to argue or agree with. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Lani Guinier's fascinating book is a prophetic intervention into a public conversation we desperately need to rejuvenate. There is no doubt that her powerful voice will produce good consequences for our nation and world. -- Cornel West, Author of Race Matters Intriguing and desperately needed... -- The San Francisco Chronicle",1995,3.82,352,39
9780029221303,0029221307,The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement,,Aldon D. Morris,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7vyHY9DWcu8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A blending of scholarly research and interviews with many of the figures who launched the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s records the events of the movement's tumultuous first decade,1986,4.04,368,145
9780029227961,0029227968,Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents,The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan,Richard E. Neustadt,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=elGozulX_o8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Suggests a theory of presidential power, and tests it against the events in the administrations of the postwar presidents",1991,3.79,384,277
9780030420566,0030420563,"Rest, Rabbit, Rest",,Jacquelyn Reinach;Richard Hefter,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8-40_Zrp5voC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Rabbit's schedule keeps him so busy his friends have to trick him into resting.,1978,4.01,32,88
9780030547744,0030547741,Where the Red Fern Grows,The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy : with Connections,Wilson Rawls,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IHpRwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.,2000,4.37,288,95
9780060000141,0060000147,Poppy's Return,,Avi,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XbcMJQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"There's trouble at Gray House, the girlhood home that Poppy left long ago. Poppy's family has called her back to save them all—mother, father, sisters and brothers, and dozens and dozens of deer mouse cousins. Poppy invites her rebellious son, Junior, to join her on the long trip across Dimwood Forest, hoping the journey will bring them closer together. But with Junior's skunk pal, Mephitis, and Ereth, the cantankerous porcupine, in tow—sugared slug soup!—Poppy and Junior may be in for unexpected adventure.",2006,3.99,256,1086
9780060001537,0060001534,Diary of a Spider,,Doreen Cronin,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UWvZo2pIhzMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is the diary ... of a spider. But don't be worried – he's more scared of you and your gigantic shoe! Actually, he's a lot like you. He goes to gym class and has Grandparents' Day at school. But he also spins sticky webs, scales walls, and takes wind–catching lessons. Lucky for him, his best friend is a fly! Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss, the team behind the #1 bestselling Diary Of A Worm, spin a hilarious tale about the upside–down web world of an eight–legged charmer and his unlikely friend, Fly.",2005,4.25,40,7903
9780060004507,0060004509,An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving,,Louisa May Alcott;James Bernardin,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SKYr4V6C1M0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An adaptation of the original story follows the activities of seven children in nineteenth-century New England as they prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday while Mother is away caring for Grandmother.,2005,3.7,32,599
9780060005696,0060005696,The Paradox of Choice,Why More Is Less,Barry Schwartz,Business & Economics,,"The author of The Battle for Human Nature explains why too much choice has led to the ever increasing complexity of everyday decisions, why too much of a good thing has become detrimental to human psychological and emotional well-being, and how to focus our lives on making the right choices. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2005,3.84,265,23734
9780060009427,006000942X,How to Read Literature Like a Professor,a Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines,Thomas C. Foster,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=irkUlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.",2003,3.65,314,14917
9780060012342,006001234X,The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents,,Terry Pratchett,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1Z8KJQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of the 2001 Carnegie Medal One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town. They'd have been really amazed if they'd ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money. The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets.... Set in Terry Pratchett's widely popular Discworld, this masterfully crafted, gripping read is both compelling and funny. When one of the world's most acclaimed fantasy writers turns a classic fairy tale on its head, no one will ever look at the Pied Piper -- or rats -- the same way again!",2001,4.05,256,27463
9780060012380,0060012382,The Wee Free Men,,Terry Pratchett,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8PLblgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality . . . Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle—aka the Wee Free Men—a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men. Together they must face headless horsemen, ferocious grimhounds, terrifying dreams come true, and ultimately the sinister Queen of the Elves herself. . . . A Story of Discworld",2004,4.27,390,72982
9780060013134,0060013133,Going Postal,A Novel of Discworld,Terry Pratchett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5xRh5kkS84UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses -- until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position -- and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt. But it says on the building neither rain nor snow nor glo m of ni t ... Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what's called for, he'll do it -- in order to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every human being (not to mention troll, dwarf, and, yes, even golem) requires: hope.",2004,4.38,377,924
9780060084387,0060084383,Modern Mind,An Intellectual History of the 20th Century,Peter Watson,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JVdMSavwwHoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it.",2002,4.27,847,570
9780060085445,0060085444,She Went All the Way,,Meg Cabot,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3ANI1Q2Z-qsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During an unfortunate helicopter ride into the wilds of Alaska, successful screenwriter Lou Calabrese is reunited with sexy Jack Townsend, but they are forced into a desperate battle for survival when they crash land in the wilderness.",2002,3.69,357,12297
9780060085490,0060085495,Island,,Aldous Huxley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MB3VSMgJ5CkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A shipwrecked journalist discovers the beauty and serentity promoted by science on the island of Pala.,1962,3.85,354,17583
9780060088743,0060088745,A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare,1599,James Shapiro,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=86bOlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.",2006,4.09,333,2229
9780060090371,0060090375,Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married,,Marian Keyes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qLl-3FGhPl0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be getting married within the year? Her roommates panic! What is going to happen to their blissful existence of eating take-out, drinking too much wine, bringing men home, and never vacuuming? Lucy reassures her friends that she's far too busy arguing with her mother and taking care of her irresponsible father to get married. And then there's the small matter of not even having a boyfriend. But then Lucy meets gorgeous, unreliable Gus. Could he be the future Mr. Lucy Sullivan? Or could it be handsome Chuck? Or Daniel, the world's biggest flirt? Or even cute Jed, the new guy at work? Maybe her friends have something to worry about after all....",2002,3.76,640,42096
9780060092573,0060092572,The Terminal Man,,Michael Crichton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9hERBFsuOcgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A team of surgeons perform an operation on a violent paranoid in an attempt to electronically control his behavior.,2002,3.36,266,20825
9780060093747,0060093749,The Art of the Novel,,Milan Kundera,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H_3jAacr_U4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the post-psychological novel.",2003,3.96,176,3544
9780060094935,0060094931,The Bromeliad Trilogy,"Truckers, Diggers, and Wings",Terry Pratchett,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IsFpvCusQsIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a world whose seasons are defined by Christmas sales and Spring Fashions, hundreds of tiny nomes live in the corners and crannies of a human-run department store. They have made their homes beneath the floorboards for generations and no longer remember -- or even believe in -- life beyond the Store walls. Until the day a small band of nomes arrives at the Store from the Outside. Led by a young nome named Masklin, the Outsiders carry a mysterious black box (called the Thing), and they deliver devastating news: In twenty-one days, the Store will be destroyed. Now all the nomes must learn to work together, and they must learn to think -- and to think BIG. Part satire, part parable, and part adventure story par excellence, master storyteller Terry Pratchett’s engaging trilogy traces the nomes’ flight and search for safety, a search that leads them to discover their own astonishing origins and takes them beyond their wildest dreams.",2003,4.06,502,5681
9780060099459,0060099453,"Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia",,Peggy Parish,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SYCULYl-p-IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It's Christmas Eve, and Amelia Bedelia has to get the Rogers house ready for a visit from Aunt Myra. But with Amelia Bedelia in charge, this Christmas will be one of the funniest ever!",2002,4.29,64,2452
9780060175641,0060175648,Identity,A Novel,Milan Kundera,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D30ExgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Milan Kundera's Identity translated from the French by Linda Asher. There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. That also happens with couples -- indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else ""losing sight"" of the loved one. With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation -- and the vague sense of panic it inspires -- the very fabric of his new novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside and what the mind creates in its solitude. Of all contemporary writers, only Kundera can transform such a hidden and disconcerting perception into the material for a novel, one of his finest, most painful, and most enlightening. Which, surprisingly, turns out to be a love story.",1998,3.68,176,260
9780060177249,0060177241,The thief of always,a fable,Clive Barker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jKsrAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After a mysterious stranger promises to end his boredom with a trip to the magical Holiday House, ten-year-old Harvey learns that his fun has a high price",1992,4.19,225,22123
9780060192501,006019250X,The Illustrated Alchemist,A Fable About Following Your Dream,Paulo Coelho;Alan R. Clarke;Moebius,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1YX2usKBAMIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This fable aims teaches the reader to open their mind, listen to their heart and most importantly, follow their dreams.",1998,3.85,198,236
9780060192778,0060192771,Mars and Venus Book of Days,365 Inspriations to Enrich Your Relationships,John Gray,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kd6YGT74stsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides daily reminders of the differences in behavior and communication styles of men and women,1998,3.54,368,18
9780060218058,0060218053,The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles,,Julie Andrews Edwards,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D-iftWFTCcgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Whangdoodle was once the wisest, the kindest, and the most extraordinary creature in the world. Then he disappeared and created a wonderful land for himself and all the other remarkable animals -- the ten-legged Sidewinders, the little furry Flukes, the friendly Whiffle Bird, and the treacherous, ""oily"" Prock. It was an almost perfect place where the last of the really great Whangdoodles could rule his kingdom with ""peace, love and a sense of fun""-- apart from and forgotten by people. But not completely forgotten. Professor Savant believed in the Whangdoodle. And when he told the three Potter children of his search for the spectacular creature, Lindy, Tom, and Ben were eager to reach Whangdoodleland. With the Professor's help, they discovered the secret way. But waiting for them was the scheming Prock, who would use almost any means to keep them away from his beloved king. Only by skill and determination were the four travelers able to discover the last of the really great Whangdoodles and grant him his heart's desire. Julie Andrews Edwards, star of stage and screen, has written a unique and beloved story that has become a modern classic. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles is sure to continue to delight readers everywhere. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.",1996,4.25,209,9963
9780060245603,0060245603,Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day,,Jamie Lee Curtis,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s_2GIF_c0T8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Today I feel silly. Mom says it's the heat. I put rouge on the cat and gloves on my feet. I ate noodles for breakfast and pancakes at night. I dressed like a star and was quite a sight. Today I am sad, my mood's heavy and gray. There's a frown on my face and it's been there all day. My best friend and I had a really big fight. She said that I tattled and I know that she's right. Silly, cranky, excited, or sad--everyone has moods that can change each day. Jamie Lee Curtis's zany and touching verse, paired with Laura Cornell's whimsical and original illustrations, helps kids explore, identify, and, even have fun with their ever-changing moods. Here's another inspired picture book from the bestselling author-illustrator team of Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born and When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth.",1998,4.15,40,4030
9780060256579,0060256575,The Missing Piece Meets the Big O,,Shel Silverstein,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-m4gwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The missing piece sat alone waiting for someone to come along and take it somewhere.... The different ones it encounters - and what it discovers in its helplessness - are portrayed with simplicity and compassion in the words and drawings of Shel Silverstein.,1981,4.33,104,10010
9780060256753,0060256753,"Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back",,Shel Silverstein,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lmeJRAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""You don't have to shoot me,"" says the young lion. ""I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want. I love marshmallows."" But the hunter will not listen to reason, so what is there for a young lion to do? After eating up the hunter, Lafcadio takes the gun home and practices and practices until he becomes the world's greatest sharp-shooter. Now dressed in starched collars and fancy suits, and enjoying all the marshmallows he wants, Lafcadio is pampered and admired wherever he goes. But is a famous, successful, and admired lion a happy lion? Or is he a lion at all? Told and drawn with wit and gusto, Shel Silverstein's modern fable speaks not only to children but to us all!",1963,4.15,112,5191
9780060277406,0060277408,The Secret Garden Cookbook,Recipes Inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's THE SECRET GARDEN,Amy Cotler,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c7E_HQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden delights in the wondrous discoveries of lonely Mary Lennox as she slowly helps bring an abandoned garden back to life. It also delights in good food and a robust appetite, and the health and strength they can bring. Written at a time when many children were going hungry and even starving, Burnett's beloved story celebrates the magic of fresh air, new milk, homemade currant buns, and hearty, simple fare. Inside the pages of this cookbook are recipes for Mary's favorite foods, in and out of the garden, from porridge to roasted potatoes and eggs, all inspired by The Secret Garden and all adapted by chef and culinary historian Amy Coder from traditional Victorian recipes. Ms. Coder has supplemented these simple, wholesome recipes with fascinating tidbits on Victorian foods and Victorian eating customs. The result is a scrumptious tribute to Burnett's classic novel, a fascinating glimpse into the cooking customs of a historical period that is now long past, and a step-by-step guide to making delicious, tasty treats to enjoy in your own secret garden.",1999,4.28,128,142
9780060278427,0060278420,Laura's Album,A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder,William Anderson,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_zTkqDlEV-UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Though best known as the author of the Little House books, Laura Ingalls Wilder led a full, rich life that spanned almost a century of American history. All through her life Laura saved mementos of her past, including early writings, letters, drawings, and photographs, which have been lovingly preserved in private and public collections across the country. Now, for the first time ever, these photographs, writings, and memorabilia have been gathered together in one incredible volume by noted Little House historian William Anderson. Each gorgeous page of LAURA'S ALBUM is a doorway into the private world of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and offers a unique glimpse of what her life was like. Here is the fascinating true story of this remarkable pioneer woman's life as well as an unforgettable tale of our own American past.",1998,4.3,80,713
9780060391539,0060391537,Quivers,,Robin Quivers,African Americans in radio broadcasting,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3Fj1h-gIbUsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The outspoken co-host of The Howard Stern Show reveals her disturbing background as a sexually abused child of poverty and describes her ongoing struggle for recovery and her friendship with Stern. 200,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour.",1995,3.51,341,60
9780060502959,0060502959,Moonspinners,,Mary Stewart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GRhFkTkZba4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Working as a secretary at the British Embassy on Crete, Nicola Ferris is enjoying a day off when she meets up with two hiking companions who accidentally stumbled into the middle of a terrifying act of vengeance. Reprint.",2003,4.03,400,5868
9780060504083,0060504080,Small Wonder,Essays,Barbara Kingsolver,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2mrrlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places. Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.",2003,4.01,264,8738
9780060506049,0060506040,Worlds Enough & Time,Five Tales of Speculative Fiction,Dan Simmons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EKoIG4auiB4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including ""Orphans of the Helix,"" his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats. Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost ""cousins""...and an ancient scourge. A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power. The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past. A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human. At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future.",2002,3.75,272,923
9780060507404,0060507403,The Cheese Monkeys,A Novel in Two Semesters,Chip Kidd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wkCm2zyHAcwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After 15 years of designing more than 1,500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Chrichton, Kidd has crafted an affecting an entertaining novel set at a state university in the late 1950s that is both slap-happily funny and heartbreakingly sad. The Cheese Monkeys is a college novel that takes place over a tightly written two semesters. The book is set in the late 1950s at State U, where the young narrator, has decided to major in art, much to his parents’ dismay. It is an autobiographical, coming-of-age novel which tells universally appealing stories of maturity, finding a calling in life, and being inspired by a loving, demanding, and highly eccentric teacher.",2002,3.75,288,4570
9780060509057,0060509058,Travels,,Michael Crichton,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QYilZGadTEYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. When Michael Crichton -- a Harvard-trained physician, bestselling novelist, and successful movie director -- began to feel isolated in his own life, he decided to widen his horizons. He tracked wild animals in the jungles of Rwanda. He climbed Kilimanjaro and Mayan pyramids. He trekked across a landslide in Pakistan. He swam amid sharks in Tahiti. Fueled by a powerful curiosity and the need to see, feel, and hear firsthand and close-up, Michael Crichton has experienced adventures as compelling as those he created in his books and films. These adventures -- both physical and spiritual -- are recorded here in Travels, Crichton's most astonishing and personal work.",2002,3.95,400,6812
9780060510855,0060510854,Caesar,A Novel,Colleen McCullough,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aoH_-e_syp0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fictional portrait of Julius Caesar follows the legendary ancient Roman military and political leader from his remarkable conquest of Gaul, to his momentous decision at the Rubicon River, to his personal triumphs, tragedies, dreams, and disappointments. Reprint.",2003,4.36,928,5825
9780060510862,0060510862,The Forever War,,Joe Haldeman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jc1eCZlD-ScC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drafted into the ranks of Earth's interstellar warriors, private William Mandella finds his fight against the Taurans secondary to the side-effects of faster-than-light space travel, which affects the rate at which he ages. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2003,4.15,278,103375
9780060511067,0060511060,Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping,,Peggy Parish,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WEEz7PKLpQkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Camp Out Amelia Bedelia has never been camping in the great outdoors before. She's trying her best to do exactly as she's told, but pitching a tent is not the same as throwing it into the bushes, and catching a fish with your bare hands isn't easy. As usual, the mixed-up housekeeper makes this camping trip one hugely entertaining adventure.",2003,4.14,64,2040
9780060511104,0060511109,The Secret Sister,,Elizabeth Lowell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Pmjr6ytkCikC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Search For Her Sister Could Cost A Woman Her Life Christy McKenna, the smartest fashion writer in New York, thought she'd escaped her childhood in the impoverished rural West. Then came a call for help from the one person she could not refuse—her sister, the internationally celebrated model known only as Jo. Jo's plea draws Christy back to the magnificent mountains and mysterious red-rock canyons of the Four Corners country. But she's too late—Jo has disappeared. However, Christy does find an unlikely ally in outlaw archaeologist Aaron Cain, and together they pursue Jo and a fabulous cache of ancient Indian artifacts worth millions. Christy and Cain clash at every turn, but their antagonism soon turns into partnership—and blazing passion.",2005,3.65,416,1164
9780060511111,0060511117,Amelia Bedelia Helps Out,,Peggy Parish,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rELWOiQkJTYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Starring everyone's favourite literal–minded housekeeper, Amelia Bedelia Helps Out appears for the first time in full colour and as an I Can Read Book! A neighbor needs Amelia Bedelia's helping hands, so everyone's favorite housekeeper is off to Miss Emma's house for a day of work. It's a good thing Miss Emma likes to laugh, because Amelia Bedelia makes her usual merry mess! "" Available for the first time in full color! "" The zany antics of Amelia Bedelia, one of children's books most lovable characters, have been enjoyed by kids for more than 40 years! "" Herman Parish, nephew to Peggy Parish, who was the original creator of Amelia Bedelia, carries on the tradition of his aunt with new books starring the entertaining housekeeper. Ages 4–8",2005,4.25,64,7678
9780060511135,0060511133,Whirlpool,,Elizabeth Lowell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FrnsFG4_j1oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When an exquisitely crafted, authentic imperial Faberge egg mysteriously shows up at Laurel Swann's home studio, she knows it can only be from one person—her father, who has drifted in and out of her life for as long as she can remember. But this time Jamie Swann leaves her something too many people will kill for. Out of her league and desperate, Laurel is forced to accept help from the very man who is trying to ensnare her father in his own web of double crosses. Cruz Rowan can help her stay alive, but will he do the same for her father? Elizabeth Lowell, writing as Ann Maxwell, deftly combines the nonstop action of a spy thriller with the heart-pounding excitement of true love and adventure.",2006,3.78,448,1115
9780060511142,0060511141,"Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia",,Peggy Parish,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gnVFCJ4sW3IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Mr. Carter mistakes the lovable,literal-minded Amelia Bedelia for the new teacher, class will never be the same again!",2004,4.21,64,3069
9780060512804,0060512806,Cryptonomicon,,Neal Stephenson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qYAmfUBPN-UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detatchment 2702-commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces. Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a ""data haven"" in Southeast Asia - a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails grandaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi sumarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn. A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring; the product of a truly icon",2002,4.25,1139,80225
9780060513092,0060513098,Falling Up,Poems and Drawings,Shel Silverstein,Juvenile Nonfiction,,A collection of humorous poems and drawings. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.,2002,4.34,178,114058
9780060515195,0060515198,Anansi Boys,,Neil Gaiman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VagoPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep—about to make Fat Charlie's life more interesting . . . and a lot more dangerous.,2006,4.02,387,153485
9780060515225,0060515228,Fragile Things,Short Fictions and Wonders,Neil Gaiman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ggLzJskmIqYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . . In a Hugo Award-winning short story set in a strangely altered Victorian England, the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder . . . Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams—and nightmares . . . In a Locus Award-winning tale, the members of an excusive epicurean club lament that they've eaten everything that can be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird . . . Such marvelous creations and more—including a short story set in the world of The Matrix, and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children's fiction—can be found in this extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time.",2006,4.01,360,43210
9780060516055,0060516054,What Went Wrong?,The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East,Bernard Lewis,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qgNrVchhhfMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in the marketplace. In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sense of how it had been overtaken, overshadowed, and dominated by the West. In a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil, Lewis shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry, industry, government, education, and culture. He also describes how some Middle Easterners fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, while others asked not ""Who did this to us?"" but rather ""Where did we go wrong?"" With a new Afterword that addresses September 11 and its aftermath, What Went Wrong? is an urgent, accessible book that no one who is concerned with contemporary affairs will want to miss.",2003,3.49,186,2409
9780060518653,0060518650,Letters from the Earth,Uncensored Writings,Mark Twain,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uURT_Dwfby0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""I have told you nothing about man that is not true."" You must pardon me if I repeat that remark now and then in these letters; I want you to take seriously the things I am telling you, and I feel that if I were in your place and you in mine, I should need that reminder from time to time, to keep my credulity from flagging. In Letters from the Earth, Twain presents himself as the Father of History -- reviewing and interpreting events from the Garden of Eden through the Fall and the Flood, translating the papers of Adam and his descendants through the generations. First published fifty years after his death, this eclectic collection is vintage Twain: sharp, witty, imaginative, complex, and wildly funny.",2004,4.22,321,6447
9780060519131,0060519134,Savannah Blues,A Novel,Mary Kay Andrews,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q6lDgw6lr-MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Landing a catch like Talmadge Evans III got Eloise ""Weezie"" Foley a jewel of a town house in Savannah's historic district. Divorcing Tal got her exiled to the backyard carriage house, where she has launched a spite-fest with Tal's new fiancÉe, the elegant Caroline DeSantos. An antiques picker, Weezie combs Savannah's steamy back alleys and garage sales for treasures when she's not dealing with her loopy relatives or her hunky ex-boyfriend. But an unauthorized sneak preview at a sale lands Weezie smack in the middle of magnolia-scented murder, mayhem...and more. Dirty deals simmer all around her—just as her relationship with the cutest chef in town heats up and she finds out how delicious love can be the second time around.",2003,3.98,404,15417
9780060521226,0060521228,The Whipping Boy,,Sid Fleischman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zxTR6u81GY8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Prince and a Pauper Jemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a castle. As the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when Prince Brat misbehaves, for it is forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. The two boys have nothing in common and even less reason to like one another. But when they find themselves taken hostage after running away, they are left with no choice but to trust each other.",2003,3.56,90,19910
9780060521998,0060521996,The Innovator's Dilemma,The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business,Clayton M. Christensen,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qZxlDIzXyqwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership -- or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate. Focusing on ""disruptive technology"" -- the Honda Super Cub, Intel's 8088 processor, or the hydraulic excavator, for example -- Christensen shows why most companies miss ""the next great wave."" Whether in electronics or retailing, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know when to abandon traditional business practices. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, The Innovator's Dilemma presents a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Find out: When it is right not to listen to customers. When to invest in developing lower-performance products that promise lower margins. When to pursue small markets at the expense of seemingly larger and more lucrative ones. Sharp, cogent, and provocative, The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the most talked-about books of our time -- and one no savvy manager or entrepreneur should be without.",2003,3.99,286,28568
9780060524937,0060524936,A Nose for Murder,,Lee Charles Kelley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c3PIvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Former cop-turned-dog trainer Jack Field is called in when the body of Allison DeMarco is found on her kitchen floor, accompanied by her high-strung Airedale, Ginger, and must enlist his special skills to find out what happened since Ginger appears to be the only witness to the crime. Original.",2003,3.47,267,93
9780060525101,006052510X,Happiness,A Novel,Will Ferguson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4B2EYGj68uQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Why would there be a contract out on Edwin de Valu's life? Edwin -- the wiry low-level editor at Panderic Press. Why has rage disappeared from the roads and McDonald's gone alfalfa? How come everyone seems so damn happy? And most importantly, who, or what, is Tupak Soiree? When an enormous self-help manuscript lands on Edwin's desk, it's headed for the trash. Edwin's cynicism of self-help books, coupled with his filthy mood that morning, results in him dismissing Tupak Soiree's What I Learned on the Mountain and using it as a doorstop. However, Tupak's manuscript is unique -- a self-help book that actually works. Before Edwin knows it, a chain of events begins that affects not only his own life but the world at large. For those who choke on Chicken Soup for the Soul or have choice words for Dr. Phil, Will Ferguson offers up a killer dose of Happiness™ -- a masterpiece of comic fiction.",2003,3.78,320,2191
9780060525118,0060525118,Size 12 Is Not Fat,A Heather Wells Mystery,Meg Cabot,Fiction,,"Former pop star Heather Wells has left behind hordes of screaming fans, to settle into a new adult life, but when strange things start happening at her college, she finds herself once again in the spotlight, this time starring as a spunky female detective. Original. 100,000 first printing.",2006,3.74,345,73592
9780060527983,0060527986,Warrior of the Light,A Manual,Paulo Coelho,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yH0zlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Warrior of the Light: A Manual is an inspirational companion to The Alchemist, an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps bring out the Warrior of the Light within each of us. He also shows readers how to embark upon the way of the Warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure, and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be. Paulo Coelho is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Now, in the long-awaited companion to his first novel, Coelho presents a collection of philosophical stories that will delight and guide seekers everywhere.",2004,3.7,142,21578
9780060527990,0060527994,The Devil and Miss Prym,A Novel of Temptation,Paulo Coelho,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TpR7JDmg9DoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives. Paulo Coelho's stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil, and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh perspective: incentive to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, from truly living. The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test.",2006,3.6,205,46113
9780060529574,0060529571,The Big Bing,"Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe",Stanley Bing,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Cb3MlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A corporate mole's-eye view of the society in which we all live and toil, creating one of the most entertaining, thought provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters. Stanley Bing knows whereof he speaks. He has lived the last two decades working inside a gigantic multinational corporation, kicking and screaming all the way up the ladder. He has seen it all -- mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, the death of the three-martini lunch -- and has himself been painfully re-engineered a number of times. He has eaten and drunk way too much, stayed in hotels far too good for him, waited for limousines in the pouring rain, and enjoyed it all. Sort of. Most importantly, Bing has seen management at its best and worst, and has practiced both as he made the transition from an inexperienced player who hated pompous senior management to a polished strategist who kind of sees its point of view now and then. In one essential volume, here is all you need to know to master your career, your life, and when necessary, other weaker life forms.",2006,3.08,368,26
9780060531041,0060531045,One Hundred Years of Solitude,,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pgPWOaOctq8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel García Márquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.",2003,4.06,417,547207
9780060535117,0060535113,Walt Whitman,A Life,Justin Kaplan,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BMLXGLY9OzoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man.",2003,3.99,464,210
9780060539092,0060539097,How to Make Love Like a Porn Star,A Cautionary Tale,Jenna Jameson;Neil Strauss,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qjZzQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the stewardess brought me off the plane in a wheelchair, I lowered my head. I was too scared to even look at my father. I didn't want to see the disappointment and horror on his face. All that hate I had accumulated for him over the years, all the resentment against him for not understanding what I was going through, just released with the tears. ""So, where are your parents?"" the stewardess asked me after a few minutes. ""I can't wait here with you much longer."" I looked up and wiped my eyes. My father was standing ten feet away. He didn't even recognize me. In the underbelly of Las Vegas, a cesspool of warring biker gangs and seedy strip clubs transformed the gawky, brace-faced Jenna Massoli into the bombshell Jenna Jameson. Today, Jenna Jameson is the biggest star in the history of adult movies, consistently ranked as one of the most beautiful women alive. But behind the glamour and the meteoric rise to fame was a path paved with tragedy and heartbreak. As a teenager drawn into a chaotic world ruled by rape, abuse, and murder, Jenna plunged into a downward spiral of addiction, even as she became one of the most photographed women in adult magazines. Determined to overcome this past, Jenna rebounded in the adult-film business, where she encountered sadistic directors, experienced lovers of both sexes, amorous celebrities (from Howard Stern to Marilyn Manson to Tommy Lee), bitter rival starlets, and finally, glory, as she went on to become the biggest porn star the world has ever seen. But her struggle for happiness did not end when the accolades began. For years she wrestled with her resentment at her estranged father, the loneliness of growing up from the age of two without a mother, and her enduring childhood desire to find a man who could give her the security and love she never had. Her unforgettable memoir is many things at once: a shocking sexual history, an insider's guide to the secret workings of the billion-dollar adult-film industry, and a gripping thriller that probes deep into Jenna's dark past. An unparalleled exploration of sexual freedom, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star ventures far beyond the flesh, into the heart-shredding tragedies and adrenaline-pumping triumphs of a woman who has already lived a hundred lifetimes. Always witty and humorous even as she faces the demons of her past, Jenna offers hilarious anecdotes about one of the most controversial businesses in history, and shares outrageous advice, including her ten commandments of dating and sex, how to become a ""suitcase pimp,"" and how to make it in the business as a female (or a male). Add to this never-before-seen photographs from Jenna's private collection and others taken exclusively for this book, and the result is certain to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.",2004,3.75,592,10211
9780060539252,0060539259,The Outsider,,Richard Wright,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aWtIFc7kdzsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cross Damon, trapped within his own blackness, flees from Chicago's South Side to Harlem, where he joins the Communist Party.",1953,4.16,672,1736
9780060540944,006054094X,1421,The Year China Discovered America,Gavin Menzies,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lD7S4QLUjBkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Based on 15 years of in-depth research, ""1421"" traces the voyages of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships, whose crews actually charted America 70 years before Columbus. Four 8-page color inserts. 37 maps & diagrams.",2004,3.59,650,11289
9780060541811,0060541814,The Andromeda Strain,,Michael Crichton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k6LVNLM_D-8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A team of scientists struggles to define and contain a deadly bacteria brought back from outer space by a satellite.,2003,3.89,327,192637
9780060541835,0060541830,Congo,,Michael Crichton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gp-fLBIrNY4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Armed with the latest gifts of advanced technology, a California scientist, a ruthless corporation agent, and a mercenary hunter face the dangers of the Congo jungle in search of the diamonds of the lost city of Zinj. Reprint.",2003,3.58,442,140223
9780060541880,0060541881,Johnny and the Dead,,Terry Pratchett,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HgU8rJfsHmsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.",2006,3.78,213,7733
9780060542382,0060542381,Amelia Bedelia 40th Anniversary Collection,,Peggy Parish,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OzUIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Everyone's favorite literal-minded housekeeper, Amelia Bedelia, celebrates her 40th Anniversary in a three-book I Can Read box set.",2003,4.41,96,256
9780060543495,0060543493,The Girls of Lighthouse Lane #3,Lizabeth's Story,Thomas Kinkade;Erika Tamar,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2LXIPoESG9kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1906, thirteen-year-old Lizabeth must decide whether it is more important to be Strawberry Queen or to be at the bedside of her younger sister, who is ill.",2005,3.96,192,24
9780060545840,0060545844,The Bradbury Chronicles,The Life of Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EiWCIK4vGSMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends. With unprecedented access to private archives, he uncovered never–before–published letters, documents, and photographs that help tell the story of this literary genius and his remarkable creative journey. The result is a richly textured, detailed biography that illuminates the origins and accomplishments of Bradbury's fascinating mind.",2006,4.22,384,352
9780060546571,0060546573,Three Rotten Eggs,,Gregory Maguire,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t2pWlCpY3jQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The students of Miss Earth's class in rural Vermont experience an eventful spring when they become involved with a bullying new student, a competitive egg hunt, and genetically altered chicks.",2005,3.74,240,76
9780060548285,0060548282,The Wicked Day,Book Four of the Arthurian Saga,Mary Stewart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=znM3Eb8MZiMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Born of an incestuous relationship between King Arthur and his half sister, the evil sorceress Morgause, the bastard Mordred is reared in secrecy. Called to Camelot by events he cannot deny, Mordred becomes Arthur’s most trusted counselor -- a fateful act that leads to the ""wicked day of destiny"" when father and son must face each other in battle.",2003,4.09,417,9875
9780060554736,0060554738,The Game,Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists,Neil Strauss,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ibpvw3wALXcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the year -- guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. And then things really start to get strange -- and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince -- to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of the year.",2005,3.74,464,19305
9780060556501,0060556501,"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (picture book edition)",,C. S. Lewis,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FlSpprTpj-QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Narnia: A magical land full of wonder and excitement. A place where you will meet Aslan, the bravest of lions, and a beautiful but wicked Witch. There are lots of other fabulous creatures too: giants and dwarfs and animals that talk. It all begins when four children -- Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy -- discover a strange old wardrobe. Stepping inside, they find that it's stranger still, because behind all the fur coats there is a wondrous land of trees and mountains, all glistening with snow. The White Witch has spread an icy winter everywhere. Only Aslan can defeat her and reverse her wicked spell. The children must find the lion before it is too late. If they fail, the Witch will make them her prisoners forever. In the fifty years since it was written, The Lion, the Witch And the Wardrobe has become one of the great classics of children's literature. Now younger children can share the magical experience, stepping into a world of enchantment that will forever lure them back.",2004,4.19,48,5012
9780060556525,0060556528,Gold,The Final Science Fiction Collection,Isaac Asimov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=td_ulwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large. The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, ""Gold,"" a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality: a gamble Asimov himself made -- and won. The second section contains the grand master's ruminations on the SF genre itself. And the final section is comprised of Asimov's thoughts on the craft and writing of science fiction.",2003,3.99,416,2393
9780060564780,0060564784,The Kindness of Strangers,,Katrina Kittle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nDhTBtlsnggC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young widow raising two boys, Sarah Laden is struggling to keep her family together. But when a shocking revelation rips apart the family of her closest friend, Sarah finds herself welcoming yet another troubled young boy into her already tumultuous life. Jordan, a quiet, reclusive elementary school classmate of Sarah's son Danny, has survived a terrible ordeal. By agreeing to become Jordan's foster mother, Sarah will be forced to question the things she has long believed. And as the delicate threads that bind their family begin to unravel, all the Ladens will have to face difficult truths about themselves and one another—and discover the power of love necessary to forgive and to heal.",2007,4.01,400,11432
9780060566104,0060566108,Built to Last,Successful Habits of Visionary Companies,Jim Collins;Jerry I. Porras,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lRNtHbvDgRgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies."" So write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book that shatters myths, provides new insights, and gives practical guidance to those who would like to build landmark companies that stand the test of time. Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies -- they have an average age of nearly one hundred years and have outperformed the general stock market by a factor of fifteen since 1926 -- and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: ""What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?"" What separates General Electric, 3M, Merck, Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard, Walt Disney, and Philip Morris from their rivals? How, for example, did Procter & Gamble, which began life substantially behind rival Colgate, eventually prevail as the premier institution in its industry? How was Motorola able to move from a humble battery repair business into integrated circuits and cellular communications, while Zenith never became dominant in anything other than TVs? How did Boeing unseat McDonnell Douglas as the world's best commercial aircraft company -- what did Boeing have that McDonnell Douglas lacked? By answering such questions, Collins and Porras go beyond the incessant barrage of management buzzwords and fads of the day to discover timeless qualities that have consistently distinguished out-standing companies. They also provide inspiration to all executives and entrepreneurs by destroying the false but widely accepted idea that only charismatic visionary leaders can build visionary companies. Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond.",2004,3.98,368,49529
9780060566685,006056668X,Fluke,"Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings",Christopher Moore,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pIHvlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else on his team saw a thing -- not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (né Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot -- and his research facility is trashed -- Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on. By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best.",2004,3.75,321,34773
9780060567231,0060567236,Lord of Light,,Roger Zelazny,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=08b2Nzn-mRUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.",2004,4.1,296,22530
9780060570583,006057058X,The Perennial Philosophy,,Aldous Huxley,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YdaFEb_LE9YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as ""The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds."" With great wit and stunning intellect, Aldous Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains them in terms that are personally meaningful.",2004,4.23,336,2959
9780060572006,0060572000,A Crack in the Edge of the World,America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906,Simon Winchester,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=St5QRRhkp1YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it—and almost certainly will cause it to strike again.",2006,3.78,419,5242
9780060572969,0060572965,Dead Witch Walking,,Kim Harrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KW1YBk2wPlIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"All the creatures of the night gather in ""the Hollows"" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party ... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining -- and it’s Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead ... or undead.",2004,4.04,416,97105
9780060572976,0060572973,"The Good, the Bad, and the Undead",,Kim Harrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-hBqywEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It's a tough life for witch Rachel Morgan, sexy, independent bounty hunter, prowling the darkest shadows of downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle the leather-clad vamps and even tangle with a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is definitely pressing the limits. Confronting an ancient, implacable evil is more than just child's play -- and this time, Rachel will be lucky to escape with her very soul.",2005,4.26,453,53112
9780060574215,0060574216,"Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus",The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex,John Gray,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MUw_dAtcRjEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rediscover the most famous relationship book ever published Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets. Based on years of successful counseling of couples and individuals, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus has helped millions of couples transform their relationships. Now viewed as a modern classic, this phenomenal book has helped men and women realize how different they can be in their communication styles, their emotional needs, and their modes of behavior—and offers the secrets of communicating without conflicts, allowing couples to give intimacy every chance to grow.",2004,3.54,368,126108
9780060575816,0060575816,Sabriel (adult),,Garth Nix,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ugSPY6Gi_Y4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.",2004,4.17,311,1296
9780060577049,0060577045,Slouching Toward Nirvana,New Poems,Charles Bukowski,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L_7nlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"in this place there are the dead, the deadly and the dying. there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of the cross. the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadow on the wall before me. my love what is left of it now must crawl to wherever it can crawl. the strongest know that death is final and the happiest are those gifted with the shortest journey.",2006,3.99,288,1901
9780060577865,006057786X,Bad Childhood---Good Life,How to Blossom and Thrive in Spite of an Unhappy Childhood,Laura Schlessinger,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2sepdlitBW8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Exploring how the past influences the present, the author discusses how to understand each individual's unique coping style and how to tap into the extraordinary quality of human spirit that will create the transition from victim to victor.",2006,3.92,272,502
9780060578114,0060578114,Cat Cross Their Graves,A Joe Grey Mystery,Shirley Rousseau Murphy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L7LudFEjAdoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The beautiful, serene village of Molena Point, California is the type of place where people go to get away from the harsher realities of life––which is what attracted classic film star Patty Rose to buy the village inn, and settle down to enjoy her golden years. But as the town gathers to celebrate and honor the beautiful, aging actress with a festival of her old films, Patty is brutally murdered––to the horror and shock of this peaceful burg. A gentle tortoiseshell cat, Kit, has been enjoying a retreat to the animal–loving actress's inn, where she's spending time with her feline friends Dulcie, and the slick tomcat sleuth, Joe Grey. But her relaxation is cut short when she hears the gunshots that end Patty's life, and sees her dead body sprawled on the inn's front steps. She glimpses the killer racing into the parking garage, and soon follows his trail. Joe and Dulcie must now follow the naïve Kit's trail, and keep her from getting into serious trouble. To complicate matters, Joe discovers that Dulcie has been hiding a runaway child––one of the lucky humans that these special cats choose to talk to––who has now been kidnapped, likely by the same man who killed their famous friend. In the end, the little girl's abduction leads them to Patty's killer, and the feline friends are all united––but they all must mourn a departed friend as they stand beside the newly laid grave of Patty Rose.",2005,4.3,385,481
9780060578121,0060578122,Cat Breaking Free,A Joe Grey Mystery,Shirley Rousseau Murphy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-yFbmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fur starts flying when a gang from L.A. comes up to tranquil Molena Point, California, and begins breaking into the village's quaint shops. The fur of Joe Grey, Feline P.I., that is. After all, Molena Point has been his home since he was a kitten eating scraps from the garbage behind the local delicatessen, and he doesn't take well to marauding strangers. Joe even wonders whether the blonde who's moved into next to his human companion Clyde could be a part of the gang––she's been acting pretty suspicious lately. But when the strangers start trapping and caging feral cats––speaking cats like Joe and his girlfriend Dulcie––it proves too much for the intrepid four–footed detective. And when one of the gang is murdered, and a second mysterious death comes to light, he has no choice but to try to stop the crimes. Joe, Dulcie, and their tattercoat friend Kit, who used to be a stray herself, are deep into the investigation when they are able to release the three trapped cats. But as Kit leads them away to freedom, will she herself return to that wild life?",2006,4.2,375,204
9780060580339,006058033X,Slider,A Novel,Patrick Robinson,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MCK_lgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Each summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off the New England coast, the nation's best college players gather to play the most important baseball of their lives. Jack Faber is a young hotshot pitcher with an unhittable slider and a rocket for a fastball. He plays for the fabled Seapuit Seawolves and dreams of making the Big Show. But a new coach, the scowling Bruno Riazzi, a former pro catcher, resents the kid's celebrity status and decides to knock him down a peg or two. And he stops at nothing to make it happen. Humiliated, Jack loses his lifelong art, and with it his passion for the game, as well as, mysteriously, his ability to throw. A devastated Jack Faber is released from the St. Charles College roster. But the Seawolves coaches won't give up on him. They bring Jack back to Cape Marlin, determined to help him rediscover his lost talent. He finds himself again under the summer sun, coaches and old friends standing by him. But in the end it will be up to Jack. Based on a true story, Slider celebrates the national pastime, a game that can break grown men's hearts -- as well as make them whole again.",2004,4.18,416,64
9780060582500,0060582502,The Black Dahlia Files,"The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles",Don Wolfe,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F6PpPrKuUaMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1946, Elizabeth Short traveled to Hollywood to become famous and see her name up in lights. Instead, the dark-haired beauty became immortalized in the headlines as the ""Black Dahlia"" when her nude and bisected body was discovered in the weeds of a vacant lot. Despite the efforts of more than four hundred police officers and homicide investigators, the heinous crime was never solved. Now, after endless speculation and false claims, bestselling author Donald H. Wolfe discovers startling new evidence—buried in the files of the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office for more than half a century. With the aid of archival photos, news clippings, and investigative reports, Wolfe documents the riveting untold story that names the brutal murderer—the notorious Mafia leader, Benjamin ""Bugsy"" Siegel—and the motive—an unwanted pregnancy resulting from Short's involvement with the most powerful figure in Los Angeles, Norman Chandler. But Wolfe goes even further to unravel the large-scale cover-up behind the case. Wolfe's extensive research, based on the evidence he discovered in the recently opened LADA files, makes The Black Dahlia Files the authoritative work on the murder that has drawn endless scrutiny but remained unsolved—until now.",2006,3.84,448,600
9780060584023,0060584025,Metro Girl,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X0OYbJSjxqYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, ""Wild"" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR driver who’s good at revving a woman's engine. Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has ""borrowed"" Hooker's sixty-five-foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset...just when Hooker has plans for the boat. Hooker figures he'll attach himself to Barney and maybe run into scumbag Bill. And better yet, maybe he'll get lucky in love with Bill's sweetie pie sister. The pedal will have to go to metal if Barney and Hooker want to be the first to cross the finish line, save Bill, Hooker's boat...and maybe the world.",2005,3.62,374,28414
9780060584030,0060584033,Motor Mouth,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mG5p4QA2zOwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Alexandra ""Barney"" Barnaby returns to take on a whole new set of bad guys, Florida heat, colorful and dangerous characters, and high-stakes adventure, all the while romancing gorgeous race car driver Sam Hooker, in an action-packed sequel to Metro Girl. 1,000,000 first printing.",2006,3.67,312,21885
9780060584757,0060584750,Mystic River,,Dennis Lehane,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2U-ivgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood. A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.",2003,4.18,416,105317
9780060586546,0060586540,Great Short Works of Herman Melville,,Herman Melville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6WgbDCDIe-QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, ""It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer . . . a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some special variety of the preposterous, the grotesque, the absurd. And Melville, certainly, is no exception. A kind of vigorous supervisory humour is his natural idiom as a writer, and one particular attraction of his shorter work is the fresh further display it offers of this prime element in his literary character.""",2004,4.02,512,401
9780060587031,0060587032,The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish,,Neil Gaiman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6EqMPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""I'll swap you my dad,"" I said. ""Oh-oh,"" said my little sister. What if you wanted your best friend's two goldfish so much that you'd swap anything for them, even your father? What if your mother came home and found out what you'd done?",2006,4.03,64,280
9780060589288,0060589280,Eleven Minutes,A Novel,Paulo Coelho,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qp0EZu3GCYsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that ""love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ."" A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness -- sexual pleasure for its own sake -- or risking everything to find her own ""inner light"" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.",2005,3.69,273,114826
9780060589462,0060589469,Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,An Inquiry Into Values,Robert M. Pirsig,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KMRReyLPyXMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation: an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father and his young son. A story of love and fear -- of growth, discovery, and acceptance -- that becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions, this uniquely exhilarating modern classic is both touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence . . . and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.",2006,3.77,540,157734
9780060590154,0060590157,Ulysses S. Grant,The Unlikely Hero,Michael Korda,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rvaqxQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the first two volumes in Harper's Eminent Lives series, Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant – a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of grace, serve two terms as president, write one of the most successful military memoirs in American literature, and is today remembered as a brilliant general but a failed president. Ulysses S. Grant was the first officer since George Washington to become a four–star general in the United States Army, and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. In this succinct and vivid biography, Michael Korda considers Grant's character and reconciles the conflicting evaluations of his leadership abilities. Grant's life played out as a true Horatio Alger story. Despite his humble background as the son of a tanner in Ohio, his lack of early success in the army, and assorted failed business ventures, his unwavering determination propelled him through the ranks of military leadership and into the presidency. But while the general's tenacity and steadfastness contributed to his success on the battlefield, it both aided and crippled his effectiveness in the White House. Assessing Grant both within the context of his time and in contrast to more recent American leaders, Korda casts a benevolent eye on Grant's presidency while at the same time conceding his weaknesses. He suggests that though the general's second term ended in financial and political scandals, the fact remains that for eight years Grant exerted a calming influence on a country that had only just emerged from a horrendous civil war. Ulysses S. Grant is an even–handed and stirring portrait of a man who guided America through a pivotal juncture in its history.",2004,3.88,176,410
9780060590277,0060590270,A Dirty Job,A Novel,Christopher Moore,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W8EPgwEP_hoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . . People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it. Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus' ""missing years"" (with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.",2006,4.07,387,88016
9780060593087,0060593083,Quicksilver,Volume One of the Baroque Cycle,Neal Stephenson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qf1AlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of ""Half-Cocked Jack"" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance. A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time. And it's just the beginning ...",2004,3.93,927,29981
9780060593247,0060593245,Every Book Its Reader,The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World,Nicholas A. Basbanes,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o4K_KMO1DWUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have ""made things happen"" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people. In his fifth work to examine a specific aspect of book culture, Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller––even the notorious Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler––by knowing what they have read. He shows how books that many of these people have consulted, in some cases annotated with their marginal notes, can offer tantalizing clues to the evolution of their character and the development of their thought.",2006,3.96,400,300
9780060593636,0060593636,Flirting With Danger,,Suzanne Enoch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c5DcXFV6Xm4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her dazzling romantic suspense debut, USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Enoch brings us a thrilling tale about a thief who needs to prove she's no murderer and the millionaire who loves her. Samantha Jellicoe is a thief and proud of it. Raised to appreciate the finer things in life, Sam has no trouble divesting the wealthy of their treasures. This all changed, however, the night she attempts to steal a valuable item from a Palm Beach estate. Before she knew what hit her, a bomb goes off, a guard is killed, and Sam ends up saving millionaire Richard Addison. She's a good thief and will own up to her jobs, but if anyone thinks to tie her to murder, they better think again. On any other night, having a one hundred plus pounds of female fling herself at you is a good thing. But on this particular night, Richard Addison is mad as hell. Not only did he just have his gallery blown up-with him about to enter it-but the woman who rescued him didn't stick around to offer any explanations. When the dust settles, Rick knows the only person with answers to his questions is the mystery woman. And if she thinks she can hide from him, she better think again.",2005,3.93,384,3519
9780060594527,0060594527,Lost Horizon,A Novel,James Hilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QD1s4c3EHgUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Following a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, a lost group of Englishmen and Americans stumble upon the dream-like, utopian world of Shangri-La, where life is eternal and civilization refined, in a new trade paperback edition of the classic 1933 novel. Reprint.",2004,3.92,241,11794
9780060595180,0060595183,The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell,,Aldous Huxley,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rz3NJb2-9_IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The acclaimed novelist and critic describes his personal experimentation with the little-known drug mescaline and explores the nature of visionary experience, in an omnibus edition containing the two classic works The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. Reissue.",2004,3.94,187,27716
9780060598808,0060598808,Thanksgiving,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O-t1GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Megan Murphy discovered a floppy-eared rabbit gnawing on the hem of her skirt, she meant to give its careless owner a piece of her mind, but Dr. Patrick Hunter was too attractive to stay mad at for long. Soon the two are making Thanksgiving dinner for their families.",2006,3.6,228,10334
9780060598846,0060598840,Love Overboard,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5pClJ0BTE2gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dear Reader: In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All went out-of-print immediately and then could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales. I'm excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being re-released by HarperCollins. Love Overboard is second in the lineup, and it's presented here in almost original form. I've done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around. And I changed the title because I thought the original title (Ivan Takes a Wife) was boring! Love Overboard is a romantic tale about a handsome ship's captain; a wary wench from Jersey City; a hundred-year-old, two-masted schooner; and an entire town of shoemakers. There's some getting naked, some blueberry pie, more getting naked, and at the end . . . Okay, I won't tell you about the end, but it's really good and it'll make you feel happy. I took my family on the road trip from heck to research this book. When we finally got to Maine it was all worthwhile because we fell in love with the boats and the people who sailed them. Enjoy!",2005,3.65,244,11223
9780060598853,0060598859,Back to the Bedroom,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fcPjlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dear Reader: In a previous life, before the time of Plum, I wrote twelve short romance novels. Red-hot screwball comedies, each and every one of them. Nine of these stories were originally published by the Loveswept line between the years 1988 and 1992. All immediately went out of print and could be found only at used bookstores and yard sales. I'm excited to tell you that those nine stories are now being re-released by HarperCollins. Back to the Bedroom is presented here in almost original form. I've done only minor editing to correct some embarrassing bloopers missed the first time around. I lived in northern Virginia when I wrote Back to the Bedroom. My children were young, and we spent a lot of time visiting the Washington, D.C. museums and wandering through the historic neighborhoods. One day while strolling Capitol Hill I came upon two townhouses that captured my imagination. The houses were totally different -- a birthday cake of a house and a bran muffin of a house, and yet they shared a common wall. I wondered about the people who lived inside the houses. And eventually the houses inspired Back to the Bedroom. Back to the Bedroom is the story of a young woman with the soul of a birthday cake living in a bran muffin house -- and a nice-looking guy with the substance of a bran muffin living in a birthday cake. They share some misadventures, some romantic moments, some misunderstandings, and ultimately they turn into wedding cake. And for Plum fans, you'll be interested to find that this was the first of the four romances to feature Elsie Hawkins, the prototype for Grandma Mazur. Janet Evanovich",2005,3.67,234,9839
9780060598891,0060598891,The Rocky Road to Romance,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b42OAHDzYqUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Her tall, dark, and deliciously dangerous boss . . . When the delightful, daffy Dog Lady of station WZZZ offered to take on the temporary job of traffic reporter, Steve Crow tried to think of reasons to turn Daisy Adams down. Perhaps he knew that sharing the close quarters of a car with her for hours would give the handsome program director no room to resist her quirky charms. He'd always favored low-slung sportscars and high-heeled women, but that was before he fell for a free spirit who caught crooks by accident, loved old people and pets, and had just too many jobs! Loving Daisy turned Steve's life upside down, especially once he adopted Bob, a huge dog masquerading as a couch potato. But was Daisy finally ready to play for keeps?",2004,3.67,249,9470
9780060598969,0060598964,Thomas Jefferson,Author of America,Christopher Hitchens,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zV8P_3E1OCIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years, Hitchens brings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and also as a symbolic figure beyond it. Conflicted by power, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that slavery would shape the future of America's development, this professed proponent of emancipation elided the issue in the Declaration and continued to own human property. An eloquent writer, he was an awkward public speaker; a reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy. Jefferson's statesmanship enabled him to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase with France, doubling the size of the nation, and he authorized the Lewis and Clark expedition, opening up the American frontier for exploration and settlement. Hitchens also analyzes Jefferson's handling of the Barbary War, a lesser-known chapter of his political career, when his attempt to end the kidnapping and bribery of Americans by the Barbary states, and the subsequent war with Tripoli, led to the building of the U.S. navy and the fortification of America's reputation regarding national defense. In the background of this sophisticated analysis is a large historical drama: the fledgling nation's struggle for independence, formed in the crucible of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and, in its shadow, the deformation of that struggle in the excesses of the French Revolution. This artful portrait of a formative figure and a turbulent era poses a challenge to anyone interested in American history -- or in the ambiguities of human nature.",2005,3.92,188,2181
9780060598976,0060598972,Muhammad,A Prophet for Our Time,Karen Armstrong,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JUz3Z0iv_pgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story is little known. Karen Armstrong's immaculately researched new biography of Muhammad will enable readers to understand the true origins and spirituality of a faith that is all too often misrepresented as cruel, intolerant, and inherently violent. An acclaimed authority on religious and spiritual issues, Armstrong offers a balanced, in-depth portrait, revealing the man at the heart of Islam by dismantling centuries of misconceptions. Armstrong demonstrates that Muhammad's life—a pivot point in history—has genuine relevance to the global crises we face today.",2006,4.04,256,1662
9780060609177,0060609176,Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time,The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith,Marcus J. Borg,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-_ieWUhA6V4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for personal faith. Now, in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg addresses the yearnings of those who want a fully contemporary faith that welcomes rather than oppresses our critical intelligence and openness to the best of historical scholarship. Borg shows how a rigorous examination of historical findings can lead to a new faith in Christ, one that is critical and, at the same time, sustaining. ""Believing in Jesus does not mean believing doctrines about him,"" Borg writes. ""Rather, it means to give one's heart, one's self at its deepest level, to . . . the living Lord."" Drawing on his own journey from a naive, unquestioning belief in Christ through collegiate skepticism to a mature and contemporary Christian faith, Borg illustrates how an understanding of the historical Jesus can actually lead to a more authentic Christian life—one not rooted in creeds or dogma, but in a life of spiritual challenge, compassion, and community. In straightforward, accessible prose, Borg looks at the major findings of modern Jesus scholarship from the perspective of faith, bringing alive the many levels of Jesus' character: spirit person, teacher of alternative wisdom, social prophet, and movement founder. He also reexamines the major stories of the Old Testament vital to an authentic understanding of Jesus, showing how an enriched understanding of these stories can uncover new truths and new pathways to faith. For questioning believers, doubters, and reluctant unbelievers alike, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time frees our understanding of Jesus' life and message from popular misconceptions and outlines the way to a sound and contemporary faith: ""For ultimately, Jesus is not simply a figure of the past, but a figure of the present. Meeting that Jesus—the living one who comes to us even now—will be like meeting Jesus again for the first time.""",1995,4.14,160,3998
9780060609191,0060609192,Reading the Bible Again for the First Time,Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally,Marcus J. Borg,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pf0mlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the vital challenges facing thoughtful people today is how to read the Bible faithfully without abandoning our sense of truth and history. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time provides a much-needed solution to the problem of how to have a fully authentic yet contemporary understanding of the scriptures. Many mistakenly believe there are no choices other than fundamentalism or simply rejecting the Bible as something that can bring meaning to our lives. Answering this modern dilemma, acclaimed author Marcus Borg reveals how it is possible to reconcile the Bible with both a scientific and critical way of thinking and our deepest spiritual needs, leading to a contemporary yet grounded experience of the sacred texts. This seminal book shows you how to read the Bible as it should be examined—in an approach the author calls ""historical-metaphorical."" Borg explores what the Scriptures meant to the ancient communities that produced and lived by them. He then helps us to discover the meaning of these stories, providing the knowledge and perspective to make the wisdom of the Bible an essential part of our modern lives. The author argues that the conventional way of seeing the Bible's origin, authority, and interpretation has become unpersuasive to millions of people in our time, and that we need a fresh way of encountering the Bible that takes the texts seriously but not literally, even as it takes seriously who we have become. Borg traces his personal spiritual journey, describing for readers how he moved from an unquestioning childhood belief in the biblical stories to a more powerful and dynamic relationship with the Bible as a sacred text brimming with meaning and guidance. Using his own experience as an example, he reveals how the modern crisis of faith is itself rooted in the misinterpretation of sacred texts as historical record and divine dictation, and opens readers to a truer, more abundant perspective. This unique book invites everyone—whatever one's religious background—to engage the Bible, wrestle with its meaning, explore its mysteries, and understand its relevance. Borg shows us how to encounter the Bible in a fresh way that rejects the limits of simple literalism and opens up rich possibilities for our lives.",2002,4.13,321,2875
9780060622138,006062213X,Shadow of the Almighty,The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot,Elisabeth Elliot,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QQCG9mNU1eAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The bestselling account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Auca Indians in Ecuador. New introduction by the author.,1989,4.39,272,6658
9780060645892,006064589X,The Dance of the Dissident Daughter,,Sue Monk Kidd,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0FV3JwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The acclaimed spiritual memoir from the author of The Secret Life of Bees I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised and, in fact, a little terrified when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening. Sue Monk was a ""conventionally religious, churchgoing woman, a traditional wife and mother"" with a thriving career as a Christian writer until she began to question her role as a woman in her culture, her family, and her church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore to monastery retreats and rituals in the caves of Crete, Kidd takes readers through the fear, anger, healing, and transformation of her awakening. Retaining a meaningful connection ""with the deep song of Christianity,"" she opens the door for traditional Christian women to discover a spirituality that speaks directly to them and provides inspiring wisdom for all who struggle to embrace their full humanity.",2002,3.96,256,5319
9780060652852,0060652853,C.S. Lewis,Readings for Meditation and Reflection,C. S. Lewis,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vtr4NDL8AP8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Known throughout the world as the intellect behind The Chronicles of Narnia and as the twentieth century's most influential Christian writer, C. S. Lewis has stirred millions of readers through his probing insights, passionate arguments, and provocative questions about God, love, life, and death. Gathered from the mass of his published works -- including The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Four Loves, and God in the Dock -- as well as from letters, essays, and less familiar writings, this compendium contains a cross section of Lewis's finest work.",1996,4.31,176,255
9780060652890,0060652896,The Screwtape Letters,,C. S. Lewis,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v1kn7KYynzIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life.",2001,4.22,224,116735
9780060652920,0060652926,Mere Christianity,,C. S. Lewis,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LpHbXdKJaMwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of the most popular of Lewis's books. Uncovers common ground upon which all Christians can stand together.,2001,4.32,227,7316
9780060654856,0060654856,Learning to Love,Exploring Solitude and Freedom,Thomas Merton,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U0nXswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having embraced a life of solitude in his own hermitage, Thomas Merton finds his faith tested beyond his imagination when a visit to the hospital leads to a clandestine affair of the heart. Jolted out of his comfortable routine, Merton is forced to reassess his need for love and his commitment to celibacy and the monastic vocation.This astonishing volume traces Merton’s struggle to reconcile his unexpected love with his sacred vows while continuing to grapple with the burning social issues of the day – including racial conflicts, the war in Vietnam, and the Arab-Israeli conflict – visiting and corresponding with high-profile friends like Thich Nhat Hanh and Joan Baez, and further developing his writing career. Revealing Merton to be ‘very human’ in his chronicles of the ecstasy and torment of being in love, Learning to Love comes full circle as Merton recommits himself completely and more deeply to his vocation even as he recognizes ‘my need for love, my loneliness, my inner division, the struggle in which solitude is at once a problem and a ‘solution’. And perhaps not a perfect solution either’ (11 May, 1967).",1998,4.5,382,15
9780060725143,0060725141,The Mediator #4: Darkest Hour,,Meg Cabot,Juvenile Fiction,,"When the nineteenth--century ghost of Maria de Silva wakes her up in the middle of the night, Suze knows this is no ordinary visitation -- and not just from the knife at her throat, either. In life, Maria was the fiancée of Jesse -- the same Jesse who was murdered a hundred and fifty years before. The same Jesse Suze is in love with. Maria threatens Suze: The backyard construction must cease. Suze has a pretty good idea what -- or rather, who -- Maria doesn't want found. But in solving Jesse's murder, will Suze end up losing him forever?",2004,4.17,316,30018
9780060727536,0060727535,Cash,The Autobiography,Johnny Cash,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yL6MRZfrWjkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"He was the ""Man in Black,"" a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who shaped him. In his own words, Cash set the record straight -- and dispelled a few myths -- as he looked unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of his boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, Tennessee, the road of Cash's life has been anything but smooth. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham; of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife, June; of his gratitude for life, and of his thoughts on what the afterlife may bring. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristofferson. As powerful and memorable as one of his classic songs, Cash is filled with the candor, wit, and wisdom of a man who truly ""walked the line.""",2003,4.07,310,16485
9780060727635,0060727632,"The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 1","Family Letters, 1905-1931",C. S. Lewis,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eOxfuF6BQ0gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A first volume of personal correspondence written by classic author C. S. Lewis includes letters penned during his childhood, World War I army days, education at Oxford, atheist period, and early friendship with J. R. R. Tolkien.",2004,4.37,1072,112
9780060730550,0060730552,Touching the Void,The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival,Joe Simpson,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qg8DO-EqFzoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had planned to leave. How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.",2004,4.21,218,42264
9780060731304,0060731303,Anybody Out There?,A Novel,Marian Keyes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=79T7wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Marian Keyes has introduced readers to the lives, loves, and foibles of the five Walsh sisters -- Claire, Maggie, Rachel, Helen, and Anna -- and their crazy mammy. In this funny, heartbreaking, and triumphant new tale set in the Big Apple, it's Anna's turn in the spotlight. Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the ""Best Job in the World"" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband -- the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands -- and no memory of how she got there. While her mammy plays nursemaid (just like all of her favorite nurses on her soaps), and her sister Helen sits in wet hedges doing her private investigator work for Lucky Star PI, Anna tries to get better and keeps wondering why Aidan won't return her phone calls or e-mails. Recuperating from her injuries, a mystified Anna returns to Manhattan. Slowly beginning to remember what happened, she sets off on a search to find Aidan -- a hilarious quest involving lilies (she can't stop smelling them), psychics, mediums, and anyone in the city who can promise her a reunion with her beloved. . . . Written in her classic style, marrying the darker parts of life with humor and wit, Anybody Out There? is Marian Keyes's best novel to date, a wonderfully charming look at love here and ever after.",2006,3.91,456,343
9780060732707,0060732709,My Little Pony: Hide-and-Seek,,Jennifer Frantz,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oP3lPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ponies know how to have fun! A game of hide-and-seek is the perfectpastime on a beautiful afternoon. But when Sparkleworks is nowhere to be found, the ponies decide to turn the tables and make her find them.",2004,4.14,24,37
9780060733353,0060733357,The Confusion,Volume Two of The Baroque Cycle,Neal Stephenson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NJbllgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold. In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession. Meanwhile, Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, dastardly plots are set in motion ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.",2005,4.25,815,18790
9780060734015,0060734019,Bridge to Terabithia (rack),,Katherine Paterson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LgLT04F1KscC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jess Aarons' greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in his grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new girl boldly crosses over to the boys' side and outruns everyone. That's not a very promising beginning for a friendship, but Jess and Leslie Burke become inseparable. Together they create Terabithia, a magical kingdom in the woods where the two of them reign as king and queen, and their imaginations set the only limits. Then one morning a terrible tragedy occurs. Only when Jess is able to come to grips with this tragedy does he finally understand the strength and courage Leslie has given him.",2004,3.99,191,1764
9780060735425,0060735422,Practical Demonkeeping,,Christopher Moore,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=saaBiYmBmgsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and ""roads"" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor façade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.",2004,3.82,256,36255
9780060735449,0060735449,Island of the Sequined Love Nun,,Christopher Moore,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YLqclgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean's goons. Now there's only one employment opportunity left for him: piloting shady secret missions for an unscrupulous medical missionary and a sexy blond high priestess on the remotest of Micronesian hells. Here is a brazen, ingenious, irreverent, and wickedly funny novel from a modern master of the outrageous.",2004,3.79,336,26949
9780060735456,0060735457,The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove,,Christopher Moore,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kUDSt-EI814C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks. Suddenly, morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is hit by a mysterious crime wave, and a beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what's wrong and what, if anything, to do about it.",2004,3.86,304,28420
9780060736255,0060736259,Weetzie Bat,,Francesca Lia Block,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vxCXxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fifteen years ago Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade: Weetzie Bat. This poetic roller coaster swoop has a sleek new design to match its new sister and brother books, Goat Girls and Beautiful Boys. Rediscover the magic of Weetzie Bat, Ms. Blocks sophisticated, slinkster-cool love song to L.A.the book that shattered the standard, captivated readers of all generations, and made Francesca Lia Block one of the most heralded authors of the last decade.",2004,3.74,128,12771
9780060737047,0060737042,Behind the Curtain,An Echo Falls Mystery,Peter Abrahams,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c5FuIIBgTGQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In echo falls you never know what's coming next -- and everyone has a secret. Things are amiss at 99 Maple Lane: Ingrid's dad's job is in jeopardy, but he won't explain why. Ingrid's brother, Ty, is getting buff -- really buff -- but when Ty starts getting moody, Ingrid wonders if there's more to his physical fitness than lifting weights. Meanwhile, Ingrid's beloved soccer coach is replaced by an icy newcomer named Julia LeCaine, who seems a little too savvy to be in it for the postgame pizza. True to her hero, Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid begins fishing around to find out who's really pulling the strings in Echo Falls. But one morning, while en route to the dreaded MathFest, Ingrid is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. Even if she escapes, will anyone believe her story? In this sequel to Down the Rabbit Hole a clever young girl learns that mysterious forces are at work in her town -- and exposing them could put her life in jeopardy.",2006,3.9,352,30
9780060739423,0060739428,"Catherine, Called Birdy (Summer Reading Edition)",,Karen Cushman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W1RIPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Originally published: [New York]: Clarion Books, 1994.",2004,3.71,224,33009
9780060745905,0060745908,Wicked Musical Tie-in Edition,The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,Gregory Maguire,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MLEujRNyoMUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.",2004,3.53,409,2747
9780060747220,0060747226,Son of a Witch,A Novel,Gregory Maguire,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5-3f3naMQ6QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But he is tended to at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's son? He has her broom and her cape—but what of her powers? Can he find his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison, Southstairs? Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess? In an Oz that, since the Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up? For the countless fans who have been dazzled and entranced by Maguire's Oz, Son of a Witch is the rich reward they have awaited so long.",2006,3.47,352,51493
9780060747473,0060747471,This Rough Magic,,Mary Stewart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BjFn9MD8n10C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fledgling actress vacationing in Corfu, Lucy Waring witnesses the murder of one of England's theater luminaries and becomes embroiled in a dangerous offstage drama. Reprint.",2004,4.05,373,4966
9780060747480,006074748X,Airs Above the Ground,,Mary Stewart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P_i1ysmDf8MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Vanessa March never thought to look for her missing husband in Vienna -- until she saw him in a newsreel shot there at the scene of a deadly fire. But her hunt for answers only leads to more sinister questions in a mysterious world of beautiful horses. And what waits for Vanessa in the shadows is more terrifying than anything she has ever encountered.,2004,4.04,384,4458
9780060751647,0060751649,The Mediator #5: Haunted,,Meg Cabot,Juvenile Fiction,,"Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh—and—blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good. Paul claims he won't do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him. Fearing she'll lose Jesse forever, Suze agrees. But even if Suze can get Jesse to admit his true feelings for her, what kind of future can she have with a guy who's already dead?",2004,4.15,263,31501
9780060753108,0060753102,Beauty,A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast,Robin McKinley,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EaWWnkiShpIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A strange imprisonment Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage. When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, ""Cannot a Beast be tamed?"" Robin McKinley's beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple: Beauty and the Beast.",2005,4.05,325,3203
9780060753634,0060753633,Mating in Captivity,Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic,Esther Perel,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-HIhMOQanIEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide for loving couples who are looking to renew sexual passion in their lives explains how societal taboos and ideals about domestic equality have compromised the healthy expression of eroticism in today's relationships, in a resource that explains how to overcome personal constraints for greater intimacy. 40,000 first printing.",2006,4.13,272,7699
9780060754006,0060754001,Forgotten New York,Views of a Lost Metropolis,Kevin Walsh,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=77aiRf018Y0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Forgotten New York is your passport to more than 300 years of history, architecture, and memories hidden in plain sight. Houses dating to the first Dutch settlers on Staten Island; yellow brick roads in Brooklyn; clocks embedded in the sidewalk in Manhattan; bishop's crook lampposts in Queens; and a white elephant in the Bronx—this is New York and this is your guide to seeing it all. Forgotten New York covers all five boroughs with easy-to-use maps and suggested routes to hundreds of out-of-the way places, antiquated monuments, streets to nowhere, and buildings from a time lost. Forgotten New York features: Quiet Places Truly Forgotten History Happened Here What Is This Thing? Forgotten People And so much more",2006,4.18,384,198
9780060758769,0060758767,The Dead Beat,"Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries",Marilyn Johnson,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b03jlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world—so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all. Now she leads us on a compelling journey into the cult and culture behind the obituary page and the unusual lives we don't quite appreciate until they're gone.",2007,3.41,272,1106
9780060760250,0060760257,Charms for the Easy Life,,Kaye Gibbons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TE2mBDsQyvkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts. Sophia, Margaret, and Charlie Kate find strength in a time when women almost always depended on men, and their bond deepens as each one experiences love and loss during World War II. Charms for the Easy Life is a passionate, luminous, and exhilarating story about embracing what life has to offer ... even if it means finding it in unconventional ways. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.",2005,4.02,272,10983
9780060760441,0060760443,The Reading Group,A Novel,Elizabeth Noble,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IagWjwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Reading Group follows the trials and tribulations of a group of women who meet regularly to read and discuss books.Over the course of a year, each of these women become intertwined, both in the books they read and within each other's lives. Inspired by a shared desire for conversation, a good book and a glass of wine-Clare, Harriet, Nicole, Polly, and Susan undergo startling revelations and transformations despite their differences in background, age and respective dilemmas. What starts as a reading group gradually evolves into a forum where the women may express their views through the books they read and grow to become increasingly more open as the bonds of friendship cement. In The Reading Group, Noble reveals the many complicated paths in life we all face as well as the power and importance of friendship. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.",2005,3.34,429,6408
9780060760823,0060760826,A Couple of April Fools,,Gregory Maguire,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qW4cvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At a Vermont elementary school, April Fools' Day takes on a sinister tone when a teacher goes missing and several suspects emerge, among them the teacher's fiance and a missing mutant chick.",2005,3.5,240,3
9780060761530,0060761539,What Christians Believe,,C. S. Lewis,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=81T46KixNg8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Essentials Explained Master storyteller and essayist C. S. Lewis here tackles the central questions of the Christian faith: Who was Jesus? What did he accomplish? What does it mean for me? In these classic essays, which began as talks on the BBC during World War II, Lewis creatively and simply explains the basic tenets of Christianity. Taken from the core section of Mere Christianity, the selection in this gift edition provides an accessible way for more people to discover these timeless truths. For those looking to remind themselves of the things they hold true, or those looking for a snapshot of Christianity, this book is a wonderful introduction to the faith.",2005,4.2,98,517
9780060763725,0060763728,Psyche in a Dress,,Francesca Lia Block,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NYE3GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"But this is what I could not give up: I could not give up myself Psyche has known Love—scented with jasmine and tasting of fresh oranges. Yet he is fleeting and fragile, lost to her too quickly. Punished by self-doubt, Psyche yearns to be transformed, like the beautiful and brutal figures in the myths her lover once spoke of. Attempting to uncover beauty in the darkness, she is challenged, tested, and changed by the gods and demons who tempt her. Her faith must be found again, for if she is to love, she must never look back.",2006,3.84,116,2414
9780060765316,0060765313,YOU: The Owner's Manual,An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger,Michael F Roizen;Mehmet C Oz,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WMtZ29Fjx2MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Outlines steps to achieving overall physical health, addressing each area of the body in a series of chapters designed to challenge popular myths while informing readers on a range of dietary, exercise, and therapeutic concerns.",2005,3.82,417,3099
9780060765453,0060765453,The Chronicles of Narnia Movie Tie-in Edition (adult),,C. S. Lewis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4qVxvQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.",2005,4.26,766,1099
9780060765484,0060765488,"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (rack)",,C. S. Lewis,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u95ZvAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"They open a door and enter a world Narnia ... a land frozen in eternal winter ... a country waiting to be set free. Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia -- a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change ... and a great sacrifice.",2005,4.21,189,615
9780060766740,0060766743,"The Nightmare Room, Books 1-2-3: The Nightmare Begins!",,R.L. Stine,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R_LRInz7X1QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents three stories of teenagers beset by horrible curses and strange powers.,2005,3.89,432,92
9780060773755,0060773758,A Quick Bite,,Lynsay Sands,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xIJ5TMzPsHYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"That hot guy tied to Lissianna Argeneau's bed? He's not dessert—he's the main course! Lissianna has been spending her centuries pining for Mr. Right, not just a quick snack, and this sexy guy she finds in her bed looks like he might be a candidate. But there's another, more pressing issue: her tendency to faint at the sight of blood . . . an especially annoying quirk for a vampire. Of course it doesn't hurt that this man has a delicious-looking neck. What kind of cold-blooded vampire woman could resist a bite of that? Dr. Gregory Hewitt recovers from the shock of waking up in a stranger's bedroom pretty quickly—once he sees a gorgeous woman about to treat him to a wild night of passion. But is it possible for the good doctor to find true love with a vampire vixen, or will he be just a good meal? That's a question Dr. Greg might be willing to sink his teeth into . . . if he can just get Lissianna to bite.",2005,3.91,360,34478
9780060775858,0060775858,Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition,,Margaret Wise Brown,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lLYOrikgtJoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. ""Goodnight room, goodnight moon."" And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room -- to the picture of the three little bears sitting on chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to themittens and the kittens, toeverything one by one -- the little bunny says goodnight. In this classic of children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day.",2005,4.27,32,264013
9780060776091,0060776099,Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited,,Aldous Huxley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3h9eNAyQWzAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.",2005,4.16,340,123044
9780060777104,0060777109,The Final Solution,A Story of Detection,Michael Chabon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xXtptpBIYP8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance both more prosaic and far more sinister? Though the solution may be beyond even the reach of the once-famous sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is subtly revealed in a wrenching resolution.",2005,3.31,131,13455
9780060777333,0060777338,The Cat's Pajamas,Stories,Ray Bradbury,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Xb6MUmQrUMAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the winner of the National Book Foundations' 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters comes a ""sweet, funny . . . thought–provoking"" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) collection of short stories. As in his most recent major fiction collections, One More for the Road (1999) and Driving Blind (1997), Ray Bradbury has once again pulled together a stellar group of stories sure to delight readers of all ages. In The Cat's Pyjamas we are treated to a treasure trove of Bradbury gems old and new –– eerie and strange, nostalgic and bittersweet, searching and speculative –– all but two of which have never been published before. The Cat's Pyjamas is a joyous celebration of the lifelong work of a literary legend.",2005,3.73,234,1316
9780060778019,0060778016,Holy Skirts,A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art,Rene Steinke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BjP7lwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"No one in 1917 New York had ever encountered a woman like the Bar-oness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven -- poet, artist, proto-punk rocker, sexual libertine, fashion avatar, and unrepentant troublemaker. When she wasn't stalking the streets of Greenwich Village wearing a brassiere made from tomato cans, she was enthusiastically declaiming her poems to sailors in beer halls or posing nude for Man Ray or Marcel Duchamp. In an era of brutal war, technological innovation, and cataclysmic change, the Baroness had resolved to create her own destiny -- taking the center of the Dadaist circle, breaking every bond of female propriety . . . and transforming herself into a living, breathing work of art.",2005,3.61,384,322
9780060782139,0060782137,Time For Kids: Butterflies!,,Editors of TIME For Kids,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OdZxnI53jj4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Butterflies There are 20,000 different kinds of butterflies in the world. Many have brightly colored wings. But butterflies don't start life as beauties. Every butterfly begins as a tiny egg that hatches into a caterpillar. Then an amazing change takes place. The caterpillar turns into a fluttering butterfly!",2006,4,32,20
9780060786731,0060786736,A False Mirror,An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery,Charles Todd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MMG3b9fo-hYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Summoned to a small harbor town by a former trenchmate falsely accused of assaulting an ex-lover's husband, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge is reminded of an affair from his own past and investigates a bizarre coincidence.",2007,4.02,384,2354
9780060787035,0060787031,Cracks in My Foundation,"Bags, Trips, Make-up Tips, Charity, Glory, and the Darker Side of the Story: Essays and Stories by Marian Keyes",Marian Keyes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cC8-lwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Go further under the covers and stay in bed a little longer with Marian Keyes in this winning follow-up to her smash essay collection, Under the Duvet. Written in the witty, forthright style that has earned her legions of devoted readers, Cracks in My Foundation offers an even deeper and more candid look into this beloved author's mind and heart, exploring such universal themes as friends and family, home, glamour and beauty, children, travel, and more. Marian's hilarious and thoughtful take on life makes her readers feel they are reading a friend, not just an author. Marian continues to entertain with her reports from the trenches, and throws in some original short fiction as well. Whether it's visiting Siberia, breaking it off with an old hairdresser, shopping (of course!), turning forty, living with her beloved husband, Himself (a man beyond description), or musing on the F word (feminism), Marian shares the joys, passions, and sorrows of her world and helps us feel good about our own. So grab a latte and a pillow and get ready to laugh your slippers off!",2005,3.81,368,1569
9780060788193,0060788194,A Fistful of Charms,,Kim Harrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o_jxvQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess, bed, and kill her -- not necessarily in that order. Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past. And there are those who covet what Nick possesses -- savage beasts willing to destroy the Hollows and everyone in it if necessary. Forced to keep a low profile or eternally suffer the wrath of a vengeful demon, Rachel must nevertheless act quickly. For the pack is gathering for the first time in millennia to ravage and to rule. And suddenly more than Rachel's soul is at stake.",2006,4.28,510,46881
9780060788384,0060788380,For a Few Demons More,,Kim Harrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ya3Nq-_dqG8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a serial murderer begins killing off members of Hollows society, Rachel Morgan finds herself swept up in a brutal Inderland gang war, a situation that is complicated by her demonic nemesis, and the release of a vampire master.",2007,4.33,456,47314
9780060790592,0060790598,Mysteries of Pittsburgh,A Novel,Michael Chabon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wh8B41h8bqQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.",2005,3.64,320,21338
9780060792176,0060792175,Everything Is Illuminated tie-in,A Novel,Jonathan Safran Foer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tsO2vgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past. By turns comic and tragic, but always passionate, wildly inventive, and touched with an indelible humanity, this debut novel is a powerful, deeply felt story of searching: for the past, family, and truth.",2005,3.9,276,1754
9780060792787,0060792787,Flight of the Nighthawks,Book One of the Darkwar Saga,Raymond E. Feist,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cMRnRK9KE9wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new evil threatens Midkemia, its web stretching from the deepest criminal underworld all the way up to the highest seats of power in ancient Kesh. And the Conclave of Shadows, charged unexpectedly with the training of two apprentices, must also best powerful agents of the darkest magic . . . for the fate of two worlds lies in the balance. The New York Times bestselling author and master of fantasy Raymond E. Feist returns to his signature world of Midkemia in this first book in a gripping new trilogy that ushers in the third, and most dramatic, Riftwar yet: the Darkwar. In the middle of the night on Sorcerer's Isle, the powerful sorcerer Pug is awakened from a nightmare that portends destruction for all of Midkemia. Disturbed by the dream, Pug calls for a convening of the Conclave of Shadows. Though Pug does not yet know it, his son Magnus has discovered the cause of Pug's prophetic dream: a beacon has been unleashed, directing a vast army of alien invaders to Midkemia, an army so formidable that even the might of the Tsurani Empire might fall before its fury. Meanwhile, in far Stardock town, two boys are coming of age. But on the dusty path that leads them from home they are thrust by fate into a life undreamed of, becoming enmeshed in intrigue, murder, and treason. Though untrained and unready, they are called upon by the mysterious Conclave to travel deep into the heart of the Empire of Great Kesh, to confront a plot so dark and twisted it will implicate even the highest-ranking nobles of the Empire, even members of the royal family itself. And behind this plot they discover the ancient Brotherhood of Death, the clan of assassins known as the Nighthawks. And Pug will find himself once again facing his old nemesis, the evil wizard formerly known as Sidi, now Leso Varen, in a confrontation with everything at stake: his honor, his life, and the future of Midkemia.",2006,3.95,368,9378
9780060792800,0060792809,Into a Dark Realm,Book Two of the Darkwar Saga,Raymond E. Feist,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pSzYD55i6nAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having successfully prevented a civil war within the Empire of Great Kesh, Pug and his allies in the Conclave of Shadows search for the mad sorcerer Leso Varen in the hopes of destroying the Guild of Assassins, an effort that is challenged by the sorcerer's powerful protectors and a planned invasion by the Dasati. By the author of Flight of the Nighthawks. 75,000 first printing.",2007,4,319,8974
9780060793197,0060793198,The 3-Hour Diet (TM) On the Go (Collins Gem),,Jorge Cruise,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xaefjgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More Than 600 New Options! Imagine eating your favorite foods every 3 hours to finally get the results you've been searching for. NO calorie-counting, NO carb deprivation, and NO skipping sweets. Based on the revolutionary principles of Time-Based Nutrition™, this pocket guidebook will give you the slimming secrets you need to enjoy fast food, restaurant meals, gas station gourmet, and much more! Visit www.3hourdiet.net for your free personalized weight-loss profile.",2005,3.08,192,30
9780060815523,0060815523,The Best American Crime Writing 2006,,Mark Bowden;Otto Penzler;Thomas H. Cook,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ec5HlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes: Jeffrey Toobin's eye-opening exposé in The New Yorker about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death row Skip Hollandsworth's amazing but true tale of an old cowboy bank robber who turned out to be a ""classic good-hearted Texas woman"" Jimmy Breslin's stellar piece about the end of the Mob as we know it",2006,3.99,352,200
9780060815912,0060815914,Last of the Wilds,Age of the Five Trilogy,Trudi Canavan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lkQ-lwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After pitched battle, The White—the avatars of the Five Gods—have briefly turned back the vicious invaders. And now, the priestess Auraya is sent on an urgent mission to reconcile with the powerful, outcast Dreamweavers, for their magical healing abilities may be the key to saving the land. But as a deadly plague devastates their allies and old adversaries resurface, a dreadful surprise may ruin the chance for peace. For Auraya's terrible discovery will force her into a desperate choice—one whose consequences will change the world forever.",2006,4.03,576,9725
9780060815929,0060815922,Voice of the Gods,Age of the Five Trilogy,Trudi Canavan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pRDilwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Unable to avoid being drawn into the terrible conflict, Auraya, now protector of the Siyee, fears she will be unable to meet the conditions of the all-powerful gods she once served. And an offer from a mysterious woman may be impossible for Auraya to refuse, but, if revealed, would brand her an enemy of the gods. Now, the immortal Wilds will not be deterred in their quest for powerful, long-buried secrets. But they have deadly adversaries who also seek the world-shattering truth . . . and it may appear in a form that no one anticipates.",2007,4.08,592,9413
9780060816223,0060816228,Missing Mom,A Novel,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kIMxjwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even—from an unexpected source—a nurturing love.",2006,3.54,464,3425
9780060819224,0060819227,"The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3","Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963",C. S. Lewis,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BCc6Aq5JaJoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A final installment of a three-volume series is comprised of personal correspondences as penned during the final part of his life, a time during which he passed his days at Cambridge and wrote the Narnia chronicles.",2004,4.49,1840,140
9780060823726,0060823720,Touch Not the Cat,,Mary Stewart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c5ZqvE5bgOIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bryony Ashley knows that her family's grand estate is both hell and paradise -- once elegant and beautiful, yet mired in debt and shrouded in shadow. Devastated by her father;s sudden strange death abroad, she is nonetheless relieved to learn the responsibility of running Ashley Court has fallen to a cousin. Still, her father's final, dire warning about a terrible family curse haunts her days and her dreams.",2005,3.91,372,4857
9780060833176,0060833173,King of the Vagabonds,The Baroque Cycle #2,Neal Stephenson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UT0ENrfxIMsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of ""Half-Cocked Jack"" Shaftoe -- London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox. . . and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.",2006,4.16,400,1859
9780060833183,0060833181,Odalisque,The Baroque Cycle #3,Neal Stephenson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XLm5PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The trials of Dr. Daniel Waterhouse and the Natural Philosophers increase one hundredfold in an England plagued by the impending war and royal insecurities -- as the beautiful and ambitious Eliza plays a most dangerous game as double agent and confidante of enemy kings.,2006,4.2,464,1505
9780060834005,0060834005,Black Boy,A Record of Childhood and Youth,Richard Wright,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=orAc3Eok-G8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the author's coming of age in the Jim Crow-era South, a period during which he struggled to survive while journeying from innocence to adulthood.",2005,4.05,432,89
9780060834821,006083482X,The Sheltering Sky,,Paul Bowles,Fiction,,"The Sheltering Sky is a landmark of twentieth-century literature. In this intensely fascinating story, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky explores the limits of humanity when it touches the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.",2005,3.91,313,898
9780060837167,0060837160,Rat Bastards,The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster,John Shea,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YggEjFQfDisC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"You've met the Italian mob in The Godfather, now welcome to the real-life world of Irish America's own murderous clan of organized crime The man who has remained silent for more than a decade finally speaks, revealing the gritty true story of his life inside the infamous South Boston Irish mob led by the elusive, Machiavellian kingpin Whitey Bulger, who to this day remains on the lam as one of the world's Ten Most Wanted criminals, second only to Osama bin Laden. John ""Red"" Shea was a top lieutenant in the South Boston Irish mob, rising to this position at the age of twenty-one. Thus began his tutelage under the notorious Irish godfather James ""Whitey"" Bulger. An ice-cold enforcer with a legendary red-hot temper, Shea was a legend among his Southie peers in the 1980s. From the first delivery truck he robbed at thirteen to the start of his twelve-year federal sentence for drug trafficking at twenty-seven, Shea was a portrait in American crime -- a terror, brutal and ruthlessly ambitious. Drug dealer, loan shark, money launderer, and multimillion-dollar narcotics kingpin, Shea was at the pinnacle of power -- until the feds came knocking and eventually obliterated the legendary mob in a well-orchestrated sweep of arrests, fueled by insider tips to the FBI and DEA. While Bulger's other top men turned informant to save their own hides, Shea alone kept his code of honor and his mouth shut -- loyalty that earned him a dozen years of hard time even as the man he was protecting turned out to be, himself, a rat. For in the end, in a remarkable show of betrayal, Bulger turned out to be the FBI's ""main man"" and top informant -- tipping off the feds for decades while still managing to operate one of the most murderous and profitable organized crime outfits of all time. In Rat Bastards, Shea brings that mysterious world and gritty urban Irish American street culture into sharp focus by telling his own story -- of his fatherless upbringing, his apprenticeship on the tough streets of Southie, and his love affair with trouble, boxing, and then the gangster life. In prose that is refreshingly honest, personal, and surprisingly tender, Shea tells his harrowing, unflinching, and unapologetic story. A man who did the crime, did the time, and held fast to the Irish code of silence, which he was raised to follow at any cost, Shea remains a man of honor and in doing so has become a living legend. One of the last of a dying breed, a true stand-up guy. Shea expects no forgiveness and makes no excuses for the life he chose. His story is intense, compelling, and in your face.",2006,3.51,304,34
9780060837334,0060837330,The Last Days of Henry VIII,"Conspiracies, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant",Robert Hutchinson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=acCmQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A blazing narrative history that boldly captures the end of England's most despotic ruler and his court -- a time of murderous conspiracies, terrifying betrayals, and sordid intrigue Henry VIII's crimes against his wives are well documented and have become historical lore. But much less attention has been paid to his monarchy, especially the closing years of his reign. Rich with information including details from new archival material and written with the nail-biting suspense of a modern thriller, The Last Days of Henry VIII offers a superb fresh look at this fascinating figure and new insight into an intriguing chapter in history. Robert Hutchinson paints a brilliant portrait of this egotistical tyrant who governed with a ruthlessness that rivals that of modern dictators; a monarch who had ""no respect or fear of anyone in this world,"" according to the Spanish ambassador to his court. Henry VIII pioneered the modern ""show trial"": cynical propaganda exercises in which the victims were condemned before the proceedings even opened, proving the most powerful men in the land could be brought down overnight. After thirty-five years in power, Henry was a bloated, hideously obese, black-humored old recluse. And despite his having had six wives, the Tudor dynasty rested on the slight shoulders of his only male heir, the nine-year-old Prince Edward -- a situation that spurred rival factions into a deadly conflict to control the throne. The Last Days of Henry VIII is a gripping and compelling history as fascinating and remarkable as its subject.",2005,4.14,368,1460
9780060837556,0060837551,The Thorn Birds,,Colleen McCullough,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mtBZngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A saga of three generations of the indomitable Cleary family begins in the early 1900s when Paddy Cleary, a poor New Zealand farm laborer, moves his wife and children to the Australian sheep station owned by his wealthy sister, in a new edition of the classic novel of forbidden love between young Meggie Cleary and Father Ralph de Bricassart. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2005,4.23,673,516
9780060838591,0060838590,Krakatoa,"The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883",Simon Winchester,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U4wywQfl5s4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogotá and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims, one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere. Krakatoa gives us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating and iconic event. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.",2005,3.87,464,14491
9780060839789,0060839783,The Professor and the Madman,"A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary",Simon Winchester,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D4KblwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED began in 1857, it was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.",2005,3.84,242,81384
9780060840884,0060840889,Hit Parade,,Lawrence Block,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KYR8gZgkECoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introspective professional assassin John Keller, the anti-hero of Hit Man and Hit List, continues to ponder his life, the ethics of his lethal career, and his possible retirement as he returns in an all-new mystery adventure. 100,000 first printing.",2006,3.86,295,99
9780060841867,0060841869,The Curtain,An Essay in Seven Parts,Milan Kundera,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JCDXPxiayrwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the author's personal view of the history and significance of the novel in western civilization, arguing that a novel's development crosses international and language boundaries while serving to reveal previously unknown aspects of a reader's existence. By the author of The Art of the Novel. 35,000 first printing.",2006,3.96,176,1351
9780060844097,0060844094,"A Hard Day's Write, 3e",The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song,Steve Turner,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cvp-QQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A lavishly illustrated, rollicking account of the real people and events that inspired the Beatles' lyrics. Who was ""just seventeen"" and made Paul's heart go ""boom""? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where's Penny Lane? In A Hard Day's Write, music journalist Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating for the first time the ordinary people and events immortalized in the Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination. Arranged chronologically by album, the book breaks new ground by exploring how private incidents influenced the group's writing and how their music evolved. Turner reveals that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was really a drawing by Julian Lennon of his childhood friend; Bungalow Bill was an all-American tiger hunter; Doctor Robert was a New York 'speech doctor'; and much more. A longtime Beatles admirer, Turner tracked down and interviewed the real-life subjects of the songs, probed public records and newspaper archives, and spoke in depth to the people closet to the Beatles to unearth tales that have never before been made public. The result is a book that chronicles an untold story of the Beatles themselves. Illustrated with over 200 photographs, A Hard Day's Write is a visually alluring and highly entertaining journey to the land stretching just beneath your conscious mind, mapped out with strawberry fields, fool-topped hills, and long and winding roads.",2005,4.18,224,152
9780060845247,0060845244,"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Read-Aloud Edition",,C. S. Lewis;Pauline Baynes,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=deiyGRUp6JIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Four English school children enter the magic land of Narnia through the back of a wardrobe and assist Aslan, the golden lion, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.",2005,4.21,189,56
9780060845308,0060845309,"Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The Tie-in",A Novel,Oscar Hijuelos,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rL2fOXmLquMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In late 1940s New York City, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, two young Cuban musicians, are dubbed the ""Mambo Kings"" for their talent and rise to superstardom. Reissue. (Tie in to the Broadway musical production, produced by Daryl Roth, opening August 2005) (Historical Fiction)",2005,3.68,448,126
9780060846732,0060846739,Sex with the Queen,"900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics",Eleanor Herman,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5GSgQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers. She was the queen, living in an opulent palace, wearing lavish gowns and dazzling jewels. She was envied, admired, and revered. She was also miserable, having been forced to marry a foreign prince sight unseen, a royal ogre who was sadistic, foaming at the mouth, physically repulsive, mentally incompetent, or sexually impotent—and in some cases all of the above. How did queens find happiness? In courts bristling with testosterone—swashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinals—many royal women had love affairs. Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded. Catherine the Great had her idiot husband murdered, and ruled the Russian empire with a long list of sexy young favorites. Marie Antoinette fell in love with the handsome Swedish count Axel Fersen, who tried valiantly to rescue her from the guillotine. Empress Alexandra of Russia found emotional solace in the mad monk Rasputin. Her behavior was the spark that set off the firestorm of the Russian revolution. Princess Diana gave up her palace bodyguard to enjoy countless love affairs, which tragically led to her early death. When a queen became sick to death of her husband and took a lover, anything could happen—from disgrace and death to political victory. Some kings imprisoned erring wives for life; other monarchs obligingly named the queen's lover prime minister. The crucial factor deciding the fate of an unfaithful queen was the love affair's implications in terms of power, money, and factional rivalry. At European courts, it was the politics—not the sex—that caused a royal woman's tragedy—or her ultimate triumph.",2006,3.91,336,3676
9780060850524,0060850523,Brave New World,,Aldous Huxley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V4kY9WSCgSwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.,2006,3.98,259,12332
9780060851989,0060851988,Queen of Babble,A Novel,Meg Cabot,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KM1a1gyldeAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lizzie Nichols discovers that her inability to keep her mouth shut has landed her once again in hot water when she aggravates her unfaithful boyfriend, Andy, is stranded in London, and takes a job as a bartender for a catered wedding at a French chateau, an affair that ends with the groom in disgrace, a furious bride, and Andy returning to ruin everything. 100,000 first printing.",2006,3.69,309,59613
9780060852559,0060852550,"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle",A Year of Food Life,Barbara Kingsolver;Camille Kingsolver;Steven L. Hopp,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qLkEYjv5BHgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. ""As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. ""Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ."" Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. ""This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air.""",2007,4.04,370,86130
9780060853983,0060853980,Good Omens,"The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch",Neil Gaiman;Terry Pratchett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7erEbfDOcgkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .",2006,4.25,412,373135
9780060854096,006085409X,Dates From Hell,,Kim Harrison;Lynsay Sands;Kelley Armstrong;Lori Handeland,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D07pnQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"She thought her date was out of this world. Actually, he was not of this world . . . We've all been on bad dates, nightmare dates, dreadful experiences that turned out to be uniquely memorable in the very worst way. But at least our partners for these detestable evenings were more or less . . . human! Now Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Kelley Armstrong, and Lori Handeland -- four of the very best writers currently exploring the dangerous seduction of the supernatural -- offer up dating disasters (and unexpected delights) of a completely different sort: dark, wicked, paranormally sensual assignations with werewolves, demon lovers, and the romantically challenged undead. Sexy, witty, chilling, and altogether remarkable, here is proof positive that some love matches are made someplace other than heaven.",2006,3.78,416,10467
9780060854942,0060854944,Continental Drift,,Russell Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VDRLPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained, and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the American dream.",2007,3.87,408,2744
9780060872793,0060872799,The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart,,Lawrence Block,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TaXSmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr's in love—with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He's in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festival—until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary. When he's hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from a Park Avenue apartment, Bernie can hardly refuse. But the occupant's early return forces Bernie to flee empty-handed—and he soon finds himself implicated in a murder. Before you can say ""who stole the strawberries?"" he's hunting for a killer, up to his neck in the outrageous intrigues of a tiny Balkan nation . . . and menaced by more sinister fat men and unsavory toadies than the great Bogie himself butted heads with in pursuit of that darn bird!",2006,3.89,400,2079
9780060872984,0060872985,Next,,Michael Crichton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ss1hXL1PTYIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes . . . Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect. The future is closer than you think.",2006,3.49,431,57257
9780060880125,0060880120,How to Be Popular,,Meg Cabot,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uRsWyFiZcIkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sixteen-year-old Steph Landry finds an old book on how to be popular and decides to change her social status by following its advice, much to the bafflement of her two best friends.",2006,3.54,288,19183
9780060882600,0060882603,The Annotated Charlotte's Web,,E. B. White,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vaYYHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Charlotte's Web, one of America's best-loved children's books, is seamless in plot, poignant in its delineation of characters who will live in children's literature forever, and written with a seeming ease and fluency that make the reading as engrossing as it is effortless. The Annotated Charlotte's Web opens the door to the creator's workshop and allows the reader to glance over the shoulder of one of the most exacting and fastidious American writers, watching as he forms his masterpiece.",2006,4.16,320,41
9780060882815,0060882816,Charlotte's Web: Wilbur Finds a Friend,,Jennifer Frantz,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Syl29aq6kTEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Wilbur the pig moves to a new farm, he is scared until he meets Charlotte, a friendly spider.",2006,4.1,32,57
9780060882860,0060882867,The Autumn of the Patriarch,,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OMqGpe7qqFoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.",2006,3.85,255,11872
9780060884055,0060884053,How to Make Money Like a Porn Star,,Neil Strauss;Bernard Chang,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y7XAOeCeMcAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Claudia Corvette. From her tousled bedroom hair to her name–all the porn stars in this world take their names from supermodels and sports cars–she is adult entertainment's prototypical femme fatale. Her life is the collision of countless troubled–childhood cliches and grown–up wet dreams, projected onto her as surely as her videos project their blue light onto lonely men around the world. From its first panel, How to Make Money Like a Porn Star draws the reader into the dark world of girls like Claudia, the men who fantasize about them, and the monsters who control them. In the hands of Rolling Stone writer Neil Strauss and illustrator Bernard Chang, this adult graphic novel weaves together black humor and blacker reality. Like all great American stories, it features humble beginnings, life–changing tragedy, stripping, abuse, implants, fame, addiction, bigger implants, abduction, gunplay, downfall, and even bigger implants. Not to mention a thousand shades of latex and L'Oreal. Part parody, part morality tale, here is the truth about the porn life, its outsized visual splendor captured in a comic parade of doe–eyed centerfolds, its essence distilled in a story that will haunt every reader who has ever wondered where his next fantasy is coming from.",2006,3.31,128,159
9780060885373,0060885378,Little House in the Big Woods,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7JctNysS3xkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.",2007,4.18,198,193862
9780060885380,0060885386,Farmer Boy,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YapzZwOTEDoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.",2006,4.06,357,44132
9780060885427,0060885424,The Long Winter,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Il_yCqjP6N0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather. A Newbery Honor Book. Reissue.",2007,4.14,422,66192
9780060885434,0060885432,Little Town on the Prairie,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LFvnVkq3ZUwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Laura spends her fifteenth summer working hard to help send Mary to a college for the blind.,2007,4.18,374,70683
9780060885458,0060885459,The First Four Years,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_HqHxm0kuIUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie. Reissue.",2007,3.88,126,27390
9780060887964,0060887966,The Alchemist - Gift Edition,,Paulo Coelho,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h6QuJZffgHYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,"" the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."" Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."" Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.",2006,3.85,192,814
9780060889449,0060889446,Pretty Things,The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens,Liz Goldwyn,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2NhyQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Liz Goldwyn's lifelong fascination with the inimitable glamour of classic burlesque inspired her to spend the past eight years corresponding with, visiting, interviewing, receiving striptease lessons from, and forming close relationships with the last generation of the great American burlesque queeens. Goldwyn invites us to step back into an era when the hourglass figure was in vogue and striptease was a true art form. Meet Betty ""Ball of Fire"" Rowland, who was known for her flaming red hair and bump–and–grind routines. (It turns out she once sued the author's grandfather, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., for using her stage name and costume in his Hollywood picture, Ball of Fire.) Meet Sherry Britton, who, with her long black hair and curvy, trim physique, was among the most stunning of the burlesque stars before Mayor LaGuardia outlawed burlesque in New York. Meet Zorita, whose sexually explicit ""Consummation of the Wedding of the Snake"" dance (performed with a live snake) and other daring performances earned her legendary status. Goldwyn draws back the curtain to reveal the personal journeys of yesteryear's icons of female sexuality and power, restoring their legacy to an age that has all but forgotten them–despite today's resurgence of burlesque.",2006,4.31,304,162
9780060891565,0060891564,Eaters of the Dead,,Michael Crichton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o2yu6uJF2SoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An ambassador of the tenth-century Caliph of Bagdad is carried off by the Norsemen to endure, for three years, the harshness of their way of life and the creatures that terrorize them.",2006,3.66,304,27412
9780060894085,0060894083,Genome,The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters,Matt Ridley,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h2zcDWshkEkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Matt Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome. It will help you understand what this scientific milestone means for you, for your children, and for humankind.",2006,4.03,344,20077
9780060898656,0060898658,The Zero,A Novel,Jess Walter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x5JrBQ4bfLsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Five days after a terrorist attack decimates his home city, Brian Remy struggles with gaps in his memory pertaining to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a girlfriend whose name he does not know, and deteriorating eyesight, a situation that is further challenged when he is recruited to gather information for a shadowy intelligence operation. 100,000 first printing.",2006,3.5,336,1930
9780060899226,0060899220,Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed,Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,Anthony Bourdain,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bxLbZ2kGddIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material",2007,4.06,312,168706
9780060906825,0060906820,DREAM & THE UNDERWOR,,James Hillman,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-vMpuwPRVFsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a deepening of the thinking begun in The Myth of Analysis and Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams since Freud and Jung.",1979,4.23,256,709
9780060913076,006091307X,The Crying of Lot 49,,Thomas Pynchon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=njOBt0OWKOQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.",1966,3.7,152,54061
9780060915186,0060915188,An American Childhood,,Annie Dillard,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tRihTvnOM-gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.",1988,3.91,255,7086
9780060915414,0060915412,Teaching a Stone to Talk,Expeditions and Encounters,Annie Dillard,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pY5llwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.",1988,4.2,177,4046
9780060915438,0060915439,Holy the Firm,,Annie Dillard,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ps1LlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with ""one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person."" For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls ""the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea,"" she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire. This is a profound book about the natural world -- both its beauty and its cruelty -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dillard knows so well.",1988,4.22,76,3562
9780060916091,0060916095,Think on These Things,,Jiddu Krishnamurti,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QzzbmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"‘The material contained in this volume was originally presented in the form of talks to students, teachers and parents in India, but its keen penetration and lucid simplicity will be deeply meaningful to thoughtful people everywhere, of all ages, and in every walk of life. Krishnamurti examines with characteristic objectivity and insight the expressions of what we are pleased to call our culture, our education, religion, politics and tradition; and he throws much light on such basic emotions as ambition, greed and envy, the desire for security and the lust for power – all of which he shows to be deteriorating factors in human society.’ From the Editor’s Note ‘Krishnamurti’s observations and explorations of modern man’s estate are penetrating and profound, yet given with a disarming simplicity and directness. To listen to him or to read his thoughts is to face oneself and the world with an astonishing morning freshness.’ Anne Marrow Lindbergh",1989,4.4,258,2288
9780060916466,006091646X,The Dance of Intimacy,A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships,Harriet Lerner,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tTKc8Aw-GFUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In The Dance of Intimacy, the bestselling author of The Dance of Anger outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged--by distance, intensity, or pain--she teaches us about the specific changes we can make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connectedness with others. Combining clear advice with vivid case examples, Dr. Lerner offers us the most solid, helpful book on intimate relationships that both women and men may ever encounter.",1990,4.06,255,7128
9780060916497,0060916494,Tell My Horse,Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica,Zora Neale Hurston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CgolTH6AR8gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s,1990,3.97,311,1380
9780060916510,0060916516,Jonah's Gourd Vine,,Zora Neale Hurston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g8KrkJIcFgYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"John Buddy Pearson, a young Black man who becomes a popular pastor at Zion Hope, is unable to reconcile his good intentions and his natural instincts",1990,4,229,1619
9780060916817,0060916818,The Chaneysville Incident,,David Bradley,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zYOcrhUIRX4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The legends say something happened in Chaneysville. The Chaneysville Incident is the powerful story of one man's obsession with discovering what that something was--a quest that takes the brilliant and bitter young black historian John Washington back through the secrets and buried evil of his heritage. Returning home to care for and then bury his father's closest friend and his own guardian, Old Jack Crawley, he comes upon the scant records of his family's proud and tragic history, which he drives himself to reconstruct and accept. This is the story of John's relationship with his family, the town, and the woman he loves; and also between the past and the present, between oppression and guilt, hate and violence, love and acceptance.",1990,3.96,448,650
9780060919887,0060919884,The Writing Life,,Annie Dillard,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=leBs_fzkNdkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood; the Northwest pioneer epic The Living; and the nonfiction narrative Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. A gregarious recluse, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.",1990,4.03,113,11177
9780060920081,0060920084,The Lost Continent,Travels in Small Town America,Bill Bryson,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3139wFo58H4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An unsparing and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town.,1990,3.83,299,43779
9780060920647,0060920645,Three by Annie Dillard,"The Writing Life, An American Childhood, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek",Annie Dillard,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dRo8SwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A stunning collection of Annie Dillard's most popular books in one volume.,1990,4.34,617,550
9780060921088,0060921080,Declarations of Independence,Cross-examining American Ideology,Howard Zinn,Political science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f1wmvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The acclaimed author of A People's History of the United States presents an honest and piercing look at American political ideology.,1991,4.26,341,720
9780060921712,0060921714,The Complete Stories,,Zora Neale Hurston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t2NozDINo3UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of short stories, most of which appeared in literary magazines during the author's lifetime, along with previously unpublished works, spans the career of one of the century's foremost African-American writers. Reprint.",1996,4.25,336,735
9780060922559,0060922559,"Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of World History",,Richard Shenkman,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k_x45UzKZkwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Whistleblowing historian Richard Shenkman skewers the nonsense we were all taught about the world’s revolutions, religions, heroes, and inventors in a whirlwind tour of history. Queen Victoria may have usually worn black, but she loved to drink and party. The English were conned during World War II. Winston Churchill’s famous “finest hour” radio broadcast was not delivered by Winston Churchill but by Norman Shelley, an actor hired to be Churchill’s stand-in. Marie Antoinette did not say, “Let them eat cake,” Churchill didn’t coin the phrase “the Iron Curtain,” and Caesar never said, “Et tu, Brute?” Scandal in the English monarchy is nothing new: Fifteen kings fathered children out of wedlock. One queen helped depose her husband so her lover could take his place. Three English kings were gay. Eclectic, eccentric, edifying, and fun, Richard Shenkman’s eye-opening revelations prove that much of history is indeed “but a fable agreed upon.”",1994,3.48,320,215
9780060924980,0060924985,The Infinite Plan,A Novel,Isabel Allende,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=80pDRgAcJKIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Selling more than 65,000 copies and topping bestseller lists around the world -- including Spain, Germany, Italy, and Latin America -- this novel tells the engrossing story of one man's quest for love and for his soul.",1994,3.71,384,7102
9780060925758,0060925752,Soul Mates,,Thomas Moore,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7syElddx2b0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This companion volume to Care of the Soul offers more of Thomas Moore's inspiring wisdom and empathy as it expands on his ideas about life, love, and the mysteries of human relationships. In Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore explored the importance of nurturing the soul and struck a chord nationwide — the book became a long-term bestseller, topping charts across the country and selling 550,000 copies in hardcover and paperback combined. Building on that book's wisdom, Soul Mates, already a hardcover bestseller, explores how relationships of all kinds enhance our lives and fulfill the needs of our souls. Moore emphasizes the difficulties that inevitably accompany many relationships and focuses on the need to work through these differences in order to experience the deep reward that comes with intimacy and unconfined love.",1994,4,288,4122
9780060925819,0060925817,"Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel",,Joseph Gies,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Rw0oTHwz264C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An illuminating look at the monumental inventions of the Middle Ages, by the authors of Life in a Medieval Castle.",1995,3.85,368,612
9780060926960,0060926961,The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly,Poems Collected and New,Denis Johnson,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RCRllwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the award-winning poet and novelist—a must-have collection of his four previous books of poetry plus a selection of new, unpublished work.",1996,4.16,240,556
9780060927196,0060927194,Success Stories,,Russell Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bGIs7R90isEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Sucess Stories, an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection, Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forceful writers in America today. Queen for a Day, Success Story, and Adultery trace fortunes of the Painter family in there pursuit of and retreat from the American dream. Banks also explores the ethos of rampant materialism in a group of contemporary moral fables. The Fish is an evocating parable of faith and greed set in a Southeast Asian village, The Gully tells of the profitability of violence and the ironies of upward mobility in a Latin American shantytown, and Chrildren's Story explores the repressed rage that boils beneath the surface of relationships between parents and children and between citizens of the first and third worlds.",1996,3.72,192,148
9780060927516,0060927518,Testaments Betrayed,"Essay in Nine Parts, An",Milan Kundera,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gWzdD3wGV8MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In Testaments Betrayed, he proves himself a brilliant defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due to a work of art and its creator's wishes. The betrayal of both—often by their most passionate proponents—is the principal theme of this extraordinary work. Readers will be particularly intrigued by Kundera's impassioned attack on society's shifting moral judgments and persecutions of art and artists, from Mayakovsky to Rushdie.",1996,4.04,288,1247
9780060927547,0060927542,Mr. Ives' Christmas,,Oscar Hijuelos,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z7XK28QOcWAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hijuelos' novel tells the story of Mr. Ives, who was adopted from a foundling's home as a child. When we first meet him in the 1950s, Mr. Ives is very much a product of his time. He has a successful career in advertising, a wife and two children, and believes he is on his way to pursuing the typical American dream. But the dream is shattered when his son Robert, who is studying for the priesthood, is killed violently at Christmas. Overwhelmed by grief and threatened by a loss of faith in humankind, Mr. Ives begins to question the very foundations of his life. Part love story--of a man for his wife, for his children, for God--and part meditation on how a person can find spiritual peace in the midst of crisis, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a beautifully written, tender and passionate story of a man trying to put his life in perspective. In the expert hands of Oscar Hijuelos, the novel speaks eloquently to the most basic and fulfilling aspects of life for all of us.",1996,3.76,256,912
9780060928414,0060928417,Slowness,A Novel,Milan Kundera,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=czPAd_xrPyMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the narrator of Slowness through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than two hundred years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the comic. Underlying this libertine fantasy is a profound meditation on contemporary life: about the secret bond between slowness and memory, about the connection between our era's desire to forget and the way we have given ourselves over to the demon of speed. And about ""dancers"" possessed by the passion to be seen, for whom life is merely a perpetual show emptied of every intimacy and every joy.",1997,3.66,156,9454
9780060929596,0060929596,As Nature Made Him,The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl,John Colapinto,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=92jVVLpg3rcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Tells the story of a man whose botched circumcision as a baby and subsequent surgical alteration to a female was mistakenly used as an argument for the success of such procedures.,2001,3.97,320,5282
9780060929602,006092960X,The Active Side of Infinity,,Carlos Castaneda,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e82-B-6eh7gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his apprentice to collect what I considered to be the memorable events of my life…. Don Juan described the total goal of the shamanistic knowledge that he handled as the preparation for facing the definitive journey: the journey that every human being has to take at the end of his life. He said that what modern man referred to vaguely as life after death was, for those shamans, a concrete region filled to capacity with practical affairs of a different order than the practical affairs of daily life, yet bearing a similar functional practicality. Don Juan considered that to collect the memorable in their lives was, for shamans, the preparation for their entrance into that concrete region, which they called the active side of infinity."" In this book written immediately before his death, anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda gives us his most autobiographical and intimately revealing work ever, the fruit of a lifetime of experience and perhaps the most moving volume in his oeuvre.",1999,4.16,288,1890
9780060929879,0060929871,Brave New World,,Aldous Huxley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-iU5Aq3WuGgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom,1998,3.98,288,1173739
9780060930059,0060930055,You Can't Go Home Again,,Thomas Wolfe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0yMZeA9tHOAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Novelist George Webber is driven from his hometown when his successful autobiographical novel infuriates the family and friends he has depicted in it,1998,4.05,711,3922
9780060930134,0060930136,The Fifth Mountain,,Paulo Coelho,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HKq_H_z2XsYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Elijah, a biblical prophet in the Middle East during the ninth century B.C., confronts the pagan princess Jezebel and finds love in the strange land of Zarephath with a young widow, only to have his new-found happiness shattered by tragedy",1999,3.62,256,749
9780060930219,0060930217,V.,,Thomas Pynchon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jqS2pmUIfOAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and ""V.,"" the unknown woman of the title.",1999,3.96,547,1364
9780060930318,0060930314,Identity,A Novel,Milan Kundera,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mXPU2T--gPQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples--indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else ""losing sight"" of the loved one. With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation--and the vague sense of panic it inspires--the very fabric of his new novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside and what the mind creates in its solitude. Of all contemporary writers, only Kundera can transform such a hidden and disconcerting perception into the material for a novel, one of his finest, most painful, and most enlightening. Which, surprisingly, turns out to be a love story.",1999,3.68,168,13065
9780060930530,0060930535,The Poisonwood Bible,A Novel,Barbara Kingsolver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xl1mxRJd00MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nathan Price, a evangelical Baptist who in 1959 has taken his wife and four daughters on a mission to the Belgian Congo, finds that their traditions are no longer secure in this very different world. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.",1999,4.05,546,5449
9780060930868,0060930861,Cloudsplitter,A Novel,Russell Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gri4AX2RVSEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history during the years before the Civil War, when slavery was tearing the country apart. But within this broader scope, Russell Banks has given us a riveting, suspenseful, heartbreaking narrative filled with intimate scenes of domestic life, of violence and action in battle, of romance and familial life and death that make the reader feel in astonishing ways what it is like to be alive in that time.",1999,3.9,758,3489
9780060931360,0060931361,"Plato, Not Prozac!",Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems,Lou Marinoff,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CZgACbdCRB8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"If you're facing a dilemma -- whether it's handling a relationship, living ethically, dealing with a career change, or finding meaning in life -- the world's most important thinkers from centuries past will help guide you toward a solution compatible with your individual beliefs. From Kirkegaard's thoughts on coping with death to the I Ching's guidelines on adapting to change, Plato, Not Prozac! makes philosophy accessible and shows you how to use it to solve your everyday problems. Gone is the need for expensive therapists, medication, and lengthy analysis. Clearly organized by common problems to help you tailor Dr. Lou Marinoff's advice to your own needs, this is an intelligent, effective, and persuasive prescription for self-healing therapy that is giving psychotherapy a run for its money.",2000,3.39,320,836
9780060931674,0060931671,The Crying of Lot 49,,Thomas Pynchon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vp2Sv9KO1VUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After learning that she is the executor of her ex-lover's will, Oedipa Maas starts a strange journey through Southern California in the 1960s.",1999,3.7,152,2132
9780060931803,0060931809,The Map That Changed the World,William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology,Simon Winchester;Soun Vannithone,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W523pFmahJQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An enthralling glimpse into the life of William Smith, a nineteenth-century engineer who became the founding father of modern geology, explores his creation of a lavish map detailing his discovery that rocks are comprised of many different layers amidst the backdrop of his wife's madness and debtors prison. By the author of The Professor and the Madman. Reprint.",2002,3.82,352,10159
9780060931957,0060931957,The Odyssey of Homer,,Homer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kNbrSH8Lbz8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English.,1999,3.75,374,1100
9780060932664,006093266X,Collected Novellas,,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JRcVuuSBh5cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real. Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must fulfill a promise made years earlier. No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella of life in a decaying tropical town in Colombia with an unforgettable central character. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a dark and profound story of three people joined together in a fatal act of violence.",1999,4.01,288,822
9780060932688,0060932686,Collected Stories,,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DksnCgBzb3oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredible and Sad Tale of lnnocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother. Combining mysticism, history, and humor, the stories in this collection span more than two decades, illuminating the development of Marquez's prose and exhibiting the themes of family, poverty, and death that resound throughout his fiction.",1999,4.19,352,6132
9780060933524,0060933526,A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe,A Novel,Robert Cullen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6XAkcx5J6w4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bobby Jobe is a pro golfer whose swing is better than his attitude. When he bogies the last four holes and blows his lead in a major tournament -- again -- he berates his caddy, Henry ""Greyhound"" Mote. Jobe loses both Greyhound, who walks off the course, and the game. And before the day is out, he'll lose his eyesight to a lightning strike and his future in golf -- unless he can do what no one has ever done blind: make a comeback. Bob Cullen's funny and wise story, full of PGA lore, perfectly captures the mysterious and irresistible nature of the game of golf, not to mention, love, friendship, and life.",2002,3.31,400,57
9780060934439,0060934433,In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz,Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo,Michela Wrong,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=etTVmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Known as ""the Leopard,"" the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating combination of brutality and charm. While the population was pauperized, he plundered the country's copper and diamond resources, downing pink champagne in his jungle palace like some modern-day reincarnation of Joseph Conrad's crazed station manager. Michela Wrong, a correspondent who witnessed Mobutu's last days, traces the rise and fall of the idealistic young journalist who became the stereotype of an African despot. Engrossing, highly readable, and as funny as it is tragic, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz assesses the acts of the villains and the heroes in this fascinating story of the Democratic Republic of Congo.",2002,3.98,338,2310
9780060934545,0060934549,Every Tongue Got to Confess,Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States,Zora Neale Hurston,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=85HAlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s. The bittersweet and often hilarious tales -- which range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, white folk, and mistaken identity to witty one-liners -- reveal attitudes about faith, love, family, slavery, race, and community. Together, this collection of nearly 500 folktales weaves a vibrant tapestry that celebrates African American life in the rural South and represents a major part of Zora Neale Hurston's literary legacy.",2002,3.98,320,312
9780060934910,0060934913,Kitchen Confidential,Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,Anthony Bourdain,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ehIM1VKYSWYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A New York City chef and author of Gone Bamboo recounts his,2000,4.06,302,2428
9780060935559,0060935553,One Matchless Time,A Life of William Faulkner,Jay Parini,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oXpAlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"William Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most important and influential writers. Drawing on previously unavailable sources -- including letters, memoirs, and interviews with Faulkner's daughter and lovers -- Jay Parini has crafted a biography that delves into the mystery of this gifted and troubled writer. His Faulkner is an extremely talented, obsessive artist plagued by alcoholism and a bad marriage who somehow transcends his limitations. Parini weaves the tragedies and triumphs of Faulkner's life in with his novels, serving up a biography that's as engaging as it is insightful.",2005,3.97,528,184
9780060936198,0060936193,The Girl in the Glass,A Novel,Jeffrey Ford,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mgYTlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New York's grieving rich with elaborate, ingeniously staged séances -- until an impossible occurrence changes everything. While ""communing with spirits,"" Schell sees an image of a young girl in a pane of glass, silently entreating the con man for help. Though well aware that his otherworldly ""powers"" are a sham, Schell inexplicably offers his services to help find the lost child -- drawing Diego along with him into a tangled maze of deadly secrets and terrible experimentation. At once a hypnotically compelling mystery and a stunningly evocative portrait of Depression-era New York, The Girl in the Glass is a masterly literary adventure from a writer of exemplary vision and skill.",2005,3.72,304,756
9780060936501,0060936509,The Best American Science Writing 2002,,Matt Ridley;Alan Lightman,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p8yA_CtoUx0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"If, as Matt Ridley suggests, science is simply the search for new forms of ignorance, then perhaps it follows that with science's advances come new questions. Will human genetic engineering become commonplace? Will human cloning ever be safe? Are there many universes? How much will the climate change during the coming century? The Best American Science Writing 2002 gathers top writers and scientists covering the latest developments in the fastest-changing, farthest-reaching scientific fields, such as medicine, genetics, computer technology, evolutionary psychology, cutting-edge physics, and the environment. Among this year's selections: In ""The Made-to-Order Savior,"" Lisa Belkin spotlights two desperate families seeking an unprecedented cure by a medically and ethically unprecedented means -- creating a genetically matched child. Margaret Talbot's ""A Desire to Duplicate"" reveals that the first human clone may very likely come from an entirely unexpected source, and sooner than we think. Michael Specter reports on the shock waves rippling through the field of neuroscience following the revolutionary discovery that adult brain cells might in fact regenerate (""Rethinking the Brain""). Christopher Dickey's ""I Love My Glow Bunny"" recounts with sly humor a peculiar episode in which genetic engineering and artistic culture collide. Natalie Angier draws an insightful contrast between suicide terrorists and rescue workers who risk their lives, and finds that sympathy and altruism have a definite place in the evolution of human nature, David Berlinski's ""What Brings a World into Being?"" ponders the idea of biology and physics as essentially digital technologies, exploring the mysteries encoded in the universe's smallest units, be they cells or quanta. Nicholas Wade shows how one of the most controversial books of the year, The Skeptical Environmentalist, by former Greenpeace member and self-described leftist Bjorn Lomborg, debunks some of the most cherished tenets of the environmental movement, suggesting that things are perhaps not as bad as we've been led to believe. And as a counterpoint, Darcy Frey's profile of George Divoky reveals a dedicated researcher whose love of birds and mystery leads to some sobering discoveries about global warming and forcefully reminds us of the unsung heroes of science: those who put in long hours, fill in small details, and take great trouble. In the end, the unanswered questions are what sustain scientific inquiry, open new frontiers of knowledge, and lead to new technologies and medical treatments. The Best American Science Writing 2002 is a series of exciting reports from science's front lines, where what we don't know is every bit as important as what we know.",2002,3.88,352,66
9780060936648,0060936649,Wittgenstein's Poker,The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers,David Edmonds;John Eidinow,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9Ahdyu6ygXEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for decades the subject of intense disagreement. An engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection, Wittgenstein's Poker explores, through the Popper/Wittgenstein confrontation, the history of philosophy in the twentieth century. It evokes the tumult of fin-de-siécle Vienna, Wittgentein's and Popper's birthplace; the tragedy of the Nazi takeover of Austria; and postwar Cambridge University, with its eccentric set of philosophy dons, including Bertrand Russell. At the center of the story stand the two giants of philosophy themselves -- proud, irascible, larger than life -- and spoiling for a fight.",2002,3.75,368,2215
9780060936662,0060936665,Smart Discipline(R),"Fast, Lasting Solutions for Your Child's Self-Esteem and Your Peace of Mind",Larry Koenig,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bpo2r2iKcKsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Larry J. Koenig, Ph.D., creator of the hugely popular Smart Discipline® seminars, explains his simple, dramatically effective system to help children follow the rules at home and at school. It is easily tailoredto differences in age, temperament, and the needs of children with ADD/ADHD. Positive results usually are seen within a few days. Best of all: instead of nagging, parents can use Dr. Koenig's powerful esteem-building strategies to affirm their children's strengths. The Smart Discipline system: Gets kids to do what you ask, the first time you ask Stops fighting, bickering, and disrespectful language Ends hassles over homework, chores, messy rooms, and bedtime Instills positive self-image and builds confidence. . . and much more!",2004,3.99,208,12
9780060938109,0060938102,The Schopenhauer Cure,A Novel,Irvin Yalom,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aDG4lgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured -- miraculously transformed by the pessimistic teachings of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer -- and is, himself, a philosophical counselor in training. Philips dour, misanthropic stance compels Julius to invite Philip to join his intensive therapy group in exchange for tutoring on Schopenhauer. But with mere months left, life may be far too short to help Philip or to compete with him for the hearts and minds of the group members. And then again, it might be just long enough.",2006,4.21,358,8663
9780060954833,0060954833,African Nights,True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of Africa,Kuki Gallmann,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MRgktwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lyrical, beautifully written tales of life in Africa Africa evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In this wonderful and haunting collection of stories, Kuki Gallmann writes of her life in Africa, where every day brings challenge and adventure. African Nights is a treasury of memories, in which fascinating people and places are brought to life. The healing powers Africa can have on those who embrace the land as a place of mystery, superstition, danger, and beauty.",2000,3.8,336,302
9780060955427,0060955422,The Autobiography of Mark Twain,,Charles Neider,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5GboyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy.""--From the Introduction by Charles Neider Mark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story--which includes sixteen pages of photos--with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to he ""free and frank and unembarrassed"" in the recounting of his life and his experiences. Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography.",2000,4.05,508,2746
9780060956868,0060956860,Joy in the Morning,,Betty Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w2uMGXpNlzAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The story of a young couple from Brooklyn who marry young, have little money, and face bitter parental opposition, but are determined to make something of their life together.",2000,3.9,296,5559
9780060957261,0060957263,Beauty,The Invisible Embrace,John O'Donohue,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jXgjvZHnfF4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Beauty does not linger, it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm, it calls us to feel, think, and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. Beauty is a gentle but urgent call to awaken. Bestselling author John O'Donohue opens our eyes, hearts, and minds to the wonder of our own relationship with beauty by exposing the infinity and mystery of its breadth. His words return us to the dignity of silence, profundity of stillness, power of thought and perception, and the eternal grace and generosity of beauty's presence. In this masterful and revelatory work, O'Donohue encourages our greater intimacy with beauty and celebrates it for what it really is: a homecoming of the human spirit. As he focuses on the classical, medieval, and Celtic traditions of art, music, literature, nature, and language, O'Donohue reveals how beauty's invisible embrace invites us toward new heights of passion and creativity even in these uncertain times of global conflict and crisis.",2005,4.45,261,622
9780060957353,0060957352,The Darling,A Novel,Russell Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NlC2QKgJY4kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends of the notorious warlord and ex-president, Charles Taylor. Hannah's encounter with Taylor ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grip and forces her to make a heartrending choice.",2005,3.78,400,1939
9780060957605,0060957603,The Making of a Philosopher,My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy,Colin McGinn,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oJ5dL5OmXHMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self–portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic. The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the states, first in Los Angeles, then New York. McGinn presents a contemporary academic take on the great philosophical figures of the twentieth century, including Bertrand Russell, Jean–Paul Sartre, and Noam Chomsky, alongside stories of the teachers who informed his ideas and often became friends and mentors, especially the colorful A.J. Ayer at Oxford. McGinn's prose is always elegant and probing; students of contemporary philosophy and the general reader alike will absorb every page.",2003,3.65,256,219
9780060958336,0060958332,The Language Instinct,How the Mind Creates Language,Steven Pinker,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NrXVUNbLaMUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved. With wit, erudition, and deft use it everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar bats. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America.",2000,4.05,448,14293
9780060959036,0060959037,Prodigal Summer,A Novel,Barbara Kingsolver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=06IwGgtV5HMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place.",2001,4,444,85440
9780060964047,0060964049,Tales of the City,,Armistead Maupin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yPXY8iMIekkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The eccentric, mysterious, naive, jaded, up-and-coming, down-and-out, adventuresome, and withdrawn boarders in Russian Hill share their dissimilar worlds and worries",1989,4.04,371,953
9780060973339,0060973331,Fear of Falling,The Inner Life of the Middle Class,Barbara Ehrenreich,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=votxQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, ""Fear of Falling"" traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and anxieties that torment the group and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.",1989,3.9,292,321
9780060974367,0060974362,The Hidden Hand,A Race Williams Mystery,Carroll John Daly,Fiction,,"Private investigator Race Williams is approached by a larger detective agency to help hunt down a criminal gang leader, but he turns down the deal because he prefers to work solo. Somehow word leaks out that he's on the case, and an assassin is put on his tail.",1992,3.43,272,5
9780060974688,0060974680,Europe,A History,Norman Davies,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4StZDvPCcJEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Here is a masterpiece of historical narrative that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West. Norman Davies captures it all-the rise and fall of Rome, the sweeping invasions of Alaric and Atilla, the Norman Conquests, the Papal struggles for power, the Renaissance and the Reformation, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Europe's rise to become the powerhouse of the world, and its eclipse in our own century, following two devastating World Wars. This is the first major history of Europe to give equal weight to both East and West, and it shines light on fascinating minority communities, from heretics and lepers to Gypsies, Jews, and Muslims. It also takes an innovative approach, combining traditional narrative with unique features that help bring history alive: 299 time capsules scattered through the narrative capture telling aspects of an era. 12 -snapshots offer a panoramic look at all of Europe at a particular moment in history. Full coverage of Eastern Europe—100 maps and diagrams, 72 black-and-white plates.All told, Davies’'s Europe represents one of the most important and illuminating histories to be published in recent years.",1998,4.17,1392,3242
9780060974992,0060974990,Savage Inequalities,Children in America's Schools,Jonathan Kozol,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UEJ3QAukj9oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies.",1992,4.24,272,15021
9780060975005,0060975008,Gold Bug Variations,,Richard Powers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zesncyxxr5YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A national bestseller, voted by Time as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the ""Best Books of 1991"" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award--a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance.",1992,4.13,640,1383
9780060975098,0060975091,Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance,,Richard Powers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U6zjwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers's brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it. The three stories connect in a surprising way and provide the reader with a mystery that spans a century of brutality and progress.",1992,3.84,352,709
9780060975944,0060975946,The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien,,Oscar Hijuelos,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B2jEu6nRszUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A portrait of America as seen through the eyes of its new arrivals follows the story of an intensely feminine Cuban-Irish family of fourteen daughters and its one doggedly masculine son,1996,3.69,496,457
9780060976095,0060976098,Fiskadoro,,Denis Johnson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YSTe7qSIA0wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hailed by the New York Times as ""wildly ambitious"" and ""the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, 'The Wasteland,' Fahrenheit 451, and Dog Soldiers, screened Star Wars and Apocalypse Now several times, dropped a lot of acid and listened to hours of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones,"" Fiskadoro is a stunning novel of an all-too-possible tomorrow. Deeply moving and provacative, Fiskadoro brilliantly presents the sweeping and heartbreaking tale of the survivors of a devastating nuclear war and their attempts to breaking tale of the survivors of a devastating nuclear war and their attempts to salvage remnants of the old world and rebuild their culture.",1995,3.54,221,1463
9780060976101,0060976101,The Stars at Noon,,Denis Johnson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mAXpwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noon is a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the voice of an American woman whose mission in Central America is as shadowy as her surroundings. Is she a reporter for an American magazine as she sometimes claims, or a contact person for Eyes of Peace? And who is the rough English businessman with whom she becomes involved? As the two foreigners become entangled in increasingly sinister plots, Denis Johnson masterfully dramatizes a powerful vision of spiritual bereavement and corruption.",1995,3.59,192,566
9780060976118,006097611X,Operation Wandering Soul,,Richard Powers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nIGImQLvA9gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amid the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award.",1994,3.62,352,366
9780060976729,0060976721,Reasons to Live,Stories by,Amy Hempel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WpSSQNyiHDoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hempel's now-classic collection of short fiction is peopled by complex characters who have discovered that their safety nets are not dependable and who must now learn to balance on the threads of wit, irony, and spirit.",1995,4.16,129,2651
9780060977085,0060977086,Prisoner's Dilemma,,Richard Powers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1YScHAvC1gMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world and everything that's in it. A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner's Dilemma is a story of the power of invalid experience.",1996,3.87,352,517
9780060977498,0060977493,The God of Small Things,,Arundhati Roy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2GESvfIWs4YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A debut novel of dark foreboding and family tragedy that won the prestigious Booker Prize traces the decline of one family in Southern India in the late sixties, which begins with an episode of forbidden love. Reprint. Tour.",1998,3.93,321,6549
9780060977665,0060977663,Courtesans and Fishcakes,The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens,James Davidson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4rycPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This fascinating reappraisal by a rising young scholar takes readers inside a Classical Athens that--contrary to conventional history--savored its pleasures as much as anyone.,1999,3.93,416,332
9780060987329,0060987324,Girlfriend in a Coma,,Douglas Coupland,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9__w-OOjLuAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Karen Ann MacNeil awakens after being in a coma for eighteen years, the world suddenly encounters disturbing, terrifying, and radical changes that alter reality, and Karen and her friends must try to stop the madness and restore order to the world. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.",1999,3.61,288,15469
9780060987466,0060987464,The Long Hard Road Out of Hell,,Marilyn Manson;Neil Strauss,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z05eRmEpdjIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The best-selling autobiography of America’s most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover). In his twenty-nine years, rock idol Manson has experienced more than most people have (or would want to) in a lifetime. Now, in his shocking and candid memoir, he takes readers from backstage to gaol cells, from recording studios to emergency rooms, from the pit of despair to the top of the charts, and recounts his metamorphosis from a frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered music superstar in the country. Illustrated with dozens of exclusive photographs and featuring a behind-the-scenes account of his headline-grabbing Dead to the World tour.",1999,3.89,275,21524
9780060987527,0060987529,Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister,A Novel,Gregory Maguire,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R7lwacBA53QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . and what curses accompanied Cinderella's exquisite looks? Extreme beauty is an affliction Set against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. Clara was the prettiest child, but was her life the prettiest tale? While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, burning all memories of her past, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household--and the treacherous truth of her former life. God and Satan snarling at each other like dogs.... Imps and fairy godmotbers trying to undo each other's work. How we try to pin the world between opposite extremes! Far more than a mere fairy-tale, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed--and love unveiled--in the most unexpected of places.",2000,3.52,372,53017
9780060989156,0060989157,The Dirt,Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band,Tommy Lee;Vince Neil;Nikki Sixx;Mick Mars,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6vcYiMsZaR0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The most influential, enduring, and iconic metal band of the 1980's reveals everything a tell-all of epic proportions. This unbelievable autobiography explores the rebellious lives of four of the most influential icons in American rock history. Motley Crue was the voice of a barely pubescent Generation X, the anointed high priests of backward-masking pentagram rock, pioneers of Hollywood glam, and the creators of MTV's first ""power ballad."" Their sex lives claimed celebrities from Heather Locklear to Pamela Anderson to Donna D'Errico. Their scuffles involved everyone from Axl Rose to 2LiveCrew. Their hobbies have included collecting automatic weapons, cultivating long arrest records, pushing the envelope of conceivable drug abuse, and dreaming up backstage antics that would make Ozzy Osbourne blanch with modesty. Provocatively written and brilliantly designed, this book includes over 100 photos, many never before published, for the most exciting and insightful look ever into the Crue.",2002,4.16,431,26377
9780060997021,0060997028,Life Is Elsewhere,,Milan Kundera;Aaron Asher,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q4-KVB3OnskC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent (""innocence with its bloody smile""!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce.",2000,3.95,432,9792
9780061015625,0061015628,Cat Laughing Last,A Joe Grey Mystery,Shirley Rousseau Murphy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KwDSlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fans of Lillian Jackson Braun and Rita Mae Brown and cat lovers everywhere will delight in this newest mystery featuring two furry felines on the scent of a killer. Famous novelist Elliot Traynor is temporarily living in Molena Point. He and his wife don't have much to do with the villagers, which is fine with them since no one particularly likes Vivi. But their arrival has coincided with some peculiar happenings in the town, culminating with a botched burglary in the home of 60–something Susan Brittian. Susan is a friend to feline detectives Joe Grey and Dulcie and they aren't going to let this crime go unpunished. With whiskers twitching they investigate the crime and soon find themselves on the scent of a killer.",2002,4.21,368,638
9780061020094,0061020095,The Crow: The Lazarus Heart,,Poppy Z. Brite,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_ccsPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As S&M photographer Jared Poe waits on Louisiana's Death Row to be executed for the murder of his lover, he can not imagine that his search for the true killer will continue after his death in the shadowy realm of The Crow",1999,3.7,336,1334
9780061020575,0061020575,Well of Darkness,Volume One of the Sovereign Stone Trilogy,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=32gVlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Second in line for succession to the throne, Prince Dagnarus will have his crown...and his queen -- though his heart's prize is a married elfin beauty. Let his hated half-brother Prince Helmos and the Dominion Lords dare to oppose him. For Dagnarus's most loyal servant has ventured into the terrible darkness, where lies the most potent talisman in the realm. And once it is in the dark prince's hand, no power will deter his Destiny.",2001,3.66,562,2010
9780061020704,0061020702,The Light Fantastic,,Terry Pratchett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fAU6uoSrTJEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...",2000,3.97,241,86465
9780061030659,0061030651,U.S.S. Seawolf,,Patrick Robinson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d63jTKM6iGcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Armed with stolen U.S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry,led by the ICBM submarine Xia III -- a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the U.S. fleet, the 9,000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf, deep into the dark, forbidden waters of the South China Sea. But then the unthinkable happens: Seawolf, collides with a Chinese destroyer and falls into enemy hands. A team of cunning Navy SEALs -- the biggest Special Forces assault group assembled since Vietnam -- is sent in to free the captive Seawolf, crew and bring them home. The American Eagle confronts the Chinese Dragon with the balance of world power on the line. Failure is not an option...",2001,3.94,496,1523
9780061052392,0061052396,Realms of Dragons,The Worlds of Weis and Hickman,Margaret Weis;Denise Little;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ieAFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the tradition of ""The Wheel of Time, "" this lavishly illustrated work is a definitive reference guide to the fantasy worlds of bestselling authors Weis and Hickman. Illustrations, many in full color.",1999,4.04,218,47
9780061053566,0061053562,The Player of Games,,Iain Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=io0JAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gurgeh, a champion game player, travels a hundred thousand light years to the Empire of Azad, where the winner of their complex game becomes emperor",1997,4.27,293,43988
9780061053665,006105366X,My Soul to Keep,,Tananarive Due,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-5IDAnYtM58C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost. Now, his immortal brethren have decided David must return and leave his family in Miami. Instead, David vows to invoke a forbidden ritual to keep Jessica and his daughter with him forever. Harrowing, engrossing and skillfully rendered, My Soul to Keep traps Jessica between the desperation of immortals who want to rob her of her life and a husband who wants to rob her of her soul. With deft plotting and an unforgettable climax, this tour de force reminiscent of early Anne Rice will win Due a new legion of fans.",1998,4.18,346,3575
9780061054679,0061054674,Peril's Gate,Book Five of the Wars of Light and Shadow,Janny Wurts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OSOvzcbhuucC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the world of Athera, the fate of all realms hangs on the resolution of the brutal conflict born of prince against prince. Branded a minion of evil -- escaping the death sentence imposed by his half-brother Lysaer and his Alliance of Light -- Arithon, Master of Shadow, now faces the last choice remaining to him in the merciless winter wilds: to cast his lot with a renegade enchanter whom Arithon dares not trust ... or die by the swords of fanatical enemies.",2002,4.15,940,518
9780061054686,0061054682,Fugitive Prince,,Janny Wurts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tBINjRrDqmMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Half brothers Lysaer, the Prince of the Light, and Arithon, the Master of Shadow, engage in violent conflict in the wake of the Vastmark Warhost's destruction and the strategies of the Koriani Enchantresses",1998,3.88,704,59
9780061054907,0061054909,Love in Vein,,Poppy Z. Brite,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AO_bZJcLnHEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A sexy new repackaging of the extremely popular anthology of vampire erotica, edited by acclaimed author Poppy Z. Brite. The classic horror tale is about fear. But in the last few years a new literature of the macabre has arisen, one that goes deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers. The ones even lovers are forbidden to share. Acclaimed dark fantasy author Poppy Z. Brite has brought together this genre's most powerful and seductive authors in an original collection of vampiric erotica, a shameless celebration of unspeakable intimacies. It is not for everyone. But neither is the night.",1995,3.6,397,2391
9780061056000,0061056006,Cat on the Edge,A Joe Grey Mystery,Shirley Rousseau Murphy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G0yvy42PB1AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It's been quite a week for Joe Grey. First the large, powerful feline discovers that, through some strange, inexplicable phenomenon, he now has the ability to understand human language. Then he discovers he can speak it as well! It's a nightmare for a cat who'd prefer to sleep the day away carefree, but Joe can handle it. That is, until he has the misfortune to witness a murder in the alley behind Jolly's Deli -- and worse, to be seen witnessing it. With all of his nine lives suddenly at risk, Joe's got no choice but to get to the bottom of the heinous crime -- because his mouse-hunting days are over for good unless he can help bring a killer to justice.",1996,3.9,274,1855
9780061059476,0061059471,Cat in the Dark,A Joe Grey Mystery,Shirley Rousseau Murphy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wz1vlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Of course I worry. What if the cops witness a cat opening a skylight and masterminding a robbery? The tabloids will love it."" There's a new pair of thieves in Molena Point, California, a renegade yellow-eyed tomcat with a cold disdain for the law, and a scruffy human partner who is no better. The two, clever and silent at their work, are bad news indeed to crime-solving cats Joe Grey and Dulcie. But when Joe learns the pair's connection to a good friend, and then an innocent couple turns up dead in the library garden, Joe and Dulcie must engage in some fancy paw work to unmask the deceptions and route the real killer -- before his brazen criminal crime spree careens madly toward them.",1999,4.25,320,696
9780061093982,006109398X,Treasure Box,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KRbrxIVhjnMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A shattering childhood tragedy left Quentin Fears devastated and unable to cope with the world and its citizens. It didn't, however, prevent him from making millions through brilliant investments. And now the enigmatic recluse has experienced the extraordinarily unexpected: love at first sight. But a whirlwind courtship and marriage to Madeleine -- beautiful, witty, and equally ill-at-ease with reality -- is bringing Quentin something other than the bliss he anticipated, for now he must meet his new wife's family. A bizarre, dysfunctional collection of extreme characters, they are guarding a secret both shocking and terrifying -- as is Madeleine herself. And suddenly Quentin Fears must prevent his dream woman from unleashing an ageless malevolence intent on ruling the world.",1997,3.32,384,3603
9780061093999,0061093998,Homebody,A Novel,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X4Hyy8XRBf0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Damaged Houses A master craftsman, Don Lark could fix everything except what mattered, his own soul. After tragedy claimed the one thing he loved, he began looking for dilapidated houses to buy, renovate, and resell at a profit--giving these empty shells the second chance at life he denied himself. Damaged Souls Then in a quiet Southern town, Lark finds his biggest challenge: a squalid yet sturdy mansion that has suffered decades of abuse at the hands of greedy landlords and transient tenants. While two charming old neighbor ladies ply him with delicious cooking, they offer dire warnings about the house's evil past. But there is something about this building that pushes Lark on, even as its enchantments grow increasingly ominous. Will finishing the house offer Lark redemption, or unleash the darkest forces of damnation upon him?",1999,3.39,430,2660
9780061094156,0061094153,Imajica II,The Reconciliation,Clive Barker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DZVKScH9E5oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The magical tale of ill-fated lovers lost among worlds teetering on the edge of destruction, where their passion holds the key to escape. There has never been a book like Imajica. Transforming every expectation offantasy fiction with its heady mingling of radical sexuality and spiritual anarchy, it has carried its millions of readers into regions of passion and philosophy that few books have even attempted to map. It's an epic in every way; vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. A book of erotic mysteries and perverse violence. A book of ancient, mythological landscapes and even more ancient magic.",1995,4.42,544,2538
9780061094224,0061094226,Choke,,Stuart Woods,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_H-mz4TopZ4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chuck Chandler, a Key West tennis pro, tends to choke in his big matches, a tendency he must overcome when he meets Harry Carras and his beautiful wife Clare, and becomes a suspect in Harry's death",1996,3.83,352,2218
9780061094231,0061094234,Dirt,,Stuart Woods,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6RxDPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the heels of his New York Times bestseller Choke, Stuart Woods brings back one of his best-loved characters, Stone Barrington, in a glittering roller-coaster ride through the murderous world of high-profile celebrity gossip. Feared and disliked for both her poison pen and ice-queen persona, gossip columnist Amanda Dart finds the tables have turned. When an anonymous gossipmonger begins faxing the scathing details of Amanda's sexual indiscretions to national opinion makers, she turns to Stone Barrington for help. But as the faxes also expose other members of the gossip ""community,"" it becomes apparent that the most respected of the social scene will stop at nothing--even murder--to clear their names. Set against a backdrop of glitzy Manhattan society, Dirt is a sexy, fast-paced and witty thriller--Stuart Woods at his best.",1997,3.88,448,6000
9780061096853,0061096857,Kilo Class,,Patrick Robinson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PHXr0J6ZoPMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The near future finds China ready to buy ten of Russia's kilo class nuclear submarines, intending to subdue Taiwan once and for all, but American interests bring a top-secret group of Navy SEALs to intercept the delivery. By the author of Nimitz Class. Reprint.",1999,4.04,512,1671
9780061120060,0061120065,Their Eyes Were Watching God,,Zora Neale Hurston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gz-d8SIFAcgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and affecting today as when it was first published -- perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.",2006,3.9,219,209110
9780061120077,0061120073,A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,,Betty Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y-FZ9gRwMTYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's 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.",2006,4.26,496,326733
9780061120091,006112009X,One Hundred Years of Solitude,,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Fiction,,"Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.",2006,4.06,448,1510
9780061120251,0061120251,Daughter of Fortune,A Novel,Isabel Allende,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SVQRo4yH_bYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An orphan raised in Valparaíso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849. She enters a rough-and-tumble world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. With the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en, Eliza moves freely in a society of single men and prostitutes, creating an unconventional but independent life for herself. The young Chilean's search for her elusive lover gradually turns into another kind of journey, and by the time she finally hears news of him, Eliza must decide who her true love really is.",2006,3.9,432,95447
9780061122095,0061122092,By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept,A Novel of Forgiveness,Paulo Coelho,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9AHalgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome and charismatic spiritual leader. She has learned well how to bury her feelings . . . and he has turned to religion as a refuge from his raging inner conflicts. Now they are together once again, embarking on a journey fraught with difficulties, as long-buried demons of blame and resentment resurface after more than a decade. But in a small village in the French Pyrenees, by the waters of the River Piedra, a most special relationship will be reexamined in the dazzling light of some of life's biggest questions.",2006,3.57,208,68403
9780061122415,0061122416,The Alchemist,,Paulo Coelho,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pTr44Sx6oWQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,"" the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."" Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."" Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.",2006,3.85,197,1592632
9780061124266,0061124265,Veronika Decides to Die,A Novel of Redemption,Paulo Coelho,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dlgK3OfbiIEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything -- youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does -- at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live. Inspired by events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Bold and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.",2006,3.7,210,126224
9780061125935,0061125938,Goodnight Moon 123,A Counting Book,Margaret Wise Brown;Clement Hurd,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3Q2focAO09AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A little bunny counts and bids goodnight to all the objects in his room before falling asleep.,2007,3.59,32,189
9780061127762,0061127760,Charlotte's Web Signature Edition,,E. B. White,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oi9BPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur—and of Wilbur's dear friend Charlotte, a beautiful large grey spider who lived with Wilbur in the barn. With the help of Templeton, the rat who never did anything for anybody unless there was something in it for him, and with a wonderfully clever plan of her own, Charlotte saved the life of Wilbur, who by this time had grown up to be quite some pig. How all of this comes about is Mr. White's story. It is a story of the magic of childhood on the farm. It is also a story of friendship, loyalty, and truth and shows readers that friends come in all shapes and sizes. The beloved story of Charlotte the spider, Wilbur the pig, and Fern, the little girl who understood their language, will continue to delight readers both young and old everywhere for generations to come.",2006,4.16,224,226
9780061127915,0061127914,By Myself and Then Some,,Lauren Bacall,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nHXXmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to project an audacious spirit and pursue on-screen excellence. The product of an extraordinary mother and a loving extended family, she produced, with Humphrey Bogart, some of the most electric and memorable scenes in movie history. After tragically losing Bogart, she returned to New York and a brilliant career in the theatre. A two-time Tony winner, she married and later divorced her second love, Jason Robards, and never lost sight of the strength that made her a star. Now, thirty years after the publication of her original National Book Award–winning memoir, Bacall has added new material to her inspiring history. In her own frank and beautiful words, one of our most enduring actresses reveals the remarkable true story of a lifetime so rich with incident and achievement that Hollywood itself would be unable to adequately reproduce it.",2006,3.95,512,2720
9780061129735,0061129739,The Art of Loving,,Erich Fromm,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TRMEDVrkf9EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for love Most people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. As with every art, love demands practice and concentration, as well as genuine insight and understanding. In his classic work, The Art of Loving, renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm explores love in all its aspects—not only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, the love of God, and the love of parents for their children.",2006,4.03,192,35605
9780061131271,006113127X,Factotum tie-in,,Charles Bukowski,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TjYsAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next. Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.",2006,3.96,208,395
9780061131523,0061131520,The White Masai,,Corinne Hofmann,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uatyAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A former European entrepreneur recounts how she fell in love with Lketinga, a Masai warrior, while vacationing in Kenya and subsequently uprooted her life to move to the isolated bush country of Africa, where they worked to build a relationship in spite of difficult language and cultural barriers. 30,000 first printing.",2006,3.43,320,4314
9780061131622,0061131628,Mandy,,Julie Andrews Edwards,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5dNj_S2nFZQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mandy, a ten-year-old orphan, dreams of a place to call her own. Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Mandy works to make it truly hers. Sometimes she ""borrows"" things she needs from the orphanage. Sometimes, to guard her secret, she even lies. Then, one stormy night at the cottage, Mandy gets sick, and no one knows how to find her—except a special friend she didn't know she had. This new edition of a classic novel features beautiful black-and-white illustrations that capture the magic of finding a home.",2006,4.24,320,9482
9780061136900,0061136905,The Crusader,Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism,Paul Kengor,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iWR3AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Based on extraordinary research: a major reassessment of Ronald Reagan's lifelong crusade to dismantle the Soviet Empire–including shocking revelations about the liberal American politician who tried to collude with USSR to counter Reagan's efforts Paul Kengor's God and Ronald Reagan made presidential historian Paul Kengor's name as one of the premier chroniclers of the life and career of the 40th president. Now, with The Crusader, Kengor returns with the one book about Reagan that has not been written: The story of his lifelong crusade against communism, and of his dogged–and ultimately triumphant–effort to overthrow the Soviet Union. Drawing upon reams of newly declassified presidential papers, as well as untapped Soviet media archives and new interviews with key players, Kengor traces Reagan's efforts to target the Soviet Union from his days as governor of California to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of what he famously dubbed the ""Evil Empire."" The result is a major revision and enhancement of what historians are only beginning to realize: That Reagan not only wished for the collapse of communism, but had a deep and specific understanding of what it would take––and effected dozens of policy shifts that brought the USSR to its heels within a decade of his presidency. The Crusader makes use of key sources from behind the Iron Curtain, including one key memo that implicates a major American liberal politician–still in office today–in a scheme to enlist Soviet premier Yuri Andropov to help defeat Reagan's 1984 reelection bid. Such new finds make The Crusader not just a work of extraordinary history, but a work of explosive revelation that will be debated as hotly in 2006 as Reagan's policies were in the 1980s.",2006,4.2,432,132
9780061137037,0061137030,Spider's House,A Novel,Paul Bowles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3_jMWuT2OGEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures—recurrent themes of Paul Bowles's writings—The Spider's House is dramatic, brutally honest, and shockingly relevant to today's political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere.",2006,4.03,432,1060
9780061137365,0061137367,Days,A Tangier Diary,Paul Bowles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=38Pt8xMOTqsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing informality, clear-sightedness, and passages of exquisite prose, these pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider, a brutal episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace, and the pageantry and excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In Days, a master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward his own daily existence, giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his life in late twentieth-century Tangier.",2006,3.3,128,117
9780061137457,0061137456,Howl,"original draft facsimile, transcript, and variant versions, fully annotated by author, with contemporaneous correspondence, account of first public reading, legal skirmishes, precursor texts, and bibliography",Allen Ginsberg;Barry Miles,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t-wfAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A special anniversary edition of the first publication of the seminal poetic work describes the background of Ginsberg's famous poem, and discusses literary allusions, and techniques of composition used in creating the controversial work. Reprint.",2006,4.22,208,176
9780061139376,0061139378,Coraline,,Neil Gaiman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pXlAY0XnrQUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wall—until Coraline unlocks the door . . . and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only different. The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. And there's another mother and father there who want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to change her and keep her with them. . . . Forever. Coraline is an extraordinary fairy tale/nightmare from the uniquely skewed imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.,2006,4.05,162,377685
9780061139635,0061139637,Points in Time,,Paul Bowles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t4EukRRN6z8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing expreience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along the way to create resonant images of the country, it's landscapes, and the beliefs and characteristics of its inhabitants.",2006,3.68,96,173
9780061140501,0061140503,At the Edge,,Cait London,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TOsOjwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Claire, Tempest, and Leona: triplets blessed—or cursed—each with a special extra sense that they would deny, given the chance . . . Claire, the youngest, finds solitude and escape in rural Montana. The descendant of an ancient Celtic seer, she struggles to conceal her unsettling power to sense what others feel—the good and the evil, the pain and the joy. When her peace is shattered by her new neighbor, Neil Olafson, Claire's shielded emotions start simmering. He's the opposite of everything she's ever wanted, a man who ignites her latent sensuality. And while her eerie powers have frightened others away, Neil isn't running. And when Claire comes face-to-face with danger, he becomes her protector—as well as her lover. Now, Claire and Neil must confront the past and save the life of a young innocent. But there is a killer lurking in the background who wants them both dead before they can unravel his dirty secrets. And he's been very busy . . .",2007,3.79,384,272
9780061140532,0061140538,Remind Me Again Why I Need A Man,,Claudia Carroll,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EvzyzYHTliIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Despairing of finding an ideal husband in spite of her attractive looks and intelligence, television producer Amelia Lockwood endures a humiliating year of night classes while reconnecting with a handsome former flame who broke her heart. 35,000 first printing.",2007,3.31,384,672
9780061142024,0061142026,Stardust,,Neil Gaiman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NQ_cSYevzAEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"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. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman comes a remarkable quest into the dark and miraculous—in pursuit of love and the utterly impossible.",2006,4.08,248,264799
9780061144899,0061144894,When the Heart Waits,Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions,Sue Monk Kidd,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JlP91ei7BGQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the Bestselling Author of The Secret Life of Bees, an Inspiring Autobiographical Account of Personal Pain, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Grace Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of ""active waiting."" This PLUS edition includes a reader's guide.",2006,4.17,240,2141
9780061145391,0061145394,The Gabriel Hounds,,Mary Stewart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JIn5AZLEPGsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It's all a grand adventure when Christy Mansel unexpectedly runs into her cousin Charles in Damascus. And being young, rich, impetuous, and used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on their eccentric Great-Aunt Harriet—despite a long-standing family rule strictly forbidding unannounced visits. A strange new world awaits Charles and Christy beyond the gates of Dar Ibrahim—""Lady Harriet's"" ancient, crumbling palace in High Lebanon—where a physician is always in residence and a handful of Arab servants attends to the odd old woman's every need. But there is a very good—very sinister—reason why guests are not welcome at Dar Ibrahim. And the young cousins are about to discover that, as difficult as it is to break into the dark, imposing edifice, it may prove even harder still to escape . . .",2006,3.91,322,3542
9780061150142,0061150142,The Pact,A Love Story,Jodi Picoult,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VDCvqF9o8RoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Until the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is dead—shot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered from his father's cabinet as part of an apparent suicide pact—leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew. From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult—one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction—comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence.",2006,4.01,512,237587
9780061159176,0061159174,The Known World,,Edward P. Jones,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NE-vsBpIuQ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order, and chaos ensues. Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all its moral complexities.",2006,3.83,388,28962
9780061161575,0061161578,Ines of My Soul LP,A Novel,Isabel Allende,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GDwU4rFSEFMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fact-based novel that recounts the life of national heroine Inés Suarez, a daring Spanish conquistadora who toiled to build the nation of Chile.",2006,3.92,528,45
9780061177590,0061177598,Women,,Charles Bukowski,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=170LAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tells the story of an ugly middle-aged man who has gone unloved for too long, but a change comes over him at the age of fifty as he begins more and more relationships with women, in a compelling study of life lived on the edge. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2007,3.87,291,49265
9780061196676,0061196673,Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins,,Carl Zimmer,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xufuSNGg_vMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the savannas of Africa to modern-day labs for biomechanical analysis and molecular genetics, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins reveals how anthropologists are furiously redrawing the human family tree. Their discoveries have spawned a host of new questions: Should chimpanzees be included as a human species? Was it the physical difficulty of human childbirth that encouraged the development of social groups in early human species? Did humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Why did humans supplant Neanderthals in the end? In answering such questions, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins sheds new light on one of the most important questions of all: What makes us human?",2007,4,176,167
9780061196683,0061196681,My secret,a PostSecret book,Frank Warren,Antiques & Collectibles,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JZIYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of artfully decorated postcards with secrets anonymously written on them by people from all over the world and sent to the founder of PostSecret, a community art project that evolved into a website.",2006,4.34,144,5801
9780061198755,0061198757,The Secret Lives of Men and Women,A PostSecret Book,Frank Warren,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q9q774PMUrwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Postsecret.com founder Frank Warren is back with an irresistible addition to his bestselling PostSecret series. For The Secret Lives of Men and Women, Warren has selected a never-before-seen collection of postcards bearing the explosive confessions and captivating revelations of men and women everywhere. Created using photographs, collages, illustrations, and more, the handmade cards offer a compelling dialogue on some of today’s most provocative topics—from marriage and infidelity, to parenting, office politics, repressed fantasies, and even abortion—daring us to consider how well we really know our friends, family, even ourselves.",2007,4.37,144,5359
9780061205699,0061205699,To Kill a Mockingbird (slipcased edition),,Harper Lee,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M9lKHhLy1y0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the age of eight, Scout Finch is an entrenched free-thinker. She can accept her father's warning that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. The benefits said to be gained from going to school and keeping her temper elude her. The place of this enchanting, intensely moving story is Maycomb, Alabama. The time is the Depression, but Scout and her brother, Jem, are seldom depressed. They have appalling gifts for entertaining themselves—appalling, that is, to almost everyone except their wise lawyer father, Atticus. Atticus is a man of unfaltering good will and humor, and partly because of this, the children become involved in some disturbing adult mysteries: fascinating Boo Radley, who never leaves his house; the terrible temper of Mrs. Dubose down the street; the fine distinctions that make the Finch family ""quality""; the forces that cause the people of Maycomb to show compassion in one crisis and unreasoning cruelty in another. Also because Atticus is what he is, and because he lives where he does, he and his children are plunged into a conflict that indelibly marks their lives—and gives Scout some basis for thinking she knows just about as much about the world as she needs to.",2006,4.27,323,250
9780061208492,0061208493,The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics,,C. S. Lewis,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JaC0_Yvffr0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Seven Spiritual Masterworks by C. S. Lewis This classic collection includes C. S. Lewis's most important spiritual works: Mere Christianity The Screwtape Letters The Great Divorce The Problem of Pain Miracles A Grief Observed The Abolition of Man,2007,4.61,746,873
9780061238239,0061238236,The End of Days,Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return,Zecharia Sitchin,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EIBljQDVR-kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A conclusion to the Earth Chronicles series brings the author's theories about the Anunnaki extraterrestrial beings full circle, addressing key questions pertaining to such topics as the biblical Daniel, Sir Isaac Newton, and the end of the world.",2007,4.06,336,470
9780061312113,0061312118,The Blue and Brown Books,,Ludwig Wittgenstein,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ffiZugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These works, as the sub-title makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, possibly the most important and influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-1934: the 'Brown Book' was a draft for what eventually became the growth of the first part of Philosophical Investigations. This book reveals the germination and growth of the ideas which found their final expression in Witgenstein's later work. It is indispensable therefore to students of Witgenstein's thought and to all those who wish to study at first-hand the mental processes of a thinker who fundamentally changed the course of modern philosophy.",1965,4.13,208,1970
9780061750588,0061750581,The Pursuit of Happyness,,Chris Gardner,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xUVtpmQZlZUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city's working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, ""HO-tels,"" soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station. Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district. More than a memoir of Gardner's financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and unstintingly honest, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.",2009,,,
9780061796067,0061796069,What A Lady Wants,,Victoria Alexander,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ms8Sxy_sfEEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One bachelor down . . . three more to go. Four most desirable gentlemen have wagered one shilling apiece and a bottle of cognac that will go to the last unmarried man standing . . . Nigel Cavendish knows he'll marry one day, but hopefully that day is many years—and many women—in the future! Until then, the handsome, unrepentant rake intends to enjoy life's pleasures to the fullest! From the moment Lady Felicity Melville spies the adventurous scoundrel climbing from a neighbor's window—with his comely conquest's husband in hot pursuit—she knows Nigel is the answer to her prayers . . . with a little reformation, of course! Felicity craves excitement and who in all of London is more exciting than the infamous Mr. Cavendish? So what's a girl to do but hatch a scheme to win what she so fervently desires. But her plan works too well when a game of chance and an errant pistol shot abruptly make them husband and wife—but in a way neither wanted. Now Felicity has to prove to her wayward husband that she's the only woman he could ever want . . . or need!",2009,,,
9780061796777,0061796778,A Little Bit Wicked,,Victoria Alexander,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KPM0TYF7DNgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Who will be the last unmarried man standing? No man in his right mind would want to get married, but every duke, earl, and viscount knows that a fellow must do his duty in the end. So four of London's most desirable gentlemen make a wager—the prize going to the one who remains unwed the longest. Gideon Pearsall, Viscount Warton, thinks he has a fair shot at winning. After all, he's managed to enjoy the favors of many a lady while resisting the parson's noose. Even when he's stopped dead in his tracks by the most scandalous woman in all of London—Judith, Lady Chester—he vows to have her bedded but never wedded. Beautiful, and more than a little bit naughty, Judith has always kept herself within the bounds of respectability, even while playing by her own rules. And the experience has taught her to avoid marriage. She has no desire to resist Warton's hot kisses, and his tempting touch is impossible to ignore. But soon both Judith and Gideon can't help but wonder . . . is it possible to be a little bit wicked and still follow your heart?",2009,,,
9780061833076,006183307X,The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill,A Treasury of More than 1000 Quotations,James C. Humes,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=00d_C6Yf9m0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An extremely entertaining compendium of bon mots, anecdotes, and trivia about Winston Churchill from a leading Churchill lecturer and performer -- useful for speakers, students, of history, and World War II buffs, as well as general readers.",2009,,,
9780061843181,0061843180,"Sleep, Pale Sister",,Joanne Harris,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BLSAth-7Re8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister -- a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools. Originally published in 1994 -- and never before available in the United States -- Sleep, Pale Sister is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry's hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface. Sleep, Pale Sister combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris's brimming cornucopia of talents. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.",2009,,,
9780061954597,0061954594,Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness,,Scott Westerfeld,Young Adult Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GZa3um9f9NoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is the second book in New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld’s Midnighters series. As the Midnighters search for the truth about the secret hour, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby’s history, and a conspiracy that touches the world of daylight. This time Jessica Day is not the only Midnighter in mortal danger, and if the group can’t find a way to come together, they could lose one of their own . . . forever. Touching Darkness is the second book in the Midnighters trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Uglies series.",2009,,,
9780061968464,0061968463,The Queen of Attolia,,Megan Whalen Turner,Young Adult Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VW96Cr2twbQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Discover the world of the Queen’s Thief New York Times-bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner’s entrancing and award-winning Queen’s Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction, Eugenides the thief. Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief novels are rich with political machinations and intrigue, battles lost and won, dangerous journeys, divine intervention, power, passion, revenge, and deception. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Patrick Rothfuss, and George R. R. Martin. The brilliant thief Eugenides has visited the Queen of Attolia’s palace one too many times, leaving small tokens and then departing unseen. When his final excursion does not go as planned, he is captured by the ruthless queen. The Queen’s Thief novels have been praised by writers, critics, reviewers, and fans and have been honored with glowing reviews, “best of” citations, and numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Newbery Honor, the Andre Norton Award shortlist, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Discover and rediscover the stand-alone companions, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, and Thick as Thieves, all epic novels set in the world of the Queen’s Thief. A Booklist Top 10 Fantasy Books for Youth ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age Parent’s Choice Gold Award A Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Book “The Queen’s Thief books awe and inspire me. They have the feel of a secret, discovered history of real but forgotten lands. The plot-craft is peerless, the revelations stunning, and the characters flawed, cunning, heartbreaking, exceptional. Megan Whalen Turner’s books have a permanent spot on my favorites shelf, with space waiting for more books to come.”—Laini Taylor, New York Times-bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone novels and Strange the Dreamer ""Unforgettable characters, plot twists that will make your head spin, a world rendered in elegant detail—you will fall in love with every page of these stories. Megan Whalen Turner writes vivid, immersive, heartbreaking fantasy that will leave you desperate to return to Attolia again and again.""—Leigh Bardugo, New York Times-bestselling author of the The Grisha Trilogy and Six of Crows “Megan Whalen Turner proves to be one of the brightest creative talents. With each book, she continues to add new levels and new luster to her sparkling imagination.”—Lloyd Alexander, Newbery Medalist and National Book Award-winning author of The Chronicles of Prydain “Readers will be spellbound.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Turner’s storytelling is so sure that readers will want to go along with her—and discover whatever it is that Eugenides will do next.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[An] intense read . . . thoroughly involving and wholly satisfying on all fronts.”—The Horn Book (starred review)",2009,,,
9780061977664,0061977667,The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni,1968-1998,Nikki Giovanni,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nCgrT6bx0Y8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967–1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI will include the complete volumes of five adult books of poetry: Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement, My House, The Women and the Men, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, and Those Who Ride the Night Winds. Nikki self–published her first book Black Feeling, Black Talk/BlackJudgement in 1969, selling 10,000 copies; William Morrow published in 1970. Know for its iconic revolutionary phrases, it is heralded as one of the most important volumes of modern African–American poetry and is considered the seminal volume of Nikki's body of work. My House (Morrow 1972) marks a new dimension in tone and philosphy––This is Giovanni's first foray into the autobiographical. In The Women and the Men (Morrow 1975), Nikki displays her compassion for the people, things and places she has encountered––She reveres the ordinary and is in search of the extraordinary. Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (Morrow 1978) is one of the most poignant and introspective of all Giovanni's collections. These poems chronicle the drastic change that took place during the 1970s––when the dreams of the Civil Rights era seemed to have evaporated. Those Who Ride the Night Winds (Morrow 1983) is devoted to ""the day trippers and midnight cowboys,"" the ones who have devoted their lives to pushing the limits of the human condition and shattered the constraints of the stautus quo.",2009,,,
9780061999420,0061999423,Sugarplums and Scandal,,Dana Cameron;Mary Daheim;Lori Avocato;Kerrelyn Sparks;Suzanne Macpherson;Cait London,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hcTOj-A6C70C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"SUGARPLUMS AND SCANDAL brings together the best of romance and mystery in one delightful collection of Christmas tales. In the expert hands of six of Avon's best storytellers, the holiday season takes on an air of love and scandalous surprises! Filled with Christmas miracles, romance, and suspense, this will make the perfect gift for both romance and mystery fans. Each author brings their own unique voice and characters to the collection, as well as their fan followings. All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth – Lori Avocato The Lords of Misrule – Dana Cameron The Ghost of Christmas Passed – Mary Daheim Partners in Crime – Cait London Holly Go Lightly – Suzanne Macpherson A Very Vampy Christmas – Kerrelyn Sparks",2010,,,
9780062032720,0062032720,"How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay",Kick-Start Your Home-Based Business in Just Thirty Days,Adam Ginsberg,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eNq_KlqjJdwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A lively insider's guide to starting a successful small business selling items old and new on eBay, written with personal anecdotes, well–kept secrets, and insider tips by Adam Ginsberg, eBay's most successful private salesperson. This is the insider's guide to making money on eBay. Adam Ginsberg is the most successful seller on eBay, moving around a million dollars' worth of merchandise every month. Not only will he impart his personal secrets on how to sell on eBay –learned through years of experience – and his tips on expanding your small business using eBay as a global market, but he'll also give fun side–notes and anecdotes, keeping the book lively and making it a fun and interesting read. This book will be a must–have for all current and aspiring eBay sellers, all small–business owners, and anyone who wants to learn how to start a million–dollar company.",2010,,,
9780062507549,0062507540,Owning Your Own Shadow,Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche,Robert A. Johnson,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mLc9X3QCkR8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A bestselling author shows how we can reclaim and make peace with the ""shadow"" side of our personality.",1993,4.07,118,2432
9780062508119,0062508113,The World's Religions,Our Great Wisdom Traditions,Huston Smith,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eDMIwLHwKOcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides an introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and the native traditions of the Americas, Australia, Africa, and Oceania",1991,4.07,416,8383
9780062508867,0062508865,Muhammad,,Karen Armstrong,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FbDVDnPRXKoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This vivid and detailed biography strips away centuries of distortion and myth and presents a balanced view of the man whose religion continues to dramatically affect the course of history.,1993,4.15,304,4795
9780062511119,0062511114,A Manual for Living,,Epictetus,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cofP7FbBfAgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The essence of perennial Stoic wisdom in aphorisms of stunning insight and simplicity. The West's first and best little instruction book offers thoroughly contemporary and pragmatic reflections on how best to live with serenity and joy.,1994,4.22,96,148
9780062512796,006251279X,The Pilgrimage,,Paulo Coelho;Alan R. Clarke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=atdJcAL3MBQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Previously published as The Diary of a Magus, this book tells of Coelho's initiation into a spiritual path, leading to inner development and wisdom. He shares exercises in self-control and self-discovery, which he was taught on his pilgrimage along the ancient road to Santiago.",1995,3.65,272,878
9780062513342,0062513346,The Valkyries,,Paulo Coelho,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jMT_h99Z_lUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Magical Tale About Forgiving Our Past and Believing in Our Future The enchanting, true story of The Valkyries begins in Rio de Janeiro when author Paulo Coelho gives his mysterious master J., the only manuscript for his book The Alchemist. Haunted by a devastating curse, Coelho confesses to J., ""I′ve seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed about to achieve them."" In response, J. gives Coelho a daunting task: He must find and speak with his guardian angel. ""The curse can be broken,"" he replies, ""if you complete the task."" Rising to the challenge, Paulo and his wife, Cristina, drop everything, pack their bags, and take off on a forty day adventure into the starkly beautiful and sometimes dangerous Mojave Desert where they encounter more than they bargained for. A masterful blend of the exotic locales, dramatic adventure, and magical storytelling, for which Coelho′s fictional works are renowned, this true-life account is at once a modern-day adventure and a metaphysical odyssey.",1996,3.31,212,696
9780062516374,006251637X,Rainforest Home Remedies,The Maya Way To Heal Your Body and Replenish Your Soul,Rosita Arvigo;Nadine Epstein,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DLnwOX0FlYEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rainforest Healing from Your Home and Garden Find alternatives to chemical anti-depressants and painkillers in your spice rack. Learn about natural anti-itch salves for insect bites. Soothe and relieve envy, grief, sadness, and fear the Maya way. Rid your house of negative energy with a Maya cleansing ritual. Try the easy-to-make bronchitis remedy.",2001,4.12,221,65
9780062545039,0062545035,A Circle of Quiet,,Madeleine L'Engle,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0r6LtMCHH3wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author's visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home.,1984,4.21,246,4985
9780062700254,0062700251,Bulfinch's Mythology,"The Age of the Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of",Richard P. Martin,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eev4uAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A beautiful gift edition of Thomas Bulfinch's classic retelling of famous myths and folk legends, with interpretive essays by Princeton classics professor Richard P. Martin.",1991,4.1,768,64
9780064300896,0064300897,Romanticism,,Hugh Honour,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BsJHmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A study of the influence Romanticism exerts upon Western culture.,1979,3.73,416,41
9780064400961,0064400964,Betsy-Tacy,,Maud Hart Lovelace,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tfUCGyIfJzsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Best Friends Forever There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy becoms such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy. Betsy and Tacy have lots of fun together. They make a playhouse from a piano box, have a sand store, and dress up and go calling. And one day, they come home to a wonderful surprise—a new friend named Tib. Ever since their first publication in the 1940's, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.",1993,4.07,144,20496
9780064400992,0064400999,Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill,,Maud Hart Lovelace,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iJSAmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Betsy, Tacy, and Tib can't wait to be ten. After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginning of growing up—exciting things are bound to happen. And they do! The girls fall in love with the King of Spain, perform in the School Entertainment, and for the first time, go all the way over the Big Hill to Little Syria by themselves. There Betsy, Tacy, and Tib make new friends and learn a thing or two. They learn that new Americans are sometimes the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.",1993,4.17,192,7661
9780064401104,0064401103,Heaven to Betsy,,Maud Hart Lovelace,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q3H5yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A novel about the active lives of two rather different high school freshmen in 1906.,1945,4.29,368,5224
9780064401586,0064401588,Let the Hurricane Roar,,Rose Wilder Lane,Families,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xmQ-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A young pioneer couple homesteading in the Dakotas are beset with hardships and misfortune.,1985,3.96,118,179
9780064401685,0064401685,The Wish Giver,Three Tales of Coven Tree,Bill Brittain,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uYAY6WCsZgIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree Church Social promising he can give people exactly what they ask for, three young believers-in-magic each make a wish that comes true in the most unexpected way.",1986,3.83,192,2117
9780064402453,0064402452,Racso and the Rats of NIMH,,Jane Leslie Conly,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MgoNv0g8pskC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"‘Racso, a brash and boastful little rodent, is making his way to Thorn Valley, determined to learn how to read and write and become a hero. His bragging and lies get him off to a bad start, but a crisis gives him the opportunity to prove his mettle. A worthy successor [to Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, a Newbery Medal winner by the author's father].' 'BL. 1986 Children's Editors' Choices (BL) Children's Choices for 1987 (IRA/CBC) Notable 1986 Childrens' Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) 1986 Children's Books (NY Public Library) Best Science Fiction/Fantasy 1986 (VOYA)",1988,3.76,288,3231
9780064403368,006440336X,Child of the Owl,Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1965,Laurence Yep,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IvP2bGRcViQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big -- 'cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it's the penthouse suite. But then hr ends up in the hospital, and Casey is sent to Chinatown to live with her grandmother, Paw-Paw. Now the waiting seems longer than ever. Casey feels lost in Chinatown. She's not prepared for the Chinese school, the noisy crowds, missing her father. But Paw-Paw tells her about the mother Casey never knew, and about her family's owl charm and her true Chinese name. And Casey at last begins to understand that this -- Paw-Paw's Chinatown home, her parents' home -- is her home,too.",1990,3.6,288,423
9780064403870,0064403874,"R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH",,Jane Leslie Conly,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WTHHHA80Q_oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Margaret and her younger brother, Artie, get lost in the woods on a family camping trip, they are rescued by rats -- the superintelligent rats of NIMH. Taken into the rat's community, the children are safe for the time being. But winter is coming. Margaret and Artie have to get back home. And when they do, they must protect the rats who have helped them. Everything depends on their silence... but it's hard to evade questions forever. Children's Choices for 1991 (IRA/CBC)VOYA's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 1990Parenting Honorable Mention, Reading Magic Award",1991,3.52,272,631
9780064404419,0064404412,The Rainbow People,,Laurence Yep,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5AHwqNDuiCwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Culled from 69 stories collected in a [1930s] WPA project, [these 20] tales are organized into sections with themes like 'Tricksters' or 'Virtues and Vices,' each with a thoughtful introduction placing the individual stories in the context of feelings and background of the original tellers. Yep's telling is vigorous, often poetic, imbued with earthy humor and realism touched with fatalism. A handsomely designed collection."" —K. Notable Children's Books of 1989 (ALA) The USA Through Children's Books 1990 (ALA) 1989 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction 1990 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) 1989 Children's Editors' Choices (BL) Notable 1989 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Children's Books of 1989 (Library of Congress) 1989 Children's Books (NY Public Library) ""The Best Books"" 1989 (Parents Magazine)",1992,3.75,208,202
9780064404891,0064404897,Dragon's Gate,Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1867,Laurence Yep,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7_8vo34TfMQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1867, Otter travels from Three Willows Village in China to California -- the Land of the Golden Mountain. There he will join his father and uncle. In spite of the presence of family, Otter is a stranger among the other Chinese in this new land. And where he expected to see a land of goldfields, he sees only vast, cold whiteness. But Otter's dream is to learn all he can, take the technology back to the Middle Kingdom, and free China from the Manchu invaders. Otter and the others board a machine that will change his life -- a train for which he would open the Dragon's Gate.",1995,3.67,352,1806
9780064405447,0064405443,Betsy's Wedding,,Maud Hart Lovelace,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aT6r0nSbMG8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Betsy marries Joe, her high school sweetheart, and they have all the problems of young newlyweds, in a sixtieth anniversary edition of a beloved story which includes a new biographical section and a new forward. Original.",1996,4.31,260,4054
9780064405454,0064405451,Betsy and the Great World,,Maud Hart Lovelace,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Vu1h2B2XoHoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In January 1914, with an unsuccessful college experience and a broken romance with Joe behind her, twenty-one-year-old Betsy, traveling alone for the first time, determines to enjoy every moment of her long trip around Europe.",1996,4.13,321,4689
9780064405461,006440546X,Betsy and Joe,,Maud Hart Lovelace,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fPnLzAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1995,4.31,336,4411
9780064405478,0064405478,Betsy Was a Junior,,Maud Hart Lovelace,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TNcQQCH_NMgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A small town shortly after the turn of the century provides the background for this account of Betsy's third year at Deep Valley High. Reissue.,1995,4.17,320,4744
9780064405713,0064405710,Crazy Lady!,,Jane Leslie Conly,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aJwh7yxnoMoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Increasingly alienated from his widowed father, Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts'Maxine, an alcoholic prone to outrageous behavior, and Ronald, her retarded son. But when a social service agency tries to put Ronald into a special home, Vernon fights against the move. 1994 Newbery Honor Book Notable Children's Books of 1994 (ALA) 1994 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) 1994 Young Adult Editors' Choices (BL) 1994 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library) Young Adult Choices for 1995 (IRA)",1995,3.64,192,1481
9780064405850,0064405850,Strawberry Girl 60th Anniversary Edition,,Lois Lenski,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AQXM28er0HUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The land was theirs, but so were its hardships Strawberries -- big, ripe, and juicy. Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven′t even begun their planting. "";Don′t count your biddies ′fore they′re hatched, gal young un!""; her father tells her. Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, just itching to start a feud.",1995,3.86,208,10655
9780064405959,0064405958,Seven Spiders Spinning,,Gregory Maguire,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VPf_uAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When seven Siberian snow spiders, frozen during the Ice Age, defrost and escape en route to Harvard for analysis, they wreak havoc on a small New England town, disrupting the school Halloween pageant with hilarious results. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Reissue.",1995,3.61,144,259
9780064406031,0064406032,American Dragons,Twenty-five Asian American Voices,Laurence Yep,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-NZzW8s9EMwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Includes short stories, poems, and excerpts from plays that relate what it is like growing up Asian American.",1995,3.41,256,63
9780064406307,006440630X,The Midwife's Apprentice (rpkg),,Karen Cushman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bhm76u8ZcHMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Like Cushman's 1995 Newbery Honor Book, Catherine, Called Birdy, this novel is about a strong young woman in medieval England who finds her own way home. This is a world, like Chaucer's, that's . . . dangerous, primitive and raucous. From the first page you're caught by the spirit of the homeless, nameless waif, somewhere around 12 years old. She gets the village midwife to take her in, befriends a cat, names herself Alyce, and learns something about delivering babies. When she fails, she runs away, but she picks herself up again and returns to work and independence.' --ALA Booklist (starred review). '. . .A fascinating view of a far distant time.' -- The Horn Book (starred review)",1996,3.72,128,35319
9780064406925,006440692X,Winter on the Farm,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IvlKH7fq3-MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Little House books tell the story of a little pioneer girl and her family as they traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books, illustrated with Garth Williams' timeless artwork, have been cherished by millions of readers ever since they were first published over sixty years ago. This My First Little House Book introduces Almanzo Wilder, the young boy from Farmer Boy who would one day marry Laura Ingalls. In Winter on the Farm, Almanzo goes through his afternoon barn chores, and then sits down to eat a hearty farm supper with his family. In this first book about Almanzo, young readers are able to share in the warmth and joy of another Little House family and celebrate new Little House adventures. Winter on the Farm is the first in an ongoing series about Laura’s beloved farmer boy.",1997,4.13,32,400
9780064407144,0064407144,Down to the Bonny Glen,,Melissa Wiley,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nO5OGr8anJ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the arrival of her new governess, Miss Crow, Martha begins to see that her work is quite important and soon realizes she could learn a great deal from her if she only took the time to get to know her. Simultaneous.",2001,4.14,321,1438
9780064407311,0064407314,Monster,,Walter Dean Myers,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=se3BugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"FADE IN: INTERIOR: Early morning in CELL BLOCK D, MANHATTAN DETENTION CENTER. Steve (Voice-Over) Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady prosecutor called me ... Monster.",2001,3.71,281,53833
9780064408585,0064408582,Emily of Deep Valley,,Maud Hart Lovelace,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8uT9_Io3bYwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After graduating high school, Emily Webster longs to go off to university with everyone else, but she must stay at home and take care of her grandfather, a Civil War veteran, and it is at home that she discovers many new adventures. Reprint.",2000,4.23,304,2637
9780064408677,0064408671,The Trumpet of the Swan,,E. B. White,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2lybT5x8FCsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Swan Song Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him. Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection -- he even goes to school to learn to read and write. But nothing seems to work. Then his father steals him a real brass trumpet. Is a musical instrument the key to winning Louis his love?",2000,4.07,252,61304
9780064408745,0064408744,The Good Liar,,Gregory Maguire,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NLBPD7kd5YQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother RenT befriended a young German soldier. Reprint.",2002,3.53,144,122
9780064409902,0064409902,Old Town in the Green Groves,Laura Ingalls Wilder's Lost Little House Years,Cynthia Rylant;Jim LaMarche,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YUQMAXdqvhgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel. Reprint.",2004,4.04,176,4631
9780064410342,006441034X,Howl's Moving Castle,,Diana Wynne Jones,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f3RHPfF7uCwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter. After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The castle, however, belonged to Wizard Howl, who, it was said, liked to suck the souls of young girls. The Hatter sisters--Sophie, Lettie, and Martha--and all the other girls were warned not to venture into the streets alone. But that was only the beginning. In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused. The Witch has placed a spell on Howl. Does the clue to breaking it lie in a famous poem? And what will happen to Sophie Hatter when she enters Howl's castle? Diana Wynne Jones's entrancing fantasy is filled with surprises at every turn, but when the final stormy duel between the Witch and the Wizard is finished, all the pieces fall magically into place.",2001,4.3,329,148957
9780064410724,0064410722,Four Stupid Cupids,,Gregory Maguire,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=471OUKKACq8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The students' scheme to find a love match for their beloved teacher on Valentine's Day turns into a comedy of errors when four stupid cupids from Ancient Greece try to help.,2001,3.52,224,110
9780064410939,0064410935,Charlotte's Web (full color),,E. B. White,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pylJbfNIwoIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Beloved by generations, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little are two of the most cherished stories of all time. Now, for the first time ever, these treasured classics are available in lavish new collectors' editions. In addition to a larger trim size, the original black-and-white art by Garth Williams has been lovingly colorized by renowned illustrator Rosemary Wells, adding another dimension to these two perfect books for young and old alike.",2001,4.16,184,1229902
9780064420808,0064420809,Little House Friends,,Heather Henson;Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gMZbAAfZwAIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Laura Ingalls shares adventures and good times with her friends while growing up on the western frontier.,1998,3.99,80,70
9780064420815,0064420817,Christmas Stories,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qJxFQDe9AP4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gentle adaptations of Laura Ingalls Wilder's celebrated Little House stories have been gathered together here in two new titles in our Little House Chapter Book series. In Christmas Stories, join Laura and her family for some pioneer Christmas celebrations. Christmas on the frontier means visits from friends, good things to eat, and presents! For Laura, every Christmas in the little house is better than the one before. Laura and her friends share wonderful adventures in Little House Friends. From racing ponies with cousin Lena to bobsled rides with Cap Garland and the gang, Laura loves spending time with her friends. Even mean old Nellie Oleson can't spoil Laura's fun!With simple text, entertaining stories, and Renee Graef's beautiful black-and-white artwork, Little House Chapter Books are the perfect way to introduce beginning chapter-book readers to the world of Little House.",1998,4.22,80,63
9780064433730,0064433730,Winter Days in the Big Woods,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H-igY69LTxcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Laura helps Ma and Pa make the little log cabin snug and cozy for the snowy days ahead. 1994 ""Pick of the Lists"" (ABA)",1995,4.28,32,1487
9780064434874,0064434877,Christmas in the Big Woods,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FT1YpUwRYykC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Long ago, a little girl named Laura Ingalls lived in a little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters, Mary and Carrie, and their good old bulldog, Jack. Winter was just around the corner, and Laura worked hard to help make the little house ready for the cold days ahead. Soon there was frost on the windows and snow on the ground, but Laura and her folks were warm and cozy in their snug little house in the Big Woods. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers. Now for the first time, the youngest readers can share her adventures in these very special picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks. Renée Graef's warm paintings, inspired by Garth Williams' classic Little House illustrations, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life.",1997,4.19,32,2062
9780064434942,006443494X,A Little House Birthday,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fyfDRpzVoM0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Join the Ingalls family as they celebrate little Laura’s fifth birthday in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. There are special presents from everyone, and that night Laura falls asleep to the merry music of Pa’s fiddle. Renée Graef’s enchanting full-color illustrations, inspired by Garth Williams’s classic artwork, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life in our tenth My First Little House Book, adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved storybooks. It’s a Little House birthday to remember!",1998,4.13,40,444
9780064434980,0064434982,The Deer in the Wood,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V7YDWiHI7m4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Even the youngest child can enjoy a special adaptation of a classic Little House tale, as Laura and Mary listen to Pa talk about meeting a mother deer and her baby fawn deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.",1999,4.17,32,302
9780064435260,0064435261,A Little Prairie House,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pRSju95iidoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Long, long ago, a little girl named Laura Ingalls headed west toward the prairie with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters, Mary and Carrie, and their good old bulldog, Jack. They traveled far each day in their covered wagon, driving through tall grass until they found just the right spot for their new home. With the help of their kind neighbor, Mr. Edwards, Pa built a snug little house for the family in the middle of the wide-open prairie. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers. Now for the first time, the youngest readers can share her adventure in these very special picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story-books. Renee Graef's warm paintings, inspired by Garth Williams' classic Little House illustrations, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life. Renée Graef recieved her bachelor's degree in art from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is the illustrator of teh paper dolls and the Kirsten books in the American Girls Collection. She is also an avid hat collector, with over 150 hats at last count. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her huisband, Tim, and thier children, Maggie and Maxfeild.Join the Ingalls family as they pick a special spot on the prairie and build their snug log cabin home. Their new neighbor, Mr. Edwards, comes by to help, and after the hard work is through, everyone sings and dances to the joyful music of Pa's fiddle. Renee Graef's enchanting full-color illustrations, inspired by Garth William's classic artwork, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life in this eleventh title in the My First Little House Books series, adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks.",1999,4.19,32,1533
9780064440578,0064440575,Grizzwold,,Syd Hoff,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Sy_X4g1pvzcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Grizzwold the lovable bear is having a tough time finding somewhere to live. He's too big for most places, and too clumsy for others. He's not even any good as a live bearskin rug! Will Grizzwold ever find a home that's just right?",1984,3.8,64,206
9780064440950,0064440958,Chester,,Syd Hoff,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DiGFBC7APpYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chester, a wild horse who wants to be tame, comes to the city looking for a home. ‘Reading for fun: the artist’s sense of pacing makes this book race along.’ —Saturday Review.",1986,3.75,64,187
9780064441766,0064441768,Captain Cat,,Syd Hoff,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sHz4sQ3mmjwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A patriotic feline, Captain Cat springs out of bed whenever the bugle sounds and he has more stripes than any of the soldiers. But most of all, this young recruit and his best friend Pete know what it really takes to make the army a home—friendship. ‘Hoff continues his string of hits.’ —BL. ‘Hoff has maintained his deft touch with a title that’s sure to appeal to youngsters.’ —SLJ.",1994,3.66,48,107
9780064462044,0064462048,My Little House Crafts Book,18 Projects from Laura Ingalls Wilder's,Carolyn Strom Collins,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lTzrsOMvcNcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Make the same pioneer crafts that Laura did! In her beloved Little House books, Laura Ingalls Wilder tells of her pioneer childhood growing up on the frontier. Because the Ingallses often lived far away from any stores, and because they had little money, Laura and her family had to make most of their own household items, using whatever materials were available. Now, with MY LITTLE HOUSE CRAFTS BOOK, you can share a part of Laura's pioneer days by learning how to make the same things that she and her family made for their little homes on the frontier. Inside this book are easy, step-by-step instructions for 18 crafts taken straight from the pages of Laura's Little House books. All you need to get started are a few simple supplies, and you're on your way to making fun and useful pioneer crafts that you'll cherish forever.",1998,4.05,64,56
9780064462341,006446234X,Pioneer Girl,The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder,William Anderson,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Sj4UDeFOOoAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The pioneer spirit lives on... Readers around the world know and love Laura, the little girl born in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and raised in covered wagons and on wide open prairies. Now Little House fans can learn more about ""Half-pint"" in this, the first picture book biography book of Laura Ingalls Wilder. With a simple, glowing text by noted historian and Little House scholar William Anderson, and glorious paintings by Dan Andreasen, Pioneer Girl is a very special portrait of a writer whose classic books and poineer adventures have made her one of the most popular literary figures in America. This picture-book biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder tells the remarkable story of the pioneer girl who would one day immortalize her adventures in the beloved Little House books. Written in simple, glowing text by noted Little House scholar William Anderson, and illustrated with glorious paintings by artist Dan Andreasen, this wonderful first biography captures the very essence of the little girl called ‘Half-pint,' whose classic books and pioneer adventures have made her one of the most popular literary figures in America. This picture-book biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder tells the remarkable story of the pioneer girl who would one day immortalize her adventures in the beloved Little House books. Written in simple, glowing text by noted Little House scholar William Anderson, and illustrated with glorious paintings by artist Dan Andreasen, this wonderful first biography captures the very essence of the little girl called ‘Half-pint,’ whose classic books and pioneer adventures have made her one of the most popular literary figures in America.",2000,4.15,32,414
9780064471961,0064471969,Shade's Children (rack),,Garth Nix,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_jlglwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shade's Children In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machinelike creature whose sole purpose is to kill. The mysterious Shade -- once a man, but now more like the machines he fights -- recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power -- and the key to their downfall. But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become ...",1998,3.9,345,10368
9780064472777,0064472779,All-American Girl,,Meg Cabot,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fktx5yUMHpMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Top Ten Reasons Samantha Madison is in Deep Trouble 10. Her big sister is the most popular girl in school 9. Her little sister is a certified genius 8. She's in love with her big sister's boyfriend 7. She got caught selling celebrity portraits in school 6. And now she's being forced to take art classes 5. She's just saved the president of the United Statesfrom an assassination attempt 4. So the whole world thinks she is a hero 3. Even though Sam knows she is far, far from being a hero 2. And now she's been appointed teen ambassador to the UNAnd the number-one reason Sam's life is over?1. The president's son just might be in love with her",2003,3.74,398,58422
9780064473552,0064473554,Hexwood,,Diana Wynne Jones,Young Adult Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vDTJwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Strange things happen at Hexwood Farm. From her window, Ann Stavely watches person after person disappear through the farm's gate -- and never come out again. Later, in the woods nearby, she meets a tormented sorcerer, who seems to have arisen from a centuries-long sleep. But Ann knows she saw him enter the farm just that morning. Meanwhile, time keeps shifting in the woods, where a small boy -- or perhaps a teenager -- has encountered a robot and a dragon. Long before the end of their adventure, the strangeness of Hexwood has spread from Earth right out to the center of the galaxy.",2002,3.99,464,3419
9780066236179,0066236177,A Light in the Attic Book and CD,,Shel Silverstein,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FJfQsgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I flunk that test? Whatif green hair grows on my chest? Whatif nobody likes me? Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?... To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic is now available in a special edition containing the classic hardcover book and a CD of highlights from his Grammy Award-winning album. Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel. From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.",2001,4.34,176,590
9780066238500,0066238501,The Chronicles of Narnia (adult),,C. S. Lewis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3VGkK_F9thYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil -- what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia. For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre to become part of the canon of classic literature. Each of the seven books is a masterpiece, drawing the reader into a land where magic meets reality, and the result is a fictional world whose scope has fascinated generations. This edition presents all seven books -- unabridged -- in one impressive volume. The books are presented here according to Lewis' preferred order, each chapter graced with an illustration by the original artist, Pauline Baynes. Deceptively simple and direct, The Chronicles of Narnia continue to captivate fans with adventures, characters, and truths that speak to readers of all ages, even fifty years after they were first published.",2001,4.26,767,425445
9780066620107,0066620104,What Would Machiavelli Do?,The Ends Justify the Meanness,Stanley Bing,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W9jVlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What Would Machiavelli Do? He would feast on other people's discord He wouldn't exactly seek the company of ass-kissers and bimbos, but he wouldn't reject them out of hand either He would realize that loving yourself means never having to say you're sorry He would kill people, but only if he could feel good about himself afterward He would establish and maintain a psychotic level of control He would use other people's opinions to sell his book!",2002,3.46,176,434
9780067575208,006757520X,The Sense of Wonder,,Rachel Carson,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zee5SAOqO2UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"First published more than three decades ago, this reissue of Rachel Carson's award-winning classic brings her unique vision to a new generation of readers. Stunning new photographs by Nick Kelsh beautifully complement Carson's intimate account of adventures with her young nephew, Roger, as they enjoy walks along the rocky coast of Maine and through dense forests and open fields, observing wildlife, strange plants, moonlight and storm clouds, and listening to the ""living music"" of insects in the underbrush. ""If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder."" Writes Carson, ""he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."" The Sense of Wonder is a refreshing antidote to indifference and a guide to capturing the simple power of discovery that Carson views as essential to life. In her insightful new introduction, Linda Lear remembers Rachel Carson's groundbreaking achievements in the context of the legendary environmentalist's personal commitment to introducing young and old to the miracles of nature. Kelsh's lush photographs inspire sensual, tactile reactions: masses of leaves floating in a puddle are just waiting to be scooped up and examined more closely. An image of a narrow path through the trees evokes the earthy scent of the woods after a summer rain. Close-ups of mosses and miniature lichen fantasy-lands will spark innocent'as well as more jaded'imaginations. Like a curious child studying things underfoot and within reach, Kelsh's camera is drawn to patterns in nature that too often elude hurried adults'a stand of beech trees in the springtime, patches of melting snow and the ripples from a pebble tossed into a slow-moving stream. The Sense of Wonder is a timeless volume that will be passed on from children to grandchildren, as treasured as the memory of an early-morning walk when the song of a whippoorwill was heard as if for the first time.",1998,4.39,112,1160
9780070488205,0070488207,Virgin,,James Patterson,Fiction,,The Blessed Virgin's deliverance of a prophecy to a peasant girl in Fatima in 1914 is followed years later by signs and omens including worldwide droughts and famines that signify its imminent fulfillment,1980,3.86,210,300
9780071348270,0071348271,Mission Possible,Becoming a World Class Organization While There's Still Time,Ken Blanchard;Terry Waghorn,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ofjQmAJBiiwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Explains how to improve one's existing organization while creating a replacement design for the future and why change is necessary to ensure the future of one's business,1999,3.42,242,0
9780071401944,0071401946,Crucial Conversations,Tools for Talking when Stakes are High,Kerry Patterson;Joseph Grenny;Ron McMillan;Al Switzler,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PibJN5XVQRkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The New York Times Bestseller! Learn how to keep your cool and get the results you want when emotions flare. When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation badly and suffer the consequences; or read Crucial Conversations and discover how to communicate best when it matters most. Crucial Conversations gives you the tools you need to step up to life's most difficult and important conversations, say what's on your mind, and achieve the positive resolutions you want. You'll learn how to: Prepare for high-impact situations with a six-minute mastery technique Make it safe to talk about almost anything Be persuasive, not abrasive Keep listening when others blow up or clam up Turn crucial conversations into the action and results you want Whether they take place at work or at home, with your neighbors or your spouse, crucial conversations can have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.",2002,4.01,240,36535
9780071418584,007141858X,How to Talk to Anyone : 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships,92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships,Leil Lowndes,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LQt6mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills."" -- Larry King ""The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes."" -- Harvey McKay, author of “How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive” What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their ""Midas touch?"" What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people. The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone (Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques-- she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book you’ll find: 9 ways to make a dynamite first impression 14 ways to master small talk, ""big talk,"" and body language 14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity 6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd 7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone 9 ways to feed someone's ego (and know when NOT to!) 11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool 15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room 7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you'll remember them when you really need them, including: ""Rubberneck the Room,"" ""Be a Copyclass,"" ""Come Hither Hands,"" “Bare Their Hot Button,” “The Great Scorecard in the Sky,"" and ""Play the Tombstone Game,” for big success in your social life, romance, and business. How to Talk to Anyone, which is an update of her popular book, Talking the Winner's Way (see the 5-star reviews of the latter) is based on solid research about techniques that work! By the way, don't confuse How to Talk to Anyone with one of Leil's previous books, How to Talk to Anybody About Anything. This one is completely different!",2003,3.78,345,15488
9780071428484,0071428488,"Easy French Reader, Second Edition",,R. de Roussy de Sales,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TY4AAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fun and easy way to quickly enhance your French reading skills Easy French Reader is based on the premise that the best way to learn a language is to start reading it, immediately. Suitable for raw beginners to intermediate-level language learners, this popular title features engaging readings of progressive difficulty that allow you to rapidly build your comprehension. Find out what unfamiliar words and phrases mean with the book's helpful glossary Discover the nuances of French language and culture as well as the country's history through engaging texts Get a feel for authentic French society with readings from contemporary literature",2003,3.84,228,292
9780071433716,0071433716,Slim to None,A Journey Through the Wasteland of Anorexia Treatment,Jennifer Hendricks,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fY-lfz3EujEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""A young woman's fatal battle with anorexia, in her own words In the tradition of Go Ask Alice, Prozac Nation, and Girl Interrupted, Slim to None grants readers precious access to the emotional and psychological underpinnings of its author. Step-by-step, readers follow Jenny's long journey through a ""wasteland"" of failed treatments and therapies, false hope, and abuse by the mental health system that kept her captive most of her life. Although this disease has been at the forefront of public awareness for years, anorexia continues to claim more victims than any other mental illness. Slim to None reveals the glaring inadequacy of the mental health system to treat and fully understand this disease. The first journal of an anorexic to be published posthumously, the book discloses the innermost thoughts, fears, and hopes of a young girl stricken and fighting to recover. Jenny Hendricks painstakingly recorded her experiences as she suffered from and eventually succumbed to this eating disorder. With candor, she recounts being shipped from one doctor to another and subjected to widely varying treatments--all of which ultimately proved unsuccessful. Her father, Gordon Hendricks, fills in this compelling narrative with his own memories of his daughter's struggle.""--Publisher's description.",2004,3.65,384,574
9780071451383,0071451382,Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Verb Tenses,,Paola Nanni-Tate,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Mbix2qU7bwcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Practice makes perfect Italian verb tenses goes beyond other verb books to coach you in when and why verb tenses are used. In addition to an array of fully conjugated verbs, you will find clear and concise explanations that pinpoint why specific tenses work in given situations as well as plenty of engaging examples and numerous skill-building exercises. This is the ideal reference/workbook for beginning to intermediate Italian language learners whose goal is to learn to speak and write Italian with fluency.",2005,4,252,9
9780071608916,0071608915,"Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Eleventh Edition",,Laurence Brunton;John Lazo;Keith Parker,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PtWdBgnQdjMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The undisputed leader in medical pharmacology, without equal. Updated to reflect all critical new developments in drug action and drug-disease interaction. This is the “desert island” book of all medical pharmacology—if you can own just one pharmacology book, this is it.",2005,,,
9780072226966,007222696X,"Incident Response & Computer Forensics, 2nd Ed.",,Kevin Mandia;Chris Prosise,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JAWR_T6qiRoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Written by FBI insiders, this updated best-seller offers a look at the legal, procedural, and technical steps of incident response and computer forensics. Including new chapters on forensic analysis and remediation, and real-world case studies, this revealing book shows how to counteract and conquer today’s hack attacks.",2003,3.68,507,44
9780072920963,0072920963,The Last Dance,Encountering Death and Dying,Lynne Ann DeSpelder;Albert Lee Strickland,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CAlHAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The best-selling textbook in the field, The Last Dance offers an interdisciplinary introduction to death, dying, and bereavement. Integrating the experiential and the scholarly, as well as the emotional and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, the seventh edition has been thoroughly revised to provide the most cutting-edge coverage of death studies.",2005,3.77,664,112
9780073250359,007325035X,Heat and Mass Transfer,A Practical Approach,Yunus A. Çengel,Heat,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K_ybSQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2006,4.16,901,182
9780075536390,0075536390,The Complete Works,,Tacitus,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0U8CAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Edited, with an Introduction, Moses Hadas",1964,4.29,773,267
9780091520809,0091520800,My Sweet-orange Tree,,José Mauro de Vasconcelos,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A8_uAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1983,4.39,166,49
9780091883768,0091883768,Who Moved My Cheese?,An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life,Spencer Johnson,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G8J9RhbOTKQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is the amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life, for example a good job, a loving relationship, money or possessions, health or spiritual peace of mind. The maze is where you look for what you want, perhaps the organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in. The problem is that the cheese keeps moving. In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change in their search for the cheese. One of them eventually deals with change successfully and writes what he has learned on the maze walls for you to discover. You'll learn how to anticipate, adapt to and enjoy change and be ready to change quickly whenever you need to. Discover the secret of the writing on the wall for yourself and enjoy less stress and more success in your work and life. Written for all ages, this story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights will last a lifetime.",2002,3.78,96,288074
9780091894603,0091894603,How to Have a Beautiful Mind,,Edward De Bono,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uzPIf3Q981kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Despite the modern day emphasis on physical appearance, there is an easier way to become a desirable person rather than dieting or buying expensive clothes. Regardless of outer appearance, if people have minds that are fascinating, creative, and exciting--if they are good thinkers--they can be beautiful. The clear, practical instructions in this guide demonstrate how applying lateral and parallel thinking skills to conversation can improve the mind. The greatest impact is made on others through speech, and by learning how to listen, make a point, and maneuver a discussion, anyone can become more imaginative, more engaging, and more beautiful.",2004,3.63,232,1508
9780091895815,0091895812,The Toy Maker,The Life and Times of Inventor Frank Hornby,Anthony McReavy,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kK1PtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A single man was responsible for the toys which shaped generations of children. Frank Hornby invented the train set, Meccano, the dinky toy and Scalextric. And yet, until now, there has been no biography of this extraordinary figure. Frank Hornby was born in 1866 to a working class family in Liverpool. Whilst working as a book keeper for a meat importer, and frustrated by the range of toys in turn of the century Britain he set up a toy manufacturing company. A passionate and inspired man, he developed his first toys for his own children and by his death in 1936 Meccano and Hornby trains were market leaders. In 2001 Hornby's chairman announced the company profits were booming as twenty-first century adults rediscovered the joys of their childhood. Encompassing social history, politics and changing attitudes towards children this is a beautifully written life story of an unsung hero.",2004,3,352,1
9780091898243,0091898242,Darwin's Watch,,Terry Pratchett;Ian Stewart;Jack Sidney Cohen,Cosmology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=91OA4xpB3qAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen Univeristy feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it's all gone wrong - Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail. Unless something drastic is done, there won't be time for anyone to invent spaceflight and the human race will be turned into ice-pops. Why, though, did history come adrift? Was it Sir Arthur Nightingale's dismal book about natural selection? Or was it the devastating response by an obscure country vicar called Charles Darwin, whose bestselling Theology of Species made it impossible to refute the divine design of living creatures? Either way, it's no easy task to change history, as the wizards discover to their cost. Can the God of Evolution come to humanity's aid and ensure Darwin writes a very different book? And who stopped him writing it in the first place? 'The hard science is as gripping as the fiction' - The Times 'Entertaining and illuminating' - New Scientist",2006,3.94,344,3481
9780099134015,0099134012,A Time to Kill,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ijgi5Hr0u7cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A Southern town is shocked when a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two white men--until the girl's father takes the law into his own hands.,1992,4.06,515,700
9780099173311,009917331X,"""Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!""",Adventures of a Curious Character,Richard Phillips Feynman;Ralph Leighton,Physicists,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N3eLdCTynR0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.",1992,4.28,350,1700
9780099267546,0099267543,Timequake,,Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DQg-d-Tyi6UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"According to Vonnegut`s alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 february 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja vu and a total loss of free will-not to mention reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades. In 1996, dead centre of the `re-run' Vonnegut is wrestling again with Time-quake 1, a book he couldn`t write the first time and won`t be able to now. As he struggles, he addresses, with his trademark wicked wit, the realationship between memory and deja vu, humanism, suicide, the Great Depression and World War 11 as the last generated character builders, the loss of American eloquence, the obsolescent thrill of reading books, and what `extended family' really means.",1998,3.72,219,23529
9780099271499,0099271494,Blood and Gold,The Vampire Marius,Anne Rice,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kq8A8w_9-UcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of the Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of snow and ice. Thorne is a Northern vampire in search of Maharet, his 'maker', the ancient Egyptian vampire queen who holds him and others in thrall with chains made of her red hair, 'bound with steel and with her blood and gold'. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory that was Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, but bewitched in turn by Botticelli, the Renaissance beauty Bianca, with her sordid secrets, and the boy he calls Amadeo (otherwise known as the Vampire Armand). Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires from Rice's glorious Pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca, the tale of Marius, the self-styled guardian of 'those who must be kept' is the most wondrous and mind-blowing of them all.",2002,3.89,752,27476
9780099273844,0099273845,An Imaginary Life,,David Malouf,Australian fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6TBtsn0owkAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""In the first century A. D. , Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of out most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impate their dead and converse with the spirit world. But then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature, as enacted by a poet who once cataloged the treacheries of love and a boy who slowly learns how to give it.""",1999,3.87,156,1469
9780099273868,0099273861,The Great World,,David Malouf,Australia,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f8IiKrX2ZAUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.""",1999,3.87,336,514
9780099276494,0099276496,The Risk Pool,,Richard Russo,Families,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0RCY_pd4iBsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal world, touring the town's bars and pool halls, struggling to win Sam's affections while avoiding his sins.",1998,4.03,479,4856
9780099282648,009928264X,Survivor,,Chuck Palahniuk,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OOT8TdiYYPIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane's black box before it crashes. Brought up by the repressive cult and, like all Creedish younger sons, hired out as a domestic servant, Tender finds himself suddenly famous when his fellow cult members all commit suicide. As media messiah he ascends to the very top of the freak-show heap before finally and apocalyptically spiralling out of control.""",2000,3.92,289,49342
9780099282969,0099282968,Bagombo Snuff Box,Uncollected Short Fiction,Kurt Vonnegut,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dIjI3ucpKZoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one of the doomed publications. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit GE and join the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and try to make a living at $1500. With four major magazines running five stories each week and smaller ones scouting as well, it was a seller's market, and Vonnegut was published regularly by The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Argosy and others. For this unusual collection, Vonnegut has selected twenty-four of his favourite stories never published before in book form and has written a new preface for the occasion. Vonnegut scholar Peter Reed, who unearthed the old publications, contributes an introduction. The stories bring us to the beginning of a literary voice that is sure to last forever. BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX, the missing pieces of the master's oeuvre, is a ready made classic for Vonnegut fans new and old.",2000,3.72,295,7849
9780099283225,0099283220,Ali and Nino,,Kurban Said,Azerbaijan,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A_Sfa4Kg-usC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ali Khan and Nino Kipiani live in the cosmopolitan, oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan which, at the beginning of the twentieth century, is a melting-pot of different cultures. Ali is a Muslim, with his ancestors' passion for the desert, and Nino is a Christian Georgian girl with sophisticated European ways. Despite their differences, the two have loved each other since childhood and Ali is determined that he will marry Nino as soon as she leaves school. But there is not only the obstacle of their different religions and parental consent to overcome. The First World War breaks out. As the Russians withdraw, the Turks advance, and Ali and Nino find themselves swept up in Azerbaijan's fight for independence.",2000,3.92,237,131
9780099284482,0099284480,A Star Called Henry,,Roddy Doyle,Dublin (Ireland),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nLiacLHmhOsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Born in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing and begging, often cold and always hungry, but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday, 1916, he's fourteen years old and already six-foot-two, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. A year later he's ready to die for Ireland again, a rebel, a Fenian and a killer. With his father's wooden leg as his weapon, Henry becomes a Republican legend - one of Michael Collins' boys, a cop killer, an assassin on a stolen bike.""",2000,3.83,342,6675
9780099285557,009928555X,Set this House on Fire,,William Styron,Americans,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TDaEPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between two men- Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg.Three events - murder, rape and suicide - explode in this relentless and passionate novel, almost overwhelming in its conception of the varieties of good and evil.",2001,3.7,567,551
9780099285564,0099285568,The Confessions of Nat Turner,,William Styron,Slave insurrections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zXaiQSlk7qoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that still sear the collective psyches of both races.",2004,3.97,480,82
9780099285823,0099285827,Experience,,Martin Amis,"Amis, Kingsley",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gGnR11zgMVgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Perhaps the most gifted and innovative novelist of his generation. Martin Amis has been the object of obsessive media scrutiny for much of his career. In this much anticipated memoir, he writes with striking candour about his life and, in the process, giv",2001,3.96,401,70
9780099297703,0099297701,Hannibal,,Thomas Harris,Dangerously mentally ill,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=av8SBXdrG7YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"WORTH THE WAIT. . . Harris's writing bears the hallmarks of honed perfection. . . this piece of literature is popular fiction only in the sense that it will sell. And sell. . . LOOK NO FURTHER FOR THE CHILLER OF THE YEAR' Peter Millar, The times 'Insanely readable. . . No thriller writer is better attuned than Thomas Harris to the rhythms of suspense. No horror writer is more adept at making the stomach churn. . . COMPELLING. . . TRULY SHOCKING. . . A BRILLIANT BOOK' Mail on Sunday 'It is a gut-churning, nail-biting, skin-crawling, often lyrical triumph - addictive on every level. . . The plot is a helluva plot. . . The denouement is as exciting as the rest. . . IF THERE'S A BETTER BOOK THIS YEAR, with truth, fantasy and a touch of erudition combined in prose which really does leap off the page, I'LL EAT MY HAT' Francis Fyfield, Express. 'No panting fan. . . could have hope for more. . . HANNIBAL IS A GREAT POPULAR NOVEL AND A PLAUSIBLE CANDIDATE FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE' Guardian",2000,3.75,564,67365
9780099307914,009930791X,Operation Shylock,A Confession,Philip Roth,American literature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QiCJsEpVj3MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What If A Look-Alike Stranger Stole Your Name, Usurped Your Biography, And Went About The World Pretending To Be You? In His Extraordinary New Book, His Most Ingenious And Original Work Since The Counterlife, Phillip Roth Confronts His Double, An Imposter Whose Self-Appointed Task Is To Lead The Jews Out Of Israel And Back To Europe, A Moses In Reverse And A Monstrous Nemesis To The 'Real' Philip Roth. Suspensful, Hilarious Hugely Impassioned, Pulsing With Intelligence And Narrative Energy, Operaton Shylock Is At Once A Spy Story, A Political Thriller, A Meditation On Identity, And A Confession.",1994,3.77,400,3013
9780099339212,0099339218,The First Forty-nine Stories,,Ernest Hemingway,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=61BQ5JD_NCEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""From Ernest Hemingway's Preface- 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.' A collection of Hemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a brief introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including 'Up in Michigan', 'Fifty Grand', and 'The Light of the World', and the Snows of Kilimanjaro, Winner Take Nothing'and Men Without Womencollections.""",1993,3.99,467,824
9780099389019,0099389010,The Professor of Desire,,Philip Roth,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fNlzijiaY7oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes'. Little does he realise how prophetic this motto will be - or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of his childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage troisin London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure- where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire.",1995,3.65,272,1950
9780099409960,0099409968,The Phantom Menace,,Terry Brooks;George Lucas,Life on other planets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vd1pffZFhZ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an evil legacy long believed dead is stirring. Now the dark side of the Force threatens to overwhelm the light, and only an ancient Jedi prophecy stands between hope and doom for the entire galaxy. On the green, unspoiled world of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, arrive to protect the realm's young queen as she seeks a diplomatic solution to end the siege of her planet by Trade Federation warships. At the same time, on desert-swept Tatooine, a slave boy named Anakin Skywalker, who possesses a strange ability for understanding the ""rightness"" of things, toils by day and dreams by night--of becoming a Jedi Knight and finding a way to win freedom for himself and his beloved mother. It will be the unexpected meeting of Jedi, Queen, and a gifted boy that will mark the start of a drama that will become legend.",2000,3.56,255,12696
9780099410355,0099410354,Traitor,,Matthew Woodring Stover,Science fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VbICOKLM6TIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the depths of catastrophe, a glimmer of hope. After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances. The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere, a fascinating creature of mystery and power, her intentions hard to fathom, her cruelties rarely concealed. But this master of inscrutable arts has much to teach the young Jedi...for she holds the key to a new way to experience the Force, to take it to another level - dangerous, dazzling, perhaps deadly. In the wrong hands, the tremendous energies of the Froce can be devastating. And there are others watching Jacen's progress closely, waiting patiently for the moment when he will be ready for their own dire purposes. Now, all is in shadows. Yet whatever happens, whether Jacen's newfound mastery unleashes light or darkness, he will never be the same Jedi again...",2002,4,320,6765
9780099410386,0099410389,Star by Star,,Troy Denning,Life on other planets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lPtDoGRj6MIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A must-read for every fan of Star Wars fiction and the New Jedi Order series in particular! It is a dark time for the New Republic. The Yuuzhan Vong, despite some recent losses, continue to advance into the Core, and continue their relentless hunt for the Jedi. Now, in a desperate act of courage, Anakin Solo leads a Jedi strike force into the heart of Yuuzhan Vong territory, where he hopes to destroy a major Vong anti-Jedi weapon. There, with his brother and sister at his side, he will come face to face with his destiny--as the New Republic, still fighting the good fight, will come face to face with theirs...",2002,3.95,605,7590
9780099421863,0099421860,Fury,A Novel,Salman Rushdie,Anger,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PlLF4HAejtgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From one of the world's truly great writers, Fury is a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of 2000. Not since the Bombay of Midnight's Children have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel. Fury opens on a New York living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Malik Solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees to New York. There is a fury within him, and he fears that he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in New York at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of America's wealth and power, seeking to ""erase"" himself. But fury is all around him. Cab drivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. Meanwhile, his own thoughts, emotions and desires are also running wild. A young woman in a D'Angelo baseball cap is in store. Also another woman, with whom he will fall in love and drawn towards a different fury, whose roots lie of the far side of the world.",2002,3.29,272,6551
9780099422341,0099422344,Yeats is Dead!,A Novel by Fifteen Irish Writers,Joseph O'Connor,Comedy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DrE3If94axcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In aid of Amnesty International, this is a brilliant 'serial' novel by fifteen of the very brightest talents in Irish writing. It begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank McCourt. In between thirteen other Irish writers spin an increasingly elaborate tale ofmurder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin.",2002,3.39,298,34
9780099422686,0099422689,Choke,,Chuck Palahniuk,Alzheimer's disease,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xkbpbiEC_oAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care- pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of cheques, week in, week out. Victor also works at a theme park with a motley group of losers, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his mother, whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his parentage.""",2002,3.69,293,1457
9780099422693,0099422697,The Dying Animal,,Philip Roth,College teachers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=prPo8epCoIkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex' With these words America's most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college - as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete's critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated. The agency of Kepesh's undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous, humblingly beautiful twenty-four-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged helplessly into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling the themes of eros and mortality, licence and repression, freedom and sacrifice. The Dying Animalis a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.",2002,3.62,156,5683
9780099427865,0099427869,Illusions,,Richard Bach,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z93wmaJAtyoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders ... until he meets Donald Shimoda - former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar... In Illusions,the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal New York Times bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull,Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings- that people don't need airplanes to soar ... that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them ... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places - like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves.",2001,4.15,144,48723
9780099428169,0099428164,In the Pond,,Ha Jin,China,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bkmry89MaYYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ha Jin has been compared to the late Issac Babel for his spare evocation of ordinary lives caught up in the flux of vast social movements. Winner of the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction for his story collection Under the Red Flag, Ha Jin is a writer of stark power, simple beauty and poignant irony. His themes of personal honour in the face of political rectitude are carried forward here in his first novel, In the Pond, a close, unsentimental depiction of life in a small factory town; the manoeuvring, posturing, petty jealousies and injustices of an ordinary man who tangles with the party bosses.",2002,3.71,160,1212
9780099428633,0099428636,How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays,,Umberto Eco,Essays,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-SLftgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This witty and irreverent collection of essays presents Eco's playful but unfailingly accurate takes on everything from militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, librarians and bureaucrats to meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, express mail, fax machines and pornography. ""An uncanny combination of the profound and the profane"".--San Francisco Chronicle.",2001,3.85,229,106
9780099428640,0099428644,The Trial,,Franz Kafka,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pLxfPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Written in 1914, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Kafka’s nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.",2001,3.98,255,158037
9780099429166,0099429160,Turtle Moon,,Alice Hoffman,Mothers and sons,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XlRAI5VA_yUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The story of a divorced woman, her disillusioned teenage son, and the events that change their lives in ways both simple and extraordinary. When Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home - inexplicably taking along a motherless baby - his mother is perplexed and terrified. She takes off on her own journey to find him.""--Back cover.",2002,3.82,275,7348
9780099429791,0099429799,Atonement,,Ian McEwan,Atonement,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jZe53wiTVbYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.",2002,3.89,372,4537
9780099432449,0099432447,A Birthday for Frances,,Russell Hoban,Badgers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wJ1xPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Frances isn't happy, because it isn't her big birthday day, it is Gloria's. Frances isn't sure she will give Gloria her whole present and might keep half for herself. After all, little sisters aren't that good, they can't throw, they always break your crayons, pull your toys apart and put water in your mud pies. It isn't till Gloria makes her birthday cake wish, that Frances changes her mind!",1968,4.22,32,2152
9780099436744,0099436744,The Gangs of New York,An Informal History of the Underworld,Herbert Asbury,Gangs,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5dtj8Od-IcwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modem Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather.",2002,3.59,384,143
9780099437529,009943752X,The Whore's Child and Other Stories,,Richard Russo,Human behavior,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iXmFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""In this entrancing first collection of stories, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behaviour, revealing himself as an even more versatile and accomplished writer than his acclaimed novels have shown. As with all Russo's characters, we warm to these newcomers almost in spite of themselves. In the title story, a septuagenarian nun resolutely invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga; a seasoned Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a 25-year-old flame he never knew he'd harboured; a precious fifth-grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve; another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape; and an elderly couple rediscover the power - and misery - of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a hurricane-swept resort island.""",2003,3.75,240,2653
9780099437598,0099437597,In Watermelon Sugar,,Richard Brautigan,Social action,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7rKgPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of a new generation.",2002,4.02,144,9594
9780099446729,0099446723,Blackwood Farm,,Anne Rice,Horror,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cIn8Twm4MIkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lestat Is Back, Saviour And Demon, Presiding Over A Gothic Story Of Family Greed And Hatred Through Generations, A Terrifying Drama Of Blood Lust And Betrayal, Possession And Matricide. Blackwood Farm With Its Grand Southern Mansion, Set Among Dark Cypress Swamps In Louisiana, Harbours Terrible Blood-Stained Secrets And Family Ghosts. Heir To Them All Is Quinn Blackwood, Young, Rash And Beautiful, Himself A 'Bloodhunter' Whom Lestat Takes Under His Wing. But Quinn Is In Thrall Not Only To The Past And His Own Appetites But, Even More Dangerously, To A Companion Spirit, A 'Goblin' Succubus Who Could Destroy Him And Others. Only The Unearthly Power Of Lestat Combined With The Earthly Powers Of The Mayfair Clan Could Hope To Save Quinn From Himself And His Ghosts, Or To Rescue The Doomed Girl Quinn Loves From Her Own Mortality- Shocking, Savage And Richly Erotic, This Novel With The Deceptively Gentle Title Bring Us Anne Rice At Her Most Powerfully Disturbing. Here Are Vampires And Witches, Men And Women, Demons And A Doppelg-Nger, Caught Up In A Maelstrom Of Death And Destruction, Blood And Fire, Cruelty And Fate.",2003,3.86,774,26145
9780099448464,0099448467,The Carpenter's Pencil,,Manuel Rivas,Galicia (Spain : Region),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M6aM8vvrfjAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonsing civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a prison in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the famouse porch of the cathedral, the Portico da Gloria. He uses a carpenter's pencil. But instead of reproducing the sculptured faces of the prophets and elders, he draws the faces of his fellow Republican prisoners. any years later in post Franco Spain, a survivor of that period, Doctor Daniel da Barca, returns from exile to his native Galicia, and the threads of past memories begin to be woven together. This poetic and moving novel conveys the horror and savagery of the tragedy that divided Spain, and the experiences of the men and women who lived through it. Yet in the process, it also relates one of the most beautiful love stories imaginable.""",2003,3.6,165,628
9780099448471,0099448475,Sputnik Sweetheart,,Haruki Murakami,Businesswomen,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=--_eXhJE0noC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty two year old, Sumire is in love for the first time with a woman seventeen years her senior, Miu. Surprised that she might, after all, be a lesbian, Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend, K, a primary school teacher, who is used to answering questions, but what he most wants to say to Sumire is I love you.",2002,3.82,229,73452
9780099448570,0099448572,"South of the Border, West of the Sun",,Haruki Murakami,Domestic fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D3pTwEWLjj8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.",2003,3.87,190,56172
9780099448754,0099448750,The Elephant Vanishes,,Haruki Murakami,Japan,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GzP6Dzk-f8sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden; an insomniac wife wakes up to a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of the stories that make up The Elephant Vanishes, Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal. He has a deadpan genius for dislocating realities to uncover the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.",2003,3.86,327,1233
9780099448761,0099448769,Dance Dance Dance,,Haruki Murakami,Crime investigation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=23aiRAguYcEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Combining an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose, this novel is an assault on all the senses, a murder mystery that is also philosophical speculation, and a dark fable of advanced capitalism.",2003,4.04,393,47494
9780099448921,0099448920,The Rings of Saturn,,Winfried Georg Sebald,"Authors, German",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t671cbf3pz0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. The result is a rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coast, and an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human. 'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The Times",2002,4.26,304,390
9780099449867,0099449862,Elephant,And Other Stories,Raymond Carver,"Short stories, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c0EEfxDAqDAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the greatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.",2003,4.11,124,1063
9780099449898,0099449897,"Will You Please be Quiet, Please",,Raymond Carver,Short stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ybfel1V2jd8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.",2003,4.27,181,9697
9780099453833,0099453835,The Time of Our Singing,,Richard Powers,African Americans,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=atHpDdRLCK4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jonah, Joseph and Ruth are the children of mixed-race parents determined to protect them from the grinding effects of race. Hothouse children, they are all musically talented, but they cannot be protected from the world for long. Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, but the world of opera can only accept him as a 'brilliant Negro singer'; Joseph, our narrator, becomes a pianist and devotes his talents to the service of his brother's; Ruth turns her back on classical music ('white music') and disappears, on the run with her black husband under suspicion of being a Black Panther. Powers brilliantly and devastatingly delineates the tragedy of race in America, as it unfolds from the Civil Rights movement to Rodney King and Louis Farrakhan, through the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities.",2004,4.24,631,1718
9780099456452,0099456451,The Spook's Apprentice,,Joseph Delaney,Exorcism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZA0yS2C37r4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A wonderful and terrifying series by a new writer about a young boy training to be an exorcist. Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins . .",2005,3.98,325,2733
9780099458265,0099458268,Human Traces,,Sebastian Faulks,Europe,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KTKZiwoIHMUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As young boys both Jacques RebiSre and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind.As psychiatris- ts, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia.Moving and challenging in equal measure, HUMAN TRACES explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.",2006,3.63,793,3388
9780099460176,0099460173,Blood Canticle,,Anne Rice,Horror tales,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iQjGwPtIEVAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lestat is back with a vengeance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but tempted by goodness as he moves among the pantheon of Anne Rice's unforgettable characters. Julien Mayfair, his tormentor; Rowan, witch and neurosurgeon, who attracts spirits to herself, casts spells on others and finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat; Patsy, country and western singer, who was killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp; Ash Templeton, a 5,000 year old Taltos whose genes live on in the Mayfairs. Now, Lestat fights to save Patsy's ghost from the dark realms of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair. Both of Anne Rice's irresistible realms - the worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches - collide as Lestat struggles between his lust for blood and the quest for life, between gratification and redemption.",2004,3.72,400,18646
9780099461098,0099461099,Underground,The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche,Haruki Murakami,Cults,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i2104FzgbvIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This account of the 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by a Japanese religious cult is told, based on hundreds of interviews with survivors, relatives of those who died, and the perpetrators.",2003,3.9,309,10003
9780099461265,0099461269,Open House,,Elizabeth Berg,Divorced women,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=shlDD04amKoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Samantha Morrow's husband leaves her and her eleven-year-old son she is faced with the terrifying prospect of having to recreate her whole life. She opens her house to a series of lodgers who each in the eccentric way help her to see herself. And she shakes a friend, who shows her that she has the ability to make her own future.",2003,3.7,314,61
9780099462255,0099462257,Like a Charm,,Karin Slaughter,Bracelets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HVWEDUYM-YUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The cream of British and American crime writers combine for a must- have collection of linked short stories- With each writer picking up the story in their usual locale (Val McDermid in Manchester, Denise Mina in Glasgow, Karin Slaughter in Atlanta), each of these prestigious crime writers tells a gripping story (original to this collection) of murder, betrayal and intrigue. And running through each story is a charm bracelet- which brings bad luck wherever it's found... The must- have collection for all fans of British and American crime writing at it's best...",2004,3.5,384,1241
9780099468196,0099468190,Bleachers,,John Grisham,Death,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B9D3QT00fqEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"High school All-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. As Coach Rake's 'boys' sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they replay the old glories, and try to decide once and for all whether they love Eddie Rake - or hate him. For Neely Crenshaw, still struggling to come to terms with his explosive relationship with the Coach, his dreams of a great career in the NFL, and the choices he made as a young man, the stakes could not be higher.",2004,3.47,229,30096
9780099468646,0099468646,Earthly Powers,,Anthony Burgess,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3xBXx3Yg1cAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Earthly Powers traces eighty- one years in the life of a Somerset Maugham- type writer and lapsed Catholic called Kenneth Toomey. A popular, second- rate novelist/playwright, he spends a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to reconcile his homosexuality with his faith. This is also the story of Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest linked with Toomey through family ties. With dazzlingly inventive narrative spanning six decades, Burgess draws in major events and characters of the century while exploring themes of universal significance.",2004,4.15,649,2022
9780099471370,009947137X,The Mummy,,Anne Rice,Egyptologists,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I9n126K6j6QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Ramses the Great has reawakened in opulent Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress, Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster. He is tormented by searing memories of his last reawakening, at the behest of Cleopatra, his beloved queen of Egypt. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger....'Rice succeeds masterfully in blending horror and romance- Ramses is a fascinating character, heroic, yet tragically flawed by his human desires' - Atlanta Journal",2004,3.83,480,36906
9780099471431,0099471434,Lasher,,Anne Rice,Demonology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UeyMABieKGMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the centre of Anne Rice's brilliant novel, the beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws us through twilight paths, telling a chillingly hypnotic story of spiritual aspirations and passion...",2004,3.85,883,48445
9780099472636,0099472635,Survivor's Quest,,Timothy Zahn,Life on other planets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IF5ED39v65cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Luke Skywalker and his wife, Mara, get a strange message from the Chiss: Come and get the remains of the mysterious Outbound Flight Project. But there is more than meets the eye to this unexpected gift, as the newlyweds come face to face with the past! For someone is still alive in the Outbound Flight ships, and they're not interested in visitors. Plus there's at least one imposter along on the mission, and maybe more, and it will be up to Luke and Mara to uncover all the secrets and prevent another war from breaking out.",2005,3.97,480,7028
9780099474128,0099474123,Women Who Love Too Much,,Robin Norwood,Alcoholics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_v6tu8Tpyq8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Is having 'somebody to love' the most important thing in your life? Do you constantly believe that with 'the right man' you would no longer feel depressed or lonely? Are you bored with 'nice guys' who are open, honest and dependable? If being in",2004,4,314,239
9780099474395,0099474395,The Talisman Ring,,Georgette Heyer,Great Britain,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7Efhi0DF2i0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A witty and enthralling Regency romance by one of the best-known and most beloved historical novelists. The legend of the Headless Horseman and a proposed marriage de convenance both have their impact on the mystery of a golden talisman ring and Lord Lavenham's young heir, Ludovic. Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor Eustacie, his young French cousin, share the slightest inclination to marry one another, yet it is Lord Lavenham's dying wish. For there is no one else to provide for the old man's granddaughter while Ludovic remains a fugitive from justice ... Yet again Georgette Heyer shows the qualities that made her one of the most successful and best-loved romantic novelists of her age, and why her popularity endures to this day.",2005,4,268,5332
9780099474425,0099474425,The Convenient Marriage,,Georgette Heyer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pqKV8h7Lj_cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended. For Miss Lizzie Winwood is promised to the excellent, but impoverished Mr Edward Heron. Disaster can only be averted by the delightful impetuosity of her youngest sister, Horatia, who conceives her own, distinctly original plans ... Fo over fifty years until her death in 1974, Georgette Heyer was the undisputed queen of historical romantic fiction, and the The Convenient Marriage shows why she configures to be loved by a huge readership to this day.",2005,3.68,272,8899
9780099474463,0099474468,Lady of Quality,,Georgette Heyer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YwPmnE8bYGwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Independent and spirited. Miss Annis Wychwood gives little thought to finding herself a suitable husband, thus dashing the dreams of many hopeful suitors. When she becomes embroiled in the affairs of the runaway heiress Lucilla, though, she encounters the beautiful fugitive's guardian - as rakish and uncivil a rogue she has ever met. Although, chafing a bit at the restrictions of Regency society in Bath, Annis does have to admit that Oliver Carleton, at least, is never boring.",2005,3.87,267,5706
9780099474548,0099474549,A Very Long Engagement,,Sébastien Japrisot,Feature films [DVD],http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4XejAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One bitter night in January 1917, five French soldiers are court-martialled and sent into No-Man's Land. Days later, five corpses are given a hasty burial. After the war, the fiancée of one of the men sets out to discover what happened.",2004,3.91,320,79
9780099476337,0099476339,False Colours,,Georgette Heyer,Brothers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F7HoSc6VaVkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Honourable Christopher Fancot is forced into an outrageous masquerade by the tangled affairs of his wayward family.,2005,3.85,303,4332
9780099476351,0099476355,Sprig Muslin,,Georgette Heyer,England,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=csG8_CumWtYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sir Gareth Ludlow knows it is his duty as a man of honour to restore so young and pretty a girl as Amanda, wandering unattended, to her family. But it is to prove no easy task for the Corinthian.",2005,3.79,268,4847
9780099477310,0099477319,Catch-22,,Joseph Heller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uciYmbP_JV0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.",1994,3.98,519,5307
9780099478393,0099478390,The Quiet American,,Graham Greene,Americans,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=APV3dBhwi5gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discover Graham Green's prescient political masterpiece 'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwan Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated? WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH",2004,3.97,180,1204
9780099478423,0099478420,The Heart of the Matter,,Graham Greene,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LkvkNUvCN2AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.,2004,3.99,272,21116
9780099478447,0099478447,The End of the Affair,,Graham Greene,Adultery,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XB5tgtHWs2UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the relationship. Two years later, driven by obsessive jealousy and grief, Bendrix sends Parkis, a private detective, to follow Sarah.",2004,3.94,160,36230
9780099481249,0099481243,Enduring Love,,Ian McEwan,Accidents,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S702H90xDekC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The story of how an ordinary man can be driven to the brink of murder and madness by the delusions of another. It begins on a windy summer's day in the Chilterns when the calm, organized life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident.""--Publisher's description.",2004,3.63,245,29552
9780099481560,0099481561,For Whom the Bell Tolls,,Ernest Hemingway,Americans,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EiWqPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels-",2005,3.96,490,162
9780099481683,0099481685,Skipping Christmas,,John Grisham,Christmas,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r58lD61nLEAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A classic tale for modern times, Skipping Christmas offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that has become part of our holiday tradition. Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without a rooftop Frosty the snowman; they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren't even going to have a tree. They won't need one, because come December 25 they're setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.",2004,3.48,198,44098
9780099483472,0099483475,All Quiet on the Western Front,,Erich Maria Remarque,"World War, 1914-1918",,"All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home on leave, and in hospitals and dressing stations. Although there are vividly described incidents which remain in mind, there is no sense of adventure here, only the feeling of youth betrayed and a deceptively simple indictment of war - of any war - told for a whole generation of victims.",2005,3.95,216,1018
9780099489986,0099489988,Watermelon,,Marian Keyes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-55iSi-yKusC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Claire's husband James leaves her for Denise from the flat downstairs, the day their first child is born. Broken-hearted, Claire returns home to her family to get better. So much better in fact, that when James slithers back into her life he's in for a surprise.",2005,3.78,520,63160
9780099490685,0099490684,The Invisible Writing,,Arthur Koestler,"Authors, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GGIziAcbly8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of twentieth-century man and his dilemma. ARROW IN THE BLUE ended with his joining the Communist Party and THE INVISIBLE WRITING covers some of the most important experiences in his life. We see him in Germany, Russia, England, France and Spain, working sometimes openly and sometimes underground for the cause in which he believed. This was the time of the 'seven years' night' over Europe - of Hitler's spectacular successes against the Western Democracies. They were also the years of the great Russian purges, which led to Koestler#s eventual break with Communism in 1938, after Hitler and Stalin between them had claimed the lives of most of his friends and relatives. This book tells of Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. It puts in perspective his experiences in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in concentration camps in Occupied France (told at greater length in DIALOGUE WITH DEATH AND SCUM OF THE EARTH), and ends with his escape from Occupied France in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a new home. An epilogue brings the story up to 1953, when it was written. Koestler calls the book 'a typical case history of a member of the educated middle classes of Central Europe in our time'. It has two main themes: the historical background against which the author developed, and an unsparing analysis of his intellectual and spiritual development.",2005,4.35,528,111
9780099498582,0099498588,Dublin 4,,Maeve Binchy,Domestic fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yPgE79B9h0gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A vintage collection of short stories set in the heart of Dublin, from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends. A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner; a country girl savours the delights of city life; a student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy; and a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch a shattered career... This vintage collection of stories from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends is Maeve Binchy at her best - her trademark warmth, wit and compassion are unmistakeable.",2006,3.64,256,2089
9780099498599,0099498596,Circle of Friends,,Maeve Binchy,College attendance,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P4-i_eBBhL8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains...except their own. It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor's handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a... Circle Of Friends. From the Paperback edition.",2006,4.02,722,50668
9780099498636,0099498634,"Victoria Line, Central Line",,Maeve Binchy,London (England),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V7kjF8MAhbsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A vintage collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends. Millions of people travel on London's tube every day, yet we usually give our fellow passengers only a cursory glance. But each one of these nameless passengers has their own story to tell. At Notting Hill, the mysterious secretary, harbouring her secrets, travels to work; at Highburyand Islington, Adam has a sudden change of heart; and at Holborn, a disastrous reunion is about to take place... With her characteristic mix of compassionate humour and biting realism, this vintage collection of stories is Maeve Binchy at her very best",2006,3.59,432,928
9780099498667,0099498669,Firefly Summer,,Maeve Binchy,Domestic fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VEXwXNUsyHcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Firefly Summer is warm, humorous, sad and happy. Reading it is a joy' Irish Independent. Kate and John Ryan have four children, of whom the eldest are Michael and Dara. Their small town is peaceful and friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In long, hot summers Michael and Dara and their friends fish and swim or play in the ivy-clad ruins of Fernscourt, the great house burned down during the Troubles... No one in Mountfern has the slightest inkling of what it will mean when the ruins are bought by Patrick O'Neill, an Irish American with a dream in his heart and a great deal of money in his pocket. It is not until the very end of this drama, with its interlocking stories of love lost and won, ambitions nurtured and secrets betrayed, that Patrick O'Neill will understand the irony and the significance of his great dream for Mountfern.",2006,3.9,928,10461
9780099556312,0099556316,Airframe,,Michael Crichton,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=drRsu1CjsYIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes through to air traffic control: 'Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545. We have an emergency. ' The pilot requ",1997,3.7,431,65778
9780099578512,0099578514,Midnight's Children,,Salman Rushdie,Children of the rich,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IyJxhWwMyxIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked. But there has been a terrible mix up at birth, and Saleem s life takes some unexpected twists and turns. As he grows up amidst a whirlwind of triumphs and disasters, Saleem must learn the ominous consequences of his gift, for the course of his life is inseparably linked to that of his motherland, and his every act is mirrored and magnified in the events that shape the newborn nation of India. It is a great gift, and a terrible burden.""",1995,3.99,647,83826
9780099582014,0099582015,Sabbath's Theater,,Philip Roth,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lm070nfcbeAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Mickey Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress, Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.",1996,3.85,451,122
9780099595816,0099595818,Civilwarland in Bad Decline,,George Saunders,Short stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZY7h1t8IZjUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A brilliant collection of stories from the winner of the Folio Prize A collection of six stories and a novella, CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE introduces an astonishing new voice in American fiction. George Saunders' vision of America's near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip to the shopping malls and theme parks and enviromental hazards that lie just around the chronological corner, introducing us to gang of misfits and losers struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. Saunders' dialogue is superb, his plots marvellously bizarre: he is an original and uniquely American voice destined to become one of the most important literary discoveries of his generation.",1997,4.22,179,12271
9780099730514,0099730510,Six Memos for the Next Millennium,,Italo Calvino,Literature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=grihPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM is the text to a series of lectures which became an obsession for Italo Calvino in the last year of his life. Drawing on the works of Lucretius, Ovid, Boccaccio, Falubert, Kundera, Perec and many more, he pinpoints the universal laws and indispensable literary values future generations might cherish -lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity. It is an eloquent and lively 'defence' of literature - a fitting gift for the next millennium.",1996,4.23,128,2887
9780099742005,0099742004,Total Recall,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,,"Douglas Quail is haunted by nightmares of Mars, covert missions and a life more glamorous than his earthbound 2089 AD reality. So he turns to Recall, manufacturers of synthetic memories. They implant a memory into him but he soon finds that his nightmares are true memories.",1990,3.93,224,7932
9780099748618,0099748614,London Fields,,Martin Amis,City and town life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uhvuxNSWO6gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life. . . all Samson has to do is to write it as it happens. Taking a small pocket of time and a richly diverse part of London, Martin Amis dissects the nature of a society as it hurtles towards the millennium.",1999,3.73,526,8379
9780099766810,0099766817,"Cry, the Beloved Country",,Alan Paton,Classical fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bHxyrMfxzwUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.",2002,3.89,240,729
9780099771814,0099771810,American Pastoral,,Philip Roth,American literature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O9E8gGrjhj4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager - a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth's masterpiece.",1998,3.92,432,44929
9780099801900,0099801906,Deception,,Philip Roth,Adultery,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0P2Yf1WvZ6oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A famous writer and his mistress meet in a room without a bed. They talk, they play games with each other, they have sex, they tell lies. This work since ""Complaint"", explores adultery and the unmasking of illicit lovers in a novel that exposes the tenderness and uncertainty underlying all affairs of the heart.",1991,3.34,208,1474
9780099910107,0099910101,A Farewell to Arms,,Ernest Hemingway,War,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m68LhBiNv8YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.",1994,3.8,293,210197
9780099911708,0099911701,Cross Stitch,,Diana Gabaldon,Historical fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0Pm4ihLyutIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1945, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently she walks through a stone circle in the highlands, and finds herself in a violent skirmish taking place in 1743. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an outlander, in a country torn by war and by clan feuds. -- back cover.",1992,4.22,864,2319
9780099928409,009992840X,Ratner's Star,,Don DeLillo,Life on other planets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GTJANmXkp98C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space. By the author of Libra.",1976,3.49,448,1478
9780130235015,0130235016,Things Fall Apart,An Adapted Classic,Chinua Achebe;Sandra Widner,Igbo (African people),,"[This book is] a simple story of a ""strong man"" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ... Uniquely ... African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover.",2000,3.64,113,40
9780130887016,0130887013,C++ Programmer's Notebook,,James Edward Keogh;John Shapley Gray,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tmgPAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Covers all the C++ concepts a programmer needs to know, including variables, operators, pointers, and virtual functions, organized to build expertise one step at a time",2002,3,528,3
9780131492028,0131492020,Java,An Introduction to Problem Solving & Programming,Walter J. Savitch,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FlU_AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introduces object-oriented programming and important computer science concepts, such as testing and debugging techniques, program style, inheritance, and exception handling. This book includes coverage of the Swing libraries and event-driven programming. It is suitable for introductory Computer Science courses using Java.",2005,3.86,1060,23
9780131494848,0131494848,Leadership in Organizations,,Gary A. Yukl,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WHyPQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This text provides the most comprehensive survey of the major theories and research on leadership and managerial effectiveness in formal organizations with practical suggestions for improving leadership skills.,2006,3.68,542,55
9780131730366,0131730363,Organized Crime,,Michael D. Lyman;Gary W. Potter,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GAqoSwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dispelling current myths regarding organized crime, Lyman and Potter’s fourth edition reveals a truer picture of organized crime and criminal activity today. Providing scholarly treatment and a social perspective, the authors explore the concept of organized crime, the historical foundation for its evolution and development, and the current status of criminal groups in today’s society. Offering timely and respected research, this edition includes a thorough examination of drug trafficking, new sections on emerging organized crime groups, updated case studies, more coverage international groups, updated statistics, graphics and more! Presents a broad view of organized crime that incorporates more than just ethnically- driven, pop-culture stereotypes. Incorporates two parallel themes—organized crime consists of many different groups and corrupt individuals in public office, business etc., contribute to the continuation of the problem. Uses thematic questions (What is organized crime? Is there really a Mafia? Is terrorism organized crime? Do political machines still exist?) to promote higher-order thinking skills and a critical examination of the topic. Synthesizes volumes of historical data and archives to present the most salient aspects of the organized crime problem. References information and reports generated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, the National Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Statistics and well-known researchers in the field. Law enforcement professionals and those interested in a scholarly treatment and a social perspective of organized crime.",2007,3.83,496,12
9780131816596,0131816594,World Studies: Eastern Hemisphere,,Heidi Hayes Jacobs;Pearson Prentice Hall;Kate Kinsella;Michal L. LeVasseur,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3EgFGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introduces the geography, history, and cultures of the Middle East, Europe, Soviet Union, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.",2004,2,892,2
9780131871656,013187165X,Astronomy,a beginner's guide to the universe,Eric Chaisson;Stephen McMillan,Mathematics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1O00AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This introduction to astronomy features an exceptionally clear writing style, an emphasis on critical thinking and visualization, and a leading-edge technology program-including an accompanying full-featured electronic multimedia version of the book and companion Web site. A dynamic art program includes numerous radio, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray images and transparent full-color overlays. The book presents scientific literacy in the context of astronomy, with the aim of teaching studentsto think critically and analytically about the physical world and the development of science. The text requires a minimum level of simple algebra and trigonometry. It presents an explanation of key physical principles and techniques like Kepler and Newton's laws, spectroscopy and distance measurement (the cosmic distance ladder is used throughout).",2006,3.85,499,153
9780131922167,0131922165,The African-American Odyssey,,Darlene Clark Hine;William C. Hine;Stanley Harrold,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rcemAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This 3 rd edition ofThe African-American Odysseyincludes not only a CD-ROM-bound into every book (which incorporates over 150 documents in African American history), but also has a broadened international perspective, expanded coverage of interaction among African Americans and other ethnic groups, and new material on African Americans in the western portion of the United States. Free access to Research Navigator is included. This allows readers to access this powerful research tool with one site. Written by leading scholars,The African-American Odysseyis a clear and comprehensive narrative of African-American history, from the Civil War through modern times. The Combined Volume traces African-American history from it African roots through the present. This book places African-American history in the context and at the center of American History.Balancing accounts of the actions of African-American leaders with investigations of the lives of the ordinary men and women in black communities, exciting and readable coverage includes: African-American history from the Civil War and the beginnings of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights movement to discussions of black life at the dawn of the 21 st century.This is a compelling story of survival, struggle, and triumph over adversity. Readers will learn an appreciation of the central place of black people and black culture in this country, and a better understanding of both African-American and American history.",2005,3.95,464,3
9780131935075,0131935070,The Visual Arts,A History,Hugh Honour;John Fleming,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z1p1MAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This new edition is an authoritative and provides a balanced account of the history of art. It presents art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas-spanning from the primitive art of hunters 30,000 years ago to the most controversial art forms of today.",2005,3.82,936,39
9780132197380,0132197383,Three Genres,"The Writing of Fiction/Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, and Drama",Stephen Minot,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WPjQPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three Genres gives students a basic introduction to fiction/ literary nonfiction, poetry, and drama and helps them to develop their creative skills in each area. Each genre section is self-contained and includes complete works as examples along with helpful advice about how to draw on the variety of techniques they use. The style is informal, practical, and positive. Minot encourages student to draw on their own experiences and develop skills on their own.",2006,3.65,476,36
9780132370455,013237045X,Data Structures and Abstractions with Java,,Frank M. Carrano,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_u28WFa3lEgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Using the latest features of Java 5, this unique object-oriented presentation introduces readers to data structures via thirty, manageable chapters. KEY FeaturesTOPICS: Introduces each ADT in its own chapter, including examples or applications. Provides aA variety of exercises and projects, plus additional self-assessment questions throughout. the text Includes generic data types as well as enumerations, for-each loops, the interface Iterable, the class Scanner, assert statements, and autoboxing and unboxing. Identifies important Java code as a Listing. Provides NNotes and Pprogramming Ttips in each chapter. For programmers and software engineers interested in learning more about data structures and abstractions.",2007,3.44,998,34
9780132382458,0132382458,Social Psychology,,Elliot Aronson;Timothy D. Wilson;Robin M. Akert,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5xz3PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Suitable for introductory Social Psychology classes, this work presents a scientific approach to social psychology.",2007,3.98,633,38
9780140009378,014000937X,Big Money,,Pelham G. Wodehouse,Fiction,,"Berry Conway and his old school friend Lord Bickerton, otherwise known as Biscuit, are out to make money--big money. An opportunity presents itself when T. Paterson Frisby, for whom Berry works as a secretary, is looking for a chaperon for his American niece, Ann Moon. Berry knows that Biscuit has an Aunt Vera who will be ideal for the job, and he and Biscuit set it up, hoping for a commission. What they don't bargain for is the fact that she is prepared to become engaged to more than one man at a time . . .",1973,3.92,288,1069
9780140018325,0140018328,Kiss Kiss,,Roald Dahl,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l2lJH0BD77AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eleven Devious, Shocking Stories from the Master of the Unpredictable. What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when a pricelass piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged woman take revenge on her dead husband? In these dark, dangerous stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister side of human nature: the cunning, sly, selfish part of each of us that leads into the territory of the unexpected and unsettling. Stylish, macabre and haunting, these tales will leave you with a delicious feeling of unease.",1962,4.11,231,5652
9780140030341,0140030344,The Nice and the Good,,Iris Murdoch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Mo6BImLAk6gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A respected Whitehall civil servant is asked to investigate the suicide of a colleague and begins to feel trapped by the after-effects of violence.,1978,3.84,362,1472
9780140041798,0140041796,Switch Bitch,,Roald Dahl,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E_6t-jTKuOUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Storties included: The Visor, The Great Switcheroo, The Last Act, Bitch.",1976,4,140,6575
9780140042320,0140042326,The Pearl,The Red Pony ; Ill. by Wesley Dennis ; [both By] John Steinbeck,John Steinbeck,,,,1987,3.64,181,1431
9780140055771,0140055770,My Uncle Oswald,,Roald Dahl,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O09k1z0RXMAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Roald Dahl's first-ever novel presents the scurrilous memoirs of that delightful old reprobate from switch bitch, Oswald Hendryks Cornelius - connoisseur, bon vivant, collector of spiders, scorpions, odd walking sticks, lover of opera, expert on Chinese porcelain, and without doubt the greatest fornicator of all time. In this delightful picaresque story, it is revealed how Uncle Oswald first achieved great wealth - all thanks to the Sundance blister beetle, which when ground to powder has the most electrifying aphrodisiac qualities. It is 1919 - armed with the powder and aided by the beautiful amoral Yasmin how comely, Oswald begins an audacious commercial enterprise which involves seducing the most famous men in Europe - from crowded heads to Bernard Shaw and Marcel Proust.",1980,3.9,208,7833
9780140059021,0140059024,Wodehouse on crime,,,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YrZrAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1981,4.39,557,3143
9780140065503,0140065504,Water Music,,T. Coraghessan Boyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bL6tQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mungo Park, based on a real-life African explorer, and Ned Rise, a scoundrel, pimp, thief, and cheat, travel about Africa and meet up with a varied assortment of characters--native and colonial, antic and dangerous",1981,4.17,437,3128
9780140071788,0140071784,Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories,,Roald Dahl,"Ghost stories, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zGt6RQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Who better to investigate the literary spirit world that the supreme connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? His own short stories have teased and twisted imaginations in their millions, but amongst the many permutations of the macabre, Dahl has always felt a special fascination for the classic ghost story. In this book of ghost stories he has selected fourteen of his favourites for this superbly disquieting volume.",1985,3.69,249,2403
9780140093148,0140093141,"I, Claudius and Claudius the God",,Robert Graves,Autobiographical fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0NW1swEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1986,4.43,839,2422
9780140097313,0140097317,The New York Trilogy,Ghosts,Paul Auster,,,,1987,3.79,203,11696
9780140105834,0140105832,The Pigeon,,Patrick Süskind,Pigeons,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=92txPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Süskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover. When Jonathan opens his front door on a day he believes will be just like any other, he encounters not the desired empty hallway but an unwelcome, diabolical intruder . . .",1989,3.68,77,5832
9780140110876,0140110879,You Bright and Risen Angels,A Cartoon,William T. Vollmann,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d0buAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This comic and surreal novel about the beastliness and pain in the world focuses on the stories of assorted young American misfits, reactionaries and revolutionaries, young lovers, and raging old tyrants",1988,4.08,635,747
9780140115857,0140115854,Moon Palace,,Paul Auster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1LJlAspxeecC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan of the sixties, travels from Manhattan to Utah in search of himself",1989,3.98,320,14594
9780140118827,0140118829,The Job,Interviews with William S. Burroughs,William S. Burroughs,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AeU-xiNAfC8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The American novelist reveals his radical opinions regarding the Establishment and crucial issues threatening man's freedom,1989,4.05,224,922
9780140119480,0140119485,Americana,Don DeLillo,Don DeLillo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Lxn6PSnbD30C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"David Bell, a successful television executive begins to film a movie which ultimately forces him to reexamine his goals and values",1989,3.43,377,367
9780140125054,0140125051,Q E D,,Richard Phillips Feynman,Electrons,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2X-3QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Quantum electrodynamics - or QED, for short - is the revolutionary theory that explains how light and electrons interact. Thanks to Richard Feynman and his colleagues, who won the Nobel Prize for their ground-breaking work in this area, it is also one of the rare parts of physics that is known for sure, a theory that has stood the test of time. In these entertaining and witty lectures Feynman uses everyday examples to explain the deepest and most complex mysteries of the world around us, in the definitive introduction to QED.",1990,4.24,158,276
9780140128468,0140128468,Love's Executioner,And Other Tales of Psychotherapy,Irvin D. Yalom,Existential psychotherapy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZBptQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Contains eight case-studies of people the author has treated, including a woman of 67, obsessively pining with love for her 32-year-old previous therapist and a woman of 19 stone who has emotional difficulties because of her weight problem. This title includes stories that reveal the diversity of human motivation.",1991,4.2,270,216
9780140131673,0140131671,East is East,,T. Coraghessan Boyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5DHuAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young Japanese seaman jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and washes ashore on a barrier island inhabited by a strange mix of rednecks, descendents of slaves, genteel retired people, and a colony of artists. The result is a sexy, savagely hilarious tragicomedy of thwarted expectations, mistaken identity, love, jealousy and betrayal. ""An absolutely stunning work, full of brilliant cross-cultural insights"".--The New York Times Book Review.",1991,3.64,384,2047
9780140135152,0140135154,Ways of Seeing,A Book,John Berger;Sven Blomberg;Chris Fox;Michael Dibb;Richard Hollis,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5gpxxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Examines the social implications and psychological impact of the images and conventions of modern and classical artists,1972,3.78,176,177890
9780140137002,0140137009,Montaillou,,Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie,Albigenses,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gBZ7QAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters.",1990,3.97,400,71
9780140137347,0140137343,L'usage de plaisirs,,Michel Foucault,Sex,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9DXVngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women.",1992,4.07,304,47
9780140137989,014013798X,Case Histories I,"""Dora"" and ""Little Hans""",Sigmund Freud,Child analysis,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FhAVQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1990,3.74,331,33
9780140139396,0140139397,The Big Rock Candy Mountain,,Wallace Stegner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Je5dOcy2HF4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bo Mason and his wife and two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair; drifting from town to town, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune. Stegner has created a masterful, harrowing saga of a family trying to survive during the lean years of the early 20th century.",1943,4.15,563,5910
9780140139402,0140139400,The Spectator Bird,,Wallace Earle Stegner;Wallace Stegner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GC7SyeJDDyEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Retired literary agent Joe Allston passes through life as a spectator until he discovers the journals of a trip he took to his mother's birthplace years before.,1976,3.98,214,4537
9780140139976,0140139974,Sailor Song,,Ken Kesey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-pPSOhBxFSkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Alaska to film a famous children's book, the crew of a big-bucks Hollywood production company encounters a tribe of people who have had little contact with whites. By the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Reprint.",1993,3.57,533,1956
9780140140828,0140140824,The Best of Young British Novelists,,Bill Buford,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=koR6QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reissuse of volume 2 of Best of Young British Novelists in the run up to the latest volume. Originally published in 1993. Features the work of Iain Banks, Louis de Bernieres, Anne Billson, Tibor Fischer, Esther Freud, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, A.L. Kennedy, Philip Kerr, Hanif Kureishi, Adam Lively, Adam Mars-Jones, Candia McWilliam, Lawrence Norfolk, Ben Okri, Caryl Phillips, Will Self, Nicholas Shakespeare, Helen Simpson, and Jeanette Winterson.",1993,3.94,320,2
9780140143454,0140143459,Liar's Poker,Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street,Michael M. Lewis,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eboqx4Fm0zkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions quickly and easily, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly",1990,4.15,256,22710
9780140143959,0140143955,The Anglo-Saxons,,James Campbell,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-yGW7fkkAroC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Traces the history of England from the end of Roman rule to the Norman Conquest,1991,4.05,272,516
9780140144185,0140144188,Journal of a Novel,The East of Eden Letters,John Steinbeck,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EYVy6y3GHj0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of ""getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game."" Steinbeck's letters were written on the left-hand pages of a notebook in which the facing pages would be filled with the test of East of Eden. They touched on many subjects—story arguments, trial flights of worknamship, concern for his sons. Part autobiography, part writer's workshop, these letters offer an illuminating perspective on Steinbeck's creative process, and a fascinating glimpse of Steinbeck, the private man.",1969,4.09,182,998
9780140149241,0140149244,We Were the Rats,,Lawson Glassop,"Tobruk, Battles of, 1941-1942",,Reissue of the famous novel based on the author's experiences as one of the TRats of Tobruk' in the Middle East during WWII. First published in 1944. Part of the TAustralian War Classics' series introduced by Sir Edward TWeary' Dunlop.,1991,3.23,275,13
9780140150308,0140150307,The Portable James Joyce,,James Joyce,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LSv3AKlD2OsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This compilation of the works of the Irish writer contains a variety of poems, stories and excerpts from novels",1985,4.16,762,624
9780140150742,0140150749,The Portable Dorothy Parker,,Dorothy Parker,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WHN3-tctBZ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the most quotable of twentieth-century authors, Dorothy Parker has attained a wide-ranging and enthusiastic following. This revised and enlarged edition, with an introduction by Brendan Gill, comprises the original 1944 Portable, as selected and arranged by Dorothy Parker herself and including all her most celebrated poems and stories, along with a selection of her later stories, play reviews, articles, book reviews from Esquire, and the complete Constant Reader, her collected New Yorker book reviews.""To say that Mrs. Parker writes well is as fatuous, I am afraid, as proclaiming that Cellini was clever with his hands. ... Mrs. Parker has an eye for people, an ear for language, and a feeling for the lithe things of life that are so immense a part of the process of living."" - Ogden Nash""She has put into what she has written a voice, a state of mind, an era, a few moments of human experience that nobody else has conveyed."" - Edmund Wilson",1976,4.34,610,9391
9780140152746,0140152741,Mao II,,Don DeLillo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t0v7jxGuSh4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reclusive writer Bill Gray escapes his failed novel into a world of political violence and terror, in a story that journeys from New York, to London, Athens, and ultimately, the bombed-out city of Beirut",1992,3.68,254,8085
9780140153170,0140153179,ALEXANDRIA QUARTET,JUSTINE/BALTHAZAR/MOUNTOLIVE/CLEA/BOXED SET,LAWRENCE DURRELL,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kmQtYAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1991,4.17,884,9842
9780140153194,0140153195,Justine,,Lawrence Durrell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zuK-PBDV50QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the eve of World War II in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, an exiled Irish schoolteacher becomes involved with Justine, the Jewish wife of a Coptic Christian",1991,3.9,253,5183
9780140153224,0140153225,Clea,,Lawrence Durrell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ok_gyOGqlYwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After the war Irish emigre Darley becomes involved with Clea, a bisexual artist",1991,4.19,288,1824
9780140154078,0140154078,The Music of Chance,,Paul Auster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gf_sRKKiwgwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An ""exceptional"" (Los Angeles Times) tale of fate, loyalty, responsibility, and the real meaning of freedom, from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award This ""rich and dazzling"" (Wall Street Journal) novel follows Jim Nashe who, after squandering an unexpected inheritance, picks up a young gambler named Jack Pozzi hoping to con two millionaires. But when their plans backfire, Jim and Jack are indentured by their elusive marks and are forced to build a meaningless wall with bricks gathered from ruins of an Irish castle. Time passes, their debts mount, and anger builds as the two struggle to dig themselves out of their Kafkaesque serfdom. New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) brings us back into his strange, shape-shifting world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims, where chance is a powerful yet unpredictable force.",1991,3.9,217,354
9780140156041,0140156046,Libra,With a New Introduction by the Author,Don DeLillo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Vw1NGVkbEyAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The scheme of two disgruntled CIA agents to stage an unsuccessful attempt on the life of President Kennedy and link it to Cuba backfires when the erratic Lee Harvey Oswald goes too far,1991,3.99,480,11361
9780140157185,0140157182,The Assault,,Reinaldo Arenas;Andrew Hurley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FtyzjgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A surrealistic novel on a dictatorship, a Cuban version of George Orwell's 1984. The protagonist is a counter-whispering agent whose task is to ferret out people spreading rumors inimical to the regime. By the author Before Night Falls.",1995,3.78,176,137
9780140157512,0140157514,One Hundred Years of Solitude,,Gabriel García Márquez;Gregory Rabassa,Latin America,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Rac7PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb.",1996,4.06,422,588
9780140158762,0140158766,Chickenhawk - Back in the World,Life After Vietnam,Robert Mason,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R7cGAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the author of the bestselling autobiography Chickenhawk--selling over 540,000 copies--comes a triumphant sequel that reveals the Vietnam War's shattering legacy in the heart of a returning vet. A moving and no-holds-barred account of the downward spiral of events in one vet's life. Photos.",1994,4.05,400,166
9780140159943,0140159940,Beyond the Hundredth Meridian,John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West,Wallace Stegner,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k9sfdC_z4IkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Biography of John Wesley Powell.,1992,4.07,438,2870
9780140159950,0140159959,Ludwig Wittgenstein,The Duty of Genius,Ray Monk,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NCfy6E4s6DsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wittgenstein possessed one of the most acute philosophical minds of the 20th century. In this incisive portrait, Monk offers a unique insight into the life and work of a modern genius who radically redirected philosophical thought in our time.",1991,4.35,654,3498
9780140177398,0140177396,Of Mice and Men,Kits for Teens,John Steinbeck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YUhrILM9DOUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The tragic story of the friendship between two migrant workers, George and mentally retarded Lenny, and their dream of owning a farm",1993,3.86,107,15908
9780140178135,0140178139,Leviathan,,Paul Auster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bvxiQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the events that led to Ben's tragic demise and determine the reason for his death",1993,3.95,275,11238
9780140178661,014017866X,The Roses of No Man's Land,,Lyn MacDonald,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PL3Boa71_iQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"First published M. Joseph, 1980. Account of the casualties and medical services of the First World War.",1993,4.26,320,280
9780140178975,014017897X,Essays,,Michel de Montaigne,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VC_xLwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as ""On Solitude,"" ""To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die,"" and ""On Experience.""",1993,4.23,416,1121
9780140183955,0140183957,Untouchable,,Mulk Anand,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6OGdT0VVaKAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Explores the plight of the `Untouchables' in Hindu society in the 1930s.,1940,3.7,160,3168
9780140185331,014018533X,The Third Man and the Fallen Idol,,Graham Greene,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=REy21xKVROQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Just arrived in Vienna, Rollo Martins discovers that the friend he has come to visit is dead, and Philip, a small boy, unwittingly betrays his best friend to the police",1977,3.76,157,1243
9780140186123,0140186123,Collected Short Stories,,Graham Greene,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N3uC9Z0BHjEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Affairs, obsessions, ardours, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity and violence - this magnificant collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Previously published in three volumes - ""May We Borrow Your Husband?,"" ""A Sense of Reality"" and ""Twenty-One Stories"" - these thirty-seven stories reveal Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each one confirms V.S. Pritchett's statement that Greene is 'a master of storytelling'.",1986,3.97,368,287
9780140187076,0140187073,J R,,William Gaddis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DLSmngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the center of this hugely comic tale of ""free enterprise"" America stands JR--an eleven-year-old capitalist, eagerly following the example of the grasping world around him. Operating through pay phones and post-office money orders, JR inadvertently parlays a shipment of Navy surplus picnic forks, a defaulted bond issue, and a single share of common stock into a vast paper empire embracing timber, mineral and natural gas rights, publishing, and a brewery. At once a novel of epic comedy and a biting satire of the American dream, JR displays the style and extraordinary inventiveness that has made Gaddis one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.",1993,4.28,752,2027
9780140188264,0140188266,North of South,An African Journey,Shiva Naipaul,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hxdDSQJaEAgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.",1996,3.93,352,264
9780140188929,0140188924,The Monkey's Wrench,,Primo Levi,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DA_KpZarG0oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Faussone, an Italian engineer, describes projects he has worked on all around the world and explains what he has learned in his travels.",1995,3.93,192,576
9780140189223,014018922X,Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays,,Luigi Pirandello,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AU4McHk5cewC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Accompanied by two additional plays, presents the classic drama about literature and reality in which six characters involved in their own family drama come to life at a theater in the midst of a rehearsal, insisting that the theatrical company complete their story.",1995,3.95,224,2888
9780140189445,0140189440,Humboldt's Gift,,Saul Bellow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r0bFQu7Y6SIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Charlie Citrine, suffering from steadily worsening troubles with women, career, and life, receives unexpected aid in the form of a belated bequest from his onetime friend and mentor, the poet Von Humboldt Fleisher.",1996,3.86,487,6760
9780140189643,0140189645,The Crucible,A Play in Four Acts,Arthur Miller,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y408PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A play revealing the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association,1995,3.57,176,1297
9780140189865,0140189866,Species of Spaces and Other Pieces,,Georges Perec,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HUjYoKnUbl8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This selection of non-fictional work from the author of Life, a User's Manual, demonstrates Georges Perec's characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.",1997,4.28,292,1295
9780140191912,0140191917,The Act of Creation,,Arthur Koestler,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tJC5pDXFY8oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author examines the idea that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended-for example, in dreams and trancelike states.",1964,4.26,752,349
9780140191929,0140191925,The Ghost in the Machine,,Arthur Koestler,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tJS-QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An examination of the human impulse towards self-destruction suggests that in the course of human evolution, a pathological split between emotion and reason developed",1990,4.01,400,450
9780140192070,0140192077,"I Ching, Or, Book of Changes",,Richard Wilhelm;Cary F. Baynes,Confucianism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RFC1QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns with a new identity, a long-term girlfriend and a young daughter, who know nothing of what happened before. Yet when he runs into Jessica, neither of them can ignore the emotional ties that bind them together. With so many secrets to keep hidden, how long can Jessica and Matthew avoid the dark mistakes of their past imploding in the present?",1989,4.19,739,123
9780140193350,0140193359,I Ching,The Book of Change,John Blofeld,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TESzyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A translation of the early document of Chinese philosophy with explanatory notes,1991,4.19,240,42
9780140193701,0140193707,Holy Madness,"The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus",Georg Feuerstein,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J08zswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the ""crazy wisdom"" of adepts, spiritual teachers, and gurus from all of the world's ancient spiritual traditions and explores the relationship between radical teachers and their disciples,",1992,3.71,320,15
9780140195538,014019553X,The Beloved,Reflections on the Path of the Heart,Kahlil Gibran;John Walbridge,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KOEKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), love was the supreme way of achieving self-realization and completeness as a human being. Such themes as love, passion and marriage dominate the section on love in Gibran's celebrated The Prophet, but they are expressed with equal eloquence in his earlier Arabic stories, parables and prose poems.",1997,4.19,102,320
9780140196092,0140196099,Who are You?,101 Ways of Seeing Yourself,Malcolm Godwin,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2p8BAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A noted artist introduces 101 easy-to-follow ways to help readers identify their personal abilities, personality types, psychological strategies, and goals, examining the body, emotions, intellect, and spirit.",2000,3.48,224,250
9780140230277,0140230270,Harvesting the Heart,,Jodi Picoult,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SHq3ImXM8UEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now with a child of her own, Paige is still haunted by memories of her own mother, who left when she was five, and plagued by constant self-doubt.",1995,3.6,453,38397
9780140231571,0140231579,Whores for Gloria,,William T. Vollmann,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mQA-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories comes this fever dream of a novel about an alcoholic Vietnam veteran, who devotes his government check and his waking hours to the search for a beautiful and majestic street whore--a woman who may or may not really exist.",1994,3.69,160,896
9780140234442,0140234446,"Selected letters, 1940-1956",,Jack Kerouac;Ann Charters,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iPYOAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The life and craft of Jack Kerouac are traced through some of his most personal and mesmerizing letters. Written between 1940, when he was a freshman in college, and 1956, immediately before his leap into celebrity with the publication of On the Road, these letters offer valuable insights into Kerouac's family life, friendships with Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, and others.",1996,4.12,656,775
9780140236231,0140236236,Regeneration,,Pat Barker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BZhHPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first volume of the REGENERATION trilogy which centres around an actual encounter between army psychologist W.H.R.Rivers and the novelist Siegfried Sassoon, at Craiglockhart Hospital, during the First World War.",1997,4.03,256,19320
9780140237511,0140237518,"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour",An Introduction,Jerome David Salinger,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ddY0QQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters"" and ""Seymour"" are now reissued in a trade paper edition.",1994,4.12,134,246
9780140237535,0140237534,For Esmé - with Love and Squalor,,Jerome David Salinger,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GGprQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Indhold: A perfect day for bananafish ; Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut ; The laughing man ; Down at the Dinghy ; Just before the war with the Eskimos ; For Esmé - with love and squalor ; Pretty mouth and green my eyes ; De Daumier-Smith's blue period ; Teddy.,1994,4.19,149,2268
9780140238280,014023828X,The Tortilla Curtain,,T. Coraghessan Boyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZA_BOPDj3-YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters",1996,3.65,355,23410
9780140244915,0140244913,How the Mind Works,,Steven Pinker,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O521DV3v47wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force"" - Spectator ""Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature and history of the human mind...He explores computations and evolutions, and then considers how the mind lets us ""see, think, feel, interact, and pursue higher callings like art, religion and philosophy"" - Sunday Times",1999,3.97,660,225
9780140247725,0140247726,The Crucible,Text and Criticism,Arthur Miller,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nYZZ-O2L-EMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Earlier version copyright under title Those familiar spirits""-- T.p. verso.",1996,3.57,484,101
9780140247732,0140247734,Death of a Salesman,,Gerald Clifford Weales,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ozfxngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The tragedy of a typical American--a salesman who at the age of sixty-three is faced with what he cannot face; defeat and disillusionment.,1967,3.5,448,900
9780140247749,0140247742,Dubliners,,James Joyce;Robert Scholes;A. Walton Litz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yOR4QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience.",1996,3.85,492,320
9780140250916,0140250913,The Coming Plague,Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance,Laurie Garrett,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yZT7Bjom3xEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An exploration of the battle against microbes, based on research in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, examines the current outbreak of infectious diseases and outlines what can be done to prevent the coming plague",1995,4.17,750,8597
9780140251579,014025157X,The Making of Pride and Prejudice,,Sue Birtwistle;Susie Conklin,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ssBRUQiDk74C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book reveals in detail how Jane Austen's classic novel is transformed into a stunning television drama. Filmed on location at Wiltshire and Derbyshire, 'Pride and Prejudice', with its lavish sets and distinguished cast, was scripted by award-winning dramatist Andrew Davies. Chronicling 18 months of work - from the original concept to the first broadcast - 'The Making of Pride and Prejudice' brings vividly to life the challenges and triumphs involved in every stage of production of this sumptuous television series. Follow a typical day's filming, including the wholesale transformation of Lacock village into Jane Austen's Meryton. Discover how Colin Firth approaches the part of Darcy, how actors' costumes and wigs are designed and how Carl Davis recreates the period music and composes an original score. Piece together the roles of many behind-the-scenes contributors to the series, from researchers and fencing masters to experts in period cookery and gardening.",1995,4.43,128,3860
9780140252620,0140252622,The Barrytown Trilogy,,Roddy Doyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FOoPLB_w-sEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A one-volume edition of the celebrated trio of novels about the Rabbitte family, from the author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Guts (Viking, January 2014) ? which features the return of Jimmy Rabbitte, founder of the Commitments.",1995,4.28,633,2370
9780140253801,0140253807,Under the Sea Wind,,Rachel Carson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fonrQUrGqxgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Describes the sea birds and sea creatures that inhabit the Eastern coasts of North America.,1996,4.12,320,17
9780140255256,0140255257,Anaïs Nin,A Biography,Deirdre Bair,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SusCAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first biography of the famous diarist written with exclusive access to her complete, original diary and with the full cooperation of her family traces her infamous erotic exploits among the intellectual elite. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Tour.",1996,3.99,672,619
9780140259100,0140259104,The Nuclear Age,,Tim O'Brien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p0EMAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From Library Journal : Brilliant nuclear detonations and rising silver Titans have plagued William's dreams since his childhood during the Cuban missile crisis, when he fashioned a fallout shelter from the family ping-pong table. Thirty years later his fear has mushroomed into blinding paranoia, and when his wife announces she is leaving, he laces a hole in the backyard with dynamite, places her in it, and prepares to blow her up.",1996,3.44,320,928
9780140260021,0140260021,The Van,,Roddy Doyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZSQJy2tF2UAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The further misadventures of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin--from the author of The Commitments and The Snapper. This story follows Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr., and his best friend through Dublin, selling cheap grub to the drunk and hungry--keeping one step ahead of the health officials.",1997,3.94,320,5567
9780140260892,0140260897,Palimpsest,A Memoir,Gore Vidal,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jt6DDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of Myra Breckenridge reminisces about his life, from his school days at St. Albans and Exeter to his rise as a literary superstar, and the famous people he has known, including the Kennedys, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Reprint.",1996,4,448,1434
9780140264920,0140264922,Existentialists and Mystics,Writings on Philosophy and Literature,Iris Murdoch,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gvsK6oOwe4IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of the author's most influential essays and short works includes her critique of existentialism, her two dialogues on art and religion, key texts on the continuing importance of the sublime, the concept of love, and more.",1999,4.1,576,176
9780140271577,0140271570,Solomon's Song,,Bryce Courtenay,Australia,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rYd_AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'This is the story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom eventually grow rich and powerful but who, through three generations, never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other. It is also the story of our country from the beginning until we came of age as a nation.'",2000,4.01,671,3767
9780140271799,0140271791,Rachel's Holiday,,Marian Keyes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jSYcXXXVQd4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"RACHEL'S HOLIDAY, Marian's classic novel about addiction, is being given a new lease of life with a fantastic new jacket treatment. Here's Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's outraged. Surely she's not thin enough to be an addict? Heartsick and Luke-sick, she seeks redemption in the shape of Chris, a Man with a Past. A man who might be more trouble than he's worth.",1997,3.95,626,598
9780140274219,0140274219,Wide Sargasso Sea,,Jean Rhys,British,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mXtRwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is Jean Rhys' powerful and compassionate story of the first Mrs Rochester, haunted by her brother's death and the madness of her mother, she is trapped in a marriage with a man who wants to take her away from Jamaica to England.",1998,3.58,160,21276
9780140275018,0140275010,Cod,A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World,Mark Kurlansky,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6dKOlWVzT8MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A history of the fish that has led to wars, stirred revolutions, sustained economies and diets, and helped in the settlement of North America features photographs, drawings, and recipes, as well as the natural history of this much sought after fish",1998,3.9,294,923
9780140275650,0140275657,Age of Iron,,J. M. Coetzee,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cUkGRf7ahXoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"South African professor Mrs. Curren has always been opposed to apartheid's brutality though she has lived isolated from its horrors, but as she nears death from cancer, she confronts a generation of blood and revenge.",1998,3.85,198,2842
9780140276336,0140276335,White Teeth,,Zadie Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EIjErXbzk3MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the author's words, this novel is an attempt at a comic family epic of little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is injected. It tells the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in North London and Oxford from World War II to the present day.",2001,3.76,542,3859
9780140276343,0140276343,The Autograph Man,,Zadie Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d-PiHs4TafAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. He hunts for names on paper in a huge network of desire, collecting them, selling them and occasionally faking them; offering people a little piece of fame. To him, enlightenment is some part of himself that cannot be signed, celebrated or sold.",2003,3.15,420,501
9780140276909,0140276904,Jemima J.,,Jane Green,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qPw2c2og4HIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, better paid), her only consolation is food. That and a passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben. Her life needs to change and soon. But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she? A novel about attraction, obsession and the meaning of true love.",1998,3.64,450,669
9780140277821,014027782X,Difficult Conversations,How to Discuss what Matters Most,Douglas Stone;Bruce Patton;Sheila Heen,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5nHFQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What is a difficult conversation? Asking for a pay rise, saying 'no' to your boss or spouse, confronting a friend or neighbour, asking a difficult favour, apologizing. We all have conversations that we dread and find unpleasant. But can we develop the skills to make such situations less stressful and more productive? Based on fifteen years of research and consultations with thousands of people, DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS pinpoints what works. Use this ground-breaking, step-by-step book to turnyour difficult conversations into positive, problem-solving experiences.",2000,4.07,250,59
9780140278767,0140278761,One Hundred Years of Solitude,,Gabriel García Márquez;Gregory Rabassa,English,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-MBhQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb. 'His masterpiece and one of the undeniable classics of the century.' The Times 'One of a glittering constellation of contemporary Latin American novelists ... He is the author of a classic on the grandest scale ... the most obvious comparison is with Homer's Odyssey ... Garcia Marquez is a spellbinder' Spectator",1998,4.06,422,954
9780140280463,0140280464,My Year of Meats,,Ruth L. Ozeki,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mtl3DQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Strange things happen in the love lives of two women--one a Japanese-American filmmaker from New York, the other a Japanese housewife--linked by a Japanese television show sponsored by an American meat exporter. A first novel. Reprint. Tour.",1999,3.95,366,11866
9780140280494,0140280499,The Farming of Bones,A Novel,Edwidge Danticat,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_457QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians. Reprint.",1999,4.07,312,6511
9780140281705,0140281703,The World of Mr. Mulliner,"The Mulliner Omnibus : an Omnibus Volume Containing Mr. Mulliner Speaking, Meet Mr. Mulliner, Mulliner Nights",Pelham Grenville Wodehouse,"Humorous stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mjmeAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mr Mulliner, raconteur par excellence of the Anglers' Rest, has some amazing stories to relate. Take, for example, young Lancelot. He is a bohemian - or was, until he had to look after his saintly uncle's cat Webster, and was startlingly transformed. Then there is Mulliner's brother Wilfred, a whizzo at chemistry, whose 'Magic Marvels' medicine gets him in and out of a dreadful scrape. Mervyn, not one of the brighter members of the family, has a scrap over some strawberries. Not to mention Augustine the resourceful curate, Ignatius the portrait-painter, Adrian the detective and many more besides, whose wonderful and intriguing exploits are revealed in this witty omnibus. 'Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny.' Arabella Weir",1999,4.31,624,338
9780140283334,0140283331,Lord of the Flies,,William Golding,Fiction,,The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island,1999,3.67,182,1861140
9780140283358,0140283358,Waiting for the Barbarians,,J. M. Coetzee,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1me6TSRNdb4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A magistrate in a country village protests the army's treatment of members of the barbarian tribes taken prisoner during a civil war and finds himself arrested as a traitor.,1980,3.93,152,17232
9780140283365,0140283366,The Metamorphosis and Other Stories,,Franz Kafka;Malcolm Pasley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SvqhAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Startling and bizarre, Kafka's masterpiece tells the story of a young man who becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, and a quintessentially alienated man. Part of Penguin's Great Books of the 20th Century series.",2000,3.8,216,273
9780140284126,0140284125,The Inimitable Jeeves,,Pelham Grenville Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pk6XQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Michael Hordern stars as Jeeves with Richard Briers as Bertie in a BBC Radio full-cast dramatization. Just when Bertie thinks that all's right with the world, there's young Bingo Little, who's in love for the umpteenth time and needs Bertie to put in a good word for him with his uncle; Aunt Agatha, who forces Bertie to get engaged to the formidable Honoria Glossop; and friction in the Wooster home over a red cummerbund, purple socks and some snazzy old Etonian spats. Only the inimitable Jeeves can save the day.",1999,4.25,240,7430
9780140285970,0140285970,Shadows and Wind,A View of Modern Vietnam,Robert Templer,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CFiaQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines the problems facing modern Vietnam, a country emerging from its troubled past into a new world marked by conspicuous consumption and a lifestyle of leisure",1998,3.48,400,101
9780140286014,0140286012,Wanderlust,A History of Walking,Rebecca Solnit,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_R2MDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A cultural history of walking explores the ancient practice, from ancient Greece to the present, delving into Wordsworth, Gary Snyder, Rousseau, Jane Austen, and other cultural and literary icons to show how this basic activity has been imagined throughout history. 17,500 first printing.",2001,3.92,326,209
9780140286274,0140286276,The Deep End of the Ocean,,Jacquelyn Mitchard,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=247V71TlJ0MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The disappearance of her three-year-old son Ben threatens to drive a wedge between Beth Cappadora and her husband, Pat, and transforms her older son into a troubled delinquent, until one day nine years later when Ben comes back into their lives",1999,3.86,464,110552
9780140286373,0140286373,The Spell,,Alan Hollinghurst,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u8MZ_wV-QmsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The lives and relationships of four men intersect in this tale of gay love set during a long summer in England. By the author of The Swimming-Pool Library. Reprint.,2000,3.54,272,1505
9780140286809,0140286802,Collected Fictions,,Jorge Luis Borges;Andrew Hurley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4ChJPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In honor of the centenary of the birth of Borges, this collection of his fiction has been gathered into a single volume. ""An unparalleled treasury of marvels.""--""Chicago Tribune.""",1998,4.58,565,18072
9780140288483,0140288481,Hunger,a novella and stories,Lan Samantha Chang,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gUNAAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A firstgeneration immigrant from China marries an exiled musician whose unfulfilled desires nearly destroy their children, in the title story in a collection of tales about the trials and tribulations of Asian Americans. Reprint.",2000,3.89,192,793
9780140289237,0140289232,For Lust of Knowing,The Orientalists and Their Enemies,Robert Irwin,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fji7CWiJyoUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Includes bibliographical references.,2007,3.7,304,10
9780140295573,0140295577,Fever Pitch,,Nick Hornby,"Authors, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-FPDQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents an account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. This title includes a series of match reports.,2000,3.73,239,332
9780140295948,0140295941,Spellbound,,Jane Green,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gaHTANVEA3gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Alice knows she should be happy. After all she has a handsome husband, a beautiful house and membership to all the most exclusive clubs in London. So what if the rumours about her husband's skirt-chasing are becoming harder to ignore? When Joe's indiscretions force a transfer to New York, Alice hopes it might be a fresh start. And when they find a beautiful old house in Connecticut Alice is overjoyed. For a while she and Joe seem as happy as newlyweds. But then the late nights and unexplained absences start again. What should Alice do? Stay and fight for him? Or leave with her head held high?",2003,3.63,439,262
9780140296037,0140296034,A Year in Provence,,Peter Mayle,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZCSQ0DH_vgcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bestselling, much-loved account of 'A Year In Provence'. Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Lub<75>ron Valley and began a new life. In a year that begins with a marathon lunch and continues with a host of gastronomic delights, they also survive the unexpected and often hilarious curiosities of rural life. From mastering the local accent and enduring invasion by bumbling builders, to discovering the finer points of boules and goat-racing, all the earthy pleasures of Proven<65>al life are conjured up in this enchanting portrait.",2000,3.96,210,408
9780140296150,0140296158,"Selected Letters, 1957-1969",,Jack Kerouac;Ann Charters,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8BoBPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The second and final volume of letters from the Kerouac collection documents his romances, travels, writing, and emotional struggles, as well as his relationships with Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Malcolm Cowley, and others. Reprint.",2000,4.16,656,261
9780140296617,0140296611,The Periodic Table,,Primo Levi;Raymond Rosenthal,"Authors, Italian",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TOo-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An extraordinary work in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and starting point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as a chemist and his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition.",2001,4.2,194,98
9780140297973,0140297979,Pleasing Myself,From Beowulf to Philip Roth,Frank Kermode,American literature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4rKpPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Frank Kermode has often said that much of his best work has been done at shorter length, in the essays he has written on a very wide range of subjects for literary journals of one kind or another. This volume brings together a selection of these pieces that have been written since the 1990s, on topics as diverse as Donne, Yeats, Howard Hodgkin, gnosticism, the sea and money, as well as futher thoughts on Shakespeare.",2002,3.71,278,12
9780140298512,0140298517,The Basque History of the World,,Mark Kurlansky,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9P0gvGJSwJoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A history of the Basque people of Spain speculates on the origins of this enigmatic group of Europeans whose language and culture have long baffled anthropologists. Reprint.,1999,3.84,400,3259
9780140299144,0140299149,Vinyl Cafe Unplugged,,Stuart McLean,Canadian wit and humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FQjXMqlpfPEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bestselling author and radio storytelling sensation Stuart McLean revisits the heartwarming and hilarious friends from his iconic Vinyl Cafe. Dave and his wife Morley would no doubt tell you that life is what you make it. Unfortunately for them, that means a compilation tape of mistakes, miscues, misunderstandings, and muddle. That's not to say that there is anything particularly unusual about the family and friends at the Vinyl Cafe. After all, who wouldn't try to toilet-train a cat? Who hasn't started a small home fix-it job only to set fire to the walls? Created mass hysteria at a school concert? Lost an aging relative while visiting our nation's capital? ""Vinyl Cafe Unplugged"" is a warm and delightful collection of stories following the common foibles and everyday absurdities of family life.",2001,4.23,272,1295
9780140299939,0140299939,World's End,A Novel,T. Coraghessan Boyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vQNMPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth cenutry to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory prose. It follows the interwoven destinies of families of Indians, lordy Dutch patrons, and yoemen.",1988,4.01,480,3180
9780140299946,0140299947,Descent of Man,Stories,T. Coraghessan Boyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wzVfXTxFRSsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A mad, hilarious collection of short stories, wherein Boyle offers his unique view of dictators, animals, scientists, explorers, collectors, teetotalers, and others.",1987,3.96,240,591
9780140299960,0140299963,Budding Prospects,A Pastoral,T. Coraghessan Boyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r3DQH3BikQQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Felix is a quitter, with a poor track record behind him. Until the day the opportunity presents itself to make half a million dollars tax-free - by nurturing 390 acres of cannabis in the lonely hills of northern California.",1990,3.85,326,1702
9780140307375,0140307370,Little Plum,,Rumer Godden,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bCnOJnTP0Z8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The new girl who moves into the mansion next door is a mystery to her eight and nine-year-old neighbors who plot to become her friends when they learn she too owns a Japanese doll.,1987,4.22,144,10
9780140309591,0140309594,Pippi Goes on Board,,Astrid Lindgren;Louis S. Glanzman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CbIFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The further adventures of Pippi and her friends Tommy and Annika.,1977,4.12,140,10082
9780140320435,0140320431,Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator,,Roald Dahl,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BmE7b_S91roC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mr. Willy Wonka might be a genius with chocolate, but Charlie and his family don't trust his flying skills one bit. And right now, he's at the helm of a giant glass elevator that's picking up speed and hurtling through space with Charlie and the entire Bucket family stuck inside! Roald Dahl's uproarious sequel to ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" is certain to delight and entertain a new generation of readers. ""From the Hardcover edition.""",1986,3.66,160,201
9780140322620,0140322620,Fairy Tales,,Terry Jones;Michael Foreman,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KMK_QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of thirty original fairy tales introducing such beings as the fly-by-night, the rainbow cat, and the wonderful cake-horse.",1987,4.23,160,171
9780140345827,0140345825,Strange Attractors,,William Sleator,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DpgIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Max finds himself in possession of a time travel device which is eagerly sought by two desperate men, the scientist who invented it and the scientist's alter ego from a different timeline.",1991,3.71,176,226
9780140363333,0140363335,How Do You Lose Those Ninth-Grade Blues?,,Barthe DeClements,Obesity,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1P-FcgE0pcMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Though no longer a fat girl, Elsie, now fifteen, still has trouble believing anyone could love her and that old fear threatens her relationship with her boyfriend.",1993,3.74,144,10
9780140364750,0140364757,Seventeen & In-Between,A Novel,Barthe DeClements,High schools,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ptENPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At seventeen, Elsie Edwards, once the fat girl of fifth grade, later slender but insecure in ninth grade, now has boyfriend problems that once would have seemed too good to be true.",1993,3.82,176,221
9780140366600,0140366601,The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse,,Quentin Blake,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hMjTHea0roQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A lively, upbeat collection of nonsense verse for all the family, including Lear, Carroll, Belloc and Nash, with Quentin Blake's wonderfully loopy illustrations.",1996,4.04,287,76
9780140367355,0140367357,Five Children and it,,Edith Nesbit,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T5WpzcIxwTsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A series of phenomenal adventures follow when young Anthea discovers a sand-fairy who can grant wishes.,1996,3.88,237,18215
9780140367430,0140367438,The Enchanted Castle,,E. Nesbit,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=75V6xgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"E. Nesbit's classic story of how Gerald, Cathy and Jimmy find an enchanted garden and awake a princess from a hundred-year sleep, only to have her immediately made invisible by a magic ring. Her rescue is difficult, funny and sometimes frightening.",2004,3.85,291,6124
9780140383195,0140383190,Bound for Oregon,,Jean Van Leeuwen,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b8YxNgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Bound For Oregon (PB),1996,3.78,176,817
9780140389661,0140389660,"That was Then, this is Now",,S. E. Hinton,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l7XQD-EfgFMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,HINTON/THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW,2008,3.91,159,25827
9780140422153,0140422153,The Complete Poems,,William Blake,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oYAsTM2q0rEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Contains all of Blake's poetry with full annotation and a glossary of proper names.,1977,4.29,1072,7584
9780140424386,0140424385,The Canterbury Tales,,Geoffrey Chaucer,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ek_-lNfzGUcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Now as I've drunk a draught of corn-ripe ale, By God it stands to reason I can strike On some good story that you all will like' In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition within a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Rich and diverse, The Canterbury tales offers us an unrivalled glimpse into the life and mind of medieval England. Nevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern English verse translation is rendered with consummate skill to retain all the vigour and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English.",2003,3.49,504,161011
9780140430363,0140430369,Three Gothic Novels,,Horace Walpole;William Beckford;Mary Shelley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZjI_DRXFD7kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Beckford's Vathek, and Shelley's Frankenstein The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote. 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.",1968,3.7,505,290
9780140430899,014043089X,De Profundis and Other Writings,,Oscar Wilde,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ANYo1XCPqt4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,No Marketing Blurb,1973,4.21,252,2253
9780140431056,0140431055,Redburn,,Herman Melville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LH87V-JOBSEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The hardships of life at sea and the realities of distant cities provide young Redburn with a startling introduction to the world,1976,3.61,448,522
9780140433395,0140433392,The Birth of Tragedy,Out of the Spirit of Music,Friedrich Nietzsche,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kJax-CzC3LoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents an argument for the necessity for art in life. This book is based on the author's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner. It outlines a distinction between two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime.",1993,3.98,160,9522
9780140435191,0140435190,The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and the Well-beloved,,Thomas Hardy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tLjGScN9eNAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and with sculpting the perfect figure of Aphrodite.,2007,3.59,416,120
9780140436075,0140436073,The Law and the Lady,,Wilkie Collins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1JI_hFUZufUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady (1875) is a fascinating example of Collins' later fiction. Valeria Valerie Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name incorrectly in the marriage register; this slip is followed by a gradual disclosure of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads to another set of questions and enigmas. Developing many of the techniques at work in The Moonstone in bizarre and unexpected ways, and employing both Gothic and fantastic elements, The Law and the Lady adds a significant dimension to the history of the detective novel.",1998,3.8,383,114
9780140436143,0140436146,Martin Chuzzlewit,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LO3SzAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin<69>s journey <20> an experience that teaches him to question his inherited self-interest and egotism <20> Dickens created many vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting to gain the family fortune; Martin<69>s optimistic manservant, Mark Tapley; gentle Tom Pinch; and the drunken and corrupt private nurse, Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of greed, blackmail and murder, and its searing satire on America Dickens<6E>s novel is a powerful and blackly comic story of hypocrisy and redemption.",1999,3.83,830,12722
9780140436327,0140436324,Selected Writings,,Saint Thomas (Aquinas);Ralph McInerny;Ralph M. McInerny,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0rAbqAjBba8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Brings together sermons, commentary responses to criticism, and substantial extracts from the ""Summa Theologiae,"" arranged chronologically.",1998,3.9,841,594
9780140436587,0140436588,Ivanhoe,,Walter Scott,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IiOgdjKRM5oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Scott's classic historical romance, set in the twelfth-century England of Richard I, depicts the adventures of the heroic Wilfred of Ivanhoe in winning the hand of beautiful Lady Rowena.",2000,3.75,544,72038
9780140437508,0140437509,Three Men in a Boat,To Say Nothing of the Dog! & Three Men on the Bummel,Jerome Klapka Jerome,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DUXWxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times. The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created a new mass readership, and Jerome's book was especially popular among the 'clerking classes' who longed to be 'free from that fretful haste, that vehement striving, that is every day becoming more and more the bane of nineteenth-century life.' So popular did it prove that Jerome reunited his heroes for a bicycle tour of Germany. Despite some sharp, and with hindsight, prophetic observations of the country, Three Men on the Bummel describes an equally picaresque journey constrained only 'by the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started'.",1999,4.09,400,2243
9780140437850,0140437851,A Journal of the Plague Year,,Daniel Defoe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ANkRLiSUG24C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. 'A Journal' (1722) follows Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets of London. Here we see a city transformed: some of its streets suspiciously empty, some - with crosses on their doors - overwhelmingly full of the sounds and smells of human suffering. And every living citizen he meets has a horrifying story that demands to be heard.",2003,3.53,289,3471
9780140437911,0140437916,Saint Joan,,George Bernard Shaw,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9S6eVEmCko4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution.",2003,3.79,160,5789
9780140437973,0140437975,"Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, and Other Tales of New York",,Stephen Crane,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TeOwd7KTsxgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Portrays the brutal effects of the poverty and loneliness of slum life.,2000,3.66,272,2405
9780140439052,0140439056,A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1vITxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was ""seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality"" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.",2003,4.13,288,29719
9780140440225,0140440224,The Canterbury Tales,,Geoffrey Chaucer,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ab8tos14Ti0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other,1977,3.49,489,1024
9780140440461,0140440461,"The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine: Purgatory",,Dante Alighieri,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sQb_yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The most celebrated work of Dante is the Divine comedy--a vision of hell, purgatory and heaven that provides a strangely surrealistic view of medieval attitudes on religious dogma and the price of disobedience.",1949,4.02,388,341
9780140440935,0140440933,Faust,,Johann Goethe,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IYSxmzIyouoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of the play is included with Goethe's masterpiece about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil.",1959,3.73,288,120
9780140441055,0140441050,The Divine Comedy & Paradise,,Dante Alighieri,Poetry,,"In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in understanding, until he finally experiences divine love in the radiant presence of the deity. Examining eternal questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, Dante exercised all his learning and wit, wrath and tenderness in his creation of one of the greatest of all Christian allegories.",1962,3.95,400,11130
9780140441123,0140441123,Prometheus Bound and Other Plays,,Aeschylus;Philip Vellacott,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0gbclW98ougC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Aeschylus (525;456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes. Philip Vellacott's evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.",1961,4.1,160,4075
9780140441222,0140441220,"Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah",,Jean Racine,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pNT4xgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639–99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a princess’s absolute submission to her father’s will, despite his determination to sacrifice her to gain divine favour before going to war. Described by Voltaire as ‘the masterpiece of the human mind’, Phaedra shows a woman’s struggle to overcome her overwhelming passion for her stepson – an obsession that brings destruction to a noble family. And Athaliah portrays a ruthless pagan queen, who defies Jehovah in her desperate attempt to keep the throne of Jerusalem from its legitimate heir.",1970,3.85,320,296
9780140441376,0140441379,The Nibelungenlied,,A. Hatto,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nCV_E8HJkNUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of the Netherlands, wins the hand of the beautiful princess Kriemhild of Burgundy, by aiding her brother Gunther in his struggle to seduce a powerful Icelandic Queen. But the two women quarrel, and Siegfried is ultimately destroyed by those he trusts the most. Comparable in scope to the Iliad, this skilfully crafted work combines the fragments of half-forgotten myths to create one of the greatest epic poems - the principal version of the heroic legends used by Richard Wagner, in The Ring.",1965,3.87,404,3893
9780140441529,0140441522,The Wasps,The Poet and the Women ; The Frogs,Aristophanes,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jInV9Bd_Z88C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 'The Wasps' an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows--and end up in court; elsewhere Aristophanes milks the clash of generations for all it is worth by sending up the purveyors of new ideas like Socrates and Euripides (the most controversial of the great tragedians). In 'The Poet and the Women' Euripides, accused of misogyny, gets a relative in drag to infiltrate an all-woman festival and find out what revenge is being plotted, with predictable bawdy results. In 'The Frogs, ' written in the darkest days of the Peloponnesian War, the god Dionysus descends to the Underworld to find a poet to bring back: does Athens in her hour of danger need the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus or the brilliant modern cleverness of Euripides? As the great debate proceeds, Aristophanes combines parody with slapstick and political discussion with pantomime high spirit, to produce a hilarious and unique masterpiece.",1964,3.95,224,372
9780140441734,0140441735,Rameau's Nephew / D'alembert's Dream,,Denis Diderot,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uMbVzAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment, Denis Diderot was a passionate critic of conventional morality, society and religion. Among his greatest and most well-known works, these two dialogues are dazzling examples of his radical scientific and philosophical beliefs. In Rameau's Nephew, the eccentric and foolish nephew of the great composer Jean-Philippe Rameau meets Diderot by chance, and the two embark on a hilarious consideration of society, music, literature, politics, morality and philosophy. Its companion-piece, D'Alembert's Dream, outlines a material, atheistic view of the universe, expressed through the fevered dreams of Diderot's friend D'Alembert. Unpublished during his lifetime, both of these powerfully controversial works show Diderot to be one of the most advanced thinkers of his age, and serve as fascinating testament to the philosopher's wayward genius.",1976,3.67,237,1264
9780140441796,0140441794,"The Gambler, Bobok, A Nasty Story",,Fiodor Mijaïlovich Dostoevskiï;Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8Af3uAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky’s genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. The Gambler is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense and futile obsession. Based on Dostoyevsky’s own experience of financial desperation and the compulsive desire to win money, it focuses on the characters that take their places at the gaming tables of ‘Roulettenburg’: the outspoken, aristocratic ‘Grandmamma’, the mercenary Mademoiselle Blanche, the cool, mysterious Polina and Alex, the author’s self-portrait; a man gripped by exhilaration and hopelessness. Bobok is a blackly comic satire in which a desolate writer becomes drawn into the conversations of the dead, and A Nasty Story is a humorous look at the disparity between a man’s exaggerated ideal of himself and the sad reality.",1966,4,240,565
9780140442052,0140442057,Cousin Pons,Part Two of 'Poor Relations',Honore Balzac,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qVrTzAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. When these relatives become aware of the true value of his art collection, however, their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls away as they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man's inheritance. Taking its place in the Human Comedy as a companion to Cousin Bette, the darkly humorous Cousin Pons is among of the last and greatest of Balzac's novels concerning French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature.",2006,3.99,336,894
9780140442243,0140442243,Home of the Gentry,,Ivan Turgenev,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j7snw8iJobgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The nobleman Lavretsky, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns from Paris to his Russian estate, where he begins to fall in love with a young woman named Liza.",1970,3.92,298,2070
9780140442328,0140442324,A Harlot High and Low,,Honore Balzac,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tcVnaPgSagAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of their ranks. Lucien eventually learns that, wherever he goes, talent counts for nothing in comparison to money, intrigue and unscrupulousness. Lost Illusions is one of the greatest novels in the rich procession of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times.",1970,4.05,554,1473
9780140442373,0140442375,Rabouilleuse,,Honoré de Balzac,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E7WaaxaiSVkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career in Napoleon’s army. His younger brother Joseph, meanwhile, is fundamentally virtuous - but their mother is blinded to his kindness by her disapproval of his life as an artist. Foolish and prejudiced, Agathe lives on unaware that she is being cynically manipulated by her own favourite child, but will she ever discover which of her sons is truly the black sheep of the family? A dazzling depiction of the power of money and the cruelty of life in nineteenth-century France, The Black Sheep compellingly explores is a compelling exploration of the nature of deceit.",1970,3.98,339,1427
9780140442410,0140442413,Germania,,Cornelius Tacitus,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-TCOs_SFAy0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola – the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law – and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and a succinct account of the early stages of the Roman occupation, nearly fatally undermined by Boudicca's revolt in AD 61 but consolidated by campaigns that took Agricola as far as Anglesey and northern Scotland. The warlike German tribes are the focus of Tacitus' attention in the Germania, which, like the Agricola, often compares the behaviour of 'barbarian' peoples favourably with the decadence and corruption of Imperial Rome.",1970,3.98,174,3895
9780140442526,0140442529,Notes from Underground,The Double,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-s47DK9xBS4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A single, tormented, character dominates both of these short novels written at different stages of Dostoyevsky's career",1972,4.2,287,4537
9780140442571,014044257X,Philosophical Dictionary,,Francois Voltaire,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a8BK7o9SFnIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of sardonic wit - more a collection of essays arranged alphabetically, than a conventional dictionary - considers such diverse subjects as Abraham and Atheism, Faith and Freedom of Thought, Miracles and Moses. Repeatedly condemned by civil and religious authorities, Voltaire's work argues passionately for the cause of reason and justice, and criticizes Christian theology and contemporary attitudes towards war and society - and claims, as he regards the world around him: 'common sense is not so common'.",1972,4.09,400,1360
9780140442724,0140442723,Li Po and Tu Fu,,Arthur R. V. Cooper,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S4SPUkPIIZYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Offers translations of poems by the two Chinese writers.,1973,4.11,256,359
9780140442755,0140442758,Phaedrus,"And, The Seventh and Eighth Letters",Plato,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fNHF-hAPJdgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in the idyllic countryside outside Athens, the Phraedrusis a dialogue between the philosopher Socrates and his friend Phaedrus, inspired by their reading of a clumsy speech by the writer Lysias on the nature of love. Their conversation develops into a wide-ranging discussion on such subjects as the pursuit of beauty, the immortality of the soul and the attainment of truth, and ends with an in-depth consideration of the principles of rhetoric. Probably a work of Plato's maturity, the Phaedrusrepresents a high point in his achievement as a writer. This volume also contains two of his letters, which discuss his involvement in politics, in particular his role as adviser to Dionysius II of Syracuse, which are crucial documents for our understanding of Plato's life and career.",1973,4.12,160,216
9780140443073,014044307X,Love,,Stendhal,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ungt2wstvLQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to exorcise his love and explain his feelings. The result is an intensely personal dissection of the process of falling - and being - in love: a unique blend of poetry, anecdote, philosophy, psychology and social observation. Bringing together the conflicting sides of his nature, the deeply emotional and the coolly analytical, Stendhal created a work that is both acutely personal and universally applicable.",1975,3.73,336,1043
9780140443332,0140443339,The Oresteia,,Aeschylus,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NtSGKcgMIlIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A trilogy of plays dramatizes the murder of Agamemnon by his wife, Clytaemnestra, the revenge of her son, Orestes, and his judgement by the court of Athena",1984,4.01,335,27759
9780140443486,0140443487,Lun Yü,,Confucius,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1e7XlNv5oX0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Confucius' teachings, preserved by his students, consist of aphorisms and parables that illustrate his views on morality",1979,3.84,249,11565
9780140443530,0140443533,Notre-Dame de Paris,,Victor Hugo;John Sturrock,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fYmEyx-TMlMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tells the story of the hunchback Quasimodeo, bell-ringer of Nortre-Dame, the archdeacon Claude Frollo, and the gypsy dancer Esmeralda who wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion.",1978,3.99,493,879
9780140443691,014044369X,Spring Torrents,,Иван Сергеевич Тургенев;Leonard Shapiro,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G7cilICN-dgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Thirty years later Dimitry Sanin looks back on a passionate attachment, a virtual enslavement, to Madame Polozov, who used his helpless love to humiliate him",1980,3.94,240,2709
9780140443875,0140443878,Terre,,Émile Zola,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JaTP2NB6KlsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,No Marketing Blurb,1980,4.08,499,1053
9780140443943,0140443940,Eugene Onegin,,Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin;Charles Johnston,English poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c3eIQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Distinguished by James E. Falen's masterful use of contemporary American English and handling of rhyme and meter, this new translation of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel ably provides English readers with the chance to experience the work of the poet Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. The introduction includes Falen's discussion of how his translation compares with those of his predecessors and a general analysis of the poem. Nearly one hundred notes annotate the text.""",1979,4.09,240,200
9780140444087,0140444084,Love Visions,,Geoffrey Chaucer,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=renlXZJKGy4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Gathers four of Chaucer's longer poems that depict poetic dreams about the rituals and emotions of courtly love,1983,3.58,272,67
9780140444308,0140444300,Les Miserables,,Victor Hugo;Norman Denny,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X3KZKnFd7H8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean has difficulty adjusting to the outside world, which scorns and shuns him",1982,4.16,1232,3753
9780140444421,0140444424,Divina Commedia. English,,Dante Alighieri,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PCLZxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Detailed notes accompany a modern English translation of Dante's epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim led by the ghost of Virgil through the circles of hell,1985,4.02,399,734
9780140444438,0140444432,Divina Commedia. English,,Dante Alighieri,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wMZdyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive commentary, a glossary and bibliography, this translation seeks to clarify the theological themes and make Dante accessible to the English-speaking public.",1986,3.95,433,354
9780140445145,0140445145,Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ,,Friedrich Nietzsche,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-ur_M2YcDYIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Twilight of the Idols', an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for 'The Anti-Christ', a final assault on institutional Christianity. Both works show Nietzsche lashing out at self-deception, astounded at how often morality is based on vengefulness and resentment. Both reveal a profound understanding of human mean-spiritedness which still cannot destroy the underlying optimism of Nietzsche, the supreme affirmer among the great philosophers.",1990,4.16,208,6906
9780140445220,0140445226,Sketches from a Hunter's Album,,Ivan Turgenev,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3V1ufDxyAkgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Turgenev’s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters – peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers – each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage and loss, and anticipating Turgenev’s great later works such as First Love and Fathers and Sons. His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate, but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.",1990,3.93,403,5846
9780140445503,0140445501,Gargantua and Pantagruel,,Francois Rabelais;Michael Andrew Screech,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fWwtsxg7zG0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.",2006,3.71,1041,11605
9780140445770,0140445773,Either/Or,A Fragment of Life,Soren Kierkegaard,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qUA-_xdRPgAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A masterpiece of duality, Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical - both meditating ironically and seductively upon Epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expounding the noble virtues of a morally upstanding life.",2004,4.17,640,6148
9780140446043,0140446044,The Complete Essays,,Michel Montaigne,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K_BuQw1SV_8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. Above all, Montaigne studied himself to find his own inner nature and that of humanity. The Essays are among the most idiosyncratic and personal works in all literature. An insight into a wise Renaissance mind, they continue to engage, enlighten and entertain modern readers.",2004,4.23,1344,10321
9780140446166,0140446168,The Symposium,,Plato;Christopher Gill,Amour - Ouvrages avant 1800,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pdNgQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this text Plato uses a dinner party as a scene for a series of speeches by the guests. From these there emerges a complete and complex philosophy of love. The pivot of the argument is Socrates' speech in which sensuality is transcended and we move from the sensible world to the ideal world. Just as the preceding speeches are vital to the theme and scheme of progression, so to is the character sketch of Socrates by Alcibiades which rounds off the dialogue.",1999,4.03,90,169
9780140446364,0140446362,Poetics,,Aristotle;Malcolm Heath,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FECr16HHxW4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides a translation of Aristotle's classic study of the nature of poetry.,1996,3.82,138,11935
9780140446425,0140446427,What is Art?,,Leo Tolstoy;Richard Pevear;Larissa Volokhonsky,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N7kyx0y1yYYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1995,3.7,230,120
9780140447200,0140447202,Maxims and Reflections,,Johann Goethe,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-2RWY230tW0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749<34>1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills <20> Goethe was probably the last true <20>Renaissance Man<61>. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar<61>s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics <20> and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.",2005,3.8,208,255
9780140447262,0140447261,The Bacchae and Other Plays,,Euripides;John N. Davie;R. B. Rutherford,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mWhUeP5STaEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother<65>s doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, a king mistreats a newcomer to his land, little knowing that he is the god Dionysus disguised as a mortal, while in Iphigenia at Aulis, the Greek leaders take the horrific decision to sacrifice a princess to gain favour from the gods in their mission to Troy. Finally, the Rhesus depicts a world of espionage between the warring Greek and Trojan camps.",2005,4.13,360,153
9780140447606,0140447601,Democracy in America,And Two Essays on America,Alexis Tocqueville;Gerald Bevan;Isaac Kramnick,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PotlkxV-wF0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A study of America's national government, egalitarian ideals, and character offers reflections on the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals and provides insight into the rewards and responsibilities of a democratic government, in a new translation that also includes Two Weeks in the Wilderness, the author's description of the Iroquois, and Excursion to Lake Oneida. Original.",2003,4.02,992,18286
9780140447804,0140447806,The Consolation of Philosophy,,Boethius;Victor Watts,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ut44nSC0Ue0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Consolation of Philosophy is perhaps unique in the nature and extent of its influence on Western thinking. An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius (c. A D 475-525) was also an exceptional Greek scholar and it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favour and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his brutal execution, it is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy, whose instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. The clarity of Boethius's thought and his breadth of vision made The Consolation of Philosophy hugely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas suffused the thought of Chaucer and Dante. This translation makes it accessible to the modern reader while losing nothing of Boethius's poetic artistry and philosophical brilliance.",1999,3.97,192,7841
9780140447897,014044789X,Metamorphosis,,Ovid;David Raeburn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D3McXPPkPK8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new translation in hexameter verse of Ovid's narrative poem embraces more than two hundred mythical tales linked by the theme of transformation, incorporating many famed myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome.",2004,4.05,723,46550
9780140447972,0140447970,Sentimental Education,,Gustave Flaubert;Robert Baldick;Geoffrey Wall,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b6cBs1HnSyMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more of an anxious quest than a happy one, echoing Flaubert's own life experience of unrequited love. Packed with vivid detail and characterised by its historical authenticity, the book was described by Flaubert as 'the moral history of the men of my generation'.",1964,3.83,460,13081
9780140448009,0140448004,Three Tales,,Gustave Flaubert;Roger Whitehouse;Geoffrey Wall,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XFzgaUR-Vy0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Features short fiction by the French naturalist author that is introduced by an essay describing his life, works, and artistic abilities, as well as explanatory notes, a chronology, and suggestions for further reading.",2005,3.71,110,3050
9780140448078,0140448071,Dead Souls,,Nikolay Gogol,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FP2wmNJclpwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a new translation of the comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an enigmatic stranger and schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from their landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit and to reinvent himself as a gentleman. Reprint.",2004,3.99,512,45903
9780140448146,0140448144,Lysistrata and Other Plays,,Aristophanes;Alan H. Sommerstein,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GGeyCcSXISoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Lysistrata and The Archarnians, politics as usual takes a backseat to the machinations of, respectively, a group of women and a single peasant, while The clouds takes satiric aim at the philosophers of Athens.",2002,3.96,241,3723
9780140448153,0140448152,Early Greek Philosophy,,Jonathan Barnes,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ooq9SnHIdxIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines early Greek philosophy, which relied on reasoning and forged the first scientific vocabulary, and includes discussion of such topics as Democritus' atomic theory of matter and Pythagorean insights into mathematics.",2001,4.09,336,2022
9780140448924,0140448926,The Black Tulip,,Alexandre Dumas Pere,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GNHcP8V-YQ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set at the height of the ""tulipomania"" that gripped Holland in 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius van Baerle, a humble grower whose sole desire is to grow the perfect specimen of the tulip negra. When his godfather is murdered, Cornelius finds himself caught up in the deadly politics of the time, imprisoned and facing a death sentence. His jailor's daughter Rosa, holds both the key to his survival and his chance to produce the ultimate tulip.",2003,3.8,246,9710
9780140448948,0140448942,City of God,,Augustine;Henry Scowcroft Bettenson;Gillian Rosemary Evans,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SaznVNuqrAAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western thought. Contrasting earthly and heavenly cities--representing the omnipresent struggle between good and evil--Augustine explores human history in its relation to all eternity. In Thomas Merton's words, ""The City of God is the autobiography of the Church written by the most Catholic of her great saints."" This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition is a complete and unabridged version of the Marcus Dods translation.",2003,3.92,1186,8508
9780140449082,0140449086,The Histories,,Herodotus,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x-gAoTSj8qkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But while this epic struggle forms the core of his work, Herodotus' natural curiosity frequently gives rise to colourful digressions - a description of the natural wonders of Egypt; an account of European lake-dwellers; and far-fetched accounts of dog-headed men and gold-digging ants. With its kaleidoscopic blend of fact and legend, the Histories offers a compelling Greek view of the world of the fifth century BC.",2003,3.98,716,32923
9780140449099,0140449094,Don Quixote,,Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kHq_PcQhhyUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This text is a revised edition of Cervantes' classic tale. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza.",2003,3.87,1056,311
9780140449129,0140449124,Madame Bovary,,Gustave Flaubert;Geoffrey Wall,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2XIoODQ-JSsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An unhappily married woman, Emma Bovary's unfulfilled dreams of romantic love and desperation to escape the ordinary boredom of her life lead her to a series of desperate acts, including adultery, in a classic novel set against the backdrop of nineteenth-",2003,3.66,327,3484
9780140449143,0140449140,The Republic,,Plato;Sir Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R9PawAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A model for the ideal state includes discussion of the nature and application of justice, the role of the philosopher in society, the goals of education, and the effects of art upon character.",2003,3.93,416,127393
9780140449174,0140449175,Anna Karenina,,Leo Tolstoy;Richard Pevear,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NjBz-8TLnTEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Award-Winning New Translation Of The Great Russian Novel.,2002,4.04,837,2835
9780140449211,0140449213,The Twelve Caesars,,Suetonius,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S9ME1LYHuFMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents biographies of twelve Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, providing details of their private and public lives.",2002,4.05,363,12365
9780140449235,014044923X,Beyond Good and Evil,,Friedrich Nietzsche,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g1msstzpSNcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,New chronology and further reading Translated by R. J. Hollingdale Introduction by Michael Tanner.,2003,4.02,240,43587
9780140449242,0140449248,The Brothers Karamazov,,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HOf-64Go9cgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Translated with an Introduction by David McDuff.,2003,4.32,1013,1497
9780140449280,0140449280,The Last Days of Socrates,,Plato;Hugh Tredennick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vwj_1haGR9wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicling the life and death of the father of western philosophy, and charting his influence on the most influential ancient Greek philosophers, Plato's The Last Days of Socrates is translated from the Greek by Hugh Tredennick, revised with an introduction and notes by Harold Tarrant in Penguin Classics. The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges of impiety and a defence of the philosopher's life. In the Crito, while awaiting execution in prison, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. Finally, in the Phaedo, he is shown calmly confident in the face of death, skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul. Hugh Tredennick's landmark 1954 translation has been revised by Harold Tarrant, reflecting changes in Platonic studies, with an introduction and expanded introductions to each of the four dialogues. Plato (c.427-347 BC) stands with Socrates and Aristotle as one of the shapers of the whole intellectual tradition of the West. He founded the Academy in Athens, the first permanent institution devoted to philosophical research and teaching, and the prototype of all Western universities. If you enjoyed The Last Days of Socrates, you might like Plato's The Symposium, also available in Penguin Classics.",2003,4.07,256,1571
9780140449327,0140449329,The Aeneid,,Virgil,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3GwIVFFlnDUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race, and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering.",2003,3.83,290,937
9780140449495,0140449493,The Nicomachean Ethics,,Aristotle,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iBoqmEvavawC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Previously published as Ethics, Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics addresses the question of how to live well, and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by J.A.K. Thomson with revisions and notes by Hugh Tredennick, and an introduction and bibliography by Jonathan Barnes. 'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' In The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue', for example with moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. Aristotle's work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters. Aristotle (384-22 BC) studied at the Academy of Plato for 20 years and then established his own school and research institute, 'The Lyceum'. His writings, which were of extraordinary range, profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy and are still eagerly studied and debated by philosophers today. If you enjoyed The Nicomachean Ethics, you might like Plato's The Symposium, also available in Penguin Classics.",2004,3.93,329,22199
9780140449518,0140449515,The Birds and Other Plays,,Aristophanes;David Barrett;Alan H. Sommerstein,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i15nevzKzvoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects five comedies from Aristophanes, including ""The Birds,"" in which two Athenians join the birds to build a utopian city.",1978,4.13,336,1241
9780140449778,0140449779,The Women's War,,Alexandre Dumas,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hEP4AGLZ00EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Baron des Canolles is a man torn apart by the civil war that dominates mid-seventeenth century France. For while the na<6E>ve Gascon soldier cares little for the politics behind the battles, he is torn apart by a deep passion for two powerful women on opposing sides of the war: Nanon de Lartigues, a keen supporter of the Queen Regent Anne of Austria, and the Victomtesse de Cambes, who supports the rebellious forces of the Princess de Cond<6E>. Set around Bordeaux during the first turbulent years of the reign of Louis XIV, The Women<65>s War sees two women taking central stage in a battle for all France. Humorous, dramatic and romantic, it offers a compelling exploration of political intrigue, the power of redemption, the force of love and the futility of war.",2006,3.95,546,288
9780140502015,0140502017,Time of Wonder,,Robert McCloskey,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T-kADgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.,1989,4.08,64,4226
9780140502879,0140502874,Lentil,,Robert McCloskey,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZVqH94OVeWAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lentil's harmonica playing saves the day when calamity threatens the homecoming celebration for the leading citizen of Alto, Ohio.",1978,4.12,64,3982
9780140503449,0140503447,Christmas in Noisy Village,,Astrid Lindgren;Ilon Wikland,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=blqrNAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The noisy children of three neighboring families have a gay time at Christmas baking cookies, cutting and decorating trees, eating fruitcake and tarts, and opening Christmas gifts.",1981,4.18,32,797
9780140509786,014050978X,"Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man",,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fwlV2WW-jVsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Burt goes fishing, takes refuge from a storm in a whale's stomach, and decorates a whole school of whales' tails with striped band-aids.",1989,4.1,64,645
9780140568196,0140568190,The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me,,Roald Dahl;Quentin Blake,Candy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J7FdIAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Dahl story in which the giraffe, the pelican and the agile monkey set out to prove that they are the best window-cleaning company around.",2001,3.81,32,16265
9780140620122,0140620125,Wuthering Heights,,Emily Brontë,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bK-LRAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere ... As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death. And how desire can kill.",1994,3.84,279,2101
9780140620221,0140620222,Pride and Prejudice,,Jane Austen,Courtship,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xdySuAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,First published in 1813.,1994,4.25,299,1852
9780140620474,0140620478,Far from the Madding Crowd,,Thomas Hardy,England,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6K8FZuDtHkUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in Wessex, Hardy’s novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.",1994,3.94,374,312
9780140620634,014062063X,Dracula,,Bram Stoker,"Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0fbAkQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Irish author Bram Stoker introduced the character of Count Dracula and provided the basis of modern vampire fiction in his 1897 novel entitled ""Dracula."" Written as a series of letters, newspaper clippings, diary entries, and ships' logs, the story begins with lawyer Jonathan Harker journeying to meet Dracula at his remote castle to complete a real estate transaction. Harker soon discovers that he is being held prisoner, and that Dracula has a rather disquieting nocturnal life. Touching on themes such as Victorian culture, immigration, and colonialism, among others, this timeless classic is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats! Now available as part of the Canterbury Classics singles series, ""Dracula"" is a must-have addition to the libraries of all classic literature lovers.",1994,3.99,449,1609
9780140621624,0140621628,The Railway Children,,E. Nesbit,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fFesdqFejqoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.",1995,4,212,178
9780140714531,0140714537,The Sonnets,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eGpP36O6JskC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a collection of sonnets along with essays on Shakespeare's life and the theatrical world during his lifetime.,2001,4.25,164,345
9780140714548,0140714545,Hamlet,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4RbYuQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is faced by a ghost bearing a grim message of murder and revenge, driving the prince to the edge of madness by his struggle to understand the situation and to do his duty.",2001,4.01,148,1605
9780140714555,0140714553,A Midsummer Night's Dream,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P0CehDJM6c4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two pairs of star-crossed lovers, a feuding pair of supernatural sprites, and a love potion gone awry all come together in an enchanted moonlit forest.",2000,3.94,144,984
9780140771978,0140771972,Critical Studies,The Great Gatsby,Kathleen Parkinson,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_69cqaa7pnsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A critical analysis of Fitzgerald's great novel explores its intricate patterns, chronology, locations, imagery and use of colour, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape.",1988,3.88,144,518
9780140817782,0140817786,Ten Short Stories,,Roald Dahl,Short stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kOaGGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Contains The Umbrella Man; Dip in the Pool; The Butler; The Hitchhiker; Mr Botibol; My Lady Love, My Dove; The Way Up to Heaven; Parson's Pleasure; The Sound Machine; and The Wish.",2000,3.82,208,8
9780141000183,014100018X,Chocolat,A Novel,Joanne Harris,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Shqhw6PEXY0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the beautiful and mysterious Vianne moves to Lansquenet and opens a chocolate shop across from the church, the inhabitants of the tiny village find themselves torn between the solemn law of religion and the joyful rewards of Vianne's confections. Reprint. (A Miramax film, releasing December 2000, directed by Lasse Hallstrm, starring Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin, & Judi Dench) (General Fiction)",2000,3.96,306,92266
9780141000190,0141000198,Bridget Jones's Diary,A Novel,Helen Fielding,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LtNSdRFFRbAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single, thirtysomething woman on a perpetual quest for self-improvement, as she struggles to cope with relationships, weight control, and the other baffling complexities of modern life.",2001,3.76,271,2852
9780141000589,0141000589,Sammlung,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qOVvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at textual and literary-historical issues. The texts themselves have been scrupulously edited and are accompanied by same-page notes and glossaries. Particular attention has been paid to the design of the book to ensure that this first new edition of the twenty-first century is both attractive and approachable.,2002,4.59,1808,559
9780141001821,0141001828,In the Heart of the Sea,The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex,Nathaniel Philbrick,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EaqOURNUL88C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recounts the story of the 1820 wreck of the whaleship Essex, which inspired Melville's classic ""Moby-Dick,"" and describes its doomed crew's ninety-day attempt to survive whale attacks and the elements on three tiny lifeboats.",2001,4.16,302,68051
9780141001876,0141001879,Door Wide Open,"A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958",Jack Kerouac,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O0NaAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of poignant love letters between Jack Kerouac and Joyce Glassman reveals a tender, loving side to a writer famous for his rough exterior and moody ways. Reprint.",2001,3.82,232,677
9780141002989,0141002980,Moonraker,,Ian Fleming,"Bond, James (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uHKmcQZ4lxAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At M's request, Bond has gone up against Sir Hugo Drax at the card table, on a mission to teach the millionaire and head of the Moonraker project a lesson he won't forget, and prevent a scandal engulfing Britain's latest defence system. But there is more to the mysterious Drax than simply cheating at cards. And once Bond delves deeper into goings-on at the Moonraker base he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they pretend to be . . .",2002,3.73,310,40
9780141005348,0141005343,How to Build a Time Machine,,Paul Davies,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C1Wx4bkPyM0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Is time travel really possible? Can we break the last cosmic taboo? Yes, says internationally acclaimed writer and physicist Paul Davies. In this highly entertaining and mind-blowing book he reveals how it can be done. Taking us on an astonishing ride into the far reaches of Einstein's universe, this is the ultimate time-traveller's companion.",2002,3.82,148,65
9780141007458,0141007451,Stiff,The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,Mary Roach,Dead,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X157PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science. Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre",2004,4.06,304,970
9780141007472,0141007478,Under The Duvet,,Marian Keyes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W9p21K45kkwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Setting the record straight about her life as a novelist (less glitz and glamour than sitting alone in a darkened bedroom with a laptop in front of her) Marian Keyes here presents a selection of her articles. These regular bulletins from a woman under the duvet include unpublished pieces.,2002,3.51,304,386
9780141010311,0141010312,Golden Buddha,,Clive Cussler;Craig Dirgo,"Cabrillo, Juan (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NXNoVOa9IBoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of the bestselling Dirk Pitt novels introduces us to a thrilling new high seas action hero: Juan Cabrillo. Skipper of a non-descript lumber hauler disguising a state of the art spy ship behind the hull, Cabrillo takes the helm on dangerous covert missions carried out for whatever U.S. agency pays the price. And the stakes have never been higher - Cabrillo and his crew must put Tibet back in the hands of the Delai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese. His gambling chip is a golden Buddha containing records of vast oil reserves in the disputed land. But first, he has to locate and seize the artefact. Visit clivecussler.com.au for more Sign up to the Cussler Down Under e-newsletter",2005,3.89,527,8822
9780141010373,0141010371,Jamie's Kitchen,,Jamie Oliver,Cookery,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WG3SNQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The No 1 bestseller I love this book. It's the very first thing I ever wrote, and I never thought the person worst at English in my school would end up writing a book. It's largely made up of recipes scribbled on the back of order forms and beer mats, collected together in a black bin liner that my wife almost threw away twice - it's a miracle this book ever came to be! Because of this book, a lot of blokes were henpecked into doing a bit of cooking. Good job too! The salad and pasta recipes are real winners, but the one people still talk about all the time is my perfect roast chicken, with its herb butter stuffed right under the skin of the bird. I think one of the best things about the recipes in The Naked Chef is that the ingredients are totally accessible. It's the key element to my cooking: simple, quick recipes that can be made by everyone. Happy cooking. Love, Jamie O xxx 'Simply brilliant cooking, and Jamie's recipes are a joy' Nigel Slater 'When teenagers start asking for Jamie Oliver's cook books as a present, you know the tide has turned' Daily Telegraph",2004,3.89,336,4012
9780141011110,0141011114,The Fabric of the Cosmos,"Space, Time and the Texture of Reality",Brian Greene,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dpSqvJpLe8oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the bestselling author of The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos takes us on an irresistible and revelatory journey through the biggest of the big questions. What is reality? Could we exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? What are the limits of the universe? Brian Greene has made the mysteries of space and time accessible to millions with his acclaimed writings and award-winning TV series. Now he reveals a world more beautiful and bizarre than we could have imagined, where 'dark matter' reigns, space warps and wiggles through eleven dimensions, minute particles dance, fizz and teleport across vast distances, everything is made of vibrating strings and, like an ant on a lily-pad, we may be floating on a sliver of spacetime. Revealing new layers of reality that lie just beneath the surface of our everyday lives, this grand tour of the universe will make you look at the world in a completely new way. 'A must-read' Sunday Times 'Greene takes us to the limits of space and time' Guardian 'Sends the reader's imagination hurtling through the universe on an astonishing ride' The New York Times Brian Greene is well known to many fans as a populariser of theoretical physics. He is the author of the bestselling books about string theory, The Elegant Universe, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and The Hidden Reality. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, he has taught at both Harvard and Cornell and has been Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University since 1996.",2005,4.12,592,324
9780141013459,0141013451,You Shall Know Our Velocity,,Dave Eggers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qsrcF0D3JLkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"You Shall Know Our Velocity is a compelling and thought-provoking novel by award-winning Dave Eggers Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it's something to do with Jack's death - perhaps they'll find the reason later. But as their plans are frustrated, twisted and altered at every step and the natives prove far from grateful to their benefactors, Will and Hand find that the world is an infinitely bigger, more surreal and exhilarating place than they ever realised. In fact, it's somewhere to get lost in . . . 'Dave Eggers has become J. D. Salinger, Ken Kesey and Jack Kerouac rolled into one' The Times 'Endearing, funny . . . the prose is high on energy and Eggers' talents make it worth the trip' Guardian",2004,3.63,350,255
9780141013954,0141013958,The Merchant of Venice,,William Shakespeare;Peter Holland,Jews,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2Tk9PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is both a witty comedy and a moving exploration of bigotry and stigmatisation, and this Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by W. Moelwyn Merchant with an introduction by Peter Holland. 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven' Bassanio, a noble but impoverished Venetian, asks his friend the merchant Antonio for a loan to impress an heiress. Antonio agrees, but is forced to borrow the sum from a cynical Jewish moneylender, Shylock, who forces him into a chilling contract, which stipulates he must honour the debt with a pound of his own flesh. But Bassanio's beloved is not as demure as she seems, and disguising herself as a lawyer, Portia proves herself one of Shakespeare's most cunning heroines, in a witty attack on Shylock's claim. A complex and controversial comedy, The Merchant of Venice explores prejudice and the true nature of justice. This book contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to The Merchant of Venice, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which number among the most profound and influential love-poetry in English. If you enjoyed The Merchant of Venice, you might like The Taming of the Shrew, also available in Penguin Shakespeare. 'The man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul' John Dryden",2005,3.8,240,135
9780141014081,0141014083,Complete Maus,,Art Spiegelman,Children of Holocaust survivors,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rBj-nQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Combined here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.",2003,4.55,296,100212
9780141015088,014101508X,How to Breathe Underwater,Stories,Julie Orringer,Families,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t1v9VmPRz5QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her dazzling first book Julie Orringer dives into the private world of childhood and immerses us in its fears and longings: the jealous friendships and the bitter sibling battles; the parents that row and the boys that won't dance with you. Then, in a voice that is equally tender and compassionate, she reminds us of those rare, exhilarating moments of victory.'Unbelievably good: the humiliations and cruelties and passions of childhood, sparkling fresh prose, a writer with a big heart and an acute sense of the small things that loom large in our lives' Monica Ali, Guardian",2005,3.96,222,188
9780141016702,0141016701,Henry IV Part Two,,William Shakespeare;Adrian Poole,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ekl2t0UTkloC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Continuing the saga begun in Henry IV Part I, William Shakespeare's history play Henry IV Part II charts the continuing evolution of Prince Hal from roguish troublemaker to noble ruler of men. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Peter Davison with an introduction by Adrian Poole. Angered by the loss of his son in battle, the Earl of Northumberland supports another rebellion against King Henry IV, bringing the country to the brink of civil war. Sick and weary, the old King sends out his forces, including the unruly Sir John Falstaff, to meet the rebels. But as the conflict grows, he must also confront a more personal problem - how to make his reprobate son Prince Hal aware of the duties he must bear, as heir to the throne. This book contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Henry IV Part II, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which number among the most profound and influential love-poetry in English. If you enjoyed Henry IV Part II, you might like Richard III, also available in Penguin Shakespeare. 'The finest, most representative instance of what Shakespeare can do' Harold Bloom",2005,3.8,336,20
9780141019994,0141019999,Stupid White Men,And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation,Michael Moore,American wit and humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9YmI3OOxQHMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stupid White Men tells you everything you need to know about how the great and the good screw us over. It reveals - among other things - how 'President' Bush stole an election aided only by his brother, cousin, his dad's cronies, electoral fraud and tame judges; how the rich stay rich while forcing the rest of us to live in economic fear; and how politicians have whored themselves to big business. Not to mention providing fascinating details on just how stupid Bush is, a convincing case for male obsolescence and a fabulous new use for Whites Only signs! A hilarious must-read for anyone who wants to know what the con is and how 'they' get away with it, Stupid White Men is only available uncensored because public pressure forced the original publishers to publish a book they felt was too hot to handle. Now it's time to find out why. It's so damn funny it'll make you cry.",2004,3.31,304,11410
9780141023663,014102366X,About a Boy,,Nick Hornby,,,"Screenplay, revised primarily in April, through June 2001.",2000,,,
9780141026282,0141026286,The Epic of Gilgamesh,,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GJ-gPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Enkidu is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh, but instead of killing each other, the two become friends.JTravelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba.JBut when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh, who resolves to find the secret of eternal life.",2006,3.67,120,51735
9780141180366,0141180366,Finding time again,,Marcel Proust,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=heRcAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation. Each book is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.",2003,4.48,374,168
9780141180632,0141180633,Vineland,,Thomas Pynchon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lwQEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Zoyd Wheeler's old nemesis arrives in Vineland hoping to use Zoyd's daughter as a pawn to track down Zoyd's ex-wife,1997,3.68,385,668
9780141180670,0141180676,Pan,From the Papers of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn,Knut Hamsun,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A9AbsHDFI8IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hamsun’s portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, in a remarkable new translation.",1998,3.9,181,5457
9780141180946,0141180943,Forty Stories,,Donald Barthelme,"Experimental fiction, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K99DPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.",2005,4.21,246,2443
9780141181226,0141181222,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j6NsKmZbk58C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.",1962,4.19,281,3859
9780141181288,0141181281,The Wife,,Sigrid Undset,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RbxfvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'There you can see Husaby, Kristin. May God grant you many happy days there, my wife!' The wife continues the story of a passionate and wilful woman in medieval Norway. Kristin Lavransdatter is now married to Erlend Nikulausson, a man whose single-minded determination to become an influential social and political figure forces Kristin to take over the management of Erlend's estate, Husaby, while raising their seven sons. Once again, Sigrid Undset presents the rich historical detail and compelling characters that make her Norway's most beloved author. Award-winning translator Tiina Nunnally not only captures the modern beauty of this historical epic, but she also restores passages omitted from the original English translation. 'A masterpiece . . . writing in a prose as vigorous, articulate and naturalistic as the novel it re-creates, Tiina Nunnally brilliantly captures a world both remote and strangely familiar.' -PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize citation",1999,4.15,402,1977
9780141182490,0141182490,Mrs Dalloway,,Virginia Woolf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fp7Ty0jyc1MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol with an introduction and notes by Elaine Showalter.Past, present and future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923.Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood. In another part of London, war veteran Septimus Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness, slowly spiralling towards self-annihilation. Their experiences mingling, yet never quite meeting, Virginia Woolf masterfully portrays a serendipitous unity of inner lives, converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway(1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves(1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando(1928) and A Room of One's Own(1929) a passionate feminist essay.If you enjoyed Mrs Dalloway, you might like James Joyce's Ulysses, also available in Penguin Classics.'The book's celebrated stream of consciousness is one of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel'New Yorker",2000,3.79,233,2128
9780141182582,014118258X,The Collected Dorothy Parker,,Dorothy Parker,Classical fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9ch-AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle."" -- Provided by publisher.",2001,4.29,604,1057
9780141182803,0141182806,Ulysses,,James Joyce,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HD3cW0XWvz0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as ""Bloomsday"". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's ""cloacal obsession"". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book.",2000,3.74,933,1447
9780141182865,0141182865,A Confederacy of Dunces,,John Kennedy Toole,Classical fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tv77QQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ignatius Reilly, the hero, is a grotesque Gargantua, in violent revolt against the entire 20th century and what he takes to be the manifold excesses and perversions of the past 400 years. He lumbers through New Orleans leaving chaos in his wake.",2000,3.89,338,1409
9780141183022,0141183020,Sammlung,,Jorge Luis Borges;Eliot Weinberger,Argentine literature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BBipQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In THE TOTAL LIBRARY, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. THE TOTAL LIBRARY presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges",1999,4.54,560,156
9780141183220,0141183225,"Speak, Memory",An Autobiography Revisited,Vladimir Nabokov;Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,"Novelists, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hjBIWkO2wgsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An autobiographical volume covering Nabokov's first 40 years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War II, telling of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his marriage, his passion for butterflies and his lost homeland.",2000,4.19,255,8484
9780141183350,0141183357,Howards End,,Edward Morgan Forster,Brothers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s6chPqFxh60C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This novel by the author of Maurice and A Passage to India deals with personal relationships and conflicting values and has been filmed, directed by James Ivory and starring Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson, Prunella Scales, James Wilby, Helena Bonham Carter and Jemma Redgrave.",2000,3.96,352,367
9780141183534,0141183535,A Room of One's Own,,Virginia Woolf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cUrKjq3qPX0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This story grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. It ranges over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted and imaginary sister, and over the effects of poverty and chastity on female creativity.",2002,4.13,112,73875
9780141183596,0141183594,Tender is the Night,,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8ciHHtL2HRUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945);Classic Fiction (Pre C 1945);Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945),2001,3.82,400,1278
9780141183718,0141183713,A Spy In The House Of Love,,Anais Nin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m5h3-edKIpcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a bar, and begins a confession that captivates the unknown man and soon inspires him to seek her out...",2001,3.68,124,290
9780141183725,0141183721,Keep the Aspidistra Flying,,George Orwell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0oNp8FTIhlcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"London 1934. Gordon Comstock, copywriter for the The Queen of Sheba Toilet Requisites embarks on a new life as a poetry-writing bookseller with diastrous consequences.",2000,3.88,277,11220
9780141183787,0141183780,The Flame Trees of Thika,Memories of an African Childhood,Elspeth Huxley,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VXdDi0HypcYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Erindringer om forfatterens nybyggertilværelse på familiens kaffefarm i Kenya i årene omkring 1. verdenskrig,2000,4.12,281,4643
9780141184272,0141184272,Orlando,A Biography,Virginia Woolf,Men,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fGVgQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Classic fiction. Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando take on the journey - a nobleman; gypsy; writer? Man or ... woman?",2000,3.86,228,39204
9780141184289,0141184280,The Good Soldier Svejk,,Jaroslav Hašek,Czechoslovakia,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lRXvOwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This text is the classic novel of the little man fighting officialdom and bureaucracy with the only weapons available to him - passive resistance, subterfuge, native wit and dumb insolence.",2000,4.11,752,84
9780141184296,0141184299,Rhinoceros,The Chairs ; The Lesson,Eugène Ionesco,French drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_-54PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This volume contains English translations of three plays by Ionesco, one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd. Tragic, farcical, alive and kicking, they can be read as a way to liberation.",2000,4.01,224,5209
9780141184845,0141184841,Labyrinths,Selected Stories and Other Writings,Jorge Luis Borges,Classical fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P1umQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by James E. Irby and a preface by André Maurois. Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated 'Library of Babel', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. If you enjoyed Labyrinths, you might like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'His is the literature of eternity'Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'One of the towering figures of literature in Spanish'James Woodall, Guardian 'Probably the greatest twentieth-century author never to win the Nobel Prize'Economist",2000,4.46,287,901
9780141184883,0141184884,The Dharma Bums,,Jack Kerouac,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hrJdIzWZWS4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Published just one year after ""On The Road"", this is the story of two men enganged in a passionate search for Dharma or truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen Way, which takes them climbing into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude.",2000,3.93,204,1295
9780141184890,0141184892,The Subterraneans,,Jack Kerouac,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ywb_NCoRlzQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2001,3.68,192,416
9780141184999,014118499X,One Hundred Years of Solitude,,Gabriel García Márquez,Latin America,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m2dHPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buenedia family and of Mocondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Mocondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendia can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy with comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitudeis one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.",2000,4.06,422,1332
9780141185118,0141185112,Tortilla Flat,,John Steinbeck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M5XwSwVsJagC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a ""Camelot"" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. As Steinbeck chronicles their thoughts and emotions, temptations and lusts, he spins a tale as compelling, and ultimately as touched by sorrow, as the famous legends of the Round Table.",2000,3.83,154,419
9780141185132,0141185139,The Plague,,Albert Camus,Epidemics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uSpDPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague. Each person responds in their own way to the disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few resist the terror. This title is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery against the precariousness of human existence.",2002,3.98,238,909
9780141185163,0141185163,Orwell in Spain,"the full text of Homage to Catalonia, with associated articles, reviews and letters from The complete works of George Orwell",George Orwell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uVNpAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Including Homage to Catalonia, Orwell's profound experience of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, this title also contains Orwell's essays, letters and pamphlets, which show his resolution to tell the truth about the war amid a crop of lies from both the Communist Party and the British Press.",2001,4.33,416,203
9780141185323,0141185325,The Years,,Virginia Woolf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0Djjz5VusG0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out amongst the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decade of the 20th century. The Pargiter children must learn to find their footing in a world of rapidly changing rules.",2002,3.77,444,2712
9780141185361,0141185368,The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,,Gertrude Stein,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cEbEOc1MTrgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Autogiography of Alice B. Toklas is in fact Gertrude Stein's own autobiography, seen through the eyes of her friend, Alice B. Toklas. With occasional glimpses into her early life, it describes her years in Paris until 1932.",2001,3.59,272,233
9780141185491,014118549X,Nausea,,Jean-Paul Sartre;Robert Baldick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EUM-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian, records the disturbing shifts in his perceptions and his struggle to restore meaning to life in a continuing present and without lies. This is Sartre's first published novel and his first extended essay on existential philosophy.",2000,3.92,253,1459
9780141185750,0141185759,The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays,,Federico García Lorca;Michael Dewell;Carmen Zapata,Repression (Psychology),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JOrGHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The revolutionary genius of Spanish theatre, Lorca brought vivid and tragic-poetry to the stage with these powerful dramas. All appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality, and are also passionate defences of the imagination.",2001,4.07,169,140
9780141185910,0141185910,Go Tell it on the Mountain,,James Baldwin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eyg78GsvB6UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The story of the guilt, bitterness and spiritual strivings of the Grimes family which is told as the son, John, faces the issue of religious conversion in the Temple of the Fire Baptised.",2001,4.01,256,33558
9780141185934,0141185937,Answered Prayers,The Unfinished Novel,Truman Capote,Authors,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YaymPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A brilliantly malicious expose of the literary jet-set, when Answered Prayers first appeared in excerpts in Esquire magazine it outraged Capote's society friends, who recognized thinly veiled portraits of themselves in these scandalous fictional 'memoirs'. P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this great, unfinished novel, who discovers that bed-hoping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. Living by his wits and his charm, Jones makes his way through the exotic boudoirs of the glitterati - only to discover that the prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remained ignored.",2001,3.48,192,92
9780141186078,0141186070,The Log from the Sea of Cortez,,John Steinbeck,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9CrIfTlBqccC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This light-hearted journal tells of John Steinbeck's fishing trip with Ed Ricketts. Combining science and adventure, Steinbeck voices his deeply-held views of man's place in the natural world.",2001,3.84,288,3226
9780141186160,014118616X,"The Sea, the Sea",,Iris Murdoch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3Hw6xWim3tEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After a brilliant and fulfilling career, Charles Arrowby revels in his perfect refuge, an isolated home by the sea, but soon his complex past makes unbidden visits.",2001,3.92,528,12428
9780141186177,0141186178,A Fairly Honourable Defeat,,Iris Murdoch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a04EFBGs2-8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A ten guinea wager between a woman and her former lover threatens to disrupt the lives of all those close to them.,2001,3.94,432,1353
9780141186184,0141186186,Mysteries,,Knut Hamsun,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MRoMUV2kLZEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The eccentric behavior of a stranger brings excitement to a quiet Norwegian town.,2001,4.1,313,265
9780141186351,0141186356,Giovanni's Room,,James Baldwin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j_2lPBQUrMEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"First published in 1957, this book attempts to tackle the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love. It tells of David, a young man awakening to his true homosexual nature, through a relationship with a barman named Giovanni, as he awaits his fiancee's arrival from Spain.",2001,4.23,159,35090
9780141186696,0141186690,The Bell,,Iris Murdoch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6h_qw0DsgOsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The story of a lay community of mixed-up people encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, follows the lives of Dora Greenfield, an erring wife who returns to her husband, and Michael Meade, who is confronted by his homosexual former lover. Repriint.",2001,3.88,296,4502
9780141187068,0141187069,The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories,,H. P. Lovecraft,"Horror tales, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-O9fQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"H P Lovecraft is credited with reinventing the horror genre in the twentieth century. In this volume, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, S T Joshi, presents a selection of the master's fiction. These stories reveal the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establish him as a canonical - and visionary - American writer.",2002,4.22,420,734
9780141187198,0141187190,Seven Gothic Tales,,Isak Dinesen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4uKAnVKabtsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A selection of stories about romantics, adventurers and dreamers, ranging from Tuscany to Elisnore and Zanzibar: a jealous countess cannot bear her husband to admire her jewels; an Englishman embarks on an odyssey; a maiden lady believes herself to be a famous courtesan; and more.",2002,3.94,368,82
9780141187426,0141187425,Orientalism,,Edward W. Said,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TFq8QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For generations now, Edward W. Said's Orientalism has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism. Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian-American cultural critic and author, born in Jerusalem and educated in Egypt and the United States. His other books include The Question of Palestine, Culture and Imperialism and Out of Place: A Memoir. If you enjoyed Orientalism, you might like Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious'Observer 'Beautifully patterned and passionately argued'New Statesman 'Very exciting ... his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive' John Leonard, New York Times 'Magisterial'Terry Eagleton",2003,4.09,396,795
9780141187884,0141187883,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,,Ken Kesey,Mentally ill,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ho6RQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.",2005,4.19,281,2364
9780141303352,0141303352,Mr Majeika and the School Trip,,Humphrey Carpenter,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YJ8eqb-iyJ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More amazing adventures with Mr Majeika, the ex-wizard, turned teacher, and his class at St Barty's School. This time there's a trip down a magic river, a battle to save St Barty's from the wrecking ball, and work experience for Class Three.",1999,3.81,89,45
9780141304311,0141304316,The Duplicate,,William Sleator,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k-j4GC8N-a8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horrible consequences when the duplicate turns against him.",1999,3.68,154,476
9780141306391,0141306394,The Beasties,,William Sleator,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8G5FtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Doug and his sister are about to meet the Beasties, a family of beings with war on their minds--against the human race",1999,3.84,208,802
9780141307411,0141307412,Crazy,,Benjamin Lebert,Handicapped youth,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VnpzPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Benjamin Lebert introduces himself on the first day at his new school: Hi, I'm Benjamin Lebert, I'm 16 and a cripple. Just so you know... He is paralysed down his left side, but nevertheless lives his life to the full as a rebellious schoolboy, smoking, drinking, running away, meeting girls and having sex - and all the while pondering the meaning of life.",2000,2.92,175,7
9780141309408,0141309407,Serena and the Sea Serpent,,Garth Nix,Sea monsters,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jb4vPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Novel in the Aussie Bites series for early primary school-age readers. A fierce sea serpent is scaring the people of Blubber Point and it's up to super-smart Serena Smith to scare him off. Illustrations throughout and large print.,2000,3.59,79,33
9780141310343,0141310340,Skin and Other Stories,,Roald Dahl,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uuHSEZ2BgsgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Introduces teenagers to the adult short stories of Roald Dahl.,2002,4.06,224,5245
9780141310688,0141310685,Westmark,,Lloyd Alexander,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v5U-PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Theo, a boy fleeing from criminal charges, falls in with a charlatan, his dwarf attendant, and an urchin girl; travels with them about the kingdom of Westmark; and ultimately arrives at the palace where the king is grieving over the loss of his daughter. An ALA Notable Book. Reissue.",2002,3.92,184,4049
9780141310695,0141310693,The Kestrel,,Lloyd Alexander,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RdIDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With war in Westmark and the assumption of the throne by Mickle, all Theo's talents are needed, as well as those of his former companions.",2002,3.99,244,2674
9780141311357,0141311355,James and the Giant Peach,,Roald Dahl;Quentin Blake,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4RFjQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"James's aunts call him names, beat and starve him and make his life a misery. If only his parents hadn't been eaten by an escaped rhinoceros, he wouldn't be in this mess. But one day he meets a man who gives him a bag of magic crocodile tongues and so begins the adventure of his dreams.",2001,4,160,1211
9780141311401,0141311401,Boy,Tales of Childhood,Roald Dahl,"Authors, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GmE-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards, a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten.' Many remarkable things did happen to Roald Dahl when he was a boy, no doubt providing some of the marvellous ideas for his later books. And, like his stories, Dahl's childhood tales are unmissable.",2001,4.1,176,42784
9780141311883,0141311886,The Blue Sword,,Robin McKinley,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nDW2HK7iOVUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers. Newbery Medal Honor Book, 1983.",2001,4.23,272,286
9780141314570,0141314575,The Outsiders,,S. E. Hinton,Alienation (Social psychology),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LOnpPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Socs's idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like Ponyboy, the rough, tough, long-haired kids from the other side of town. Ponyboy knows what to expect and knows he can count on his friends - until the night someone goes too far.",2002,4.08,218,2559
9780141318301,0141318309,The Twits,,Roald Dahl;Simon Callow,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GXQyHZl0HxwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it looks so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it."" How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don't just want out, they want revenge.",2004,3.95,96,93010
9780141439334,0141439335,"Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman",,Ernest William Hornung,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LuSxH7QLqHQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Ides of March/ A Costume Piece/ Gentlemen and Players/ Le Premier Pas/ Wilful Murder/ Nine Points of the Law/ The Return Match/ The Gift of the Emperor. In these stories, Raffles, the public-school gentleman, mixes his aptitude for cricket with his passion for crime. Here we see Raffles stealing from the nouveau riche and outwitting the law, thieving diamonds and bowling like a demon, all with the help of his accomplice and ex-fag Bunny.",2003,3.61,240,1388
9780141439471,0141439475,"Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus",,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6W24a29p9GQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Edited by Maurice Hindle.,2002,3.78,335,827747
9780141439501,0141439505,Pygmalion,,George Bernard Shaw,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D2jJuoQ-UhoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Professor Higgins succeeds in transforming an unkempt London flower girl into a society belle.,2003,3.9,122,1997
9780141439518,0141439513,Pride and Prejudice,,Jane Austen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=obMP1xBBhh8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.",2003,4.25,480,11552
9780141439587,0141439580,Emma,,Jane Austen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6-ndr-0EMycC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner's original introduction reinstated Edited with an introduction and notes by Flora Stafford.,2002,3.99,474,519245
9780141439600,0141439602,A Tale of Two Cities,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-SalMNeuN5sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Maxwell.,2003,3.83,489,693045
9780141439617,0141439610,The Woman in White,,Wilkie Collins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2tDt4VlJ-tQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet.,2003,3.99,672,104614
9780141439624,0141439629,The Mill on the Floss,,George Eliot,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rJfvV6qFdWkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,New chronology and updated further reading. Edited with an Introduction by A. S. Byatt.,2003,3.79,579,40763
9780141439631,0141439637,The Portrait of a Lady,,Henry James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y6EcVaBi2AAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. It is only when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the cultivated but worthless Gilbert Osmond that she discovers that wealth is a two-edged sword and that there is a price to be paid for independence. With its subtle delineation of American characters in a European setting, Portrait of a Lady is one of the most accomplished and popular of Henry James's early novels.",2003,3.77,797,60027
9780141439808,0141439807,Mansfield Park,,Jane Austen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=krnu-3b88JgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The private and social worlds of three families are revealed through the experiences of the heroine, Fanny Price.",2003,3.85,507,234760
9780141439822,0141439823,Robinson Crusoe,,Daniel Defoe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0Xhfyz152GgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,DEFOE/ROBINSON CRUSOE (BC),2003,3.67,286,1415
9780141439839,0141439831,Vanity Fair,A Novel Without a Hero,William Makepeace Thackeray,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NjBcVtXEeSoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Edited by John Carey.,2003,3.78,867,100384
9780141439907,0141439904,The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers,,Henry James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L3gTbMLsoKcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A literary historian develops a scheme to gain possession of love letters written by an American poet, and a governess tries to protect the two young children in her care from the ghosts she believes are haunting them.",2003,3.79,272,6652
9780141439969,0141439963,Little Dorrit,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JUrOyW0P5v8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The daughter of an imprisoned debtor, Amy Dorrit works to free her family from their dire circumstances as she suffers the injustices of nineteenth-century English society, in a new edition that includes a chronology of Dickens's work, expanded notes, updated suggestions for further reading, and an informative introduction. Reprint.",2003,3.98,1021,38158
9780141441115,0141441119,Tono-Bungay,,H.G. Wells,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h7JH4kWw0CoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A combination of social satire and science fiction, this novel presents the story of George Ponderovo, a young man who leaves college to help his Uncle Edward market a pleasant-tasting but bogus medical cure-all named Tono-Bungay. Reprint.",2005,3.42,414,820
9780141441160,014144116X,A Passage to India,,Edward Morgan Forster;Pankaj Mishra,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6WdfQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,What really happened to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalising question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Foster's last and greatest novel.,2005,3.68,376,53972
9780142000083,0142000086,"Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale",,Herman Melville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ob8POxXowOkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.,2001,3.49,625,999
9780142000205,0142000205,Icy Sparks,,Gwyn Hyman Rubio,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XG6-eP4-UxsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"After years of living in a children's asylum for having spontaneous jerks and spasms, Icy returns home and is quickly befriended by Miss Emily, who cares for her and teaches her the ways of life, transforming Icy into a new person and forever changing her view of the world.",1998,3.69,320,36759
9780142000212,0142000213,Bridget Jones's Guide to Life,,Helen Fielding,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jJLdC4jLv0YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bridget Jones, the main character in the novel and the film, ""Bridget Jones's Diary,"" shares her own ideas on homemaking, cooking, relationships, weight loss, and other subjects in a parody of a self-help book.",2001,3.48,64,1083
9780142000281,0142000280,Getting Things Done,The Art of Stress-Free Productivity,David Allen,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D4MD-XKAbD4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,ALLEN/GETTING THINGS DONE,2001,3.99,267,95950
9780142000656,0142000655,East of Eden,,John Steinbeck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R-5VFSu9aIkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.,2002,4.37,601,358668
9780142000687,014200068X,Cannery Row,,John Steinbeck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mNaNQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.",2002,4.03,181,92582
9780142000700,0142000701,Travels with Charley,In Search of America,John Steinbeck,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=teRKAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Steinbeck records his emotions and experiences during a journey of rediscovery in his native land.,2002,4.08,214,52914
9780142001615,0142001619,Salt,A World History,Mark Kurlansky,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9RdmHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explores the role of salt in shaping history, discussing how one of the world's most sought-after commodities has influenced economics, science, politics, religion, and eating customs.",2003,3.74,484,46854
9780142001806,0142001805,The Eyre Affair,A Novel,Jasper Fforde,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BseRhkYJJL4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature.",2003,3.91,374,93927
9780142002001,0142002003,Youth,,J. M. Coetzee,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Mh9EPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hoping to escape his South African home, dysfunctional family, and what he believes to be an impending revolution, a young man becomes disappointed with his monotonous new life in London and begins a dark pilgrimage set against the events of the 1960s. Reprint.",2003,3.79,176,4722
9780142002261,0142002267,Word Freak,"Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players",Stefan Fatsis,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OSSQPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the author, who was originally just a curious reporter and now a Scrabble fiend, as he becomes an expert Scrabble player and delves into the realm of Scrabble culture, where he encounters a vitamin-popping standup comic and the three-time champion who plays by Zen principles, and realizes that Scrabble is more than just a game on many different levels. Reprint.",2002,3.82,372,4646
9780142002803,0142002801,"The Fall of Berlin, 1945",,Antony Beevor,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u6avDAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital.",2003,4.28,490,9635
9780142002834,0142002836,The Last American Man,,Elizabeth Gilbert,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Tn4QDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A cultural examination of the modern American male explores the meaning of manhood in all of its contradictions and challenges.,2003,3.8,271,7634
9780142002889,0142002887,When the Elephants Dance,A Novel,Tess Uriza Holthe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XKtOPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the final weeks of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, three different Filipino narrators recount the experiences of a people desperately struggling in the midst of the horrors of war.",2003,4.03,368,2525
9780142003268,0142003263,The Spy who Loved Me,,Ian Fleming,Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.),,"James Bond has known quite a few women but the beautiful Vivienne Michel was different. Trapped in the Canadian backwoods, with two hit-men on her trail, only one man can save her from becoming the ex-Ms Michel -- James Bond: the spy who she hopes can save her, and the spy who will love her.",1962,3.4,198,7735
9780142003299,0142003298,Octopussy,And the Living Daylights,Ian Fleming,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B5vGAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The legendary 007 deals with a rich, deranged major who cannot cope when his greedy past catches up with him in Octopussy and matches wits with a Russian agent taking part in a Southeby's auction of a Fabergé egg in The Living Daylights, in a volume containing two Bond adventures. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2004,3.55,120,4801
9780142003343,0142003344,The Blank Slate,The Modern Denial of Human Nature,Steven Pinker,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7rJ5gI1LbXoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a study of the nature versus nurture debate, one of the world's foremost experts on language and the mind explores the modern self-denial of our basic human natures.",2003,4.08,528,17851
9780142003442,0142003441,Good Poems,,Garrison Keillor,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fqmLDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The popular radio show host showcases some of his favorite poems, including the work of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds, among others. Reprint.",2003,4.18,476,5977
9780142003565,0142003565,The Classic Ten,The True Story of the Little Black Dress and Nine Other Fashion Favorites,Nancy MacDonell Smith;Nancy MacDonell,Design,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MioOctxXKEMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the origins, history, and social significance of the little black dress, the white shirt, the cashmere sweater, blue jeans, the suit, high heels, pearls, lipstick, sneakers, and the trench coat.",2003,3.43,224,108
9780142003718,0142003719,I Should be Extremely Happy in Your Company,A Novel of Lewis and Clark,Brian Hall,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UqL39bMqZcoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A fictionalized account based on the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Ocean seeks to convey what was happening in the minds of the explorers and to bring life to the collision of white and Native American cultures of the period. Reprint.,2003,3.37,432,325
9780142003800,0142003808,Drop City,,T. Coraghessan Boyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MyrgIOFAV70C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The members of the Drop City commune clash with Alaskan homesteaders who live near to where the commune has recently moved, as both groups struggle for love, nourishment, and shelter. By the author of A Friend of the Earth. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.",2004,3.85,497,10071
9780142004104,0142004103,River of Shadows,Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West,Rebecca Solnit,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TAV2KAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A survey of the historical contributions of Eadweard Muybridge documents his role in filmmaking technology and as a war photographer before standing trial for the murder of his wife's lover, tracing how his life reflected America in the nineteenth century. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2004,4.14,320,1081
9780142004203,0142004200,The Life of Graham Greene: 1904-1939,,Norman Sherry,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sJYgxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Graham Greene was one of the most guarded and complex literary figures of our time. In the first volume of Norman Sherry's celebrated biography, Greene's early life is explored through letters, diaries, and hundreds of interviews, including a breakdown in his early teens, his years at Oxford, and, most particularly, his long and tortuous courtship of his future wife. Sherry uncovers the origins of Greene's literary preoccupations, as well as reasons for his conversion to Roman Catholicism. Greene's development as a novelist, from the early success of The Man Within to his masterpiece, The Power and the Glory, is also explored in full, as Sherry literally follows Greene's footsteps to West Africa and Mexico, penetrating the strange and emotional territory that Greene made into his own.",2004,4.1,816,166
9780142004456,0142004456,Voice of the Violin,,Andrea Camilleri,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nxccjsFKi0YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discovering the murdered body of a beautiful young woman, Sicilian detective Salvo Montalbano finds suspects in the victim's aging husband, a famous doctor, a missing admirer, an antiques dealer, a close friend, and a reclusive violinist. Reprint.",2004,4.03,249,3669
9780142180044,0142180041,Zazie in the Metro,,Raymond Queneau,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yeQH9-jeaucC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. In 1960 Queneau's cult classic was made into a hugely successful film by Louis Malle. Packed full of word play and phonetic games, Zazie in the Metro remains as stylish and witty as ever.",2001,3.73,157,3785
9780142180099,0142180092,Nuns and Soldiers,,Iris Murdoch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=87neQhbhpG8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The lives of Gertrude Openshaw and Anne Cavidge become entangled with the lives of an interesting array of people, including Count, a lonely Pole; Manfred North, a wealthy banker; and Tim Reade, a penniless painter. Reprint.",2002,3.93,512,489
9780142300701,0142300705,A Year Down Yonder,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D_VjuQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. A Newbery Medal Winner & ALA Notable Book. Reprint.",2002,4.11,160,25534
9780142300848,0142300845,"Oliver and Albert, Friends Forever",,Jean Van Leeuwen,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-EBFsf_bskMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Oliver makes friends with Albert, the new boy in class, and they have fun together, playing kickball and collecting bugs. By the creators of Amanda Pig, Schoolgirl. Reprint.",2002,3.62,48,22
9780142301449,0142301442,The Philadelphia Adventure,,Lloyd Alexander,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bBwJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the final episode of the Vesper Holly adventures, the young woman is home in Philadelphia, where she can relax--until President Ulysses S. Grant asks for her help.",2002,3.88,150,564
9780142302279,0142302279,Dirty Beasts,,Roald Dahl,Juvenile Nonfiction,,"Poems tell the stories of a smart pig who outwits a farmer, a crocodile who likes to eat children, a hungry lion, a dangerous scorpion, an aunt-eating ant-eater, and a flying cow. Reissue.",2002,4.02,32,3953
9780142302330,0142302333,A Robin McKinley Collection,,Robin McKinley,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XkFpPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Newbery Award-winning author and fantasy icon Robin McKinley writes stories that enchant readers. Bringing together three of her most popular novels--Spindle's End, The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword--this boxed set is the perfect gift for her fans.",2002,4.39,1008,504
9780142302453,0142302457,The Enormous Crocodile,,Roald Dahl;Quentin Blake,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Cky_NAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The enormous crocodile devises secret plans and a few clever tricks to secure his lunch only to have them foiled by his neighbors.,2003,3.77,32,13348
9780142402481,0142402486,Triss,A Tale from Redwall,Brian Jacques;David Elliot,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aUcUAgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Triss, Shogg, and Welfo escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurdah, Prince Bladd, and a band of freebooters who seek the rumored treasure of Brockhall.",2004,3.98,389,10527
9780142402498,0142402494,Pippi Longstocking,,Astrid Lindgren,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=STE5PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Relates the antics of a rambunctious girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village. Reissue.,2005,4.12,160,140107
9780142402931,0142402931,The Far Side of Evil,,Sylvia Engdahl,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7nijj72X39MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A young girl from an advanced civilization is sent as an observer to a planet whose people have not yet learned to control their use of atomic power.,2005,3.98,324,57
9780142403013,0142403016,Moon-Flash,,Patricia A. McKillip,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wS-Xhel9LLUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After dreaming that they must leave their isolated home of Riverworld, Kyreol and Terje travel beyond what they believe to be end of the world, where they discover new planets and new ways of life. Reissue.",2005,3.73,304,340
9780142403204,0142403202,Firebirds,An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction,Sharyn November,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hL-gAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sixteen original stories showcase some of the genre's most admired authors, including multiple award-winners Diana Wynne Jones, Garth Nix, Lloyd Alexander, Nancy Farmer, and Meredith Ann Pierce. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.",2005,3.96,432,3374
9780142404201,0142404209,Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,,Roald Dahl,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X73lHHMeLUIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.,2005,3.86,40,12
9780142405741,0142405744,Rock Star Superstar,,Blake Nelson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pIq0hm0ewhMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Pete, a talented musician intent on putting the music first, faces a tough decision when he joins a popular but uninspiring band on the verge of stardom. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults & Quick Pick. Reprint.",2006,3.59,229,312
9780142406199,0142406198,Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon,,Paula Danziger,Juvenile Fiction,,Third grade is a sad time for Amber because her best friend Justin is getting ready to move to a distant state.,2006,3.84,96,4700
9780142407226,0142407224,The Tough Guide to Fantasyland,,Diana Wynne Jones,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v5jxAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A unique guide to fantasy literature helps readers understand such subjects as virginity, why High Priests are always evil, how Dark Lords always have minions, and useful tips on what to do when captured by a Goblin. Reprint.",2006,3.94,234,3897
9780142407578,0142407577,Heat,,Mike Lupica,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MrqkDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof. Reprint.,2007,3.98,220,18422
9780142407929,0142407925,The BFG,A Set of Plays,Roald Dahl;David Wood;Jane Walmsley,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aDf-OwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With notes on staging, props, and costumes, a collection of plays based on the author's book can be performed with the minimum of experience or resources. Reprint.",2007,4.26,128,452
9780142408759,0142408751,I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons,,Peter S. Beagle,Juvenile Fiction,,"Recently inheriting his deceased dad's job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, Robert's new job creates conflicting issues for him because he actually likes the creatures that inhabit Bellemontagne and he has always dreamed of transcending his humble origin to someday become a prince's valet.",2007,4.1,224,10
9780142437018,0142437018,A Little Princess,,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7_8uF1mO9icC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.",2002,4.19,242,232387
9780142437117,0142437115,The Letters of John and Abigail Adams,,Abigail Adams,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=70tNvrRFYVIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reflecting more than fifty years in the lives of John and Abigail Adams, a collection of remarkable letters provide an intimate portrait of an important early American family and an incisive, personal look at life in America before, during, and after the Revolution. Original.",1876,4.17,512,267
9780142437209,0142437204,Jane Eyre,,Charlotte Brontë,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wRYXFHqwW98C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Retells the classic story of an orphaned young woman who accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer.,2003,4.11,532,1328143
9780142437254,0142437255,On the Road,,Jack Kerouac,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4w1vQRkAVxYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.,2002,3.63,307,3194
9780142437285,014243728X,The Portable Faulkner,,William Faulkner,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EpkPuSZb7FsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects Faulkner's stories that convey his reconstructed history of the southern United States, set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.",2003,4.29,650,755
9780142437308,0142437301,The Power and the Glory,,Graham Greene,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1nZNUDbfgU8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A tormented, alcoholic priest is pursued by an idealistic lieutenant during an anti-clerical persecution in Mexico.",2003,3.99,222,24309
9780142437544,0142437549,The Portable Dante,,Dante Alighieri,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GlJo4h4KEPQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Includes ""The Divine Comedy,"" ""The New Life,"" and other selected poems, prose, and letters accompanied by biographical and introductory sections.",2003,4.23,654,269
9780142437551,0142437557,The Portable Arthur Miller,,Arthur Miller,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ik73H7d4x8gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Containing in full Miller's masterpieces ""The Crucible"" and ""Death of a Salesman, "" this collection comprises 60 years of writing from America's greatest living playwright.",2003,4.19,575,228
9780142437636,0142437638,Agapē Agape,,William Gaddis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4tWIOM7moawC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A dying man lies in bed thinking about how he will write a book and grumbling about the pending fall of civilization, in the final novel by the late, National Book Award-winning author of A Frolic of His Own. Reprint.",2003,3.81,144,873
9780142437766,014243776X,"In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales",,Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QxyQcySJF1gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A pioneer in the realm of imaginative literature, Lord Dunsany has gained a cult following for his influence on modern fantasy literature, including such authors as J.R.R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft. This unique collection of short stories ranges over five decades of work. Liberal selections of earlier tales—including the entire Gods of Pegana as well as such notable works as ""Idle Days of the Yann"" and ""The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth""—are followed by memorable later tales, including several about the garrulous traveler Joseph Jorkens and the outrageous murder tale ""The Two Bottles of Relish."" Throughout, the stories are united by Dunsany's cosmic vision, his impeccable and mellifluous prose, and his distinctively Irish sense of whimsy. First time in Penguin Classics The only annotated edition of Dunsany's short stories",2004,4.12,432,571
9780142437780,0142437786,The Portable John Adams,,John Adams,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BWdGUN6KPCcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of writings by America's second president features selections from his correspondence with his wife, Abigail, along with diary excerpts, parts of his memoirs, and such political writings as ""A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law,"" ""Thoughts on Government,"" ""A Defense of Constitutions,"" ""Novanglus,"" and """"Discourse on Davila."" Original.",2004,4.11,533,56
9780142437889,0142437883,Aleph and other stories,,Jorge Luis Borges;Andrew Hurley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XYZlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awaiting his assassin, and a woman plotting vengeance on her father's ""killer."" Reprint.",2000,4.38,210,19310
9780142437896,0142437891,A Universal History of Iniquity,,Jorge Luis Borges;Andrew Hurley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DLRIPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge. Sparkling with the sheer exuberant pleasure of story-telling, this collection marked the emergence of an utterly distinctive literary voice.",2004,3.97,128,2967
9780142437919,0142437913,Stamboul Train,,Graham Greene,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E0cqAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Illustrates the unusual relationship between a man and a woman traveling on the Orient Express.,2004,3.46,197,1930
9780142500378,0142500372,Enchantress from the Stars,,Sylvia Louise Engdahl,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rntJAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system. A 1971 Newbery Honor book. Reprint.",2003,3.94,304,2031
9780142501184,0142501182,Castaways of the Flying Dutchman,,Brian Jacques,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WTLTp2v3PA0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1620, a boy and his dog are rescued from the doomed ship, Flying Dutchman, by an angel who guides them in traveling the world, eternally helping those in great need.",2003,3.99,356,7648
9780142501528,0142501522,Salamandastron,,Brian Jacques;Gary Chalk,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7FkFAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Urthstripe the Strong, a wise old badger, leads the animals of the great fortress of Salamandastron and Redwall Abbey against the weasel Ferahgo the Assassin and his corps of vermin.",2003,4.06,400,25484
9780143030904,0143030906,Riot,A Novel,Shashi Tharoor,Adult children,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AWEND2dygyQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Who Killed Twenty-Four-Year-Old Priscilla Hart? And Why Would Anyone Want To Murder This Idealistic American Student Who Had Come To India To Volunteer In A Women S Health Programme? Had Her Work Made A Killer Out Of An Enraged Husband? Or Was Her Death The Result Of A Xenophobic Attack? Was She Involved In An Indiscriminate Love Affair That Had Spun Out Of Control? Or Was She Simply The Innocent Victim Of A Riot That Had Exploded In That Fateful Year Of 1987 Between Hindus And Muslims? Shashi Tharoor Experiments Brilliantly With Narrative Form, Chronicling The Mystery Of Priscilla Hart S Death Through The Often Contradictory Accounts Of A Dozen Or More Characters. Intellectually Provocative And Emotionally Charged, Riot Is A Novel About The Ownership Of History, About Love, Hate, Cultural Collision, Religious Fanaticism And The Impossibility Of Knowing The Truth.",2003,3.7,272,1261
9780143034360,0143034367,Buddha,,Karen Armstrong,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aJeRPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A portrait of the Buddha explores his identities both as an archetypal religious icon and as a man, chronicling his journey from his decision to leave a life of ease and power to his attainment of spiritual enlightenment.",2004,3.89,240,3657
9780143034605,014303460X,Excursion to Tindari,,Andrea Camilleri,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l5AxDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sicily's Inspector Salvo Montalbano investigates two seemingly unrelated crimes--the murder of a young Casanova and the mysterious disappearance of an elderly couple during an excursion to Tindari. Original.,2005,4.03,304,3174
9780143034759,0143034758,Alexander Hamilton,,Ron Chernow,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4PeiDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The personal life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, is captured in a definitive biography by the National Book Award-winning author of The House of Morgan. Reprint.",2004,4.24,818,82247
9780143034902,0143034901,The Shadow of the Wind,,Carlos Ruiz Zafón,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zQJSrGnJwCcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The international literary sensation--a runaway bestseller in Spain--is about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.,2005,4.26,487,306069
9780143035169,0143035169,Jane Austen,,Carol Shields,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Csx2YcnStBQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries focuses on the life and fiction of Jane Austen in a critical biography of the reclusive author of Pride and Prejudice and other great novels. Reprint.,2005,3.85,192,2221
9780143035749,0143035746,The Liars' Club,A Memoir,Mary Karr,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_DqZPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author, a poet, recounts her difficult childhood growing up in a Texas oil town.",2005,3.93,320,50776
9780143035831,0143035835,Democracy Matters,Winning the Fight Against Imperialism,Cornel West,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b-ZvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explores the threats to democracy that exist both in the United States and in the Middle East, discussing the corruption that plagues our own democracy, the failure to foster peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other crises.",2005,3.94,218,1408
9780143036067,0143036068,Windblown World,"The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954",Jack Kerouac;Douglas Brinkley,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6IhnPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Excerpts and passages from the personal diaries of the great Beat writer chronicle a pivotal era in Kerouac's life, describing the creation of his first novel, The Town and City; his special friendships with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady; and his own take on the events described in On the Road. Reprint.",2006,4.15,480,564
9780143036081,0143036084,The United States of Europe,The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy,T. R. Reid,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yra-GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now comprising 25 nations and 450 million citizens, the European Union has more people, wealth and votes than the United States. The author explores the challenge it poses to American political and economic supremacy.",2005,3.62,320,681
9780143036241,0143036246,The Christians and the Fall of Rome,,Edward Gibbon,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DAeWAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-drive design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped the world.",2005,3.57,96,202
9780143036357,0143036351,Why I Write,,George Orwell,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6I_qPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-drive design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped the world. Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin.",2005,4.03,120,5874
9780143036388,0143036386,On the Road,,Jack Kerouac,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2ioLwQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.,2005,3.63,320,480
9780143036395,0143036394,The Stone Diaries,,Carol Shields,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yRaLBJc475AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Carol Shields' The Stone Diaries irrevocably transformed our understanding of the art of storytelling-and won Shields the Pulitzer Prize in Literature. Artfully disguised as a novel masquerading as the autobiography of an ordinary woman, this seductively written tale gradually reveals itself to be a profound meditation on fact, fiction, and the vast, blurred territory that lies between. Book jacket.",2005,3.86,384,396
9780143036555,0143036556,Collapse,How Societies Choose to Fail Or Succeed,Jared M. Diamond,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QyzHKSCYSmsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA.",2006,3.93,608,49219
9780143036661,0143036661,March,,Geraldine Brooks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-pOd81IGgmUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his marriage and beliefs profoundly challenged by his experiences. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.",2006,3.75,280,47704
9780143036692,0143036696,The Mermaid Chair,,Sue Monk Kidd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3pRoQRhbIacC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid.",2006,3.12,368,66723
9780143036838,0143036831,Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies,A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite,June Casagrande,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LyoZtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A hilarious compilation of witty anecdotes and trenchant essays on the mysteries of grammar and punctuation takes a poke at self-appointed language experts as it discusses such topics as predicate nominatives, colons and semicolons, quotation marks, prepositions, hyphens, and more. Original.",2006,3.78,199,733
9780143036937,0143036939,The City of Falling Angels,,John Berendt,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MrW5d7MZCgUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the aftermath of the 1996 Venice opera house fire, an event that devastated Venetian society and was investigated by the author, who through interviews with local figures learned about the region's rich cultural history.",2006,3.54,414,12412
9780143036975,0143036971,Bargaining for Advantage,Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People,G. Richard Shell,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zy5lDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An authoritative guide to business negotiation explores the complex psychological factors in each bargaining situation and examines six key leverage points that promote bargaining success. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2006,3.94,320,4406
9780143037149,0143037145,The Memory Keeper's Daughter,,Kim Edwards,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2yOkyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twin daughter during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from the baby's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.",2006,3.65,401,519878
9780143037231,0143037234,The Big Over Easy,A Nursery Crime,Jasper Fforde,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tGNdrjM7NtwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Unconvinced that a former convict and millionaire philanthropist has been murdered by his suicide-victim ex-wife, detective inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant, Mary Mary, uncover a plot involving money laundering and asylum-seeking titans.",2006,3.93,383,26532
9780143037392,0143037390,The Read-aloud Handbook,,Jim Trelease,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B2_yUfmc6dsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explains the importance of reading aloud to children, offers guidance on how to set up a read-aloud atmosphere in the home or classroom, and recommends titles to select.",2006,4.4,432,4122
9780143037439,0143037439,Tooth and Claw,,T. Coraghessan Boyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ebK4HyDNvLUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of fourteen stories includes ""The Kind Assassin,"" in which a radio shock jock sets a world record; ""Dogology,"" in which an obsessed woman loses sight of her identity; and the title story, in which a man wins a vicious African cat in a bet.",2006,3.82,304,1165
9780143037484,014303748X,Rounding the Mark,,Andrea Camilleri,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1LXaCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two seemingly unrelated murders draw Sicilian sleuth Inspector Montalbano into a dangerous world of illicit trafficking in human lives and test both his personal endurance and his loyalty to the institution he serves. Original. 35,000 first printing.",2006,4.06,272,2445
9780143037491,0143037498,The Social Contract,,Jean-Jacques Rousseau;Maurice Cranston,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8U7BuQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political writings--The Social Contract and The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts) and The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality)--and presents essays by major scholars that shed light on these texts.,2004,3.76,168,27463
9780143037576,0143037579,Fear and Trembling,,Søren Kierkegaard,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=acFp6PqEVwsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world. Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insistence that he be absolved all guilt because he was 'only following orders'.",2005,4,160,13333
9780143037613,0143037617,Bleak House,,Charles Dickens;Nicola Bradbury,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L-xBPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The English equity court of the nineteenth-century is satirized in Dickins' tale about the suit of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce.,2006,4.01,1017,77515
9780143037675,0143037676,Good Poems for Hard Times,,Garrison Keillor,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ap2kpWhee8cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of inspirational poems by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, and Raymond Carver.",2006,4.14,344,2611
9780143037682,0143037684,Homegrown Democrat,A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America,Garrison Keillor,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0Fa7jwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The humorist and radio host examines the ""politics of kindness,"" offering a series of nostalgic reminiscences, meditations, and observations on the core values of the democratic ideal.",2006,3.96,288,1164
9780143037835,0143037838,Let My People Go Surfing,The Education of a Reluctant Businessman,Yvon Chouinard,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sjBAfE-8-fQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The personal stories of the founder of Patagonia, Inc. describes his underprivileged childhood as an immigrant in southern California, early fame as a successful mountain climber, and company's dedication to quality and environmental responsibility. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.",2006,4.21,272,6467
9780143038092,0143038095,The Joy Luck Club,,Amy Tan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2mgnEzzaJrIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughter's memories and feelings.",2006,3.91,288,550264
9780143038108,0143038109,The Kitchen God's Wife,,Amy Tan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n0CzDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman convinced that she will die soon, decides to unburden herself by divulging the secrets of those closest to her and to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.",2006,4,416,64285
9780143038313,0143038311,The Bar on the Seine,,Georges Simenon;David Watson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g1YkAgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Visiting a prisoner to inform him that his reprieve has been denied and that his execution is scheduled for the next day, Inspector Maigret listens to the condemned man's story, undertaking a personal investigation that leads him to the Guinguette à Deux Sous, a bar by the Seine, and into the seamy underbelly of bourgeois Paris. Reprint.",2007,3.69,160,375
9780143038412,0143038419,"Eat, Pray, Love","One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia",Elizabeth Gilbert,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zquLDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,GILBERT/EAT PRAY LOVE,2007,3.54,368,1309623
9780143038825,0143038826,The White Man's Burden,Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good,William Easterly,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8SayNAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Argues that western foreign aid efforts have done little to stem global poverty, citing how such organizations as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are not held accountable for ineffective practices that the author believes intrude into the inner workings of other countries. By the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2006,3.83,436,4317
9780143039020,0143039024,The quiet American,,Graham Greene;Robert Stone,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3jwOAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Graham Greene centennial, 1904-2004""--Cover.",1955,3.97,180,35497
9780143039105,0143039105,Complete Short Stories,,Graham Greene,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sLEOAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A definitive compilation of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of The Quiet American and The Third Man features forty-nine stories that capture all facets of the human experience and includes works originally published in two volumes--Collected Short Stories and The Last Word and Other Stories. Original.,2005,4.16,594,1106
9780143039143,0143039148,World of Wonders,,Robertson Davies;Wayne Johnston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QHOFPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Magnus Eisengrim, the illustrious magician star of a movie being filmed in Switzerland, spends his free time relating the sad story of his life to his director and producer, a cameraman, a mysterious hostess, and a Canadian schoolmaster, in the third volume of the Deptford Trilogy. Reprint.",2006,4.1,352,3479
9780143039310,0143039318,Sodom and Gomorrah,,Marcel Proust,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QO2PngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set against the backdrop of decadent Parisian high society and the rise of a conservative bourgeoisie that will supplant it, the author explores the theme of homosexual love and the destructive influence of sexual jealousy.",2005,4.36,557,3039
9780143039433,0143039431,The Grapes of Wrath,,John Steinbeck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bhJgd3hGdxQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,STEINBECK/GRAPES OF WRATH (BC),1939,3.95,464,6775
9780143039495,0143039490,The Tale of Genji,Abridged,Murasaki Shikibu,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ikbggTTRN80C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first translation of the Japanese masterpiece in a generation introduces modern readers to this brilliant account of courtly life in medieval Japan, in an edition that also features line drawings, notes, glossaries, maps, character lists, and chronologies. Reprint.",2006,3.71,319,148
9780143039501,0143039504,The Complete Novels,,Jane Austen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a6LokmcqqSEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A definitive compilation of the author's seven great novels offers a vivid portrait of English middle-class life, its mores, institutions, and society around the turn of the nineteenth century.",2006,4.55,1278,417
9780143039570,0143039571,The Adventures of Augie March,,Saul Bellow;Christopher Hitchens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CDk9PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Augie's nonconformity leads him into an eventful, humorous, and sometimes earthy way of life.",2006,3.85,586,14372
9780143039600,0143039601,The Dharma Bums,,Jack Kerouac,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P4WYPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,During the 1950s the search for Buddhist truths takes two young Bohemians through a series of bizarre experiences in California.,1958,3.93,187,1993
9780143039655,0143039652,Malgudi Days,,R. K. Narayan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dqRETZRkGCcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India 'the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story'. Malgudi Days is the marvellous result. Here Narayan portrays an astrologer, a snake-charmer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappatis - all kinds of people, drawn in full colour and endearing domestic detail. And under his magician's touch the whole imaginary city of Malgudi springs to life, revealing the essence of India and of human experience.",1982,4.21,264,13066
9780143039853,0143039857,The Outsiders,,S. E. Hinton;Jodi Picoult,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9PyIPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.,1967,4.08,160,1558
9780143039860,0143039865,Sometimes a Great Notion,,Ken Kesey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WToh-xW3cfoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls ""one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century."" This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.",1964,4.21,715,557
9780143039938,0143039938,The Book of Imaginary Beings,,Jorge Luis Borges;Margarita Guerrero;Andrew Hurley;Peter Sís,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FuNQPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A whimsical compendium of mythological creature profiles considers the inventions of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and Kafka, in a humorously commentated volume that explores the qualities of a range of dragons, unicorns, and othercurious beasts.",2006,4.09,236,4809
9780143039945,0143039946,Gravity's Rainbow,,Thomas Pynchon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P95vPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, is under suspicion by his superiors and soon on the run from enemies through Germany.",1973,4.02,776,28034
9780143104827,0143104829,Life is a Dream,,Pedro Calderón de la Barca,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yZ3eILHxUeoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Considered one of the outstanding Spanish dramas of all time, this 17th-century allegory explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will.",2006,3.98,160,154
9780143104902,014310490X,Black Lamb and Grey Falcon,A Journey Through Yugoslavia,Rebecca West,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Lfe0W6fDwCMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Written on the brink of World War II, West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia is a magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight.",2007,4.23,1181,1550
9780151009985,0151009988,Mrs. Dalloway,,Virginia Woolf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BU6Kl4mi4DgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life.,2002,3.79,194,167000
9780151010264,0151010269,Animal Farm and 1984,,George Orwell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h1KImAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"George Orwell's classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is accompanied by ""1984,"" his portrayal of life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens a",2003,4.28,400,140015
9780151461547,0151461546,Janet Flanner's world,"uncollected writings, 1932-1975",Janet Flanner;Irving Drutman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HrNaAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The pieces collected here include an early profile of Hitler, reports on the Nuremberg trials, portraits of Thomas Mann, Bette Davis, Picasso, and concerts and art exhibits. Edited by Irving Drutman. Preface by William Shawn.",1979,4.3,368,19
9780152000172,0152000178,The Stone Fey,,Robin McKinley,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=27oOAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Maddy, a young woman who runs sheep on her family farm, develops an unusual relationship with an elusive mountain creature called a fey.",1998,3.35,64,1025
9780152018481,0152018484,How I Became a Pirate,,Melinda Long;David Shannon,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9OdooYJSetgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.",2003,4.08,44,23328
9780152045739,0152045732,The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge,,Hildegarde Hoyt Swift;Lynd Ward,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_bJOvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that it is still useful and has an important job to do, in a tale first published in 1942. Reprint. 30,000 first printing",2003,4.26,64,2216
9780152046996,0152046992,The Secret School,,Avi,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rxRCOQL6y38C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly. Reprint.",2003,3.78,176,3540
9780152049676,0152049673,Winter is the Warmest Season,,Lauren Stringer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S1EOmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A child describes pleasant ways to stay warm during the winter, from sipping hot chocolate and eating grilled cheese sandwiches to wearing woolly sweaters and sitting near a glowing fireplace.",2006,3.91,40,360
9780152050863,0152050868,Doomed Queen Anne,,Carolyn Meyer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rhhKvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.",2004,3.87,240,3478
9780152051242,0152051244,Gifts,,Ursula K. Le Guin,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HcAhvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of ""unmaking""--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own. Reprint.",2006,3.69,286,6442
9780152052607,0152052607,The Hundred Dresses,Growing Up. Set 4,Eleanor Estes,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=herrly9O22EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.",2004,4.09,80,29372
9780152054472,0152054472,"Patience, Princess Catherine",,Carolyn Meyer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5R4MeUBnNLQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1501, fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England and marries Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but when Arthur unexpectedly dies, her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between England and Spain.",2005,3.79,208,2185
9780152056780,0152056785,Voices,,Ursula K. Le Guin,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KcGWrlJYOC0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.,2006,3.87,341,3353
9780152057084,0152057080,Apple Pie Fourth of July,,Janet S. Wong;Margaret Chodos-Irvine,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=am2MMqEefUAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.,2006,3.71,40,298
9780152057640,0152057641,Beauty Shop for Rent,"--fully Equipped, Inquire Within",Laura Bowers,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MwoYvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and disillusionment with the mother who deserted her.",2007,3.87,336,758
9780152057664,0152057668,Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich,,Adam Rex,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OUJaTc8S874C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Stories in verse about the monster-sized problems Dracula, Wolfman, Bigfoot and other monsters have.",2006,4.21,40,1860
9780152758516,0152758518,The Sleeping Giant and Other Stories,,Eleanor Estes,Folklore,,Three short tall tales : The sleeping giant -- The lost shadow -- A nice room for giraffes - written and illustrated by Eleanor Estes.,1948,4,101,10
9780156001267,0156001268,The Metamorphoses of Ovid,,Allen Mandelbaum,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HK9gjD0wvaoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new translation of the most famous work of a witty, irreverent Roman poet captures the mischievous spirit of this man of letters who wrote candid poems about love and suffered a death in exile.",1995,4.05,559,685
9780156001458,0156001454,Winterdance,The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod,Gary Paulsen,Pets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BSVtQXGgdKwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Paulsen and his team of dogs endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, and hallucinations in the relentless push to go on. Map and color photographs.",1994,4.25,272,5128
9780156002080,0156002086,This Is the Way the World Ends,,James Morrow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uxnNTIGkp_8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"George Paxton was an ordinary man until something extraordinary happened--nuclear holocaust. Now George Paxton is about to discover what happens after the end of the world. ""Astute, highly engaging, and finally moving"".--Los Angeles Times.",1986,3.75,319,1275
9780156003650,0156003651,The Double Flame,Love and Eroticism,Octavio Paz,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yPGjTarB_dcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of essays examines the themes of love and sex in literature, from Plato to modern fiction",1996,4.21,276,577
9780156004800,0156004801,All the King's Men,,Robert Penn Warren,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UXbYLVYR790C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration,1982,4.09,439,45975
9780156005203,0156005204,Baltasar and Blimunda,,José Saramago;Giovanni Pontiero,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PzI0vgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In eighteenth-century Portugal, fifty thousand laborers carry stones on their backs across mountains to build the king's convent, a heretical priest devises a magic flying machine--the Passarola--and two lovers' dream of flight sets them apart",1998,3.91,346,5950
9780156006248,0156006243,The History of the Siege of Lisbon,,José Saramago,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5WXe9lE-Ix8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Living the innocent life of a proofreader, Raimundo Silva changes a key word in a history text that leads him to romance and alters the course of European history",1998,3.8,314,324
9780156007474,0156007479,Slammerkin,,Emma Donoghue,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lBqtXFaePX4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawn into prostitution in mid-1700s London at an early age because of her dreams for a more affluent lifestyle, Mary Saunders takes refuge as a seamstress in the middle-class household of Mrs. Jones but mistakenly comes to believe that fashionable clothing can enable her to win respect and freedom. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2000,3.7,410,12262
9780156007757,0156007754,Blindness,,José Saramago;Giovanni Pontiero,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9ab5g1_ghuQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A city is hit by an epidemic of ""white blindness"" whose victims are confined to a vacant mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted strangers through the barren urban landscape",1999,4.11,326,106162
9780156010597,0156010593,All the Names,,José Saramago;Margaret Jull Costa,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2Ln6jSlu0OwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a drone in the Central Registry discovers a stray unfiled birth certificate, he decides to investigate the identity of the woman--the first step in an obsession that will lead him to her. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.",2001,3.89,245,10634
9780156011464,0156011468,"Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997",,Wislawa Szymborska;Stanisław Barańczak;Clare Cavanagh,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wt4sO8GUBX8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Provides one hundred poems including the author's ""View with a Grain of Sand,"" and sixty-four newly-translated selections.",2000,4.42,296,2454
9780156011655,0156011654,The Last Life,,Claire Messud,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NBiLmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a story set between North Africa, France, and New England, the Algerian LaBasse family's secrets begin to unravel--a trigger-happy grandfather, a mother who pretended to be French, and a bastard child that was abandoned by the family before he was even born. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2000,3.56,400,1384
9780156013031,0156013037,The Tale of the Unknown Island,,José Saramago,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LBcvkNqzdCUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A moving and eloquent fable from the 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature offers a unique blend of love and philosophy as a man petitions a boat from the king, finds a crew to volunteer, and sets sail. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2000,3.89,64,3138
9780156026987,0156026988,Tales from Margaritaville,Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions,Jimmy Buffett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x6Z56Md25n4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The singer/songwriter displays his gift for creating witty, laid-back Southern stories in a collection of bizarre tales and thoughtful essays",2002,3.9,230,2366
9780156027595,0156027593,The Cyberiad,,Stanislaw Lem,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kWElP9YZkzQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. “The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe” (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mr—z. Translated by Michael Kandel.",2002,4.18,295,7512
9780156027656,0156027658,Four Comedies,,Aristophanes;Dudley Fitts,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Cy_6QwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. ""Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination"" (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index.",2002,4.03,400,14
9780156027786,015602778X,The Common Reader,First series,Virginia Woolf,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g8JTvQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Woolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.” Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.",1984,4.17,272,1090
9780156027915,0156027917,A Writer's Diary,Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf,Virginia Woolf;Leonard Woolf,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pn9OzR4AYdsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Extracts drawn by Virginia Woolf's husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years offer insight into the art and mind of the twentieth-century author.,2003,4.25,355,3219
9780156028066,0156028069,Women and Writing,,Virginia Woolf,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TfAZjjQKGsoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Known for her novels, and for the dubious fame of being a doyenne of the 'Bloomsbury Set', in her time Virginia Woolf was highly respected as a major essayist and critic with a special interest and commitment to contemporary literature, and women's writing in particular. This spectacular collection of essays and other writings does justice to those efforts, offering unique appraisals of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, the Duchess of Newcastle, Dorothy Richardson, Charlotte Bronte, and Katherine Mansfield, amongst many others. Gathered too, and using previously unpublished (sometimes even unsigned) journal extracts, are what will now become timeless commentaries on 'Women and Fiction', 'Professions for Women' and 'The Intellectual Status of Women'. More than half a century after the publication of A Room Of One's Own, distinguished scholar Michele Barrett cohesively brings together work which, throughout the years, has been scattered throughout many texts and many volumes. . . affording these very valuable writings the collective distinction they deserve at last.",2003,4.07,216,236
9780156028790,0156028794,The Cave,,José Saramago,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hcXTwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Informed that his clay pots and jugs are no longer needed, elderly potter Cipriano applies his craft to the making of ceramic dolls, but his family's subsequent successes are compromised by a terrible discovery.",2003,3.83,307,7390
9780156028974,0156028972,"Gun, with Occasional Music",,Jonathan Lethem,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AgRevgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a bizarre, noirish world shared by people and intelligent animals, Conrad Metcalf, a human private detective, finds one of his cases has drawn him into a conflict between gangsters and the Inquisitor's office. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2003,3.77,271,7863
9780156029025,0156029022,A Drink Before the War,,Dennis Lehane,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1UQOpInULqUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Private detective partners Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find Jenna Angeline, a missing black cleaning woman who allegedly stole confidential state documents, but as their investigation becomes complicated by rival gang leaders, extortion, child prostitution, and assassination reaching to the highest levels of government, they discover that their target has been framed. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2003,3.95,282,28386
9780156029063,0156029065,Baudolino,,Umberto Eco,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VSLOZb6Ff7YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino narrates the story of his life, from his adoption by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his education in Paris to his arrival in Constantinople during the turmoil of the Fourth Crusade.",2003,3.74,527,15490
9780156029322,0156029324,Mrs. Dalloway's Party,A Short Story Sequence,Virginia Woolf;Stella McNichol,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MRBmu3paHaQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Seven short stories continue or extend Virginia Woolf's ideas about the party created by Mrs. Dalloway in her landmark 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. Reprint.,2003,3.87,80,398
9780156030168,0156030160,The Liberated Bride,,Abraham B. Yehoshua;Hillel Halkin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wzy1GYKAfgoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As Yohanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, embarks on research into turbulent recent Algerian history, with the help of one of his students, a young Arab bride from a Galilee village, he becomes obsessed with his son's failed marriage. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2004,3.76,576,449
9780156030205,0156030209,Book Club,Life of Pi (7 Copies).,Yann Martel,,,,,3.9,401,4242
9780156030274,0156030276,The Female of the Species,Tales of Mystery and Suspense,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NVM6vgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of short works includes ""So Help Me God,"" in which a young wife wonders about the identity of a flirtatious caller, and ""Madison at Guignol,"" in which an unhappy fashionista discovers a horrendous secret at a clothing store.",2007,3.6,275,994
9780156030304,0156030306,Flowers for Algernon,,Daniel Keyes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NRWlitmahXkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With more than five million copies sold, ""Flowers for Algernon"" is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. High school & older.",2005,4.11,311,332849
9780156030410,0156030411,A Room of One's Own,,Virginia Woolf;Susan Gubar,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dh9gvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors that impede literary creativity in women, in the story of William Shakespeare's talented sister, who, because of the mores of her time, never expresses her genius until she dies by her own hand. Reprint.",2005,4.13,112,828
9780156030472,0156030470,To the Lighthouse,,Virginia Woolf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ak83vQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a 10 year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time.,1927,3.77,242,488
9780156030489,0156030489,Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow,,Faïza Guène;Sarah Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fv8tvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Struggling with an overworked mother, an absent father, and the challenges of life within the infamous Paradise projects of suburban Paris, fifteen-year-old French Muslim Doria endures a parade of social workers, experiences a first kiss, and assumes a philosophical outlook regarding her circumstances. A first novel. Original. 75,000 first printing.",2006,3.38,179,1026
9780156030939,0156030934,Rose of No Man's Land,,Michelle Tea,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zfc8vgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After being hired and abruptly fired from the most popular shop at Square One Mall in Mogsfield, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll finds herself linked up with a chain-smoking, physically stunted mall rat named Rose, in a love story between two weirdo girls who soulfully explore the emptiness of contemporary culture. Reprint. 44,000 first printing.",2007,3.51,320,1458
9780156031639,0156031639,Three Guineas,,Virginia Woolf;Jane Marcus;Mark Hussey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MVdivgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The gifted English writer submits a strong plea for intellectual freedom, women's rights, and the cessation of war, in an annotated series of letters. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.",2006,3.86,352,2270
9780156032117,0156032112,The People of Paper,,Salvador Plascencia,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DfiH7n--DBMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Devastated by the abandonment of his wife, Federico de la Fe moves with his young daughter from Mexico to California, where he is unable to break free of feelings of oppression, encounters an unusual woman, and meets another heartbroken man. A first novel. Reprint.",2005,4.09,256,4021
9780156032292,0156032295,Virginia Woolf,An Inner Life,Julia Briggs,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_Fn2kILpMkoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A portrait of the influential twentieth-century writer steps away from traditional explorations of her Bloomsbury social circles to reveal how her life was centered on her writing, drawing on letters, diaries, and essays to explain how her written works reflect her formative experiences and creative philosophies. Reprint.",2006,4.17,544,623
9780156032391,0156032392,On Literature,,Umberto Eco,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i4q8C59qAlkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A collection of essays and addresses includes the author's musings on Ptolemy, his reflections on the experimental writings of Borges and Joyce, and confessions about his own ambitions and anxieties. By the author of The Name of the Rose. Reprint.",2005,3.95,352,1669
9780156032599,0156032597,The Pirates Laffite,The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf,William C. Davis,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YqpwmQCEy2kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"From just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the U.S. Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the New Orleanians who shopped for contraban",2006,3.51,756,211
9780156032971,015603297X,Foucault's Pendulum,,Umberto Eco,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UbkvmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable about a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy, begin feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into a sophisticated computer, creating an incredible game that begins taking over. Reprint.",2007,3.9,623,44658
9780156118705,015611870X,Between the Acts,,Virginia Woolf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CjH5ATR3vvQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Isa and her husband must confront each other after a day of pageantry and emotional tension,1969,3.64,224,4202
9780156119078,0156119072,Big Anthony and the Magic Ring,,Tomie DePaola,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U5sYvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Big Anthony borrows Strega Nona's magic ring to turn himself into a handsome man, he gets more trouble than fun.",1979,4.1,32,443
9780156189217,0156189216,The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty,,Eudora Welty,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r1ByPyEWD_wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"All forty-one stories published by the distinguished writer are brought together, displaying her insights into the American South and including her most famous work, ""Death of a Traveling Salesman""",1980,4.23,622,7003
9780156212502,0156212501,The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf,,Virginia Woolf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hZyixrjITqMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Collects nearly fifty short stories and sketches written over the course of Woolf's writing career and arranges them chronologically to offer insights into Woolf's development as a writer,1989,4.04,345,684
9780156260275,0156260271,The Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1939-1944,,Anaïs Nin,"Authors, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NLjmwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nin continues her debate on the use of drugs versus the artist's imagination, portrays many famous people in the arts, and recounts her visits to Sweden, the Brussels World's Fair, Paris, and Venice. ""[Nin] looks at life, love, and art with a blend of gentility and acuity that is rare in contemporary writing"" (John Barkham Reviews). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.",1966,4.17,348,1373
9780156260329,0156260328,The Diary of Anaïs Nin,,Anaïs Nin,Biography & Autobiography,,"Nin continues her debate on the use of drugs versus the artist's imagination, portrays many famous people in the arts, and recounts her visits to Sweden, the Brussels World's Fair, Paris, and Venice. ""[Nin] looks at life, love, and art with a blend of gentility and acuity that is rare in contemporary writing"" (John Barkham Reviews). Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann; Index.",1977,4.12,432,307
9780156260350,0156260352,The Diary of Anaïs Nin,1966-1974,Anaïs Nin,Biography & Autobiography,,,1980,4.16,384,315
9780156260367,0156260360,The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919,,Virginia Woolf,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RjvzxQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,“Nothing yet published about her so totally contradicts the legend of Virginia Woolf.... [This] is a first chance to meet the writer in her own unguarded words and to observe the root impulses of her art without the distractions of a commentary” (New York Times). Edited and with a Preface by Anne Olivier Bell; Introduction by Quentin Bell; Index.,1979,4.31,356,1262
9780156260374,0156260379,The Diary of Virginia Woolf,1920-1924,Virginia Woolf,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FjEvjwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Entries interrupted only by her periodic breakdowns record the daily events and activities, enthusiasms and disappointments, and writing tasks in Virginia Woolf's life and her responses to people, books, and her own work",1980,4.37,384,374
9780156260381,0156260387,The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930,,Virginia Woolf,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6q4nAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An account of Woolf's life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. ""Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose...make this a most valuable and pleasurable book"" (Publishers Weekly). ""Volume three is as witty and intelligent as its predecessors"" (Atlantic Monthly). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.",1981,4.43,408,477
9780156260398,0156260395,The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1931-1935,,Virginia Woolf,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ai7uAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Entries interrupted only by her periodic breakdowns record the daily events and activities, enthusiasms and disappointments, and writing tasks in Virginia Woolf's life and her responses to people, books, and her own work",1983,4.44,420,213
9780156260404,0156260409,Diary Of Virginia Woolf Volume 5,Vol. 5 (1936-1941),Virginia Woolf,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cbAnAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Virginia Woolf was fifty-four on January 25, 1936, some three weeks after this final volume of her diary opens. Its last page was written four days before she drowned herself on March 28, 1941. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index; maps.",1985,4.49,424,220
9780156260558,0156260557,Difficult Loves,,Italo Calvino,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6Ynoy06fs7kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a collection of stories written during the 1940s and 1950s, the author captures moments of revelation in the lives of ordinary people, instants blending recognition and alarm as deceptions and illusions are laid bare",1984,3.93,300,3874
9780156272506,0156272504,The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1923-1927,,Anaïs Nin,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dz86mQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A bridge between the early life of Nin and the first volume of her Diary. In pages more candid than in the preceding diaries, Nin tells how she exorcised the obsession that threatened her marriage and nearly drove her to suicide. Editor's Note by Rupert Pole; Preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell; Index; photographs.",1985,4.18,320,143
9780156286510,0156286513,E. M. Forster,A Life,Philip Nicholas Furbank,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KrvbAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"P. N. Furbank's 1978 two-volume portrait, combined here into one edition, is generally considered the definitive biography of novelist E. M. Forster. ""One of the best biographies of a writer I've ever read.""--Walter Clemons, Newsweek",1981,4.11,648,133
9780156306300,0156306301,Fiasco,,Stanislaw Lem,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4IZ3PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a crew of earthmen--among them a space pilot, a military leader, a scientist, and a priest--reach the planet Quinta, the travelers descend into the very depths of the human condition",1988,4.12,322,2125
9780156400572,015640057X,Henry and June,From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin,Anaïs Nin,"Authors, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e_y_H-HHNDgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A year in the life (1931-1932) of writer Anais Nin when she met Henry Miller and his wife June.,1986,3.95,304,7535
9780156421171,0156421178,Homage to Catalonia,,George Orwell,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MXwx-pTmPNkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Presents the British novelist's firsthand report on the Spanish Civil War based on his experiences fighting against the Fascists,1952,4.15,232,27619
9780156443005,0156443007,Incest,"From ""A Journal of Love"": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1932-1934",Anaïs Nin,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eDLFnmAcVTYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author's diary includes details of her relationships with Henry Miller and his wife, June, Antonin Artaud, Rene Allendy, Otto Rank, and her father",1993,4,432,279
9780156443791,0156443791,The Inheritors,,William Golding,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oGpXc3u3NOsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The impact on a small surviving band of Neanderthal food gatherers of the arrival of Homo sapiens, a clever and ruthless killer.",1962,3.53,240,2681
9780156453806,0156453800,Invisible Cities,,Italo Calvino,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5AokCxyISuIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future",1978,4.17,165,39058
9780156508872,0156508877,The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941,,Virginia Woolf,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zJWYuwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The unabridged texts of virtually all of the English novelist's extant correspondence, recording her personality, activities, relationships, spells of madness, and growth as a writer from the age of six to shortly before her death",1980,4.47,576,95
9780156572040,0156572044,"Marcovaldo, Or, The Seasons in the City",,Italo Calvino,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mhsJJLrIHZYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Marcovaldo, and irrepressible dreamer and inveterate schemer embarks on a series of adventures, with unpredictable results",1983,3.88,128,5381
9780156619189,0156619180,Moments of Being,,Virginia Woolf,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sWiiqWV0hQ4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Six autobiographical pieces that span her entire career reveal the underlying unity of Woolf's art, thought, and sensibility and the unusual degree to which she integrated personal experiences within her fiction",1985,4.26,230,1661
9780156628709,0156628708,Mrs. Dalloway,,Virginia Woolf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uFHavgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life,1981,3.79,197,7971
9780156631402,0156631407,Mrs. Miniver,,Jan Struther,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Sox9mgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In prewar England, Mrs. Miniver, an ordinary English wife and mother of three, finds extraordinary aspects of life in the everyday routines others take for granted",1990,3.96,162,1040
9780156632775,0156632772,Murder in the Cathedral,,Thomas Stearns Eliot,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KNrzg_kxAPEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A play in verse form dramatizes the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket by four knights of Henry II's court,1963,3.76,148,6500
9780156659758,0156659751,The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount,,Italo Calvino,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xti83ZDjUiAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Recounts the chivalrous exploits of an empty suit of armor and the separate halves of a nobleman who has been bisected by a cannon ball,1977,4.03,272,4585
9780156701600,015670160X,Orlando,A Biography,Virginia Woolf;Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7KLbkCfUI_UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores.,1973,3.86,333,1602
9780156701761,0156701766,The Orwell Reader,"Fiction, Essays, and Reportage",George Orwell,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DfQlqJxcl0MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Selections reveal the development of Orwell's personality and thinking during the thirties and forties,1961,4.37,480,265
9780156717205,0156717204,The Philosophy of Andy Warhol,From A to B and Back Again,Andy Warhol,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Rkh473_wb9cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Warhol offers his observations of love, beauty, fame, work, and art and discusses the continuous play and display of his many fetishes",1977,3.73,272,32180
9780156907392,0156907399,To the Lighthouse,,Virginia Woolf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ng0Tg0FhRggC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a ten year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time,1981,3.77,209,4009
9780156913218,0156913216,Travels in Hyper Reality,Essays,Umberto Eco,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NuPQxNl1rJEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Essays discuss the Middle Ages, language, culture, the media, sports, fashion, photography, films, and philosophy",1990,3.89,324,1982
9780156932509,0156932504,The Uses of Literature,Essays,Italo Calvino,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=INlwzJp2fMMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This essay collection discusses literature in relation to science, philosophy, and politics in studies of great classical works and tributes to such contemporary writers as Eugenio Montale, Roland Barthes, and Marianne Moore",1987,4.07,341,887
9780156935906,0156935902,The Virginia Woolf Reader,,Virginia Woolf,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UUyyx3Y50xQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents five short stories, essays, correspondence, and selections from four novels by the prominent British author",1984,4.1,384,163
9780156948708,0156948702,The Waste Land,"A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound",Thomas Stearns Eliot;Ezra Pound,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iNFu0Im2wPcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Biographical material accompanies reproductions of T. S. Eliot's original manuscript and notes,1974,4.11,149,240
9780156949521,0156949520,The Watcher & Other Stories,,Italo Calvino,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WdIlWkplbNoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Italian writer is concerned with grotesque or farcical events of the future,1975,3.72,181,432
9780156949606,0156949601,The Waves,,Virginia Woolf,Experimental fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7HEM1SgPmC8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Against the background of the sea, the author presents a group of characters from childhood to old age who speak in soliloquy, and we see them as they appear to themselves and to each other. In the end one of the characters sums up the effect of their lives as a whole.",1959,4.14,297,19210
9780160729942,0160729947,More Readings from One Man's Wilderness,"The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke, 1974-1980",Richard Proenneke,Frontier and pioneer life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X9tPvAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2005,4.42,496,231
9780192751164,0192751166,Tales of the Norse Gods,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jj2SxgaaKIoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Collects stories of courageous women, revenege, strength in battle, legendary heroes, beasts, dwarves, and Viking gods adapted from the Norse tradition.",2001,4.07,160,40
9780192752536,0192752537,Party Shoes,,Noel Streatfeild,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aYCk-RPF92sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Near the end of the Second World War, Selina receives a parcel from America that contains a beautiful party dress and shoes. But her excitement turns to sorrow when she realizes she'll never have a chance to wear the beautiful dress, until she and her cousins decide to organize a pageant.",2002,3.64,243,417
9780192752796,0192752790,Cart And Cwidder,,Diana Wynne Jones,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QdI4OmS8UGMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Clennen and his family make their living as travelling musicians. A danger deepens around them, Moril is chosen to receive the mysterious musical instrument - the ancient cwidder.",2003,3.84,186,2560
9780192781536,0192781537,"Moby Dick, Or, The White Whale",,Herman Melville;Geraldine McCaughrean;Victor G. Ambrus,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=La1ASAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Retells Melville's novel of the sailor called Ishmael and Captain Ahab, who would do anything to catch the great white whale, Moby Dick, that had taken the Captain's leg.",1998,3.85,104,38
9780192801739,0192801732,Typhoon and Other Tales,,Joseph Conrad,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q25svQrC7W4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"TYPHOON * FALK * AMY FOSTER *THE SECRET SHARERThe four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. 'Typhoon' is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by tempest, and of the stolid captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. In 'Falk' ataciturn young woman is bizarrely courted by a tug-boat master who is haunted by a terrible secret. 'Amy Foster' tells of an emigrant Pole struggling to overcome isolation and prejudice in England. The final tale, 'The Secret Sharer', is Conrad's most famous short story, a masterpiece of suspenseand ambiguity. Giving sanctuary to a fugitive sailor, a young sea-captain risks his ship and his command in order to save him.This revised edition uses the English first edition texts and has a new chronology and bibliography.",2002,3.89,304,565
9780192801975,019280197X,Hegel: A Very Short Introduction,,Peter Singer,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-kTyUz5mLnsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Peter Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works.",2001,3.85,131,1048
9780192802378,0192802372,Emma,,Jane Austen,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VhQ7F6Papb8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This title is also availble as a film.,2003,3.99,402,725
9780192802385,0192802380,Pride and Prejudice,,Jane Austen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8cp-Z_G42g4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'his perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd!' Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and menide down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal, but eventually to true understanding, self-knowledge, and love. In this supremely satisfying story, Jane Austen balances comedy with seriousness, and witty observation with profound insight. If Elizabeth Bennet returns again and again to her letter from Mr Darcy, readers of the novel are drawn even more irresistibly by its captivating wisdom.",2004,4.25,333,2369
9780192802637,0192802631,Persuasion,,Jane Austen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lpD5anvUaRUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth.",2004,4.13,249,421344
9780192802644,019280264X,Mansfield Park,,Jane Austen,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jl6iDrN4ARwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'""Me!"" cried Fanny...""Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act.""' At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund. When the dazzling and sophisticated Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, Fanny watches as her cousins become embroiled in rivalry and sexual jealousy. As the company starts to rehearse a play by way of entertainment, Fanny struggles to retain her independence in the face of the Crawfords' dangerous attractions; and when Henry turns his attentions to her, the drama really begins... This new edition does full justice to Austen's complex and subtle story, placing it in its Regency context and elucidating the theatrical background that pervades the novel.",2003,3.85,418,1471
9780192802774,0192802771,Phaedrus,,Plato;Robin Waterfield,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v3z96duGrWUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"One of Platoas most profound and beautiful works, ""Phaedrus"" takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus, an amateur rhetorical enthusiast, on the topic of passionate or romantic love. Concerned with establishing principles of rhetoric, it argues that rhetoric is only acceptable as an art when it is firmly based on the truth inspired by love, the common experience of true philosophic activity. It is in this dialogue that Plato employs the famous image of love as the driver of the chariot of souls.",2002,3.91,128,27
9780192803467,0192803468,Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction,,Geraldine Pinch,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pXkRDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Egyptian myths articulated the core values of one of the longest lasting civilizations in history, and myths of deities such as Isis and Osiris influenced contemporary cultures and became part of the Western cultural heritage. Egyptian Mythology: A Very Short Introduction explains the cultural and historical background to the fascinating and complex world of Egyptian myth, with each chapter dealing with a particular theme. To show the variety of source material for Egyptian myth, each chapter features a particular object--such as the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, a golden statue of Tutankhamun, and a papyrus containing a story in which the Egyptian gods behave outrageously--which is illustrated by a photograph or line-drawing. The myth ""The Contendings of Horus and Seth"" is looked at in detail, and the many interpretations it has provoked are examined. In addition to a list of major deities and myths, there are explanations of related topics such as how hieroglyphs work, royal names and titles, and the Egyptian cosmos. There is also a timeline of Egyptian history, a glossary of technical terms and an up-to-date bibliography.",2004,3.62,143,178
9780192804099,019280409X,The Major Works,,John Milton,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q0xkC5CEhHQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Milton's poetry and prose - all the English verse together with a generous selection from the major prosewritings - to give the essence of his work and thinking.Milton's influence on English poetry and criticism has been incalculable, and this edition covers the full range of his poetic and political output. It includes Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes as well as major prose works such as Areopagitica and The Tenure of Kings andMagistrates. As well as all the English and Italian verse, the volume includes most of the Latin and Greek verse in parallel translation. Spelling has been modernized, and the poems are arranged in order of publication, essential to an understanding of the progress of Milton's career in relationto the political and religious upheavals of his time. The extensive notes cover syntax, vocabulary, historical context, and biblical and classical allusions. The introduction traces both Milton's changing conception of his own vocation, and the critical reception his work has received over the pastfour centuries.",2003,4.22,1008,275
9780192805348,0192805347,Gulliver's Travels,,Jonathan Swift;Claude Rawson;Ian Higgins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f_0bQHhTqUoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Gulliver's travels purports to be a travel book. It is a blend of fantasy and realism and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms""--Provided byp",2005,3.56,422,253
9780192806949,0192806947,A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e4YJ2oiSjzYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects some of the author's Christmas stories, including ""A Christmas Carol,"" in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.",2006,4.12,438,141
9780192807267,0192807269,Candide and Other Stories,,Voltaire,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zxJGB-_Y3Y4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's 'philosophical tales', in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. This edition includes four other prose tales - Micromegas, Zadig, The Ing--ecirc--;nu, and The White Bull - and a verse tale based on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale,: What Pleases the Ladies. - ;'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr Pangloss has got it all wrong. There are no grounds for his daft theory of Optimism. Yet life goes on. We must cultivate our garden, for there is certainly room for improvement. Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's 'philosophical tales', in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has come to be regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. What Candide does for chivalric romance, the other tales in this selection - Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingenu, and The White Bull - do for science fiction, the Oriental tale, the sentimental novel, and the Old Testament. This new edition also includes a verse tale based on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale, in which we discover that most elusive of secrets: What Pleases the Ladies. -",2006,3.94,301,3336
9780192807298,0192807293,The Picture of Dorian Gray,,Oscar Wilde,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Us0gTQUSAvsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Set in fin-de-siecle London, this novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, this is a work of fiction.",2006,4.07,229,1079
9780192822758,0192822756,Confessions,,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZinPjKdL9mEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state.",2000,3.62,676,4755
9780192822895,0192822896,La Débâcle,,Emile Zola;Elinor Dorday;Robert Lethbridge,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GxNnSTI4YJsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Zola wrote that 'my title speaks not merely of a war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world'. The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-71. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as its attention to historical detail. The novel seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control. Zola's descriptions are some of the most powerful he ever wrote. He skilfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France. Often compared to War and Peace, La Debacle has been described as a 'seminal' work for all modern depictions of war.",2000,3.99,592,763
9780192823311,0192823310,Four Gothic Novels,The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein,Horace Walpole;William Beckford;Matthew Lewis;Mary W. Shelley,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dADYAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numerous followers. These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to damnation. The Monk (1796), by Matthew Lewis, is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid. Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is Mary Shelley's disturbing and perennially popular tale of young student who learns the secret of giving life to a creature made from human relics, with horrific consequences. This collection illustrates the range and the attraction of the Gothic novel. Extreme and sensational, each of the four printed here is also a powerful psychological story of isolation and monomania.",1994,3.95,624,143
9780192824257,0192824252,The Histories,,Herodotus,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VrV5TELCHJ4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides a new translation of the classic account of the wars between the Greek city-states and Persia, and of the culture of the peoples who took part",1998,3.98,772,265
9780192824547,0192824546,The First Philosophers,The Presocratics and Sophists,Robin Waterfield,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fiDWoqLUW9AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A complete collection of philosophical writing of the Presocratics and Sophists, this book shows how ""the first philosophers"" paved the way for Plato and Aristotle, hence influencing the whole of Western thought.",2000,3.93,400,303
9780192831873,0192831879,The Antiquary,,Sir Walter Scott,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AcdCn8k3H1IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of Scotland, provided himself with a ticket in one of those public carriages which travel between Edinburgh and the Queensferry...' So begins Scott's personal favourite among his novels, in characteristically wry and urbane style, as a mysterious young man calling himself 'Lovel' travels idly but fatefully toward the Scottish seaside town of Fairport. Here he is befriended by the antiquary Jonathan Oldbuck, who has taken refuge from his own personal disappointments in the obsessive study of miscellaneous history. Their slow unravelling of Lovel's true identity will unearth and redeem the secrets and lies which have devastated the guilt-haunted Earl of Glenallan, and will reinstate the tottering fortunes of Sir Arthur Wardour and his daughter Isabella. First published in 1816 in the aftermath of Waterloo, The Antiquary deals with the problem of how to understand the past so as to enable the future. Set in the tense times of the wars with revolutionary France, it displays Scott's matchless skill at painting the social panorama and in creating vivid characters, from the earthy beggar Edie Ochiltree to the loqacious and shrewdly humorous Antiquary himself. The text is based on Scott's own final, authorized version, the 'Magnum Opus' edition of 1829.",2002,3.85,528,339
9780192832436,0192832433,Exemplary Stories,,Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra;Lesley Lipson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=62hVBuGPwy4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill and deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language and farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday and the literary, the plausible and the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental and the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, and, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes's wit and makes available two rarely printed tales, `The Illustrious Kitchen Maid' and `The Power of Blood'.",1998,3.73,368,777
9780192832603,0192832603,Orestes and Other Plays,,Euripides;James Morwood,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gX1G3qlyMK0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"IonOrestesThe Phoenician WomenThe Suppliant WomenIn these four plays Euripides explores ethical and political themes,contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism and expediency with justice, and the idea that 'might is right' with the ideal of clemency.Ion is a vivid portrait of the role of chance in human life and an exploration of family relationships, which combines a sympathetic portrait of a rape victim with remarks on Athenian xenophobia. In Orestes, the most popular of the tragedian's plays in the ancient world, Euripides explores theemotional consequences of Orestes' murder of his mother on the individuals concerned, and makes the tale resonate with advice to Athens about the threat to democracy posed by political pressure groups. The Suppliant Women is a commentary on the politics of empire, as the Athenian king Theseusdecides to use force of arms rather than persuasion against Thebes. The Phoenician Women transforms the terrible conflict between Oedipus' sons into one of the most savage indictments of civil war in Western literature by highlighting the personal tragedy it brings.",2001,4.07,282,146
9780192832979,0192832972,Jane Austen's Letters,,Jane Austen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=68O6taFYp70C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative--they read much like the novels themselves. They bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies. Above all we recognize the unmistakable voice of the author of such novels as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. We see the shift in her writing from witty and amusing descriptions of the social life of town and country, to a thoughtful and constructive tone while writing about the business of literary composition. R.W. Chapman's ground-breaking edition of the collected Letters first appeared in 1932, and a second edition followed twenty years later. Now in this third edition of Jane Austen's Letters, Deirdre Le Faye has added new material that has come to light since 1952, and re-ordered the letters into their correct chronological sequence. She has provided discreet and full annotation to each letter, including its provenance, and information on the watermarks, postmarks, and other physical details of the manuscripts, together with new biographical, topographical, and general indexes. Teachers, students, and fans of Jane Austen, at all levels, will find remarkable insight into one of the most popular novelists ever.",1997,4.15,672,2211
9780192833006,0192833006,Agricola and Germany,,Tacitus,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wS7IJv3jq7IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian, was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian ended `fifteen years of enforced silence'. Agricola is the biography of his late father-in-law and an account of Roman Britain. Germania gives insight into Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans, and is the only surviving specimen from the ancient world of an ethnographic study. Each in its way has had immense influence on our perception of Rome and the northern `barbarians' and the edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history. - ;`Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98. He was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian ended `fifteen years of enforced silence'. The first products were brief: the biography of his late father-in-law Julius Agricola and an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans. Since Agricola's claim to fame was that as governor for seven years he had completed the conquest of Britain, begun four decades earlier, much of the first work is devoted to Britain and its people. The second is the only surviving specimen from the ancient world of an ethnographic study. Each in its way has had immense influence on our perception of Rome and the northern `barbarians'. This edition reflects recent research in Roman-British and Roman-German history and includes newly discovered evidence on Tacitus' early career. -",1999,3.98,224,25
9780192833075,0192833073,Miss Or Mrs?,The Haunted Hotel ; The Guilty River,Wilkie Collins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GKeGDDgp9oYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"B`..melodrama is perennial and the craving for it is perennial and must be satisfied' T. S. Eliot ('Wilkie Collins and Dickens') Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here. All proceed through a series of dramatic scenes to a climax that in one case at least is literally explosive. The fast-paced Miss or Mrs? (1871) opens on a yacht, features a remarkably unconventional heroine, and entails murder attempts, blackmail, clandestine marriage and commercial fraud. Dramatic and psychologically absorbing, the action of The Haunted Hotel (1878) takes place in an ancient Venetian palazzo converted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secreI. Lastly, set in a beautiful water-mill, The Guilty River (1886) depicts a group of alienated characters, whose relationships threaten to erupt in violence and murder. Varied in setting and tone, these stories demonstrate Collins's plot-making skill at its most succinct and intricate. *Introduction * Textual Note * Bibliography * Chronology * * Explanatory Notes *Appendix: Collins's prefaces",1999,3.79,360,170
9780192833594,0192833596,Great Expectations,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HByVN01euAAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents the classic story of the orphan Pip, the convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered Miss Havisham",1998,3.76,505,523790
9780192833600,019283360X,The Canterbury Tales,,Geoffrey Chaucer;David Wright,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5WkDQniy5awC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Provides a modern verse translation of the story of a group of pilgrims who pass the time during their journey by telling each other tales,1998,3.49,465,249
9780192833761,0192833766,Complete Shorter Fiction,,Oscar Wilde,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=__pdWkR_WXQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as ""Lord Arthur Savile's Crime"" and ""The Canterville Ghost;"" such well-known fairy tales as ""The Happy Prince,"" ""The Young King,"" and ""The Fisherman and his Soul;"" an imaginary portrait of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets entitled ""The Portrait of Mr. W.H.;"" and the parables Wilde referred to as ""Poems in Prose,"" including ""The Artist,"" ""The House of Judgment,"" and ""The Teacher of Wisdom.""",1998,4.16,288,1167
9780192833983,0192833987,War and Peace,,Leo Tolstoy;graf Leo Tolstoy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9nxfsPujsYoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Presents the classic epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families,1998,4.11,1392,201919
9780192834409,0192834401,The Castle of Otranto,A Gothic Story,Horace Walpole,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=juUIspq7CGwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, `to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern'. He gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, revelations of identity, and exciting contests. Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favourite among his numerous works. His friend, the poet Thomas Gray, wrote that he and his family, having read Otranto, were now `afraid to go to bed o'nights'. The novel is here reprinted from a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press.",1998,3.18,125,15390
9780192834423,0192834428,The Bostonians,,Henry James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hGX8aqWTX_8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Olive Chancellor and Basil Ransom, cousins, clash, when Olive wants Verena Tarrant to use her eloquence for the woman's movement, and Basil wants Verena to give up politics and marry him.",1998,3.59,504,84
9780192835024,0192835025,The Divine Comedy,,Dante Alighieri;Charles Hubert Sisson;David H. Higgins,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wmacUwleJv8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A new blank verse translation of Dante's epic, complete with an authoritative Introduction, diagrams, maps, and notes.",1998,4.07,735,173
9780192835079,0192835076,Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales,A Selection,Hans Christian Andersen,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5SD3l6DNFNYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This edition of twenty-six of Andersen's fairy tales includes an introduction, a chronology of the author's life and writings, and a bibliography.",1998,3.9,376,17
9780192835093,0192835092,The Karamazov Brothers,,Fyodor Dostoevsky;Ignat Avsey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uErHu34S6bQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.",1998,4.32,1054,232
9780192835437,0192835432,Daisy Miller and Other Stories,,Henry James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=siHgsquTgRIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, asuccès de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here--'Pandora,' 'The Patagonia,' and 'Four Meetings'-- it describes a confrontation between different values in a changing world. Is the new independent American girl enchanting in her spontaneity, alarming in her unpredictability, or merely vulnerable in her ignorance of social codes? Hung about with make admirers who seek, uncertainly, to grasp the new phenomenon, Daisy marches on undiscourageable, to her triumphant--or tragic--destiny. This volume contains prefaces by Henry James, a chronology of his life, and editor's notes. About the Series:For over 100 yearsOxford World's Classicshas made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.",1998,3.51,352,537
9780192835857,0192835858,Selected Philosophical Writings,,Saint Thomas (Aquinas),Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7Yn8Id1BEqwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to go beyond it, to explore spiritual revelation, makes his work fresh and highly readable today. While drawing on a strong distinction between theology and philosophy, Aquinas interleaved them intricately in his writings, which range from an examination of the structures of thought to the concept of God as the end of all things. This accessible new translation chooses substantial passages not only from the indispensable Summa Theologicae, but from many other works, fully illustrating the breadth and progression of Aquinas's philosophy.",1998,3.86,496,234
9780192836021,0192836021,The Ladies' Paradise,,Émile Zola,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iiyXsyHqh8MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexualattitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century.Octave Mouret, the store's owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. In his private life as much as in business he is the great seducer. But when he falls in love with the innocent Denise Baudu, he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls who refuses to becommodified.This new translation of the eleventh book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest novels of the modern city.",1998,3.99,438,5279
9780192836229,0192836226,A Sentimental Education,The Story of a Young Man,Gustave Flaubert,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Dn7ixiuEWeMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Frederic Moreau, a moderately gifted young provincial, is ambitious in many ways: he dreams of fame, of vast wealth, of literary and artistic achievement, of a grand passion. On the Paris paddle-steamer which transports him to his home town of Nogent-sur-Seine at the outset of the novel, he becomes transfixed by the demure Madame Arnoux and, back in Paris, cultivates her ebullient and enterprising husband in order to be near her. Frederic's devotion fluctuates like his other enthusiasms, and he is caught up in the intense pleasures and the inevitable ennuis of Parisian life.",2000,3.83,464,104
9780192836366,0192836366,Faust,,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c3CZ8UQp_CoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama. It is conceived as an act of homage to classical Greek culture and inspired above all by the world of story-telling and myth at the heart of the Greektradition, as well as owing some of its material to the Arabian Nights tales.The restless and ruthless hero, advised by his cynical demon-companion Mephistopheles, visits classical Greece i search of the beautiful Helen of Troy. Returning to modern times, he seeks to crown his career by gaining control of the elements, and at his death is carried up into the unkown regions,still in pursuit of the `Eternal Feminine'.David Luke's translation of Part One won the European Poetry Translation Prize. Here he again imitates the varied verse-forms of the original, and provides a highly readable - and actable - translation, supported by an introduction, full notes, and an index of classical mythology.",1998,3.73,304,3394
9780192836380,0192836382,La Dame Aux Camélias,,Alexandre Dumas;David Coward,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Aqft1VzHuHkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This new translation successfully combines a feeling for the formal proprieties of Dumas's style with a supple and colloquial liveliness that once again proves this story irresistible. -,1986,3.99,256,14702
9780192836892,0192836897,First Love and Other Stories,,Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J3lKucR0wcoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom, love, and revenge on the Russian steppes. These stories all display the elegance andclarity of Turgenev's finest writing.Richard Freeborn was until recently Professor of Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London.",1999,4.12,304,1113
9780192837622,0192837621,The Confidence-man,His Masquerade,Herman Melville,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hiy9OyE-TAQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.",1999,3.66,361,1812
9780192837684,0192837680,The Eclogues ; The Georgics,,Virgil,Agriculture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cbVpH9EbtcoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia with contemporary history. To his Greek model - the Idylls of Theocritus - he added a strong element of Italian realism: places and people, real or disguised, and contemporary events are introduced. The Eclogues display all Virgil's art and charm and are among his mostdelightful achievements. Between approximately 39 and 29 BC, years of civil strife between Antony, and Octavian, Virgil was engaged upon the Georgics. Part agricultural manual, full of observations of animals and nature, they deal with the farmer's life and give it powerful allegorical meaning. These four books contain some of Virgil's finest descriptive writing and are generally held to be his greatest and most entertaining work, and C. Day Lewis's lyrical translations are classics in theirown right.",1999,3.82,180,237
9780192837806,019283780X,Scenes of Clerical Life,,George Eliot,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tCfq__XvAiUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot's first novel, was published anonymously in 1857, it was immediately recognized, in the words of Saturday Review, as `the production of a peculiar and remarkable writer'. The three stories that make up the Scenes, `The Sad Fortunes of the ReverendAmos Barton', `Mr Gilfil's Love Story', and `Janet's Repentance', intriguingly foreshadow George Eliot's later work. The first readers, including Dickens and Thackeray, were struck by the humorous irony, the truthfulness of the presentation of the lives of ordinary people, and the compassionateacceptance of human weakness which characterize Eliot's writing.",2000,3.78,310,2276
9780192838742,0192838741,Jacques the Fatalist and His Master,,Denis Diderot,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oJ7qCzCI1NIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"'Your Jacques is a tasteless mishmash of things that happen, some of them true, others made up, written without style and served up like a dog's breakfast.'Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are determined by their genes and their environment, how can they claim to be free to want or do anything? Where are Jacques and his Master going? Are they simply occupying space, living mechanically until theydie, believing erroneously that they are in charge of their Destiny? Diderot intervenes to cheat our expectations of what fiction should be and do, and behaves like a provocative, ironic and unfailingly entertaining master of revels who finally show why Fate is not to be equated with doom.In the introduction to this brilliant new translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of Diderot's fascination with Fate and shows why Jacques the Fatalist pioneers techniques of fiction which, two centuries on, novelists still regard as experimental.",1999,3.84,304,4708
9780192838971,0192838970,The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci,,Leonardo Da Vinci;Leonardo (da Vinci),Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZMp0pOmY3GEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Throughout his life Leonardo da Vinci carried notebooks in which he scribbled down ideas and opinions as they occurred - personal, domestic, scientific, philosophical, artistic - frequently accompanied by explanatory sketches and diagrams. Surviving manuscripts contain drafts of letters, fanciful fables, rough treatises on the art of painting or the power of water, descriptions of the Medici courts, even jokes. The present selection gives coherence to this rich kaleidoscope of ideas. From it emerges the portrait of a true Renaissance man, whose habit of rigorous enquiry, observation, and experiment, grounded on a philosophic system, led him to conceive of the universe as an organized cosmos corresponding to a work of art.",1952,3.92,432,67
9780192838995,0192838997,Eugene Onegin,A Novel in Verse,Alexander Pushkin;James E. Falen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-l1D5bJ4K3UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the fates of three men and three women. It was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. - ;Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and it shows him attempting to transform himself from a romantic poet into a realistic novelist. This new translation seeks to retain both the literal sense and the poetic music of the original, and capture the poem's spontaneity and wit. The introduction examines several ways of reading the novel, and text is richly annotated. -",1998,4.09,240,39511
9780192839190,0192839195,The Admirable Crichton ; Peter Pan ; When Wendy Grew Up ; What Every Woman Knows ; Mary Rose,"Peter Pan ; When Wendy Grew Up ; What Every Woman Knows ; Mary Rose ; General Editor Michael Cordner ; Associate General Editors Peter Holland, Martin Wiggins",James Matthew Barrie,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nG97v_jo08IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of plays, but he is best known for Peter Pan. It retains its popularity today, both in the original and in adaptations. As well as being the author of the greatest of allchildren's plays Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satire, much of it now newly topical. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman Knows are shrewd and entertaining contributions to the politics of class and gender, while Mary Rose is one of the best ghost stories writtenfor the stage. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner, of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are supplemented with a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.",1999,3.99,384,332
9780192839572,0192839578,La chartreuse de Parme,Apprendre l' anglais en lisant,Jm Stendhal,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9tysDhB2VMAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Follows the adventures of young Fabrizio del Dongo as he joins Napoleon's army just before the Battle of Waterloo, and struggles to keep hidden his love for Clelia amid the intrigues and secrets of the small court of Parma.",1999,3.82,560,51
9780192839701,0192839705,Mrs Dalloway,,Virginia Woolf,First loves,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PXsgOHVTwjUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Heralded as Woolf's greatest work of fiction, ""Mrs. Dalloway"" is not only a thorough rendering of a vivid human life, it is the outline on paper of human consciousness. In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway readies her house for friends and neighbors as she is is flooded with remembrances of faraway times.",2000,3.79,185,304
9780192839992,0192839993,Dubliners,,James Joyce,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WkqR7nM198QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by.",2000,3.85,207,85800
9780192840318,0192840312,"Evelina, Or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World",,Fanny Burney,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F-aBwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!' Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions - as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story. The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader.",2002,3.66,455,11701
9780192840509,0192840509,Aesop's Fables,,Laura Gibbs,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K7XwvvIfXh4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of familiar short moral tales.,2002,4.05,306,95008
9780192840745,0192840746,A Memoir of Jane Austen,And Other Family Recollections,James Edward Austen-Leigh,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rbedBf8u7UEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This unique edition brings together for the first time Austen-Leigh's memoir of his aunt Jane Austen, together with shorter recollections by James Edward's two sisters. It also includes Jane's brother Henry's two biographical accounts. - ;'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.' James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to inform all subsequent accounts. These are family memories, the record of Jane Austen's life shaped and limited by the loyalties, reserve, and affection of nieces and nephews recovering in old age the outlines of the young aunt they had each known. They still remembered the shape of her bonnet and the tone of her voice, and their first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. Their declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and the terms in which all biography functions. This edition brings together for the first time these three memoirs, and also includes Jane's brother Henry Austen's 'Biographical Notice' of 1818 and his lesser known 'Memoir' of 1833, making a unique biographical record. -",2002,3.83,352,880
9780192840943,0192840940,Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction,,Catherine Osborne,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F-oRDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is a book about the invention of Western philosophy, and the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe. It begins with the finding of the new papyrus fragment of Empedocles' poem, and uses the story of its discovery and interpretation to highlight the way our understanding of early philosophers is marked by their presentation in later sources. Generations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the presocratics, even though we have very few of their writings left. In this book, Catherine Osborne invites her readers to dip their toes into the fragmentary remains of thinkers from Thales to Pythagoras, Heraclitus to Protagoras, to try to fill in the bits of a jigsaw that has been rejigged many times and in many different ways. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.",2004,3.56,144,181
9780192854520,0192854526,Augustine: A Very Short Introduction,,Henry Chadwick,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QnrRB19gQ0kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Very Short Introductions offer stimulating, accessible introductions to a wide variety of subjects, demonstrating the finest contemporary thinking about their central problems and issues.'magisterial and highly readable.' -Bookseller",2001,3.74,144,219
9780192862099,019286209X,The Origins of Life,From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language,John Maynard Smith;Eörs Szathmáry,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nHDbBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"'I can recommend this book as a thoroughly interesting read' -Biologist 01/02/2002'exhilarating reading... challenging... stimulates the reader to think deeply on the many issues it raises.' -Margaret Ginzburg, Science and Christian belief, Vol.13, No.1, April 2001'...the authors provide a clear-eyed review of a large part of modern biology.' -Scientific American'...the book is well written, stimulating, and full of information nuggets.' -Choice",2000,4.11,192,41
9780192875341,0192875345,Augustine,,Henry Chadwick,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7CERngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes Augustine's education, discusses the major themes of his writings, and assesses his influence on Western thought",1986,3.74,128,12
9780194230353,019423035X,The Hound of the Baskervilles,,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Fiction,,"Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the Southwest of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.",2000,3.92,105,131
9780195023664,0195023668,Growing Old in America,,David Hackett Fischer,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LCnnCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other prog",1978,4.2,252,15
9780195061666,0195061667,Alcestis,,Euripides,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SgQiG25-5MgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At once a vigorous translation of one of Euripides' most subtle and witty plays, and a wholly fresh interpretation, this version reveals for the first time the extraordinary formal beauty and thematic concentration of the Alcestis. William Arrowsmith rejects the standard view of the Alcestis as a psychological study of the egotist Admetos and his naive but devoted wife. His translation, instead, presents the play as a drama of human existence--in keeping with the tradition of Greek tragedy--with recognizably human characters who also represent masked embodiments of human conditions.",1989,3.83,142,1824
9780195069051,0195069056,Albion's Seed,Four British Folkways in America,David Hackett Fischer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GOYg58I7g30C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The first volume in a cultural history of America examines the different lives and customs of the first groups of immigrants to America and assesses the importance of those traditions for contemporary American life.,1989,4.31,972,2163
9780195087444,0195087445,Inferno,The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri,Dante Alighieri,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SZk6DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Translation of the classic Italian epic about Dante and Virgil's journey into the nine regions of hell,1997,4,672,449
9780195098310,0195098315,Paul Revere's Ride,,David Hackett Fischer,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ny6if53o9hwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the events leading up to Paul Revere's ride, and reinforces his importance in the history of the Revolutionary War",1995,4.11,464,3651
9780195101287,0195101286,Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,Law and the Inner Self,G. Edward White,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wE7nCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Discusses Holmes' early life, Civil War experiences, legal career, and thirty years on the U.S. Supreme Court, and presents new information regarding his relationship with Clare Castletown",1995,3.67,648,17
9780195108965,0195108965,Notebooks of the Mind,Explorations of Thinking,Vera John-Steiner,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uj1RDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"How do creative people think? Do great works of the imagination originate in words or in images? Is there a rational explanation for the sudden appearance of geniuses like Mozart or Einstein? Such questions have fascinated people for centuries; only in recent years, however, has cognitive psychology been able to provide some clues to the mysterious process of creativity. In this revised edition of Notebooks of the Mind, Vera John-Steiner combines imaginative insight with scientific precision to produce a startling account of the human mind working at its highest potential. To approach her subject John-Steiner goes directly to the source, assembling the thoughts of ""experienced thinkers""--artists, philosophers, writers, and scientists able to reflect on their own imaginative patterns. More than fifty interviews (with figures ranging from Jessica Mitford to Aaron Copland), along with excerpts from the diaries, letters, and autobiographies of such gifted giants as Leo Tolstoy, Marie Curie, and Diego Rivera, among others, provide illuminating insights into creative activity. We read, for example, of Darwin's preoccupation with the image of nature as a branched tree while working on his concept of evolution. Mozart testifies to the vital influence on his mature art of the wondrous ""bag of memories"" he retained from childhood. Anais Nin describes her sense of words as oppressive, explaining how imagistic free association freed her as a writer. Adding these personal accounts to laboratory studies of thought process, John-Steiner takes a refreshingly holistic approach to the question of creativity. What emerges is an intriguing demonstration of how specific sociocultural circumstances interact with certain personality traits to encourage the creative mind. Among the topics examined here are the importance of childhood mentor figures; the lengthy apprenticeship of the talented person; and the development of self- expression through highly individualistic languages, whether in images, movement or inner speech. Now, with a new introduction, this award-winning book provides an uniquely broad-based study of the origins, development and fruits of human inspiration.",1997,3.81,288,17
9780195117950,0195117956,Masters of Small Worlds,"Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country",Stephanie McCurry,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZKSliwlcWp4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practiced in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and, ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession.By placing the yeomanry in the center of the drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the small worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America.",1997,3.71,344,96
9780195119206,0195119207,Ride of the Second Horseman,The Birth and Death of War,Robert L. O'Connell,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1Xs7DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Accurst be he that first invented war,"" wrote Christopher Marlowe--a declaration that most of us would take as a literary, not literal, construction. But in this sweeping overview of the rise of civilization, Robert O'Connell finds that war is indeed an invention--an institution that arosedue to very specific historical circumstances, an institution that now verges on extinction. In Ride of the Second Horseman, O'Connell probes the distant human past to show how and why war arose. He begins with a definition that distinguishes between war and mere feuding: war involves group rather than individual issues, political or economic goals, and direction by some governmentalstructure, carried out with the intention of lasting results. With this definition, he finds that ants are the only other creatures that conduct it--battling other colonies for territory and slaves. But ants, unlike humans, are driven by their genes; in humans, changes in our culture and subsistencepatterns, not our genetic hardware, brought the rise of organized warfare. O'Connell draws on anthropology and archeology to locate the rise of war sometime after the human transition from nomadic hunting and gathering to agriculture, when society split between farmers and pastoralists. Around 5500BC, these pastoralists initiated the birth of war with raids on Middle Eastern agricultural settlements. The farmers responded by ringing their villages with walls, setting off a process of further social development, intensified combat, and ultimately the rise of complex urban societies dependentupon warfare to help stabilize what amounted to highly volatile population structures, beset by frequent bouts of famine and epidemic disease. In times of overpopulation, the armies either conquered new lands or self-destructed, leaving fewer mouths to feed. In times of underpopulation, slaves weretaken to provide labor. O'Connell explores the histories of the civilizations of ancient Sumeria, Egypt, Assyria, China, and the New World, showing how war came to each and how it adapted to varying circumstances. On the other hand, societies based on trade employed war much more selectively andpragmatically. Thus, Minoan Crete, long protected from marauding pastoralists, developed a wealthy mercantile society marked by unmilitaristic attitudes, equality between men and women, and a relative absence of class distinctions. In Assyria, by contrast, war came to be an end in itself, in aculture dominated by male warriors. Despite the violence in the world today, O'Connell finds reason for hope. The industrial revolution broke the old patterns of subsistence: war no longer serves the demographic purpose it once did. Fascinating and provocative, Ride of the Second Horseman offers a far-reaching tour of human historythat suggests the age-old cycle of war may now be near its end.",1997,4.23,320,12
9780195121216,019512121X,The Great Wave,Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History,David Hackett Fischer,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o8ea33eCFQgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Who is seriously concerned about the state of the world today.,1999,3.96,552,194
9780195125986,0195125983,Bakkhai,,Euripides;Reginald Gibbons;Charles Segal,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9n_IHbgieKYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai examines both the horror and the beauty of the religious ecstasy that Dionysos brings to Thebes. His offer of closeness to nature and freedom from the constraints of civilization, especially for women, excites bitter resistance as well as fanatical acceptance."" ""Disguised as a young holy man and accompanied by his band of Asian worshipers, the god Dionysos arrives in Greece at Thebes, proclaims his godhood and his new religion, and drives the Theban women mad. When the Theban king, Pentheus, tries to imprison him, Dionysos afflicts Pentheus himself with madness and leads him, dressed as a bacchant, to the mountains, where his own mother, Agaue, and her companions tear him to pieces in an insane Bacchic frenzy.""",2001,3.86,160,146
9780195135794,0195135792,Manic-Depressive Illness,Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression,Frederick K. Goodwin;Kay Redfield Jamison,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hOHWEtEKEO4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This long-awaited second edition of Manic-Depressive Illness will exhaustively review the biological and genetic literature that has dominated the field in recent years, and incorporate cutting-edge research conducted since publication of the first edition. Drs. Frederick Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison have updated their surveys of psychological and epidemiological evidence, as well as that pertaining to diagnostic issues, course, and outcome, and they offer practical guidelines for differential diagnosis and clinical management. This book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of psychiatrists and other physicians, psychologists, clinical social workers, neuroscientists, pharmacologists, and the patients and families who live with manic-depressive illness.",2007,4.39,1262,103
9780195135923,019513592X,The Oresteia,,Aeschylus,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SY9HlKSNwZUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The story of the house of Atreus is a tale of incest, adultery, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and political intrigue. It is also a story in which human action is simultaneously willed and determined."".",2003,4.01,304,76
9780195144819,0195144813,El Libertador,Writings of Simón Bolívar,Simón Bolívar,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JpagnzteVggC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"General Sim�n Bol�var (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the ""George Washington"" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bol�var became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bolivia in Bol�var's honor, in 1825. The constitution, which he drew up for Bolivia, is one of his most important political pronouncements. Today he is remembered throughout South America, and in Venezuela and Bolivia his birthday is a national holiday. Although Bol�var never prepared a systematic treatise, his essays, proclamations, and letters constitute some of the most eloquent writing not of the independence period alone, but of any period in Latin American history. His analysis of the region's fundamental problems, ideas on political organization and proposals for Latin American integration are relevant and widely read today, even among Latin Americans of all countries and of all political persuasions. The ""Cartagena Letter,"" the ""Jamaica Letter,"" and the ""Angostura Address,"" are widely cited and reprinted.",2003,3.85,288,7
9780195145663,0195145666,Medea,,Eurípides;Michael Collier;Georgia Machemer,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9mViAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage.",2006,3.85,116,339
9780195145816,019514581X,Philosophy of Mind,Classical and Contemporary Readings,David John Chalmers,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rtEo8PRjpVoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a comprehensive collection of readings in the philosophy of mind, ranging from Descartes to the leading edge of the discipline. Extensive selections cover foundations, the nature of consciousness, and the nature of mental content.",2002,4.07,675,414
9780195153828,0195153820,Norse Mythology,"A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs",John Lindow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y4gRDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Provides information on the gods, heroes, rituals, beliefs, symbols, and stories of Norse mythology.",2001,4.1,365,1062
9780195168952,019516895X,Battle Cry of Freedom,The Civil War Era,James M. McPherson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=09FkZqu_YcMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War—the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry—and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself—the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities.",2005,4.34,867,22318
9780195169249,0195169247,Introduction to Philosophy,Classical and Contemporary Readings,John Perry;Michael Bratman;John Martin Fischer,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h0zuAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introduction to Philosophy, Fourth Edition, is the most comprehensive topically organized collection of classical and contemporary philosophy available. Building on the exceptionally successful tradition of previous editions, this edition for the first time incorporates the insights of a new coeditor, John Martin Fischer, and has been updated and revised to make it more accessible. Ideal for introductory philosophy courses, the text includes sections on the meaning of life, God and evil, knowledge and reality, the philosophy of science, the mind/body problem, freedom of will, consciousness, ethics, and philosophical puzzles and paradoxes. It presents seventy substantial--and in some cases complete--selections from the best and most influential works in philosophy, offering a unique balance between classical and contemporary material. An extensive glossary of philosophical terms is also included. The fourth edition features fifteen new readings, including work by Albert Camus, Roderick M. Chisholm, Daniel Dennett, Harry G. Frankfurt, William Paley, Derek Parfit, John Perry, Richard Taylor, Peter Van Inwagen, Bernard Williams, and Susan Wolf. Part III, Knowledge and Reality, has been restructured and now includes Plato's Thaetetus, selections by Edmund L. Gettier and Robert Nozick, and an essay by Christopher Grau that explores the philosophical concepts presented in the popular film The Matrix. Two new ethics puzzles--""The Trolley Problem"" and ""Ducking Harm and Sacrificing Others""--are also included. This edition incorporates Study Questions after each reading and is accompanied by an Instructor's CD and a Student Companion Website, both containing helpful resources.",2007,3.76,819,12
9780195174472,019517447X,Strategies of Containment,A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War,John Lewis Gaddis,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HVsSDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A classic synthesis of US security policy, now updated to include analysis of how Reagan, Bush Snr., Clinton, & Bush Jnr. have defended the nation. Previous ed.: 1982.",2005,4.01,484,523
9780195300925,0195300920,The Faiths of the Founding Fathers,,David L. Holmes,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ux9nDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,An in-depth examination of the spiritual beliefs of America's founding fathers provides an account of the religious culture of the late colonial era and looks at individual beliefs of men and women who played a significant role in American history.,2006,3.86,225,450
9780195309683,0195309685,Acts of God,The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America,Ted Steinberg,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Rmfli9l7ezUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This revised edition features a new chapter analyzing the failed response to Hurricane Katrina. Steinberg argues that it is wrong to see natural disasters as random outbursts of nature or expressions of divine judgment. He reveals how business and government decisions have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property.,2006,3.74,309,99
9780195325928,0195325923,The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic,,Stewart Shapiro,Mathematics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2zA7PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mathematics and logic have been central topics of concern since the dawn of philosophy. Since logic is the study of correct reasoning, it is a fundamental branch of epistemology and a priority in any philosophical system. Philosophers have focused on mathematics as a case study for general philosophical issues and for its role in overall knowledge- gathering. Today, philosophy of mathematics and logic remain central disciplines in contemporary philosophy, as evidenced by the regular appearance of articles on these topics in the best mainstream philosophical journals; in fact, the last decade has seen an explosion of scholarly work in these areas. This volume covers these disciplines in a comprehensive and accessible manner, giving the reader an overview of the major problems, positions, and battle lines. The 26 contributed chapters are by established experts in the field, and their articles contain both exposition and criticism as well as substantial development of their own positions. The essays, which are substantially self-contained, serve both to introduce the reader to the subject and to engage in it at its frontiers. Certain major positions are represented by two chapters--one supportive and one critical. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Math and Logic is a ground-breaking reference like no other in its field. It is a central resource to those wishing to learn about the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of logic, or some aspect thereof, and to those who actively engage in the discipline, from advanced undergraduates to professional philosophers, mathematicians, and historians.",2007,4.25,832,19
9780198140818,0198140819,Aristophanes' Peace,,Aristophanes;S. Douglas Olson,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cLxfAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 BC as a decade-long war with Sparta seemed finally to be drawing to an end, and is one of only eleven extant plays by the greatest Old Comic poet. Olson's edition of the play, which replaces Platnauer's of 1969, is based on a complete new collation of the manuscripts, many of which have never been adequately reported before. The extensive commentary explores matters of all sorts, but it focuses in particular on therealities of day-to-day life in classical Athens and also examines the practical problems of staging. The substantial introduction includes essays on Aristophanes' early career, the politics of the Greek world in the late 420s, and the poet's theology.",1998,3.58,408,243
9780198144960,0198144962,Lysistrata,,Aristophanes;Jeffrey Henderson,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a6uQuCQuSUoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Aristophanes' Lysistrata was last edited in 1928, and the last commentary was in 1927; the only previous edition in English appeared in 1911. The present edition brings the play up to date in terms of the advances made in Aristophanic scholarship in the past sixty years. In particular, it is the first to report all the manuscripts, papyri, and testimonial sources of the text, offering a new account of its history and a detailed review of the transmission of the Aristophanic corpus as a whole.",1990,3.85,320,76
9780198320210,0198320213,A Midsummer Night's Dream,,William Shakespeare,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KKXNWgFUOjIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Critical and historical notes accompany this comedy of fairies, star-crossed lovers, and workmen trying to put on a wedding celebration play.",2001,3.94,99,14
9780198320272,0198320272,Julius Caesar,,William Shakespeare,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NlmkhO3vZQ4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Caesar returns from a triumphant battle to Rome, despite warning along the way, only to fall into the assassination plot set by Brutus, Cassius, and Casca.",2001,3.67,128,133575
9780198320548,019832054X,King Lear,,William Shakespeare,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Pye7uOhQXwoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Presents Shakespeare's tragedy about King Lear and his attempts to divide his kingdom between his three daughters.,2002,3.9,192,268
9780198321460,0198321465,Macbeth,,William Shakespeare,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Accmh8KVG4gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Critical and historical notes accompany Shakespeare's drama of murder, political ambition, and the persistence of guilt.",2004,3.89,160,150
9780198321477,0198321473,Much Ado about Nothing,,William Shakespeare,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gHxbbwhmFhcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Depicts the humorous mishaps which follow when young Claudio is duped into believing his fiancee has been unfaithful.,2004,4.06,160,37
9780198601739,0198601735,The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations,,Oxford University Press;TME.,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o6rFno1ffQoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"More than twenty thousand quotations from every era and location are combined in a comprehensive reference that also encompasses details of the earliest traceable source, birth and death dates, and career briefs for each entry, as well as a thematic and k",1999,4.17,1536,37
9780198711551,0198711557,The Canterbury Tales,,Helen Cooper,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2KNzQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually. In addition, Cooper incorporates the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research in the areas of Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women.",1996,4.01,456,83
9780198752752,019875275X,"Medieval Philosophy : A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2",A New History of Western Philosophy,Anthony Kenny,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d1wa8MZqFaMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance. The middle ages saw a great flourishing of philosophy, and the intellectual endeavour of the era reaches its climax in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with the systems of such great thinkers as Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the people and ideas that shaped the course of Western thought. - ;Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance.The middle ages saw a great flourishing of philosophy, and the intellectual endeavour of the era reaches its climax in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with the systems of the great schoolmen such as Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the people and ideas that shaped the course of Western thought. - ;from the reviews of the preceding volume..... This wonderful book . . . is not only an authoritative guide to the history of philosophy but also a compelling introduction to every major area of philosophical inquiry. . . . Kennys prose is exceptionally clear . . . He conveys his rich subject matter with a light touch of which only the greatest of writers are capable. . . . This, combined with his breadth and depth of learning and philosophical sophistication, make reading this book hugely rewarding. It is also worth mentioning that the book is beautifully illustrated . . . One is left eager for subsequent volumes and convinced that the intellectual cosmos is, indeed, boundlessly rich. - James Ladyman, Times Higher Education Supplement",2005,3.85,352,128
9780198782742,0198782748,Contemporary Political Philosophy,An Introduction,Will Kymlicka,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yYCcAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""This new edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the new debates on political liberalism, deliberative democracy, civic republicanism, nationalism, and cultural pluralism."" ""The book now includes two new chapters on citizenship theory and multiculturalism, in addition to updated chapters on utilitarianism, liberal egalitarianism, libertarianism, Marxism, communitarianism, and feminism. Extended guides to further reading have been added at the end of each chapter, listing the most important books and articles on each school of thought, as well as relevant journals and web sites.""--BOOK JACKET.",2002,3.98,512,575
9780199120093,0199120099,Clouds,,Aristophanes,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=avTrtwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This new translation of the play Clouds examines the two versions of the play, the history of the text, an analysis of Right and Wrong, the purpose of the chorus, and explanations of certain previously unexamined sexualjokes referred to in the play. Dover also includes notes on metrical analysis, a full commentary, and indexes.",1970,3.76,254,13
9780199203611,019920361X,The Major Works,,Alexander Pope,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N-P6v44wHxkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Features selections of the author's prose and poems, including the full texts of ""The Dunciad,"" ""The Rape of the Lock,"" and ""Peri Bathous.""",2006,3.88,768,207
9780199205646,0199205647,"Power, Sex, Suicide",Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life,Nick Lane,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PzgTDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that. Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small collection of genes, separate from those in the cell nucleus. It is thought that they were once bacteria living independent lives. Their enslavement within the larger cell was a turning point in the evolution of life, enabling the development of complex organisms and, closely related, the origin of two sexes. Unlike the DNA in the nucleus, mitochondrial DNA is passed down exclusively (or almost exclusively) via the female line. That's why it has been used by some researchers to trace human ancestry daughter-to-mother, to 'Mitochondrial Eve'. Mitochondria give us important information about our evolutionary history. And that's not all. Mitochondrial genes mutate much faster than those in the nucleus because of the free radicals produced in their energy-generating role. This high mutation rate lies behind our ageing and certain congenital diseases. The latest research suggests that mitochondria play a key role in degenerative diseases such as cancer, through their involvement in precipitating cell suicide. Mitochondria, then, are pivotal in power, sex, and suicide. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Nick Lane brings together the latest research findings in this exciting field to show how our growing understanding of mitochondria is shedding light on how complex life evolved, why sex arose (why don't we just bud?), and why we age and die. This understanding is of fundamental importance, both in understanding how we and all other complex life came to be, but also in order to be able to control our own illnesses, and delay our degeneration and death. 'An extraordinary account of groundbreaking modern science... The book abounds with interesting and important ideas.' Mark Ridley, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford",2006,4.24,354,2110
9780199264797,0199264791,The Oxford Companion to Philosophy,,Ted Honderich,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F9oAomj2IIwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Over 2,200 entries containing information on all aspects of philosophy, and of the lives and work of the great philosophers, from antiquity to the present day.",2005,4.14,1056,49
9780199265770,0199265771,The Church in Ancient Society,From Galilee to Gregory the Great,Henry Chadwick,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nLic1cabc8gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Church in Ancient Society provides a full and enjoyable narrative history of the first six centuries of the Christian Church. Ancient Greek and Roman society had many gods and an addiction to astrology and divination. This introduction to the period traces the process by which Christianitychanged this and so provided a foundation for the modern world: the teaching of Jesus created a lasting community, which grew to command the allegiance of the Roman emperor. Christianity is discussed in relation to how it appeared to both Jews and pagans, and how its Christian doctrine and practicewere shaped in relation to Graeco-Roman culture and the Jewish matrix. Among the major figures discussed are Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Constantine, Julian the Apostate, Basil, Ambrose, and Augustine.Following a chronological approach, Henry Chadwick's clear exposition of important texts and theological debates in their historical context is unrivalled in detail. In particular, theological and ecclesial texts are examined in relation to the behaviour and beliefs of people who attended churchesand synagogues. Christians did not find agreement and unity easy and the author displays a distinctive concern for the factors - theological, personal, and political - which caused division in the church and prevented reconciliation. The emperors, however, began to foster unity for political reasonsand to choose monotheism. Finally, the Church captured the society.",2003,4.21,744,14
9780199267170,0199267170,William Shakespeare: The Complete Works,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G70SDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents the works of William Shakespeare, along with an analysis of the nature and authority of the early documents, a list of the canon and chronological order of composition, an essay on Shakespeare's language, and a bibliography.",2005,4.62,1420,488
9780199280162,0199280169,East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church,From Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence,Henry Chadwick,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=staKxp3zWVEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The greatest Christian split of all has been that between east and west, between Roman Catholic and eastern Orthodox, which is still apparent today. Henry Chadwick provides a compelling and balanced account of the emergence of divisions between Rome and Constantinople. Starting with the roots of the divergence in Apostolic times, he takes the story right up to the Council of Florence in the fifteenth century.",2005,3.88,316,4
9780199296095,019929609X,An Introduction to Political Philosophy,,Jonathan Wolff,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FVOcAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The revised edition of this highly successful text provides a clear and accessible introduction to some of the most important questions of political philosophy. Organized around major issues, Wolff provides the structure that beginners need, while also introducing some distinctive ideas of his own.",2006,4.11,215,703
9780201068948,020106894X,"Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory, and Statistical Thermodynamics",,Francis Weston Sears;Gerhard Ludwig Salinger,Kinetic theory of gases,,,1975,4.32,454,38
9780201408256,0201408252,Six Easy Pieces,Essentials Of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher,Richard P. Feynman,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xerjugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the post–World War II period. His career was extraordinarily expansive. From his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb a Los Alamos during World War II to his work in quantum electrodynamics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965, Feynman was celebrated for his brilliant and irreverent approach to physics.It was Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961–1963, Feynman, at the California Institute of Technology, delivered a series of lectures that revolutionized the teaching of physics around the world. Six Easy Pieces, taken from the famous Lectures on Physics, represents the most accessible material from this series. In these six chapters, Feynman introduces the general reader to the following topics: atoms, basic physics, the relationship of physics to other topics, energy, gravitation, and quantum force. With his dazzling and inimitable wit, Feynman presents each discussion without equations or technical jargon.Readers will remember how—using ice water and rubber—Feynman demonstrated with stunning simplicity to a nationally televised audience the physics of the 1986 Challenger disaster. It is precisely this ability—the clear and direct illustration of complex theories—that made Richard Feynman one of the most distinguished educators in the world. Filled with wonderful examples and clever illustrations, Six Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible scientists of our time.",1996,4.2,176,160
9780201748673,0201748673,Robin Williams Web Design Workshop,,John Tollett;Robin Williams;David Rohr,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lhatgvXw0JcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Illustrating her ideas with hundreds of examples, Williams takes her lessons on creative design, highly regarded within the graphics community, and applies them to the Web. Full color.",2002,3.78,384,51
9780205479801,0205479804,The Actor in You,Sixteen Simple Steps to Understanding the Art of Acting,Robert L. Benedetti,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lZZQAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Actor in Youenhances the reader’s appreciation of the art of acting by helping them realize that they already possess, in principle, the following skills: the ability to play a role, the ability to fulfill the sense of drama and to structure dramatic scenes, and the capacity to express emotion. Without losing its simplicity, directness, and enjoyable writing style, this revised and enlarged edition has benefited from helpful suggestions by teachers who have used it successfully in the classroom. Drawing exercises and examples from readers’ everyday lives and from well-known films and television programs, Benedetti succeeds in deducing dramatic principles from those experiences and then applying them to everyday life for artistic purpose.",2005,3.7,160,5
9780224060875,0224060872,It's Not about the Bike,My Journey Back to Life,Lance Armstrong;Sally Jenkins,Cancer,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5ATbkSDvfd0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"If you read just one sports book this year, this is the one' Express on SundayLance Armstrong was one of the most precocious talents the world of cycling had ever seen. Within a year of turning professional in 1992 he was World Champion. In 1994 he won tw",2001,3.72,294,473
9780224063029,0224063022,Non-Fiction,,Chuck Palahniuk,Curiosities and wonders,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TMw7HQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Nonfiction prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world of college wrestlers; the underground world of anobolic steroid gobblers; the harrowing circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer - each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of America's most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.",2004,3.57,233,212
9780224064736,0224064738,Every Second Counts,,Lance Armstrong;Sally Jenkins,Cancer,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=85QV79yKIIgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1999, Lance Armstrong made world headlines with the most stunning comeback in the history of sport after battling against life-threatening testicular cancer just eighteen months before returning to professional cycling. His first book, It's Not About the Bike, charted his journey back to life and went on to become an international bestseller. Now, in his much-anticipated follow-up, Armstrong shares more details of his extraordinary life story, including the births of his twin daughters Grace and Isabel. Never shy of controversy, Armstrong offers, with typical frankness, his thoughts on training, competing, winning and failure. He also tells of the work he did for the foundation he created following his dramatic recovery, addresses the daunting challenge of living in the aftermath of cancer and treatment, and shares further inspirational tales of survival. A fresh outlook on the spirit of survivors everywhere, Every Second Counts is an account of a man who strives every day to meet life's challenges - whether on his bike or off. Every Second Counts was first published in October 2003. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013, Lance Armstrong admitted to having taken performance enhancing drugs in all seven of the Tours de France in which he competed between 1999 and 2005. He was officially stripped of these wins by the UCI, the world governing body for cycling, in 2012.",2004,3.52,246,270
9780224072656,022407265X,Quimby the Mouse,,Chris Ware,Graphic novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VWFwvusdf_cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cleverly appropriated old-fashioned animation imagery and advertising styles of the 1920s and 1930s are put to use in Quimby the Mouse at the service of modern vignettes of angst and existentialism. As this cartoon silhouette of a mouse ignominiously suffers at every turn, the spaces between the panels create despair and a Beckett-like rhythm of hope deceived and deferred (but never quite extinguished), buoying Quimby from page to page. Like Ware's first book, Jimmy Corrigan, Quimby is saturated with Ware's genius, including consistently amazing graphics, insanely perfectionist production values, cut-out-and-assemble paper projects, and the formal complexity of his narratives that have earned him the reputation as one of the most prodigious artists of his generation.",2003,4.09,69,1396
9780226014906,0226014908,The Crescent Obscured,"The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815",Robert Allison,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FKiKeqOhSpwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa from 1776 to 1815, Robert Allison traces the perceptions and mis-perceptions of Islam in the American mind as the new nation constructed its ideology and system of government. ""A powerful ending that explains how the experience with the Barbary states compelled many Americans to look inward . . . with increasing doubts about the institution of slavery."" —David W. Lesch, Middle East Journal ""Allison's incisive and informative account of the fledgling republic's encounter with the Muslim world is a revelation with a special pertinence to today's international scene."" —Richard W. Bulliet, Journal of Interdisciplinary History ""This book should be widely read. . . . Allison's study provides a context for understanding more recent developments, such as America's tendency to demonize figures like Iran's Khumaini, Libya's Qaddafi, and Iraq's Saddam."" —Richard M. Eaton, Eighteenth Century Studies",2000,3.6,284,32
9780226020457,0226020452,The Bridge on the Drina,,Ivo Andríc,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y7WcIKgk5NQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history. ""No better introduction to the study of Balkan and Ottoman history exists, nor do I know of any work of fiction that more persuasively introduces the reader to a civilization other than our own. It is an intellectual and emotional adventure to encounter the Ottoman world through Andric's pages in its grandiose beginning and at its tottering finale. It is, in short, a marvelous work, a masterpiece, and very much sui generis. . . . Andric's sensitive portrait of social change in distant Bosnia has revelatory force.""—William H. McNeill, from the introduction ""The dreadful events occurring in Sarajevo over the past several months turn my mind to a remarkable historical novel from the land we used to call Yugoslavia, Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina.""—John M. Mohan, Des Moines Sunday Register Born in Bosnia, Ivo Andric (1892-1975) was a distinguished diplomat and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. His books include The Damned Yard: And Other Stories, and The Days of the Consuls.",1977,4.33,314,8401
9780226025971,0226025977,Love and Saint Augustine,,Hannah Arendt;Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott;Judith Chelius Stark,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YqI3H-TKBGkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Editors Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark make Hannah Arendt's important early work accessible for the first time. Here is a completely corrected and revised English translation that incorporates Arendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts, and other documents. ""A revelation that may force us to reconsider the traditional interpretation of Arendt's work"".--KIRKUS REVIEWS.",1996,3.92,254,89
9780226042756,0226042758,Plato's Symposium,A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete,Plato;Seth Benardete,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0zoQDYBYTs4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is ""the most erotic of philosophers,"" and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on it: Benardete's ""On Plato's Symposium"" and Allan Bloom's provocative essay, ""The Ladder of Love."" In the Symposium, Plato recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include the poet Aristophanes, the drunken Alcibiades, and, of course, the wise Socrates. The revelers give their views on the timeless topics of love and desire, all the while addressing many of the major themes of Platonic philosophy: the relationship of philosophy and poetry, the good, and the beautiful.",2001,4.03,199,501
9780226066660,0226066665,Philosophy in a Time of Terror,Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida,Jürgen Habermas;Giovanna Borradori;Jacques Derrida,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ze0Pn60iZvEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""In her introduction, Borradori contends that philosophy has an invaluable contribution to make to the understanding of terrorism. Just as the traumas produced by colonialism, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust wrote the history of the twentieth century, the history of the twenty-first century is already signed by global terrorism. Each dialogue here, accompanied by a critical essay, recognizes the magnitude of this upcoming challenge. Characteristically, Habermas's dialogue is dense, compact, and elegantly traditional. Derrida's, on the other hand, takes the reader on a long, winding, and unpredictable road. Yet unexpected agreements emerge between them: both have a deep suspicion of the concept of ""terrorism"" and both see the need for a transition from classical international law, premised on the model of nation-states, to a new cosmopolitan order based on continental alliances."".",2004,3.89,208,428
9780226134345,0226134342,"A Preface to Democratic Theory, Expanded Edition",,Robert A. Dahl,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=95Zpl8C0-wYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"For this fiftieth-anniversary edition, Dahl has written an extensive new afterword that reevaluates Madisonian theory in light of recent research. And in a new foreword, he reflects back on his influential volume and the ways his views have evolved since he wrote it. For any student or scholar of political science, this new material is an essential update on a gold standard in the evolving field of democratic theory.",2006,3.62,200,88
9780226142692,0226142698,Lost Prophet,The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin,John D'Emilio,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qnxMPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A biographical tour de force on one of the 20th century's bravest civil rights champions. Critically heralded American historian D'Emilio brings Bayard Rustin out of the shadows of the past to tell the story of a man who was a victim of homophobic prejudice.,2004,4.19,592,568
9780226142814,0226142817,The Work of Mourning,,Jacques Derrida,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LZkLGvApTZkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, ""perhaps the world's most famous philosopher—if not the only famous philosopher."" He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes from an illustrious career, and, among many who were his colleagues and peers, he inspired friendship. The Work of Mourning is a collection that honors those friendships in the wake of passing. Gathered here are texts—letters of condolence, memorial essays, eulogies, funeral orations—written after the deaths of well-known figures: Roland Barthes, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Edmond Jabès, Louis Marin, Sarah Kofman, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Max Loreau, Jean-Marie Benoist, Joseph Riddel, and Michel Servière. With his words, Derrida bears witness to the singularity of a friendship and to the absolute uniqueness of each relationship. In each case, he is acutely aware of the questions of tact, taste, and ethical responsibility involved in speaking of the dead—the risks of using the occasion for one's own purposes, political calculation, personal vendetta, and the expiation of guilt. More than a collection of memorial addresses, this volume sheds light not only on Derrida's relation to some of the most prominent French thinkers of the past quarter century but also on some of the most important themes of Derrida's entire oeuvre-mourning, the ""gift of death,"" time, memory, and friendship itself. ""In his rapt attention to his subjects' work and their influence upon him, the book also offers a hesitant and tangential retelling of Derrida's own life in French philosophical history. There are illuminating and playful anecdotes—how Lyotard led Derrida to begin using a word-processor; how Paul de Man talked knowledgeably of jazz with Derrida's son. Anyone who still thinks that Derrida is a facetious punster will find such resentful prejudice unable to survive a reading of this beautiful work.""—Steven Poole, Guardian ""Strikingly simpa meditations on friendship, on shared vocations and avocations and on philosophy and history.""—Publishers Weekly",2003,4.22,272,163
9780226204055,0226204057,"History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3",From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms,Mircea Eliade,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rB6jwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individual traditions, he explores the interactions of the three religions and shows their continuing mutual influence to be subtle but unmistakable. As in his previous work, Eliade pays particular attention to heresies, folk beliefs, and cults of secret wisdom, such as alchemy and sorcery, and continues the discussion, begun in earlier volumes, of pre-Christian shamanistic practices in northern Europe and the syncretistic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. These subcultures, he maintains, are as important as the better-known orthodoxies to a full understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.",1988,4.43,367,406
9780226204192,0226204197,Bengal Nights,A Novel,Mircea Eliade,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n_oVTyKx7mcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman á clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate awakenings of Alain, an ambitious young French engineer flush with colonial pride and prejudice and full of a European fascination with the mysterious subcontinent. Offered the hospitality of a senior Indian colleague, Alain grasps at the chance to discover the authentic India firsthand. He soon finds himself enchanted by his host's daughter, the lovely and inscrutable Maitreyi, a precocious young poet and former student of Tagore. What follows is a charming, tentative flirtation that soon, against all the proprieties and precepts of Indian society, blossoms into a love affair both impossible and ultimately tragic. This erotic passion plays itself out in Alain's thoughts long after its bitter conclusion. In hindsight he sets down the story, quoting from the diaries of his disordered days, and trying to make sense of the sad affair. A vibrantly poetic love story, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self discovery. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Eliade's story repeats the patterns of European engagement with India even as it exposes and condemns them. Invaluable for the insight it offers into Eliade's life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power. ""Bengal Nights is forceful and harshly poignant, written with a great love of India informed by clear-eyed understanding. But do not open it if you prefer to remain unmoved by your reading matter. It is enough to make stones weep."" — Literary Review Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Many of his scholarly works, as well as his two-volume autobiography and four-volume journal, are published by the University of Chicago Press. Translated into French in 1950, Bengal Nights was an immediate critical success. The film, Les Nuits Bengali, appeared in 1987.",1995,3.93,184,245
9780226300689,0226300684,The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol,,Nikolai Gogol;Николай Васильевич Гоголь,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FRTtBFZiWUUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A collection of short stories portrays life in rural Russia and satirizes Russian society,1985,4.32,302,299
9780226301198,0226301192,"Love, Sex & Tragedy",How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives,Simon Goldhill,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=31udHwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A noted classicist offers a survey of the Greek and Roman roots of everything from hard bodies to political systems, tracing follies and philosophical questions through the centuries to the birthplace of Western civilization.",2005,3.76,345,120
9780226307640,0226307646,Complete Greek Tragedies,,David Grene;Richmond Lattimore,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fboSxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1942,4.11,358,75
9780226307657,0226307654,Greek tragedies,,Sophocles;Aeschylus;Euripides,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EiHQwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks. For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions. All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.",1992,4.14,472,33
9780226307664,0226307662,The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides,,Aeschylus;Sophocles;Euripides,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QgdZ0cwlaSIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks. For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions. All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.",1992,4.48,672,46
9780226307756,0226307751,Greek Tragedies,,David Grene;Richmond Lattimore,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2ZE50d6fipUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of 15 plays by Euripedes, Sophocles, and Aeschylus including Aeschylus' Orestiae and Euripedes' Oedipus trilogy",1960,4.28,304,315
9780226307787,0226307786,Oresteia,"Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides",Esquilo;Aeschylus,Erinyes (Greek mythology),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ACSXuwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A brief discussion of the life of Aeschylus and the structure of early tragedy accompanies a translation of the three plays based on H.W. Smyth's Loeb Classical Library text.,1953,4.01,171,688
9780226307800,0226307808,Euripides I,Alcestis; The Medea; The Heracleidae; Hippolytus,Euripides,Greek drama (Tragedy),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZRt5IxCHhfoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Table of Contents: Alcestis / translated by Richmond Lattimore -- The Medea / translated by Rex Warner -- The Heracleidae / translated by Ralph Gladstone -- Hippolytus / translated by David Grene.,1955,4.03,221,4482
9780226307862,0226307867,The Complete Greek Tragedies,,David Grene;Richmond Lattimore,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5kcjzAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1973,4.14,254,4952
9780226307947,0226307948,Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens,"The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes and Prometheus Bound",Aeschylus;David Grene,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gJCNNZE8INQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.",1991,4.1,188,382
9780226321325,0226321320,"Billy Budd, Sailor",,Herman Melville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LMC-GqItKwkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Definitive text of Billy Budd, Sailor, is presented with extensive notes and commentary enabling the reader to trace the genesis and growth of Melville's masterpiece",1962,3.11,230,219
9780226323985,0226323986,Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels,,Alexander Heidel,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iRwMQVdZegAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. With the same careful scholarship shown in his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis, Heidel interprets the famous Gilgamesh Epic and other related Babylonian and Assyrian documents. He compares them with corresponding portions of the Old Testament in order to determine the inherent historical relationship of Hebrew and Mesopotamian ideas.",1949,3.97,280,57
9780226329659,0226329658,Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns,,Hesiod,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h4JiAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of the 2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. In Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings to life the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. While most available versions of these early Greek writings are rendered in prose, Hine's illuminating translations represent these early classics as they originally appeared, in verse. Since prose was not invented as a literary medium until well after Hesiod's time, presenting these works as poems more closely approximates not only the mechanics but also the melody of the originals. This volume includes Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony, two of the oldest non-Homeric poems to survive from antiquity. Works and Days is in part a farmer's almanac—filled with cautionary tales and advice for managing harvests and maintaining a good work ethic—and Theogony is the earliest comprehensive account of classical mythology—including the names and genealogies of the gods (and giants and monsters) of Olympus, the sea, and the underworld. Hine brings out Hesiod's unmistakable personality; Hesiod's tales of his escapades and his gritty and persuasive voice not only give us a sense of the author's own character but also offer up a rare glimpse of the everyday life of ordinary people in the eighth century BCE. In contrast, the Homeric Hymns are more distant in that they depict aristocratic life in a polished tone that reveals nothing of the narrators' personalities. These hymns (so named because they address the deities in short invocations at the beginning and end of each) are some of the earliest examples of epyllia, or short stories in the epic manner in Greek. This volume unites Hine's skillful translations of the Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns—along with Hine's rendering of the mock-Homeric epic The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice—in a stunning pairing of these masterful classics.",2005,3.72,230,32
9780226348186,0226348180,"The Progressive Historians--Turner, Beard, Parrington",,Richard Hofstadter,History,,,1979,3.86,498,34
9780226424156,0226424154,The Collaborator,The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach,Alice Kaplan,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wyNhPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance activists. Was Brasillach in fact guilty of treason? Was he condemned for his denunciations of the resistance, or singled out as a suspected homosexual? Was it right that he was executed when others, who were directly responsible for the murder of thousands, were set free? Kaplan's meticulous reconstruction of Brasillach's life and trial skirts none of these ethical subtleties: a detective story, a cautionary tale, and a meditation on the disturbing workings of justice and memory, The Collaborator will stand as the definitive account of Brasillach's crime and punishment. A National Book Award Finalist A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist ""A well-researched and vivid account.""—John Weightman, New York Review of Books ""A gripping reconstruction of [Brasillach's] trial.""—The New Yorker ""Readers of this disturbing book will want to find moral touchstones of their own. They're going to need them. This is one of the few works on Nazism that forces us to experience how complex the situation really was, and answers won't come easily.""—Daniel Blue, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review ""The Collaborator is one of the best-written, most absorbing pieces of literary history in years.""—David A. Bell, New York Times Book Review ""Alice Kaplan's clear-headed study of the case of Robert Brasillach in France has a good deal of current-day relevance. . . . Kaplan's fine book . . . shows that the passage of time illuminates different understandings, and she leaves it to us to reflect on which understanding is better.""—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times",2001,3.84,308,67
9780226443225,0226443221,Heat Wave,A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago,Eric Klinenberg,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r22xueipNegC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Why heat waves are such a quiet menace and how social conditions contributed to more than 700 deaths during a week-long wave of unprecedented heat and humidity in Chicago in 1995 are the focus of ""Heat Wave"" written by sociologist Klinenberg. Illustrations. Maps.",2003,3.84,320,674
9780226467719,0226467716,Moral Politics,"How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition",George Lakoff,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R-4YBCYx6YsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this classic text, Lakoff analyses the unconscious and rhetorical worldviews of liberals and conservatives, discovering radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality.",2002,4.03,471,1215
9780226500607,0226500608,A River Runs Through It,,Norman Maclean,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=otrz-KkRIBEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The narrator and his brother become fascinated with fly fishing and the Big Blackfoot River,1989,4.17,168,5885
9780226500621,0226500624,Young Men and Fire,,Norman Maclean,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7Gq8a7ZfA6YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A witness to the Montana Mann Gulch fire of 1949 explores the mysteries of the tragedy, with eyewitness accounts, new evidence, and research from fire scientists",1993,4.07,301,4148
9780226675763,0226675769,"Antitrust Law, Second Edition",,Richard A. Posner,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wvkymAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard Posner's exposition and defense of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then characterized the field. As other perspectives on antitrust law have fallen away, Posner's book has played a major role in transforming the field of antitrust law into a body of economically rational principles largely in accord with the ideas set forth in the first edition. Today's antitrust professionals may disagree on specific practices and rules, but most litigators, prosecutors, judges, and scholars agree that the primary goal of antitrust laws should be to promote economic welfare, and that economic theory should be used to determine how well business practices conform to that goal. In this thoroughly revised edition, Posner explains the economic approach to new generations of lawyers and students. He updates and amplifies his approach as it applies to the developments, both legal and economic, in the antitrust field since 1976. The ""new economy,"" for example, has presented a host of difficult antitrust questions, and in an entirely new chapter, Posner explains how the economic approach can be applied to new industries such as software manufacturers, Internet service providers, and those that provide communications equipment and services. ""The antitrust laws are here to stay,"" Posner writes, ""and the practical question is how to administer them better-more rationally, more accurately, more expeditiously, more efficiently."" This fully revised classic will continue to be the standard work in the field.",2001,4,304,33
9780226677149,0226677141,A Dance to the Music of Time,First Movement,Anthony Powell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PhGCnG7pbtkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Movement 2. The rumble of distant events in Germany and Spain presages the storm of WWII. In England, even as the whirl of marriages and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures gathers speed, men and women find themselves on the brink of fateful choices.",1995,3.95,718,3680
9780226731513,0226731510,Mystical Poems of Rumi Translated,,Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana);A. J. Arberry,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UkipswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1968,4.32,208,112
9780226735191,0226735192,The Family Idiot,"Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857",Jean-Paul Sartre,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D6p-mttXlAEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With this volume, the University of Chicago Press completes its translation of a work that is indispensable not only to serious readers of Flaubert but to anyone interested in the last major contribution by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. That Sartre's study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel or biography or ""criticism-fiction"" which is the summation of Sartre's philosophical, social, and literary thought. In the preface, Sartre writes: ""The Family Idiot is the sequel to Search for a Method. The subject: what, at this point in time, can we know about a man? It seemed to me that this question could only be answered by studying a specific case."" Sartre discusses Flaubert's personal development, his relationship to his family, his decision to become a writer, and the psychosomatic crisis or ""conversion"" from his father's domination to the freedom of his art. Sartre blends psychoanalysis with a sociological study of the ideology of the period, the crisis in literature, and Flaubert's influence on the future of literature. While Sartre never wrote the final volume he envisioned for this vast project, the existing volumes constitute in themselves a unified work—one that John Sturrock, writing in the Observer, called ""a shatteringly fertile, digressive and ruthless interpretation of these few cardinal years in Flaubert's life."" ""A virtuoso perfomance. . . . For all that this book does to make one reconsider his life, The Family Idiot is less a case study of Flaubert than it is a final installment of Sartre's mythology. . . . The translator, Carol Cosman, has acquitted herself brilliantly.""—Frederick Brown, New York Review of Books ""A splendid translation by Carol Cosman. . . . Sartre called The Family Idiot a 'true novel,' and it does tell a story and eventually reach a shattering climax. The work can be described most simply as a dialectic, which shifts between two seemingly alternative interpretations of Flaubert's destiny: a psychoanalytic one, centered on his family and on his childhood, and a Marxist one, whose guiding themes are the status of the artist in Flaubert's period and the historical and ideological contradictions faced by his social class, the bourgeoisie.""—Fredric Jameson, New York Times Book Review Jean-Paul Sartre (1906-1980) was offered, but declined, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. His many works of fiction, drama, and philosophy include the monumental study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, and The Freud Scenario, both published in translation by the University of Chicago Press.",1981,3.8,632,5
9780226777108,0226777103,History of Political Philosophy,,Leo Strauss;Joseph Cropsey,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5xK3wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been expanded significantly to include both new and revised essays.",1987,4.18,980,424
9780226817415,0226817415,From Counterculture to Cyberculture,"Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism",Fred Turner,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wz5EmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war establishment in the first place. From Counterculture to Cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation. Fred Turner here traces the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay–area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award–winning Whole Earth Catalog, the computer conferencing system known as WELL, and, ultimately, the launch of the wildly successful Wired magazine, Brand and his colleagues brokered a long-running collaboration between San Francisco flower power and the emerging technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation, the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities, and the exploration of bold new social frontiers. Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think.",2006,3.96,327,323
9780231054751,0231054750,Genetics and the Origin of Species,,Theodosius Dobzhansky,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s7igybOj-dEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Featuring an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould, ""Genetics and the Origin of Species"" presents the first edition of Dobzhansky's groundbreaking and now classic inquiry into what has emerged as the most important single area of scientific inquiry in the twentieth century: biological theory of evolution. Genetics and the Origin of Species went through three editions (1937, 1941, and 1951) in which the importance accorded natural selection changed radically.",1982,4.15,364,24
9780231073370,0231073372,The Pillow Book of Sei Sh?nagon,,Sei Shōnagon,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H-F5iZeCMfQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is an immensely detailed account of court life in eleventh-century Japan. Written at the height of Heian culture, it is a classic text of great literary beauty, full of lively anecdotes, humorous observations, and subtle impressions. Sei Shonagon was a contemporary and erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the court life that Lady Shonagon captures so vividly in her diary. The Pillow Book contains her reflections on royal and religious ceremonies, nature, pilgrimage, conversation, and poetry. Lady Shonagon shares character sketches and the things she both loves and loathes. Her style is so eloquent, her wit so sharp, even the briefest fragments enchant us. There is no better introduction to the daily preoccupations of the Heian upper class, and Ivan Morris's notes and contextualization enrich the material for scholars and general readers.",1991,4.02,419,3577
9780231082815,0231082819,Three Plays by Kobo Abe,,Kōbō Abe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D9GgngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three plays by one of contemporary Japan's most prominent writers -- Involuntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Here -- translated for this volume reveal Kobo Abe's deep love of absurdity in the face of universal concerns.",1993,3.91,233,76
9780231085076,0231085079,Discovering Plato,,Alexandre Koyre,,,,1960,3.26,118,7
9780231104470,0231104472,"The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics",,Larry P. Gross;James D. Woods,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bjeJCGF5OiUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More than one hundred articles, essays, and primary documents cover the formation of gay identity, religious, scientific, medical, and legal perspectives, the mainstream media, lesbian and gay media, and community prospects and tactics--from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay, ""How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay,"" to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's ""Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,"" to a 1947 Newsweek article, ""Homosexuals in Uniform"".",1999,3.93,672,15
9780231109253,0231109253,Poems Between Women,"Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire",Emma Donoghue,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d_1dqrZtllwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The collection Poems Between Women explores many facets of female-female relationships in poems not only about love or affection between or inspired by women but also about the moments that complicate and call into question the nature of sexuality and intimacy between women. Including women married and single, young and old, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual, the anthology covers historical development and changing mores through the seventeenth century, after the Restoration of Charles II, a time of relative freedom for women; the eighteenth century, when the cult of romantic friendship reached its peak; the nineteenth century, when women writers wrote about issues of same-sex desire indirectly and explored complex issues such as death in tones of weariness and resignation; and the twentieth century, when poets began to engage in more overt explorations of women's bodies, sensuality, and lovemaking. Emma Donoghue's introduction deftly guides readers into the rich tradition of women's poetry in English, exploring the relationships between poets and their muses and poets and their cultures. Poems Between Women is testimony not only to the recurring theme of the unique bonds among women but also to the universality of love, friendship, and creativity.",1999,3.86,256,66
9780231118958,0231118953,Antigone's Claim,Kinship Between Life and Death,Judith Butler,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pKerAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the ""hair-of-the-dog"" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, ""a grand excavation of drug myth."" Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.",2002,3.76,118,406
9780231121002,0231121008,The Vital Illusion,,Jean Baudrillard;Julia Witwer,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jk9MRcgG97EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"What does the advent of cloning mean for human beings? What does the turn of the millennium say about our relationship to time? The prophet of postmodernity untangles the ""vital illusion"" between the virtual and the actual, taking the pulse of humanity surrounded by a technological landscape.",2000,3.84,96,110
9780231121255,0231121253,An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades,Memoirs of Usāmah Ibn-Munqidh (Kitāb Al-Iʻtibār) ; Translated from the Original Manuscript by Philip K. Hitti ; with a New Foreword by Richard W. Bulliet,Usāmah ibn Munqidh;Philip Khuri Hitti,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xqy8ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The life of Us?mah ibn-Munqidh epitomizes the height of Arab civilization during the early Crusading period. These memoirs--which represent a rare first-hand account of medieval European manners, morals, politics, and medicine written by a non-European--offers new perspective and insight into an important point of military and cultural contact between the East and West. In his introduction, translator Philip Hitti writes, ""Ancient Arabic literature has preserved for us other biographies, memoirs, and reminiscences by great men, but there is hardly anything superior to this one in its simplicity of narrative, dignity, and wealth of contents and general human interest.",2000,3.92,265,66
9780231121897,023112189X,William Faulkner,The Sound and the Fury ; As I Lay Dying,Nicolas Tredell,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G3_DKH4sX-4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.",1999,3.96,192,4
9780231121910,0231121911,"Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter",,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OHFFpZosoC8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gives an account and a sampling of varied interpretations of Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter,"" encompassing moral and historical criticism, New Criticism, archetypal and myth criticism, psychoanalytical and feminist criticism, and linguistic and semioticcriticism.",2000,3.39,192,173
9780231124270,0231124279,The Poetry of Sylvia Plath,,Claire Brennan,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TSrx1mELRBUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Liquid Metal brings together 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. Eight distinct sections cover such topics as the cyborg in science fiction; the science fiction city; time travel and the primal scene; science fiction fandom; and the 1950s invasion narratives. Important writings by Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Steve Neale, J.P. Telotte, Peter Biskind and Constance Penley are included.",1999,4.23,202,25
9780231124928,0231124929,The Intellectuals and the Flag,,Todd Gitlin;Professor of Culture Journalism and Sociology Todd Gitlin,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4EVNgJIinV4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Calls upon intellectuals on the left to once again engage American public life and resist the trappings of knee-jerk negativism, intellectual fads, and political orthodoxy. Gitlin argues for a renewed sense of patriotism based on the ideals of sacrifice, tough-minded criticism, and a willingness to look anew at the global role of the United States in the aftermath of 9/11. [Publisher web site].",2006,3.59,167,2
9780231138703,0231138709,More Than You Know,Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places,Michael J. Mauboussin,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g6WlQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mauboussin mines disciplines that are not normally associated with finance such as biology, physics, and psychology to help investors make better decisions and to argue for a new model of investment philosophy.",2006,4.08,268,1238
9780231138765,0231138768,Nietzsche and Philosophy,,Gilles Deleuze,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KGaYQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Praised for its rare combination of scholarly rigor and imaginative interpretation, Nietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important analyses of Nietzsche. It is also one of the best introductions to Deleuze's thought, establishing many of his central philosophical positions. In Nietzsche and Philosophy, Deleuze identifies and explores three crucial concepts in Nietzschean thought-multiplicity, becoming, and affirmation-and clarifies Nietzsche's views regarding the will to power, eternal return, nihilism, and difference. For Deleuze, Nietzsche challenged conventional philosophical ideas and provided a means of escape from Hegel's dialectical thinking, which had come to dominate French philosophy. He also offered a path toward a politics of difference. In this new edition, Michael Hardt's foreword examines the profound influence of Deleuze's provocative interpretations on the study of Nietzsche, which opened a whole new avenue in postwar thought.",2006,4.16,256,48
9780233000114,0233000119,Remembering JFK,Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys,Jacques Lowe;Hugh Sidey,Presidents,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q-a-AQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2003,4.34,432,9
9780237525378,0237525372,Oliver Twist,,Pauline Francis;Charles Dickens,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X6RvTDRdb1wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This wonderful series is a quick way into a range of exciting stories, from the chilling tale of Frankenstein, to the gripping adventure of Treasure Island and the powerful animal story of Call of the Wild. Fast-moving and accessible, each story is a shortened, dramatically illustrated version of the classic novel, which loses none of the strength and flavour of the original.",2003,3.66,48,92
9780237526887,0237526883,"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea",,Jules Verne;Pauline Francis,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qnNypvYxcy4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The abridged adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.,2004,3.76,48,543
9780240805412,0240805410,Avid Editing,A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users,Sam Kauffmann,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dtt-xgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This text is for beginning to intermediate users of Avid Xpress, Xpress DV, or Media Composer. These digital editing systems offer a tremendous number of tools that open up myriad creative possibilities for the film and videomaker, but are as a result difficult to master. The chapters guide readers through an editing project, while the accompanying DVD provides narrative footage to download for immediate, hands-on practice. The book can be read and studied at home, or while sitting in front of an Avid, following the book's step-by-step instructions. The new edition is updated to reflect the latest versions of Avid software, including an emphasis on the Xpress DV for Mac and Windows. There is also new material on Script Integration, a powerful tool now available on almost all of Avid's products, and a new chapter on how Avid can help the reader create material for current and future widescreen television formats. A beginning text designed for anyone new to the Avid Complete step-by-step instructions assume no prior knowledge Companion DVD contains footage from a narrative scene, so students can begin editing immediately",2003,3.83,414,5
9780240806082,0240806085,Directing the Documentary,,Michael Rabiger,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uoKliOPD5qEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Michael Rabiger guides the reader through the stages required to conceive, edit and produce a documentary. He also provides advice on the law, ethics and authorship as well as career possibilities and finding work.",2004,4.23,648,173
9780241003008,0241003008,The Very Hungry Caterpillar,,Eric Carle,Babytime resource,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DpGEQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Eric Carle's children's classic is the story of a very small and very hungry caterpillar who manages to nibble his way through the pages of this enchanting book.,1994,4.29,26,340101
9780241142462,0241142466,The Best of McSweeney's,,Dave Eggers,"Short stories, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TG0sAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Best of McSweeney's Volume 2 the second instalment of Dave Eggers's crash course in what McSweeney's is all about brings together more stories from the first ten issues of the magazine. Jonathan Ames, Judy Budnitz, Glen David Gold, Jonathan Lethem and A.M. Homes are amongst the writers spreading their wings in this fine collection and showing once more why McSweeney's is now a byword for brilliance, innovation and the unexpected.",2005,3.81,384,68
9780241912720,0241912725,Stuart Little,,Elwyn Brooks White,"Little, Stuart (Fictitious character)",,"The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out to seek his dearest friend, a small bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden.",1946,3.89,144,109
9780246136671,0246136677,The Dark Descent,,David G. Hartwell,"Horror tales, English",,,1990,4.11,304,2
9780252008078,0252008073,Zora Neale Hurston,A Literary Biography,Robert E. Hemenway,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gzta3iHgiQ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Reconstructs the events, relationships, and achievements that marked the life of the black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, assessing her important works and commitment to the black folk tradition",1980,4.11,408,100
9780252019814,0252019814,Chicago Stories,,James Thomas Farrell;Professor James T Farrell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KOyfpN40l0wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents twenty-five short fiction stories by American author James Farrell, drawn from his first ten collection, all set in Chicago.",1998,3.89,296,38
9780253201621,0253201624,Dante's Vita Nuova,A Translation and an Essay,Alighieri Dante;Dante Alighieri,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SWf4r6lObPMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""A fresh, new version of a 1962 translation that has had enormous popularity in comparative literature classes. The Vita Nuova (the New Life) is a small book which relates in prose and often very beautiful verse the story of the youthful Dante's love for Beatrice. The esay which follows the translation provides new insights into this puzzling thirteenth-century work. Musa regards Dante's intention in this so-called ""Book of Memory"" as a cruel and comic commentary on the youthful lover. He argues that Dante, using the tradition of love poetry current in his time, points up the foolishness and shallowness of his protagonist, a self-centered and self-pitying youth who only occasionally in the progress of his suffering catches even a glimpse of the true nature of Love or his beloved. ""The sensitive man who would realize a man's destiny must ruthlessly cut out of his heart the canker at its center [i.e. self-pity], the canker that the heart instinctively tends to cultivate."" According to Musa, this is one of Dante's central ideas. Dante scholars, libraries, and students of the Italian classics will welcome this distinguished translation and its provocative commentary""--Back cover.",1973,3.87,210,59
9780253202178,0253202175,A Theory of Semiotics,,Umberto Eco,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EQukjgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""... the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris."" —Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ""... draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises many fascinating questions."" —Language in Society ""... a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies."" —Robert Scholes, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ""... the most significant text on the subject published in the English language that I know of."" —Arthur Asa Berger, Journal of Communication Eco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs—communication and signification—and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.",1979,4.01,368,991
9780253203182,025320318X,The Role of the Reader,Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts,Umberto Eco,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KlJNp_hUmEIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""... not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile."" —The Review of Metaphysics ""... essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism."" —Library Journal In this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts.",1984,3.94,288,220
9780253204783,025320478X,The Basic Problems of Phenomenology,,Martin Heidegger,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VmatHCLJ4Q4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Continues and extends explorations begun in Being and Time.,1988,4.28,432,437
9780253209108,0253209102,Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit,,Martin Heidegger,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fRMDS8-XLWYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The text of Martin Heidegger's 1930-1931 lecture course on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit contains some of Heidegger's most crucial statements about temporality, ontological difference and dialectic, and being and time in Hegel. Within the context of Heidegger's project of reinterpreting Western thought through its central figures, Heidegger takes up a fundamental concern of Being and Time, ""a dismantling of the history of ontology with the problematic of temporality as a clue."" He shows that temporality is centrally involved in the movement of thinking called phenomenology of spirit.",1994,4.19,176,114
9780253209306,0253209307,Dante's Inferno,The Indiana Critical Edition,Dante (Alighieri);Dante Alighieri,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TPkqYo-6QwkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents a verse translation of Dante's ""Inferno"" along with ten essays that analyze the different interpretations of the first canticle of the ""Divine Comedy.""",1995,4,432,44
9780253214690,0253214696,Introduction to Documentary,,Bill Nichols,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E5bj1XDvRxUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Why Are Ethical Issues Central to Documentary Filmmaking? - How Do Documentaries Differ from Other Types of Film? - What Gives Documentary Films a Voice of Their Own? - What Are Documentaries About? - How Did Documentary Filmmaking Get Started? - What Types of Documentary Are There? - How Have documentaries Addressed Social and Political Issues? - How Can We Write Effectively about Documentary?,2001,3.77,248,194
9780261102200,0261102206,The Treason of Isengard,"The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Two",John Ronald Reuel Tolkien;Christopher Tolkien,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hon4PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Fantasy-roman.,2002,4.16,465,93
9780261102255,0261102257,The Lost Road,The History of Middle-Earth 5,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien;Christopher Tolkien,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pWsvtQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.",2002,3.96,455,88
9780261102262,0261102265,The Lays of Beleriand,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien;Christopher Tolkien,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jGG3QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The third volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This, the third volume of The History of Middle-earth, gives us a priviledged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth, through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien's world -- those of Turien and Luthien. The first of the poems is the unpublished Lay of The Children of Hurin, narrating on a grand scale the tragedy of Turin Turambar. The second is the moving Lay of Leithian, the chief source of the tale of Beren and Luthien in The Silmarillion, telling of the Quest of the Silmaril and the encounter with Morgoth in his subterranean fortress. Accompanying the poems are commentaries on the evolution of the history of the Elder Days. Also included is the notable criticism of The Lay of The Leithian by CS Lewis, who read the poem in 1929.",2002,3.96,393,93
9780261102309,0261102303,The Lord of the Rings,,J. R. R. Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9wu1QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This single volume edition of J.R.R Tolkien's trilogy is illustrated with reproductions of 50 original Alan Lee paintings. He has also illustrated Faeries, Merlin Dreams and The Mabinogion.",1991,4.49,1200,550
9780261102422,0261102427,The Silmarillion,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fantasy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=22ePuAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Tolkien's Silmarillion is the core work of the Middle-Earth canon. In this often neglected masterpiece the entire cosmology which is the background to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is documented.,1999,3.91,384,253
9780261102637,026110263X,The Monsters and the Critics,And Other Essays,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Beowulf,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C1MAfDVCsRMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of seven essays by J.R.R. Tolkien arising out of Tolkien's work in medieval literature,1997,3.93,240,3375
9780261103306,026110330X,"The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again",,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien;Alan Lee,"Baggins, Bilbo (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0k0IQAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins who lived happily in his comfortable house until a wandering wizard granted his wish.",1997,4.26,289,535
9780261103665,0261103660,The Silmarillion,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,"Fantasy fiction, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DQ1hQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These tales tell of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, and of the war, hopeless, despite great heroism, against the great enemy.",1998,3.91,368,237
9780262240512,0262240513,The Parallax View,,Slavoj Žižek,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PwJXmwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seeks to rehabilitate dialectical materialism by discussing the ""parallax gap,"" which separates two points because of the displacement of an object resulting from a change in observational position.",2006,4.01,433,984
9780262510875,0262510871,Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,,Harold Abelson;Gerald Jay Sussman;Julie Sussman,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6QOXQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"" has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text. There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching the course at MIT since the first edition was published. A new theme has been introduced that emphasizes the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming and lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. There are new example sections on higher-order procedures in graphics and on applications of stream processing in numerical programming, and many new exercises. In addition, all the programs have been reworked to run in any Scheme implementation that adheres to the IEEE standard.",1996,4.45,657,3491
9780262532556,0262532557,The Man Who Tasted Shapes,,Richard E. Cytowic,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EvA5xS-qKR8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Uncovers the strange medical mystery of synesthesia, a condition in which people can taste shapes or hear and smell colors, and suggests that everyone has synesthetic powers.",2003,3.88,296,732
9780262540421,0262540428,Elbow Room,The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting,Daniel Clement Dennett,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P4NtNzOKxycC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Essays discuss reason, self-control, self-definition, time, cause and effect, accidents, and responsibility, and explain why people want free will",1984,3.92,200,474
9780262570213,0262570211,Theory of Colours,,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe;Donald Eastlake,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1Jjv0oVT0x0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory--Goethe never even mentions it--that he may begin to think about color theory relatively unhampered by prejudice, ancient or modern. By the time Goethe's Theory of Colours appeared in 1810, the wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established. To Goethe, the theory was the result of mistaking an incidental result for an elemental principle. Far from pretending to a knowledge of physics, he insisted that such knowledge was an actual hindrance to understanding. He based his conclusions exclusively upon exhaustive personal observation of the phenomena of color. Of his own theory, Goethe was supremely confident: ""From the philosopher, we believe we merit thanks for having traced the phenomena of colours to their first sources, to the circumstances under which they appear and are, and beyond which no further explanation respecting them is possible."" Goethe's scientific conclusions have, of course, long since been thoroughly demolished, but the intelligent reader of today may enjoy this work on quite different grounds: for the beauty and sweep of his conjectures regarding the connection between color and philosophical ideas; for an insight into early nineteenth-century beliefs and modes of thought; and for the flavor of life in Europe just after the American and French Revolutions. The book does not have to be studied to be appreciated. Goethe's subjective theory of colors permits him to speak most persuasively of color harmony and aesthetics. In some readers these notions will evoke a positive response on their merits. Others may regard them as pure fantasy, but savor the grace and style of their exposition. The work may also be read as an accurate guide to the study of color phenomena. Goethe's conclusions have been repudiated, but no one quarrels with his reporting of the facts to be observed. With simple objects--vessels, prisms, lenses, and the like--the reader will be led through a demonstration course not only in subjectively produced colors, but also in the observable physical phenomena of color. By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory--Goethe never even mentions it--that he may begin to think about color theory relatively unhampered by prejudice, ancient or modern.",1970,4.07,423,669
9780262571036,026257103X,An Odyssey in Learning and Perception,,Eleanor J. Gibson,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oG2GmyFXJC0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An Odyssey in Learning and Perception documents a fifty-year intellectual expedition in the areas of learning and perception--always with an eye to combining them in a theory of perceptual learning and development, a theory that may be broadly applicable to humans and nonhumans, young and old. In the field of psychology, beginning in the 1950s, Eleanor J. Gibson nearly single-handedly developed the field of perceptual learning with a series of brilliant studies that culminated in the seminal work, Perceptual Learning and Development. An Odyssey in Learning and Perception brings together Gibson's scientific papers, including difficult-to-find or previously unpublished work, along with classic studies in perception and action. Gibson introduces each paper to show why the research was undertaken and concludes each section with comments linking the findings to later developments. A personal essay touches on the questions and concerns that guided her research.",1994,4.5,654,0
9780262611336,0262611333,Pop Internationalism,,Paul R. Krugman,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=17YrneuxiTgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Pop internationalists""--people who speak impressively about international trade while ignoring basic economics and misusing economic figures are the target of this collection of Paul Krugman's most recent essays. In the clear, readable, entertaining style that brought acclaim for his best-selling Age of Diminished Expectations, Krugman explains what real economic analysis is. He discusses economic terms and measurements, like ""value-added"" and GDP, in simple language so that readers can understand how pop internationalists distort, and sometimes contradict, the most basic truths about world trade. All but two of the essays have previously appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, and the Harvard Business Review. The first five essays take on exaggerations of foreign competition's effects on the U.S. economy and represent Krugman's central criticisms of public debate over world trade. The next three essays expose further distortions of economic theory and include the complete, unaltered, controversial review of Laura Tyson's Who's Bashing Whom. The third group of essays highlights misconceptions about competition from less industrialized countries. The concluding essays focus on interesting and legitimate economic questions, such as the effects of technological change on society.",1997,3.67,221,307
9780262611350,026261135X,"Development, Geography, and Economic Theory",,Paul R. Krugman,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Pm_oAg_1UxIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Why do certain ideas gain currency in economics while others fall by the wayside?Paul Krugman argues that the unwillingness of mainstream economists to think about what they couldnot formalize led them to ignore ideas that turn out, in retrospect, to have been very goodones.Krugman examines the course of economic geography and development theory to shed light on thenature of economic inquiry. He traces how development theory lost its huge initial influence andvirtually disappeared from economic discourse after it became clear that many of the theory's maininsights could not be clearly modeled. Economic geography seems to have fared even worse, aseconomists shied away from grappling with questions about space -- such as the size, location, oreven existence of cities -- because the ""terrain was seen as unsuitable for the tools athand.""Krugman's book, however, is not a call to abandon economic modeling. He concludes with areminder of why insisting on the use of models may be right, even when these sometimes leadeconomists to overlook good ideas. He also recaps the discussion of development and economicgeography with a commentary on recent developments in those fields and areas where further inquirylooks most promising.The Ohlin Lectures",1997,3.99,127,74
9780262632034,0262632039,Inattentional Blindness,,Arien Mack;Irvin Rock,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=STeqPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it.,2000,4.2,287,10
9780262632553,0262632551,The Language of New Media,,Lev Manovich;Roger F. Malina;Sean Cubitt,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G-4EyYR-QgMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema. In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database. Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media.",2001,3.85,354,798
9780262680936,0262680939,"Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams",Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds,Mitchel Resnick,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K8P1rX8T4kYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""A Bradford book."" Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-163).",1997,3.85,184,126
9780262740159,026274015X,Looking Awry,An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture,Slavoj Žižek,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=COT8nZsi6zYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweepingEastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogicalstrategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician andpractician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs andworks of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, fromMcCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead - a strategy of ""lookingawry"" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan.Zizek discovers fundamentalLacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of driveand desire, the split subject - at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, inthe mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. Theplayfulness of Zizek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with thedeconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as whathe is not saying, Zizek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who sooften claim him.Slavoj Zizek is a Researcher in the Institute of Sociology at the University ofLjubljana, Yugoslavia. His work has been published in France and in Yugoslavia where, running as aproreform candidate, he narrowly missed being elected to the presidency of the republic ofSlovenia.",1992,4.05,188,1276
9780262740258,0262740257,The Puppet and the Dwarf,The Perverse Core of Christianity,Slavoj Žižek;Žižek;Stockholm Inst Of Transition Staff;Mladen Dolar;Alenka Zupancic,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jf4IPcBVKdMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective. Slavoj Zizek has been called ""an academic rock star"" and ""the wild man of theory""; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's spirituality--New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism--and then tries to redeem the ""materialist"" kernel of Christianity. His reading of Christianity is explicitly political, discerning in the Pauline community of believers the first version of a revolutionary collective. Since today even advocates of Enlightenment like Jurgen Habermas acknowledge that a religious vision is needed to ground our ethical and political stance in a ""postsecular"" age, this book--with a stance that is clearly materialist and at the same time indebted to the core of the Christian legacy--is certain to stir controversy.",2003,3.83,196,617
9780268018498,0268018499,Treatise on Happiness,,Saint Thomas (Aquinas);Thomas Aquinas,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MQh9QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Treatise on Happiness and the accompanying Treatise on Human Acts comprise the first twenty-one questions of I-II of the Summa Theologiae. From his careful consideration of what true happiness is, to his comprehensive discussion of how it can be attained, St. Thomas Aquinas offers a challenging and classic statement of the goals of human life, both ultimate and proximate. This translation presents in accurate, consistent, contemporary English the great Christian thinker's enduring contributions on the subject of man's happiness.",1983,3.84,224,73
9780273661948,0273661949,Marketing and the Bottom Line,The Marketing Metrics to Pump Up Cash Flow,Tim Ambler,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qeVE8r4ugzsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Marketing and the bottom line sets out to change this. Based an extensive and original research involving world-beating companies such as 3M, Accenture, British Airways, Diageo and McDonald's, this book analyzes the impact that marketing has on the financial well-being of a company. Viewing marketing as a strategic board-level function, Ambler sets out a new generation of marketing metrics designed to make marketing more accountable for what it does, what it spends and what it earns.",2003,3.82,336,17
9780273704744,0273704745,"Traders, Guns & Money",Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives,Satyajit Das,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QLw2sjBuF9oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Derivatives. Warren Buffett once called them 'financial weapons of mass destruction.' Unlike some WMDs, however, derivatives are easy to find: nowadays, thousands of companies use them to make money and protect against risk. But most derivatives buyers simply don't understand what they're dealing with and sellers are in no rush to enlighten them. This book will! Traders, Guns and Money is a sensational first-person expose of the derivatives business, straight from one of the industry's most widely-known experts. Satyajit Das has operated for decades on both the ""buy"" and ""sell"" side, and authored some of the field's leading references. Now, he's written the first no-holds-barred insider's guide To The real derivatives business.",2006,3.83,334,1398
9780275942694,0275942694,The Heights of Courage,A Tank Leader's War on the Golan,Avigdor Kahalani,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7aIXJkFzqe8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In October 1973, the State of Israel was invaded by Egyptian and Syrian forces. Despite early losses, Israel managed to outfight its opponents. The brief and bloody Yom Kippur War stands as a unique chapter in modern military history. Fought primarily by tank units, the war became a story not only of battle strategy and tactics, but also one of human discipline, endurance and sacrifice. Avigdor Kahalani was commander of a tank battalion on the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War, in The Heights of Courage he describes this experience. Beginning with a description of the initial Syrian offensive, the author recounts the personal endeavours of the men in his battalion, their fears and ambitions, as well as their emotional and physical hardships. His account traces the efforts of the Israel Armoured Corps as they struggled to overcome extreme difficulties and setbacks in the field, and he describes their ultimate penetration into enemy territory.",1992,4.18,234,97
9780275991166,0275991164,C. S. Lewis,"Life, Works, and Legacy",Bruce L. Edwards,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mAL6V-aM7KkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Examines the life and works of the British author and scholar, best known for his creation of ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" series.",2007,4.43,1416,6
9780285633148,0285633147,The Lost World of Agharti,The Mystery of Vril Power,Alec Maclellan,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zcfiLwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For centuries, into our time, people have sought to discover the truth of the ancient legend of a hidden subterranean kingdom linked to every continent by a vast network of tunnels and passageways. The people who inhabit this utopia are said to have lived in seclusion for untold aeons, guarding the secret Vril Power by which man and nature can be controlled. This remarkable book records the findings of the many explorers who have sought to learn the truth and attempts to trace the course of the tunnels leading to Agharti.",1996,3.79,232,23
9780285635944,0285635948,Zero,The Biography of a Dangerous Idea,Charles Seife,Zero (The number),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yj1EPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Christian Church used it to fend off heretics. Today it's a timebomb ticking in the heart of astrophysics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything.Zero has pitted East against West and faith against reason, and its intransigence persists in the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the Big Bang. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time: the quest for a theory of everything. Within the concept of zero lies a philosophical and scientific history of humanity.Charles Seife's elegant and witty account takes us from Aristotle to superstring theory by way of Egyptian geometry, Kabbalism, Einstein, the Chandrasekhar limit and Stephen Hawking. Covering centuries of thought, it is a concise tour of a world of ideas, bound up in the simple notion of nothing.",2003,3.96,248,116
9780285647473,0285647474,Zen Buddhism & Psychoanalysis,,Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki;Erich Fromm;Richard De Martino,Psychoanalysis and religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wMEAJwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The key book in our quest for understanding of ourselves and our lives.What differences are there in Eastern and Western thought regarding the nature of the human mind and our role in the cosmos? How can Zen and psychoanalysis help us in our struggle to realise our full potential as human beings and members of society?Erich Fromm's seminal work among contemporary efforts to resolve our spiritual crisis results here in the great achievement of a language to reveal the contributions of Zen and psychoanalysis to our 'struggle to be fully born'. He shows how both can teach us in their different ways to live our lives rather than be 'lived by them'.D.T. Suzuki explains with profound and gentle wisdom how Western materialism and intellectualism contrast with the Eastern concept of acceptance as the basis of well-being for the 'whole man'. His illuminating discussion of the unconscious and the self shed fresh light on our understanding of our own nature.Combined with Richard De Martino's clear account of the psychology of Zen, these writings make up a work of brilliance and value that has much to help us in our quest for understanding.",1974,3.94,188,517
9780285647879,0285647873,The Wanderer,,Knut Hamsun;Gunnvor Stallybrass,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RU1_QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It has always been a pleasure to me to watch the flowers and insects in their struggle to keep alive. When the sun was hot they would come to life again, and give themselves up for an hour or so to the old delight; the big, strong flies were just as much alive as in midsummer. There was a peculiar sort of earth-bug here that I had not seen before--little yellow things, no bigger than a small-type comma, yet they could jump several thousand times their own length. Think of the strength of such a body in proportion to its size! There is a tiny spider here with its hinder part like a pale yellow pearl.",2001,3.96,164,672
9780285648111,028564811X,Memoirs,,Pablo Neruda,"Poets, Chilean",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hUViQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Pablo Neruda has been hailed as the greatest poet of the 20th century & was a Nobel laureat. In these memoirs he also recounts his distinguished career as a diplomat & politician, during which he came to know iconic figures including Gandhi, Che Guevara & Mao Tse Tung.",2004,4.21,378,1205
9780292701328,0292701322,Paso Del Norte,,Juan Rulfo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nf_eDyxtbD0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his collection of short stories El llano en llamas (1953), translated as a collection here in English for the first time. In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentration on cosmopolitanism, the works of Rulfo hold a unique position. These stories of a rural people caught in the play of natural forces are not simply an interior examination of the phenomena of their world; they are written for the larger purpose of showing the actions of humans in broad terms of reality.",1967,4.19,191,321
9780292760288,0292760280,100 Love Sonnets,Cien sonetos de amor,Pablo Neruda,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=imyWxbj-n2AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Poems explore the depths of the distinguished Chilean writer's love for his wife,1986,4.4,232,12284
9780295976914,0295976918,Long Day's Journey,The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West,Carlos A. Schwantes,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ma5zQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Schwantes gathers historical photos, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. 255 illustrations, 40 in color.",1999,4,408,4
9780295979847,0295979844,Philip Vera Cruz,A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement,Craig Scharlin;Lilia V Villanueva,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=52PrdUKTUxgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A lost chapter of both California labor history and the Asian American experience are eloquently brought to light in Philip Vera Cruz’s oral memoir. This account of an exceptional leader explores the unacknowledged role of Filipino laborers in the creation of the United Farm Workers union.,2000,3.87,208,45
9780299125400,0299125408,Mark Twain's Own Autobiography,The Chapters from the North American Review,Mark Twain,"Authors, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZehUN4w4ZxwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Fifteen studies are grouped into three closely related themes identified as 1) textual construction of the professions--the ways in which texts help shape professional perspectives of human experience; 2) the dynamics of discourse communities--the discursive process as a means of enrolling outsiders into an insider's views and commitments; and 3) the dynamics of how texts, originating within specialized discourse communities, can profoundly influence a wide range of social activities. Paper edition (unseen), $15.75. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR",1990,3.83,301,9
9780299178000,0299178005,Letters to J. D. Salinger,,Chris Kubica;Will Hochman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zL13dNDYjccC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents nearly eighty personal letters addressed to the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye by such noted authors, editors, journalists, and critics as Frederick Busch, Nicholas Delbanco, Stewart O'Nan, George Plimpton, Melanie Rae Thon, W. P. Kinsella, and others.",2002,3.54,270,24
9780300000306,0300000308,The Poems of Alexander Pope,A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations,Alexander Pope,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OJhIxFLmwpkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope’s poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version of The Rape of the Lock and other early versions of phrases preserved in the critical apparatus of the six-volume work. Pope’s own notes to his poems are included, as well as a generous selection of the copious annotation in the Twickenham text. This reduced version of the unsurpassed standard edition of Pope will be of great value to all students and teachers of English literature. John Butt, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, is general editor of the Twickenham Edition. ""The publishers are surely right in claiming that 'this should for long remain the standard one-volume edition of Pope's poems.' The Twichenham edition . . . has been a splendid achievement, and Professor Butt's distillation of the long labours of his fellow-editors is most commendable.""—Times Literary Supplement.",1963,3.95,880,158
9780300000894,0300000898,Psychoanalysis and Religion,,Erich Fromm,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gtAgGreKUcEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A noted psychoanalyst assesses the modern issue between traditional religion and a philosophy that takes as the sole aim in life the satisfaction of instinctive and material values. ""A daring book to have cast into the midst of the world's excitements, for it will itself breed new excitements...it is not a book to be missed by those interested in man's spiritual growth.""--New York Times",1950,4.04,126,822
9780300044881,0300044887,"Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Gorgias, Menexenus",,Plato,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fkTYyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Annotation. Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII. In this book, R.E. Allen provides a superb translation of the Parmenides along with a structural analysis that procedes on the assumption that formal elements, logical and dramatic, are important to its interpretation and that the argument of the Parmenides is aporetic, a statement of metaphysical perplexities. Allen's original translation of and commentary on the Parmenides were published in 1983 to great acclaim and have now been revised by the author.",1984,4.14,352,112
9780300062908,0300062907,The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History,"Volume 2: Continental America, 1800–1867",D. W. Meinig,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Rk-LFPFl_3YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"V.1. Atlantic America, 1492-1800, V.2. Continental America, 1800-1967.",1986,4.15,636,25
9780300078152,0300078153,Seeing Like a State,How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed,James C. Scott,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PqcPCgsr2u0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields.,1998,4.19,445,2316
9780300090956,0300090951,Leonardo on Painting,"An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci, with a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career as an Artist",Leonardo,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=roHf588GZJYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This is a selection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings on painting. Martin Kemp and Margaret Walker have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources.,2001,4.13,336,115
9780300091694,0300091699,Dreaming in Pictures,The Photography of Lewis Carroll,Douglas Robert Nickel;Lewis Carroll;San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,Photography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Jpnz4lJZrlcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Lewis Carroll was the pen name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other beloved children's books. But before achieving fame as an author, Dodgson was a prolific and sophisticated photographer, acutely engaged in the art world of Victorian England. This beautifully illustrated book is the first to examine Dodgson's photographs not as the sideline of a celebrated writer, but as the creations of a serious photographic artist - and to demonstrate their importance to the history of photography."" ""Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the International Center for Photography in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved",2002,4.01,172,105
9780300093049,0300093047,Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages,,Umberto Eco,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uT61fJtcHroC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture. ""[A] delightful study. . . . [Eco's] remarkably lucid and readable essay is full of contemporary relevance and informed by the energies of a man in love with his subject.""--Robert Taylor, Boston Globe ""The book lays out so many exciting ideas and interesting facts that readers will find it gripping.""--Washington Post Book World ""A lively introduction to the subject.""--Michael Camille, The Burlington Magazine ""If you want to become acquainted with medieval aesthetics, you will not find a more scrupulously researched, better written (or better translated), intelligent and illuminating introduction than Eco's short volume.""--D. C. Barrett, Art Monthly",2002,3.98,144,947
9780300093056,0300093055,Long Day's Journey Into Night,,Eugene O'Neill,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=43dmWfWi_2MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A play about a family of four psychologically disturbed people reveals aspects of the author's own life.,2002,4.07,179,31450
9780300094008,0300094000,Marcel Proust,A Life,William C. Carter,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NxTaYm26Q1cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust. Based on a host of recently available letters, memoirs, and manuscripts, it sheds new light on Proust's character, his development as an artist, and his masterpiece ""In Search of Lost Time"" (long known in English as ""Remembrance of Things Past""). 47 illustrations.",2002,4.32,992,13
9780300095241,0300095244,How Democratic is the American Constitution?,Second Edition,Robert A. Dahl,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k0jCO_FMbFYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author argues that certain aspects of the American Constitution are deeply flawed and detract from a purely democratic society and includes discussions on the electoral college, the Federalist Papers, and proportional representation.",2003,3.64,240,436
9780300098259,0300098251,The Voices of Morebath,Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village,Eamon Duffy,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E45TQd678hYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,- Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature.,2003,3.7,232,344
9780300101058,0300101058,Hamlet,,William Shakespeare;Burton Raffel;Harold Bloom,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MPGOoXzP-XgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""In his introduction, Raffel offers important background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story, along with an analysis of the characters Hamlet and Ophelia. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom meditates on the originality of Shakespeare's achievement. The book also includes a careful selection of items for further reading.""--BOOK JACKET.",2003,4.01,249,769
9780300108484,0300108486,Cosmos,,Witold Gombrowicz;Danuta Borchardt,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=60sZmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Within the genre of crime fiction, Gombrowicz explores the angst of human existence",2005,4.03,208,1801
9780300111149,0300111142,Cuba,A New History,Richard Gott,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aVq0qOnLFusC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A thorough examination of the history of the controversial island country looks at little-known aspects of its past, from its pre-Columbian origins to the fate of its native peoples, complete with up-to-date information on Cuba's place in a post-Soviet world.",2005,4.06,384,275
9780300116182,0300116187,Eva Hesse Drawing,,"Menil collection (Houston, Tex.).;Eva Hesse;Drawing center (New York).;Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.);Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minn.).;Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)",Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OVotum-BiNAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Presents an exhibition catalog that contains reproductions of the artist's working drawings along with essays discussing her works and methodology.,2006,4.54,344,52
9780300119947,0300119941,The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose,,Thomas Stearns Eliot;Lawrence S. Rainey,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1Kxoqxcz4WgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The definitive edition of the most influential poem of the twentieth century,2006,4.11,304,218
9780306804984,0306804980,Hannibal,Enemy Of Rome,Leonard Cottrell,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TZLStAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the year 216 B.C., Hannibal of Carthage, faced with an opposing Roman army twice the size of his own, outwitted the enemy at Cannae by means of a strategy which has become a classic of its kind. As a result of his famous ”double pincer” maneuver, 70,000 Roman soldiers died within the space of a few hours on a field the size of New York's Central Park. Yet, as devastating and startling as Cannae was, it was only one of a long list of incredible achievements. Hannibal's fantastic 1,000-mile march across the Alps from Spain to Italy was one of the wonders of ancient times. He began his hazardous journey with 90,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry, and 37 elephants. By the time he reached the Valley of the Po, more than 30,000 troops and many of his elephants had perished, but he still managed to stay in Italy for sixteen years.Blending biography and military adventure, Hannibal is a portrait of a military genius who was also a highly civilized man. The son of Hamilcar Barca, a famous general in his own right, Hannibal was a student of the Greek classics. But his father's lifelong grudge against Rome fostered in the son a deep hatred for that Republic and a fierce determination to subdue it forever. This resulted in the bloody battles of Lake Trasimene, Campania, Nole, Capua, and Zama, all of which Leonard Cottrell describes with vigor and authority. In gathering material for Hannibal, Cottrell traveled the entire route that Hannibal took across the Alps, thus bringing to his account a valuable firsthand knowledge of his subject. With the drama and authenticity for which he is famous, Leonard Cottrell describes Hannibal's amazing campaign—a saga of victory after victory which fell just short of its ultimate goal: the annihilation of Rome.",1992,3.89,248,128
9780306805622,0306805626,The Collapse of the Third Republic,An Inquiry Into the Fall of France in 1940,William Lawrence Shirer,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IdyBPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On June 17, 1940 William L. Shirer stood in the streets of Paris and watched the unending flow of gray German uniforms along its boulevards. In just six lovely weeks in the spring and summer of 1940 a single battle brought down in total military defeat one of the world's oldest, greatest, and most civilized powers—the second mightiest empire on earth and the possessor of one of the finest military machines ever assembled. How did it happen? After nearly a decade of research in the massive archives left from World War II and after hundreds of conversations with the Third Republic’s leaders, generals, diplomats, and ordinary citizens, Shirer presents the definitive answer in his stunning re-creation of why and how France fell before Hitler's armies in 1940. His book is also a devastating examination of the confusion, corruption, and cynicism that drained the strength and toughness of a democracy which Thomas Jefferson once called ""every man's second country."" This book complements and completes the dramatic story of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and continues to rank as one of the most important works of history of our time.",1994,4.2,1082,497
9780306808821,030680882X,The Complete Short Stories Of Robert Louis Stevenson,With A Selection Of The Best Short Novels,Charles Neider;Robert Louis Stevenson,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qDS8tQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a writer of power and originality, who penned such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Weir of Hermiston. The editor has collected in convenient form Stevenson's short fiction, including the complete New Arabian Nights and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as ghost stories, medieval romances, farces, horror stories, and the South Sea Tales. This volume amply illustrates Stephenson's wide range and enduring appeal.",1998,4.19,720,51
9780306808906,0306808900,Hemingway,A Biography,Jeffrey Meyers,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uWPGtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and numerous short stories, he explored such universal themes as stoicism in adversity, as well as our futile struggles against nature and mortality.This evocative, sympathetic biography illuminates the events that informed Hemingway's vigorous life: an accident-prone youth and early rivalry with his father; his experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II; his stormy relationships with writers and women; his sudden fame, slow decline, and suicide. Based on previously unavailable information and exclusive interviews, Hemingway enriches anyone's understanding and appreciation of America's most important twentieth-century writer.",1999,4.03,644,190
9780306808913,0306808919,Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll,The Birth of Rock in the Wild Years Before Elvis,Nick Tosches,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V9wgnwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of ""Country"" now offers a paean to a forsaken time of relentless excess, sudden ruin, and fierce music--the days of rock 'n' roll, long before Elvis came on the scene. 42 illustrations.",1999,4.1,288,327
9780306809323,030680932X,The Dark Side Of Genius,The Life Of Alfred Hitchcock,Donald Spoto,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2FpPtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock's long life and brilliant career, Donald Spoto also explores the roots of the director's obsessions with blondes, food, murder, and idealized love—and he traces the incomparable, bizarre genius from Hitchcock's English childhood through the golden years of his career in America as one of the greatest directors in the history of filmmaking.",1999,3.83,608,950
9780306809576,0306809575,Sammlung,,Mark Twain,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VCt--yh7cXYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This book contains more than seventy-five essays on a variety of topics by Mark Twain.,2000,4.32,732,190
9780306813689,0306813688,Johnny Cash,The Biography,Michael Streissguth,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BBRDZoBeI88C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explores the life and accomplishments of the successful country singer known as the rebellious ""Man in Black"" who struggled with a guilt-ridden childhood, addictions, and self-doubt.",2006,3.79,334,277
9780306814556,0306814552,23 Days in July,Inside the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's Record-Breaking Victory,John Wilcockson,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7lG1ugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Taking place over twenty-three days in July and across more than 2,100 miles of smooth blacktop, rough cobblestones, and punishing mountain terrain, the Tour de France is the most grueling sports event in the world. And in 2004, five-time champion Lance Armstrong set out to achieve what no other cyclist in the 100-year history of the race had ever done: win a sixth Tour de France.Armstrong had four serious challengers who wanted nothing more than to deny the man the French call Le Boss from achieving his goal. The major threat among them was the only other former Tour de France champion in last year's race, Germany's Jan Ullrich- The Kaiser. But when the race was over, Lance Armstrong once again wore the yellow jersey of victory.",2005,3.67,344,354
9780307001467,0307001466,75 Years of Little Golden Books: 1942-2017,A Commemorative Set of 12 Best-loved Books,Margaret Wise Brown;Ruth Krauss;Richard Scarry;Dennis R. Shealy;Kathryn Jackson;Byron Jackson;Janette Sebring Lowrey;Gertrude Crampton;Jane Werner Watson,Animals,,,2017,4.23,24,1047
9780307236012,0307236013,The Deeper Meaning of Liff,A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet-- But There Ought to be,Douglas Adams;John Lloyd,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TVFPmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a dictionary of such items as ""Tingrith,"" or the feeling of aluminum foil against your fillings, and ""Ahenny,"" the way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.",2005,3.93,192,3924
9780307237903,0307237907,The Last Boleyn,,Karen Harper,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yeYzpDgTo8MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Henry is generally well-behaved, but he is occasionally arrogant and vain. Henry is at heart a hard worker, but his frequent bouts of illness hinder his work.",2006,4.05,592,8848
9780307238276,030723827X,Giada's Family Dinners,,Giada De Laurentiis,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lfRvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Food Network host and best-selling author of Everyday Italian presents a collection of easy-to-prepare, flexible recipes for Italian food lovers with a busy schedule, explaining how to put together simple but tempting meals for everyday evening dinners or for special holiday occasions. 400,000 first printing.",2006,3.96,256,13866
9780307264121,0307264122,The Spy Who Barked,,George Edward Stanley,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jykzxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eight-year-old spy Adam Sharp pursues the very short Ambassador of Barkastan, who has stolen a top secret computer program, DOGBARK, that will let him understand the language of dogs.",2002,3.47,48,24
9780307264657,0307264653,Terrorist,,John Updike,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KlFnmmF0IJcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eighteen-year-old Ahmad, the son of an Irish-American mother and long-gone Egyptian father, is contemptuous of the self-indulgent society surrounding him, and devoted to the teachings of Islam, becomes drawn into an insidious terrorist plot.",2006,3.17,320,3405
9780307264886,0307264882,Beloved,,Toni Morrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ppfYf0K6fcoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed, in a new edition of the Nobel Laureate's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 25,000 first printing.",2006,3.81,360,617
9780307264893,0307264890,The Name of the Rose,,Umberto Eco,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Za0ZTjVNpWAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective, penetrating the cunning labyrinth of the abbey and deciphering coded manuscripts for clues.",2006,4.12,560,1323
9780307265432,0307265439,The Road,,Cormac McCarthy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eMq_lTq6fUgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity. 250,000 first printing.",2006,3.96,241,574745
9780307266613,0307266613,The Best of Wodehouse,An Anthology,Pelham Grenville Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tLtw51x0eyUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A compilation of works by one of the twentieth century's leading humorists features two novels, The Code of the Woosters and Uncle Fred in the Springtime, as well as fourteen short stories and three autobiographical pieces.",2007,4.4,840,400
9780307274977,0307274977,Buried Child,A Play,Sam Shepard,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YCVRIETAFJoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A squalid farm populated by the members of a troubled family--alcoholic Dodge; his sanctimonious wife, Halie; and their sons, Tilden, a former athlete and near idiot, and Bradley, who has lost one of his legs to a chain saw--forms the setting for a confrontation with the dark secrets of the past, thanks to the arrival of Bradley's estranged son, Vince, and his girlfriend. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Reprint.",2006,3.91,120,6558
9780307275554,0307275558,The Devil Wears Prada,,Lauren Weisberger,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jgnS-R9qNU8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A small-town girl fresh out of an Ivy League college lands a job at a prestigious fashion magazine, but wonders if the glamorous perks are worth working for the editor from hell.",2006,3.73,432,723487
9780307275561,0307275566,Death Match,,Lincoln Child,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xBReAE4-mogC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a believed-perfect couple is found dead of an apparent double suicide, former FBI forensic psychologist Christopher Lash is hired by the matchmaking company that introduced the pair to each other to perform a discreet investigation through which he discovers that the matchmaking company may harbor dark secrets. By the co-author of Utopia. Reprint.",2006,3.78,388,8496
9780307275738,0307275736,The Lighthouse,,P. D. James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=10LKbQ2Y0N8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham, Kate Miskin struggles with her own personal turmoil, and Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith must cope with resentment over a female superior. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.",2006,3.81,400,10330
9780307275936,0307275930,If Beale Street Could Talk,A Novel,James Baldwin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=24D5xwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a pregnant Tish's boyfriend Fonny, a sculptor, is wrongfully jailed for the rape of a Puerto Rican woman, their families unite to prove the charge false. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2006,4.24,197,14306
9780307276902,0307276902,A Million Little Pieces,,James Frey,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MwNuYMr-3JsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A memoir of drug and alcohol abuse and the rehabilitation experience examines addiction and recovery through the eyes of a man who had taken his addictions to deadly extremes, describing the battle to confront the consequences of his life.",2004,3.63,432,195863
9780307277671,0307277674,Robert Langdon Novels,The Da Vinci Code : a Novel. 02,Dan Brown,Art museum curators,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hPbKKnD7qosC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion--an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless power broker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret--and an explosive historical truth--will be lost forever.",2003,3.82,489,1588890
9780307278364,0307278360,The Sunset Limited,A Novel in Dramatic Form,Cormac McCarthy,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JNFlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"McCarthy's new play packs all the wallop of his gut-wrenching fiction. ""The Sunset Limited,"" though, is not about blood and guts but about the battle for the human soul.",2006,3.96,160,6166
9780307279460,0307279464,A Walk in the Woods,Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail,Bill Bryson,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TBJHPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the author's adventurous trek along the Appalachian Trail past its natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts.",2007,4.06,397,291489
9780307290465,0307290468,The Civil War,A Narrative,Shelby Foote,United States,,"""Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox""--Publisher description.",,4.53,2934,6406
9780307335852,0307335852,The Alchemist's Daughter,,Katharine McMahon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N4tXy1Jz4O8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Growing up under the watchful eye of her father, an eccentric chemist, young Emilie Selden is a female scientist--and alchemist--in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishment, until an unexpected encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home, her work, and her father. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2006,3.24,346,3479
9780307337337,0307337332,Cesar's Way,"The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems",Cesar Millan;Melissa Jo Peltier,Pets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SA-MtfnCB8wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The star of television's The Dog Whisperer presents a commonsense guide to understanding canine behavior and dealing with common dog problems, explaining how to use a dog's natural pack instincts to help fix behavioral issues and emphasizing the importance of exercise, discipline, and affection in each dog's life. 50,000 first printing.",2006,3.74,270,6878
9780307337931,0307337936,"Small Bites, Big Nights",Seductive Little Plates for Intimate Occasions and Lavish Parties,Govind Armstrong;Ann Wycoff;Alison Clare Steingold,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BEYkPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Percy is incredibly accident-prone, and holds the dubious record of the most accidents. Percy has had a small rivalary with Harold, however, they are always willing to help each other when in trouble.",2007,3.6,256,20
9780307345974,0307345971,Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?,More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour,Mark Leyner;Billy Goldberg,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BtSODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The authors of Why Do Men Have Nipples? continues their hilarious look at the world of health with an all-new compilation of zany questions about unmentionable body parts, bodily functions, embarrassing body oddities, and more. Original. 300,000 first printing.",2006,3.56,263,1149
9780307346582,0307346587,Everyday Pasta,Favorite Pasta Recipes for Every Occasion,Giada De Laurentiis,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oMiU2rsyyWYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Collects Italian cookery recipes that range from classic favorites to innovative new dishes and are accompanied by simple instructions for making fresh pasta and a selection of side dishes.,2007,4.09,240,8719
9780307383419,0307383415,Dreams from My Father,A Story of Race and Inheritance,Barack Obama,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eNWODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The son of an African father and white American mother discusses his childhood in Hawaii, his struggle to find his identity as an African American, and his life accomplishments.",2007,3.86,442,1187
9780310214694,0310214696,Gifted Hands,The Ben Carson Story,Ben Carson;Cecil B. Murphey,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GE9ETXQUuF0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Examines the life and career of the famous neurosurgeon.,1996,4.21,224,11328
9780310217602,0310217601,Trial by Fire,,Terri Blackstock,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ji-svNwtmosC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Paramedic Issie Mattreaux joins forces with minister Nick Foster to investigate after Foster's church is burned to the ground and a young African-American man is found shot to death in the rubble. Original.,2000,4.35,347,3119
9780310243564,0310243564,"""A"" is for Abductive",The Language of the Emerging Church,Leonard I. Sweet;Brian D. McLaren;Jerry Haselmayer,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y408kb7zW7AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Is for Abductive B is for Body C is for Carpe Manana D is for Double-Ring E is for EPICtivities F is for Fractals G is for Grace H is for Holarchy I is for Icon J is for the J-Factor K is for Kaleidoscopic Change L is for Loopy M is for Metanarrative N is for Neurological Pre-Rewirings O is for Open-Endedness P is for Prayer Q is for Quest-ions R is for Radical Orthodoxy S is for Systems Theology T is for Tribal U is for Unknown V is for Voice W is for Wonder X is for Xenophilia Y is for Yes! Z is for ZendingDo You Know the Postmodern Alphabet?The letters are all the same, but the things they stand for are as different as the future is from the past. A Is for Abductive helps you get a handle today on the vocabulary of tomorrow, and on concepts indispensable for living out the old-fashioned gospel in these newfangled times.“You caused this book,” writes one of the authors. “People like you were insisting on a beginner’s guide to the pathway of postmodern ministry.” Here it is. There is no right or wrong place to begin—just pick a letter and start reading. You’ll acquire new words for a new world that will change how you think about church, about ministry, and about what it means to follow in Jesus’ footsteps—entering today’s culture in order to love it, serve it, and lead it home to God.",2003,3.17,338,48
9780310243878,0310243874,Breach of Promise,,James Scott Bell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RNpBD41SNMcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Actor and father Mark Gillen finds out how far modern courts will go to keep a child from a parent who has strong Christian views.,2004,4,345,358
9780310243885,0310243882,Deadlock,,James Scott Bell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d3aFumJZHiEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nearly losing her life in a car accident, U.S. Supreme Court justice Millicent turns to her new pastor for guidance and experiences a profound religious conversion that causes her to rethink her voting choices and become subject to impeachment. Original.",2002,3.95,319,314
9780310247562,031024756X,Ever After,,Karen Kingsbury,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sREjDcZvCv0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Twenty-year-old Emily meets Justin, a young Army reservist, and their deep love built on the foundation of faith blossoms into plans for marriage, while Emily's parents must learn to set aside their opposing views on the war in Iraq.",2006,4.32,337,10520
9780310249870,0310249872,Fanning the Flame,"Bible, Cross & Mission : Meeting the Challenge in a Changing World",Christopher J. H. Wright,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U-tpkgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Bible, the cross, and the mission – by leading members of the evangelical Anglicans.",2003,5,336,1
9780310252191,0310252199,The Church on the Other Side,Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix,Brian D. McLaren,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=973kEQV9ruUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Tested strategies for pastors and churches that want to be somewhere else in the postmodern world and need reliable and practical help to get there. Now revised and expanded. Formerly titled Reinventing Your Church.,2003,3.58,224,201
9780310254874,0310254876,The Church in Emerging Culture,Five Perspectives,Andy Crouch,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yo8USz2i7RIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A feisty, entertaining, and educational conversation about the shape of the church of the 21st century.",2003,3.35,272,188
9780310257868,0310257867,Becoming a Contagious Christian,Leader's Guide ; Communicationg Your Faith in a Style that Fits You,Mark Mittelberg;Lee Strobel;Bill Hybels,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m4GxAYrSmyMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Over one million people have experienced the groundbreaking evangelism training course Becoming a Contagious Christian -- a proven resource designed to equip believers for relational evangelism. Now revised and updated, it avoids stereotyped approaches that feel intimidating to many Christians -- and to their friends! Instead, it shows ordinary believers how to share the gospel in natural and effective ways being the person God made them to be. This participant's guide is designed to help you get the most out of the Becoming a Contagious Christian course. By applying training principles to real-life situations and relationships, you'll identify and develop an evangelism style that's effective for you. DVD segments, as well as individual and group activities, will help you gain confidence and equip you to: Discover your own style of communicating about Christ Build spiritually significant relationships Direct conversations toward matters of faith Tell your own story of coming to faith Use easy-to-remember gospel illustrations Pray with someone to receive Christ, and more! Designed for use with the revised and updated Becoming a Contagious Christian kit and small group DVD editions.",2007,3.75,299,8
9780310259664,0310259665,Journey into God's Word,Your Guide to Understanding and Applying the Bible,J. Scott Duvall;J. Daniel Hays,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yg9xDiYmaR8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Life is a journey, and like any journey, it requires an accurate, reliable roadmap to get us where we need to go. God has provided such a guide in his Word. But just as a navigator needs to learn how to interpret all the contours and symbols of a map, so also we need to be able to understand how the Bible communicates its directions to us. Journey Into God's Word helps Bible readers acquire these skills and become better at reading, interpreting, and applying the Bible to life. This abridgment of the bestselling college/seminary textbook Grasping God's Word takes the proven principles from that book and makes them accessible to people in the church. It starts with general principles of interpretation, then moves on to apply those principles to specific genres and contexts. Hands-on exercises guide readers through the interpretation process, with an emphasis on real-life application.",2005,4.16,462,766
9780310262718,0310262712,Zondervan Handbook to the Bible,,David Alexander;Pat Alexander,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nbhjHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Study guide for the Bible.,2005,4.14,816,217
9780310263456,031026345X,Velvet Elvis,Repainting the Christian Faith,Rob Bell,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TLZO9DjrmJoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide to living an authentic Christian life urges readers to seek an expression of faith that is personal, rather than in accordance with the belief systems of others, in a handbook that cites the examples of Jesus while offering a perspective on the unlimited nature of God.",2005,3.78,194,19646
9780310264132,0310264138,Purpose Driven Life MM Camouflage Edition,,"Rick Warren, D.Min.;Zondervan Publishing",Christian life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2_zhAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The #1 international bestseller! This 40-day spiritual journey will help you understand why you are alive and God's amazing plan for you both no and for eternity.,2004,3.92,336,20
9780310272663,0310272661,A Search for What Makes Sense,,Brian D. McLaren,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vg12H-k-ZSwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Finding faith is not a leap in the dark that requires you to forsake truth and intellectual honesty. In two companion volumes, Brian McLaren affirms the needs of both your mind and your heart as he helps you to find a faith that is real, honest, good, enriching, transforming, and yours.",2007,3.59,187,129
9780310330516,0310330513,The Complete Green Letters,,Miles J. Stanford,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SbBd_IKRCZAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Five volumes on sanctification published under one cover, presenting biblical foundations and keys to spiritual growth in Christ. It includes 'Abide Above', 'The Green Letters', 'The Ground of Growth', 'The Principle of Position', and 'The Reckoning That Counts'.",1983,4.2,336,279
9780310929550,0310929555,Zondervan NIV Study Bible,New International Version,Kenneth L. Barker;Donald W. Burdick,Bibles,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WvYLGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"#1 Best-selling study Bible in the best-selling NIV translation Study features fully revised and updated. Over 20,000 in-text study notes. Library of study resources at your fingertips. ""Excellent for Homeschool Use""",2002,4.7,2198,4092
9780312010447,0312010443,How to Write a Damn Good Novel,A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling,James N. Frey,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M2LVQXnSV_AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Covers characterization, plot, theme, conflicts, climax and resolution, point of view, dialogue, revision, and manuscript submission",1987,3.85,192,2093
9780312049997,0312049994,The Sun in the Morning,My Early Years in India and England,Mary Margaret Kaye,Biography & Autobiography,,"The author writes of her childhood in India; her enduring love for the romance, mystery, and culture of that country; and the creative inspiration she continues to draw from the India of the Raj",1990,4.21,454,230
9780312062354,0312062354,The Awakening,"Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives",Kate Chopin,Adultery,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9hGQQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tradition and the female talent: The awakening as a solitary book / Elaine Showalter -- Personal property: exchange value and the female self in The awakening / Margit Stange -- Thanatos and eros: Kate Chopin's The awakening / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- ""A language which nobody understood"": emancipatory strategies in The awakening / Patricia S. Yaeger -- The construction of ambiguity in The awakening: a linguistic analysis / Paula A. Treichler.",1993,3.64,343,70
9780312085124,0312085125,James Herriot's Treasury for Children,Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small,James Herriot,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Lcklm__RnqUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of the author's stories for children, including ""Moses the Kitten,"" ""The Market Square Dog,"" and ""Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb.""",1992,4.44,260,9772
9780312088477,0312088477,Modern Classics of Science Fiction,,Gardner Dozois,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-bR552nWNYoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Brian Aldiss William Gibson R.A. Lafferty Ursula K. Le Guin Lucius Shepard Bruce Sterling Theodore Sturgeon Howard Waldrop Connie Willis Gene Wolfe Roger Zelazny ""The best stories are timeless. Long years from now the stories here may still touch someone, cause that person to blink, and put the book down for a second, and stare off through the hallow air, and shirver in wonder.""",1993,4.15,672,88
9780312118181,031211818X,The Great Ape Project,Equality Beyond Humanity,Paola Cavalieri;Peter Singer,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8RMSPt0kC_kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With such assertions throughout, it is no wonder that The Great Ape Project has been embroiled in controversy even before its American publication.",1993,4.06,312,86
9780312132149,031213214X,White Man's Grave,A Novel,Richard Dooling,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OIk_WGE4UhkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a Peace Corps volunteer disappears in the African wilds, his father and his friend go after him, believing that American power and influence encompass the globe--but soon encounter greater powers and a mystery beyond their control. Reprint.",1995,3.93,400,355
9780312135256,0312135254,Isak Dinesen,The Life of a Storyteller,Judith Thurman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=atV8pWcV_CIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of the National Book Award A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Her magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established Isak Dinesen as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman's classic work explores Dinesen's life. Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have been--as Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a tale-- ""a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other."" Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.",1995,4.07,512,1015
9780312143404,0312143400,Four Weddings and a Funeral,The Screenplay for the Smash Hit Comedy,Richard Curtis,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iFY9e377DRIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The hilarious, Academy Award-nominated screenplay that features six old friends, three disastrous receptions, a tongue-tied priest, and the role that made Hugh Grant the world's favorite bumbling bachelor. Toasted by romantics and cynics, critics and fans, Four Weddings and a Funeral grossed more than $250 million worldwide, garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, and was unanimously pronounced the romantic comedy of the 90s. Richard Curtis's smart, irreverent, and brilliantly crafted screenplay will delight fans of the movie, as well as screenwriters and film students. From the first spoken line to the last (""I do""), it's a jubilant celebration of friendship, romance, and good humor.",1996,3.76,128,48
9780312147679,0312147678,With William Burroughs,,William S. Burroughs;Victor Bockris,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TnhnpCgWVwAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"William Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned a bridge with logic and wrote the classic ""Naked Lunch"", continues to fascinate readers. Now the artist's long-time friend, writer Victor Bockris, records for all objective time the choice private and public, hallucinatory and prescient, utterances of Burroughs and his famous circle. 60 photos.",1996,4.05,286,325
9780312151225,0312151225,The Everyday I Ching,,Sarah Dening,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i5j0ZumPWkwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Details how to use the ancient Chinese book of divination and discussess how to relate the I Ching's hexagrams to the problems of modern life,1997,4.19,224,23
9780312151256,031215125X,The Far Pavilions,,M. M. Kaye,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2Hw4KmShqzYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A monumental, internationally best-selling novel set in nineteenth-century India weaves a vast tapestry of love, war, and adventure in the foothills of the towering Himalayas. Reprint.",1997,4.21,958,36300
9780312155322,0312155328,From Bondage,Volume III of Mercy of a Rude Stream,Henry Roth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4oDRkC5XMNwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An old Jew looks back on his climb from the slums of New York into the rarefied world of wealth and intellect. He describes a romance with his college professor. By the author of A Diving Rock on the Hudson.,1997,4.1,420,57
9780312155858,0312155859,Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles,A Novel,Margaret George,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-YkXAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fictional portrait of the life of Mary Queen of Scots begins with the Catholic princess in 1542, only six days old, being crowned as the Queen of the Scots, and continues with her crowning as Queen of France and subsequent downfall. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",1997,4.05,870,11239
9780312157111,0312157118,The Communist Manifesto: Marx,With Related Documents,John Toews,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dhK7wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is an edition of The Communist Manifesto with related documents. A 30-page introduction traces the trajectory of Marx's thought from the 1840s onward and provides background on the political, social and intellectual contexts of which the Manifesto was an historical product. Accompanying the Manifesto are 8 additional documents that show the evolution of and influences on Marx's thought over time. A Marx-Engels chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliography, illustrations, a glossary of terms and an index are also included.",1999,3.54,184,93
9780312172251,0312172257,Through the Dark Labyrinth,A Biography of Lawrence Durrell,Gordon Bowker,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VcVpQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the life of Durrell, author of ""The Alexandria Quartet,"" and discusses the influence of Eastern religions on his work",1997,3.83,480,36
9780312181109,0312181108,I Capture the Castle,,Dodie Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cxAZf0kIy84C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The 1934 journal of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain reveals her perspective on six stormy months in the eccentric and poverty-stricken life of her family in a ruined Suffolk castle, ending with the revelation that Cassandra is deeply in love.",1948,4,343,62290
9780312181338,0312181337,Marilyn Manson,,Kurt Reighley,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rFd0xYYNSGcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a biographical portrait of the band, focusing on their music, their antics and incidents on the road, and their often misunderstood message",1998,3.39,192,112
9780312183011,0312183011,Radio On,A Listener's Diary,Sarah Vowell,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=alQE3M4q-u4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A self-proclaimed member of Generation X examines what is on the radio day-by-day and how she as an audience interacts with it from morning to night, in a car, at home, and in the office",1997,3.42,256,1468
9780312186883,0312186886,Human Croquet,A Novel,Kate Atkinson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qGNmjrEfzEEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A dark yet moving exploration of a young girl's past begins on Isobel Fairfax's sixteenth birthday, when she comes to learn the truth about her strange family and the mysterious disappearance of her own mother. Reprint.",1999,3.71,352,6602
9780312194390,0312194390,The Autobiography of Henry VIII,"With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers: A Novel",Margaret George,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xCsx6NhzZkAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Autobiography of Henry VIII is the magnificent historical novel that established Margaret George's career. Evocatively written in the first person as Henry VIII's private journals, the novel was the product of fifteen years of meticulous research and five handwritten drafts. Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and neglected his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; who finally grew fat, disease-ridden, dissolute. Now, in her magnificent work of storytelling and imagination Margaret George bring us Henry VIII's story as he himself might have told it, in memoirs interspersed with irreverent comments from his jester and confident, Will Somers. Brilliantly combining history, wit, dramatic narrative, and an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power, this monumental novel shows us Henry the man more vividly than he has ever been seen before.",1998,4.25,939,23573
9780312194406,0312194404,Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book,,Bill Richardson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MYJ_8b0Wf9kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Brothers Hector and Virgil make another appearance in this collection of anecdotes, recipes, gossip, and childhood memories, in a novel in which local poet Solomon Solomon makes an amusing revelation about the history of the twin landlords",1998,3.77,208,315
9780312199432,0312199430,One Thousand White Women,The Journals of May Dodd,Jim Fergus,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AS-xz-xoHmYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial ""Brides for Indians"" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.",1999,3.88,434,97955
9780312202057,0312202059,Requiem for Harlem,"Mercy of a Rude Stream Volume IV, A Novel",Henry Roth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JDTsV63ow-UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fourth and final volume of the epic series Mercy of a Rude Stream, by one of the century's most respected authors, follows a tormented love affair while recreating the world of Jewish Harlem and bohemian Greenwich Village. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",1998,4.16,304,51
9780312203030,0312203039,High Five,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9aqX3Z1vlLkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum struggles to make ends meet while coping with a missing Uncle Fred, homicidal rapist and stalker Benito Ramirez, amorous vice cop Joe Morelli, and would-be lover Roger",1999,4.18,292,660
9780312203856,0312203853,"James Tiptree, Jr.",The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon,Julie Phillips,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TNdL3H0tgKsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Profiles the successful woman author who hid behind the male pen name of James Tiptree, Jr., to publish short works of science fiction in the 1970s, describing her work as an intelligence officer during World War II and her shocking suicide.",2006,4.24,469,929
9780312241223,0312241224,Birds of America,Stories,Lorrie Moore,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pLBTgtXCPkkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Editors' Choice A Pulishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Birds of America is a stunning collection of twelve stories by Lorrie Moore, one of our finest authors at work today. With her characteristic wit and piercing intelligence she unfolds a series of portraits of the lost and unsettled of America, and with a trademark humor that fuels each story with pathos and understanding.",1999,4.11,291,11984
9780312241353,0312241356,And The Band Played on,"Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic",Randy Shilts,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A8g2VPGtdUkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An examination of the AIDS crisis exposes the federal government for its inaction, health authorities for their greed, and scientists for their desire for prestige in the face of the AIDS pandemic.",2000,4.39,656,18518
9780312243357,0312243359,We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families,Stories From Rwanda,Philip Gourevitch,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g8dRg_YA39MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title. With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's ""genocidal logic"" in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. Through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political challenges of survival and on how the new leaders of postcolonial Africa went to war in the Congo when resurgent genocidal forces threatened to overrun central Africa. Can a country composed largely of perpetrators and victims create a cohesive national society? This moving contribution to the literature of witness tells us much about the struggle everywhere to forge sane, habitable political orders, and about the stubbornness of the human spirit in a world of extremity. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.",1999,4.25,356,23498
9780312252816,0312252811,Death in the Andamans,,M. M. Kaye,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lMFbMB3PZroC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While visiting the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, Copper Randal and Valerie Masson become entangled in a mysterious case of drowning and murder. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2000,3.93,272,813
9780312263089,0312263082,Death in Berlin,,M. M. Kaye,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X2Je-MrO_gkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"En route to a Germany still scarred by World War II, young Miranda Brand finds herself caught up in a search for a fortune in lost diamonds and in a murder committed on the night train to Berlin. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2000,3.89,272,839
9780312263102,0312263104,Death in Kashmir,A Mystery,M. M. Kaye,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CsUSjmbYMTYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Sarah Parrish journeys to Gulmarg, a vacation ski resort in the mountains above the valley of Kashmir, she finds herself embroiled in danger, intrigue, and multiple murder. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2000,3.95,256,1435
9780312263232,0312263236,Four Mothers,A Novel,Shifra Horn;Dalya Bilu,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=md0QD7R6f2kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This beautifully imagined debut novel tells the story of five generations of women in one family against the backdrop of 100 years in Jerusalem. Starting with the birth of the family's first boy to the last generation, this epic is rich in the magical realism of fable and folklore.",2000,3.69,276,198
9780312263997,0312263996,Timbuktu,A Novel,Paul Auster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5ZJ3w23MMDkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.",1999,3.68,181,9200
9780312264895,0312264895,The Italian Girl,,Patricia Hall,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LgUrHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Investigating a skeleton found near Bradfield, Michael Thackeray learns that the remains are those of a girl who went missing in 1953.",2000,3.4,208,33
9780312265052,0312265050,The Naked and the Dead,"50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author",Norman Mailer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c66GLzQjQFAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Portrays the contrasting personalities and nostalgic reminiscences of a group of World War II American soldiers engaged in a combat operation against the Japanese. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2000,3.94,721,20541
9780312265816,0312265816,Enchanted Evening,Volume III of the Autobiography of M. M. Kaye,M. M. Kaye,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tsNdSys-9FMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author concludes her autobiography with stories of her life in England, India, and China in the years between the two World Wars.",2000,4.38,368,97
9780312266059,0312266057,The Illustrated Story Of O,,Pauline Reage,Photography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TOikAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""...I was convinced that Story of O was going to revolutionize the book trade, that I would sell hundreds of thousands of copies across the world, and that moral attitudes would change overnight. The audacity of this novel seemed to me to be liberating rather than provocative. I perceived the promise of a new freedom. And I expected to cause a shock.""--Jean-Jacques Pauvert, from the Introduction When Story of O was first published in 1954 in Paris by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, it narrowly escaped censorship by the Department of the Interior and eventually became the most widely translated French novel in the world. It describes in cool, elegant language the experiences of a young woman as she willingly enters a dark maze of perverse sexual practices within a clandestine amoral society. Revelling in pure fantasy, its theme is total submission through love to excesses of sadism and masochism, and the bond of ""ownership."" Now Doris Kloster, a photographer specializing in issues of women's sexuality and power, has realized a long-standing dream. She has created a photographic representation of one of the most famous and controversial erotic novels ever published. The result is another sensation. The Illustrated Story of O presents over 50 superb images which mirror perfectly the intense eroticism of the novel. Shooting entirely in Paris and its environs, Doris Kloster has succeeded in matching characters, locations, costumes and props to the original descriptions. And each magnificent color photograph is accompanied by a short extract from the novel. In addition, there is a Preface from Doris Kloster herself and an Introduction from Jean-Jacques Pauvert, the original publisher of the novel. The Illustrated Story of O presents a rich visual feast that will delight fans of Doris Kloster's work, and appeal strongly to connoisseurs of the darker excesses of sexuality. It is destined to become a classic collector's edition.",2001,4,160,25
9780312267179,0312267177,Catfish and Mandala,A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam,Andrew X. Pham,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GMqwBI6Bx7AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A Vietnamese American returns to the land of his birth in a memoir of the consequences of war and the divide that still separates Asian Americans from the dominant culture,2000,3.96,344,4541
9780312270827,0312270828,The Satanic Verses,A Novel,Salman Rushdie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SPFPCBtIJpMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The explosion of a jetliner over India triggers an Apocalyptic battle that sweeps across the subcontinent. Reprint.,2000,3.71,561,41709
9780312273224,0312273223,Absent in the Spring and Other Novels,Absent in the Spring -- Giant's Bread -- The Rose and the Yew Tree,Mary Westmacott;Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rbkRilwG3zkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Originally written by Agatha Christie under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott, these three classic novels--Giants' Bread, Absent in the Spring, and The Rose and the Yew Tree--appear in a special omnibus edition. Original. 10,000 first printing.",2001,4.19,656,88
9780312274924,0312274920,Round Ireland with a Fridge,,Tony Hawks,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PUElQgvtSOgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Have you ever made a drunken bet? Worse, still, have you eveer tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland wich a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty traveling companion-cum-domestic appliance, he made his way from Dublin to Donegal, from Sligo through Mayo, Galway, Clare, Kerry, Cork, Wexford, Wicklow--and back again to Dublin. In their month of madness, Tony and his fridge met a real prince, a bogus king, and the fridge got christened. They surfed together, entered a bachelor festival, and one of them had sex without the other knowing. And unexpectedly, the fridge itself became a momentary focus for the people of Ireland. An international bestseller, Round Ireland with a Fridge is a classic travel adventure in the tradition of Bill Bryson with a dash of Dave Barry.",2001,3.79,248,14661
9780312277109,0312277105,An Unfortunate Woman,A Journey,Richard Brautigan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fx4k5hJwYrEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Completed prior to the author's 1984 suicide, a last unpublished novel explores what he terms the fragile and mysterious shadowland surrounding death and considers the protagonist's ruminations on another person's suicide. By the author of Trout Fishing in America. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2001,3.78,132,1312
9780312278496,0312278497,The Glass Bead Game,(Magister Ludi) A Novel,Hermann Hesse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lTVr7hZVY-kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).",2002,4.11,558,24035
9780312279998,031227999X,Emotionally Weird,A Novel,Kate Atkinson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3HSNPLvO1JQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seeking refuge in the ancient, mouldering home of their ancestors on an island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, reveal the secrets of their lives and loves, past and present, to each other, in a hilarious novel about mothers, daughters, and love. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2001,3.45,368,5066
9780312286217,031228621X,A Writer's Workbook,Daily Exercises for the Writing Life,Caroline Sharp;Elizabeth Gilbert,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iiTfCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides a series of warm-ups and practical exercises for aspiring writers that address such issues as fear of failure, dyslexia, writer's block, rewriting, and related matters. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2002,3.71,176,148
9780312287443,0312287445,Waiting for My Cats to Die,A Memoir,Stacy Horn,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=55JlPp-P7DUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A hilarious romp through the joys and terrors of middle age follows the adventures of Stacy Horn--a forty-year-old woman and TV addict who has dedicated herself to caring for her two diabetic cats and to dealing with the sudden realization of a mid-life crisis. Reprint.,2002,3.67,320,173
9780312288013,0312288018,Serious Girls,A Novel,Maxine Swann,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mF4yPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sixteen year olds Maya and Roe form an intense friendship when they find themselves cast as outsiders at an all girls boarding school. Sharing their life stories, and curiosity about the adult world, they wonder how they might become ""people"" with style and character as opposed to school girls. When they move beyond the enclosed world of the school to experience the city, and relationships with men, both girls test the line between an emerging sense of self and its total disintegration.",2004,3.19,240,202
9780312288273,0312288271,Lords of the White Castle,,Elizabeth Chadwick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ybhV4hcPO78C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Prince John accuses Fulke FitzWarin, a young courtier, of cheating at chess, the royal household is thrown into terrible turmoil, sparking a rivalry that could prevent the FitzWarin family from reclaiming their rightful estate.",2002,4.21,624,1485
9780312289515,0312289510,The Christmas Shoes,,Donna VanLiere,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ISMSvEsRR-EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While shopping for gifts on Christmas Eve, Robert, a successful lawyer whose family life is falling apart, meets Nathan, an eight-year-old boy whose mother is dying.",2001,4.23,132,31800
9780312295431,031229543X,Education As My Agenda,"Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools",Gertrude S. Williams;Jo Ann Robinson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=btui1B1IfEMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools, The Baltimore Sun called her ""the most powerful of principals"" who ""tangled with two superintendents and beat them both."" In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound education and describes the battles she waged to secure those elements, first as teacher, then a counselor, and, for twenty-five years, as principal. She also described her own education - growing up black in largely white Germantown, Pennsylvania; studying black history and culture for the first time at Cheyney State Teachers College; and meeting the rigorous demands of the program which she graduated from in 1949. In retracing her career, Williams examines the highs and lows of urban public education since World War II. She is at once an outspoken critic and spirited advocate of the system to which she devoted her life.",2005,4.25,336,4
9780312300333,0312300336,Banvard's Folly,Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World,Paul Collins,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MSv6w5Ba2Y4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated. Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different kind of book. Here are thirteen unforgettable portraits of forgotten people: men and women who might have claimed their share of renown but who, whether from ill timing, skullduggery, monomania, the tinge of madness, or plain bad luck-or perhaps some combination of them all-leapt straight from life into thankless obscurity. Among their number are scientists, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and adventurers, from across the centuries and around the world. They hold in common the silenced aftermath of failure, the name that rings no bells. Collins brings them back to glorious life. John Banvard was an artist whose colossal panoramic canvasses (one behemoth depiction of the entire eastern shore of the Mississippi River was simply known as ""The Three Mile Painting"") made him the richest and most famous artist of his day. . . before he decided to go head to head with P. T. Barnum. René Blondot was a distinguished French physicist whose celebrated discovery of a new form of radiation, called the N-Ray, went terribly awry. At the tender age of seventeen, William Henry Ireland signed ""William Shakespeare"" to a book and launched a short but meteoric career as a forger of undiscovered works by the Bard -- until he pushed his luck too far. John Symmes, a hero of the War of 1812, nearly succeeded in convincing Congress to fund an expedition to the North Pole, where he intended to prove his theory that the earth was hollow and ripe for exploitation; his quixotic quest counted Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe among its greatest admirers. Collins' love for what he calls the ""forgotten ephemera of genius"" give his portraits of these figures and the other nine men and women in Banvard's Folly sympathetic depth and poignant relevance. Their effect is not to make us sneer or revel in schadenfreude; here are no cautionary tales. Rather, here are brief introductions-acts of excavation and reclamation-to people whom history may have forgotten, but whom now we cannot.",2002,3.97,320,498
9780312300531,0312300530,The Last Jew,A Novel of The Spanish Inquisition,Noah Gordon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rUydl6GzWSUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews - who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days of the Romans - are expelled from the country by royal edict. Many who wish to remain are intimidated by Church and Crown and become Catholics, but several hundred thousand choose to retain their religion and depart; given little time to flee, some perish even before they can escape from Spain. Yonah Toledano, the 15-year-old son of a celebrated Spanish silversmith, has seen his father and brother die during these terrible days - victims whose murders go almost unnoticed in a time of mass upheaval. Trapped in Spain by circumstances, he is determined to honor the memory of his family by remaining a Jew. On a donkey named Moise, Yonah begins a meandering journey, a young fugitive zigzagging across the vastness of Spain. Toiling at manual labor, he desperately tries to cling to his memories of a vanished culture. As a lonely shepherd on a mountaintop he hurls snatches of almost forgotten Hebrew at the stars, as an apprentice armorer he learns to fight like a Christian knight. Finally, as a man living in a time and land where danger from the Inquisition is everywhere, he deals with the questions that mark his past. How he discovers the answers, how he finds his way to a singular and strong Marrano woman, how he achieves a life with the outer persona of a respected Old Christian physician and the inner life of a secret Jew, is the fabric of this novel. The Last Jew is a glimpse of the past, an authentic tale of high adventure, and a tender and unforgettable love story. In it, Noah Gordon utilizes his greatest strengths, and the result is remarkable and moving.",1992,4.08,352,4119
9780312304461,0312304463,How to Write a Damn Good Mystery,A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript,James N. Frey,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X47rmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Edgar award nominee James N. Frey, author of the internationally best-selling books on the craft of writing, How to Write a Damn Good Novel, How to Write a Damn Good Novel II: Advanced Techniques, and The Key: How to Write Damn Good Fiction Using the Power of Myth, has now written what is certain to become the standard ""how to"" book for mystery writing, How to Write a Damn Good Mystery. Frey urges writers to aim high-not to try to write a good-enough-to-get-published mystery, but a damn good mystery. A damn good mystery is first a dramatic novel, Frey insists-a dramatic novel with living, breathing characters-and he shows his readers how to create a living, breathing, believable character who will be clever and resourceful, willful and resolute, and will be what Frey calls ""the author of the plot behind the plot."" Frey then shows, in his well-known, entertaining, and accessible (and often humorous) style , how the characters-the entire ensemble, including the murderer, the detective, the authorities, the victims, the suspects, the witnesses and the bystanders-create a complete and coherent world. Exploring both the on-stage action and the behind-the-scenes intrigue, Frey shows prospective writers how to build a fleshed-out, believable, and logical world. He shows them exactly which parts of that world show up in the pages of a damn good mystery-and which parts are held back just long enough to keep the reader guessing. This is an indispensable step-by-step guide for anyone who's ever dreamed of writing a damn good mystery.",2004,3.97,288,305
9780312306182,0312306180,Jenny and the Jaws of Life,Short Stories,Jincy Willett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7a-814lNn40C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of stories about children, rapists, businessmen, and adulterers who move in and out of particular loves and specific desires.",2002,3.74,272,1285
9780312306342,0312306342,Plum Lovin',,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f4K5QkqQNvgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Receiving simultaneous caches of love letters and hate mail, Connie Rosolli enlists the aid of Lula, Grandma Mazur, and the enigmatic Diesel when she becomes suspicious that her secret admirer and stalker are the same person. By the author of Twelve Sharp. 1,250,000 first printing.",2007,3.72,164,46237
9780312311339,0312311338,McCarthy's Bar,A Journey of Discovery In Ireland,Pete McCarthy,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2DF-J8CZSxwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An American chronicles his funny, nostalgic encounter with Ireland as he searches for his roots in the countryside and pubs of this beautiful and deceptively simple country. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2003,3.79,338,8589
9780312311452,0312311451,The Pythons,Autobiography,Graham Chapman;John Cleese;Terry Gilliam;Michael Palin;Eric Idle;Terry Jones,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3Q-XD02f4oQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Personal anecdotes, humorous reminiscences, and more than one thousand photographs and illustrations celebrate the popular comedy troupe that began in 1969.",2005,4.08,368,73
9780312312152,0312312156,The Little Princesses,"The Story of the Queen's Childhood by Her Nanny, Marion Crawford",Marion Crawford,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kv65ZiLjTT0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An account of the childhoods and early adulthoods of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, as told by one of their primary caregivers, offers insight into early twentieth-century British royal life.",2003,4,230,378
9780312313678,0312313675,The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge,A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind,The New York Times,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zqkdNwRxSooC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents information on such subjects as art, architecture, biology, business, history, medicine, sports, philosophy, and film, with essays by experts on numerous topics, a biographical dictionary, and a writer's guide to grammar.",2004,4.09,1104,150
9780312315733,0312315732,Little Children,A Novel,Tom Perrotta,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j73yQbUYaBUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A group of young suburban parents, including a stay-at-home dad, a former feminist, and an obssessive-compulsive mom, finds its sleepy existence shattered when a convicted child molester moves back into town and two of the parents have an affair.",2004,3.62,355,25811
9780312316136,0312316135,The Gatekeeper,A Memoir,Terry Eagleton,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=93Q0Q1bjH3AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An Oxford scholar and author of The Truth About the Irish candidly recounts his experiences as an impoverished youth, a convent gatekeeper, a Catholic in Protestant England, a working-class Irish immigrant among the Oxbridge elite, and a Marxist visiting professor in Mormon Utah. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2003,3.8,192,94
9780312319731,0312319738,Dominion,"The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy",Matthew Scully,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_htG-Pi2GboC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Argues for responsible action in the treatment of animals, challenging popular conceptions about animal feeling and awareness and profiling a safari convention, factory farm, and the works of top writers.",2003,4.16,448,1131
9780312320195,0312320191,SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion,,John Maddox Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WkowmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Like so many young men in later generations, Roman playboy/detective Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger is faced with the necessity of serving in his country's armed forces. Since a dangerous enemy has become powerful in the politics of Rome, Decius is just as well out of the city for a while. He sets out to join Caesar in Gaul (where the general has come and seen, but has as yet not been able to conquer. The occupying Roman army is at a standstill. When Decius shows up in full parade regalia (much to the amusement of the more informally uniformed veterans) and accompanied only by his young personal slave. Caesar sets him the task of discovering who murdered one of his centurions, a cruel and unfair officer feared and hated by every man of the one hundred soldiers under him. A further prod to Decius is that the main suspect is a youth whose father is a close friend of the Metellus family. With Caesar's decree that another killer be found in a matter of hours or the young man dies, Decius has his work cut out for him. John Maddox Roberts's series set in the first century A.D. vividly brings to readers a strong sense of the everyday life of the ancient Romans in the context of our own.",2003,4.13,288,626
9780312321185,031232118X,Something Borrowed,,Emily Giffin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ekrNJWcrsvgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After a night of indiscriminate partying, Rachel sleeps with a close friend's fianc and is consumed with guilt, until the intensity of her feelings forces her to make a difficult choice. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.",2004,3.84,322,439930
9780312321192,0312321198,Something Borrowed,,Emily Giffin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5XApMSmmhCEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After a night of indiscriminate partying, Rachel sleeps with a close friend's fianc and is consumed with guilt, until the intensity of her feelings forces her to make a difficult choice. A first novel. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.",2005,3.84,322,24424
9780312321208,0312321201,P.S. Your Cat Is Dead,,James Kirkwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8u19X3rYdp0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Actor and fledgling writer Jimmy Zoole finds his life caught in downward spiral as his girlfriend leave him, he loses his job, his best friend is dead, and his apartment has been robbed twice, a situation that culiminates on New Year's Eve when Eddie, a bisexual burglar, returns once again. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2003,3.75,218,1291
9780312323868,0312323867,Something Blue,,Emily Giffin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vtbEdUWDah0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Her belief in the power of beauty shattered when her fiance dumps her for a plain woman, a pregnant Darcy flees to London and struggles to rebuild her glamorous life, before realizing that her past methods no longer work.",2006,3.93,338,186552
9780312330866,0312330863,All Things Bright and Beautiful,,James Herriot,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=skqN23wn4BEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Yorkshire veterinarian describes the adventures and experiences of his career as he tends to sick cattle, pregnant ewes, ailing dogs, and their eccentric owners, in a celebration of the relationships between human and animal",2004,4.31,378,60280
9780312333751,0312333757,Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn,,Sarah Miller,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jOd1-lojYxoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reveals the thoughts and feelings of New England prep school student Gideon Rayburn through the narration of one of Gideon's female classmates, who is inside his mind and sees events through his perspective.",2006,3.39,289,1066
9780312333799,031233379X,Spider Mountain,A Novel,P. T. Deutermann,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1Wflpi1atxYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Infiltrating a dangerous Appalachian mountain gang, former police officer Cam Richter and special agent Carrie Santangelo expose the gang's methamphetamine trade only to learn about their secret activities involving abandoned and abused children.",2006,3.91,309,447
9780312339012,0312339011,Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow,The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure,Maria Coffey,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZOomkQfnWsAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Shares the personal behind-the-scenes stories of famous mountaineers to reveal the events that compelled them to risk their lives and personal relationships, in a collection of portraits that includes coverage of such adventurers as Jim Wickwire, Conrad Anker, and Lynn Hill. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2005,3.89,256,366
9780312342517,0312342519,Sideways,A Novel,Rex Pickett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zNugmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles--who has divorced his wife, is facing an uncertain career and has lost his passion for living-the trip is a weeklong opportunity to evaluate his past, his future and himself. A raucous and surprising novel filled with wonderful details about wine, Sideways is also a thought-provoking and funny book about men, women, and human relationships.",2004,3.69,368,4365
9780312348649,0312348649,Baby Proof,,Emily Giffin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dfM9KO0_MvwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having agreed from the start of their relationship that they did not want children, Claudia and Ben find their previously idyllic marriage tested when Ben realizes that he wants to be a father after all. By the author of Something Borrowed and Something Blue. 300,000 first printing.",2006,3.71,340,136644
9780312349493,0312349491,Lean Mean Thirteen,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MzI11XrhN5AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, along with her offbeat family and associates, embarks on her thirteenth zany and perilous adventure, in the sequel to Twelve Sharp. 1,250,000 first printing.",2007,4.09,310,78572
9780312352189,0312352182,The Last Wife of Henry VIII,A Novel,Carolly Erickson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PajwTfsnflMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a fictional portrait of the sixth wife of Henry VIII, Catherine Parr, following this alluring and resourceful woman from the intrigues and perils of Henry's court to her rivalry with Princess Elizabeth for the affections of Thomas Seymour.",2006,3.88,326,10519
9780312352356,0312352352,The Forsaken,,L. A. Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n_7-8NXgl3EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the death of the Chairman of the Vampire Council and the rise of the seventh level of Hell, Damali is confronted by her ultimate challenge, a once banished entity with the power to stop a Neteru. Original. 35,000 first printing.",2006,4.35,448,1860
9780312353261,031235326X,A Woman of Substance,,Barbara Taylor Bradford,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vrAja1wLa5AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Emma Harte rises from impoverished, pregnant servant to the heights of wealth and power as she parlays a small shop into the world's finest department store, outwitting her enemies, seeking revenge on her betrayers, and realizing her greatest dreams.",2005,4.17,928,33783
9780312353766,0312353766,The Red Tent,A Novel,Anita Diamant,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Saqfl3hXqfEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Based on the Book of Genesis, Dinah shares her perspective on religous practices and sexul politics.",2005,4.17,336,453899
9780312354077,031235407X,Dirty Little Secrets,A Novel,Joy King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bJqBvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young, hip, sexy novel that takes readers behind the velvet rope of the glamorous and shady entertainment industry Nothing prepares Tyler Blake for the fast-paced living of New York City. A small-town girl from Georgia, she quickly gets caught up in the glamorous entertainment industry. While pursuing her dream of becoming an actress, Tyler continually gets sidetracked by men who promise to help her and finds herself going from one dysfunctional relationship to another. Just when Tyler finally believes she has found her ideal man, in hip-hop producer Brian McCall, everything begins to go horribly wrong. Trapped in a nightmarish relationship, Tyler is determined not to go down without a fight. ""Passion, deception, heartbreak, love and a delicious read...what more do you need!"" -- B. Lawson Thornton, Essence bestselling author of Misery Loves Company",2006,4.16,256,302
9780312354374,0312354371,Think Like a Guy,How to Get a Guy by Thinking Like One,Giuliana Depandi,Family & Relationships,,"A whimsical but practical guide to the modern world of dating etiquette explains what turns guys off and on and offers helpful suggestions designed to insure that a woman always has a selection of men hanging around. Original. 25,000 first printing.",2006,3.15,172,115
9780312354602,0312354606,The Ravenscar Dynasty,,Barbara Taylor Bradford,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZOH9wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Barbara Taylor Bradford introduced the illustrious Harte family in her blockbuster A Woman of Substance. Now she has created an unforgettable new dynasty: the Deravenels. On a bitterly cold day in 1904, the Deravenel family's future changes forever. When Cecily Deravenel tells her eighteen-year-old son Edward of the death of his father, brother, uncle, and cousin in a fire, a part of him dies as well. Edward and his cousin Neville Watkins are suspicious of the deaths. They vow to seek the truth, avenge the deaths, and retake control of their family's business empire. As he grows into a handsome, charismatic man, Edward is torn between duty and desire. There are women in his life for whom he'll risk everything--and one woman who might destroy him. But madness and secrecy lie at the heart of the family, and Edward's enemies are far more ruthless than he knows. He will need his strength more than ever when the house of Deravenel is fatally rocked by betrayal from within. Who will become the ultimate ruler of the Deravenels? Power and money, passion and adultery, ambition and treachery all illuminate a dramatic epic saga that brings to life the glittering Edwardian Era. The Ravenscar Dynasty is based on the familial factions of England's Wars of the Roses, brought to life by the magical, memorable storytelling power that is Barbara Taylor Bradford.",2006,3.61,484,1241
9780312354954,0312354959,The Devil in the Junior League,,Linda Francis Lee,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qHDjN1BLI6kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A member of the exclusive Junior League of Willow Creek, Texas, Fredericka Mercedes Hildebrand Ware's perfect life begins to unravel when her husband betrays her, steals her money, and vanishes, and the only way she can keep from becoming fodder in the JLWC gossip mill is to get the tacky wife of wealthy but tasteless lawyer Howard Grout into the elite society. 100,000 first printing.",2006,3.62,336,3790
9780312357771,031235777X,The Silver Pigs,A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery,Lindsey Davis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a0wmuQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman ""informer"" who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her--a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of stolen Imperial ingots, in fact. Matters just get more complicated when Falco meets Helena Justina, a Senator's daughter who is connected to the very same traitors he has sworn to expose. Soon Falco finds himself swept from the perilous back alleys of Ancient Rome to the silver mines of distant Britain--and up against a cabal of traitors with blood on their hands and no compunction whatsoever to do away with a snooping plebe like Falco....",2006,3.94,329,8592
9780312360115,0312360118,The Mystery Method,How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed,Mystery;Chris Odom,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xL-TmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"“One of the most admired men in the world of seduction” (The New York Times) teaches average guys how to approach, attract and begin intimate relationships with beautiful women For every man who always wondered why some guys have all the luck, Mystery, considered by many to be the world’s greatest pickup artist, finally reveals his secrets for finding and forming relationships with some of the world’s most beautiful women. Mystery gained mainstream attention for his role in Neil Strauss’s New York Times bestselling exposé, The Game. Now he has written the definitive handbook on the art of the pickup. He developed his unique method over years of observing social dynamics and interacting with women in clubs to learn how to overcome the guard shield that many women use to deflect come-ons from ""average frustrated chumps."" The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed shares tips such as: *Give more attention to her less attractive friend at first, so your target will get jealous and try to win your attention. *Always approach a target within 3 seconds of noticing her. If a woman senses your hesitation, her perception of your value will be lower. *Don't be picky. Approach as many groups of people in a bar as you can and entertain them with fun conversation. As you move about the room, positive perception of you will grow. Now it's easy to meet anyone you want. *Smile. Guys who don't get laid, don't smile.",2007,3.71,240,2059
9780312360269,0312360266,Marked,A House of Night Novel,P. C. Cast;Kristin Cast,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hcrXAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is Marked as a fledging vampyre and joins the House of Night where she will train to become an adult vampyre.,2007,3.8,306,388266
9780312360863,031236086X,Let's Go Australia 9th Edition,,Let's Go Inc,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rObOJJ65brMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For over 40,000 years, people have been arriving awestruck on Australia, at the edge of the earth. Researched and compiled entirely by students who know how to see the world on the cheap, this guide contains insider tips and information for the socially conscious traveller.",2006,3.92,784,8
9780312361754,0312361750,"The Paris Review Interviews, I",,The Paris Review,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AaXWxQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new compilation of interviews from the premier literary magazine includes conversations with some of the world's leading authors, poets, novelists, playwrights, and memoirists, including William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Graham Gre",2006,4.38,510,838
9780312362966,031236296X,More Plums in One,"Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six",Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WeNcjH3eGpIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a compilation of three novels, a bail jumper is pursued with the help of an ex-prostitute and a transvestite, the search for Stephanie's uncle is hampered by her gun-toting grandma, and Ranger disappears after being accused of murder.",2007,4.44,792,209
9780312364526,0312364520,James Herriot's Dog Stories,Warm And Wonderful Stories About The Animals Herriot Loves Best,James Herriot,Pets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kE2q3RvdDVEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Complete collection of 50 dog stories by James Herriot.,2006,4.4,464,5558
9780312369347,0312369344,Beatrix Potter,A Life in Nature,Linda Lear,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T9uTxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, and many other Beatrix Potter characters remain in the hearts of millions. However, though Potter is a household name around the world, few know the woman behind the illustrations. Her personal life, including a romantic relationship with her publisher, Norman Warne, and her significant achievements outside of children's literature remain largely unknown. In Linda Lear's enchanting new biography, we get the life story of this incredible, funny, and independent woman. As one of the first female naturalists in the world, Potter brought the beauty and importance of nature back into the imagination at a time when plunder was more popular than preservation. Through her art she sought to encourage conservation and change the world. With never before seen illustrations and intimate detail, Lear goes beyond our perrenial fascination with Potter as a writer and illustrator of children's books, and delves deeply into the life of a most unusual and gifted woman--one whose art was timeless, and whose generosity left an indelible imprint on the countryside.",2007,4.03,584,1270
9780312420147,0312420145,The Twenty-Seventh City,A Novel,Jonathan Franzen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=puFxDk3dTUEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"S. Jammu, a young, ambitious Indian woman, is sworn in as police chief of St. Louis where the acts of private citizens are monitored and the actions of Martin Probst and his family threaten to destroy her plan. Reprint.",2001,3.12,528,3511
9780312420925,0312420927,"Haussmann, Or the Distinction",A Novel,Paul LaFarge,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2CIM-IKhZmEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"France's greatest architect, Baron Georges-EugFne Haussman, stands at the center of this unique novel about the reconstruction of Paris during the nineteenth century. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2002,3.64,379,150
9780312421687,0312421680,The Journey to the East,A Novel,Hermann Hesse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-cjM9WChgEcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The hero, a German choirmaster recalls an unfruitful pilgrimage to the East during his youth and begins to realize its hidden spiritual meanings. Reprint.",2003,3.7,128,7716
9780312421977,0312421974,This Side of Brightness,A Novel,Colum McCann,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=50EMEL4s31MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Winter 2003,2003,3.85,304,2410
9780312421991,0312421990,What Was She Thinking?,Notes on a Scandal: A Novel,Zoë Heller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TWviK9mhCH8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her best friend Sheba Hart's love affair with an underage male student comes to light, igniting a media circus, solitary schoolteacher Barbara Covett decides to write an account of the affair in her friend's defense, in the process revealing not only Sheba's secrets, but also her own. By the author of Everything You Know. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2004,3.71,258,13150
9780312422158,0312422156,Middlesex,A Novel,Jeffrey Eugenides,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=twDVs4UIU_kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. By the author of The Virgin Suicides.Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.",2003,3.99,529,526111
9780312422240,0312422245,The Interpreter,A Novel,Suki Kim,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pPNsEPSMb68C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Working as a interpreter for the New York City court system, Korean-American Suzy Park makes a startling discovery that casts doubt on the facts surrounding her greengrocer parents' murders five years earlier. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.",2003,3.55,304,917
9780312422325,0312422326,Hand to Mouth,A Chronicle of Early Failure,Paul Auster,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qQ2qYbMGnbwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the streets of Manhattan to Paris, a poignant memoir explains a series of ingenious and farfetched attempts to survive on next to no money, showing both the humor and desperation of being a ""have not."" Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2003,3.62,176,1552
9780312422738,0312422733,A Feather on the Breath of God,A Novel,Sigrid Nunez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y9KesaEJSDcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Growing up in a New York housing project during the 1950s and 1960s, a young woman, the child of multiethnic immigrant parents, escapes the problems of her life into a world of dreams shaped by her parents' stories, her own reading, and the ballet. Reprint.",2005,3.87,192,447
9780312423131,0312423136,Galatea 2.2,A Novel,Richard Powers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ttcEu4iDvnYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The protagonist, a Humanist-in-Residence at the center for Advanced Scientific Research, gets involved with a project to train a machine to pass a comprehensive exam in English literature--and with the degree candidate against whom the machine is competing. Reprint.",2004,3.72,329,2063
9780312423209,0312423209,Mason & Dixon,A Novel,Thomas Pynchon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MgDysANnVqwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The re-imagined story of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the British surveyors best known for marking the Mason-Dixon line, features the mismatched pair as they are drawn into naval warfare, erotic and political conspiracies, and major caffeine abuse as they negotiate the perils of eighteenth-century America. Reprint",2004,4.06,773,7756
9780312423377,0312423373,The River at the Center of the World,"A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time",Simon Winchester,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qiL4eiCfL64C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author recounts his experiences traveling along the Yangtze river from the Tibetan border to the East China Sea, vividly bringing to life China's rich cultural history, politics, people, geography, and climate. Reprint.",2004,3.92,416,1359
9780312423674,0312423675,Primo Levi,A Life,Ian Thomson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mGzmdvFtIXkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A profile of the author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table examines his daily experiences as a paint factory manager who tended an invalid mother and lived in the same house his entire life, discussing the impact of such factors as Mussolini's regime, his difficult reintegration into postwar Italy, and his struggles with depression and insomnia. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2004,4.14,640,103
9780312423797,0312423799,Dry,A Memoir,Augusten Burroughs,Biography & Autobiography,,"From the bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Dry—the hilarious, moving, and no less bizarre account of what happened next. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had to drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life—and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.",2004,4.02,293,75017
9780312424084,0312424086,A Home at the End of the World,A Novel,Michael Cunningham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MwMEpfe72u4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ""The Hours"" comes the masterful story of a unique family that is formed when Jonathan moves to New York to live with boyhood friend Bobby and Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Soon to be a motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Sissy Spacek, and Robin Wright Penn.",2004,3.9,342,14277
9780312424121,0312424124,Call It Sleep,A Novel,Henry Roth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HdZwPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves—--and still enjoys. Having sold-to-date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the ""dangerously imaginative"" child coming of age in the slums of New York.",2005,3.83,462,292
9780312424442,0312424442,I Am Charlotte Simmons,A Novel,Tom Wolfe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1EPdr5xFKfsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At Dupont University, an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellect alone will not help her survive.",2005,3.41,738,20508
9780312424671,0312424671,Small Island,A Novel,Andrea Levy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tahylzEQ78AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the end of World War II the Joseph family arrives in London from Jamaica and Queenie, their white landlady, befriends them, until her racist husband, Bernard, arrives home from the front.",2004,3.93,441,20087
9780312424688,031242468X,Collected Prose,"Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations with Artists",Paul Auster,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J0HhZE6jxRMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Features the author's selection of essays, true stories, autobiographical writings, prefaces, collaborations with artists, and articles, covering topics ranging from New York City and Kafka to Sir Walter Raleigh and high-wire artist Philippe Petit.",2005,4.04,528,272
9780312424916,0312424914,Saints at the River,A Novel,Ron Rash,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YlTVmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina town that bears the river's name are thrown into the national spotlight. The girl's parents want to attempt a rescue of the body; environmentalists are convinced the rescue operation will cause permanent damage to the river and set a dangerous precedent. Torn between the two sides is Maggie Glenn, a twenty-eight-year-old newspaper photographer who grew up in the town and has been sent to document the incident. Since leaving home almost ten years ago, Maggie has done her best to avoid her father, but now, as the town's conflict opens old wounds, she finds herself revisiting the past she's fought so hard to leave behind.",2005,3.8,239,2853
9780312425081,0312425082,Chemistry and Other Stories,,Ron Rash,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lyFJyJXwL30C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Spanning the entire twentieth century, a collection of short stories, set against the backdrop of Appalachia, chronicles the struggle of rural communities with the changes of the modern world, capturing the collision between the Old and New South in the lives of the region's inhabitants. Original. 20,000 first printing.",2007,4.19,230,576
9780312425869,0312425864,Vita,A Novel,Melania G. Mazzucco,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CzeRmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In April 1903, Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, age nine, are sent by their poor families in southern Italy to make a life for themselves in America. Theirs is an unforgettable love story, a riveting tale of immigrant survival and hope that takes them from the crime-ridden tenements of Little Italy to the brutal rail yards of the Midwest, on paths that cross with the Black Hand, Caruso, and Chaplin. It is a story that reaches across decades, to the son of Vita, who would travel as far as Italy to find his roots and the man who could have been his father. In Vita, the author, Melania G. Mazzucco, also tells her own story of how she found Diamante and Vita in old photographs, documents, ship manifests, and the fading memories of her relatives, and from these fragments of the past imagined this gripping epic fiction of her family's history.",2006,3.74,433,528
9780312426033,0312426038,Night Draws Near,Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War,Anthony Shadid,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=foVhywPrz4EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An Arab-American journalist looks at the Iraq War from the perspective of ordinary Iraqi citizens confronted by the dislocations, hardships, tragedies, and harsh realities of the conflict.",2006,4.11,507,614
9780312426118,0312426119,A Woman in Berlin,Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary,Anonymous,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HcrzDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A wartime journal by a reporter and editor living through the Russian occupation of Berlin includes her observations of resident survival in the face of starvation, no water, and freezing conditions; the mass rapes endured by the city's women; and the corruption of Berlin citizens by their Russian occupiers. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2006,4.32,261,5754
9780312426231,0312426232,The Brooklyn Follies,A Novel,Paul Auster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Opf3yeQixwQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Retired life insurance salesman Nathan Glass moves to Brooklyn to find anonymity and solitude through his declining years, but a chance meeting with Tom Wood, his long-lost nephew, forces him to come to terms with his past.",2006,3.83,306,17317
9780312426453,0312426453,Limitations,,Scott Turow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hpol_mVahEYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While presiding over a rape case, Judge George Mason questions his professional abilities and the law itself.",2006,3.33,208,1681
9780312643065,0312643063,The Price of the Ticket,"Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985",James Baldwin,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VbkZxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The works of James Baldwin constitute one of the major contributions to American literature in the twentieth century, and nowhere is this more evident than in The Price of the Ticket, a compendium of nearly fifty years of Baldwin's powerful nonfiction writing. With truth and insight, these personal, prophetic works speak to the heart of the experience of race and identity in the United States. Here are the full texts of Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Devil Finds Work, along with dozens of other pieces, ranging from a 1948 review of Raintree Country to a magnificent introduction to this book that, as so many of Mr. Baldwin's works do, combines his intensely private experience with the deepest examination of social interaction between the races. In a way, The Price of the Ticket is an intellectual history of the twentieth-century American experience; in another, it is autobiography of the highest order.",1985,4.7,712,396
9780312852535,0312852533,The Humanoids,A Novel,Jack Williamson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vPSl0AW8Z74C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A classic science fiction novel features humanoids spreading throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifle all human endeavor, and the hidden group of rebels who try to stem the humanoid tide, if it is not already too late",1996,3.75,299,880
9780312853020,0312853025,"The Demon Princes, Vol. 1",The Star King * The Killing Machine * The Palace of Love,Jack Vance,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L2nkDav2B-oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects three of the author's novels about the Demon Princes, a destructive race of beings who disguise themselves as humans, and Kerth Gersen, who is out to avenge himself for the destruction of his world",1997,4.25,446,1109
9780312861438,0312861435,The Memory of Whiteness,A Scientific Romance,Kim Stanley Robinson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NZak7Hk5zTQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the year 3229 AD, when the best and sometimes only means of communication is through music, Johannes Wright, master Musician, and his friends and enemies journey toward an understanding of the Universe",1996,3.56,352,431
9780312861872,0312861877,Xenocide,Volume Three of the Ender Quintet,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T2AfTwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable. Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet.",1996,3.79,592,115661
9780312862176,0312862172,The Dark Descent,,Clive Barker;Ray Bradbury,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pNgZxdPETK0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the evolution of the horror story by presenting an anthology of works from the past and from current writers, with contributions from Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Charles L. Grant, and Clive Barker",1997,4.26,1011,1959
9780312864743,0312864744,Ports of Call,,Jack Vance,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_Zu4Su4cdMoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A romantic tale follows a space swashbuckler and conman as he travels from world to world, plying his trade, drinking in wild bars, and flirting with women",1999,3.53,300,395
9780312865764,0312865767,"The Demon Princes, Vol. 2",The Face * The Book of Dreams,Jack Vance,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z3UwcQvKmrUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jack Vance is undoubtedly one of the most gifted and versatile authors of science fiction today. The winner of a Hugo, a Nebula, and a World Fantasy Award, Vance lays claim to a career that spans more than five decades of critical acclaim and devoted readership. Tor Books has recognized his widespread audience and for years has brought classic Jack Vance novels back into print--most recently The Demon Princes, Volume One, and omnibus containing the first three books of Vance's beloved Demon Princes series. Tor now presents The Demon Princes, Volume Two, and omnibus containing the series' final two novels, The Face and The Book of Dreams. Kirth Gersen carries in his pocket a slip of paper with a list of five names written upon it--the names of five Demon Princes. The Demon Princes are a race of beings who disguise themselves as humans and delight in power and destruction. however, to Kirth they are merely murderers who killed his family and destroyed his home planet--and who deserves to die for those misdeeds. Three have already fallen in Kirth's hands, but there are two more names on his list, two more Princes who will live only long enough to regret their evil ways. Lens Larque was just as unique as the other Demon Princes--uniquely appalling. He was personally ugly, startling vicious, and arrogant above all others. Larque's own mission was a villainy of the highest order, and his personal obsession with success kept him hidden well from attackers--almost well enough. Howard Alan Treesong poisoned his friends, tortured his colleagues, and wrote his own horrific holy book, The Book of Dreams. But, clever as he may be, a galaxy-wide guessing game will be his undoing--and Kirth Gersen's sworn vengeance will be complete.",1997,4.3,397,641
9780312869595,0312869592,Jack of Kinrowan,Jack the Giant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon,Charles de Lint,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FcODdbHfSbgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The two stories of Jacky Rowan are combined into one volume, which tells the complete story of how she is dumped into the perilous land of the Faerie and how her enslavement is broken by a young fiddler. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",1999,4.11,412,3648
9780312872793,0312872798,Lurulu,,Jack Vance,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Jm3auoBpHUsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Continues the adventures of Myron Tany, a rebellious member of a wealthy family, who tours the Galaxy on an interstellar freighter alongside a crew of actors, musicians, thieves, and other questionable characters. By the author of Ports of Call. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2007,3.58,204,268
9780312873110,0312873115,The Land of Laughs,A Novel,Jonathan Carroll,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OUIAmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A novel about how terrifying that would be. Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner. What he knows is that in his whole life nothing has touched him so deeply as the novels of Marshall France, a reclusive author of fabulous children's tales who died at forty-four. Now Thomas and Saxony have come to France's hometown, the dreamy Midwestern town of Galen, Missouri, to write France's biography. Warned in advance that France's family may oppose them, they're surprised to find France's daughter warmly welcoming instead. But slowly they begin to see that something fantastic and horrible is happening. The magic of Marshall France has extended far beyond the printed page...leaving them with a terrifying task to undertake.",2001,3.9,256,4218
9780312874568,0312874561,Tales of the Dying Earth,"Including 'The Dying Earth,' 'The Eyes of the Overworld,' 'Cugel's Saga,' and 'Rhialto the Marvellous'",Jack Vance,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y_HRpJHlylUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A first-time compilation of a classic science fiction series gathers all four books of The Dying Earth series--The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, and Rialto the Magnificent--in which Earth, in the distant future, tries to survive the approaching death of its red sun. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2000,4.14,741,3919
9780312875572,0312875576,The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein,,Robert A. Heinlein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FtQzvJEjXmEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collected in a single volume for the first time, all of Heinlein's finest fantasy short stories and novellas come together in a selection that includes ""Magic, Inc., "" ""They,"" and ""The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag,"" among other notable works. Reprint.",2002,3.9,342,774
9780312876623,0312876629,Songmaster,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xkfZlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An SF classic from the author of Ender's Game. Kidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation at the mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life has been filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any heard before. Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse, for the young Songbird can reflect all the hopes and fears his auidence feels and, by magnifying their emotions, use his voice to heal--or to destroy. When it is discovered that his is the voice that the Emperor has waited decades for, Ansset is summoned to the Imperial Palace on Old Earth. Many fates rest in Ansset's hands, and his songs will soon be put to the test: either to salve the troubled conscience of a conqueror, or drive him, and the universe, into mad chaos. Songmaster is a haunting story of power and love--the tale of the man who would destroy everything he loves to preserve humanity's peace, and the boy who might just sing the world away.",2002,3.73,352,6307
9780312877514,031287751X,Lovelock,,Orson Scott Card;Kathryn H. Kidd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0xpWmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered to be the perfect servant--intelligent, agile, pliant, and devoted to his owner. He is a Witness--privileged to spend his days and nights observing the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists through digital recording devices behind his eyes. In his heart is the desire to please, not just to avoid the pain his owner can inflict with a word, but because he loves her. Lovelock is on a voyage he did not choose. What human would consider the feelings of a capuchin monkey, no matter how enhanced? But Lovelock is something special among Witnesses--he's a little smarter than most humans; smart enough to break through some of his conditioning. Smart enough to feel the bonds of slavery, and want freedom.",2001,3.46,288,2115
9780312878269,0312878265,Duel,Terror Stories by Richard Matheson,Richard Matheson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CEM1sk7k3XQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects horror stories such as ""Third from the Sun,"" ""Little Girl Lost,"" ""Death Ship,"" and ""Duel,"" which was the basis for the Spielberg film of the same name.",2003,4.05,400,1752
9780312878603,0312878605,The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke,,Arthur C. Clarke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HLz1g95AXDsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introduces readers to the author's shorter works, spanning his entire writing career, including ""The Nine Billion Names of God,"" ""Nemesis,"" ""The Sentinel,"" and ""The Songs of Distant Earth.""",2002,4.3,966,3964
9780312890186,0312890184,Sword & Citadel,The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun',Gene Wolfe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cMwvcO6bxeAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severiain clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophesy that will alter forever the realm known as Urth."" -- Back cover.",1994,4.31,411,9103
9780312890216,0312890214,The Starry Rift,,James Tiptree,Fiction,,"This novel set in the far-future and filled with action, extraordinary characters, and visionary speculation, chronicles the human exploration of alien planets with strange and mysterious life forms",1994,3.82,250,220
9780312890384,0312890389,Pacific Edge,Three Californias,Kim Stanley Robinson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H_ubx3mtdPwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set at the end of the 21st century in California, this story revolves around a seemingly perfect society. At first, bio-architect Kevin Claiborne thinks he has indeed found Utopia, but gradually events lead him to discover the corruption beneath the surface.",1995,3.78,336,1154
9780312925741,0312925743,Devil's Backbone,"The Modoc War, 1872-3",Terry C. Johnston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0jU3QgOmkmIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Devil's Backbone Terry C. Johnston The Modoc Indians and American officials had been flirting with war in the Oregon Territory for some time. When Modoc chief Keintpoos murdered a Civil War hero during negotiations, the U.S. Army launched a deadly offensive against the rebel tribe. Besieged in the natural stronghold of the Lava Beds near Tule Lake, the Modocs waged bloody war for seven long months. Sergeant Seamus Donegan, on the trail of his uncle, Ian O'Rourke, arrived at Tule Lake just as the conflict erupted. Soon Donegan and the brooding O'Rourke found themselves embroiled in what would be the costliest war in frontier history...",1991,4.17,448,102
9780312929640,0312929641,The Circle,He Pledged To Serve With Duty And Honor. Instead He Fought Betrayal On A Ship Bound For Danger.,David Poyer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N-H70tCN0S8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fresh from Annapolis, Dan Lenson boards an antiquated destroyer headed for the Arctic Circle, where he and the crew encounter a rogue sub, violent weather, and possible court martial",1993,4.08,543,337
9780312932787,0312932782,Faking It,,Jennifer Crusie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LkyHoWezX70C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Matilda Goodnight and Davy Dempsy are both trying to get the upper hand with the gorgeous gold-digging Clea Lewis, but they will forge a temporary if reluctant alliance to take on an inept art collector, a disgruntled heir, an exasperated hitmat, and a seductive femme fatale as they deal with false identities, forged paintings, swindles, and love. 100,000 first printing.",2004,3.92,448,16443
9780312932800,0312932804,Welcome to Temptation,,Jennifer Crusie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qZ-EngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sophie Dempsey wants to help her sister film a video and then get out of Temptation, Ohio. Mayor Phin Tucker wants to play pool with the police chief and keep things peaceful. But when Sophie and Phin meet, they both get more than they want. Gossip, blackmail, adultery, murder, vehicular abuse of a corpse, and slightly perverse but excellent sex: all hell breaks loose in Temptation as Sophie and Phin fall deeper and deeper in trouble, and in love.",2004,3.95,416,28454
9780312934309,0312934300,Full Bloom,,Janet Evanovich;Charlotte Hughes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j25oZ2e_B04C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Inheriting the local B&B and its eccentric handyman, Annie Fortenberry finds her life complicated by rumors of a ghost, millionaire Max Holt's upcoming wedding, enigmatic stranger Wes Bridges, and her murdered ex-husband.",2005,3.81,344,11877
9780312934316,0312934319,Full Scoop,,Janet Evanovich;Charlotte Hughes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PoiDzEZ6P1cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Beaumont, South Carolina, has become a hotbed of problems for pediatrician Maggie Farnsworth, when her former boyfriend, an escaped convict, arrives in search of Maggie and her young daughter, with handsome FBI agent Zack Madden in hot pursuit, while the other inhabitants of the town are also enjoying their own brushes with romance. Original.",2006,3.79,347,11908
9780312934439,0312934432,The Damned,,L. A. Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oeW8Wg22C8EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Lilith, the consort of the Un-Named One, releases the Damned to wreak havoc on all humankind, Damali, Carlos, and the Guardians race against time to stop the horrific infection spawned by these creatures of hell by finding and beheading the evil Lilith. Reprint.",2007,4.28,492,1975
9780312935757,0312935757,The Cursed One,,Ronda Thompson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MGGBfPjVRo0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Married and widowed in a single day, beautiful socialite Amelia Sinclair is forced to rely on the kindness of a stranger, Gabriel Wulf, to protect her from the vicious creatures that are stalking her. Original.",2006,4.02,305,998
9780312937690,0312937695,A Quiver Full of Arrows,,Jeffrey Archer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KijMxDuhGwwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of short stories by the author of As the Crow Flies features tales of the mysteries of a priceless antique, the chance ironies of big-city love, casual encounters, and life-long passions, in an anthology that includes ""One Night Stand,"" ""Old Love,"" and ""The Chinese Statue."" Reprint.",2005,3.78,288,8944
9780312937720,0312937725,The Hunted,,L. A. Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J6ydFyCQZf0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having successfully averted a vampire civil war, vampire huntress Damali Richards heads for Brazil to investigate a series of horrific killings perpetrated by a vicious female were-demon and her crew in retaliation for the deaths of her people. Reprint.",2005,4.14,565,2705
9780312940027,0312940025,The Forbidden,,L. A. Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EFR46h9YDCoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Damali and her fellow members of the Guardian squad confront their ultimate nemesis in the evil persona of Lilith, the consort of the Un-Named One, who has been summoned from the seventh level to open the portals of Hell and destroy Damali and her associates. Reprint.",2006,4.27,490,2115
9780312940669,0312940661,When the Lion Feeds,,Wilbur Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0YLT5DSlsgAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In late nineteenth-century South Africa, Sean Courteney follows his destiny to the gold mines of Pretoria, while his twin, Garrick, bitterly plots revenge against his brother for the shooting accident that crippled him. Reprint.",2006,4.18,544,9802
9780312940683,0312940688,A Sparrow Falls,,Wilbur Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H2LkkhtRc3YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mark Anders returns from World War I to his native South Africa to find that his grandfather has been murdered, his land confiscated, and he has become the target of the rogue scion of the powerful Courtney clan. Reprint.",2007,4.17,640,4772
9780312940980,031294098X,The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes,,Jennifer Crusie;Eileen Dreyer;Anne Stuart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OiTxAXtNetwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The three magically talented Fortune sisters--Dee, a shape-shifter; Lizzie, who possesses the power to transform objects; and telekinetic Mare--find love with three seductive and unusual men, while struggling to cope with a villain who will do anything to steal their magical gifts, in a novel by three popular romance novelists. Original.",2007,3.47,391,3219
9780312941468,0312941463,Hot Stuff,,Janet Evanovich;Leanne Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iLMQi0lFhcoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Far too busy to get involved with men or marriage, Cate Madigan spends her time in school and working as a bartender, but her life changes when she encounters ex-cop Kellen McBride, a man who quickly draws her into danger.",2007,3.74,281,9068
9780312948962,0312948964,Two for the Dough,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bEPhY0R79U8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chasing Kenny Mancuso, who had fled after inadvertently shooting his best friend, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes involved in an all-out manhunt for gunrunners and illegal weapons and is pursued by vice cop Joe Morelli. Reprint.",2007,4.11,325,2441
9780312953966,0312953968,The Edge of Honor,,P. T. Deutermann,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8pCVIUYmqeIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Leaving his home and wife for a tour of duty in Vietnam that could place him in a commander's position, Lt. Brian Holcomb witnesses his crew falling into drug-induced recklessness and faces an explosive showdown. Reprint.",1995,3.96,626,162
9780312965686,0312965680,Wings of Fire,,Charles Todd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4yoOmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Inspector Ian Rutledge is quickly sent to investigate the sudden deaths of three members of the same eminent Cornwall family, but the World War I veteran soon realizes that nothing about this case is routine. Including the identity of one of the dead, a reclusive spinster unmasked as O. A. Manning, whose war poetry helped Rutledge retain his grasp on sanity in the trenches of France. Guided by the voice of Hamish, the Scot he unwillingly executed on the battlefield, Rutledge is driven to uncover the haunting truths of murder and madness rooted in a family crypt...",1999,3.99,306,4787
9780312965785,0312965788,All Creatures Great and Small,,James Herriot,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YiYUOW9L-pIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A country veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire describes the joys and trials of his profession and recalls his early career and experiences with his unique clientele,1998,4.32,437,65381
9780312966201,0312966202,The Lord God Made Them All,,James Herriot,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oGfN4s8XTL8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Yorkshire veterinarian captures the beauty of rural England, the joys and sorrows of its inhabitants, and the rewarding experiences of a country veterinarian",1998,4.41,373,12547
9780312966973,0312966970,Four to Score,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PONNi9gzTvsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey's favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back--and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who's skipped bail. With then help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite musician named Sally Sweet, and the all-too-hospitable, all-too-sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman. Then again, with more mishaps than there are exits on the Jersey Turnpike--including murders, firebombs, and Stephanie's arch-rival bounty hunter chasing after the same fugative--Stephanie better watch her back big-time if she wants to live to crack this case.",1999,4.17,313,114593
9780312968304,0312968302,"Thrones, Dominations",,Dorothy L. Sayers;Jill Paton Walsh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VNqOShbEM20C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Winter 1999,1999,3.88,322,162
9780312970079,0312970072,Black Coffee,,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-VhVpVwI6h4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Master sleuth Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings head to Surrey at the request of England's premier physicist, Sir Claud Amory, only to find the client dead, a top-secret formula missing, and a house filled with suspects, in a novel adapted from Christie's original play. Reprint.",1999,3.48,304,9592
9780312970741,0312970749,El Paso,,Matt Braun,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GP3EXjYkGRMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dallas Stoudenmire comes to El Paso, Texas, to end the terror of the two vicious Banning Brothers, and to put a stop to the bloody violence between Americans and Mexicans. Reprint.",1999,3.4,256,22
9780312971281,0312971281,Search the Dark,,Charles Todd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I9yZKs30ChMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Scotland Yard's most intrepid inspector is sent to Dorset with strict orders to coordinate the search for two missing children, but his investigation is complicated by his growing feelings for a potential suspect.",2000,4,310,3717
9780312971397,0312971397,Cuba,,Stephen Coonts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LgKACy2j2Z8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As Castro lies dying, an internal power struggle threatens to unleash a stolen stockpile of chemical weapons against the U.S., but Admiral Jake Grafton is determined to prevent the destruction. Reprint.",2000,3.81,461,1400
9780312975739,0312975732,What the Corpse Revealed,,Hugh Miller,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7XyFr-Le_94C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An expert in forensic medicine presents sixteen cases drawn from scientific files all around the world to show how technology and forensic science combine to find the answers to many crimes that seem unsolvable. Reprint.,2000,3.79,320,288
9780312978334,0312978332,Name Dropping,What If Two Very Different Women Had The Same Exact Name?,Rachael F. Heller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ElhF-a6l4TMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Pre-school teacher Nancy Stern is in a personal and professional rut. But what really puts a dent in her self-esteem is the realization that another woman named Nancy Stern has just moved into her building... a Nancy Stern who lives in the penthouse... A Nancy Stern who interviews celebrities for glossy magazines... a Nancy Stern who's chummy with Kevin Costner. Nancy's loss of her own specialness deepens as she keeps getting the other, more glamorous Nancy's mail, phone calls and party invitations by mistake. It's all too much to bear--until a man calls one night, intending to ask the other Nancy out on a blind date. What follows is a raucous and romantic involving mix-ups, mistaken identity, and murder ...",2001,3.53,323,687
9780312980146,0312980140,Seven Up,A Stephanie Plum Novel,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YGEWzGIjP7MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a senior citzen is charged with smuggling contraband cigarettes, Stephanie Plum and Lula get more than they bargained for--a corpse in the woodshed and an old man on the lam--but Stephanie is more focused on vice cop Joe Morelli who has proposed marriage and a fellow bounty hunter Ranger who is proposing one perfect night. Reprint.",2002,4.16,337,101029
9780312980160,0312980167,Hardcase,,Dan Simmons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YlLPo1ghL7IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Former private detective Joe Kurtz finds himself in over his head when semi-retired crime boss Don Byron Farino hires him to find the New York mob's missing accountant, a man with far too much knowledge of the Family business, but Kurtz soon discovers that someone will do anything to keep him from finding the missing man. By the author of The Crook Factory. Reprint.",2002,3.69,291,1067
9780312980382,0312980388,Warlock,A Novel of Ancient Egypt,Wilbur Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_GBCl-x8npUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After the death of his beloved Queen Lostris, Taita heads to the harsh deserts of North Africa to devote himself to a study of the occult, to become a warlock, and to fulfill his destiny to protect the dynasty of Lostris from the evil that threatens ancient Egypt. Reprint.",2002,4.04,642,10830
9780312981662,031298166X,Crooked House,,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c3DuwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level...",2002,4.02,276,22176
9780312982010,0312982011,Abandoned Prayers,"An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, And Amish Secrets",Gregg Olsen,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qWw4mQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as ""Little Boy Blue,"" unclaimed and unidentified-- until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father. Eli Stutzman, the son of an Amish bishop, was by all appearances a dedicated farmer and family man in the country's strictest religious sect. But behind his quiet façade was a man involved with pornography, sadomasochism, and drugs. After the suspicious death of his pregnant wife, Stutzman took his preschool-age son, Danny, and hit the road on a sexual odyssey ending with his conviction for murder. But the mystery of Eli Stutzman and the fate of his son didn't end on the barren Nebraska plains. It was just beginning. . . Gregg Olsen's Abandoned Prayers is an incredible true story of murder and Amish secrets.",2003,3.78,399,1410
9780312982515,0312982518,The Sigma Protocol,,Robert Ludlum,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zB21mSnmop8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a childhood friend unexpectedly attempts to murder him in Switzerland, an American investment banker begins to unravel a mystery involving his famous financier father and a mysterious OSS case code-named Sigma. Reprint.",2002,3.79,662,9116
9780312982867,0312982860,True Believers,A Gregor Demarkian Novel,Jane Haddam,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z0ZtyZ107gQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gregor Demarkian, the former head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, is asked to investigate after a woman's body turns up in Philadelphia's St. Anselm's church, her husband, a local parishioner, commits suicide, and it is discovered that the woman, a severe diabetic, did not die of natural causes but rather had been the victim of arsenic poisoning. Reprint.",2002,3.88,432,231
9780312983307,0312983301,Full Blast,,Janet Evanovich;Charlotte Hughes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DppT-OV4Np8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jamie Swift and Max Holt find themselves taking on a murderer who is targeting some of the less popular citizens of Beaumont, South Carolina, when they discover that the key to the killings lies in the personal ads of the newspaper.",2004,3.82,344,12104
9780312983864,0312983867,Hard Eight,A Stephanie Plum Novel,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xXdPbpUfTSAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Stephanie Plum is hired to find a missing child, she begins to wonder if she is working on the right side of the law when events turn suspicious, and in the wake of a rocky relationship with Morelli, Ranger finds an opportunity to act on his feelings. Reprint.",2003,4.17,326,99289
9780312985349,0312985347,Eleven on Top,,Janet Evanovich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T7uR17fOgAoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hoping to discontinue her career as a bounty hunter for something safer, Stephanie Plum is inadvertently drawn into a case that is complicated by her tangled love life, her chaotic family, and her penchant for wrecking cars, in a new adventure by the author of Ten Big Ones. Reprint.",2006,4.16,321,89961
9780312987015,0312987013,Minion,,L. A. Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GRfSV_71yHkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A spoken-word artist by day for Warriors of Light Records and a vampire hunter at night, Damali Richards and her Guardian team take on a vicious group of rogue vampires who have been killing off the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music, a gang led by the most powerful vampire Damali has ever encountered. Reprint.",2004,3.44,286,5437
9780312989385,0312989385,The Janson Directive,,Robert Ludlum,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3ZjXmeLJHLgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"His quiet life away from U.S. Consular Operations disrupted by the terrorist kidnapping of billionaire Peter Novak, Paul Janson assembles a rescue team of former colleagues only to find himself targeted by his foes. Reprint.",2003,3.86,693,7098
9780312990688,0312990685,The Tristan Betrayal,,Robert Ludlum,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a3ZYlahp0BUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Working for the U.S.'s secret intelligence forces in Europe during the Second World War, Stephen Metcalf undertakes a bold plan for which he must locate and betray a former lover in order to protect free-world interests. Reprint.",2004,3.83,505,5810
9780312990695,0312990693,The Ambler Warning,,Robert Ludlum,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-dA1x-y9eu0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Imprisoned and drugged in a restricted island psychiatric facility for government intelligence employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler manages a daring escape and sets out to discover why he was placed there, a situation that is complicated when he realizes that his facial features and all records about him have been altered. Reprint.",2006,3.72,632,9104
9780312990718,0312990715,Robert Ludlum's The Moscow Vector,A Covert-One Novel,Robert Ludlum;Patrick Larkin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YIvFngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At an international conference in Prague, Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an Army research doctor specializing in infectious diseases and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted by a Russian colleague, Dr. Valentine Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned about a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow and about the Russian government's refusal to release publicly any information or data on the outbreak. When the two meet, they are attacked by a group of mysterious men and Petrenko is killed, his notes and medical samples are lost, and Smith barely escapes with his life. At the same time, a series of government officials around the world are coming down with a mysterious, fast-acting virus with a 100% fatality rate. These deaths are somehow related to the increasing militarism from the new Russian government, headed by the autocratic and ambitious President Victor Dudarev. With few clues and precious little time, Smith and Covert-One must unravel this mysterious plot and find the mysterious figure who stands at the center of it all...",2006,3.98,464,6218
9780312994815,0312994818,The Firefly,A Novel,P. T. Deutermann,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dTHrmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"According to the DC cops, the fiery destruction of an upscale plastic surgery clinic and its staff is just business as usual. With the whole city on high alert because of the upcoming presidential inauguration, the Secret Service can afford to let it go. Retired agent Swamp Morgan pulls what appears to be a ""firefly"" case-until he digs deeper. Facts don't add up. A German man, the clinic's last client, has vanished. The only surviving nurse is almost killed. And a mysterious tape indicating an imminent threat against the government puts Morgan on full alert, but his handlers refuse to listen to his warnings. Morgan's in a race against time as the deadly pieces fall into place. Fighting the odds, he's got to shut down the brilliant plan to assassinate the incoming and outgoing presidents before America falls into total chaos-or die trying!",2004,3.76,528,301
9780312997113,0312997116,As the Crow Flies,,Jeffrey Archer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IeunykAgyGoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Charlie Trumper inherits his grandfather's vegetable barrow and his spirited ambition, which drives him to struggle through two World Wars without losing sight of his dream--building London's largest department store--but a dangerous enemy could destroy everything he has accomplished. Reprint.",2004,4.08,800,15772
9780312997830,0312997833,Dakota,,Matt Braun,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N2T1mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"HE CAME WEST HAUNTED BY DEATH AND GRIEF... In 1884, a Harvard-educated legislator from New York set off for Dakota Territory. Staggered by the deaths of his mother and wife on the same tragic night, Teddy Roosevelt was returning to a place he had visited the year before, a place that had struck him with its fierce beauty and its bounty of big game and big opportunity. By the Little Missouri River, Teddy Roosevelt established a ranching empire, and soon stood at the center of a storm... AND IN A VIOLENT LAND, HE WAS REBORN... Less than a decade after an Indian rebellion and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Dakota was being settled by the brave, the ambitious, and the restless. While some men were grabbing power, some were getting away with murder. For Roosevelt, using local cowboys and transplanted Easterners as his ranch hands, this was a place to make his mark, to make a stand and to look a killer in the eye. And this was a time to bring wild Dakota into the heart of America...",2005,3.69,306,30
9780313309335,0313309337,The Fantastic Vampire,Studies in the Children of the Night : Selected Essays from the Eighteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts,James Craig Holte,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mpmrWCQ1e3MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wherever vampires existed in the imaginations of different peoples, they adapted themselves to the customs of the local culture. In The Vampyre (1819), John Polidori introduced Lord Ruthven and established the vampire craze of the 19th century that resulted in a flood of German vampire poetry, French vampire drama, and British vampire fiction. That tradition culminated in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), which fixed the character of the Transylvanian nobleman firmly in the public imagination. The contributors to this volume examine representations of the vampire in fiction, film, folklore, and popular culture. While some look at Stoker and the early literary vampire, others study the works of contemporary writers, such as Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, vampirism as a metaphor for AIDS, and racial issues in such films as Blacula and Vampire in Brooklyn.",2002,0,176,0
9780313324529,0313324522,From Hinton to Hamlet,Building Bridges Between Young Adult Literature and the Classics,Sarah K. Herz;Donald R. Gallo,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wg77SNlqP6MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Text presents thematic groupings of titles built around current young adult literature for use in bridging to the classics.,2005,4.01,256,62
9780316000611,0316000612,SantaKid,,James Patterson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2d9FvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Warrie Ransom, the Big Boss of the Exmas Express Company, decides to buy Christmas and rename it Exmas, Santa Claus, Momma Claus, and their daugher Chrissie can't believe their eyes. Everything at the North Pole seems to change overnight--the elves stop making kids' favorite toys, the Christmas doves won't fly or sing, and no one seems to laugh anymore. It looks like Christmas is going to be ruined. But then Chrissie remembers something she had learned from her dad: you must believe in something bigger than yourself. With a little help from her dad's helpers, Chrissie--as santaKid--delivers presents to children on Christmas eve, sending Warrie Ransom back to where he came from! After all, when you believe in something, magic can happen.",2004,3.89,48,850
9780316000956,0316000957,Trials of Death,,Darren Shan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=99CCPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Darren begins the Trials of Initiation to prove himself worthy of being a half-vampire, even as the clan's blood foes, the vampaneze, gather near Vampire Mountain.",2005,4.25,202,23943
9780316010764,0316010766,Oblivion,Stories,David Foster Wallace,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yE6lPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (""The Soul Is Not a Smithy""). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (""The Suffering Channel""). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (""Oblivion""). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.",2005,4.07,329,10211
9780316013260,0316013269,Julie and Julia,My Year of Cooking Dangerously,Julie Powell,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KdoZHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now in paperback-the format in which it's destined to become a reading group favorite-the most heralded and hilarious memoir of recent years: Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking in the span of one year. It's a hysterical, inconceivable redemptive journey - life rediscovered through aspics, calves' brains and crème brûlée. The bestselling memoir that's ""irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef"" (Philadelphia Inquirer) is now a major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia, the film Julie & Julia will be released by Sony Pictures on August 7, 2009.",2006,3.7,307,2229
9780316013307,0316013307,The Truth of the Matter,,Robb Forman Dew,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qeb3GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Agnes Scofield, the heroine of Dew's lovely,low-key period piece, can join Mrs. Ramsay and Mrs. Bridge at the teatable of exquisitely etched literary matrons. A respectable Ohiowidow with three grown children, Agnes is beginning to carve out anindependent middle-aged life for herself (which includes a secretlover) when, in 1947, her children all suddenly return to town. Theyhave full lives of their own, but take for granted that Mother willalways put supper on the table and never step outside her role as self-sacrificing, sexless matriarch. Dew's achievement is to captureboth Agnes' ambivalence about these demands and the dignity inher struggle to meet them.""-Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)",2006,3.06,352,187
9780316013314,0316013315,The Beatles,The Biography,Bob Spitz,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ahrfGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As soon as The Beatles became famous, the spin machine began to construct a myth--one that has continued to this day. But the truth is much more interesting, much more exciting, and much more moving. In this bestselling book, Bob Spitz has written the biography for which Beatles fans have long waited. 32 pages of b/w photos.",2006,4.15,983,8735
9780316015844,0316015849,Twilight,,Stephenie Meyer,Young Adult Fiction,,"With 160 million copies of the Twilight Saga sold worldwide, this addictive love story between a teenage girl and a vampire redefined romance for a generation. Here's the book that started it all. Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife-between desire and danger. Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilightcaptures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite. ""People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there.""-Time ""A literary phenomenon.""-The New York Times",2006,3.59,498,4367341
9780316016650,0316016659,Cirque Du Freak #10: The Lake of Souls,Book 10 in the Saga of Darren Shan,Darren Shan,Young Adult Fiction,,"""If you step through after Harkat, you might never come back. Is your friend worth such an enormous risk?"" Darren and Harkat face monstrous obstacles on their desperate quest to the Lake of Souls. Will they survive the savage journey? And what awaits them in the murky waters of the dead? Be careful what you fish for...",2006,4.19,272,18011
9780316017442,0316017442,The Terror,A Novel,Dan Simmons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2FLxMwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape. The Terror swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as ""a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them"" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). With a haunting and constantly surprising story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.",2007,4.05,769,28640
9780316066143,0316066141,Hollywood Station,A Novel,Joseph Wambaugh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W6kjuQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Under the leadership of their sergeant, known as ""The Oracle,"" the crew of the LAPD's Hollywood Station take on their toughest case yet as they deal with the Russian mob, diamonds, counterfeiting, and grenades.",2006,3.72,340,2030
9780316154970,0316154970,The Harry Bosch Novels,"The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde",Michael Connelly,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w2cscAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For the first time in one volume, the three novels that introduced Michael Connelly's great LAPD homicide detective, maverick Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch. The Black Echo (Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel) For Harry Bosch-hero, loner, nighthawk-the body stuffed in a drainpipe off Mulholland Drive isn't just another statistic. This one is personal. Billy Meadows was a fellow Vietnam ""tunnel rat,"" fighting the VC and the fear they used to call the Black Echo. Harry let Meadows down once. He won't do it again. The Black Ice The corpse in the hotel room seems to be that of a missing LAPD narcotics officer. Rumors abound that the cop had crossed over-selling a new drug called Black Ice. Now Harry's making some dangerous connections, leading from the cop to a string of bloody murders, and from Hollywood Boulevard's drug bazaar to Mexico's dusty back alleys. In this lethal game, Harry is likely to be the next victim. The Concrete Blonde When Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the hunt for the Dollmaker-L.A.'s most bizarre serial killer. But now Church's widow is accusing Harry of killing the wrong man-a charge that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker's macabre signature. For the second time, Harry must hunt the murderer down, before he strikes again. Together, these three novels are the perfect way to discover, or rediscover, the sleuth the New York Times Book Review called a ""wonderful, old-fashioned hero who isn't afraid to walk through the flames.""",2001,4.34,794,1966
9780316156110,0316156116,Consider the Lobster,And Other Essays,David Foster Wallace,Literary Criticism & Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h1xpAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.",2005,4.25,343,30787
9780316159418,0316159417,The Bookseller of Kabul,,Asne Seierstad,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Cf8UfBNXdQ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Norwegian journalist provides a portrait of a committed Muslim man and his family living in post-Taliban Kabul, Afghanistan.",2004,3.77,288,33499
9780316159722,0316159727,Yiddish with Dick and Jane,,Ellis Weiner;Barbara Davilman,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FSnjlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jane is in real estate. Today is Saturday. Jane has an open house. She must schlep the Open House signs to the car. See Jane schlep. Schlep, Jane. Schlep. Schlep, schlep, schlep. In text that captures the unque rhythms of the original Dick and Jane readers, and in 35 all-new illustrations, a story unfolds in which Dick and Jane--hero and heroine of the classic books for children that generations of Americans have used when learning to read--manage to express shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that ordinary English just can't deliver. How? By speaking Yiddish, employing terms that convey an attitude--part plucky self-assertion, part ironic fatalism. When Dick schmoozes, when Jane kvetches, when their children fress noodles at a Chinese restaurant, the clash of cultures produces genuine hilarity.",2004,3.91,112,365
9780316168816,0316168815,The Lovely Bones,,Alice Sebold,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o-QfngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 750,000 first printing.",2004,3.79,328,5776
9780316172325,0316172324,Blink,The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,Malcolm Gladwell,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=00BYnZF_KlgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making--from #1 bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell. In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point, 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.",2005,3.92,277,4089
9780316182744,0316182745,Paint it Black,A Novel,Janet Fitch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DD8elwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the bestselling author of ""White Oleander"" comes a powerful story of passion, first love, and a young woman's search for a true world in the aftermath of loss.",2006,3.48,387,9884
9780316281331,0316281336,"The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics",,Timothy Ferris;Clifton Fadiman,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zryXGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The writings of more than 60 authors including Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pierre Curie, Primo Levi and James Gleick, are represented in this volume. Each expresses a perspective on the Sciences.",1993,4.12,859,361
9780316284950,0316284955,White Oleander,A Novel,Janet Fitch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xpoXzQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.",2000,3.95,480,3031
9780316294522,0316294527,Midnight Riders,The Story of the Allman Brothers Band,Scott Freeman,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UOFfewAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this riveting tale of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, Freeman brings to life the turbulent career of the original Southern rock band. This history includes the band's blues roots, their wild early days on the road and their recent resurgence.",1996,3.98,343,268
9780316296199,0316296198,The Magus,,John Fowles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W6G5bwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local millionaire evolves into a deadly game, one in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas must fight for his sanity and his very survival.",2001,4.05,656,36909
9780316341516,0316341517,Mythology,,Edith Hamilton,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PZDd0ypkLZgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller in its various available formats: hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, and e-book. Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture - the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present.",1998,3.99,497,34223
9780316545037,0316545031,"Last Lion, The: Volume 1",Winston Churchill Visions of Glory 1874 - 1932,William Manchester,Biography & Autobiography,,"The first volume in William Manchester's masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill's life. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first fifty-eight years of Churchill's life--the years that mold him into the man who will become one of the most influential politicians of the twentieth century. In this, the first volume, Manchester follows Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the re-militarization of Germany. Born of an American mother and the gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. In Parliament he was the prime force behind the creation of Iraq and Jordan, laid the groundwork for the birth of Israel, and negotiated the independence of the Irish Free State. Yet, as Chancellor of the Exchequer he plunged England into economic crisis, and his fruitless attempt to suppress Gandhi's quest for Indian independence brought political chaos to Britain. Throughout, Churchill learned the lessons that would prepare him for the storm to come, and as the 1930's began, he readied himself for the coming battle against Nazism--an evil the world had never before seen.",1983,4.43,992,328
9780316563567,0316563560,Candy,,Mian Mian,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sW_hlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An international literary phenomenon-now available for the first time in English translation-Candy is a hip, harrowing tale of risk and desire, the story of a young Chinese woman forging a life for herself in a world seemingly devoid of guidelines. Hong, who narrates the novel, and whose life in many ways parallels the author's own, drops out of high school and runs away at age 17 to the frontier city of Shenzen. As Hong navigates the temptations of the city, she quickly falls in love with a young musician and together they dive into a cruel netherworld of alcohol, drugs, and excess, a life that fails to satisfy Hong's craving for an authentic self, and for a love that will define her. This startling and subversive novel is a blast of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that opens up to us a modern China we've never seen before. - Banned in China-with Mian Mian labeled the 'poster child for spiritual pollution'-CANDY still managed to sell 60,000 copies, as well as countless additional copies in pirated editions. - CANDY has been published in eight countries to date and has become a bestseller in France.",2003,3.31,279,1137
9780316578998,0316578991,The Black Veil,A Memoir with Digressions,Rick Moody,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AQC2QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author weaves together past and present and family legend as he shares his personal story of dealing with depression, and his search through his family's paternal lines to find clues to his melancholy.",2002,3.06,336,391
9780316614566,0316614564,"Harry Bosch Novels, The: Volume 2","The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight",Michael Connelly,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rnDHlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Last Coyote: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute. Trunk Music: Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties. Up against both the LAPD's organized crime unit and the mob, Harry follows the money trail to Las Vegas, where the case becomes personal. Angels Flight: The murder of a prominent African-American attorney who made his career suing the police for racism and brutality means that Harry's friends and associates have become suspects; and he must work closely with longtime enemies suspicious of his maverick ways to investigate them. Together for the first time, these three chilling, pulse-pounding novels chart the volatile, breakneck career of the sleuth the New York Post calls ""the quintessential mystery book hero"" and prove that ""Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels are the most impressive body of work by any writer of crime thrillers now active"" (Washington Post).",2003,4.48,821,1952
9780316693356,0316693359,Miracle on the 17th Green,A Novel,James Patterson;Peter De Jonge,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gmkUPZQ-Q80C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While playing a round of golf on Christmas, Travis McKinley experiences a Zen-like vision that transforms him into a professional player, pits him against his favorite champions, and eventually saves his troubled marriage",1996,3.66,160,3558
9780316706001,0316706000,The Ice Storm,A Novel,Rick Moody,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8I-oYgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives-in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life.",2002,3.67,288,4482
9780316735162,0316735167,Gossip Girl #6: You're the One That I Want,A Gossip Girl Novel,Cecily von Ziegesar,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zmg8yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live in gorgeous apartments, go to exclusive private schools, and make Manhattan our own personal playground. It might look hard to be this fabulous, but for us it's as easy as sleeping with your best friend's boyfriend. 6th installment of the Gossip Girls series!",2004,3.71,224,17665
9780316769488,0316769487,The Catcher in the Rye,,J.D. Salinger,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZotvleqZomIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The ""brilliant, funny, meaningful novel"" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. ""If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."" The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.",1991,3.8,234,18849
9780316773782,0316773786,Mind Over Money,Match Your Personality to a Winning Financial Strategy,John W. Schott;Jean S. Arbeiter,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eC7T1ZJW_SAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Examines the psychological and emotional aspects of investing and offers advice on maximizing strengths that lead to long-term investment success,1998,2.67,260,3
9780316831307,0316831301,Strangers from a Different Shore,A History of Asian Americans Au of...,Ronald Takaki,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HcSSQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of ""picture brides"" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate & culture, & Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the ""model minority."" This is a powerful & moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.",1998,4.12,640,851
9780316853699,0316853690,Stephen King Omnibus,,Stephen King,New England,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fY1wGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Two novels in one volume from horror writer Stephen King. The books contained are Dead Zone and Cujo.,1999,4.29,812,489
9780316905749,0316905747,Vampire Mountain,,Darren Shan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lR-4QT-8JpcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Now in paperback--the gut-wrenching first book in The Vampire Mountain trilogy.,2004,4.17,208,25759
9780316907927,0316907928,An Unfinished Life,"John F. Kennedy, 1917 - 1963",Robert Dallek,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EhUpxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The #1 bestseller that forever changed how we thought about JFK, published with a new epilogue in time for the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination. When it was originally published in 2003, AN UNFINISHED LIFE brought to light new revelations about JFK's health, his love affairs, his brothers and father, and the path JFK would have taken in the Vietnam entanglement if he had survived. A blockbuster bestseller, the book was embraced by critics and readers as a landmark assessment of our 35th president. Now, in time for what promises to be remarkable media attention on Kennedy's death and legacy, AN UNFINISHED LIFE returns with a new, strikingly incisive examination by Robert Dallek in which he further assesses JFK's impact and hold on American culture.",2004,4.07,849,7695
9780316910330,0316910333,Gossip Girl #1,A Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar,Cecily von Ziegesar,Young Adult Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g7qWxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The wickedly funny first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the new series coming to HBO Max's Spring 2020 launch season (alongside hit series such as Pretty Little Liars and Friends). Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep--sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren't careful, she's going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn't fit into, steal our boyfriends' hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I'll be watching closely... You know you love me. gossip girl",2002,3.51,224,53230
9780316912129,0316912123,Gossip Girl #3: All I Want is Everything,A Gossip Girl Novel,Cecily von Ziegesar,Young Adult Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aTw3vdPW-PAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The wickedly funny third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the new series coming to HBO Max's Spring 2020 launch season (alongside hit series such as Pretty Little Liars and Friends). It's Christmastime and Blair and Serena are best friends again, and up to their old tricks--partying hard and breaking hearts from Park Avenue to the Caribbean. Blair's mom and Cyrus are having their honeymoon in Salt Key. And when school lets out for the holiday, Blair, Serena, Aaron, and company head down there to blow off steam after their midterm exams. In between pina coladas and topless sunbathing, Blair and Serena plot revenge on super-jerk Chuck Bass. Everyone jets back to NYC for Serena's New Year's party, during which Nate and Blair may or may not finally go all the way...and Serena may or may not be discovered to be the secret fling of Hollywood's hottest young leading man.",2003,3.55,240,16202
9780316919890,0316919896,A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,Essays and Arguments Tag - Author of Infinite Jest,David Foster Wallace,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QkhpvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.",1997,4.27,353,702
9780316926348,0316926345,Brideshead Revisited,,Evelyn Waugh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ucqvugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.",1982,4,351,76839
9780316926607,0316926604,The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh,,Evelyn Waugh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HeLt9TIQx5UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A ""lavishly entertaining"" (Publishers Weekly) distillation of Waugh's genius--abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century's most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form. Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stories collected here range from delightfully barbed portraits of the British upper classes to an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust; from a ""missing chapter"" in the life of Charles Ryder, the nostalgic hero of Brideshead Revisited, to a plot-packed morality tale that Waugh composed at a very tender age; from an epistolary lark in the voice of ""a young lady of leisure"" to a darkly comic tale of scandal in a remote (and imaginary) African outpost.",2000,4,640,743
9780316955126,0316955124,Don't Stop the Carnival,A Novel,Herman Wouk,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UKA_PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise. It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. (Hilarity and disaster -- of a sort peculiar to the tropics -- ensue.) It's the novel in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed and bestselling novels as The Caine Mutiny and War and Remembrance draws on his own experience (Wouk and his family lived for seven years on an island in the sun) to tell a story at once brilliantly comic and deeply moving.",1992,3.93,416,2580
9780316955171,0316955175,Youngblood Hawke,,Herman Wouk,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T3gzHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sweeping narrative depicting the complications which accompany the phenomenal success of a young novelist from Kentucky,1992,4.02,783,1208
9780321209184,0321209184,American Government,Continuity and Change,Karen O'Connor;Larry Sabato,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7f_lrQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This bestseller in American government has been aggressively revised to provide the most in-depth and current coverage of the 2004 elections, the beginnings of the second George W. Bush administration, and the ongoing wars on terror and in Iraq while also providing expansive new coverage of our system's Constitutional roots. Written with the belief that students must first understand how American government developed to fully understand the issues facing our nation in the 21st century, O'Connor/Sabato offers the strongest coverage of both history and current events on the market today. The new edition provides deeper coverage of both history and events today by exploring the Constitutional roots of our system and how those roots are relevant and often challenged today. The authors also continue their commitment to currency and student-relevance by providing up-to-the-minute coverage of the new Bush administration, the ongoing war in Iraq, etc.",2005,2.95,792,1
9780321276230,032127623X,Essentials of American Government,"Continuity and Change, 2006 Edition",Karen O'Connor;Larry J. Sabato,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ml8rg8OrRGoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Essentials edition of the number one book in American government continues to provide the most current and engaging introduction available for the course and contains an entire unit devoted to Texas government and politics. Like the comprehensive edition, this nuts-and-bolts version was written with the belief that knowledge of the development of American government is integral to fully understand our current political system. ""Essentials of American Government: Continuity and Change"" is a student-friendly text offering a strong historical perspective that highlights the evolution of government and engages students with examples relevant to their lives.",2005,3.5,604,4
9780321303370,0321303377,The Non-designer's Web Book,"An Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, and Posting Your Own Web Site",Robin Williams;John Tollett,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=te0kAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The top-selling Web design guide returns - completely updated to address the most current browsers, software, and standards!",2006,3.65,335,205
9780321344755,0321344758,Don't Make Me Think!,A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability,Steve Krug,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-PNSAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Web-usability expert Steve Krug updates his classic guide to designing intuitive navigation for the ideal user experience.,2006,4.24,201,7623
9780321399533,0321399536,"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus",,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley;Susan J. Wolfson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9DcrAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the Longman Cultural Editions series, this second edition of Frankenstein presents Mary Shelley's remarkable novel in several provocative and illuminating contexts: cultural, critical, and literary. Series Editor Susan J. Wolfson presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's famous novel in its cultural and historical contexts. Like all great works of fiction, Frankenstein gains depth and dimension from its ""conversation"" with contemporary texts, especially those by Shelley's own parents, husband, and friends. A lively introduction is complemented by a chronology coordinating Shelley's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century. In addition to the 1818 text, this cultural edition features the introduction to and a sample revision of the 1831 version. New to this Edition is Frankentalk, a section of selected references to Frankenstein in the popular press, and the complete text of Richard Brinsley Peake’s Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama, the first stage version of Frankenstein.",2007,3.78,431,226
9780321427137,0321427130,Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray,,Oscar Wilde;Andrew Elfenbein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dhxDPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Andrew Elfenbein, includes the novel and contextual materials from the era of Oscar Wilde. This edition of Oscar Wilde's classic work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, highlights the novel's modernity in both its form and its revolutionary content, and traces its links to modernist literature and the culture of modernity alike. Previous editions of the novel have only seen it in a late Victorian context, or as an extension of the aesthetic theories of Walter Pater and the ""art for art's sake"" movement. As presented in this new edition, however, the freshness and originality of the book emerges, along with its strong social messages. The book is a pastiche of genres that propels nineteenth-century realism into twentieth-century modernism ahead of its own time. Wilde's novel offers a myth for modernity whose hold on the cultural imagination has only strengthened over time-Dorian Gray's uncanny bond with his own portrait underscores the loss of selfhood everyone experiences in a world of images and copies, paves the way for the discourses of homosexuality and the understanding of lifestyle as identity so current today, and provides clues to the mysteries of modern ethics and politics. The edition also emphasizes the role of gender and the rise of female emancipation underlying the Sybil Vane subplot, a focus on women that intensifies the book's relevance to modern transformations of men and women alike.",2007,4.07,352,119
9780321432872,0321432878,Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business,,Harold C. Livesay,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SePtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A biography of Scotsman Andrew Carnegie that discusses how his actions, as founder of Carnegie Steel, contributed to the reorganization of the pattern of industrial activity.",2007,3.27,230,28
9780325001531,0325001537,The Power of One,"The Solo Play for Playwrights, Actors, and Directors",Louis E. Catron,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pZlZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book demonstrates techniques of writing, acting, and directing that encourage the reader to create a personal theatrical experience.",2000,3.79,240,10
9780330239455,0330239457,The Little Prince,,Antoine de Saint-Exupéry;Katherine Woods,"Children's literature, French",,,1974,4.3,96,50
9780330250696,0330250698,The Thirteenth Tribe,The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage,Arthur Koestler,Jews,,,1977,3.91,224,9
9780330257312,0330257315,Invisible Cities,,Italo Calvino,,,"Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. "" Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant"" (Gore Vidal). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book",1979,4.16,126,75
9780330281720,0330281720,Running in the Family,,Michael Ondaatje,"Authors, Canadian",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WghgQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Michael Ondaatje's beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal, and to reconstruct the carefree, doomed life his parents and grandparents had led in a place where couples danced the tango in the moonlight, where drink, gambling, and romance were the main occupations of the upper class. Rich with eccentric characters and captivating stories, and set against the exotic landscape of a colonial empire in decline, Running in the Family is Ondaatje's unforgettable journey through memory and imagination to reclaim his past.",1984,3.84,207,123
9780330301749,0330301748,The Circus of Adventure,,Enid Blyton,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-80JSgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,When Bill comes home with a strange guest it proves to be the beginning of an adventure involving a travelling circus and a castle with secret passages.,1988,4.1,192,1856
9780330301756,0330301756,The Island of Adventure,,Enid Blyton,Abandoned mines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FAaDQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Something very sinister is happening on the mysterious Isle of Gloom and the children are determined to uncover the truth!,1988,4.06,192,3020
9780330303316,0330303317,The African Trilogy,,Chinua Achebe,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a0J4QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1988,4.28,560,237
9780330304214,0330304216,A Gift of Wings,,Richard Bach,Air pilots,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jxNwPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These stories, inspired by Bach's lifelong passion for flight, filled with memories of friends from the past and friends not yet met, are woven together with warmth, honesty and courage. With signs and signals, coincidences and tangents turning up at every juncture, Bach shows how truly complex and beautiful life can be, and also how its troubles can in fact knock us onto better paths or teach us lessons we benefit from in other situations. Drawing on the allegorical power of flight, each a mini-parable, these stories will inspire you with their simple experiences made technicolour by the prism of Bach's extraordinary imagination. Celebrating Richard Bach's unique vision, these transcend their pages to touch the real drama of life with magic that reaches out to us all across its limitless horizons.",1989,3.79,299,1636
9780330314916,0330314912,The Orchard Keeper,,Cormac McCarthy,Community life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UYsaQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee, this book tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst of either of them, has killed the boy's father. Together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, the three enact a drama.",1994,3.55,256,5392
9780330316255,0330316257,The Real Frank Zappa Book,,Frank Zappa;Peter Occhiogrosso,Rock musicians,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nXF4PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The legendary Frank Zappa, one of the most influential, innovative and controversial musical artists for the past 20 years, takes us on a wild, funny trip through his life and times. Along the way, Zappa offers his inimitable views on many things such as art, politics and beer.",1990,4.14,352,4765
9780330332651,0330332651,A Dangerous Fortune,,Ken Follett,"Banks and banking, British",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dyP_pDvn018C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The mysterious death of a student at an exclusive English boarding school haunts those involved for the rest of their lives.,1994,4.03,596,147
9780330334617,0330334611,The Border Trilogy,Picador Classic,Cormac McCarthy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QeGjwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and eventual salvation. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family’s Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico.These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. In the vanishing world of the Old West, blood and violence are conditions of life. Beautiful and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story and a fierce elegy for the American frontier.",2002,4.43,1038,319
9780330334686,0330334689,Misreadings,,Umberto Eco,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q91IPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an upside-down Lolita, Umberto Umberto pursues a granny with ‘whitely lascivious locks’. Professor Anouk Ooma of Prince Joseph’s Land University addresses his colleagues on recent archaeological findings that shed light on the poetry of Italy before the Explosion. Columbus’s landing in the New World is covered by television reporters, commentators and guest experts. We are permitted to see in-house publisher’s readers’ reports, most of them unfavourable, on such submissions as The Odyssey, Don Quixote, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, and the Five Books of Moses; and we hear a diatribe, in ancient Greece, against the vulgarity of such upstarts as Herodotus, Thucydides and Plato. ‘For sheer exuberant good humour, nothing could surpass Misreadings, a collection of parodies and squibs that began appearing in the 1950s and 1960s, but whose panache has not faded one bit’ Marina Warner, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday ‘Made up of vintage, good-humoured games – parodies of think-pieces, spoof essays and carnival pranks’ Lorna Sage, Books of the Year, Observer",1994,3.86,180,694
9780330338813,0330338811,Vurt,,Jeff Noon,Brothers and sisters,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pUKvPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke award, Vurt is a dark tale of England a few years from now. Scribble and his fellow stash riders are hooked on Vurt Feathers, the most powerful drug available. It lets them escape but it has its dangers.",1994,4.06,352,412
9780330340199,0330340190,In Pharaoh's Army,Memories of a Lost War,Tobias Wolff,"Authors, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TO77DpkJol8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having survived the extraordinary childhood recorded in This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff finds himself serving in Vietnam and assigned to a unit in the Mekong Delta. A young officer out of his depth, he lives in boredom and terror and grief for lost friends. Much has been written about the scarring Vietnam experience, but never with this blend of exactitude, humanity, grotesque humour and painful truth. ‘An outstanding addition to the library on the Vietnam War . . . Wolff makes it so funny, moving and memorable you feel it has never been written about before’ Tibor Fischer, Financial Times ‘In Pharaoh’s Army has an irresistible flow. He is a lucid, self-honest spirit with a gift for narrative. I read him at a sitting and was sad to run out of pages’ Ian McEwan, Financial Times Book of the Year ‘Wolff is a fine judge of difficult material. Always entertaining, always thoughtful, this book is a worthy successor to This Boy’s Life ’ Erica Wagner, The Times ‘Wolff’s book is funny, self-chastening and unforgettable’ Nick Hornby, Sunday Times Book of the Year ‘The finest piece of prose I read this year . . .Wolff cannot be parodied, as sure a sign of greatness as there is’ Will Self, Independent on Sunday Book of the Year",1995,4.08,224,21
9780330340328,0330340328,The Reality Dysfunction,,Peter F. Hamilton,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uOqwreUm30AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialization of entire star systems. And throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace. A true golden age is within our grasp. But now something has gone catastrophically wrong. On a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears. An extinct race which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it ""The Reality Dysfunction."" It is the nightmare which has prowled beside us since the beginning of history. 'Absolute vintage science-fiction. Hamilton puts British sci-fi back into interstellar overdrive' ""The Times""",1997,4.14,1223,26269
9780330345040,0330345044,Paper Money,,Ken Follett,Conspiracies,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nlTE5iVFm2MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three seemingly unrelated events occur on a single morning in London. An MP wakes up after spending the night with a beautiful young woman. A tycoon meets a leading Bank of England official for breakfast. And an underworld gang boss briefs his crew. Nothing so far to keep the tabloid editors awake. Until ambitious young reporter Kevin Hart uncovers his first promising link... Because what is at stake is conspiracy: conspiracy to defraud, no matter what the human cost. On one unforgettable day in the world's financial capital, fortunes will be destroyed and ideals will be shattered by the discovery that the whole truth is too dangerous to print...",1996,3.31,286,94
9780330346511,0330346512,An Unquiet Mind,A Memoir of Moods and Madness,Kay Redfield Jamison,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=adEquyRaKTYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this book, a world authority on manic-depression reveals her own struggle since girlhood with this cruel disease. She describes how she mastered it and how it shaped her life.",1997,4.05,240,297
9780330347761,0330347764,The Golden Key,,Melanie Rawn;Jennifer Roberson;Kate Elliott,Families,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cSsNAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Tira Verte births, marriages, treaties and all official documents are painted, not written. The paintings by certain males of the Grijalva family are also magical. This book tells the story of one such painter-magician's obsession with power, with life, and with a love he can never claim.",1997,3.81,1074,34
9780330351690,0330351699,Into the Wild,,Jon Krakauer,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X7M1DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Using the true story of a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature.",1998,3.97,206,1268
9780330351829,0330351826,A Second Chance at Eden,,Peter F. Hamilton,Science fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=foyS8cdFJQkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This novella and six stories are set in the same universe and time-line as the Night's Dawn trilogy.,1999,4.02,496,3844
9780330353823,0330353829,The Memoirs of Cleopatra,,Margaret George,Egypt,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=el6mohWndKQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The bestselling author of ""The Autobiography of Henry VIII"" and ""Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles"" brings to life the words and glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in a lush, sweeping, and richly detailed saga of ancient Egypt.",1998,4.18,1139,15260
9780330363686,0330363689,Just Disgusting!,,Andy Griffiths,Australian fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cUeXrwgToScC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the tradition of Just Tricking!, Just Annoying!, Just Stupid! and Just Crazy!, Andy Griffiths has written nine highly original, humorous new stories about Andy G.Includes a terrible agonising death by flesh-eating zombies, a battle with brussel sprouts (the sprouts win) and the disgusting fact that cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads (they only die because they starve to death).Complemented by imaginative, chaotic and downright disgusting illustrations by Terry Denton.",2002,3.81,180,67
9780330367349,033036734X,Bridget Jones,The Edge of Reason,Helen Fielding,Diary fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ebPEQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Wilderness Years are over! But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones""s Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in the Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing up, not just the whole of this week, but ever.",1999,3.56,422,957
9780330367479,0330367471,Rumer Godden,A Storyteller's Life,Anne Chisholm,British,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8GgmFqXKcQ4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The story of an emotionally powerful writer and a woman of unusual strength of character.,1999,3.83,335,9
9780330371223,0330371223,Four to Score,,Janet Evanovich,Bail bond agents,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3m8ha8ILQjQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The problem with being a bounty hunter is it's all on-the-job training. And Stephanie Plum is still learning the ways to get yourself killed. Take the case of Maxine Norwicki.... When Maxine failed to turn up for her day in court, Stephanie was given the task of bringing her in. Simple. Except Maxine's boyfriend has now begun receiving mysterious, coded notes from the runaway that hint at buried treasure. In fact the notes are so indecipherable that Stephanie has to call on the help of Sally Sweet, giant drag queen and code-breaker extraordinaire. And Steph's knight errant, cop Joe Morelli. is also proving useful - although he can't decide what he wants most: Maxine's bounty or Stephanie's body. Meanwhile a friend loses a finger, a mother is scalped, an apartment is firebombed and a store clerk is murdered. And out in the street, the crazy treasure hunt game goes on.... 'Stephanie Plum is ass-kicking form..... utterly delightful.' Cosmopolitan 'As smart and sassy as high-gloss wet paint.' Time Out ' Among the great joys of contemporary crime fiction.' GQ 'All the easy class and wit that you expect to find in the best American TV Comedy, but too rarely find in modern fiction.' GQ",1999,4.17,311,352
9780330371230,0330371231,High Five,,Janet Evanovich,Bail bond agents,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rNKjOLyFuxYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stephanie Plum's uncle has disappeared and Grandma thinks he has been abducted by aliens. Things turn serious when Stephanie finds a photo of dismembered body parts in his desk. Meanwhile, she has to bring in bail-jumping, vertically-challenged Randy Briggs.",2000,4.18,336,99172
9780330371247,033037124X,Hot Six,A Stephanie Plum Novel,Janet Evanovich,Bail bond agents,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GZ9NPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Sexual temptation, homicidal maniacs, car crashes and doughnut addiction are all in a day's work for Stephanie Plum. Now there's another male in her life. He's big, he's orange, and he howls when he's left alone. But nothing could prepare her for the disaster she faces when Grandma Mazur moves in. "" -- back cover.",2001,4.19,324,300
9780330373579,0330373579,The Sign of the Cross,Travels in Catholic Europe,Colm Tóibín,Catholics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FLVFBAldATIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An insightful and personal examination of Catholicism in Europe.For four years from 1990, Colm Tóibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. The result is this beautifully wrought book. He shows the complications and contradictions of the Catholic Church, and tries to unravel how they in turn influence a country's sense of nationalism. It is not quite a travelogue, nor is it autobiographical. Rather it is a work that tests both faith and the written word, a work that redefines what we have come to expect from non-fiction.",2001,3.8,243,21
9780330375467,0330375466,Them,Adventures with Extremists,Jon Ronson,Political leadership,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8Ea0Nwkf4N0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"*Britain's funniest and most insightful satirist investigates the world of 'them' and 'us'*Is there really, as the extremists claim, a secret room from which a tiny elite secretly rules the world? And if so, can it be found? ""Them: Adventures with Extremists"" is a romp into the heart of darkness involving 12-foot lizard-men, PR-conscious Ku Klux Klansmen, Ian Paisley, Hollywood limousines, the legend of Ruby Ridge, Noam Chomsky, a harem of kidnapped sex slaves, David Icke, and Nicolae Ceausescu's shoes.While Jon Ronson attempts to locate the secret room, he is chased by men in dark glasses, unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp, and witnesses CEOs and leading politicians undertake a bizarre pagan owl ritual in the forests of Northern California. He also learns some alarming things about the looking-glass world of them and us. Are the extremists right? Or has he become one of Them?",2002,3.95,328,991
9780330398046,0330398040,Just as Long as We're Together,,Judy Blume,Families,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nJDx-6iUX3YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stephanie and Rachel have been best friends for years, in spite of their differences. Alison is new in town, and immediately becomes an integral part of their group. But is it possible to have two best friends? And how can you call anyone a friend if you can't tell them your most painful secrets?",2006,4.07,202,9190
9780330411738,033041173X,Hour Game,,David Baldacci,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A0i1qocdUhEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Baldacci's #1 ""New York Times"" bestseller brings back Sean King and Michelle Maxwell--the unstoppable duo from ""Split Second""--on the trails of two diabolical killers, one of whom is copying the other--and stealing the ""credit.""",2005,3.97,726,204
9780330412445,0330412442,Bosnia,A Short History,Noel Malcolm,Bosnia and Hercegovina,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ToYfeuTfhF8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This work aims to set the war in the Balkans in its full historical and political context. This edition includes a chapter covering the events between 1993 and 1995.,2002,4.06,384,33
9780330418881,0330418882,Every Boy's Got One,,Meg Cabot,Americans,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2LJIx4Q3KSAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When cartoonist Jane Harris's best friend Holly announces that she's eloping to the Italian Riviera with longtime boyfriend Mark, and asks Jane to be her maid-of-honour, Jane jumps at the chance, delighted by the prospect of her first ever trip to Europe. What Jane doesn't gamble on is Mark's choice for best man, journalist Cal Langdon. It's hate at first sight for Jane and Cal. But when Holly and Mark's wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jane and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike for one another in order to get their best friends on the road to wedded bliss - and end up on a path neither of them ever expected to tread. . . Told in diary form and in emails, Every Boy's Got One is a brilliant, funny and highly original follow on to the internationally successful Meg Cabot adult novels, The Guy Next Door and Boy Meets Girl.Boy Meets Girl: 'This tale is a hoot' Entertainment Weekly 'Cabot's novel is delightfully fun to read' Booklist",2005,3.77,328,20562
9780330419123,0330419129,Under the Banner of Heaven,A Story of Violent Faith,Jon Krakauer,Mormon fundamentalism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pv-q6vwUb3sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Krakauer shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief in this true story of an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers who insist God commanded them to kill.,2004,3.99,369,126672
9780330419154,0330419153,Downsize This!,,Michael Moore,American Wit And Humour,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3Ai-PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Michael Moore has established himself as someone who just won't shut up, go away, or otherwise do what political and corporate fat cats would like him to do. He lifts the veil on the people who set themselves up as role models and exposes their vulnerable underbellies.",2002,3.62,278,4102
9780330419581,0330419587,Marching Powder,,Rusty Young,Cocaine industry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rfFohfHH1RcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Inspired by the description of Bolivia's San Pedro Prison in the ""Lonely Planet"" guidebook, Young decided to spend four months listening to inmate McFadden and learning about one of the strangest places on earth.",2004,4.25,371,869
9780330419642,0330419641,Absolute Power,,David Baldacci,Murder,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7MPcbr9ZgTcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Accomplished and amazing - one of the hottest reads around' DAILY MAIL Set in Washington D.C., this fascinating thriller of unparalleled suspense dares to explore an unthinkable abuse of power and criminal conspiracy: a vicious murder involving the US President and a cover-up orchestrared by his zealously loyal Chief of Staff and the Secret Service. But, unknown to the President and his lackeys, one unlikely witness saw everything.Trapped behind a two-way mirror in a country house in Maryland, Luther Whitney, a professional burglar, witnesses an event that destroys his faith in justice. By the time he escapes, pursued by two Secret Service agents, a young woman has been sexually assaulted, then shot dead. And a breathtaking cover-up has been set in motion. 'Baldacci's prose is fluent and amazing . . . this book is sure to make a killing' THE TIMES 'A high-octane legal thriller. An almost Shakespearian study in the nature of evil - horror in its purest form' SPECTATOR",2003,4.16,550,79864
9780330433136,033043313X,Chasing the Monsoon,A Modern Pilgrimage Through India,Alexander Frater,India,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5I7AAme3yfUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1987 Frater was able to realize his dream of witnessing firsthand the most dramatic of meteorological events: the Indian monsoon. He followed it from its ""burst"" on the beaches of Trivandrum, through Delhi, Calcutta and across Bangladesh. The result is an illumination of the towering influence of nature over the lives and culture of India and her people.",2005,3.96,273,1065
9780330444576,0330444573,Indecision,,Benjamin Kunkel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=waXVYKG0FFEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dwight is only twenty-eight, but he's having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and working in tech support at Pfizer - are not especially conducive to wisdom. His biggest problem: a chronic inability to make up his mind. Encouraged by one of his roommates, he swallows the first fateful pill.",2006,2.86,256,2486
9780330481915,0330481916,Blackout,,John J. Nance,Bombings,,"When a passenger craft goes down near Cuba, is it an accident, a terrorist incident, or an attack by Castro's regime? Robert McCabe, Washington journalist, has received an enigmatic message from a just-murdered friend, which suggests a lethal conspiracy is in motion.",2000,3.93,672,552
9780330484770,033048477X,American Psycho,A Novel,Bret Easton Ellis,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dneIQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An international bestseller and true modern classic Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream – and its worst nightmare – American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential Picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.",2000,3.82,399,835
9780330487108,0330487108,The Mimic Men,,V. S. Naipaul,British,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-mGZ062dBzAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A profound and moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the post-colonial world.A Tolstoyan spirit... The so-called thrid World has produced no more brilliant literary artist' John Updike, New Yorker Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella, and educated in England, forty-year-old Ralph Singh has spent a lifetime struggling against the torment of cultural displacement. Now in exile from his native country, he has taken up residence at a quaint hotel in a London suburb, where he is writing his memoirs in an attempt to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the cultural paradoxes and tainted fantasies of his colonial childhood and later life: his attempts to fit in at school, his short-lived marriage to an ostenatious white woman. But it is the return of Isabella and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governing nation - every kind of racial fantasy taking wing - that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment. 'Ambitious and successful... Extremely perceptive' The Times 'The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view eithout equal today' New York Times Book Review",2002,3.39,278,809
9780330487146,0330487140,A Bend in the River,,V. S. Naipaul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1zfGyiYEQ8UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"`Brilliant and terrifying`Observer I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the river because he had foreseen the rich future. `Salim, the narrator, is a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast of Centeral Africa. Salim has left the coast to make his way in the interior, there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sudries, sold to the natives. The place is “a bend in the river”; it is Africa. The time is post-colonial, the time of Independence. The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw and the scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty and a lack of prepartion for the modern world they have entered, or partially assumed as a sort of decoration. It is a story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance.`Elizabeth Hardwick `Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit`John Updike",2002,3.77,326,12714
9780330487153,0330487159,The Enigma of Arrival,,V. S. Naipaul,England,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p_nohX19FFIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work, this is the story of a writer's singular journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.",2002,3.69,387,994
9780330487191,0330487191,A House for Mr Biswas,,Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul,Autonomy (Psychology).,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XIBnbkMfjL0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel. Born the ""wrong way"" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, Mr Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsi family, on whom he becomes indignantly dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in an arduous struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. Heartrending and darkly comic, A House for Mr Biswas masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad. 'A marvellous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels' Newsweek",1961,3.82,623,14782
9780330488150,0330488155,The Hunters,Two Short Novels,Claire Messud,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ExP1uO0GSDsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two short novels by the author of The Last Life.'A Simple Tale' tells the story of Maria Poniatowski: her childhood in the Ukraine; her incarceration in a Nazi prison camp in Poland; and her life as an emigrant, working as a domestic in Toronto. Maria is now old, but not yet retired; her sole client is the ancient, demanding Mrs Ellison. Maria reflects on all that has happened, on her relationship with her family, with Mrs Ellison, with the country she left behind and the country in which she lives. 'A Simple Tale' is a moving story of a life and a century.'The Hunters' is the tale of an American academic doing research one summer in London, and the odd and disconcerting relationship she (or he?–the narrator remains a nameless and ungendered voice) develops with her downstairs neighbour, Ridley Wandor. Messud vividly captures the sweltering ugliness of London in the summer, and the sinister aspects of its grimmer quarters. 'The Hunters' is a mysterious story–powerful, haunting and accomplished.",2003,3.4,200,384
9780330490269,0330490265,Dirt Music,,Tim Winton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TAaM1853zdQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"âe~Generous, earthy and raw . . . Mysteries donâe(tm)t come more heartfelt than thisâe(tm) Independent Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a fisherman she doesnâe(tm)t love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into domestic tedium and social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless loitering in cyberspace. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she looks up from the computer screen to see a shadow lurking on the beach below, and a dangerous new element enters her life. Luther Fox, the local poacher. Jinx. Outcast. So begins an unlikely alliance. Set in the wild landscape of Western Australia, this is a novel about the odds of breaking with the past, a love story about people stifled by grief or regret, whose dreams are lost, whose hopes have dried up. Itâe(tm)s a journey across landscapes within and without, about the music that sometimes arises from the dust. âe~Winton keeps writing fiction that makes the novel feel alive to a continent of possibilitiesâe(tm) Evening Standard âe~Winton is not a great Australian novelist; he is a great novelist, full stopâe(tm) The Times",2008,3.86,465,9121
9780330491198,0330491199,The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,,Douglas Adams,"Dent, Arthur (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S062QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Adams's beloved and enduring sci-fi/comedy classic is now available in this beautiful, clothbound, elegantly presented book, filled with never-before-published material, original scripts from the BBC radio series, and much more to please any fan.",2002,4.22,180,2918
9780333187623,0333187628,Ragtime,,E. L. Doctorow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=usBIcVWgkTQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1975,3.88,270,57
9780333666388,0333666380,City on the Seine,Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV,Andrew P. Trout,Paris (France),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=atCRPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Andrew Trout's new book on Paris during the period preceding the end Louis XIV's reign is a fascinating social history of the city anchored by the lives of two of its most famous citizens: Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV. Beginning with the emergence of Richelieu as a political force and concluding with the end of Louis XIV's reign, Trout describes the city as it looked during the seventeenth century and answers a myriad of interesting questions: Did the houses have numbers? Were residential buildings flush with the street? What was anyone likely to see along the River Seine? By answering such questions, Trout constructs a social history of the city that is unequalled. Trout's book is illustrated with maps and engravings that bring the city to life. City on the Seine is an indispensable work of social history.",1996,4.17,288,0
9780333904916,0333904915,Fire on the Mountain (Hb),,Adam Hochschild,Antislavery movements,,"Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading exponent of the slave trade: profits soared and among the beneficiaries were the Church of England and London's Tate Gallery. Yet in the space of a few short years, beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery to the very centre of British political life, from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300,000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar. At their head was Thomas Clarkson, a divinity student who travelled 35,000 miles on horseback documenting abuses, talking to supporters, and evading attempts on his life. With Granville Sharp and James Phillips he founded the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and gave platforms to freed slaves such as Olaudah Equiano, who had experienced the horrors in full. Clarkson's movement resembled nothing England had ever seen before: outside both Parliament and Church, it was the first major embodiment of the forces that today we call civil society, and Hochschild, drawing on the voluminous letters and journals of the characters involved, brings it compellingly to life.",2005,4.27,467,13
9780334028963,0334028965,"The Poet, the Warrior, the Prophet",,Rubem A. Alves,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VTZBPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rainer Maria Rilke, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Emily Dickinson, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud and the Tao Te Ching are just some of the influences evident in this book which brings poetry to bear on theology. An atmosphere of wonder and vision is created - as when, for example, through the magic of Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast, Alves evokes a picture of `words which are good to be eaten' - which in turn leads to a meditation on politics, prophecy and the theme of resurrection.",2002,4.43,148,25
9780340425626,0340425628,From Russia with Love,,Ian Fleming,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GCrJRwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Agent 007 raakt bij zijn werk in Moskou onder de bekoring van een knappe medewerkster van de Russische geheime dienst.,1957,3.89,208,10
9780340425671,0340425679,Casino Royale,,Ian Fleming,"Bond, James (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QdjHPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The legend continues Get ready to enjoy more thrills and spills with the world's greatest secret agent in the latest addition to this classic action series This is the story that introduced us to James Bond. He's charming, sophisticated and handsome but also chillingly ruthless and very deadly. In his first mission, James must neutralize a Russian operative by ruining him at the Baccarat table and forcing his 'retirement'. Lady luck appears to be taken with Bond as his target hits a losing streak, but Bond's attraction to a beautiful female agent leads him to disaster... This new edition also features an new introduction by and background material created exclusively for this series on the literary history of Bond.",1988,3.73,188,54
9780340491683,034049168X,The Walls of Spyte,,Dave Morris;Oliver Johnson;Jamie Thomson;Russ Nicholson;Geoff Wingate,,,,1988,4.33,304,22
9780340637876,0340637870,How the Irish Saved Civilization,The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe,Thomas Cahill,Books,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xV5CPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ireland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed, Ireland became 'the isle of saints and scholars' that enabled the classical and religious heritage to be saved. In his compelling and entertaining narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Irish monks and scrines copied the mauscripts of both pagan and Christian writers, including Homer and Aristotle, while libraries on the continent were lost forever. Bringing the past and its characters to life, Cahill captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilisation.",1995,3.81,256,88
9780340654163,0340654163,Escape,,James Clavell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7MCVQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During the chaos following the Shah's departure from Iran, Erikki Yokkomen, a Finnish helicopter pilot, tries to reach safety with his Iranian-born wife, Azadeh",1996,3.62,584,258
9780340689608,0340689609,Flatmates,,Chris Manby,Apartments,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TR1hHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Flatmates Fiona, Kerry and Linzi have problems enough squabbling over the itemised phone bill and whose turn it is to do the washing up. But nothing can prepare them for the chaos which ensues when Linzi's latest boyfriend arrives on the scene. Gorgeous but feckless, Gaetano spells trouble with a capital 'T'. And soon events are spiralling out of everyone's control . . .",1997,3.53,320,207
9780340692912,034069291X,Crucifix Lane,,Kate Mosse,London (England),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z6f6HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As well as being a gripping thriller, Crucifix Lane explores topical issues such as genetic engineering, and weaves in Celtic mythology in an original and inventive way.",1998,3.4,309,41
9780340766163,0340766166,Shōgun,,James Clavell,British,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NGpfQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world. Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country.",1975,4.38,1152,4863
9780340766187,0340766182,Whirlwind,,James Clavell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gOfHHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is the story of three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak in Tehran in February 1979. Caught between the revolutionaries and the forces of international intrigue is a team of professional pilots. Two of them have Iranian wives they love beyond safety and politics.",1999,3.81,1231,5444
9780340769201,0340769203,Running Away from Richard,,Chris Manby,Actresses,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8p8VNgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Just graduated from drama school, Lizzie Jordan is looking forward to a glittering career at the RSC. She's also looking forward to becoming Mrs Richard Adams (Lizzie just knows that her live-in artist boyfriend is about to propose any day now). So how come, just one month later, Lizzie finds herself sharing a cockroach-infested house in Venice Beach, working as a waitress in a notorious transvestite bar, and pretending to be the fiancee of one of the hottest directors in Hollywood; a man who just happens to be gay? Why does life never seem to work out the way Lizzie Jordan planned?",2001,3.47,470,378
9780340774779,0340774770,"The Road to War, 1933-1939",,Andrew Hunt,Germany,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YYLPGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This text uses a source-based approach to study the origins of World War II. Activities and end-of-chapter questions are pitched at Intermediate level 1 and 2, and exam structure and extended-response questions are also covered.",2000,0,128,0
9780340796146,0340796146,Five on a Treasure Island,,Enid Blyton,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=upwGPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The first adventure for the Famous Five involves a ruined castle and buried treasure.,2001,4.08,256,18308
9780340796153,0340796154,Five Go Adventuring Again,,Enid Blyton,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sAB4NwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Famous Five--Julian, Dick, Anne, George, and Timmy--are determined to find out who is responsible for the thefts at Kirrin Cottage and the discovery of an old map and a very unusual hiding place point to a suspect.",2001,4.01,246,11757
9780340796184,0340796189,Five Go to Smuggler's Top,,Enid Blyton,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MZGMGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is one in a series of Famous Five reissues, illustrated with the original drawings, in full colour by Eileen Soper.",2001,4.05,266,11708
9780340796313,0340796316,Five Get Into a Fix,,Enid Blyton,"Adventure stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0HTWGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"New and contemporary cover treatment brings The Famous Five into the 21st Century, and to a whole new generation of readers!",2001,3.93,250,4706
9780340796344,0340796340,Five Have a Mystery to Solve,,Enid Blyton,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pJsyHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Famous Five investigate the creepy stories surrounding Whispering Island and discover they are not alone.,2001,3.9,280,5136
9780340820469,0340820462,On Writing,A Memoir of the Craft,Stephen King,"Authors, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hk-EPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An autobiographical portrait of Stephen King's home life, his family and his traumatic recent accident. He offers an insight into his world as well as analysis, advice and instruction on writing. Find out what books and films influenced the young writer, his first idea for a story, the true life tale that inspired Carrie. Citing examples of his work and those of his contemporaries such as John Grisham and Raymond Chandler, King gives tips for writers on how to avoid pitfalls and how to use the tools of the trade from building characters to pace and plotting, the importance of dialogue and description - as well as practical advice on presentation and representation. Discover the symbolism, themes and the three deep interests that power all his work.",2001,4.33,384,1072
9780340828069,0340828064,Girl Meets Ape,,Chris Manby,Animal sanctuaries,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G_XcGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"He's the King of the Swingers. But she's the Ice Queen. When Dr Jennifer Niederhauser becomes head of the chimpanzee project at Prowdes Animal Sanctuary, the uptight young zoologist looks forward to making her mark in the conservation world. But the regime is ramshackle, the chimpanzees uncontrollable and her first meeting with head keeper Guy Gibson finds him naked and covered in baby oil. She decides never to work with animals or the childish again. But, she may not have a job for much longer anyway - Prowdes is in big financial trouble. Salvation comes in the form of a TV documentary. Prowdes needs the money and exposure. But does Jennifer need to be exposed to the show's smooth presenter, chimpanzee expert Dr Timothy Lauder? The ultimate alpha male.",2004,3.44,406,526
9780340829776,034082977X,The Waste Lands,,Stephen King,Adventure fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yi9CPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"There are new evils, new dangers to threaten Roland's little band in the devastated city of Lud and the surrounding wastelands, as well as horrific confrontations with Blaine the Mono, the piratical Gasher, and the frightening Tick-Tock Man.",2003,4.24,584,1073
9780340831205,0340831200,The Art of Happiness at Work,,Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho;Howard C. Cutler,Buddhism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gQqONAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Following the massive success of THE ART OF HAPPINESS, the Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler now bring their bestselling message to our working lives. Of the many Dalai Lama titles on sale, THE ART OF HAPPINESS - written with western psychiatrist Howard Cutler - is by far the biggest bestseller of them all. A huge international success, it has sold over 2 million copies worldwide, with nearly 300,000 of these in the UK alone. Now, this inspirational new book brings the successful East-meets-West pairing together again to provide a practical application of Tibetan Buddhist spiritual values to the world of work. In this wise and practical book, the Dalai Lama shows us how to place our working lives into the context of our lives as a whole. Rather than striving to find a role which suits us, we should allow our work to arise naturally from who we are - and what is most important to us. From here we reach a pathway that can lead us to true life fulfilment and purpose.",2003,4.16,224,1583
9780340837955,0340837950,Stranger in a Strange Land,,Robert A. Heinlein,Science fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZQhiPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Epic, entertaining, Stranger in a Strange Land caused controversy and uproar when it was first published. Still topical and challenging today, the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the first man from Mars to visit Earth, is in the great tradition of stories that endure through the power of the author's imagination that stretches from Gulliver's Travels to 1984",2005,3.92,672,563
9780340838037,0340838035,The Pact,,Jodi Picoult,Bereavement,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4cFUQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike are best friends - so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born. When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head as part of an apparent suicide pact. The gun holds a single unspent bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself, but a local detective has doubts. And the Hartes and Golds, in a single terrifying moment, must face every parent's worst fear: do we ever really know our children at all?",2005,4.01,480,970
9780340850626,0340850620,Interstellar Pig,,William Sleator,Human-alien encounters,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RgdGPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Barney's new next-door neighbours are unlike anyone he's ever met - utterly charming, slightly odd, and completely obsessed with a board game. When they invite Barney to join them in a game of Interstellar Pig, he's delighted, until things start to get a little strange.",2001,3.88,200,2067
9780340878750,0340878754,Nightingale's Song,,Kate Pennington,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jmDD8tlXAD8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While working in her father's tavern one evening, Maggie Nightingale overhears a dark plan which compels her to join a smuggler and flee on a ship to the New World in an attempt to escape the threats that haunt her.",2006,3,219,40
9780340917541,0340917547,The Secret Seven,,Enid Blyton,Adventure fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Xh0AGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Seven children and a dog find a stolen race horse after some late night adventures with thieves.,2006,3.86,144,6615
9780345020321,0345020324,A Fish Dinner in Memison,,Eric Rucker Eddison,,,,1970,3.87,190,30
9780345246882,0345246888,Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos,,Howard Phillips Lovecraft,Horror tales,,,1975,4.2,241,20
9780345251220,0345251229,Visions from Nowhere,,William Arrow,Science fiction,,"The first novel in the series, ""Return to the Planet of the Apes, "" in which astronauts, out of their time period, become involved with a society dominated by apes.",1976,3.23,183,10
9780345253590,0345253590,The best of Philip K. Dick,,Philip K. Dick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=93J5ancJm7kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1977,4.22,450,614
9780345277602,0345277600,"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo",,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5VrVfA3bT6kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The scholar-fantacist offers faithful translations of the three classics of Medieval English verse,1980,3.97,214,1240
9780345296917,0345296915,The Centurions,,Damion Hunter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JGGq9tzQ7XgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Two half-brothers find romance and adventure as they fight for the glory of the Roman Empire,1981,4.14,384,34
9780345301116,0345301110,Story of O,,Pauline Réage,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3OwAnoLeneMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Before Fifty Shades of Grey there was Story of O, the notorious novel of dark obsession that introduced the world to erotic fiction. How far will a woman go to express her love? In this exquisite and taboo novel of passion and desire, the answer emerges through a daring exploration of the deepest bonds of sensual domination. ""O"" is a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer, determined to understand and prove her consuming devotion to her lover, René, through complete submission to his every whim, his every desire. It is a journey of forbidden, dangerous choices that sweeps her through the secret gardens of the sexual underground. From the inner sanctum of a private club where willing women are schooled in the art of subjugation to the excruciating embraces of René's friend Sir Stephen, O tests the outermost limits of pleasure. For as O discovers, true freedom lies in her pure and complete willingness to do anything for love.",1973,3.33,199,11942
9780345302359,0345302354,The Crucible of Time,,John Brunner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1T5ddGlkvbkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the development over milennia of a civilization of an unusual alien species, whose sense of humor, resourceful adaptibility, and metalworking skills are the strengths and the hope of their society",1984,3.71,416,24
9780345305183,0345305183,On a pale horse,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8tR0CLrhucIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Zane belongs to a world in which the scientific revolution has been followed by the revolution of magic, and he is thrust into the role of Death.",1984,4.13,325,152
9780345316509,0345316509,"Job, a Comedy of Justice",,Robert Anson Heinlein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qdfZBJ8PWWMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On vacation in Polynesia, Alex Hergensheimer experiences a series of world-changes, all of which point to Armageddon and reveal him to be a pawn in the ancient feud between God and Lucifer.",1985,3.78,439,15580
9780345321381,0345321383,Bridge of Birds,A Novel of an Ancient China that Never was,"Barry Hughart;E. E. ""Doc"" Smith;Joel Rosenbreg;Kathryn Lance;Lin Carter",,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MA7dEqtib-QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1985,4.29,278,8786
9780345323903,0345323904,With Friends Like These,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IKUcAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Willie Whitehorse could have been just another boozed-up guitarist, if it hadn't been for his songs. Somehow they were different -- they reached out and grabbed people's souls. Now agent Sam Parker wanted a piece of the action. But when he had it, Sam knew he'd made a terrible mistake...a mistake it was much too late to correct... With Friends Like These... The aliens had returned to Earth after centuries because they needed allies. But after hundreds of years, they had no idea what they would be getting the universe into...and they soon found out! Dream Done Green Pericles was a poet and a genius, who also happened to be a horse! Why Johnny Can't Speed A father could teach his son a lot of important things, but combat on the freeways wasn't one of them...not when the kid was eighteen and too full of himself to survive. But revenge did have its compensations!",1984,3.94,236,2233
9780345331052,0345331052,The Doom that Came to Sarnath,,Howard Phillips Lovecraft,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=McpvPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,In a city of gems and riches - beyond the dreams of mortal men - a race of conquerors celebrates its triumph and reaps the horror of its glory.,1971,4.12,208,2734
9780345333223,0345333225,Mission to Moulokin,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,,"Intending to book passage home, Ethan Frome Fortune heads to the off-world trading post, but when he sees how the traders are taking advantage of the local Tran, he decides to stay and help organize a planetary government",1985,3.86,294,34
9780345339713,0345339711,The Fellowship of the Ring,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,,"Frodo Baggins, Sam, and a small band of companions quest to return the One Ring to the one place where it can be destroyed. They are being followed by the Ringwraiths, who want to return the ring for themselves.",,,,
9780345339737,0345339738,The Fellowship of the Ring,Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jECp6elJjE4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit, Frodo Baggins, is entrusted by the wizard Gandalf with an immense task: he must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power, the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron's evil dominion.",2012,4.52,490,532629
9780345340443,0345340442,The Belgariad Boxed Set,Pawn of Prophecy; Queen of Sorcery; Magician's Gambit; Castle of Wizardry; Enchanter's End Game,David Eddings,Fiction,,,1986,4.27,1635,13225
9780345345066,0345345061,The Tolkien Reader,,J. R. R. Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bhEdPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fantastical anthology of short fiction, poetry, and commentaries by the author of The Lord of the Rings includes ""The Adventures of Tom Bombadil,"" ""Farmer Giles of Ham, and the author's intriguing essay on the art of the fairy story and the treatment of fantasy. Reissue.",1986,3.99,272,4092
9780345346292,0345346297,The Dragons of Eden,Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence,Carl Sagan,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nmkozwd_gfYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The well-known astronomer and astrobiologist surveys current knowledge of the development of intelligence on Earth in various forms of life and explains his persuasion that intelligence must have developed along similar lines throughout the universe,1977,4.17,271,14974
9780345350800,0345350804,The Best of H.P. Lovecraft,Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre,H. P. Lovecraft,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9MSaF7En79EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers sixteen Lovecraft tales of horror, including ""The Shadow Out of Time.""",1982,4.31,406,26613
9780345352446,0345352440,The Adversary,,Julian May,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1qhsAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fourth and final volume of The Saga of Pliocene Exile. Until the arrival of Aiken Drum, the 100,000 humans who had fled backward in time to Pliocene exile on Earth knew little but slavery to the Tanu -- the humanoid aliens who came from another galaxy. But King Aiken's rule is precarious, for the Tanu's twisted bretheren are secretly maneuvering to bring about his downfall. Worse -- Aiken is about to confront a man of incredibly powerful Talents who nearly overthrew a galactic rule. He is Marc Remillard. Call him . . . The Adversary.",1987,4.22,472,4286
9780345354648,0345354648,Five Patients,The Hospital Explained,Michael Crichton,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5gsd36sJmFwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An introduction to the workings of a modern hospital recreates the actual experiences of five patients at Massachusetts General,1989,3.48,204,4717
9780345368430,0345368436,Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic,A Novel,Terry Jones,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CzV8djGjTx8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seconds after its initial launch, Starship Titanic undergoes SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure) and vanishes, only to mysteriously turn up at the home of Dan and Lucy Gibson, residents of a remote, little-known planet called Earth. Reprint.",1998,3.6,256,864
9780345373946,0345373944,Anne Rice's the Vampire Lestat,A Graphic Novel,Faye Perozich;Anne Rice;Daerick Gross,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J51bOQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Lestat recounts the story of how he became a vampire in eighteenth-century France,1991,4.19,404,67983
9780345375216,0345375211,The Book of Lost Tales,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Kwt_yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first form of the myths and legends in Tolkien's conception of the Middle Kingdom features the adventures of Eriol, and the tales of Beren and Luthien, Turin and the dragon, the necklace of the dwarves, and the fall of Gondolin. Reissue.",1992,3.83,367,10413
9780345376046,0345376048,Long Distance Life,,Marita Golden,African American families,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cnBf_dPSYuIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1992,3.84,570,15896
9780345377968,0345377966,The Proud Highway,"Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967",Hunter S. Thompson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8Dl_zsMkO5AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The private correspondence of America's outlaw journalist looks at Thompson's personal relationships from the mid-1950s through 1967,1998,4.14,720,2898
9780345384225,0345384229,The Transition of H.P. Lovecraft,The Road to Madness,Howard Phillips Lovecraft,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d1aq550uCbQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of horror tales spanning the author's career includes ""The Street,"" ""The Lurking Fear,"" ""Dagon,"" ""The Evil Clergyman,"" and ""Cool Air""",1996,4.3,379,9380
9780345384560,0345384563,A history of God,"from Abraham to the present, the 4000-year quest for God",Karen Armstrong,God (Christianity),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MxCUJl-G8M8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1993,3.87,496,1298
9780345391698,0345391691,The Battle for God,,Karen Armstrong,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ez9C8Kn9kT8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reveals how the fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were born out of a dread of modernity.",2001,3.93,480,5573
9780345396358,0345396359,Better Than Sex,Confessions of a Political Junkie,Hunter S. Thompson,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZFLr1NFExvcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An odyssey through the American electoral process provides insights and observations on the 1992 presidential campaign,1994,3.76,272,4305
9780345396532,0345396537,First King of Shannara,,Terry Brooks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2oFvLddpuyUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Banished from Paranor because of his study of forbidden arcane arts, the Druid Bremen discovers that Brona, the evil Warlock Lord, and his dark forces are once again on the move, destroying everything in their path, and only a powerful weapon wielded by a united Four Lands can stop them. Reissue.",1997,3.96,435,841
9780345396556,0345396553,Ilse Witch,,Terry Brooks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UYHJHaDyJWwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The discovery of a body pairs the last of the Druids, Walker Bob, with the magical Isle Witch, a beautiful and enigmatic young woman who wields a powerful magic, on an epic voyage aboard the Jerle Shannara to solve a mystery. Reprint.",2001,3.96,456,15491
9780345396709,0345396707,Waterborn,,J. Gregory Keyes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JUgi-2zT-7YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her favorite cousin disappears, Hezhi, an exotic princess whose blood bears the seeds of the River God's magic, embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, a search that leads her to Perkar, a chieftain's son who has sworn to destroy the dreaded River God. Reprint.",1997,3.8,384,74
9780345396938,0345396936,Cry to Heaven,,Anne Rice,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5iiODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eighteenth-century Naples provides the setting for the pain, fears, resentments, desires, and triumphs of peasant-born Guido Maffeo and patrician-born Tonio Treschi, two castrati--mentor and angel-voiced student--who strive passionately to live full lives",1995,3.84,566,17761
9780345397393,0345397398,The Vampire Companion,The Official Guide to Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles,Katherine M. Ramsland;Anne Rice,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GwL3NWi9tn4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hundreds of entries discuss various topics related to the Anne Rice series of vampire novels, and include characters, themes, places, and symbolism in the novels",1995,3.93,608,4704
9780345397607,0345397606,Starshield Sentinels,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0xPErrkSd_IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two explorers--one of information and the other of space--face the collapse of galactic civilization, and their only hope is that the explorer of information, Merinda Neskat, can face up to her past and find the answers civilization needs. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour.",1996,3.51,421,179
9780345397614,0345397614,The Mantle of Kendis-Dai,A Starshield Novel,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mG0GRL6q4DYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two explorers--one of information and the other of space--face the collapse of galactic civilization, and their only hope is that the explorer of information, Merinda Neskat, can face up to her past and find the answers civilization needs. Originally titled: Starshield: Sentinels. Reprint.",1997,3.61,353,191
9780345407863,0345407865,The Children of Henry VIII,,Alison Weir,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rKiCmOGUcbgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Recounts the lives of Henry VIII's heirs and the intrigues that arose from their struggle to ascend their father's throne,1997,4.04,385,10834
9780345409461,0345409469,The demon-haunted world,science as a candle in the dark,Carl Sagan,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9fFydHfB_AoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reveals the dangers associated with widespread scientific ignorance, and explains how scientific thought has served to overcome prejudice and hysteria",1996,4.27,459,47399
9780345409706,0345409701,Twister,The Original Screenplay,Michael Crichton;Anne-Marie Martin,Motion picture plays,,"Scientists are pursuing the most destructive weatherfront to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years. By launching electronic sensors into the funnel, the storm chasers hope to obtain enough data to create an improved warning system. But to do so, they must intercept the twisters' deadly path. Original screenplay from the motion picture.",1996,3.63,182,17
9780345412812,0345412818,Does Anybody Have a Problem with That?,Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits,Bill Maher,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XuWODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Brief essays from the television series offer a humorous perspective on politics, celebrities, feminism, education, beauty pageants, President Clinton, and social issues",1997,3.49,288,181
9780345414007,0345414004,Friday,,Robert Anson Heinlein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_6flyQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Beautiful Friday, a genetically engineered courier of the future, travels from New Zealand to Canada to beyond, as she engages in a series of daring and intriguing assignments. By the author of Starship Troopers. Reprint.",1997,3.83,384,22702
9780345417961,0345417968,The 158-Pound Marriage,,John Irving,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MBIVgORCpNEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a ménage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving's cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests and illusions they perpetrate on each other; but the sexual intrigue between them demonstrates how even the kind can be ungenerous, and even the well-intentioned, destructive.",1997,3.24,176,11124
9780345418265,0345418263,The Princess Bride,S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure,William Goldman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RkFBPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this 30th anniversary edition, Goldman frames the famous fairy tale with an ""autobiographical"" story: his father abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.",2003,4.26,398,673146
9780345418685,0345418689,Reunion,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PSeT-HlIU-IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Flinx and his companion Pip venture into a top-secret security installation on Earth to find information about the Meliorare Society, a sect of renegade eugenicists notorious for their experiments on humans, including Flinx himself.",2001,3.87,352,1339
9780345418777,0345418778,Mostly Harmless,,Douglas Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jefTQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Raised on a planet at the remote edge of the universe, the daughter of Arthur Dent sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors",2000,3.97,240,72235
9780345418906,0345418905,"Life, the Universe and Everything",,Douglas Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Cxd4PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect learn why Earth has been shunned by the rest of the galaxy as they journey through space and time.,1982,4.2,224,158946
9780345419088,0345419081,The Eight,A Novel,Katherine Neville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uVSxAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,National bestseller.,1997,3.92,624,530
9780345419620,0345419626,The Queen of the Damned,,Anne Rice,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LKOyybatskUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Intertwines the stories of rock star and vampire Lestat, beautiful twins haunted by a gruesome tragedy, and Akasha, mother of all vampires, who dreams of godhood.",1997,3.88,448,118857
9780345419637,0345419634,The Tale of the Body Thief,,Anne Rice,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ySMyVp2rJ30C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat--vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals--has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence. Look for a special preview of Anne Rice's Prince Lestat in the back of the book. The Vampire Chronicles continue in Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, available for pre-order now. Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief ""Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising.""--People ""Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form.""--San Francisco Chronicle ""Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the erotic.""--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ""Hypnotic . . . masterful.""--Cosmopolitan",1997,3.72,468,71219
9780345420749,0345420748,While I Was Gone,,Sue Miller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=syDpisFWOIsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Years after a friend was brutally murdered, Jo Becker is now married with a grown family, but when an old housemate moves nearby, Jo rekindles a relationship that takes her back to the past and threatens her future.",2002,3.68,352,232
9780345422040,034542204X,Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos,,H. P. Lovecraft,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GeZZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of stories based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, including stories by Lovecraft, Frank Belnap Long, Robert Bloch, Stephen King, and August Derleth",1998,4.2,462,4154
9780345422408,0345422406,Merrick,A Novel,Anne Rice,FICTION,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S4OJPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"David Talbot, an adventurer and near-mortal vampire, narrates the saga of Merrick, a descendant of the Mayfair witches, from whom she inherits her magical gifts, and of a mixed African and French background that is steeped in traditions and lore of voodoo.",2001,3.72,370,34824
9780345422910,0345422910,The Straight Dope,A Compendium of Human Knowledge,Cecil Adams;Ed Zotti,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jqloPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Answers questions about animals, the human body, religion, history, science, politics, technology, language, music, money, food, television, and movies",1998,4.19,432,581
9780345423870,0345423879,Candy,,Luke Davies,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wFyPDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in the author's native Australia, a controversial debut novel reminiscent of Trainspotting follows a young couple's descent into slavery to heroin, which forces them to make money by any means necessary. Original.",1998,4.08,304,5687
9780345424624,034542462X,Nightsword,A Starshield Novel,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P94rGoDk9ooC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The second book in the Starshield adventure saga by the creators of the Dragonlance and Deathgate series pits astronaut Jeremy Griffiths against the power-mad Targ of Gandri in a battle for the Nightsword, a weapon that rules reality. Reprint.",1999,3.66,404,155
9780345425928,0345425928,The Virtues of Aging,,Jimmy Carter,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mSAiuwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The former president presents an essay on the process of aging and how it has affected his outlook on life and suggests ways in which readers can transform their later years into the most exciting of their lives. Reissue.,1998,3.51,160,196
9780345428301,0345428307,Trust Fund,,Stephen Frey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kkCe-yfz3CoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With his charismatic older brother, Paul, campaigning for the White House, Bo Hancock, a financial genius and the youngest member of Connecticut's most influential family, finds himself forced to choose between personal honor and family loyalty, as he confronts a dark secret from the past during which he covered up a monstrous crime involving his brother Paul. Reprint.",2002,3.72,358,587
9780345431103,0345431103,"Star Wars, Episode I",The Phantom Menace : Illustrated Screenplay,George Lucas,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fE3XAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The complete screenplay for the latest ""Star Wars"" motion picture, which tells the story of Darth Vader's youth, includes reproductions of storyboards from the director's studio",1999,3.92,150,257
9780345431912,034543191X,The King of Elfland's Daughter,,Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Baron Dunsany,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LIoBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young prince ventures into a mysterious forest in search of the land of Faerie and of a princess bride, in one of the landmarks of modern fantasy fiction",1999,3.84,240,4718
9780345432407,0345432401,Omerta,,Mario Puzo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lm4TETjnP6EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a darkly comic novel by the author of The Godfather, Don Raymonde Aprile, now retired, and FBI agent Kurt Cilke, engage in one last war with the distinctions between ""good guys"" and ""bad guys"" getting lost in the shuffle. Reprint.",2001,3.7,369,11872
9780345433749,0345433742,The Genome War,How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World,James Shreeve,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uOxFV6oFgj4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An account of the race to solve the world's greatest scientific challenge--the sequencing of the human genome--describes the competition between rival researchers Craig Venter and Francis Collins.,2005,3.81,392,259
9780345434074,0345434072,The Analects of Confucius,A Philosophical Translation,Confucius;Roger T. Ames;Henry Rosemont,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2chvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Based on the oldest extant version of Confucius's most influential text, this translation of the Analects serves as an authentic introduction to Confucian thought.",1999,3.84,352,164
9780345434906,0345434900,The Real James Herriot,A Memoir of My Father,James Wight;Jim Wight,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TrOoioLKwc0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A portrait of the best-selling author of All Creatures Great and Small by his son describes the life and times of the beloved Yorkshire veterinarian, describing his devotion to his family, his work as a rural vet, and his writing. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2001,4.2,371,4178
9780345435255,0345435257,Angel Fire East,,Terry Brooks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MMXNVc9TpgQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"John Ross continues his battle with the demonic forces of the Void as Hopewell, Illinois, once again becomes the scene of an epic showdown, while Ross races against time to protect a rare gypsy morph from the legions of darkness. Reissue.",2000,4.1,368,546
9780345435750,0345435753,Morgawr,,Terry Brooks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ESKYaKFA5voC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Shocking revelations challenge the beliefs of the Druids and their comrades as they continue to battle the unspeakable forces of darkness that threaten to engulf them.,2003,3.97,415,13817
9780345435774,034543577X,Tanequil,,Terry Brooks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=klk0gZD63XUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With Grianne Ohmsford, the rightful High Druid of Shannara, imprisoned in the Forbidding by Dark Magic, her enemies seize control of the Druid Council and embark on a war against the Free-born, as Grianne's young nephew, Pen Ohmsford, sets out on a desperate quest to find the mystical Tanequil, a sentient tree whose magic could free Grianne. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.",2005,3.98,357,10507
9780345436917,0345436911,The Dress Lodger,,Sheri Holman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C2cNXHcowQYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a novel set in London during the Industrial Revolution, a prostitute borrows a blue dress to attract a higher class of client and is shadowed through the streets by an evil old woman hired by the dress' owner to keep an eye on her.",2001,3.57,291,6574
9780345437082,034543708X,Henry VIII,The King and His Court,Alison Weir,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eh7Ylw4rPAAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines the king's remarkable influence on the laws, customs, culture, and politics of his kingdom and profiles the diverse courtiers, artists, and scholars who surrounded Henry VIII.",2002,4.17,642,10137
9780345437839,0345437837,The Case of the Curious Bride,,Erle Stanley Gardner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=afFOPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her ""deceased"" con man husband turns up after being declared dead in a plane crash, he's threatening to blackmail Rhoda Lorton, who has since married a millionaire. Reissue.",2000,3.86,192,1519
9780345437976,0345437977,The Courtesan,A Novel,Susan Carroll,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xus7OLB70OMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Determined to ensure her future by winning the heart of Henry, the Huguenot king of Navarre, sixteenth-century courtesan Gabrielle Cheney finds her plans jeopardized by the malevolent enmity and dark arts of the queen, Catherine de Medici, as well as her growing feelings for Captain Nicolas Remy, a devoted warrior. By the author of The Dark Queen. Original. 45,000 first printing.",2005,3.9,560,2186
9780345438713,034543871X,The Collapse of the Common Good,How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom,Philip K. Howard,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v1Upp5P_VrAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In pursuit of fairness at any cost, we have created a society paralyzed by legal fear: Doctors are paranoid and principals powerless. Little league coaches, scared of liability, stop volunteering. Schools and hospitals start to crumble. The common good fades, replaced by a cacophony of people claiming their “individual rights.” By turns funny and infuriating, this startling book dissects the dogmas of fairness that allow self-interested individuals to bully the rest of society. Philip K. Howard explains how, trying to honor individual rights, we removed the authority needed to maintain a free society. Teachers don’t even have authority to maintain order in the classroom. With no one in charge, the safe course is to avoid any possible risk. Seesaws and diving boards are removed. Ridiculous warning labels litter the American landscape: “Caution: Contents Are Hot.” Striving to protect “individual rights,” we ended up losing much of our freedom. When almost any decision that someone disagrees with is a possible lawsuit, no one knows where he stands. A huge monument to the unknown plaintiff looms high above America, casting a dark shadow across our daily choices. Today, in the land of free speech, you’d have to be a fool to say what you really think. This provocative book not only attacks the sacred cows of political correctness, but takes a breathtakingly bold stand on how to reinvigorate our common good. Only by restoring personal authority can schools begin to work again. Only by judges and legislatures taking back the authority to decide who can sue for what can doctors feel comfortable using their best judgment and American be liberated to say and do what they know is right. Lucid, honest, and hard hitting, The Collapse of the Common Good shows how Americans can bring back freedom and common sense to a society disabled by lawyers and legal fear.",2002,3.92,272,58
9780345439109,0345439104,Drowning Ruth,,Christina Schwarz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ThtnwXBZm5IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An Oprah Book Club selection and bestseller in hardcover, ""Drowning Ruth""--now in paperback--is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart. Schwarz's first novel explores themes of family love, sibling rivalry, duty, loyalty, and a possible murder.",2001,3.74,368,72319
9780345439499,034543949X,The Best of Lester Del Rey,,Lester Del Rey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3LZ6PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of classic stories by the cofounder of Del Rey Books -- now in a stunning new Del Rey Impact edition. A must-have for all science fiction readers -- Introduction by Terry BrooksLester del Rey, science fiction's most protean personality -- writer, editor, critic, publisher -- sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural: ""Instinct""The robots labored to re-create the extinct human species -- but there was one element they somehow left out.""For I Am a Jealous People""""In God We Trust"" is a great motto -- until you find you can't.""Hereafter, Inc"".This is Heaven? The Hell it is!",2000,3.8,320,73
9780345440143,0345440145,I Am the One that I Want,,Margaret Cho,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8chvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a humorous look at her own life, based on her one-woman Off-Broadway show, the popular comedian describes her childhood education, her teenage years on the comedy circuit, and her battles with weight and substance abuse.",2002,3.69,228,1437
9780345440839,0345440838,Schmidt Delivered,,Louis Begley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n3OODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Schmidt struggles with doubts over his May-December romance after Carrie refuses his marriage proposals; his humorless daughter returns, jilted and asking for money; and he encounters a mysterious Egyptian billionaire who may hold the key to his ultimatefate.",2001,3.59,320,104
9780345441034,0345441036,Black House,,Stephen King;Peter Straub,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SdqhE757ll8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the rural Wisconsin hamlet of Tamarack, Jack Sawyer is called in to assist the local police chief in solving a gruesome series of murders that causes Jack to experience inexplicable waking nightmares and draws him back to the Territories and an encounter with his own hidden past, in the long-awaited sequel to The Talisman. Reprint.",2001,4,659,368
9780345441300,0345441303,My Movie Business,A Memoir,John Irving,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l1HoybTXCBMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of The World According to Garp and Hotel New Hampshire offers a candid portrayal of his thirteen-year effort to turn Cider House Rules into a successful film, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the filmmaking process. Reprint.",2000,3.33,222,1098
9780345441690,0345441699,The Dark Arena,,Mario Puzo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HeiODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Walter Mosca, a former G.I. and World War II veteran, returns to post-war Germany seeking his fortune but, instead, falls in love with Hella and becomes involved in the dangerous black market. Reissue.",2001,3.35,288,1515
9780345441706,0345441702,The Sicilian,,Mario Puzo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yHSODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After his three-year exile in Sicily, Michael Corleone is charged to return to America with Salvatore Giuliano, a young Sicilian bandit whose activities have angered the head of the Sicilian Mafia. Reprint.",2001,3.96,416,15801
9780345442123,0345442121,Time to Be in Earnest,A Fragment of Autobiography,P. D. James,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gyP1YTV1AzsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Based on the diary she kept for years, a candid, revealing autobiography of mystery writer P. D. James retraces her life from her school days in 1930s Cambridge to her membership in the House of Lords and her success as a writer. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.",2001,3.94,306,479
9780345442635,0345442636,The Silent Gondoliers,,William Goldman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wmRi-ecIRJkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Recounts the story of Luigi the Gondolier and the secret of the sudden silence of the singing gondoliers of Venice's Grand Canal.,2001,3.8,128,1290
9780345442741,0345442741,Welcome to the Great Mysterious,,Lorna Landvik,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ioqppome7egC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"1. Geneva initially has no intention of traveling to Minnesota to take care of Rich. Why does she change her mind? 2.What do you think would have happened to Geneva if she had decided not to help her sister's family? 3.What has Geneva gained and lost as a result of her successful, high-powered career? 4.As a celebrity, Geneva is fodder for the gossip columns and she is not happy about it. Do you think her complaints are valid? Or is the intrusiveness of the media part of the price of fame and fortune? 5. Geneva's failed first marriage really wounded her. Why does she finally decide to try again? 6. Geneva thinks that Trevor seems relieved by her rejection. Do you think this is really the case? Do you think Trevor could have changed? 7. Has Geneva made the right choice picking the boy in homeroom who would help you with your homework? Do you think the marriage will work? 8. Geneva remembers Conrad as a boy who knew 'when it paid to be careful and when it paid not to.' How do you distinguish between justifiable fears and those that hold you back and do more harm than good? 9. Geneva and James have both been paralyzed by their fears in some ways. Do you have a fear that you feel has had a detrimental effect on your life? 10. Do you think Rich is aware of Geneva's ambivalent feelings about him? If he is, why do you think he gives her a chance anyway? 11. Rich and Conrad's conditions can make those around them uncomfortable, particularly strangers. Discuss why people can feel so uneasy around those with special needs. 12. Rich and Conrad spend a great deal of time with peers who are not classified as special education.What are the benefits and/or drawbacks of such a setup? 13. Everyone is concerned with how Rich is going to deal with his grief. How do you think he is going to handle it? Were his family and friends right to be concerned? 14.What do you think will happen to Barb and George's marriage? Do you think it can survive their loss? 15.Why did James decide to leave his corporate job and become a mailman? Do you think he has had a nervous breakdown as his ex-wife and parents believe? 16. James and his fellow hockey coach take very different approaches to coaching their players.With which approach do you agree? What should be the mission of youth sports? 17. James says, 'faith isn't knowing, it's believing.' Discuss the meaning of faith in all its forms. 18.What would your answers be to the 'big' questions posed in 'The Great Mysterious'? What is true love? What is the meaning of life? What makes you happy? 19.Think of a question you would pose in the 'Great Mysterious.' 20. Do you have a favorite character or characters in this novel? 21. If you had to give a name to one of your emotions, which would it be and what would you name it? 22.The author mentions that she often attends book clubs. Has your group ever invited an author to attend? If not, is this something you would consider doing? 23. If you had the opportunity to ask the author a question about this novel, what would it be? 24.Why did your group decide to read this book? Are you happy with your choice? 25.What is your group reading next?",2002,3.77,368,2353
9780345443281,0345443284,While I was Gone,,Sue Miller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tn1JWa0K8wkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having moved on with her life after a friend was brutally murdered, Jo Becker is now married with a grown family, but when an old housemate moves into the neighborhood, Jo rekindles a relationship that takes her back to the past and threatens her future",2000,3.68,304,55166
9780345443601,0345443608,A Stroke of Midnight,A Novel,Laurell K. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W45XYPF-fzEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Heir to the throne of Faerie, Private Investigator Meredith Gentry faces unforeseen enemies and must summon magical powers to battle the evil that threatens to devour her.",2006,4.07,385,28124
9780345444882,0345444884,The Talisman,,Stephen King;Peter Straub,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nUyLhPuSp3sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer braves the mysterious dangers of the Territories, a surreal parallel world, in his cross-country quest through the U.S. for the Talisman, the only hope for his dying mother and for his own survival.",2001,4.13,735,2229
9780345445780,0345445783,Lights Out,,Peter Abrahams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4cR0mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Emerging from a fifteen-year prison sentence for a crime he did not commit, Eddie Nye vows to learn who was really responsible and searches for answers from his Wall Street freebooter brother, his lover Karen, and a young sharpshooter. Reprint.",2002,3.66,352,207
9780345446107,0345446100,Edge of Victory II,Rebirth,Greg Keyes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9QvTCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As the Yuuzhan Vong search the universe for Jedi to destroy, Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo attempt to reinforce the Jedi resistance, while Anakin and Tahiri jump into hyperspace to evade pursuing New Republic forces who believe them to be murderers.",2001,3.77,292,6333
9780345446664,0345446666,Death in Holy Orders,,P. D. James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WF2X14hnilMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The untimely death of a young priest in training draws Commander Adam Dalgliesh back to East Anglia to investigate at the request of the young man's father, as Dalgliesh finds himself drawn into a complex and violent mystery.",2002,3.92,429,9511
9780345448149,0345448146,A Chosen Few,The Resurrection of European Jewry,Mark Kurlansky,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cRJHAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, determined Jewish men and women have chosen to settle–or remain–in Europe after the devastation of the Holocaust, but they have paid a price. Among the unexpected dangers, they have had to cope with an alarming resurgence of Nazism in Europe, the spread of Arab terrorism, and the impact of the Jewish state on European life. Delving into the intimate stories of European Jews from all walks of life, Kurlansky weaves together a vivid tapestry of individuals sustaining their traditions, and flourishing, in the shadow of history. An inspiring story of a tenacious people who have rebuilt their lives in the face of incomprehensible horror, A Chosen Few is a testament to cultural survival and a celebration of the deep bonds that endure between Jews and European civilization. “Consistently absorbing . . . A Chosen Few investigates the relatively uncharted territory of an encouraging phenomenon.” –Los Angeles Times “I can think of no book that portrays with such intelligence, historical understanding, and journalistic flair what life has been like for Jews determined to build lives in Europe.” –SUSAN MIRON Forward",2002,3.87,456,45
9780345448194,0345448197,Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue,"A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music",Mark Kurlansky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GuO6QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Captures the lives of the inhabitants of a tight-knit, ethnically diverse neighborhood on the Lower East Side of New York, including Nathan, a claustrophobic married man falling for Karoline, a German pastry maker.",2005,3.15,319,182
9780345449009,0345449002,Star Wars,The New Essential Guide to Characters,Daniel Wallace,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HrYGhLXC_mkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A who's who of the popular series provides profiles of the most important characters from the Star Wars movies, books, comics, TV specials, and games, and spotlights individuals from the films of episodes I and II.",2002,3.96,224,355
9780345449023,0345449029,Star Wars,The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels,W. Haden Blackman,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cVANAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An ultimate Star Wars fan's guide to the spacecraft and vehicles that put Luke Skywalker and his companions in the driver's seat profiles such ships as the Millennium Falcon, the Tie- and X-Wing fighters, and the Death Stars, and has been updated to include new full-color artwork, as well as entries from The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and more. Original.",2003,4.1,200,203
9780345450395,0345450396,Flinx's Folly,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=orfvplMu83wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Enlisted to take part in a battle against a horrifying extra-galactic threat, Flinx and his mini-drag protector Pip find themselves journeying into the heart of danger as he prepares to take on a force of pure evil and into the arms of the only woman he has every loved. Reprint.",2004,3.94,288,1729
9780345450692,0345450698,Clay's Quilt,A Novel,Silas House,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Tcgduqd7Nk4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love, searches his family history for clues about who he is, uncovering a dramatic story woven into the fabric of his uncle's quilts.",2001,3.95,320,2588
9780345452511,0345452518,Sunstorm,,Arthur Charles Clarke;Stephen Baxter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wzg9BEEnIV8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A woman stumbles upon a mysterious portal that links back to the Firstborn, omnipotent beings responsible for the upheaval of history and the creators of the notorious black monolith of ""2001: A Space Odyssey.""",2006,3.83,356,3894
9780345453747,0345453743,The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,,Douglas Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4m0Qj9xKksYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures with his new companion.",2002,4.38,815,240189
9780345453860,0345453867,Shadow Dance,A Novel,Julie Garwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KXqrAfghW9wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Moving between the glamorous cosmopolitan world of Boston and small-town Texas, a sizzling romance follows the evolution of the tumultuous relationship between Jordan Buchanan and Noah Clayborne. 300,000 first printing.",2007,4,336,10943
9780345455826,0345455827,1968,The Year That Rocked The World,Mark Kurlansky,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PgoWNH22yTMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides a detailed look at 1968, a pivotal year in the history of the twentieth century, exploring the turbulent events, politics, culture, economics, and social changes that marked a volatile year.",2005,3.78,480,1933
9780345455918,0345455916,The Probable Future,,Alice Hoffman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XqaQeq_q-Y4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Struggling to cope with her unwanted ability to see the future, Stella must confront her legacy when her father is jailed, wrongly accused of homicide, and Stella joins forces with her grandmother and mother to uncover the truth.",2004,3.83,352,11612
9780345456328,0345456327,The Belgariad V.2,,David Eddings,Fantasy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gCvDmgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2002,4.28,644,14129
9780345456342,0345456343,The Vampire Chronicles Collection,Volume 1,Anne Rice,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eMCBqHylp7wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the three-century life of Lestat, from his boyhood in eighteenth-century France to his contemporary career as rock star and vampire.",2002,4.27,1280,481
9780345457370,0345457374,The Bonesetter's Daughter,,Amy Tan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TQW3ngISY98C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China.",2003,3.98,368,105432
9780345457691,0345457692,Altered Carbon,,Richard K. Morgan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xXp3MCvqeNIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a twenty-fifth-century world in which death is nearly obsolete, thanks to a technology that allows a person's consciousness to be downloaded into a new body, former U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs, re-sleeved into a new body after a brutal death, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly far-reaching conspiracy that could have horrifying repercussions. Reprint.",2006,4.06,526,52810
9780345457745,0345457749,Market Forces,,Richard K. Morgan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=33BlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chris Faulkner, a wealthy commondities trader, uses his talent for instigating and taking advantage of revolutions and wars of liberation around the world in order to sell arms, intelligence, and power, but his growing riches come at a terrible cost. By the author of Altered Carbon. Original. 24,000 first printing.",2005,3.59,464,5398
9780345458568,0345458567,Tales Before Tolkien,The Roots of Modern Fantasy,Douglas A. Anderson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L0zZ-5RVXuQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of twenty-two classic fantasy tales notes their connection to Tolkien's early works and includes such pieces as George Macdonald's ""The Golden Key,"" Andrew Lang's ""The Story of Sigurd,"" and E. A. Wyke-Smith's ""The Marvelous Land of Snergs."" Reprint.",2005,3.94,528,1119
9780345458940,034545894X,Body Double,,tess girritsen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VALRU9UDX3YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Returning from Paris to discover a murder victim in her driveway, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the victim looks exactly like her and is a twin sister she never knew, a situation that prompts the doctor to investigate her true identity and come to terms with a convict biological mother. Reprint.",2005,4.18,432,34772
9780345461278,0345461274,Lost and Found,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y54fLJRHzHAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kidnapped by a starship bound for deep space, Marcus Walker learns that he is to be sold to a wealthy collector as a native from a primitive planet and befriends a talking dog named George, who becomes an ally in their plan to escape.",2005,3.68,256,702
9780345461308,0345461304,The Light-Years Beneath My Feet,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EK1l81IRwmMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kidnapped by aliens to be sold as a pet in a distant part of the galaxy, young Chicago commodities broker Marcus Walker and his companion, George, a speech-enhanced dog, have managed to outwit their abductors, only to find themselves stranded billions of miles from Earth, with no way home. Reprint.",2006,3.73,232,445
9780345461360,0345461363,To The Last Man,A Novel Of The First World War,Jeff Shaara,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YLTBBV6s5zQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the spring of 1918, when a neutral America is goaded into World War I, the world waits to see if the tide of war can be turned with the renewed spirit and strength of the untested American Expeditionary Force, lead by General John ""Blackjack"" Pershing. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.",2005,4.22,636,4656
9780345461582,0345461584,Sliding Scales,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_RpV9GqY6jMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A supposed vacation for Phillip ""Flinx"" Lynx, a young man with uncanny talents, and his mini-dragon protector, Pip, turns deadly when his supposed time of relaxation, reflection, and rest from his last dangerous adventure is turned upside down by all-new trouble. Reprint.",2005,3.87,257,1149
9780345461612,0345461614,Running from the Deity,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9mnzmJ3Ksn0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As a Great Darkness threatens to engulf the entire universe, Flinx and his mini-drag companion Pip may finally get the chance to face down the ultimate evil. Reprint.",2006,3.8,280,1025
9780345461674,0345461673,Judas Unchained,,Peter F. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eHMVAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The factions in the embattled Commonwealth must come together to battle not only the predatory alien species, the Prime, but also the Starflyer, a mysterious and undetectable alien with irresistible mind-control abilities.",2007,4.31,1008,707
9780345463050,0345463056,The Swarm War,,Troy Denning,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9fPocwhm3NAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With a war between the Killiks and Chiss threatening to engulf the entire galaxy, Luke Skywalker makes a desperate attempt to prevent war by venturing deep into hostile territory to undermine the war-making capabilities of all the combatants.",2006,3.49,357,3756
9780345463098,0345463099,Yoda,Dark Rendezvous,Sean Stewart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rdgi7mqaOz0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As the Clone Wars rage on, Yoda receives a message that his adversary and former pupil wants to meet secretly to discuss peace on the evil planet Vjun and he must decide whether to trust Dooku or risk losing the war.",2004,3.88,329,3889
9780345463159,0345463153,The Fourth Hand,,John Irving,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oeD1ApzuFM4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a New York journalist suffers a horrible accident--his left hand eaten by a lion while reporting on a story from India--witnessed by millions on television, viewers rally to help him.",2003,3.31,368,24758
9780345463296,0345463293,Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft,,H. P. Lovecraft,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fZRnpV521IcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"“H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen King “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”—H.P. Lovecraft This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft’s most horrifying visions, including: The Call of Cthulu: The first story in the infamous Cthulhu mythos—a creature spawned in the stars brings a menace of unimaginable evil to threaten all mankind. The Dunwich Horror: An evil man’s desire to perform an unspeakable ritual leads him in search of the fabled text of The Necronomicon. The Colour Out of Space: A horror from the skies—far worse than any nuclear fallout—transforms a man into a monster. The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Rising from the depths of the sea, an unspeakable horror engulfs a quiet New England town. Plus twelve more terrifying tales!",2002,,,
9780345464019,034546401X,Saving Fish from Drowning,,Amy Tan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jZbHwEPpwFwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On an ill-fated art expedition, eleven Americans find themselves deep in the Burmese jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting a leader and the mystical book of wisdom that will protect them from the Myanmar military regime.",2006,3.43,472,26172
9780345464972,0345464974,A Parchment of Leaves,,Silas House,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=haqGzhEEv9QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1917, a Cherokee woman who leaves her community to marry a white man finds herself isolated and discriminated against as she tries to settle in to her new life. By the author of Clay's Quilt. Reprint.",2003,4.17,304,3049
9780345465542,0345465547,The Heritage of Shannara,,Terry Brooks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zaIKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects the four novels of the ""Heritage of Shannara"" series--""The Scions of Shannara,"" ""The Druid of Shannara,"" ""The Elf Queen of Shannara,"" and ""The Talisman of Shannara""--into a single volume.",2003,4.28,1238,3548
9780345466396,034546639X,All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,,Robert Fulghum,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oT6I5gXl3zsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Unitarian minister reflects on America and its diverse peoples, everyday wisdoms, kindnesses, and joys, and everyday life's large meanings.",2004,4.03,240,16935
9780345467324,0345467329,Perfect Nightmare,A Novel,John Saul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LzddHwKvvE4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her teenage daughter vanishes shortly after Kara Marshall and her husband put their Long Island home on the market, Kara fears the worst despite the suspicions of police that the girl is a runaway and discovers that her daughter has been abducted along with a number of other missing persons and is at the uncertain mercy of a deranged murderer. Reprint.",2006,3.89,384,3607
9780345468031,0345468031,The Franklin Affair,,Jim Lehrer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dhGZPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Following the death of his longtime mentor, a young historian's peaceful and orderly life is undermined by personal and professional crises when he receives a letter dating back to the Revolutionary War that reveals a scandal that could alter forever American history and joins a committee investigating plagiarism charges against a female biographer who will do anything to stop them. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.",2006,3.12,208,141
9780345468369,0345468368,Oh My Stars,A Novel,Lorna Landvik,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d7IcpYWCBFwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a novel set during the early days of rock 'n' roll, Violet Mathers, a down-and-out woman, becomes embroiled with a handsome musical pioneer.",2005,3.89,416,5339
9780345468390,0345468392,The Chronicles of Riddick,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yH_k60dLl_YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The official novel of the Universal Studios film PITCH BLACK 2:THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, as the interplanetary mercenary Riddick discovers a threat that could destroy him, kill his friends and allies, and consume the entire galaxy-a threat only he can stop. The movie features hot new star Vin Diesel - an Arnold Schwarzenegger for a new generation.",2004,3.95,342,1352
9780345472458,0345472454,The Amateur Marriage,A Novel,Anne Tyler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wXGK6gBEULcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Marrying quickly during World War II after falling in love at first sight, a mismatched couple discovers that their very different personalities and approaches to life are taking a toll on their lives, their relationship, and their family, in a compelling novel spanning three generations. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.",2006,3.61,342,12584
9780345475732,0345475739,Star Wars,Labyrinth of Evil,James Luceno,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_g7TCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker embark on a mission to uncover the wearabouts of the evil Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, only to become trapped in a labyrinthine web of lies, betrayal, and intrigue.",2005,3.84,370,5477
9780345476098,0345476093,The Guns of August,Kits for Teens,Barbara Wertheim Tuchman,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ELck9kOIg4QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris. Reprint.",2004,4.18,606,40624
9780345476517,0345476514,Wish You Were Here,The Official Biography of Douglas Adams,Nick Webb,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SKdQgGRjIqsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Written by Adams's editor and close-friend, an authorized biography of the late author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its sequels offers a larger-than-life portrait of the inimitable Douglas Adams, based on material from the author's family. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2005,4.14,368,2548
9780345476722,0345476727,The Fortunate Pilgrim,,Mario Puzo,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E2CPDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows one family of Italian immigrants who settle in New York in the late 1920s through World War II, a family dominated by a defiant matriarch who struggles to raise six children and preserve Old World values in a new land.",2004,3.82,304,3074
9780345476883,0345476883,The Vampire Lestat,,Anne Rice,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lERBwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lestat has risen from his long sleep as a modern day rock star, and makes public his story of his aristocratic boyhood in pre-revolutionary eighteenth-century France and his initiation into vampiredom in order to solve the mystery of his existence. Reissue.",2004,4.07,481,152168
9780345476982,0345476980,Vanish,A Novel,Tess Gerritsen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5vjPuuuxDpsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"FBI agent Gabriel Dean rushes into action to protect his pregnant wife, homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, when she is taken hostage along with others at the hospital by Nicholas Tennant, a black-ops agent in possession of high-level government secrets, after he is sent to the hospital when Boston M.E. Maura Isles discovers that Tennant is still alive as she prepares for his autopsy. Reprint.",2006,4.12,401,45210
9780345477361,0345477367,Darth Bane,Path of Destruction : a Novel of the Old Republic,Drew Karpyshyn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cwXF01q7MxMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Millennia before the rise of Darth Vader and Darth Sidious, in an Old Republic marked by an ongoing struggle between the Sidi and Jedi, Darth Bane plots to bring down the Brotherhood of the Sith and to replace it with a more powerful order.",2006,4.27,324,15796
9780345477385,0345477383,Star Wars,Allegiance,Timothy Zahn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=blZQGYrc3KwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Luke Skywalker is learning about the Force while Han Solo struggles with the decision to join the Rebel Alliance, Leia helps run the rebellion while dealing with her feelings for Han, and Mara Jade is doing the Emperor's dirty work.",2007,3.98,324,6637
9780345477521,0345477529,Tempest,,Troy Denning,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ag7TCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Angering their families and the Jedi by joining the Corellian rebels, Han and Leia Solo soon discover a plot to kill the pro-Alliance Hapan queen and her daughter and try to stop it, but it leads to a battle with their son Jacen.",2006,3.82,400,5577
9780345477606,034547760X,Star Wars,The New Essential Guide to Alien Species,Ann Margaret Lewis;Helen Keier,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=InPJDovJ9CoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A comprehensive overview of alien beings from the ""Star Wars"" universe provides a physical description of the beings, a description of their homeworld, and where and when they appeared in the Star Wars films, novels, cartoon series, comic books, or videogames.",2006,4.16,227,247
9780345477972,0345477979,Tsubasa,vol. 7,CLAMP (Mangaka group),Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kuh6tAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sakura, the princess of Clow, has a strange power that could change the world, and lives in an alternate-reality world with her childhood friend Syaoran, with whom she begins a series of journeys to other worlds.",2005,4.29,194,3392
9780345478238,0345478231,"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave",,Frederick Douglass;Harriet Jacobs,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sk_kwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Includes the autobiography of the famous abolitionist and statesman who escaped to the North after twenty-one years of enslavement, as well as an account that reveals the exploitation of African American female slaves through first-person narrative.",2004,4,464,966
9780345478245,034547824X,Already Dead,,Charlie Huston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z5vfamYeVG0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they’re true. Only it’s not like the movies or old man Stoker’s storybook. It’s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt. There’s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folks’ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he’s still the one who has to deal with them. That’s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word. From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and he’s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and he’s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that’s eating at him isn’t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesn’t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan–it ain’t easy. It’s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition–the city’s most powerful Clan–and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl who’s gone missing in Alphabet City. Now the Coalition and the girl’s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.",2005,3.79,268,8322
9780345478252,0345478258,No Dominion,,Charlie Huston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UNB7vgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Joe Pitt’s life sucks. He hasn’t had a case or a job in God knows how long and his stashes are running on empty. What stashes? The only ones that count to a guy like Joe: blood and money. The money he uses to buy blood; the blood he drinks. Hey, buddy, it’s that or your neck–you want to choose? The only way to lay his hands on both is to take a gig with the local Vampyre Clan. See, something new is on the streets, a new high, a high so strong it can send a Vampyre spazzing through Joe’s local watering hole. Till Joe sends him through a plate-glass window, that is. So it’s time for Joe to gut up and swallow that pride and follow the leads wherever they go. It won’t be long before he’s slapping stoolies, getting sapped, and being taken for a ride above 110th Street. Someone’s pulling Joe’s strings, and now he’s riding the A train, looking to find who it is. He’s gonna cut them when he finds them–the strings and the hands that hold them.",2006,3.99,251,4599
9780345478955,0345478959,A Slipping-down Life,,Anne Tyler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jHmODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The story of a Baltimore family and the girl who drifts into their lives.,1970,3.6,192,3261
9780345479174,0345479173,Trump,The Art of the Deal,Donald Trump,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5ENr62-n4cQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An overview of a week in the entrepreneur's life and opinions on everything from football to New York mayors accompany stories of Trump's best real estate deals and a discussion of the deal maker's art. Reprint.,2005,3.65,384,11727
9780345479396,0345479394,Ego & Hubris,The Michael Malice Story,Harvey Pekar,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HniumAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Michael Malice has had an unconventional childhood and, despite his high intelligence, finds himself in a series of dead-end jobs, until he meets the author who gives him the confidence to find a job which utilizes his creative talents.",2006,3.65,160,376
9780345479457,0345479459,Inferno,,Alex Irvine;Bob Kane,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Jlaj2VfPofcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As a mad arsonist known as an Enfer scheme terrorizes the inhabitants of Gotham City, a fire at Arkham Asylum is engineered to provide an escape opportunity for its most infamous inmate, the Joker, who comes up with a scheme to launch the ultimate crime wave, disguised as the Caped Crusader himself. Original.",2006,3.6,339,324
9780345479723,0345479726,Until I Find You,,John Irving,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1PPaeSTnb8wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the life and times of actor Jack Burns, whose unique bond with his mother, Alice, a Toronto tattoo artist, and their search for his missing father, William, shapes his relationships with women and his Hollywood career.",2006,3.63,820,22066
9780345480057,0345480058,The Coal Tattoo,A Novel,Silas House,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fYi4wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Left to raise themselves in a small coal-mining town in Tennessee, Anneth and Easter, two very different sisters--one destined for the glittering world of Nashville, the other a devout Pentecostal--struggle to come to terms with the death of their mother as their long and difficult journey brings them back to their origins and to each other. By the author of Clay's Quilt. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.",2005,4.04,368,1704
9780345481290,0345481291,Throne of Jade,,Naomi Novik,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AGfz_-Y5cYoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"British naval officer Will Laurence's partnership with Temeraire, a rare Chinese imperial dragon, is threatened when Temeraire is summoned to the imperial court by the powerful Chinese emperor, who had intended the dragon to be a gift for Napoleon Bonaparte, not the companion of a lowly English pilot. Original.",2006,3.9,398,27547
9780345481337,034548133X,A Dangerous Man,,Charlie Huston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e_VvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reluctant hitman Henry Thompson returns to New York City, the scene of his original mishaps, when he takes an assignment as the new bodyguard for rising baseball star Miguel Arenas, a mission that is complicated by a threat against his parents' lives, a threat that forces Henry to make a desperate and final choice. By the author of Caught Stealing and Six Bad Things. Original. 25,000 first printing.",2006,4.07,286,2681
9780345482402,0345482409,Enchantment,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TfC7wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows one man from ninth-century Russia to present-day America as he struggles to rescue a princess and her kingdom, find true love, and overcome the blackest of evil.",2005,3.9,422,23134
9780345483171,0345483170,How to Be Lost,,Amanda Eyre Ward,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7a14rP6JjnkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The perfect lives of the affluent Winters family--father, mother, and three beautiful daughters--begin to unravel when their five-year-old daughter, Ellie, mysteriously vanishes, but fifteen years later, Caroline, Ellie's older sister, driven by the discovery of a photograph in People magazine, embarks for a search for her long-lost sister. By the author of Sleep Toward Heaven. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.",2005,3.54,290,6074
9780345483195,0345483197,Queen of the Underworld,,Gail Godwin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tj2FDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1959, as the first wave of Cuban exiles arrives in the United States, Emma Gant, finally free of her stifling family and bullying stepfather, embarks on a career as a reporter for The Miami Star and begins to thrive in the sultry world of Miami, confronting conflicting loyalties, shady dealings, and personal and professional setbacks as she pursues her goals. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.",2007,2.89,368,529
9780345483898,0345483898,Jarka Ruus,,Terry Brooks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5e9ERsP9g0oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty years after Grianne Ohmsford abandoned her life as the evil Ilse Witch to lead the Druid Council protecting the Four Lands, she disappears, and it is up to her nephew Pen and his comrades to go to her rescue.",2005,3.97,416,11867
9780345484109,034548410X,Armageddon's Children,,Terry Brooks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LesxlGU04XoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a futuristic world in which civilization is near total collapse, evil forces control the ruins of the former United States, killing and enslaving the survivors, until Logan Tom embarks on a mission to find a child who bears a powerful magic that couldsave the world.",2007,4.1,404,608
9780345484291,0345484290,Tsubasa 9 Reservoir Chronicle,In the Gods' Hands,CLAMP (Mangaka group),,,"Sakura, the princess of Clow, has a strange power that could change the world, and lives in an alternate-reality world with her childhood friend Syaoran, with whom she begins a series of journeys to other worlds.",2004,4.28,184,3005
9780345484406,0345484401,Them,,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bs8MgNFOq7wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The members of the Wendall family struggle for thirty years to understand the obscure forces constantly tearing at their lives and happiness.,2006,3.71,576,2591
9780345485250,0345485254,Thirteen,,Richard K. Morgan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ErERmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The subject of a failed government experiment to produce a more deadly military warrior, Carl Marsalis is a hit man who has lost his taste for killing, but when he is arrested in Miami, government officials come up with a plan to use his talents to achieve their own ends. 30,000 first printing.",2007,3.89,544,7778
9780345485281,0345485289,"Tsubasa, 11",Reservoir Chronicle (YA),CLAMP (Mangaka group),Amnesia,,"Sakura, the princess of Clow, has a strange power that could change the world, and lives in an alternate-reality world with her childhood friend Syaoran, with whom she begins a series of journeys to other worlds.",2004,4.28,183,2674
9780345485328,0345485327,Tsubasa 12 Reservoir Chronicle,Dragonfly Battle,CLAMP (Mangaka group),Graphic novels,,"Sakura, the princess of Clow, has a strange power that could change the world, and lives in an alternate-reality world with her childhood friend Syaoran, with whom she begins a series of journeys to other worlds.",2004,4.31,184,2647
9780345486479,0345486471,Candy Licker,An Urban Erotic Tale,Noire,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w-6ODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Candy Raye Montana gets more than she had bargained for when she signs up with the House of Homicide, the hottest recording label on the east coast, and its CEO ""Hurricane"" Jackson, a man as talented as he is cruel, who gives her a painful lesson in the price of success. By the author of G-Spot. Original. 50,000 first printing.",2005,4.39,304,2527
9780345486585,0345486587,Drop Dead Gorgeous,A Novel,Linda Howard,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tLqFnO5SsEIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After narrowly escaping two attempts on her life, Blair Mallory launches a personal campaign to discover her attacker's identity without the support of her fiancâe, police detective Wyatt Bloodsworth.",2006,3.93,347,7100
9780345487032,0345487036,The Devil's Labyrinth,A Novel,John Saul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T22MvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""New York Times"" bestselling author Saul is at his diabolical best in this thrilling new novel of an exorcist who has learned how to reverse the mysterious art--to summon evil instead of driving it out.",2007,3.46,352,2383
9780345487421,0345487427,Feel the Fear-- and Do it Anyway,,Susan J. Jeffers,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o2WbcxBt8IEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A psychotherapist shows how to identify the fears that are inhibiting one's life, ranging from public speaking and intimacy to aging and rejection, and how to transform frustration and helplessness into power to create success in every aspect of life, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the best-selling guide. Reissue. 50,000 first printing.",2007,4.03,217,474
9780345487629,0345487621,The Devilish Pleasures of a Duke,,Jillian Hunter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R_GG7dMrjLwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rescuing Emma Boscastle, an instructor at her London academy for young ladies, from the unwanted attentions of a scoundrel during a wedding she had organized, injured rogue Adrian Ruxley finds himself recuperating under Emma's roof and tempting the proper young lady into a seductive display of impropriety. Original.",2007,3.98,345,933
9780345490094,0345490096,Star Wars Republic Commando,Triple zero,Karen Traviss,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cBDTCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Republic, aided by Delta squad and a notorious ARC trooper, take on their ultimate challenge, the elite Omega Squad, a team of warrior clone commandos possessing deadly combat skills and an arsenal of weaponry.",2006,4.24,393,4900
9780345490643,0345490649,The Manhattan Hunt Club,,John Saul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SludZCtZ1koC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The acknowledged master of psychological suspense and heart-stopping terror, New York Times bestselling author John Saul now invites you to descend to chilling new depths of darkness--and discover a secret, savage world that exists beneath our very feet. The promising future of New York City college student Jeff Converse has suddenly been shattered by a nightmarish turn of events. Falsely convicted of a brutal crime, Jeff sees his life vanishing before his eyes. But someone has other plans for Jeff, in a far deadlier place than any penitentiary. He finds himself beneath the teeming streets of Manhattan, in a hidden landscape of twisting tunnels and forgotten subterranean chambers. Here, an invisible population of the homeless, the desperate, and the mad has carved out its own shadow society. But they are not alone. The pitch-dark tunnels and abandoned subway stations are haunted by the unmistakable sounds of predators in search of game. Someone has made this forsaken civilization beneath the city a private killing ground . . . and the hunt is on. Trapped in a treacherous underground maze, cut off at every turn by ragged gangs of sinister ""gamekeepers,"" and stalked relentlessly by unseen hunters, Jeff faces overwhelming odds in the race to reach salvation and elude capture. With no weapon but his wits, and an unimaginable threat lurking around every dark corner, Jeff must somehow move heaven and earth to escape from a living hell. The Manhattan Hunt Club is the most thrilling and suspenseful novel yet from the ingenious mind of John Saul. From the Hardcover edition.",2006,3.98,384,4757
9780345492869,0345492862,The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Trilogy,,Terry Brooks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v7mGRYu2J5QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Chronicles the adventures of the heroes of the Four Lands as they match wits with the mysterious and deadly Ilse Witch and her minions in an epic confrontation between the forces of good and evil.,2006,4.26,1248,3030
9780345494023,0345494024,The Plague Dogs,A Novel,Richard Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H2SPDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A large black mongrel named Rowf and a white terrier named Snitter escape from an animal experiment center in England's Lake District and, aided by a cunning fox, learn to live on their own, until rumors of slaughtered sheep and bubonic plague-carrying dogs transform them into fugitives. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2006,3.85,390,5655
9780345494764,0345494768,The Making of Star Wars,The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film : Based on the Lost Interviews from the Official Lucasfilm Archives,J. W. Rinzler,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S5IXtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Coinciding with the thirtieth anniversary of the first Star Wars film and including long-lost interviews and photos, a work written by a Lucasfilm staff member reveals the challenges and dramas behind the movie's creation.",2007,4.54,362,1148
9780345495815,0345495810,"Star Trek, the Animated Series","Log one, log two",Alan Dean Foster,Star trek fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K-VNwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1996,3.42,370,56
9780345495839,0345495837,Star Trek Logs Five and Six,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SUgtcAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"“SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER . . . These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise™.” Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Star Trek® with the original mission logs chronicling some of the crew’s most bizarre missions and strangest encounters with alien races across the galaxy . . . where no man has gone before™. The Ambergris Element Spock and Kirk seemingly meet a watery grave on the planet Argo. But the crew learns that the two have been turned into water-breathers by a mysterious race–and the consequences could cost them their lives. The Pirates of Orion An epidemic lethal to Vulcans strikes the Enterprise. But an Orion ship steals the cure and disappears into an explosive asteroid belt. If Spock doesn’t receive the antidote, he has only three days to live. Jihad When a priceless religious object–the Soul of Skorr–is stolen from the Vedala asteroid, Kirk and Spock join the rescue party to help stave off a galaxy-wide holy war. Albatross On the planet Draymia, where justice is swift, Dr. McCoy is charged with the wanton slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians nineteen years ago. But before Kirk can save his friend, he must first find out if the hideous charges are true. The Practical Joker To escape Romulan warships, the Enterprise sails into a gaseous energy field. But Kirk soon discovers that this cloud has a mind of its own–and a very wicked sense of play. How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth Tracing a mysterious probe, the Enterprise encounters mighty Kukulkan, the ancient winged serpent of Mayan-Aztec legend, who challenges them to solve a Sphinx-like puzzle . . . or die.",2006,3.65,388,35
9780345495846,0345495845,Logs Seven and Eight,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K7wqSgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"“SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER . . . These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise™.” Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Star Trek® with the original mission logs chronicling some of the crew's most bizarre missions and strangest encounters with alien races across the galaxy . . . where no man has gone before™. The Counter-Clock Incident The Enterprise's first captain, Commodore Robert April, is aboard the starship one last time en route to his retirement ceremonies. On the way, Kirk attempts to save an alien ship headed straight for the Beta Niobe Nova. Instead, the Enterprise plunges through the heart of the nova and into an alternate universe where everything runs backward. Day is night, stars are black not white, and time flows into the past as people get younger with every breath they take. The Eye of the Beholder When the Enterprise is sent to investigate a missing starship near Lactran VII, Kirk beams down to discover the Lactrans are giant, highly intelligent slugs, who admire humans for one reason: they make lovely pets. The situation appears hopeless when the landing party is locked up as exhibits in the planet's zoo. Amazingly, Spock manages to convince the Lactrans that humans are not dumb animals and they agree to let the crew go–on one condition. Kirk and company must become interstellar big-game hunters and capture the powerful, ferocious jawanda on a remote planet.",2006,3.69,358,34
9780345538376,0345538374,The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings,The Hobbit / The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rW9cLwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a box set including the complete ""Lord of the Rings"" trilogy, as well as its prequel, ""The Hobbit.""",2012,4.59,1728,97731
9780345915597,0345915593,The World According to Garp,,John Irving,,,"20th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONwith a new Afterword from the author The ""New York Times"" bestseller This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes--even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with ""lunacy and sorrow""; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries--with more than ten million copies in print--this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: ""In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.""",1999,4.08,610,178515
9780349100135,0349100136,If this is a Man ; and The Truce,,Primo Levi,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5EunQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE WRENCH, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a ""magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known"" - PHILIP ROTH",1987,4.55,419,10625
9780349100470,0349100470,The Drowned and the Saved,,Primo Levi,Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration camp),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U35BPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The matter of his death was sudden, violent and unpremiditated, and there were some who argue that he killed himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others, better than he, had gone to the wall. THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED is Levi's impassioned attempt to understand the 'rationale' behind the concentration camps, was completed shortly before his tragic death in 1987. THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED dispels the myth that Primo Levi forgave the Germans for what they did to his people. He didn't and couldn't forgive. He refused, however, to indulge in what he called 'the bestial vice of hatred' which is an entirely different matter. The voice that sounds in his writing is that of a reasonable man...it warns and reminds us that the unimaginable can happen again. A would-be tyrant is waiting in the wings, with 'beautiful words' on his lips. The book is constantly impressing on us the need to learn from the past, to make sense of the senseless' PAUL BAILEY",1989,4.39,170,3319
9780349100562,034910056X,The Lost Continent,Travels in Small Town America,Bill Bryson,Cities and towns,,"Bill Bryson drove 14,000 miles in search of the mythical small town of his youth. Instead he found a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger joints; a continent lost to itself through greed, pollution and television, and lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country. A funny and serious view of smalltown America.",1990,3.83,293,291
9780349102504,0349102503,The Life and Death of My Lord Gilles de Rais,,Robert Nye,,,"A recreation of the Bluebeard story which follows a French Army captain, executed in Brittany in 1440. The list of his crimes include witchcraft, heresy, sacrilege, sorcery, the evocations of demons and the practice of unnatural crime against children, ending with their murder for his delight.",1991,3.89,323,64
9780349105307,0349105308,Lincoln,,Gore Vidal,Political fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=59WHPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in particular. Yet in this brilliantly realised study of Abraham Lincoln, he paints a surprising and near-heroic picture of the man who led America through four of the most divisive and dangerous years of the nation's history. Observed alternately by his loved ones, his rivals and his future assassins, Lincoln at first appears as an inept and naïve backwoods lawyer. People in this novel are not averse to turning up, getting drunk, and regaling the reader with details of Lincoln's whoring activities and his seemingly inexhaustible supply of folksy stories. Yet gradually Lincoln the towering leader of deep vision emerges in a Washington engulfed by fear, greed and the horrors of the Civil War. Lincoln's loving but mentally decomposing wife, his view from the White House on slavery and America's bloodiest war, and his own, fierce personal ambition: all are portrayed with a vibrancy and an urgency that almost belies what they have now become ? history itself.",1994,4.2,736,27
9780349106717,0349106711,The Age of Extremes,"A History of the World, 1914-1991",Eric J. Hobsbawm,"History, Modern",,"""Hobsbawm divides the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1945; the Golden Age, 1947-1973; and the Landslide, 1973-1991 and moves data into an era whose revolutions have transformed us more thoroughly than in any period--Publisher's description.",1996,4.24,638,324
9780349107868,0349107866,Hitler's Willing Executioners,Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust,Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,Antisemitism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L11gQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an exploration of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism that demands a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-1945. The author marshals fresh, primary evidence - including extensive testimony from the actual perpetrators - to show that the killers were ordinary Germans who were not compelled to act as they did (they knew they could refuse without retribution) yet they killed willingly and zealously.",1997,3.68,634,80
9780349110011,0349110018,A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,Essays and Arguments,David Foster Wallace,Popular culture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4ipaMAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked tennis player to his trip on a commercial cruiseliner. In each of these essays, Wallace's observations are as keen as they are funny. Filled with hilarious details and invigorating analyses, these essays brilliantly expose the fault line in American culture - and once again reveal David Foster Wallace's extraordinary talent and gargantuan intellect.",1998,4.27,353,571
9780349111889,034911188X,Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,,David Foster Wallace,Misogyny,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UCWwQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men', a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many different guises. Thought-provoking and playful, this collection confirms David Foster Wallace as one of the most imaginative young writers around. Wallace delights in leftfield observation, mining the ironic, the surprising and the illuminating from every situation. His new collection will delight his growing number of fans, and provide a perfect introduction for new readers.",2001,3.87,273,17500
9780349113005,0349113009,Embrace,,Mark Behr,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yRpVHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"EMBRACE is the story of the awakening of Karl De Man a thirteen-year-old student at the Berg, an exclusive academy for boys in South Africa in the 1970s. Interwoven with the storyline about Karl at school are memories from Karl's childhood and first years at the Berg, presented as an ever-growing patchwork of the many influences on his development: growing up on a game reserve in East Africa, intensely aware of landscape and wildlife; a loving and close family, but a traditional one that will never easily accept Karl's true self: being sent away to school and the formation of new friendships and relationships. But, after threats and punishments handed out after casual sexual games in the dorm, Karl falls in love. He simultaneously has secret affairs with his best friend, Dominic, who is the son of liberal parents, and his choirmaster, Jacques Cilliers. The great strength of the novel is that it places Karl's passions on a wider canvas, focusing on his raw passions and elemental drives against the landscapes of Africa. It is a staggering follow-up to Mark Behr's award-winning first novel, THE SMELL OF APPLES.",2001,3.75,726,70
9780349113463,0349113467,The Tipping Point,How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference,Malcolm Gladwell,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EMELnwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"THE TIPPING POINT is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple. It is that many of the problems we face - from crime to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to the level of effort brought to bear against them. They are capable of sudden and dramatic changes in direction. Years of well-intentioned intervention may have no impact at all, yet the right intervention - at just the right time - can start a cascade of change. Many of the social ills that face us today, in other words, are as inherently volatile as the epidemics that periodically sweep through the human population: little things can cause them to 'tip' at any time and if we want to understand how to confront and solve them we have to understand what those 'Tipping Points' are. In this revolutionary new study, Malcolm Gladwell explores the ramifications of this. Not simply for politicians and policy-makers, his method provides a new way of viewing everyday experience and enables us to develop strategies for everything from raising a child to running a company.",2000,3.95,279,1548
9780349113487,0349113483,Aldous Huxley,An English Intellectual,Nicholas Murray,Great Britain,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ysCQGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The grandson of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his eyesight then improved enough for him to start writing, and by the 1920s he had become a fashionable figure, producing witty and daring novels like CROME YELLOW (1921), ANTIC HAY (1923) and POINT COUNTER POINT (1928). But it is as the author of his celebrated portrayal of a nightmare future society, BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932), that Huxley is remembered today. A truly visionary book, it was a watershed in Huxley's world-view as his later work became more and more optimistic - coinciding with his move to California and experimentation with mysticism and psychedelic drugs later in life. Nicholas Murray's brilliant new book has the greatest virtue of literary biographies: it makes you want to go out and read its subject's work all over again. A fascinating reassessment of one of the most interesting writers of the twentieth century.",2003,3.82,496,82
9780349113913,0349113912,Me Talk Pretty One Day,,David Sedaris,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5zGGPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"David Sedaris moved from New York to Paris where he attempted to learn French. His teacher, a sadist, declared that every day spent with him was like giving birth the Caesarean way! These hilarious essays were inspired by that move.",2002,3.98,272,546269
9780349116303,034911630X,Long Walk to Freedom,The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela,Nelson Mandela,Apartheid,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7MNfQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to his remarkable journey to freedom and inauguration as President this book describes Mandela's frustrations and strength of heart as well as the overwhelming joy of freedom and power. Emotive and compelling, it completes the story of an epic life. 'Burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible nature of human hope and dignity . . . Unforgettable' ANDRE BRINK 'Enthralling . . . Mandela emulates the few great political leaders such as Lincoln and Gandhi, who go beyond mere consensus and move out ahead of their followers to break new ground' Donald Woods in the SUNDAY TIMES",2003,4.39,450,193
9780349116648,0349116644,Dead Air,,Iain Banks,London (England),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=56RxQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted carpark ten storeys below, then they start dropping other things; an old TV that doesn't work, a blown loudspeaker, beanbags, other unwanted furniture...Then they get carried away and start dropping things that are still working, while wrecking the rest of the apartment. But mobile phones start ringing and they're told to turn on a TV, because a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Centre... At ease with the volatility of modernity, Iain Banks is also our most accomplished literary writer of narrative-driven adventure stories that never ignore the injustices and moral conundrums of the real world. His new novel, displays his trademark dark wit, buoyancy and momentum.",2003,3.51,436,5080
9780349117041,0349117047,The Kalahari Typing School for Men,,Alexander McCall Smith,Botswana,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nsI7ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life? Meanwhile, there are difficulties at the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where one of the apprentices has discovered the Lord, problems at home with the mysterious death of a hoopoe, and romantic complications when Mma Makutsi sets up a typing school for men . . .",2004,4,210,29045
9780370307121,0370307127,A Likely Lad,,Gillian Avery,Adventure stories,,"Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century Manchester boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future.",1986,4.08,224,12
9780373028603,0373028601,The Love Artist,,Valerie Parv,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=23Yeb-vrUnsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Love Artist by Valerie Parv released on Jul 24, 1987 is available now for purchase.",1987,3.25,187,3
9780373033102,0373033109,Lawful Possession,,Catherine George,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jHWy1yFwMXMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1994,3.25,192,1
9780373033669,0373033664,P.S. I Love You,,Valerie Parv,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GI_PMq-WlRoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1995,2.79,192,22
9780373062324,037306232X,The Boy in White,,Tessa Kay,Fiction,,,1987,2.33,157,2
9780373124183,037312418X,The Sultan's Bought Bride,,Jane Porter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZpyojVNkYwMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Sultan's Bought Bride by Jane Porter released on Aug 25, 2004 is available now for purchase.",2004,3.72,192,212
9780373126002,037312600X,A Mistress For The Taking,,Annie West,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HOQqC4bwvpoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Inexperienced Marina Lucchesi must save her brother from ruin. Rich, handsome Ronan Carlisle wants to settle a score. Ronan's strategy is simple: if Marina poses as his mistress, he'll ensure that the man who made them both suffer will pay. But Marina wonders, why would Ronan, one of Australia's most eligible tycoons, want her?However, she's not in a position to refuse Ronan's offer...or resist the overwhelming physical attraction pulsing between them....",2007,3.42,186,155
9780373194865,0373194862,Sky's Pride and Joy,,Sandra Steffen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qLhnVkYpv4sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2000,3,192,2
9780373195602,0373195605,If You Don't Know by Now,,Teresa Southwick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Dn-YzL3qyXIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2001,3.06,192,6
9780373225736,0373225733,The Stranger Next Door,,Joanna Wayne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pquQudapo_QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A beautiful woman with dangerous secrets was about to become the Randolphs neighbor. She was a vulnerable stranger who d make any red-blooded male take notice ... and Langley Randolph was no exception. Dependable, solid, and timeless, like the family ranch that had been passed down through the generations, Langley couldn t bear to see a desperate woman fighting tears. Danielle needed the strength of the stalwart rancher next door to unlock the mystery of her memories ... before a killer caught up with her first.",2000,4,256,18
9780373246472,0373246471,The Sheik & the Princess Bride,,Susan Mallery,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PFhUUk6KdLwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Prince Jefri of Bahania had just been bested ... by a woman! And not just any female, but Billie Van Horn, his gorgeous, take-no-prisoners flight instructor who was more than a match for this ultramasculine male. Well, she might be an ace in the air, but when it came to romance Billie was determined to keep both feet on the ground. So why did the sexy sheik make her feel as if she were soaring high above the clouds? She knew that when royal honor called, her high-born lover would fly from her side forever ... unless Jefri defied his destiny and chose love ...",2004,3.95,256,497
9780373246830,0373246838,Lori's Little Secret,,Christine Rimmer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b46zL81uJDYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2005,3.73,248,98
9780373250219,0373250215,Burning The Map,,Laura Caldwell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6DBXlqEl2AEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty-six-year-old Casey Evers, who has her life perfectly mapped out, joins her two best friends on an illuminating trip to Rome and Greece, where she unexpectedly embarks on a journey of self-discovery that causes her to question her life and her long-term relationship with her boyfriend John. Original.",2002,3.52,288,1285
9780373250479,0373250479,Slightly Settled,,Wendy Markham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_RnWqxABCcQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tracey Spadolini from ""Slightly Single"" is back and looking and feeling fabulous. But Tracey soon finds herself the object of desire of three men. When did life for Tracey get so complicated?",2004,3.66,312,4601
9780373250714,0373250711,Monkey Business,,Sarah Mlynowski,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DRmjtoExmJAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When strangers Kimmy, Russ, Jamie, and Layla start their MBA programs at the University of Connecticut, they all intend to focus on their studies. Instead they find themselves living together in a coed dorm majoring in monkey business. Original.",2004,3.66,400,3250
9780373273492,0373273495,The Right Stuff,,Merline Lovelace,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KXVztE1CBlYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Right Stuff by Merline Lovelace released on Feb 23, 2004 is available now for purchase.",2004,3.57,256,39
9780373274482,0373274483,In Dark Waters,,Mary Burton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zXRDu7_LN8gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Dark Waters by Mary Burton released on Jun 21, 2005 is available now for purchase.",2005,3.8,249,91
9780373274611,0373274610,The Bluest Eyes in Texas,,Marilyn Pappano,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K9nctr4d0f8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Army hero Logan Marshall would avenge his foster parents' murders or die trying. So when P.I. Bailey Madison offered to help he couldn't refuse the sexy blond--though it meant agreeing once the killer was caught, he'd return with her family to a family he had abandoned.",2005,3.67,249,31
9780373274741,0373274742,Wild Fire,,Debra Cowan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZxPmYfLkjb0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wild Fire by Debra Cowan released on Jan 24, 2006 is available now for purchase.",2006,3.85,250,13
9780373285235,037328523X,The MacGregors,Alan-Grant,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=akurwJeeDsYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In ""All the Possibilities"" a cynical politician falls for a free-spirited beauty despite their long-standing family feud, while in ""One Man's Art"" a reclusive cartoonist learns to love again with the help of a glamorous artist.",2006,4.11,458,9300
9780373285242,0373285248,Dream Makers,,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JuSFdVARp5oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lion trainer Jo Wilder finds herself falling for Keane Prescott, a lawyer who inherits ownership of the circus; and, Megan Miller finds herself falling for David Katcherton, a sexy stranger who offers to buy her grandfather's amusement park.",2006,3.81,411,966
9780373285433,0373285434,Rebellion,,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RkGYAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Despite the enmity between their two countries, Brigham Langston, a handsome English lord, finds himself drawn to the beautiful Serena MacGregor, a hot-tempered Scottish hoyden, in a historical romance that serves as a prequel to Roberts's best-selling MacGregor series. Reprint.",2006,3.91,395,6462
9780373288564,0373288565,The Gunslinger,,Mary McBride,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p3x3dstx3TsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1995,4.12,304,15
9780373289806,0373289804,Lady of the Lake,,Elizabeth Mayne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QLbuRnE0oc8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1997,3.26,304,69
9780373291779,0373291779,The Gunslinger's Bride,,Cheryl St. John,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fDtHPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Gunslinger's Bride by Cheryl St.John released on Aug 24, 2001 is available now for purchase.",2001,3.66,304,135
9780373483372,0373483376,Tallchief for Keeps,,Cait London,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Vn8lm_E-q8AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Everyone in Amen Flats is shocked when prim Elspeth Tallchief's secret lover shows up one day, drawing the attention of every single woman in town, but Elspeth knows that her other secret is even more shocking. Original.",1997,4.22,296,64
9780373484416,0373484410,Time & Again,Parts 2 and 3,Nora Roberts,Man-woman relationships,,Romance.,2001,3.76,505,7434
9780373510054,0373510055,First Impressions,,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_dJ_GobnZRIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""New York Times"" bestselling author Nora Roberts offers a holiday romance about a wealthy businessman who retreats to a rural area to get away from women. However, his gracious, persistent--and beautiful--neighbor has something he just cannot ignore. Together, they discover that love is the greatest Christmas gift of all.",1992,3.74,250,31
9780373511624,0373511620,Year's Happy Ending,,Betty Neels,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aFiUPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When cynical widower Professor Gideon Beaufort offers her a marriage of convenience, Deborah Farley's quiet existence in thrown into turmoil as she is faced with instant motherhood and united with a man who no longer believes in love. Reprint.",2001,3.95,216,128
9780373513284,0373513283,Double-Cross,Athena Force,Meredith Fletcher,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iJrI1to0xE0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2004,3.72,304,38
9780373632442,0373632444,Father to Son,,Warren Murphy;Richard Sapir,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kIPsPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Remo, now the Reigning Master of Sinanju, must rid the world of the best assassins, proving that the Sinanju is the best strategic weapon around, but an evil enemy, bent on revenge, waits in the shadows to fulfill a prophecy of destruction that involves the death of the Destroyer. Original.",2002,4.1,349,59
9780373638161,0373638167,Savage Sun,,James Axler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e3dIPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kane, Brigid, and Grant are sent on a trans-mat jump from the Outlands to Ireland to investigate the alien Archons, but what they find are wild hinterlands populated by holocaust survivors who have reverted back to the clan system. Original.",1997,3.87,352,91
9780373638178,0373638175,Omega Path,,James Axler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c7XuPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Allied with fellow outcasts Brigid Baptiste and Grant, Kane journeys back in time to pre-apocalyptic New York City, where he hopes to win over a young man who could alter the future. Original.",1998,3.87,352,77
9780373638529,0373638523,Hydra's Ring,,James Axler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xXP2aJdleDYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a brutal Tong crime lord and his army invade a sacred pyramid in China, laying claim to a priceless artifact, Kane and his rebels are forced to go up against a four-thousand-year-old evil entity that is more powerful than anything they have ever encountered. Original.",2006,3.88,348,23
9780373692286,0373692285,Her Last Temptation,,Leslie Kelly,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R9ZqvE56DGQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2005,3.59,207,110
9780373712489,0373712480,Her Little Secret,,Anna Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n0WWMyTMo_cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2005,3.3,304,9
9780373713011,0373713010,Expectant Father,,Melinda Curtis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3UpKh8v417AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Uses humor and wit to help alleviate fears and answer questions from first time fathers-to-be.,2005,3.63,304,38
9780373713448,0373713444,The Other Woman,,Brenda Novak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yag-x3sOa4cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2006,4.11,299,528
9780373760039,0373760035,The Accidental Bodyguard,,Ann Major,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mdej6S9CelUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lucas Broderick had been hired for the case of the century! The Moran family matriarch had died, leaving her fortune to Bethany Ann -- the ""dark horse"" granddaughter. But Bethany never arrived to claim her inheritance...and coincidentally Lucas wound up with an alluring amnesiac hiding in his house. Lucas knew the gorgeous stranger was trouble, but nothing would stop him from protecting her. Even though Chandra bore a remarkable resemblance to Bethany Ann Moran...",1996,3.32,192,17
9780373764198,0373764197,Tallchief,The Hunter,Cait London,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LuP5UPrljhMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2002,4.12,192,47
9780373764211,0373764219,Dr. Desirable,,Kristi Gold,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2T0WYxE8xs4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2002,3.24,192,19
9780373766628,0373766629,Blame it on the Blackout,,Heidi Betts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ubq8owFymxsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Blame It On The Blackout by Heidi Betts released on Jun 07, 2005 is available now for purchase.",2005,3.49,187,105
9780373767618,0373767617,Bedded Then Wed,,Heidi Betts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PuVxLfXuO2EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wealthy rancher Mitch Ramsey had never given much of a second look to his neighbor Emma Davis, until an unexpected encounter led to a night of unbridled passion. Mitch figured their affair could be a discreet diversion, one they had both gone into with eyes wide-open. Then Emma's father made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Marry Emma and Mitch would inherit what he had always coveted--the entire Davis ranch. But Emma was never to know... .",2006,3.41,181,101
9780373767793,037376779X,Blackmailed Into Bed,,Heidi Betts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p6tKmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Businessman Chase Ramsey's audacious terms should have offended her, but Elena Sanchez had no choice. To save her family's business, she'd have to become Chase's mistress. Chase had waited years to avenge what Elena had done to him. Now she'd have to play by his rules. But the ebony-haired beauty soon had him craving her like a starving man. Had his indecent proposal backfired?",2007,3.38,179,107
9780373771257,0373771258,Tell Me No Lies,,Elizabeth Lowell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XjV1n_r4670C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Some of the world's most priceless artifacts are being smuggled from China into the U.S. An international crisis is about to explode unless a desperate trap to catch a thief succeeds. One woman is the key.,2006,3.98,576,2188
9780373771370,0373771371,A Lady At Last,,Brenda Joyce,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tV7SDKSeteIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After her father is sentenced to death, pirate's daughter Amanda Carre, searching for the mother she never knew, is escorted to London by notorious rake and gentleman privateer Cliff de Warenne, who transforms her into a lady and becomes her number one suitor. Original.",2006,4.07,379,1518
9780373771714,0373771711,"The Pirate, the Adventurer & the Cowboy",,Jayne Ann Krentz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IXX7fJGds6oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Jayne Ann Krentz authors this collection of three romance favorites.,2006,3.87,362,258
9780373771721,037377172X,Call After Midnight & Under the Knife,,Tess Gerritsen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bqw__tuIMdMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A ringing phone in the middle of the night shakes newlywed Sarah Fontaine awake. Expecting her husband's call from London she hears instead an unfamiliar voice. Nick O'Hara from the U.S. State Department is calling with devastating news: Geoffrey Fontaine, Sarah's husband of two months, died in a hotel fire ... in Berlin. Convinced her husband is still alive, Sarah forces a confrontation with Nick that finds them crisscrossing Europe on a desperate search for Geoffrey. Trying to stay one heartbeat ahead of a dangerous killer, they become quarry in the clandestine world of international espionage, risking everything for answers that may prove fatal.",2006,4,555,244
9780373772513,0373772513,Manhunting,,Jennifer Crusie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AsbnYjXNAs8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After three failed engagements, Kate Svenson comes up with a definitive plan for finding the man of her dreams by snaring an eligible bachelor at The Cabins resort, but as her would-be swains begin to drop around her, Jake Templeton decides to save the world of men from this femme fatale.",1993,3.77,328,13098
9780373772520,0373772521,Reckless Love,,Elizabeth Lowell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3S2TAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Janna Wayland, the wild stallion Lucifer, and Ty MacKenzie, the stranger who had come for the stallion but stays to capture Janna's heart, join forces to escape from the steep mountains and canyons of the Utah Territory, where El Cascabel and his renegade warriors roam. Reissue.",2007,3.78,384,1076
9780373792733,0373792735,The Perfect Score,,Julie Kenner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OAxUYS3BruoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bad Girl Grading System A -- Totally bad!!! B -- Could be worse... C -- Wannabe territory D -- Way too nice! F -- Give it up, Mattie Brown! Mattie Brown has always prided herself at excelling at everything. And that's why it's killing her that she scored only 18% on a sex test! But she isn't going to take it lying down. (Well, maybe she will, but that's beside the point.) Her plan -- to proposition Cullen Slater, the neighborhood stud, for some hands-on instruction in how to make her sex life sizzle. Too bad it's her cute, nice-guy neighbor Mike Peterson who's lighting her fire... .",2006,3.25,240,108
9780373802135,0373802137,Elphame's Choice,,P. C. Cast,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dp0NAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This follow-up to ""Goddess by Mistake"" returns to the ancient Greco-Roman civilization of Partholon. Marked from birth as belonging to the Goddess Epona, an isolated Elphame must confront her people's ancient enemies while on a journey of self-discovery.",2004,4.02,551,3894
9780373802395,0373802390,Winter Moon,,Mercedes Lackey;Tanith Lee;C. E. Murphy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lOfeGAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As the moon rises, unimaginable power emerges in this collection of stories that includes Mercedes Lackey's ""Moontide,"" in which a young woman chooses to follow a Fool and discovers a magic that comes with a high price, as well as ""The Heart of the Moon"" by Tanith Lee and ""Banshee Cries"" by C. E. Murphy. Original.",2005,3.78,393,2628
9780373802425,0373802420,Brighid's Quest,,P. C. Cast,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i_Y_mQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this follow-up to ""Elphame's Choice,"" Brighid flees her centaur clan's rigid traditions and prejudice to find peace and acceptance among the humans of Clan MacCallan. When her family summons her home, Brighid must make a fateful decision.",2005,4.14,507,3280
9780373802487,037380248X,Shattered Dance,,Caitlin Brennan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JU1eewAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Pregnant with Kerrec's child, Valeria, the first woman ever Called, must once again save the Aurelian Empire from its enemies and resist the call of the Unmaking in her soul, while Kerrec, torn between his love for Valeria and his duty to his family, is ordered to make a dynastic marriage to another. Original.",2006,3.91,442,423
9780373832712,0373832710,Sizzle,,Jennifer Crusie,Fiction,,"Business takes a back seat to romance when accountant Richard Parker encounters Emily Tate, an advertising executive running a new ad campaign for a sensual new perfume called Sizzle. Original.",1994,3.09,92,655
9780373835492,0373835493,The Foundling,,Georgette Heyer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ca1BwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The second of six special Georgette Heyer Collector Editions offered by Harlequin throughout 2003 features this hard-to-find Regency romance and a special Foreword by Kay Hooper. Reissue.,2003,3.85,406,3599
9780373836086,0373836082,Sylvester,,Georgette Heyer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-wO7fVdHF2gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Proposing to the woman that he believes will complement his high position in life, the powerful Duke of Salford is scandalized when he learns that the sought-after maiden has written a romance novel that casts him as the villain. Reprint.",2004,4.11,410,9626
9780373836932,0373836937,"And the Envelope, Please...",Ever After an Affair to Remember It Happened One Night,Barbara Bretton;Emilie Rose;Isabel Sharpe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0B2X-s87SFAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Working behind the scenes at the I Love New York Film Festival, three heroines find unexpected romance in this quirky and lighthearted collection from bestselling authors.",2006,3.57,279,7
9780373870288,0373870280,Suddenly Daddy,,Loree Lough,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vdUO2TUo4A4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ciara and Mitch Mahoney were swept to the altar on a whirlwind courtship. But the honeymoon ws over when Ciara begged her new husband to quit his job as an FBI special agent. Then, without warning.",1998,3.81,256,36
9780373895205,0373895208,Seven Sunny Days,A Novel,Chris Manby,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b5C8c0Gv4U8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Determined to have one last adventure before getting married, Rachel Buckley and her two best friends, Carrie Ann and Yaslyn, journey to Turkey where, while staying in an all-inclusive luxury hotel, they find their friendship sorely tested by anger, insecurities, and dark secrets. Original.",2005,3.32,352,549
9780374131944,0374131945,Cross-X,,Joe Miller,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4ZPxOt6stzAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the Kansas City Central High School's debate squad through its 2002 season, which ended with a top-ten finish at the national championships, in this riveting and poignant story of four debaters and their coach at an inner-city school.",2006,3.8,480,185
9780374146351,0374146357,The Echo Maker,A Novel,Richard Powers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4yk5CoXe67oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter, suffering from a rare brain disorder that causes him to believe his sister to be an impostor, endeavors to discover the cause of the motor vehicle accident that resulted in his head injury.",2006,3.37,451,6665
9780374253844,0374253846,That Same Flower,Floria Aemilia's Letter to Saint Augustine,Jostein Gaarder;Anne Born,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kgVmQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Floria Aemilia, a concubine to St. Augustine for more than ten years prior to his spiritual awakening, challenges St. Augustine's view of women and love as described in his ""Confessions,"" in a fictional letter addressing faith, doubt, and human relationships",1998,3.67,167,68
9780374271077,0374271070,Sylvia,A Novel,Leonard Michaels,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x_4wmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fantasias, paranoia, drugs, and the extreme intimacy of self-destructive violence. Reproducing a time and place with extraordinary clarity, Leonard Michaels explores with self-wounding honesty the excruciating particulars of a youthful marriage headed for disaster.",2007,3.86,129,719
9780374280390,0374280398,Uncommon Carriers,,John McPhee,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uOSPZhoDIuMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"McPhee's books are about real people in real places. Over the past eight years, McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. This is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atl",2006,3.95,248,1561
9780374292799,0374292795,The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded],A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century,Thomas L. Friedman,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CfHCBUepsXIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers a concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the September 11 terrorist attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India.",2006,3.68,616,85459
9780374299194,0374299196,The Discomfort Zone,A Personal History,Jonathan Franzen,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z2vOAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.",2006,3.39,195,4660
9780374422080,0374422087,Everything on a Waffle,,Polly Horvath,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NimVJwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This Newbery Honor Book tells the story of 11 -year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia. She recounts her experiences and all she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life after her parents are lost at sea.",2004,3.71,150,9631
9780374500528,0374500525,Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories,,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zoa2QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of short stories on Jewish life in Europe and the United States filled with vivid vignettes of the Yiddish way.,1988,4.16,205,36
9780374502003,0374502005,The Natural,A Novel,Bernard Malamud,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wCWhegoGUxwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Malamud uses the fanatical and aggressive world of professional baseball to mirror contemporary society,1952,3.63,231,8568
9780374506803,0374506809,The Slave,,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JLFp66op5WMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.,1988,4.17,320,1952
9780374516000,0374516006,Giving Good Weight,,John McPhee,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Xx0IHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""You people come into the market--the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun--and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and rape the sweet corn. You are something wonderful, you are--people of the city--and we, who are almost without exception strangers here, are as absorbed with you as you seem to be with the numbers on our hanging scales."" So opens the title piece in this collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped here with four others, including ""Brigade de Cuisine,"" a profile of an artistic and extraordinary chef; ""The Keel of Lake Dickey,"" in which a journey down the whitewater of a wild river ends in the shadow of a huge projected dam; a report on plans for the construction of nuclear power plants that would float in the ocean; and a pinball shoot-out between two prizewinning journalists.",1994,4.22,288,533
9780374517885,0374517886,Sammlung,,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B0_ws1gwux8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Noble laureate has selected nearly 150 of his acclaimed stories, from his eight previous collections, offering abundant evidence of his mastery of the genre",1982,4.37,624,1603
9780374519742,0374519749,Heirs of General Practice,,John McPhee,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kNp33i-AIq0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tells the stories of recently graduated doctors who are following the new medical specialty of family practice, and describes their interactions with their patients",1986,4.15,128,253
9780374522599,0374522596,The Control of Nature,,John McPhee,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p1qKQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her - stubborn, sometimes foolhardy, more often ingenious, and always arresting characters.",1990,4.24,288,3365
9780374522834,0374522839,The Death of Artemio Cruz,,Carlos Fuentes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pFIFaF68nmsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An elderly rich and powerful landowner in modern Mexico recalls his corrupt life after collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting.,1991,3.86,307,5749
9780374522872,0374522871,Coming Into the Country,,John McPhee,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ds3uJRhlOB0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An account of a kayak and canoe journey through the Brooks Range wilderness, impressions of urban life and political activity, and portraits of people in the bush make up a study of contemporary Alaska",1991,4.22,448,5452
9780374523930,0374523932,Assembling California,,John McPhee,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=peRjDOETl_cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect--in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth--and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.",1994,4.17,294,1532
9780374524791,0374524793,Satan in Goray,A Novel,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ic-pPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can ""force the end"" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who has come to Goray.",1996,3.86,288,807
9780374524920,0374524920,The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg,,Deborah Eisenberg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kKQcuQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Deborah Eisenberg's first book of stories, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, was published, John Updike noted: ""Whenever a new writer arrives, a new window of life is opened, and this has happened here."" The scope and depth of Eisenberg's idiosyncratic vision were even more apparent in her second collection, Under the 82nd Airborne, which The New York Times Book Review called ""nothing short of extraordinary."" As these two collections gathered here into one volume show, Eisenberg's stories have an astonishing power and range. Her characters, whether they are walking in the streets of Manhattan or seemingly abandoned in foreign countries, continually make disquieting and sometimes life-threatening discoveries about themselves, discoveries that illuminate not only their own lives but also the wider net of relationships in which they are enmeshed.",1997,4,496,204
9780374525071,0374525072,The Lost Lunar Baedeker,Poems of Mina Loy,Mina Loy,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NIHZ7OuZSEYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gathers poems by the early twentieth-century avant garde poet, and offers a brief profile of the enigmatic writer",1997,4.17,256,1420
9780374525118,0374525110,The Spirit Level,Poems,Seamus Heaney,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_cOkdT2-to8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Nobel Prize-winning author presents a volume of poems that explores life's new beginnings, the significance of ordinary objects, the legacy of a deceased Scottish poet, and the situation in his native Northern Ireland. Reprint.",1997,4.15,82,88
9780374525804,0374525803,The Artist of the Missing,A Novel,Paul LaFarge,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n4igLX-makMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hoping to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance, a young artist travels to the city, where he falls in love with a woman who also promptly vanishes. A first novel. Original.",1999,3.58,256,99
9780374525866,0374525862,The Magic Barrel,Stories,Bernard Malamud,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WmcxuzutV2wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggleing New York Jewish Painter Arthur Fidelman, roams amid the ruins of old Europe in search of his artistic patrimony); they tell of egg candlers and shoemakers, matchmakers, and rabbis, in a voice that blends vigorous urban realism, Yiddish idiom, and a dash of artistic magic. The Magic Barrel is a book about New York and about the immigrant experience, and it is high point in the modern American short story. Few books of any kind have managed to depict struggle and frustration and heartbreak with such delight, or such artistry.",2003,4,240,1898
9780374526962,0374526966,The Eclogues of Virgil,A Bilingual Edition,Virgil,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ANx9WZHGzEwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Virgil's great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of The Odes of Horace and Gilgamesh The Eclogues of Virgil gave definitive form to the pastoral mode, and these magically beautiful poems, which were influential in so much subsequent literature, perhaps best exemplify what pastoral can do. ""Song replying to song replying to song,"" touchingly comic, poignantly sad, sublimely joyful, the various music that these shepherds make echoes in scenes of repose and harmony, and of hardship and trouble in work and love. A bilingual edition, The Eclogues of Virgil includes concise, informative notes and an Introduction that describes the fundamental role of this deeply original book in the pastoral tradition.",2000,3.91,112,68
9780374527051,0374527059,The Oresteia of Aeschylus,A New Translation by Ted Hughes,Aeschylus;Ted Hughes,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wk4955xRHPkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a modern translation of the ancient Greek trilogy which traces the chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for performance in the Fall of 1999.",2000,4.01,208,211
9780374528379,0374528373,The Brothers Karamazov,A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z1k_AxXUvmEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The violent lives of three sons are exposed when their father is murdered and each one attempts to come to terms with his guilt.,2002,4.32,796,177444
9780374528539,0374528535,"Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall",A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager,Anthony E. Wolf,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oKdbCk_05wQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A lighthearted but insightful guide to raising adolescent children shows parents how to deal with teenagers living in a faster-paced, less morally certain world than the one they knew. Original. 50,000 first printing.",2002,3.94,240,1301
9780374528553,0374528551,Selected Verse,Revised Bilingual Edition,Federico García Lorca;Christopher Maurer;Catherine Brown,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iR2qE4iwXyEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gathers poems ranging from the playful to the elegaic, and includes English translations and the original Spanish texts.",2004,4.43,432,184
9780374528669,0374528667,Crescent and Star,Turkey Between Two Worlds,Stephen Kinzer,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wRGeIkGd3tcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examining the glories of its past and its hopes for the future, the author explores Turkey's unrealized potential as a nation poised between Europe and Asia.",2002,3.83,272,784
9780374529260,0374529264,Memoirs of Hadrian,,Marguerite Yourcenar;Grace Frick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7nPUBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.",2005,4.25,347,9904
9780374529383,0374529388,The Fixer,A Novel,Bernard Malamud,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bbmRGBT6XEcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A Jew in Tsarist Russia is accused of murdering a Catholic boy and suffers from mistreatment in prison.,2004,3.95,335,8394
9780374529604,0374529604,The Poetry of Pablo Neruda,,Pablo Neruda;Ilan Stavans,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=raJau9eL-MgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning author features translations, many of them specially commissioned, of almost six hundred works.",2005,4.45,1040,15986
9780374529949,0374529949,Play It As It Lays,A Novel,Joan Didion,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mvSNZow9jksC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.",2005,3.87,231,21868
9780374530259,0374530254,Gimpel the Fool,And Other Stories,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GLacGqTFTBgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Isaac Bashevis Singer's first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow's masterly translation, the title story follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker who is universally deceived but who declines to retaliate against his tormentors. Gimpel and the protagonists of the other stories in this volume all inhabit the distinctive pre-World War II ghettos of Poland and, beyond that, the larger world created by Singer's unforgettable prose.",1957,4.16,224,1683
9780374530303,0374530300,Martin and John,A Novel,Dale Peck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5bh4680Gf6gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Peck weaves together two sets of stories--the story of John's life and the stories that John writes in his journals--to create a compelling portrait of a homosexual artist confronted with his own mortality in the wake of AIDS. ""A stunning debut"".--The New York Times.",2006,3.73,248,694
9780374530310,0374530319,Georgics (Zongo Classics),,Virgil,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JJGJDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Georgics is a poem by Latin poet Virgil, likely published in 29 BC. As the name suggests (from the Greek word γεωργικά, geōrgika, i.e. ""agricultural (things)"") the subject of the poem is agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterized by tensions in both theme and purpose. The Georgics is considered Virgil's second major work, following his Eclogues and preceding the Aeneid. The poem draws on a variety of prior sources,[citation needed] and has influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present.",2017,3.85,224,77
9780374530495,0374530491,Palm-of-the-Hand Stories,,Yasunari Kawabata;Lane Dunlop;J. Martin Holman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GT10AlhQeksC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short-stories which he called Palm-of-the-hand-stories - written over the span of his career. In them we find loneliness, love and the passage of time, demonstrating the range and complexity of a true master.",2006,4,288,1721
9780374530716,0374530718,Sophie's World,A Novel About the History of Philosophy,Jostein Gaarder,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-o1MPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: ""Who are you?"" and ""Where does the world come from?"" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.",2007,3.91,518,4273
9780374626235,0374626235,The complete stories,,Flannery O'Connor,Short stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=daBNh2-ZJTgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two short story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime -- Everything that Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find."" - back cover.",1971,4.4,555,264
9780375400704,0375400702,Molloy,Malone Dies ; The Unnamable,Samuel Beckett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xL-5SgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mysteriously imprisoned, Molloy disappears while looking for his mother; a dying man looks back on his life; and, a nameless individual ponders his existence",1997,4.28,512,6612
9780375407932,0375407936,The Border Trilogy,,Cormac McCarthy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w-vLwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A trio of novel--All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain--that chronicles the lives and fates of two young men coming of age in the American Southwest and Mexico are combined in a single volume. 20,000 first printing.",1999,4.43,1040,4468
9780375408274,0375408274,Ralph Ellison,A Biography,Arnold Rampersad,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aKkQOf8hJMkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A critical biography of the author of Invisible Man draws on access to Ellison's personal papers to offer a definitive study of the life, work, and influence of Ralph Ellison, detailing his poverty-stricken Oklahoma youth, his education and involvement in New York's liberal intellectual circles, his personal relationships, and the influence of racism on his life. 40,000 first printing.",2007,4.14,657,180
9780375411724,0375411720,Collected Shorter Fiction,,graf Leo Tolstoy;Louise Maude,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fQr5yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects Tolstoy's shorter fiction, offering insight into his life as a soldier, married life, interest in peasantry, belief in truth and simplicity, and interest in religion.",2001,4.42,848,65
9780375413315,0375413316,Palace Walk,Palace of Desire ; Sugar Street,Najīb Mahfūz;Ṣabrī Ḥāfiẓ,,,,2019,4.46,1313,3194
9780375415036,0375415033,Essays,,George Orwell,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bm1yQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of essays from George Orwell, including his discussion of pacifism, ""My Country Right or Left,"" his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in ""Shooting an Elephant,"" and his very firm opinion on how to make ""ANice Cup of Tea.""",2002,4.33,1369,598
9780375421051,037542105X,On Late Style,Music And Literature Against the Grain,Edward W. Saïd,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=McQB4v7KcHIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of essays by the late cultural critic explores great works of music and literature produced by Beethoven, Schoenberg, Mann, Cavafy, Beckett, Gould, Straus, Genet, and others at the end of their creative lives, analyzing how these works differed from previous ones and what they reveal about each musician's or writer's artistic evolution. 15,000 first printing.",2006,3.92,176,10
9780375422713,0375422714,The Good Husband of Zebra Drive,,Alexander McCall Smith,Botswana,,"Handling a busy case load at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and contending with an intruder in her home, Mma Ramotswe has plenty on her mind. So when her unfortunate past returns to haunt her, she is happy her husband, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, is distracted as well. It seems one of his apprentices at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors has raced off with an older, wealthy woman.",2007,4.07,233,21433
9780375422720,0375422722,Blue Shoes and Happiness,,Alexander McCall Smith,Botswana,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ophlvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"P.I. Precious Ramotswe comes face to face with a cobra, investigates a swindling doctor, and discovers that Aunty Emang isn't what she seems to.",2006,4.06,227,365
9780375423802,037542380X,Black Hole,,Charles Burns,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dtuEDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seattle teenagers of the 1970s are suddenly faced with a devastating, disfiguring, and incurable plague that spreads only through sexual contact.",2005,3.83,368,36698
9780375500725,0375500723,The Heart of a Woman,,Maya Angelou,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6VFhQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the fourth volume of her autobiography, the author describes her experiences as a singer-dancer in New York and her impressions of the Civil Rights movement",1997,4.2,288,17403
9780375507151,0375507159,Cliffs of Despair,A Journey to the Edge,Tom Hunt,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Tb32wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Interweaving personal reminiscences and investigative journalism, describes the author's journey--in the wake of his grief over a close relative's suicide--to Beachy Head, England, one of the most popular suicide spots in the world.",2006,3.72,256,70
9780375507908,0375507906,In Cold Blood,A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences,Truman Capote,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mvSsQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A special anniversary edition presents Capote's masterful account of the senseless 1959 murders of four members of a farm family in Holcomb, Kansas, and the search for the killers, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.",1966,4.07,343,3165
9780375509179,0375509178,Shakespeare's Kitchen,Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook,Francine Segan,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ecwAAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A noted food historian brings to life the classic foods of William Shakepeare's world in a series of updated, easy-to-prepare recipes, drawn from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cookbooks, for a variety of tasty dishes that include Grilled Tuna with Carrots and Sweet Onions, Fish Bisque with Chestnuts and Artichokes, and Red Snapper with Caviar, among others. 35,000 first printing.",2003,3.99,288,108
9780375700125,0375700129,As She Climbed Across the Table,,Jonathan Lethem,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dwaPDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Deeply in love with physicist Alice Coombs, professor Philip Engstrand becomes involved in Alice's research into the creation of ""Lack,"" a conscious void in the universe that swallows up things it fancies",1998,3.67,224,4374
9780375700262,0375700269,Evening,,Susan Minot,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6oyODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now ailing and surrounded by her children, sixty-five-year-old Ann Grant Lord reminisces about a glorious summer weekend some forty years earlier during which she met and lost the love of her life. By the author of Folly. 100,000 first printing. Tour.",1999,3.36,288,3695
9780375700811,0375700811,The Executioner's Song,,Norman Mailer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3y9uQ1ym0GUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reconstructs the crime and fate of Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer who sought his own execution in Utah, based on taped interviews with relatives, friends, lawyers, and law-enforcement officials.",1998,4.07,1056,15185
9780375701368,0375701362,Virginia Woolf,,Hermione Lee,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZW4KVeQM6CoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Traces the life of the British novelist and discusses her major works,1999,4.26,893,2746
9780375701474,0375701478,Night Falls Fast,,Kay Redfield Jamison,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NTeODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people draws on the author's firsthand battle with severe manic-depression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of self-inflicted death.",2011,4.09,432,5211
9780375701801,037570180X,Geisha,"The Life, the Voices, the Art",Jodi Cobb;Ian Buruma,Photography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GvuAJQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Looks inside the private world of the geisha to capture this unique icon of Japanese traditional culture, following the geisha's training, preparation for a performance, and role in Japanese society",1998,3.89,128,183
9780375701887,0375701885,The Amen Corner,A Play,James Baldwin,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ce93BmqmQz4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The play centers on the dilemma of the congregation of a Harlem storefront church when they realize Sister Margaret, their leader, is not a saint.",1998,3.9,112,427
9780375701894,0375701893,Tell Me how Long the Train's Been Gone,A Novel,James Baldwin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CwePDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Leo Proudhammer, an African American actor, reminisces about his past life and loves, while lying in the hospital, recovering from a heart attack",1998,4.25,496,2013
9780375701962,0375701966,The Moviegoer,,Walker Percy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9ShhHmdoSF0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces her cousin Binx to relinquish his dreamworld,1998,3.69,242,20796
9780375702365,0375702369,The World and Other Places,,Jeanette Winterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OMs_PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a collection of seventeen stories spanning the author's career.,2000,3.87,240,1918
9780375702976,0375702970,Melville,His World and Work,Andrew Delbanco,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tGsCgkhkq2QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A compelling portrait of one of America's leading literary luminaries chronicles the life and career of the quintessentially American author Herman Melville, tracing his life and literary career to uncover autobiographical elements in his diverse works, discussing the historical and cultural implications of his writing, and assessing his accomplishments as a writer. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.",2006,4.03,448,259
9780375703065,0375703063,A Virtuous Woman,,Kaye Gibbons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WJtoSTRcIYcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In alternating chapters, two ill-matched people--Jack Ernest Stokes and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes--describe their lives together and apart",1997,3.68,165,22632
9780375703409,0375703403,Maximum City,Bombay Lost And Found,Suketu Mehta,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PW6PDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A portrait of Bombay, India, and its people chronicles the everday life of the city and its inhabitants, from the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs to the diverse people who come from the villages in search of a better life.",2005,3.92,542,8793
9780375703843,0375703845,Glamorama,,Bret Easton Ellis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IaXxF_8jnqoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young man from the fashionable, celebrityobsessed society of New York finds himself gradually drawn into a shadowy, dark side of that society, until he becomes trapped in terrifying world in which politics and family, terrorism and fame become inextricably intertwined. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2000,3.47,546,16691
9780375703867,0375703861,White Teeth,A Novel,Zadie Smith,FICTION,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BJtud-Wbt9YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half-century follows two families--the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire--as they make their way in modern England. A first novel. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.",2000,3.76,448,96220
9780375703874,037570387X,The Autograph Man,A Novel,Zadie Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-IICohe78K8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Autograph trader Alex-Li Tandem embarks on an odyssey that takes him from London to New York in pursuit of the only autograph that has ever really mattered to him, dealing with con men and fellow collectors who would hinder his quest.",2003,3.15,347,9202
9780375704055,0375704051,Awakenings,,Oliver W. Sacks,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fUzk9gDqBWwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Describes the author's work with institutionalized patients at Mount Carmel Hospital and the dramatic effects of the drug L-DOPA on twenty patients suffering from encephalitic Parkinsonism,1999,4.09,464,8601
9780375704253,0375704256,Sons of Mississippi,A Story of Race and Its Legacy,Paul Hendrickson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YhXYAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A study of the dark legacy of racial intolerance and prejudice profiles the lives and fortunes of seven white Mississippi sheriffs, immortalized in a haunting 1962 LIFE magazine photograph, who took part in the violence that resulted from James Meredith's attempt to integrate the University of Mississippi, and it influence on their own lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2004,3.81,368,167
9780375704437,0375704434,For the relief of unbearable urges,,Nathan Englander,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mfQOAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rooted in Jewish history and the customs of Orthodox life, an anthology of ten stories includes ""The Twenty-Seventh Man"" about an unpublished writer who mistakenly lands in a Stalinist prison, and ""The Gilgul of Park Avenue"" about a Protestant who wakes u",2000,3.94,205,2344
9780375705045,037570504X,"Breath, Eyes, Memory",,Edwidge Danticat,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p59DpQ14VEQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Oprah's Book Club.,1998,3.87,234,24348
9780375705243,0375705244,Founding Brothers,The Revolutionary Generation,Joseph J. Ellis,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K4rljDiAoWAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your reading group's discussion of Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation . We hope they will enrich your experience of this Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.",2002,3.92,290,36449
9780375706332,037570633X,The Tiny One,,Eliza Minot,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GrdGaVEvSvMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Grieving over the death of her mother, killed in a winter car accident in Massachusetts, young Via Revere copes with her anguish and loss by vividly recalling the events of the day her mother died. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2000,3.67,258,244
9780375706363,0375706364,Crucible of War,"The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766",Fred Anderson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jyuMqKzZJnUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Demonstrating that the decisive ""Seven Years' War"" changed the balance of power between the British and French in North America, the author argues that this conflict destroyed the delicate balance of power that gave Native people a voice in the affairs of the continent while creating an ""American generation."" Reprint. 25,00 first printing.",2000,4.15,912,2968
9780375706677,0375706674,No Country for Old Men,,Cormac McCarthy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q8zM_BuvaroC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stumbling upon a bloody massacre, a cache of heroin, and more than two million in cash during a hunting trip, Llewelyn Moss removes the money, a decision that draws him and his young wife into the middle of a violent confrontation.",2006,4.13,309,114408
9780375707216,0375707212,I Married a Communist,,Philip Roth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T09SPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ira Ringold, a ditchdigger from Newark, rises to prominence in the 1940s as a radio star and is betrayed by his new wife, silent film star Eve Frame, who reveals his Communist connections during the McCarthy witch hunts of the early 1950s",1999,3.8,323,4759
9780375707490,0375707492,Lives of Girls and Women,,Alice Munro,Fiction,,"A poignant portrayal of a young girl's youth in a Canadian town and her awakening to womanhood in the 1940s follows Del Jordan as she explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood and records the frustrations, joys, triumphs, and trials of small-town life. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2001,3.99,277,8085
9780375708213,0375708219,The Working Poor,Invisible In America,David K. Shipler,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3cpvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An intimate portrait of poverty-level working families from a range of ethnic backgrounds in America reveals their legacy of low-paying, dead-end jobs, dysfunctional parenting, and substance abuse and charges the government with failing to provide adequate housing, health care, and education. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.",2005,4.03,352,4752
9780375708220,0375708227,Masters of Death,The Ss-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust,Richard Rhodes,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7wmPDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian challenges traditional interpretations of the Holocaust in a study that describes the role of the Einsatzgruppen, task forces deployed in Eastern Europe by the SS, whose job was to slaughter Eastern European Jews, the development of less personalized means of murder, and Hitler's eventual plans to annihilate members of other ethnic groups. Reprint.",2003,4.05,335,1782
9780375708732,0375708731,American Chronicle,Burr : a Novel,Gore Vidal,Vice-Presidents,,"A fictional memoir illuminating Aaron Burr's life and times, highlighting his political accomplishments and fatal duel with Alexander Hamilton.",2000,4.07,430,6921
9780375711169,0375711163,De Kooning,An American Master,Mark Stevens;Annalyn Swan,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4D2FDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the career of abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, discussing his personal life with wife Elaine Fried, and his battle with alcoholism and Alzheimer's disease. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, & Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2006,4.11,732,2664
9780375713347,0375713344,Geek Love,,Katherine Dunn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=trng4WiHgPQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, the proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results, in a new edition of the acclaimed cult classic. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.",2002,3.96,348,46282
9780375713934,037571393X,John James Audubon,The Making of an American,Richard Rhodes,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4j2FDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A biography of artist John James Audubon offers a study of his private life, detailing his arrival in America from France in 1803, his life in frontier Kentucky, and his extraordinary images of native American wildlife.",2006,4.14,528,437
9780375714337,0375714332,Mediterranean Winter,"The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese",Robert D. Kaplan,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MoQwPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes an intimate off-season journey along the Mediterranean that covers the area's history, literature, and heritage, describing the mythologies and succeeding medieval civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome while revealing what the past says about today's world. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.",2005,3.91,272,193
9780375714498,0375714499,Manufacturing Consent,The Political Economy of the Mass Media,Edward S. Herman;Noam Chomsky,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z-uLd2Y6iFgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines the political role played by the media in shaping events, assesses the relationship between the media and the corporations that control and finance them, and discusses the fine distinctions between news and propaganda.",2002,4.24,412,12038
9780375714627,0375714626,Mythology,The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross,Alex Ross,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h6fzEpSYR-kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Celebrates the talents of DC Comics artist Alex Ross in a collection of his drawings, never-before-seen sketches, limited edition prints, and other artwork, all reproduced in full color, accompanied by a study of Ross's creative process, a new Superman-Batman story, and a new Robin origin story. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2005,4.32,320,1960
9780375714634,0375714634,Peanuts,The Art of Charles M. Schulz,Charles M. Schulz,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pTHFwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers reproductions of more than five hundred comic strips, pieces from sketchbooks, early prototype drawings for ""Peanuts,"" and selections from Schulz's first cartoon feature, accompanied by commentary on the cartoonist's life and art.",2003,4.38,368,583
9780375714764,0375714766,"Good-bye, Chunky Rice",,Craig Thompson,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zD2FDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chunky Rice, a small green turtle, embarks on an ocean voyage, where he meets a shady skipper and conjoined twins, Ruth and Livonia, but he also leaves behind his mouse deer girlfriend Dandel, who sends him letters in a bottle. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2006,3.8,125,7035
9780375719004,0375719008,The Adolescent,,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nKJ27jiKJK4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Nineteen-year-old Arkady Dolgonsky has difficulty establishing his personal identity amid the political and social upheavals of nineteenth-century Russia.,2004,3.94,647,3403
9780375719011,0375719016,The Double and the Gambler,,Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky;Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=429vVOsU3I4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The discovery of a mysterious doppelganger turns Goliadkin's life upside down in The Double, while the psychological novel The Gambler combines aspects of two obsessions: the love of a rejecting woman and the fever of gambling, in an omnibus edition containing new translations of two masterful short novels. Reprint.",2007,4.15,344,2381
9780375724374,0375724370,Anil's Ghost,,Michael Ondaatje,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a8ekIHXd0LkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A forensic pathologist returns to Sri Lanka--after 15 years abroad--to assist in identifying victims of the country's civil war.,2001,3.56,311,12507
9780375724428,0375724427,The Stories of John Cheever,,John Cheever,United States,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W959yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of sixty-one of Cheever's short stories, including four that have never been published in book form.",1978,4.27,693,12040
9780375724503,0375724508,Ghostwritten,A Novel,David Mitchell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-tRumAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The lives of nine total strangers from nine different countries become intertwined in a strange series of circumstances.,2001,4.06,426,20093
9780375724633,037572463X,Theatre,A Novel,William Somerset Maugham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EfcDrgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The arrival of a quiet stranger turns the life of acclaimed British actress Julia Lambert upside down as she confronts rejection, her capacity as a mother, and her own sense of self, in this classic, long-out-of-print novel by the author of Of Human Bondage. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2001,4.14,304,4740
9780375724930,0375724931,The bridegroom,stories,Ha Jin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pDTuAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new collection of twelve short stories captures the daily lives and experiences of Chinese women and men who struggle to deal with the influx of Western influence into a society that attempts to control their every thought and move. By the author of Waiting. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.",2001,3.76,240,1724
9780375724954,0375724958,Stranger in the Forest,On Foot Across Borneo,Eric Hansen,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yu5LPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of Motoring with Mohammed recounts his seven-month, three-thousand-mile walk across Borneo, and compares life in the jungle with Western civilization. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2000,4.1,288,1521
9780375725036,0375725032,Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World,,Donald Antrim,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E-GwAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a world marked by full-scale neighborhood wars in the local park and lawns encircled by trenches, civic-minded schoolteacher Pete Robinson finds himself increasingly obsessed with his darkly powerful wife, Meredith. A first novel. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",1993,3.67,185,795
9780375725180,0375725180,Staff Training in Mental Handicap,,James Hogg;Peter J. Mittler,Intellectual disability facilities,,,1987,4,288,1238
9780375725302,037572530X,Shroud,,John Banville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zw2PDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a young woman threatens to expose a damaging secret from his former life, Axel Vander, an elderly scholar and master liar, is forced to examine his past to uncover the truths that he has so carefully hidden.",2004,3.65,257,936
9780375725975,0375725970,Acts of Faith,,Philip Caputo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JRx8lK90UlQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A disparate group of men and women confronts their own individual moral crises, fears, and physical dangers as they work to alleviate the hardships and suffering caused by civil war and famine in contemporary Sudan. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.",2006,3.93,688,1573
9780375726217,0375726217,Double Fold,Libraries and the Assault on Paper,Nicholson Baker,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TvLgmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes how libraries across the United States have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and brittle books to replace them with microfilmed copies, exploring the hidden reasons for such policies.",2002,3.42,370,826
9780375726514,0375726519,The Box Man,A Novel,Kōbō Abe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qw6jwwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A nameless man who chooses to exist in a small cardboard box records life in the box and his observations of the world from its small window as he wanders the streets of Tokyo. By the author of Woman in the Dunes. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2001,3.65,178,3293
9780375726521,0375726527,The Ruined Map,A Novel,Kōbō Abe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M0JfY4yHT24C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A private detective loses his own identity during a directionless search for a missing person, a salesman who vanished more than six months ago, in modern Tokyo. Reprint.",2001,3.56,304,1330
9780375726538,0375726535,The Face of Another,,Kobo Abe;Kōbō Abe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lxssveoUOpsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Horribly disfigured in an accidental lab explosion and rejected by and alienated from the rest of society, a scientist develops a perfect mask, one that provides a new identity that even his wife cannot penetrate. Reprint.",2003,3.77,238,2416
9780375726712,0375726713,A Coffin for Dimitrios,,Eric Ambler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GJpGeu5BLOAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While vacationing in Istanbul, English novelist Charles Latimer decides to investigate the intriguing past of one of Europe's most sinister criminals, the notorious Dimitrios, a search that will lead him into a shadowy web of espionage, drugs, intrigue, and assassination. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2001,3.92,304,4888
9780375726729,0375726721,Journey Into Fear,,Eric Ambler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zmow9HN_OPAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While on a ship bound for Turkey, Graham, an English armaments expert, discovers that he has become the intended victim of a murder plot by Nazi assassins out to prevent his return to England with plans for a Turkish defense system. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2002,3.92,288,2185
9780375726798,0375726799,The Light of Day,,Eric Ambler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6KNH-_DGC5UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After being caught stealing traveler's checks from the wrong man, small-time thief and con man Arthur Abdel Simpson is blackmailed into driving a car across the Turkish border and, one step ahead of the Greek and Turkish police, becomes an unwilling participant in a million-dollar robbery. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2004,3.74,224,742
9780375727061,037572706X,Julian,A Novel,Gore Vidal,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RCFiAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An insightful historical novel recreates the brief but brilliant career of Julian, the Roman emperor and philosopher who dedicated himself to the restoration of Hellenism and tried to halt the spread of Christianity. Reprint.",2003,4.19,528,5035
9780375727139,0375727132,The Dive from Clausen's Pier,,Ann Packer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x_RlwZo8LMEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her fiancâe Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.",2003,3.42,432,19450
9780375727276,0375727272,Lunar Park,,Bret Easton Ellis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gfNuocRMYgcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Becoming a best-selling novelist and wealthy celebrity while still in college, only to have his fame disintegrate in a sea of booze and drugs, the narrator gets a new chance at life, but that life unravels after a series of grotesque murders.",2006,3.62,404,19185
9780375727382,0375727388,"Salonica, City of Ghosts","Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950",Mark Mazower,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c8agAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A vivid narrative history captures the multicultural world of Salonica, from its heyday as a Byzantine port, through its role as a progressive center of the Ottoman Empire, to its occupation during World War II by the Nazis, revealing how its position as a center of progressive equality among diverse cultures and religions was gradually eroded, culminating in the Nazis' destruction of its Jewish inhabitants. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2006,4.25,544,703
9780375727573,0375727574,World Light,,Halldór Laxness,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8IQ-0fzCE6sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Determined that he will someday be a great poet, Olaf Karason pursues his dream in the face of the contempt and indifference of the people around him, taking up a life of poverty, loneliness, failed love affairs, and sexual scandal as he journeys across Iceland to seek his goal. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.",2002,4.13,624,524
9780375727580,0375727582,Paradise Reclaimed,,Halldor Kiljan Laxness,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ApWODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces a poor Icelandic farmer's journey to Mormon Utah and back, as he desperately tries to reunite his broken family. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Independent People. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2002,3.79,304,426
9780375751516,0375751513,The Picture of Dorian Gray,,Oscar Wilde,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kIcZKBNaQtIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The handsome appearance of dissolute young Dorian Gray remains unchanged while the features in his portrait become distorted as his degeneration progresses,1998,4.07,367,705175
9780375752193,0375752196,In Search of Lost Time: Time regained & A guide to Proust,,Marcel Proust,France,,"The only paperback edition of the definitive translation of the first part of Marcel Proust's legendary seven-part cycle. In part one, the narrator recalls his childhood, aided by the famous tea-soaked madeleine; M. Swann describes his passion for Odette.",1998,4.41,749,964
9780375752339,0375752331,In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way,,Marcel Proust,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IZixxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the standard English translation of the second volume, first published in 1920, of the classic French novel, the narrator is introduced to the characters of Parisian high society thanks to the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes. Original. 12,500 first printing.",1998,4.31,834,426
9780375752674,0375752676,Iceland,Land of the Sagas,David Roberts;Jon Krakauer,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-VAEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Photographs exploring the grandeur of Iceland's remarkable geography accompany tales of real-life heroes and supernatural beings,1998,3.72,160,315
9780375753107,0375753109,Sodom and Gomorrah,,Marcel Proust,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4lmMxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A revised translation of the final volume in Proust's ""In Search of Lost Time"" series",1992,4.36,784,354
9780375755194,0375755195,Sailing Alone Around the Room,New and Selected Poems,Billy Collins,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kdzOR4LI17gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers a collection of witty, emotional, and direct poems by the popular and critically acclaimed poet, including selections from his four previous collections and new works such as ""Man Listening to a Disc,"" about headphones.",2001,4.23,192,11894
9780375755200,0375755209,Nine Horses,Poems,Billy Collins,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wZRBDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of poems offers reflections on the mystery and beauty found in everyday life.,2003,4.17,144,4048
9780375755217,0375755217,The Trouble With Poetry,And Other Poems,Billy Collins,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dtMhdlM_q48C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An all-new collection of poetry by America's former Poet Laureate features witty, insightful, and simple poems dealing with the themes of jazz, the passage of time, love, boyhood, and writing. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2007,4.17,101,5327
9780375756603,0375756604,Pipe Dream,A Novel,Solomon Jones,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=95RBDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The murder of a Philadelphia politician with a reputation for exposing corruption could lead to scandal when it is discovered that the man had been the victim of blackmail and that police officials may be responsible.,2001,3.98,341,136
9780375757013,0375757015,Great Expectations,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6regVx_CnxgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the classic story of the orphan Pip, the convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered Miss Havisham.",2001,3.76,480,355
9780375757181,037575718X,The Return of the Native,,Thomas Hardy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sfVxn1EOELQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents Hardy's classic novel of two people caught up in their passion for each other and conflicting ambitions.,1994,3.85,448,28843
9780375757280,0375757287,Ethan Frome & Summer,,Edith Wharton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v4xEDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the first novel, a New England farmer must choose between his duty to care for his invalid wife and his love for her cousin, and in the second novel, Charity Royall enjoys an idyllic summer romance with visiting architect Lucius Harvey.",2001,3.86,274,472
9780375757990,0375757996,The Basic Works of Aristotle,,Aristotle,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ykGPjLgScUEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Examines the pervading influence of this eminent Greek philosopher through a collection of his major works.,2001,4.24,1487,2116
9780375758232,0375758232,Paris to the Moon,,Adam Gopnik,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jSqtt5RuP6wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Revisiting a recurring American obsession with the French capital, the author takes a look at Paris and what it means to Americans as he describes his own relationship with the city.",2001,3.76,368,12094
9780375758737,0375758739,Comfort Me With Apples,More Adventures at the Table,Ruth Reichl,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=keNpY0wUmocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The noted food critic describes her odyssey from chef to food writer, traces her journey through restaurants from Bangkok to Paris to Los Angeles, and offers colorful anecdotes about her life and encounters with great food.",2002,4.03,302,17418
9780375759147,037575914X,Little Dorrit,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5NOm7uAbWIcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The daughter of an imprisoned debtor suffers injustices of nineteenth-century English society.,2002,3.98,1347,286
9780375759314,037575931X,Crossing to Safety,,Wallace Stegner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nLo4DFPtwHAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two young couples, Sid and Charity and Larry and Sally, from different backgrounds--East and West, rich and poor--befriend each other in 1937 Madison, Wisconsin, in an evocative and insightful portrait of family and friendship. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2002,4.16,368,29642
9780375759345,0375759344,The Waste Land and Other Writings,,Thomas Stearns Eliot,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wat1mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"First published in 1922, ""The Waste Land"" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot ""the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression."" As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays. In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which ""The Waste Land"" illuminates contemporary experience. From the Hardcover edition.",2002,4.21,272,2708
9780375759864,0375759867,The Lost Painting,,Jonathan Harr,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ij5yiGqIF68C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recounts the search for a long-lost masterpiece by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Caravaggio, following a young graduate student across hundreds of years and four countries to uncover the mystery of ""The Taking of Christ.""",2006,3.72,320,23275
9780375760136,037576013X,Daniel Deronda,,George Eliot,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uPiMxnLvZWEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Deronda, a high-minded young man searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a series of dramatic encounters into two contrasting worlds: the English country-house life of Gwendolen Harleth, a high-spirited beauty trapped in an oppressive marriage, and the very different lives of a poor Jewish girl, Mirah, and her family. As Deronda uncovers the long-hidden secret of his own parentage, Eliot's moving and suspenseful narrative opens up a world of Jewish experience previously unknown to the Victorian novel.",1876,3.83,796,19852
9780375760396,0375760393,The Botany of Desire,A Plant's-eye View of the World,Michael Pollan,Gardening,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tsx9xvkhqEQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Focusing on the human relationship with plants, uses botany to explore four basic human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--through of four plants that embody them: the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato.",2001,4.06,297,39426
9780375760525,0375760520,Paris 1919,Six Months That Changed the World,Margaret MacMillan,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5NYdwyI5acQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end all wars,” the Big Three—President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau—met in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmark work of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic and intimate view of those fateful days, which saw new political entities—Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them—born out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn.",2002,4.07,570,9150
9780375760648,0375760644,War and Peace,,graf Leo Tolstoy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MNQK8uDk5F4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The monumental Russian classic reflects the life and times of Russian society during the Napoleonic War.,2002,4.11,1388,830
9780375760815,0375760814,Savage Beauty,The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay,Nancy Milford,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kP_N1vyWS4IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An authorized portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet draws on Millay's intimate diary, letters, and other papers to capture her flamboyant and turbulent life.",2002,4.01,608,6672
9780375760846,0375760849,The Survivor,Bill Clinton in the White House,John F. Harris,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OBfYkABIj74C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A retrospective assessment of the Clinton presidency and its influence offers an illuminating analysis of the key personal, political, and policy decisions of the administration, assessing Bill Clinton's leadership style, his successes and failures, and the long-term implications of the Clinton presidency. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.",2006,4.01,560,1185
9780375760945,0375760946,The Truth About The Drug Companies,How They Deceive Us And What To Do About It,Marcia Angell,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=snVR0YW2yQYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A physician and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine provides an explosive critique of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing its dangerous influence on medical research, education, and physicians; exposing the reasons behind the spiraling prescription drug prices; and proposing a program of vital reforms. Reprint.",2005,3.94,319,628
9780375802430,0375802436,Flap Your Wings,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yK46lkqpJ1cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two birds unwittingly hatch an alligator egg, which has been accidently placed in their nest, and then try to teach their ""son"" to fly.",2000,4.24,48,1228
9780375806704,0375806709,The Phantom Tollbooth,,Norton Juster,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BZ2pPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"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 tick 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!",2000,4.21,256,866
9780375812934,0375812938,Jurassic Park Institute Dinosaur Field Guide,,Thomas R. Holtz;M. K. Brett-Surman,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vW3hmLeu0L4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses dinosaur research and what can be learned from it, providing information about the age of the dinosaurs, what plant life was like, different dinosaurs, non-dinosaur animals, and what the Earth looked during their time.",2001,4.08,160,2
9780375813689,0375813683,The School Skeleton,,Ron Roy,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u8tvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At Green Lawn Elementary, the entire school becomes involved in a mystery when Mr. Bones, the skeleton in the nurse's office, disappears.",2003,3.99,96,1759
9780375813757,0375813756,"Love, Stargirl",,Jerry Spinelli,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LxOPDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes ""the world's longest letter"" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.",2007,3.82,274,686
9780375814686,037581468X,Terrier,,Tamora Pierce,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CGScKDN9KmIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes ""Puppy"" to a pair of ""Dogs,"" as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City.",2006,4.16,584,54179
9780375822971,0375822976,Big Dog ... Little Dog,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O8haAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Two dogs are opposite in every way but are the very best of friends.,2003,4.11,48,86
9780375823022,0375823026,"Junie B., First Grader",Cheater Pants,Barbara Park,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5tiyVWEjVPcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her father will not let her stay up late to do her homework, first grader Junie B. copies a classmate's paper.",2003,4.03,86,103
9780375823787,0375823786,Ancient Greece and the Olympics,A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #16: Hour of the Olympics,Mary Pope Osborne;Natalie Pope Boyce,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5cPbWBdO8N0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Filled with fascinating facts, a Magic Tree House Research Guide takes readers on an exciting tour of ancient Greece, where gods and goddesses reigned supreme and the Olympics were born. Simultaneous.",2004,4.06,119,1044
9780375826887,0375826882,Moose Master,,George Edward Stanley,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=waWnqbKQBSkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Timber! It’s off with the tuxedo and on with a red jacket when Adam Sharp goes undercover as a Mountie in Canada’s north woods. Ecanem, a mysterious logging company, is hogging Canada’s lumber business, so the Mounties call on superspy Adam Sharp to get to the bottom of things. Will this wanabee Mountie get his man—or, in this case, will he only get a moose?",2004,4.08,48,10
9780375826894,0375826890,Code Word Kangaroo,,George Edward Stanley,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k_WF6trbVYAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gadgets, girls, and bad guys—Adam Sharp has everything the big boys have and more! Fifty-seven channels, and there’s nothing on—literally! When the world’s television satellites are blocked by just one station, the Happy Channel, superspy Adam Sharp, travels to the Australian Outback to investigate. But will the help of IM-8 agent Alice Springs, TV snake-wrangler Wayne Wallaby, and two kangaroos be enough to combat the evil mindwashing of the Happy Channel’s puppy dogs, candy, and birthday cake? In addition to the popular Golden Books Ghost Horse, Snake Camp, and Wild Horses, George Edward Stanley is the author of the Third Grade Detectives series for Simon & Schuster. George, a professor at Cameron University, teaches writing and foreign languages, including Albanian, Zulu, and Xhosa. The author lives in Lawton, OK.",2004,4.33,48,4
9780375827488,037582748X,The Easter Rabbit's Parade,,Lois Lenski,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-GatmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Easter is coming! The farmyard animals are planning a surprise for Ann Eliza, the little girl who takes care of them. Everyone contributes—Little Brown Hen lays the eggs, the chicks and goslings gather flowers, and White Rabbit and his family paint the eggs. Easter morning, the animals have a parade and give Ann Eliza her very own Easter basket . . . a very happy Easter, indeed!",2004,2.97,40,27
9780375828256,0375828257,The People of Sparks,,Jeanne DuPrau,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dqkPWhBz73cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having escaped to the Unknown Regions, Lina and the others seek help from the village people of Sparks.",2005,3.66,338,44751
9780375829635,0375829636,Young Warriors,Stories of Strength,Tamora Pierce;Josepha Sherman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6EnZwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Fifteen original short stories by various authors relate the exploits of teenage warriors who defeat their enemies with cunning and skill as they strive to fulfill their destinies. Reprint.,2005,3.91,312,3583
9780375832208,0375832203,Ancient Rome and Pompeii,A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #13: Vacation Under the Volcano,Mary Pope Osborne;Natalie Pope Boyce,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QCSOlsXtnu0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides information on the extinct city of Pompeii and life in ancient Rome.,2006,4.07,128,644
9780375832215,0375832211,Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters,"A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #28, High Tide in Hawaii",Mary Pope Osborne;Natalie Pope Boyce,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fa_tZJwM8W4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Designed for younger readers, this is an informative, fact-filled guide to all kinds of natural disasters.",2007,4.04,128,445
9780375835315,0375835318,Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist,,Rachel Cohn;David Levithan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VNh7KXvd5RwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.",2006,3.72,183,63806
9780375836046,0375836047,Toys Go Out,"Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, And Someone Called Plastic",Emily Jenkins,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EpdjRYENHLYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.",2006,3.93,116,3861
9780375836572,0375836578,The Realm of Possibility,,David Levithan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FXl4Nc1GnSQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A variety of students at the same high school describe their ideas, experiences, and relationships in a series of interconnected free verse stories.",2006,3.93,210,14438
9780375839375,0375839372,Mayflower Treasure Hunt,,Ron Roy,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1DCQ-_PWKksC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit Plymouth, Massachusetts for Thanksgiving, they uncover a mystery that dates back to the landing of the Pilgrims.",2007,4.18,114,926
9780375839566,0375839569,Are We There Yet?,,David Levithan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PFJoGQwfuIAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tricked by their parents into taking a trip to Italy together, two brothers--one in high school and the other recently graduated from college--reflect on the directions of their own lives and on the distance that has grown between them.",2007,3.5,215,117
9780375844409,0375844406,Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List,A Novel,Rachel Cohn;David Levithan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=txd7S_UqtVIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Although they have been friends and neighbors all their lives, straight Naomi and gay Ely find their relationship severely strained during their freshman year at New York University when Naomi starts dating Bruce.",2007,3.44,230,13620
9780375846731,0375846735,The Amber Spyglass,,Philip Pullman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7EglAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.",2007,4.09,518,543
9780380004614,0380004615,Ox,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,,"Cal, Veg, and Aquilon try to escape from a dangerous world ruled by murderous robots and return to their own dimension",1976,3.43,256,805
9780380016365,0380016362,Laura,The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder,Donald Zochert,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jqaFlU8xeVEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"centerCourage, Adventure, Steadfast Love From a little house set deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, across Indian territory and into the Dakotas, Laura's family moved westward right along the frontier. Their true-life saga, beloved by countless millions of TV viewers and readers of the bestselling Little House books, is one of spirit and devotion in the face of bitter-cold winters, wilderness trails, and heartbreaking personal tragedy. Here, for the first time, and drawing on her own unpublished memoirs is the endlessly fascinating full account of Laura's life -- from her earliest years through her enduring marriage to Almanzo Wilder, the ""farmer boy"" of her stories.",1977,4.11,241,5514
9780380017799,0380017792,Chaining the Lady,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,,,1978,3.64,342,986
9780380454501,0380454505,A twist of Lennon,,Cynthia Lennon,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BIgcKi2YK44C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1980,3.84,190,390
9780380477128,0380477122,Bethany's Sin,,Robert R. McCammon,,,,1984,3.57,342,1554
9780380620005,0380620006,Boy Who Turned Into a TV Set,,Stephen Manes,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7geB74r4AcoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Although his mother warns him that if he continues to watch television so much he will turn into one, Ogden Pettibone does not believe her until he discovers a clear, color picture glowing on his stomach.",1983,4,10,8
9780380699179,0380699176,100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories,,Isaac Asimov;Terry Carr,Fiction,,,1985,3.95,395,199
9780380707638,0380707632,Stephen Hawking's Universe,,John Boslough,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lkntNIwunAAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the theoretical work of the outstanding British physicist Stephen Hawking, who has done noteworthy work in cosmology.",1989,4.04,160,648
9780380710829,038071082X,The Grass Crown,,Colleen McCullough,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Kt3gN2eJzbQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The lives of ancient Rome's men--general Gaius Marius and his rival Lucius Cornelius Sulla--unfold amid Republican Rome's struggle in a world of treachery and barbarism,1992,4.29,1104,9397
9780380710843,0380710846,Caesar's Women,,Colleen McCullough,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yFK8FChsNbsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The fourth novel of the Masters of Rome series focuses on the women in the life of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar at the height of his power,1997,4.24,943,5277
9780380711963,0380711966,Tim,,Colleen McCullough,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kBFiyP7jOp4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A highly intelligent, lonely, middle-aged spinster finds pure and innocent love in the arms of a simple-minded, young laborer",1990,3.81,288,150
9780380713806,0380713802,Neither Here Nor There:,Travels in Europe,Bill Bryson,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LpkAcBTPy_kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies -- in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is Neither Here Nor There, an affectionate and riotously funny pilgrimage from the frozen wastes of Scandinavia to the chaotic tumult of Istanbul, with stops along the way in Europe's most diverting and historic locales. Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies--in search of enlightenment, beer, and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is Neither Here Nor There, an affectionate and riotously funny pilgrimage from the frozen wastes of Scandinavia to the chaotic tumult of Istanbul, with stops along the way in Europe's most diverting and historic locales.",1993,3.87,254,46397
9780380713813,0380713810,Made in America,,Bill Bryson,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G8d_4MxVUjoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap ""Macaroni.""",1996,3.9,364,10432
9780380715435,0380715430,The Mother Tongue,,Bill Bryson,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0vUMyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.",1991,3.94,270,26672
9780380718122,038071812X,Lucie Babbidge's House,,Sylvia Cassedy,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5RyCPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having found a dollhouse full of dolls in the orphanage where she leads an unhappy existence, Lucie creates a secret life for herself.",1993,3.75,242,160
9780380720446,0380720442,Wrinkles in Time,,George Smoot;Keay Davidson,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DSv0HQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Behold the Handwriting of God Astrophysicist and adventurer George Smoot spent twenty years pursuing the ""holy grail of science"" -- a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. For decades he persevered -- struggling against time, the elements, the forces of ignorance and bureaucratic insanity. And finally, on April 23, 1992, he made a startling announcement that would usher in a new scientific age. For George Smoot and his dedicated team of Berkeley researchers had proven the unprovable -- uncovering, inarguably and for all time, the secrets of the creation of the Universe.",1994,3.99,360,985
9780380720866,0380720868,Shadow of a Dark Queen,Book One of the Serpentwar Saga,Raymond E. Feist,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j5YylwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A dread darkness is descending upon a great land called Midkemia—a powerful and malevolent race of monsters that has slipped through a hole in the dimensions. And two unlikely young heroes—a bastard heir denied his birthright and an irrepressible scoundrel with a penchant for thievery—must take up arms in the struggle to protect their besieged world...two friends chosen by Destiny to stand at the fore of the battle that is to come against the gargantuan reptile army of the terrible Emerald Queen.,1995,4.04,497,22935
9780380725786,0380725789,The Death of an Irish Sea Wolf,,Bartholomew Gill,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_-poqwbBCD4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a remote community off the west coast of Ireland, residents inclined to gossip speculate why reclusive Clement Ford, the ""Sea Wolf,"" has become such a generous benefactor to his neighbors. then one night, a mysterious figure from Ford's past arrives on the island, and by morning three people are murdered and Ford has disappeared. In the wake of the tragedy, Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr, and his intuitive wife, Noreen, along with his trusted staff from the Murder Squad, must piece together the deadly evening's events and answer the questions: Who really is the enigmatic Sea Wolf? And what does he have that is worth killing so many people for?",1997,3.74,304,130
9780380727506,0380727501,Notes from a Small Island,,Bill Bryson,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rTXB680gLl8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."" After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestsellingauthor of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to returnto the United States. (""I had recently read,"" Bryson writes, ""that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another,so it was clear that my people needed me."") But before departing, he set out ona grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile. ""Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."" After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson-bestselling author of ,i>The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. (""I had recently read,"" Bryson writes, ""that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me."") But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.",1997,3.92,324,76476
9780380730360,0380730367,Prayers for Rain,,Dennis Lehane,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ryrPaNqdW70C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a former client jumps from the twenty-sixth floor, private investigator Patrick Kenzie digs into her past to uncover the psychopath responsible for her self-destruction.",2000,4.09,375,15965
9780380731152,0380731150,Devil May Care,,Elizabeth Peters,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KzCRA1zOY1EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ellie is young, rich, engaged and in love. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes -- including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the plethora of pets, but she soon realizes that there are disturbing secrets about the local aristocracy buried in a dusty old book she has carried into the mansion. And her sudden interest in the past is attracting a slew of unwelcome guests -- some of them living and some, perhaps not. And the terrible vegeance that Ellie and her friends seem to have aroused -- now aimed at them -- surely cannot be...satanic.",1977,3.87,352,2196
9780380731213,0380731215,Street of the Five Moons,,Elizabeth Peters,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CCFwR_WUC3oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The discovery of a magnificent but faked ""Charlemagne talisman"" sewn into the suit pocket of a murdered man is cause brainy, beautiful medieval historian Vicky Bliss a world of trouble when she investigates. Reprint.",2000,3.94,376,3575
9780380731220,0380731223,Summer of the Dragon,,Elizabeth Peters,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vykTQCOW5mEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A good salary and an all-expenses-paid summer spent a sprawling Arizona ranch is too good a deal for fledgling anthropologist D.J. Abbott to turn down. What does it matter that her rich new employer/benefactor, Hank Hunnicutt, is a certified oddball who is presently funding all manner of off-beat projects, from alien conspiracy studies to a hunt for dragon bones? There's even talk of treasure buried in the nearby mountains, but D.J. isn't going to allow loose speculation -- or the considerable charms of handsome professional treasure hunter Jesse Franklin -- to sidetrack her. Until Hunnicutt suffers a mysterious accident and then vanishes, leaving the weirdos gathered at his spread to eye each other with frightened suspicion. But on a high desert search for the missing millionaire, D.J. is learning things that may not be healthy for her to know. For the game someone is playing here goes far beyond the rational universe -- and it could leave D.J. legitimately dead.",2001,3.92,352,2359
9780380731503,0380731509,Wayside School Is Falling Down (rack),,Louis Sachar,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DsoN9blZ3uQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The extraordinary thirty-story school and its zany inhabitants are back in the long-awaited sequel to the classic SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, one of the most popular Camelot books ever. /FONTThe extraordinary thirty-story school and its zany inhabitants are back in the long-awaited sequel to the classic SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, one of the most popular Camelot books ever. ""Rib-tickling...sure-to-please...""-Kirkus",1998,4.17,152,52011
9780380731862,038073186X,Shutter Island,,Dennis Lehane,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WZrQjhses-YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashecliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.",2004,4.09,369,128927
9780380731954,0380731959,The Deeds of the Disturber,,Elizabeth Peters,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fSs-Lnk-FdEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Amelia Peabody, her sexy archaeologist husband Emerson, and their precocious son Ramses find themselves caught up in an intrigue at the British Museum that includes a haunted mummy case, supernatural curses, and a lunatic murderer",2000,4.05,389,12003
9780380732029,0380732025,Killing Time,An Inspector Bill Slider Mystery,Cynthia Harrod-Eagles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1G1LIqJGdN0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a male erotic dancer who asked him for help is killed, Slider probes the victim's sordid career amid seedy nightclubs, prostitutes, and unconventional cabinet ministers, and he links the killing to that of a popular constable. Reprint. PW. K. NYT.",1998,3.97,280,11
9780380732548,0380732548,Anne Frank,Life in Hiding,Johanna Hurwitz,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3ja19MjRbPMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From July 1942 until August 1944, a young girl named Anne Frank kept a diary. Keeping a diary isn't unusual. Lots of girls do. But Anne's diary was unique. It chronicled the two years she and her family spent hiding from the Germans who were determined to annihilate all the Jews in Europe. In this sensitive and thoughtful introduction to the Holocaust and to the life of one of its best known victims, acclaimed author Johanna Hurwitz deftly evokes the background of World War II while capturing the unforgettable spirit and tragedy of Anne's life. From July 1942 until August 1944, a young girl named Anne Frank kept a diary. Keeping a diary isn't unusual. Lots of girls do. But Anne's diary was unique. It chronicled the two years she and her family spent hiding from the Germans who were determined to annihilate all the Jews in Europe. In this sensitive and thoughtful introduction to the Holocaust and to the life of one of its best known victims, acclaimed author Johanna Hurwitz deftly evokes the background of World War II while capturing the unforgettable spirit and tragedy of Anne's life.",1999,3.99,64,143
9780380755691,0380755696,Silver Nights,,Jane Feather,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4JbTRtjo7C4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An Arranged Marriage Free-spirited Sophia is a tempestuous heiresscapable of turning heads and breaking hearts. Orderedinto a loveless marriage that could bring her even greater riches, Sophia accepts her fate-until she sets her eyes on Adam, the virile nobleman who is to escort her to her future husband's estate. Adam is immediately captivated by Sophia'sheated sensuality, which sears through his cool reserve and makes him forget his duty. As for Sophia,she is powerless to resist his intense masculinity andair of mystery. Rebelling against her impending marriage, Sophia willfully surrenders herself body and soul to Adam's intense passion...only to discover that the price of forbidden love could be her life. Free-spirited Sophia is a tempestuous heiress capable of turning heads and breaking hearts. Ordered into a loveless marriage that could bring her even greater riches, Sophia accepts her fate -- until she sets her eyes on Adam, the virile nobleman who is to escort her to her future husband's estate. Adam is immediately captivated by Sophia's heated sensuality, which sears through his cool reserve and makes him forget his duty. As for Sophia, she is powerless to resist his intense masculinity and air of mystery. Rebelling against her impending marriage, Sophia willfully surrenders herself body and soul to Adam's intense passion...only to discover that the price of forbidden love could be her life.",2001,3.53,352,164
9780380759491,0380759497,Xanth 15: The Color of Her Panties,,Piers Anthony;Piers A. Jacob,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4LaUaPoHbpoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"We See England, We See Xanth, We See Mels's Underpanth In fact, Gwenny Goblin, Che Centaur and Jenny Elf are just about the only creatures on Xanth who have been spared the sight of Mela Merwoman's undergarment -- preoccupied as they are with helping Gwenny beat out her awful half-brother Gobble for chiefship of the goblin horde. But first they must master space and thyme . . . and find the fabulous egg that sits between the Roc and the hard place. While Mela -- who would gladly relinquish her oft-viewed undies for a new husband -- joins the Adult Conspiracy . . . and quickly discovers the power of a perfect pair of panties!",1992,3.67,342,7250
9780380759507,0380759500,Firefly,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eYQVOMmb0hMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The inhabitants of a remote estate in Florida's savannah country fall under the spell of a horrible predator who inflames and perverts their sexual desires, leading to a series of bizarre and deadly encounters",1992,3.27,466,2369
9780380763399,0380763397,Only Mine,,Elizabeth Lowell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jh3rmQlmE08C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Whether she′s creating incomparable love stories of passion and redemption or breathtaking tales of romantic suspense, there is simply no finer storyteller at work today than the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Elizabeth Lowell. The bastard son of a viscount and a Cheyenne shaman′s daughter, Wolfe Lonetree agrees to rescue the pampered Lady Jessica from an unwanted impending wedding -- but only if she will be his wife. Naive and shockingly innocent, Lady Jessica Charteris tricked a rugged, handsome stranger into a marriage in name only in order to escape a union with a vile British lord. Totally unprepared for the hardships awaiting her in America, she is terrified by the prospect of life in the harsh and magnificent land at the edge of the Rockies. But even more frightening is Wolfe himself -- a man whose raw sensuality leaves her breathless. Her proud, virile new ""husband"" is not one to be trifled with, nor will he be denied what his heart fervently desires -- for only in Wolfe Lonetree′s arms can Jessica truly learn the unparalleled joy of becoming the right man′s woman.",1992,3.93,400,2164
9780380771080,038077108X,Neon Lit:city of Glass,,Bob Callahan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qimLQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A graphic, crime noir novel on a New York detective-cum-novelist who answers a wrong number. A double- barreled investigation, one from the perspective of the detective, the other from that of the novelist. Adapted from Paul Auster's City of Glass by the creators of Maus.",1994,3.92,129,120
9780380776047,0380776049,To Love a Dark Lord,,Anne Stuart,Fiction,,"Unable to figure out why indifferent scoundrel James Killoran accepts responsibility for a desperate crime she committed herself, Emma Langolet attempts to make James let go of his roguish exterior and show her the gentle man inside. Original.",1994,3.83,409,1203
9780380777587,0380777584,Runaway Bride,,Deborah Gordon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M2JQxGf2Ex8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Employing her talents with the martial arts and disguise, Melanie Wyatt smuggles stolen goods to buy freedom for enslaved Chinese children, until Alex McClure, the agent hired to investigate, uncovers her operation and her vulnerable heart. Original.",1994,4.25,390,8
9780380784912,0380784912,The Night Remembers,,Kathleen Eagle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xuv2zRcXFiAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having fled halfway across the country to escape her heartbreaking past, Angela Prescott finds salvation in the embrace of Jesse Brown Wolf, a repairman of Native American descent whose existence is shrouded in mystery, maybe even magic. Reprint.",1998,3.79,355,219
9780380789023,0380789027,Smoke and Mirrors,Short Fictions and Illusions,Neil Gaiman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VsEtBq0glyQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion ... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under ""Pest Control,"" and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks. Explore a new reality -- obscured by smoke and darkness, yet brilliantly tangible -- in this extraordinary collection of short works by a master prestidigitator. It will dazzle your senses, touch your heart, and haunt your dreams.",2005,4.05,365,50702
9780380789832,0380789833,Shards of a Broken Crown,Book Four of the Serpentwar Saga,Raymond E. Feist,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jITPlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The demon is no more. The enemy has been routed. But all is not well . . . Winter's icy grasp is loosening on the world. The Emerald Queen's vanquished army has its broken back to the Bitter Sea. And treachery is its only recourse. A lackey has declared himself Lord of the defeated, amassing the still fearsome remnants of a ruthless fighting force together for one final assault on a weakened, vulnerable realm. For the warriors who remained steadfast against terrible numbers, for the courageous souls who barely survived a devastating onslaught upon their homeland, the time to rebuild and renew has not yet come. The war is not over in Midkemia. And Jimmy and Dash—two young noble brothers who stand at the center of a gathering storm—are impelled to action that could secure a tenuous peace . . . or turn triumph into catastrophe. The demon is no more. The enemy has been routed. But all is not well . . .",1999,4.01,498,17883
9780380792047,0380792044,Sins of a Shaker Summer,A Sister Rose Callahan Mystery,Deborah Woodworth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ku7bR_YYKFcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two little girls have suddenly become deathly ill, and eldress Rose Callahan suspects they may have eaten something from the Medicinal Herb Garden. Her suspicions focus on Andrew, who is expanding the tiny industry and experimenting with new herbs. But as Rose investigates, an unexplained death occurs and some chilling secrets come to light--secrets that may make Rose the next victim.",1999,3.5,272,55
9780380793471,0380793474,Regarding the Fountain,,Kate Klise,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZvPzrkzpzJcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Dry Creek Middle School drinking fountain has sprung a leak, so principal Walter Russ dashes off a request to Flowing Waters Fountains, Etc. ...We need a new drinking fountain. Please send a catalog. Designer Flo Waters responds: ""I'd be delighted...but please understand that all of my fountains are custom-made."" Soon the fountain project takes on a life of its own, one chronicled in letters, postcards, memos, transcripts, and official documents. The school board president is up in arms. So is Dee Eel, of the water-supply company. A scandal is brewing, and Mr. Sam N.'s fifth grade class is turning up a host of hilarious secrets buried deep beneath the fountain.",1999,4.2,144,3099
9780380794874,038079487X,What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day,,Pearl Cleage,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FoIQtW6tqhAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a remarkable debut novel that sizzles with sensuality, crackles with life-affirming energy and moves the reader to laughter and tears, author Pearl Cleage creates a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding. After a decade of luxe living in Atlanta, Ava Johnson has returned to tiny Idlewild, Michigan -- her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth: Ava has tested positive for HIV. Bur rather than a sorrowful end, her homecoming is a new beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since she left, all the problems of the big city have invaded the sleepy community of her childhood. Because dear friends and family sorely need her help in the face of impending trouble and tragedy, and Ava cannot turn her back on them. And because, most importantly, Ava Johnson is inexplicabley and undeniably falling in love.",1998,3.72,244,18983
9780380803279,0380803275,Exile's Return,Conclave of Shadows: Book Three,Raymond E. Feist,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LfkimAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Saved by a mage's intervention from certain death, Kaspar, the evil Duke of Olasko, is lord no more -- reduced to an exile's existence and forced to wander the harshest realms of the world he once enslaved. Merciless deserts, forbidding mountains, and vast oceans now separate the once powerful despot from his former seat of power -- his dark dreams of vengeance overwhelmed by the daily struggle for survival. But there is a larger drama that will entangle the broken dictator. An evil devastating and deadly seeks entrance to the land -- the mystical tool of a dark empire hungry for conquest and destruction -- and Kaspar has inadvertently discovered the key. Suddenly, Midkemia's last hope is a disgraced and exiled duke whose history is written in blood, and who now must wield his sword as her champion . . . if he so chooses..",2006,4.02,343,11973
9780380809066,0380809060,The Great Book of Amber,"The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10",Roger Zelazny,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_Z93A1ltySIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. Now here are all ten novels, together in one magnificent omnibus volume. Witness the titanic battle for supremacy waged on Earth, in the Courts of Chaos, and on a magical world of mystery, adventure, and romance.",1999,4.3,1258,22974
9780380810956,0380810956,The Wolves in the Walls,,Neil Gaiman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ksx1aCPS7CoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lucy hears sneaking, creeping, crumpling noises coming from inside the walls. She is sure there are wolves living in the walls of her house.",2005,4.07,56,13382
9780380813810,0380813815,Lamb,"The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal",Christopher Moore,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cM4dlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work ""reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams"" (Philadelphia Inquirer). Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more -- except maybe ""Maggie,"" Mary of Magdala -- and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.",2003,4.26,444,130754
9780380813865,0380813866,The Body in the Lighthouse,A Faith Fairchild Mystery,Katherine Hall Page,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jd0ulwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Something was very wrong on Sanpere this summer . . . To escape the misery of a sweltering August in Aleford, Massachusetts, caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild and her family head for their cottage on Maine's peaceful Sanpere Island in Penobscot Bay. But things have changed since their last visit. An aggressive developer is moving forward on plans that will destroy the unique ambience of the island, infuriating residents. Tensions are running dangerously high, and soon murder rears its hideous head. Faith discovers a corpse while exploring the grounds of Sanpere's historic lighthouse. With fear running rampant and volatile emotions approaching the detonation point, the intrepid sleuth must track down a killer for the sake of a friend and the island she loves.",2004,3.68,352,422
9780380815692,0380815699,The Nightingale's Song,,Kathleen Eschenburg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7f3GGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Maggie Quinn thinks she has room in her head for only the helpless orphans in her care -- until Gordon Kincaid walks into St. Columba's. A proud Southern gentleman damaged by the Civil War, he has come to Baltimore to find the daughter he never knew -- a beautiful child who is one of Maggie's favorites -- and bring her home to Virginia. And when he asks Maggie to accompany them, all she can say is ""yes."" Widowed and wounded inside, Gordon turns to the emerald-eyed Irish beauty to help him pick up the pieces. Though he senses her distrust he is drawn to Maggie's angelic voice, her sensuality and passion...and to a tenderness that compels him to share with her his soul. But the scars of war go deep. And it will take uncommon strength for two people who stood on opposite sides to find redemption and a new life in love.",2001,3.8,384,15
9780380815937,0380815931,In the Beginning...was the Command Line,,Neal Stephenson,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iL9wBRPaTDEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is ""the Word"" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the ""one man"" is Neal Stephenson, ""the hacker Hemingway"" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In the Beginning... was the Command Line is a thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious treatise on the cyber-culture past and present; on operating system tyrannies and downloaded popular revolutions; on the Internet, Disney World, Big Bangs, not to mention the meaning of life itself.",1999,3.79,151,6618
9780380817931,0380817934,Olympos,,Dan Simmons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rbEOlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve. And now all bets are off.",2006,3.94,891,12846
9780380818204,0380818205,The Marriage Lesson,,Victoria Alexander,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CLc-ICBzMskC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lesson #1: Never Tempt a Lady Become a bride? Never! Lady Marianne Shelton has come to London to experience life, and marriage is not part of her plan. To finance her independent future, the pretty country miss pens a series of anonymous stories. Soon they are the talk of the ton-and only she knows that her wicked hero is based on none other than bold, brash Thomas Effington, the future Duke of Roxborough. Lesson #2: Never Deny a Marquess, Thomas has been thrust into le of Marianne's protector. When she threatens to experience life with the first willing rogue to come along, he decides the best recourse is to tutor her himself. And when he accidentally compromises her honor, he's willing to accept their only recourse: a wedding. Marianne claims she wants no part of marriage, but her intoxicating allure and disarming willingness make her irresistible. And now Thomas is determined to teach her a lesson: that true love will last forever.",2001,3.9,372,1449
9780380818952,0380818957,First Comes Love,,Christie Ridgway,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FdNfmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Determined to live down her family's long-time naughty reputation to finally achieve respectability, Kitty Wilder decides to hold handsome FBI agent Dylan Matthews to the accidental marriage that he had never realized was real. Original.",2002,3.81,384,1042
9780380898039,0380898039,Red Message,,Peter Abrahams,,,"The CIA concludes that the disappearance of math genius Teddy Wu is an obvious defection to Red China, but his lover, Beth Hunter, investigates further and discovers an international political conspiracy of terrifying proportions",1986,3.43,320,7
9780385017336,0385017332,Love Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mSeeR6eVaa8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A compilation of Shakespeare's sonnets and love poems features color illustrations.,1991,4.34,160,5625
9780385023511,0385023510,The Complete Poetry of John Milton,,"John Milton (Dichter, Grossbritannien)",,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SmRHwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1971,4.05,672,3355
9780385040204,0385040202,Your Child's Self-esteem,The Key to Life,Dorothy Corkille Briggs,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=klpvGJllL80C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Discusses the ways in which parental attitudes shape the child's concept of himself and offers guidelines for creating positive relationships,1975,4.26,368,179
9780385074070,0385074077,Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe,,Edgar Allan Poe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gxXHOU5Ni6UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A complete collection of the writings of Poe, including his mysteries, fantasies, satires, and poems",1966,4.38,821,174162
9780385085335,0385085338,Maccabbees,I [and] II,,Bible,,,1976,3.92,592,7
9780385086165,0385086164,A Man of the People,,Chinua Achebe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wUNWVXxtFBgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A young intellectual becomes embroiled in the struggle of Nigerian revolutionaries,1966,3.87,160,3089
9780385090025,0385090021,Saint Thomas of Aquinas,,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1l1SE29tqDcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The acclaimed British novelist and author of Orthodoxy presents an intriguing portrait of the great Christian philosopher Saint Thomas Aquinas that explores key elements of the saint's theological works. Reprint.,1956,4.15,167,2841
9780385092104,0385092105,The Birth of Tragedy and The Genealogy of Morals,,Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4Q8lWXlzpdgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Skillful, sophisticated translations of two of Nietzsche's essential works about the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits, and other themes central to his thinking.",1956,4,320,819
9780385121224,0385121229,Plagues and peoples,,William Hardy McNeill,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VzRin_YlpCAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A distinguished historian probes the critical impact of infectious diseases on the development of world civilizations,1998,3.9,368,3406
9780385129916,0385129912,Night Shift,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sl3DFVlHR8EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More than twenty-five stories of horror and nightmarish fantasy transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the nonliving",1978,3.99,344,470
9780385189514,0385189516,The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories,,"Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)",Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S_ZvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents 156 tales accompanied by the author's notes on the background of his stories.,1983,4.28,1101,255
9780385236256,0385236255,The King's buccaneer,,Raymond E. Feist,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xuhuRWlZhYgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nine years after the last riftwar, played out in Prince of the Blood, dark forces once again encroach on the Kingdom of the Isles, and one prince must embark on a quest to face the evil powers. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.",1992,4.01,465,128
9780385239547,0385239548,Trials of Tears,The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation,John Ehle,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kNuRA8riMeoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recounts the many broken U.S. treaties with the Cherokees, describes how they were forced to leave their lands in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina, and looks at the hardships they faced on the trail west.",1989,4.15,424,2970
9780385240871,0385240872,Lost in the Funhouse,"Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice",John Barth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T3y-OBKPxJsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Fourteen short literary experiments intended for perusal in sequence are set in contemporary society and classical Greece,1988,3.71,205,4899
9780385264587,0385264585,The Beginning and the End,,Naguib Mahfouz;Najīb Maḥfūẓ,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nfZMDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The sudden death of Kamel Effendi plunges his middle class family into poverty and a desperate struggle to survive.,1989,4.07,412,348
9780385264730,0385264739,Children of the Alley,,Najīb Maḥfūẓ,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1XmQtuTxKKAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The story of an Egyptian family mirrors the spiritual history of humankind as a feudal lord disowns one son for diabolical pride and puts another son to the ultimate test,1996,4.1,464,1124
9780385265706,0385265700,The Book of Ruth,,Jane Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RKZrKGqRKvMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ruth, a young woman living in a rural Illinois town, looks back on the people who have shaped her life, including her runaway father, shrewish mother, and crazy husband",1990,3.84,328,61475
9780385302319,0385302312,Dragonfly in Amber,,Diana Gabaldon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zQ4JyQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty years after her voyage to Scotland, Claire Randall, now a doctor, returns to Scotland with her daughter to locate the stone that sent her on her magical journey years before.",1992,4.32,743,1018
9780385311779,038531177X,Rain of Gold,,Victor Villaseñor,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fxDMKjYc2gMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Rain of Gold, Victor Villasenor weaves the parallel stories of two families and two countries…bringing us the timeless romance between the volatile bootlegger who would become his father and the beautiful Lupe, his mother–men and women in whose lives the real and the fantastical exist side by side…and in whose hearts the spirit to survive is fueled by a family’s unconditional love.",1992,4.48,576,5673
9780385313483,0385313489,The Last Lion,"Winston Spencer Churchill - Visions of Glory, 1874-1932",William Manchester,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uxOzxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Describes the early life and political career of the British prime minister.,1984,4.43,992,8986
9780385313612,0385313616,Shakespeare A to Z,"The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More",Charles Boyce;David Allen White,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FxgBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Brer Rabbit will never learn! He loves to play jokes, tricks and set traps for his friends - but once in a while, they beat him at his own game! These timeless stories of the briar patch trickster are re-told in Blyton's hugely popular and successful style. This collection contains many Brer Rabbit stories from the books Enid Blyton's Brer Rabbit Book, Brer Rabbit Again and Brer Rabbit's a Rascal.",1991,4.35,752,151
9780385314695,0385314698,The Sixteen Pleasures,,Robert Hellenga,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dOl-qIXyWK8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The discovery of an old book of erotica in an Italian convent by a beautiful twenty-nine-year-old book conservator from America becomes her introduction to the sensuous, sometimes dangerous life of Florence. Reprint.",1995,3.58,384,2636
9780385315173,0385315171,A Day in the Life,The Music and Artistry of the Beatles,Mark Hertsgaard,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IgHiPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Uses the archives at Abbey Road Studios in London to trace the development and impact of the Beatles' music, and offers insight into the band's creative process and the influences that shaped them",1996,4.16,448,1093
9780385315289,0385315287,Running from Safety,An Adventure of the Spirit,Richard Bach,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kpBYysuzWZ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fifty years after promising--and forgetting--to come back through time and teach himself what he has learned about life, Richard meets nine-year-old Dickie Bach, who reminds him of the promise",1995,3.79,368,1723
9780385316576,0385316577,Follow Your Heart,,Susanna Tamaro,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KxeIuRPyuCQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a series of poignant letters, Olga, an elderly Italian woman, writes to her teenaged granddaughter in America, trying to encourage her independence and self-fulfillment as she relates the painful lessons of her own life and that of her daughter. Reprint.",1995,3.57,208,3170
9780385319270,0385319274,There's No Such Place as Far Away,,Richard Bach,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZtATwGrYS4AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Inspired by correspondence between Bach and a child concerning a special occasion, this meditation expresses, in Bach's typically soaring fantasy, the thoughts and beliefs by which he lives",1998,3.93,48,2665
9780385321983,0385321988,Brian's Winter,,Gary Paulsen,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kgzxwE1Z3qsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.",1996,4.01,133,65
9780385324137,0385324138,The Outlandish Companion,"In which Much is Revealed Regarding Claire and Jamie Fraser, Their Lives and Times, Antecedents, Adventures, Companions, and Progeny, with Learned Commentary (and Many Footnotes) by Their Humble Creator",Diana Gabaldon,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B-3rxQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The creator of the Outlander series gives fans the skinny on her epic saga of time travel, adventure, and love everlasting, offering a complete listing of the characters and their genealogy; a glossary of Gaelic terms; and more. Tour.",1999,4.07,577,11191
9780385325332,0385325339,Laura Ingalls Wilder's Fairy Poems,,Laura Ingalls Wilder;Stephen W. Hines;Richard Hull,American poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Sy0NAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A treasury of fairy poems, written in 1915 by the author of the Little House series, is collected for the first time and is accompanied by lush illustrations, as well as an excerpt from the author's essay, ""Fairies Still Appear to Those with Seeing Eyes.""",1998,3.97,39,135
9780385333139,0385333137,Black and Blue,A Novel,Anna Quindlen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kHHZX6aIvisC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times columnist presents her third novel, which traces the dissolution of a passionate marriage into a violent nightmare, forcing Fran Benedetto to start a new life, and a new identity. Reprint.",2000,3.88,288,73165
9780385333474,0385333471,"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater","Or, Pearls Before Swine",Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XVsu8qFi87AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A lawyer schemes to gain control of a large fortune by having the present claimant declared insane.,1998,3.96,288,40488
9780385333504,0385333501,Welcome to the Monkey House,A Collection of Short Works,Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vkj0QEE0uRUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tender stories of love, incisive essays on human greed and misery, and imaginative tales of futuristic happenings reveal Vonnegut's versatility and vision",1968,4.14,331,44749
9780385333511,038533351X,Bluebeard,,Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4SZY-ylikTIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, an abstract expressionist artist, who acquired the largest collection of abstract expressionist paintings in private hands.",1998,4.03,318,29644
9780385333764,0385333765,King Rat,,James Clavell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-OC1PROF8M8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Featuring dramatic never-before-published material from the original manuscript and a new introduction, the timeless classic details the conflict between a powerful black marketeer and his fellow prisoners at a Japanese POW camp that leads to tragedy. Reprint.",1999,4.13,368,27166
9780385333788,0385333781,Player Piano,,Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oIyVN49lh9YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.",1999,3.87,341,38620
9780385333818,0385333811,"Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (opinions)",,Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rEbuAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, witty, deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this is a window not only into Vonnegut's mind but also into his heart.",2006,3.78,318,7077
9780385333870,0385333870,Galapagos: A Novel,,Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AZjb-pSoQWsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The ghost of a decapitated shipbuilder wryly observes the decline of the human race as reflected by a group of shipwreck survivors, including a biology teacher, a bomb-radiated wife of a Japanese computer genius, and a gold digger, a motley band whose fates are shaped by infertility and a local tribe of cannibals. Reissue.",1999,3.87,324,53777
9780385333900,0385333900,Jailbird,,Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QP-4sh0QbtMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A master of contemporary American literature, Vonnegut has authored 18 highly acclaimed books and dozens of short stories and essays. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator.",1999,3.81,310,17241
9780385334174,0385334176,Deadeye Dick,,Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mUmNDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A young boy's life is irrevocably changed when he accidently kills a pregnant woman while playing with one of his father's many rifles,1999,3.81,271,21076
9780385334235,0385334230,Slapstick,"Or, Lonesome No More!",Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5OgyxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Flying to a favorite uncle's funeral, a middle-aged Kurt Vonnegut daydreams of one-hundred-year-old Wilbur Oriole-11 Swain, pediatrician and past United States President, who wrote history's most popular child-rearing manual and sold the original Louisian",1999,3.87,288,29942
9780385334266,0385334265,Palm Sunday,An Autobiographical Collage,Kurt Vonnegut,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=InxnDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An autobiographical collage from the renowned novelist includes previously unpublished articles, essays, letters, drawings, songs, and talks in which Vonnegut reflects on his life and times",1999,3.77,300,5005
9780385334303,0385334303,The Naked Ape,A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal,Desmond Morris,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CS-GPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines sex, child rearing, fighing, feeding habits, and exploration of man in an attempt to establish bonds with the animal kingdom",1999,3.95,256,6479
9780385335102,0385335105,Aches & Pains,,Maeve Binchy,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D8CPSJ-g3XIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Takes a humorous view of medical care, hospital stays, and convalescence.",2000,3.54,99,337
9780385335546,0385335547,The Midwife's Tale,,Gretchen Moran Laskas,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DteKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Serving as midwives to a small mining town in prewar Appalachia, Elizabeth and her mother share in the intimate details of the lives, loves, and losses of every family in the region, but none of their neighbors know their own secrets, dreams, and desires--including the mystery of Elizabeth's father's identity or of Elizabeth's desperate yearning for her own child. A first novel. Reprint.",2004,3.82,256,696
9780385335676,0385335679,Kissing in Manhattan,,David Schickler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YwFc2AvqtAYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the Preemption, a mysterious apartment building with a prophetic doorman named Sender, the destinies of an offbeat group of tenants intertwine with the lives of three characters--James Branch, a shy accountant attached to the building's antique elevator; Wall Street lothario Patrick Rigg; and Rally McWilliams, an aspiring writer searching for a soulmate, in a collection of interlinked stories. Reissue. 45,000 first printing.",2002,3.61,288,2634
9780385335973,0385335970,Dragonfly in Amber,,Diana Gabaldon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yYc_PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In eighteenth-century Scotland, Claire Randall and her raven-haired daughter, Brianna, return to the majestic hills where Claire recalls the love of her life--gallant warrior James Fraser.",2001,4.32,743,208928
9780385335997,0385335997,Voyager,,Diana Gabaldon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tJ1Ywslye6kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Time-travelling Claire Randall returns to her own time, pregnant and weary, and resumes her life, but her memories of her eighteenth-century Scottish lover Jamie Fraser will not die, leading her to a desperate decision to return to him.",2001,4.39,870,188662
9780385336109,0385336101,Intuition,A Novel,Allegra Goodman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RA_kiayGCswC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A trio of researchers becomes caught up in the desperate quest for a financial grant from the Philpott, a prestigious research laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.",2007,3.33,385,3206
9780385336956,0385336950,The Cloud Atlas,,Liam Callanan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S828twSTPxwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During World War II, Louis Belk, a young American bomb disposal sergeant, is sent on a mission to Anchorage, Alaska, to find and disarm the balloon bombs launched by the Japanese against North America, a search that leads him to encounters with a variety of haunting individuals and sends him on a lifelong quest to understand the meaning of faith, friendship, trust, and love. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2004,3.37,368,1697
9780385337816,0385337817,Coming of Age in Mississippi,,Anne Moody,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1y1dyH1C_QIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Anne Moody provides a first person account of growing up black in the rural South during the nineteen forties and fifties.,1968,4.13,424,6824
9780385337939,0385337930,A Painted House,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PKKsy1PSK-UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community.",2004,3.69,384,65551
9780385338059,0385338058,Lucifer's Shadow,,David Hewson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JcyMDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Disillusioned by the darker side of Venice, English cataloguer Daniel Forster discovers a lost musical masterpiece within a library of dusty manuscripts and is drawn into a treacherous game of deception that spans three centuries, from the periods of Vivaldi and Rousseau to the present. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2005,3.58,369,575
9780385339087,0385339089,The Client,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u61XH0OJ5AUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eleven-year-old Mark Sway accidentally witnesses a murder and becomes the target of relentless prosecutors and the mob, and the only person who can save him is Reggie Love, an attorney barely out of law school. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2005,3.99,483,351882
9780385339094,0385339097,The Street Lawyer,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m9UOzU4jBWUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After a violent encounter with a homeless man, talented corporate lawyer Michael finds himself out in the streets, lucky to be alive, and holding a top-secret file belonging to his former employers, a top law firm hiding a terrible secret. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2005,3.83,384,86911
9780385339599,0385339593,The Summons,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2QT0etvJ9gwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ray Atlee and his brother, Forrest, receive a letter from their father, a reclusive, retired judge, instructing them to return home to Clanton, Mississippi, to discuss his estate, but the judge dies before his sons arrive, leaving behind a secret known only to Ray. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2005,3.69,384,56780
9780385339605,0385339607,The Rainmaker,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BdeLDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Abandoning his aspirations about living the good life, novice Memphis lawyer Rudy Baylor fears he will lose everything in the face of a pivotal case that could cost him his life or turn him into the biggest rainmaker in the land as he stumbles upon a huge case of insurance fraud in which he must go head to head with one of the most powerful defense attorneys and industries in America. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2005,3.93,419,146553
9780385339650,0385339658,The King of Torts,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2RX5X0TS5AoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Washed-up public defender Clay Carter's latest case, a routine street killing, takes an unexpected turn when he discovers evidence of a conspiracy involving a large drug company and a lawsuit with a huge potential settlement. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2005,3.67,276,65756
9780385339667,0385339666,The Chamber,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nBqIOlEQZCcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Years after the bombing of a Mississippi law office in which Marvin Kramer's two sons died, former Klan member Sam Cayhill, the accused killer, has nearly exhausted his death row appeals, until young lawyer Adam Hall takes the case. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2005,3.78,632,109897
9780385339674,0385339674,The Brethren,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qW2LDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a maximum security federal prison, three former judges who call themselves ""the brethren"" meet daily in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their new community, and make a little money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2005,3.73,384,73858
9780385339698,0385339690,The Runaway Jury,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CTfIUb784ooC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A member of the jury for the century's most explosive trial against a giant tobacco company, Juror #2, a mysterious man with a past and a hidden agenda, joins forces with a beautiful woman on the outside to get the verdict he wants, no matter what the cost. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2006,3.97,358,239779
9780385339704,0385339704,The Pelican Brief,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pNyk1XwS9rwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the Supreme Court's most liberal and most conservative justices are gunned down, law student Darby Shaw builds a case against a powerful suspect, whose threats send her underground. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2006,3.98,400,323142
9780385340397,0385340397,A Breath of Snow and Ashes,,Diana Gabaldon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LKDAs-Hrea0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1772, Jamie Fraser is asked by the governor to help protect the colonies for King and Crown, but thanks to his time-traveling, twentieth-century wife, Claire, Jamie is aware of the ultimate result of the American Revolution.",2006,4.44,980,100326
9780385415606,0385415605,The Golden Tulip,,Rosalind Laker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iVO7vYwcCKYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Determined to become a painter, Francesca Visser's dream is shattered when her father--a struggling artist--arranges a marriage between her and Ludolf Van Deventer, a wealthy shipbroker, in order to pay back a debt",1991,3.92,585,26
9780385418133,0385418132,The Art of Alfred Hitchcock,Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures,"Donald Spoto;Donald Spoto, M.A., Ph.D.",Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pnMEkW_JjfMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This completely revised and updated edition of the classic text describes and analyzes every movie made by master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.,1992,4.08,496,456
9780385418492,0385418493,How the Irish Saved Civilization,The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe,Thomas Cahill,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IY1eugBuZ9EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bringing readers to the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells, a historical examination of Ireland's role in the rise of medieval Europe cites the work of countless monks and scribes in the preservation of the West's written treasury. Reprint. Tour.",1996,3.81,246,34607
9780385418867,0385418868,The Power of Myth,,Joseph Campbell,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZxQxQa1l6ioC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The noted mythologist discusses the relationship of ancient myths to modern life, including discussions of recent heros, tales of love and marriage, the power of myth, and mythic themes",1991,4.3,320,36772
9780385423397,038542339X,The Art of the Personal Essay,An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present,Phillip Lopate,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XLyxV9JxyGQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Essays by writers representing various cultures and eras, from ancient Greece to the present, include works by Seneca, Thoreau, Dillard, Vidal, and Orwell.",1995,4.19,777,2096
9780385423755,0385423756,On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace,,Donald Kagan,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dVMsAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Analyzes history to determine why there are wars, whether there are underlying laws that explain why one nation challenges another, and whether there are forces working for the preservation of peace",1996,4.01,573,494
9780385424707,0385424701,Texas! Trilogy,Texas! Lucky; Texas! Chase; Texas! Sage,Sandra Brown,Fiction,,"The romantic adventures of Lucky, Chase, and Sage are presented in one volume relating the entire epic saga of the Tyler Drilling company and the three strong-willed Tyler siblings",1992,4.28,600,928
9780385468435,0385468431,History of Philosophy,,Frederick Charles Copleston,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NvoLvAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Evaluates important elements of Western philosophy from its classical origins to the present.,1993,4.08,521,1386
9780385468862,0385468865,Obasan,,Joy Kogawa,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MvKitz-GMKIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'A moving vision of an affront to democratic principles... A tour de force, a deeply felt novel, brilliantly poetic in its sensibility' - New York Times",1994,3.63,320,5137
9780385470452,0385470452,A history of philosophy,,Frederick Charles Copleston,Philosophy,,,1965,4.17,592,173
9780385470469,0385470460,History of Philosophy,,Frederick Charles Copleston,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_cxGPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Evaluates important elements of Western philosophy from its classical origins to the present.,1994,4.22,496,153
9780385474016,0385474016,Like Water for Chocolate,"A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies",Laura Esquivel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nNqUyQrUkUEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother. Reprint. Movie tie-in.",1994,3.94,242,1418
9780385481960,0385481969,Youth in Revolt,The Journals of Nick Twisp,C. D. Payne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cZKdO_B0SfsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nick Twisp, a dark and precocious fourteen-year-old, struggles with the problems of contemporary teens, including high school, divorced parents, paranoia, his virginity, homelessness, and the attentions of a young lady",1996,4.02,512,8158
9780385489492,0385489498,Marie Antoinette,The Journey,Antonia Fraser,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zx3EXUhJuAUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The acclaimed author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII describes her life, from her betrothal as an unsophisticated, poorly educated fourteen-year-old girl to the future King Louis XVI, through her difficult marriage in the French court, to her courage in the face of revolutionaries who sent her to the guillotine twenty-three years later. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.",2001,3.92,512,1053
9780385489515,038548951X,Sister of My Heart,,Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KtjF3dIeP04C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two girls, one the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family, the other the daughter of the black sheep of that same family, form a sisterly bond that shatters when one of the girls discovers a dark family secret.",2000,3.98,322,15648
9780385490627,0385490623,What are the 7 Wonders of the World?,,Peter D'Epiro;Mary Desmond Pinkowish,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nxBT6nT-XOcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fully explains the items belonging to such lists as ""Who are the 3 fates?"" and ""What are the 7 last words of Christ?""",1998,3.76,560,216
9780385490818,038549081X,The Handmaid's Tale,,Margaret Atwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4QXnYRaBUFAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A chilling look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction. Reissue.",1998,4.09,344,932832
9780385491037,0385491034,The Robber Bride,,Margaret Atwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BHW5fAY2-RUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The story of three women living in Toronto explores the paradox of woman as villain,1998,3.83,528,33398
9780385491051,0385491050,Surfacing,,Margaret Atwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XGMhW46X2nEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A woman searching for her missing father travels with her lover and another couple to a remote island in northern Quebec, where they encounter violence and death",1998,3.46,244,17504
9780385491082,0385491085,Lady Oracle,,Margaret Atwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J5UjvQU2A5AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A sardonic novel follows the bored wife of an anti-nuclear activist on a fantastic adventure from Canada to Italy, involving literary fame, a blackmailing reporter, menacing plots, passionate trysts, and life in death. Reissue.",1998,3.68,346,9250
9780385492164,0385492162,The Girl in the Flammable Skirt,Stories,Aimee Bender,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XkLhMA6NP9MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A darkly comic collection of stories features men and women whose lives are pulled into the bizarre by their erotic desires,1999,3.88,192,6441
9780385492249,0385492243,An Invisible Sign of My Own,,Aimee Bender,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZLRKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mona Gray, a young second grade teacher who orders her universe with tidy numbers, finds chaos and romance with an odd new math teacher. A first novel. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.",2001,3.68,256,3624
9780385493628,0385493622,Fermat's Enigma,The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem,Simon Singh,Mathematics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wkJ6QaC90c0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The story of Fermat's Last Theorem, devised by the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, recounts the struggles of three and a half centuries of scientists to devise a proof for it.",1997,4.24,315,18495
9780385494786,0385494785,Into Thin Air,A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster,Jon Krakauer,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lI_2H3GUulEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers, and explains why he survived",1999,4.15,368,327791
9780385495172,038549517X,The Mating Mind,How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature,Geoffrey Miller,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pJfoKtG1n2wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawing on the latest research in evolutionary biology, a groundbreaking study of the link between evolution and human sexuality argues that the development of the human brain can be linked to the need to attract and win sexual partners. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2000,4.09,528,2057
9780385495226,0385495226,The Hot Zone,,Richard Preston,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KMvcl3wetnoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes how a strain of lethal virus showed up in 1989 at a Virginia laboratory, and relates the efforts of a military biohazard SWAT team to identify and contain the virus",1994,4.11,352,80870
9780385495325,0385495323,The Code Book,The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography,Simon Singh,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=skt7TrLK5uYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Includes a history of how codes have affected the world, from the World Wars to the death of Mary, Queen of Scots, and also looks at what the future holds for the field of cryptography.",2000,4.31,412,15078
9780385495547,0385495544,Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea,Why the Greeks Matter,Thomas Cahill,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sS16vB0pjR0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines the remarkable legacy of the ancient Greeks, from the origins of Greek culture to the development of Western literature, drama, poetry, and philosophy to the Greek influence on human science, mathematics, and logic.",2004,3.77,352,2380
9780385496094,0385496095,Traveling Mercies,Some Thoughts on Faith,Anne Lamott,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V3-GGMutrQEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Combining elements of spiritual study and memoir, the author describes her odyssey of faith, drawing on her own sometimes troubled past to explore the many ways in which faith sustains and guides one's daily life",2000,4.16,275,38829
9780385497091,0385497091,Thumbsucker,A Novel,Walter Kirn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3vpaAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A boy wracked with a serious oral fixation tries everything to break the cycle--sex, substance abuse, fly fishing, work, and religion--but nothing seems to work. Original. Tour.",1999,3.43,300,1187
9780385497145,0385497148,Waterfront,A Walk Around Manhattan,Phillip Lopate,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jOvUwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Suggests a series of exploratory walks around Manhattan's shoreline tours to offer insight into the history, myths, economy, ecology, and politics surrounding the Brooklyn Bridge and other public spaces and landmarks.",2005,3.74,450,242
9780385497398,0385497393,D. B.,,Elwood Reid,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h_ZvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fictional account of a plane hijacking by American folk hero D. B. Cooper profiles him as a Vietnam veteran who drifts through the early 1970s counterculture before parachuting and disappearing from the 727 he has hijacked, and who is investigated years later by retired FBI agent Frank Marshall. Reprint.",2005,3.26,356,52
9780385503846,0385503849,Moral Disorder,Stories,Margaret Atwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1RbbwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new collection of short fiction presents ten stories that capture important moments in the course of a life and in the lives intertwined with it, in a volume that ranges from the 1930s to the 1980s, is set in a variety of locales, and includes such works as ""The Bad News,"" ""The Art of Cooking and Serving,"" ""My Last Duchess,"" ""The Boys at the Lab,"" and the title tale. 75,000 first printing.",2006,3.63,255,7927
9780385503952,0385503954,Atonement,A Novel. XA-GB. ...,,Fiction,,"In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.",2001,3.89,351,1539
9780385504218,0385504217,The Da Vinci Code,Featuring Robert Langdon,Dan Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ohZ1wcYifLsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"MORE THAN 80 MILLION COPIES SOLD Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle—while avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move—the explosive, ancient truth will be lost forever.",2003,3.82,522,2775
9780385508476,0385508476,The Diary of Anne Frank,The Revised Critical Edition,Anne Frank,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tgnUAiIWBGAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Diary of the adolescent Jewish girl who ultimately perished in the Nazi death camps.,2003,4.13,851,363
9780385603102,038560310X,House of Leaves,,Mark Z. Danielewski,Experimental fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-ndjtDlVIKsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Johnny Truant wild and troubled sometime employee in a LA tattoo parlour, finds a notebook kept by Zampano, a reclusive old man found dead in a cluttered apartment. Herein is the heavily annotated story of the Navidson Report. Will Navidson, a photojournalist, and his family move into a new house. What happens next is recorded on videotapes and in interviews. Now the Navidsons are household names. Zampano, writing on loose sheets, stained napkins, crammed notebooks, has compiled what must be the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane. But Johnny Truant has never heard of the Navidson Record. Nor has anyone else he knows. And the more he reads about Will Navidson's house, the more frightened he becomes. Paranoia besets him. The worst part is that he can't just dismiss the notebook as the ramblings of a crazy old man. He's starting to notice things changing around him . . . Immensely imaginative. Impossible to put down. Impossible to forget. House of Leavesis thrilling, terrifying and unlike anything you have ever read before.",2000,4.12,705,90180
9780385604833,0385604831,Walk about,,Bill Bryson,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BAptri_qXXwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Combined in one volume are Bryson's Down Under, an account of his memorable walk across Australia, and A Walk in the Woods, that tells of his lengthy stroll along the longest continuous footpath in the world - The Appalachian Trail, with his old friend Stephen Katz. The Trail stretches along the East Coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine, through some of the most arresting and celebrated landscapes in America - the Smoky Mountains, Shenandoah National Park, the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts and the Great North Woods of Main.",2002,4.04,543,2236
9780385607018,0385607016,The French Kitchen,A Cookbook,Joanne Harris;Fran Warde,"Cooking, French",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YYLqAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Joanne Harris's bestselling novels, Chocolat, Blackberry Wine and Five-Quarters of the Orange, are affectionately known as her culinary trilogy. In them, Joanne Harris whets our appetites with some tantalisingly delicious recipes taken from her own grandmere's recipe book. For, like Framboise, the heroine of Five-Quarters of the Orange, Joanne has family recipes which have been passed down through the generations and which she shares with us now in a mouth-watering celebration of French cuisine. From pumkin soup to Moules Mariniere, from Tarte aux cassis to Fouace Aveyronnaise (Grandmother's festival loaf), and taking in salads, starters, fish, poultry and plenty more along the way, these are simple and stylish recipes from the heart of the French family kitchen. Illustrated with stunning integrated photographs and complemented by anecdotes from her family, past and present, The French Kitchen will be a must-have cookbook for all lovers of food and France.",2003,4.09,256,35
9780385609371,038560937X,Where's My Cow?,,Terry Pratchett,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SDwIk0bNF1IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sam Vimes tries a variation on the usual bedtime story he shares with his son.,2005,4.11,32,8871
9780385720106,0385720106,A Map of the World,,Jane Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HR8jzY5t06kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While under the care of Alice Goodwin, a neighbor's child drowns in the Goodwins' pond, a devastating accident that has profound repercussions for the entire Goodwin family, in a story set in a small Midwestern farm town",1995,3.8,400,67012
9780385720977,0385720971,Willful Creatures,,Aimee Bender,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d5k3mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of all original stories presents tales of love, heartbreak, sex, adversity, and potato babies.",2006,3.99,208,4119
9780385721004,0385721005,The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen,,Nella Larsen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ls1jAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gathers three stories and two novels by Larsen, an influential writer of the Harlem Renaissance, and briefly describes her background.",2001,4.12,278,774
9780385721059,0385721056,Good Faith,,Jane Smiley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5xf0lEBVpn8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.",2004,3.25,432,1807
9780385721677,0385721676,Oryx and Crake,A Novel,Margaret Atwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lSysmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters.,2004,4.01,389,176663
9780385721790,038572179X,Atonement,A Novel,Ian McEwan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vZy0xrEHJRUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.",2003,3.89,351,379336
9780385721875,0385721870,The Age of Grief,,Jane Smiley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uJNpAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Grief explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of A Thousand Acres. In “The Pleasure of Her Company,” a lonely, single woman befriends the married couple next door, hoping to learn the secret of their happiness. In “Long Distance,” a man finds himself relieved of the obligation to continue an affair that is no longer compelling to him, only to be waylaid by the guilt he feels at his easy escape. And in the incandescently wise and moving title novella, a dentist, aware that his wife has fallen in love with someone else, must comfort her when she is spurned, while maintaining the secret of his own complicated sorrow. Beautifully written, with a wry intelligence and a lively comic touch, The Age of Grief captures moments of great intimacy with grace, clarity, and indelible emotional power.",2002,3.82,224,1341
9780385721912,0385721919,Man Walks Into a Room,A Novel,Nicole Krauss,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NZVBDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Found wandering in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Samson Greene, a thirty-six-year-old Columbia University English professor, is discovered to have a brain tumor, but when surgery removes the tumor, leaving him with no recollection of his life after the age of twelve, he finds himself struggling to deal with a life, and a wife, he no longer recognizes. A first novel. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2003,3.33,248,5322
9780385722162,0385722168,In the Beginning,"The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language,and a Culture",Alister E. McGrath,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WEmMDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of The Journey traces the origins and history of the world's most familiar translation of the Bible; discusses the political, religious, and technological forces that prompted its creation; and assesses the influence of the King James Bible on literature, religious belief, and more. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2002,3.96,354,491
9780385722438,0385722435,Ella Minnow Pea,A Novel in Letters,Mark Dunn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6dVAWepvs1kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the goverment progressively bans letters from the alphabet.,2001,3.85,208,22865
9780385729369,0385729367,Forever in Blue,The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood,Ann Brashares,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nLoceIYxrA4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.",2007,3.81,384,60767
9780385731058,0385731051,The Second Summer of the Sisterhood,,Ann Brashares,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I7FXN7AMRTAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When teenager Carmen and her three friends discover that a pair of worn jeans from a thrift shop provides an uncanny fit for all four of them, they decide to form a sisterhood, with the pants as the symbolic bond of friendship among them, and embark on asweet-sixteen summer.",2004,3.79,373,72687
9780385731829,0385731825,Frogs and French Kisses,,Sarah Mlynowski,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AeSkiXoPJDEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Love spells run amok in New York City when high school freshman Rachel Weinstein asks her younger sister, who is a witch, for magical help in winning the affection of heartthrob Raf Kosravi.",2006,3.97,288,4827
9780385731843,0385731841,Bras & Broomsticks,,Sarah Mlynowski,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gUOWBUjW7hUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Living in New York City with her mother and her younger sister, Miri, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to persuade Miri, who has recently become a witch, to help her become popular at school and to try to stop their divorced father's wedding.",2005,3.72,310,8615
9780385732338,0385732333,Cuba 15,,Nancy Osa,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D1ObABVE20EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her upcoming ""quince,"" a Spanish nickname for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday.",2005,3.45,304,1028
9780385732536,0385732538,Messenger,,Lois Lowry,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0biAXvNaRZUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this novel that unites characters from ""The Giver"" and ""Gathering Blue,"" Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.",2004,3.91,169,89571
9780385732550,0385732554,The Giver,,Lois Lowry,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oZRlYDfxXpQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life. An ALA Notable Book for Children & Newbery Medal Winner. Reissue.",2006,4.12,208,1464909
9780385732567,0385732562,Gathering Blue,,Lois Lowry,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3oUhi1ZlK6oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.",2006,3.81,240,127855
9780385732598,0385732597,Code Orange,,Caroline B. Cooney,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=anyPQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.",2005,3.64,200,5732
9780385732918,0385732910,King Dork,,Frank Portman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7QL8ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that ""The Catcher in the Rye"" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life.",2006,3.56,344,6312
9780385733205,0385733208,Anatomy of a Boyfriend,A Novel,Daria Snadowsky,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6Cv-2d_IH3AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her last semester at a private school in Fort Myers, Florida, seventeen-year-old Dom finds her life transformed by her first boyfriend, Wes, a track star at the public school her best friend attends.",2007,3.41,259,4457
9780385733878,0385733879,Spells and Sleeping Bags,,Sarah Mlynowski,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Chfiqp3oF-oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rachel and her younger sister, both witches, spend the summer at Camp Wood Lake, where Rachel tries to have a normal camp experience while surreptitiously honing her newly discovered talents.",2007,4.05,324,4329
9780385734073,0385734077,BFF,Best Friends Forever : Two Novels,Judy Blume,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p1GKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Contains two previously published novels by Judy Blume.,2007,4.25,512,467
9780387987200,0387987207,Leaps of Faith,"Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation",Nicholas Humphrey,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V-9-IJizEcUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Elegant and literate"" -THE TIMES OF LONDON ""The kind of book that both skeptics and believers would do well to read""- SKEPTICAL INQUIRER ""An urbane, original, convincing rebuttal of paranormal and supernatural notions"" -NEW SCIENTIST ""A lively, entertaining book... Humphrey has set himself a larger task than simply explaining why people believe in parapsychology: the task of explaining why it is irrational to believe in it.""-NATURE",1999,3.76,244,20
9780393002034,0393002039,Three Greek Plays,,,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wEFfze3L7mgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.,1958,4.05,240,76
9780393002317,0393002314,The Echo of Greece,,Edith Hamilton,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q9UHkzzqw3QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tells of Greek life during the 4th century, the type of men it produced, and important events which took place",1957,4.1,224,28
9780393011838,0393011836,What Einstein Told His Cook,Kitchen Science Explained,Robert L. Wolke;Marlene Parrish,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6Hbbf5WD1h4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The chemistry professor columnist for the Washington Post's ""Food 101"" presents layperson explanations of kitchen mysteries involving food types, temperature, cooking equipment, and food myths. 30,000 first printing.",2002,3.85,320,3058
9780393020397,0393020398,The Annotated Huckleberry Finn,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade),Mark Twain,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k5e3TSKRsWUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reproductions of the original illustrations from the 1885 first edition highlight a new edition, featuring detailed annotations on the text and the era, of Twain's story about a boy and a runaway slave who travel down the Misssippi.",2001,3.81,656,181
9780393040586,0393040585,The Confident Child,"Raising a Child to Try, Learn, and Care",T. E. Apter,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=stxpQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Focusing on children from age five to fifteen, the author shows parents how to help their children acquire self-esteem, problem-solving ability, social skills, and emotional control, and how to detect dangers to self-esteem during adolescence.",1997,3.62,270,13
9780393048858,0393048853,The Complete Plays,,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Rc8brgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A single-volume, English-language collection of all of Chekhov's plays includes previously untranslated pieces including The Power of Hypnosis, a first version of Ivanov, and early humorous dialogues. 10,000 first printing.",2006,4.49,1060,215
9780393050578,0393050572,Will in the World,How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare,Stephen Greenblatt;Stephen Jay Greenblatt,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S6RkYWZdCn0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A portrait of Elizabethan England and how it contributed to the making of William Shakespeare discusses how he moved to London lacking money, connections, and a formal education; started a family; attempted to forge his career in the competitive theater world; grappled with dangerous religious and political forces; and rose to became his age's foremost playwright. 100,000 first printing.",2004,3.94,430,410
9780393051582,0393051587,The Annotated Christmas Carol,A Christmas Carol in Prose,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k1fRwfQydVoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the original text of ""A Christmas Carol"" along with annotations, illustrations, and information about the work.",2004,4.04,266,251
9780393057249,0393057240,Trainspotting,,Irvine Welsh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tDsmsXeVZyQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Brace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting—the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (A Shallow Grave).",2002,4.09,340,518
9780393057799,0393057798,Redemption,The Life of Henry Roth,Steven G. Kellman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z47KmpWe4GsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Draws on FBI files and interviews with family and friends to offer a portrait of the twentieth-century American literary icon, from his incest-marked childhood on the Jewish Lower East Side through his later years in New Mexico.",2005,4.22,384,9
9780393058000,039305800X,The Novels,,"Arthur Conan Doyle (Schriftsteller, Grossbritannien)","Detective and mystery stories, English",,,2005,4.54,907,2189
9780393058260,0393058263,"Power, Faith, and Fantasy","America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present",Michael B. Oren,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3DkX6Uo0gwIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Covering more than two hundred years of history, a study of American involvement in the Middle East examines the diverse roles of American statesmen, merchants, soldiers, missionaries, explorers, and others in shaping this troubled region.",2007,3.98,832,1464
9780393058475,0393058476,Six Frigates,The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy,Ian W. Toll,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q9xfGcwEEqMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the origins and early history of the American Navy, discussing the debates by the founding fathers over the need for a permanent military, the decision to construct six heavy frigates, the campaign against Tripoli, and the war of 1812, including the confrontation between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere that raised the U.S. to a global power. 70,000 first printing.",2006,4.32,560,3781
9780393058635,0393058638,In Search of Memory,The Emergence of a New Science of Mind,Eric R. Kandel,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aARlQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,KANDEL/IN SEARCH OF MEMORY,2006,4.09,430,3654
9780393059168,0393059162,The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes,volume 2,Arthur Conan Doyle,"Detective and mystery stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=beGfDAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects Doyle's fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions, in a set complemented by four novels, editor biographies of Doyle, Holmes, and Watson as well asl",2005,4.63,1878,1396
9780393059465,0393059464,The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin,,Harriet Beecher Stowe;Professor Harriet Beecher Stowe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bSaWhPgOOpMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An interpretation of the American classic refutes statements about the work's dehumanizing qualities as cited by James Baldwin in 1955, explaining how it served to raise period awareness about slavery and abolitionism and continues to provide insight into modern race relations and other social issues. 30,000 first printing.",2007,3.86,528,160
9780393059953,0393059952,Civilization and Its Discontents,,Sigmund Freud,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AW3z38T3u7YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents the eminent Austrian psychoanalyst's views on the irreconcilable antagonism between instinctual drives and the repressive attitudes of civilization.,2005,3.77,192,211
9780393060416,0393060411,The 9/11 Commission Report,Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Authorized Edition,National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fNqdmUnqTJUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides the final report of the 9/11 Commission detailing their findings on the September 11 terrorist attacks.,2004,3.58,624,145
9780393060911,0393060918,Coach,Lessons on the Game of Life,Michael M. Lewis,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qk0fOq0ra7UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Recounts a turning point in the author's life, an event during which a baseball coach gave him the ball at a key point in a game and conveyed such trust that the author was inspired to perform beyond his own expectations.",2005,3.82,96,1367
9780393061062,039306106X,Will Eisner's New York,Life in the Big City,Will Eisner,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RdOf4x1MKz4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A quartet of graphic works explores the lives and landscapes of the diverse inhabitants of the urban jungle of the Big Apple.,2006,4.36,421,1242
9780393061437,0393061434,IWoz,"Computer Geek to Cult Icon : how I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing it",Steve Wozniak;Gina Smith,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EvcYzF0uLXQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The high-tech wizard behind Apple offers a personal account of the creation of the first personal computer by marrying computer circuitry with a video screen and a typewriter keyboard to create the affordable, easy-to-use Apple I, detailing his life before and after Apple and providing a personal perspective on an invention that ignited the computer revolution. 50,000 first printing.",2006,3.86,313,3523
9780393061635,0393061639,The Making of the Fittest,DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution,Sean B. Carroll,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zHQZy0Z7BcoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A geneticist and author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful discusses the role of DNA in the evolution of life on Earth, explaining how an analysis of DNA reveals a complete record of the events that have shaped each species and how it provides evidence of the validity of the theory of evolution.",2006,4.07,304,2532
9780393064988,0393064980,The Richness of Life,The Essential Stephen Jay Gould,Stephen Jay Gould,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yfXJhKmp1wUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects forty-four key segments from the late paleontologist and evolutionary biologist's books, papers, and essays, in a collection that includes an assortment of previously unpublished articles and speeches.",2007,4.25,672,350
9780393090024,0393090027,Anton Chekhov's Short Stories,"Texts of the Stories, Backgrounds, Criticism",Anton Pavlovich Chekhov;Ralph E. Matlaw,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ExOJQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov s creative career.""",1979,4.35,384,2633
9780393092103,0393092100,Middlemarch,A Study of Provincial Life,George Eliot,,,,1966,3.95,578,44
9780393093124,0393093123,"Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, The Bacchae",,Euripides,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=86mVOwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Paul Roche...must be ranked among the great translators of the Greek dramas in our century.""—Robert W. Corrigan",1974,3.95,144,235
9780393098211,0393098214,Red and Black,"A New Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism",Henri Beyle;Stendhal;Robert Merrihew Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EcrBer6qdl4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A rakish young man with great ambitions and a remarkable ability to take advantage of profitable situations is the hero of this novel set in nineteenth-century France,1969,3.87,572,51
9780393307009,039330700X,Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History,,Stephen Jay Gould,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SjpSkzjIzfsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A study of the Burgess Shale, a sea bed 530 million years old, and attempts to tackle what the findings are and what it means",1990,4.12,352,8049
9780393308198,0393308197,The Panda's Thumb,More Reflections in Natural History,Stephen Jay Gould,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=El7dRJiKCHAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a series of essays giving careful consideration to the theory of evolution, Gould examines some of the more intriguing mysteries of the topic, studying the Piltdown Man hoax, the deceleration of earth's rotation, and other phenomena",1992,4.11,352,5642
9780393308556,0393308553,The Book of Embraces,,Eduardo Galeano;Cedric Belfrage,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-CYdNQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author shares brief anecdotes about life in South America, memories of incidents from his own past, and meditations on reading, literature, and freedom",1992,4.29,288,2103
9780393310320,0393310329,Maurice,A Novel,Edward Morgan Forster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ukOKNn64DvkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and into his father's firm. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way--except that his is homosexual.Written during 1913 and 1914, immediately after Howards End, and not published until 1971, Maurice was ahead of its time in its theme and in its affirmation that love between men can be happy. ""Happiness,"" Forster wrote, ""is its keynote.... In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad businessman and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him.""",1993,4.01,256,20440
9780393311037,0393311031,Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes,,Stephen Jay Gould,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EPh9jD0XwR4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of essays answers questions about key scientific concepts, focusing, in particular, on Darwin's theory of evolution, natural selection, and its impact on biology, natural history, and modern science",1994,4.1,416,1680
9780393311396,0393311392,Eight Little Piggies,Reflections in Natural History,Stephen Jay Gould,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_kOoVw0SIhUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In the sixth volume of essays from Natural History magazine, a science writer discusses environmental spoliation and the massive extinction of the Earth's species.",1994,4.09,480,699
9780393312768,0393312763,Black Holes and Time Warps,Einstein's Outrageous Legacy,Kip Thorne;Kip S. Thorne;Stephen Hawking,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TZ2huhGjpMQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines such phenomena as black holes, wormholes, singularities, gravitational waves, and time machines, exploring the fundamental principles that control the universe.",1994,4.18,624,9734
9780393313963,0393313964,Girl with Curious Hair,,David Foster Wallace,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cn_rcmInIS8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace that explore the different ways people live their lives.,1989,3.88,373,5471
9780393315080,0393315088,The Wanting Seed,,Anthony Burgess,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5Aq2JES6y60C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.",1963,3.78,288,4701
9780393315110,0393315118,Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature,,William Cronon,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w04mjve7XekC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Essays by revisionist historians, scientists, and cultural critics explore the connection between nature and American culture, analyzing how it is packaged and presented at places such as Sea World and the Nature Company stores",1996,4.16,560,649
9780393315639,0393315630,Marabou Stork Nightmares,A Novel,Irvine Welsh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j56xfC9NplEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While lying in a coma in an Edinburgh hospital, Roy Strang experiences strange hallucinatory adventures that recount how he came to be in his current state, from his struggles with his disturbed family to a bizarre quest in Africa",1997,3.86,288,8369
9780393316025,0393316025,The Doctor Is Sick,,Anthony Burgess,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=enhV53MKUWwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dr. Edwin Spindrift, a linguist, decides to escape from the hospital the night before his brain tumor surgery is scheduled and discovers a world of people exists outside his universe of words",1997,3.63,260,932
9780393316049,0393316041,"""Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!""",Adventures of a Curious Character,Richard Phillips Feynman;Ralph Leighton,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZRoF9aN8qjAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist talks about his adventure-filled life in a series of transcribed taped discussions,1985,4.28,391,105685
9780393318289,0393318281,Reinventing the Enemy's Language,Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America,Joy Harjo;Gloria Bird,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jPtwGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Features poetry, fiction, and other writings by Native American women",1998,4.39,576,269
9780393318357,0393318354,The Hemingway Women,,Bernice Kert,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-Cm-77dysSgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Profiles the group of extraordinary women who shared Hemingway's life--his mother and four wives--or who served as prototypes for his fictional heroines,1999,4.17,556,268
9780393318685,0393318680,Filth,A Novel,Irvine Welsh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YfoVviuMvjoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Tells the story of a detective who sees in a racially motivated murder case the chance to win a promotion,1998,3.74,393,19875
9780393318791,0393318796,Hemingway,The Paris Years,Michael S. Reynolds,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j-PKDV11rN8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes Hemingway's life in 1920's Paris, his first marriage to Hadley Richardson, his friendships with other American expatriots, and his discovery of the bullfights at Pamplona",1999,4.17,402,463
9780393320039,0393320030,On Becoming a Novelist,,John Gardner,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Go68KoaKclMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An indispensable reference for anyone who hopes to become a novelist, written with intelligence and humor by a twenty-five-year veteran of the field, includies everything from tips on writer's workshop to information about agents. Reprint.",1999,4.11,150,2241
9780393320923,0393320928,"""What Do You Care what Other People Think?""",Further Adventures of a Curious Character,Richard Phillips Feynman;Ralph Leighton,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LUrJI3AQ4FAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This two-part profile of the late Nobel Prize-winning scientist reveals the influence of his father and his first wife on his life and discusses his role in the investigation of the ""Challenger"" explosion.",2001,4.27,256,15646
9780393321074,039332107X,Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels),,Patrick O'Brian,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rfSrfzfNelcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now that the Napoleonic Wars are over, frigate captain Jack Aubrey faces desertion, near sinking, and brawls with British sailors--all before he reaches his next destination, Chile--where he will help the fledgling country break free of Spain and takes on some notable passengers. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2000,4.38,262,2191
9780393321630,0393321630,Police Brutality,An Anthology,Jill Nelson,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wxmrNlobwtIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of thirteen essays from a variety of sources examines one of America's most serious domestic problems, investigates its historical and sociological roots, and grapples for solutions. Reprint.",2001,3.79,320,44
9780393321807,0393321800,Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time,,Roger Shattuck,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kkTfpVC4pO8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Now in paperback, this illuminating work serves as both an introduction to Proust--perhaps Europe's most enduring 20th-century novelist--and a searching reinterpretation of his work, particularly the masterpiece ""In Search of Lost Time"".",2001,3.92,320,233
9780393321982,0393321983,Strangers on a Train,,Patricia Highsmith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qbkfHZEygt4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Guy Haines loses his own identity after he is drawn into a plot to commit murder, in a new edition of the first novel by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Reprint.",2001,3.78,256,12153
9780393322101,0393322106,When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge,,Chanrithy Him,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g289TkfAy84C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A survivor of the Cambodian genocide recounts a childhood in Cambodia, where rudimentary labor camps filled with death and illness were the norm and modern technology, such as cars and electricity, no longer existed. Reprint.",2001,4.13,336,3365
9780393322576,0393322572,The Feminine Mystique,,Betty Friedan,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FqdBk2vWvxIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Released for the first time in paperback, this landmark social and political volume on feminism is credited with being responsible for raising awareness, liberating both sexes, and triggering major advances in the feminist movement. Reprint.",2001,3.87,592,10035
9780393322965,0393322963,The Bush Dyslexicon,Observations on a National Disorder,Mark Crispin Miller,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yU42iio_KXAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""A particularly astute analysis of the television coverage of the campaign, the election, and the political aftermath.""—Newsday",2002,3.56,370,208
9780393323528,0393323528,Next: The Future Just Happened,,Michael Lewis,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E0ZbI424yvMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author of Liar's Poker and The Next New Thing explains the Internet's role in how people live, work, and think, identifying a status revolution in which individuals are key players, and offers a forecast of future implications of this technological revolution on human society. Reprint. 55,000 first printing.",2002,3.67,240,1271
9780393324143,0393324141,The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family,,Mary S. Lovell,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ylwnAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A portrait of the Mitford sisters follows Jessica, a communist; Debo, the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy, a best-selling novelist; Diana, who was the most hated woman in England; and Unity, who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler.",2003,3.97,611,7875
9780393324358,0393324354,Fanny,Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones : a Novel,Erica Jong,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r_JDeejd1akC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Jong . . . filled a gap in the great tradition of the picaresque novel. . . . Linguistically, ""Fanny"" is a tower of strength. . . . Jong has gone farther than Joyce.""--Anthony Burgess, ""Saturday Review.""",2003,3.79,512,943
9780393324464,039332446X,The Future of Spacetime,,Stephen W. Hawking;Kip S. Thorne;Igor D. Novikov;Timothy Ferris;Alan Lightman,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LlVcB7rz4mkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents essays that explore the deepest mysteries of the universe, including black holes, gravity holes, and time travel, by physicists Stephen Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman.",2003,3.93,224,241
9780393324815,0393324818,Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,,Michael Lewis,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3DnUCWSnci0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.",2003,4.26,317,78308
9780393324860,0393324869,Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science,,Charles Wheelan,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-Tu1GRCYdHcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seeks to provide a genuinely engaging and comprehensive primer to economics that explains key concepts without technical jargon and using common-sense examples. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2003,4.03,288,5703
9780393325836,0393325830,The Bacchae of Euripides,A Communion Rite,Wole Soyinka,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-4GVOnMivysC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.,1974,3.85,128,108
9780393326710,0393326713,The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition),,National Commission on Terrorist Attacks;National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States;United States. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States;Govt. Commission Usa;Stany Zjednoczone. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States;NORTON & CO.;Stati Uniti d' America. National commission on terrorist attacks upon the United States;USA National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JufWziTyNnIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides the final report of the 9/11 Commission detailing their findings on the September 11 terrorist attacks.,2004,3.59,592,3196
9780393327021,0393327027,Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated),,Bruce Cumings,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yKN_q-TqYYgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A narrative chronicle of modern Korea focuses on the country's turbulent twentieth-century history, discussing its 1910 loss of independence, its years under Japanese rule, its division and the Korean War, and its postwar recovery and economic growth.",2005,3.76,544,621
9780393327069,039332706X,Country of Origin: A Novel,,Don Lee,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z9eLBXbYZVgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a young American woman goes missing in 1980 Tokyo's sexual underworld, a young U.S. Embassy official considers his prospects for finding her and enlists the help of a neurotic and unpopular Japanese police officer. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 13,000 first printing.",2005,3.45,320,312
9780393327342,0393327345,Fight Club: A Novel,,Chuck Palahniuk,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SzfvHXu_5t8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In a confusing world poised on the brink of mayhem, Tyler Durden, a projectionist, waiter, and anarchic genius, comes up with an idea to create clubs in which young men can escape their humdrum existence and prove themselves in barehanded fights. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2005,4.2,218,384407
9780393327656,0393327655,"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason",,Sam Harris,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V1NXG1ob-WcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An analysis of the disparity between faith and logic in today's world tours humanity's willingness to challenge religious-based belief systems throughout history, citing the biological origins of spirituality while warning readers that tolerance for fundamentalism must occur with an awareness of the modern world's capacity for violence. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2005,3.94,348,28188
9780393328622,0393328627,The History of Love: A Novel,,Nicole Krauss,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-Il7XPFUAbgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl, named for one of the book's characters, seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. By the author of Man Walks Into a Room. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.",2006,3.92,255,107024
9780393329124,0393329127,Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife,,Mary Roach,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9S2yrVKkzicC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Draws on the achievements of scientists, engineers, and mediums to consider the feasibility of life after death, from a reincarnation researcher's experimentation with out-of-body experiences to laboratory investigations into ghosts.",2006,3.58,311,29027
9780393329292,0393329291,Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time),,Amartya Sen,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zSqBAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Arguing that the violence of today's world is as much as factor of misunderstanding as it is of cultural differences, a Nobel Laureate explains that modern conflicts have origins in illusions about identity, morality, and other factors, in an account that presents the author's vision of how the world can move toward peace. Reprint.",2007,3.85,240,1157
9780393329407,0393329402,Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir,,Nick Flynn,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VmI9eChSV60C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The son of a convicted bank robber and con artist describes their complicated relationship, relating how his father, while in jail, sent the author letters throughout his childhood and turned up in a Boston homeless shelter where the author was a caseworker. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2005,3.78,347,9053
9780393703276,0393703274,The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment,,Babette Rothschild,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sq40yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Relates the impact of trauma on the body to the phenomenon of somatic memory. The book illuminates the value of understanding the psychophysiology of trauma for both therapists and their traumatised clients. It progresses from relevant theory to applicable practice.,2000,4.27,208,1420
9780393703351,0393703355,Living on the Razor's Edge,Solution-oriented Brief Family Therapy with Self-harming Adolescents,Matthew D. Selekman,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hTe40eeLCGYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Employing a multifaceted, flexible approach based on solution-focused therapy, the author offers clear and sensible ideas for working with the difficult and disturbing problem of adolescent self-harm.",2002,4,223,4
9780393924282,0393924289,Paradise Lost,"Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism",John Milton,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ke3LQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic.",2005,3.81,590,1882
9780393924657,0393924653,Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays,,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j3s8cAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Anton Chekhov revolutionized Russian theater through his inimitable portrayals of characters faced with complex moral dilemmas.,2005,4.01,674,95
9780393924916,0393924912,Keats's Poetry and Prose,"Authoritative Texts, Criticism",John Keats,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fmk3HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This Norton Critical Edition seeks to return Keats—one of the most beloved poets of the English language—to his cultural moment by tracking his emergence as a public poet.,2009,4.31,673,266
9780393924954,0393924955,A History of Modern Europe,From the French Revolution to the present,John M. Merriman,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uvyqHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Available in both one-volume and two-volume paperback editions, A History of Modern Europe presents a panoramic survey of modern Europe from the Renaissance to the present day. A seasoned teacher and talented historian, Professor John Merriman offers a carefully crafted narrative that guides students through a vast amount of complex material, integrating the many aspects of the European experience into a larger, interconnected whole. A full ten percent shorter than its predecessor, the Second Edition has tightened organization throughout to make room for recent research and descriptions of the current issues and events that define Europe's role in the world today.",2004,3.98,1040,62
9780393925722,0393925722,The Norton Anthology of Western Literature: Beginnings through the Renaissance,,Sarah N. Lawall,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rzFvPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of Western Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of Western literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.",2005,3.95,2704,180
9780393926118,0393926117,The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction,,Ronald Verlin Cassill;Richard Bausch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P-v9GgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The classroom standard for readers and aspiring writers of fiction, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary stories in the field.",2006,4.17,1776,645
9780393927207,0393927202,The Norton Anthology of English Literature,,Stephen Greenblatt,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=41MumgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies—thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible—The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.",2006,4.09,1104,483
9780393927696,0393927695,Born in Blood and Fire,A Concise History of Latin America,John Charles Chasteen,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Sx6xQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Adopted at over 450 colleges and universities in its First Edition, Born in Blood and Fire has quickly become the standard survey history of Latin America.",2006,3.89,372,1089
9780393930139,0393930130,The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women,The Middle Ages Through the Turn of the Century,Sandra M. Gilbert;Susan Gubar,Literary Criticism,,"Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women's writing in English.",2007,4.12,1470,84
9780393956535,0393956539,The Scarlet Letter,"An Authoritative Text, Essays in Criticism and Scholarship",Nathaniel Hawthorne;Seymour Lee Gross,Adultery,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V5FsQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Critical essays accompany the story of Puritan life and the workings of the conscience on the human heart,1988,3.39,443,232
9780393959048,039395904X,The Turn of the Screw,"Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism",Henry James;Deborah Esch;Jonathan Warren,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nMixvwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This text is the first-and only-modern text to follow the New York Edition, the one which had James's final authority.",1999,3.44,271,746
9780393959055,0393959058,"Walden ; And, Resistance to Civil Government","Authoritative Texts, Thoreau's Journal, Reviews, and Essays in Criticism",Henry David Thoreau,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uVxnQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The classic chronicle of a communion with nature at Walden Pond offers a message of living simply and in harmony with nature, and Thoreau champions the belief that people of conscience are at liberty to follow their own opinions.",1992,3.95,482,232
9780393960570,0393960579,The Awakening,"An Authoritative Text, Biographical and Historical Contexts, Criticism",Kate Chopin;Margo Culley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5ui9QwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The text is that of the first edition of the novel, published by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. It has been annotated by the editor and includes translations of French phrases and information about New Orleans locales, customs, and lore, the Bayou region, and Creole culture. ""Bibliographical and Historical Contexts"", expanded and introduced by a new Editor's Note, presents biographical, historical, and cultural documents contemporary with the novel's publication. Included are a biographical essay by the acclaimed Chopin biographer Emily Toth, ""An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler"" with selections from the conduct books of the period in which Chopin lived and wrote, and period fashion plates from Harper's Bazar. A comprehensive ""Criticism"" section, introduced by a new Editor's Note, contains expanded selections from hard-to-find contemporary reviews of the novel; two letters of mysterious origin written in response to the novel; and Chopin's ""Retraction,"" which followed The Awakening's negative reception. These are followed by twenty-seven interpretive essays, twelve of them new to the Second Edition, that provide a variety of perspectives on The Awakening, including essays by Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Nancy Walker, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Paula A. Treichler, Sandra M. Gilbert, Lee R. Edwards, Patricia S. Yaeger, Elizabeth Ammons, and Elaine Showalter. A Chronology of Chopin's life and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.",1994,3.64,336,915
9780393962932,0393962938,Paradise Lost,"An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism",John Milton;Scott Elledge,Bible,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zq9vQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Epic poem describing the creation and the Fall of Man, debating free will, obedience, forbidden knowledge, love, evil, and guilt.",1993,3.81,688,412
9780393963045,0393963047,"The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559",,Eugene F. Rice;Anthony Grafton,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W_-kQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This synthesis of Europe's Renaissance and Reformation periods thematically traces the transition from the medieval to the modern. The major themes of the book include technological breakthroughs and their social and economic consequences, the connections between the discovery of new lands and the recovery of ancient learning, Europe's economic expansion, humanist culture, the formation of the early modern state, and reform and revolution in the Church.",1994,3.67,218,169
9780393964523,0393964523,Robinson Crusoe,"An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism",Daniel Defoe;Michael Shinagel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mqSfQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Michael Shinagel has collated the reprint with all six authorizededitions published by Taylor in 1719 to achieve a text that is faithfulto Defoe's original edition. Annotations assist the reader with obscurewords and idioms, biblical references, and nautical terms. ""Contexts"" helps the reader understand the novel's historical andreligious significance. Included are four contemporary accounts ofmarooned men, Defoe's autobiographical passages on the novel'sallegorical foundation, and aspects of the Puritan emblematic traditionessential for understanding the novel's religious aspects. ""Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Opinions"" is a comprehensive studyof early estimations by prominent literary and political figures,including Alexander Pope, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Samuel Johnson, SamuelTaylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas BabingtonMacaulay, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill. ""Twentieth-Century Criticism"" is a collection of fourteen essays (fiveof them new to the Second Edition) that presents a variety ofperspectives on Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Ian Watt, EricBerne, Maximillian E. Novak, Frank Budgen, James Joyce, George A.Starr, J. Paul Hunter, James Sutherland, John J. Richetti, LeopoldDamrosch, Jr., John Bender, Michael McKeon, and Carol Houlihan Flynn. A Chronology of Defoe's life and work and an updated SelectedBibliography are also included.",1994,3.67,436,547
9780393964585,0393964582,Frankenstein,"The 1818 Text, Contexts, Nineteenth-century Responses, Modern Criticism",Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley;J. Paul Hunter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3hmSQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the novel with annotations, related writings, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century criticism",1996,3.78,336,2146
9780393970128,0393970124,Dracula,"Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Reviews and Reactions, Dramatic and Film Variations, Criticism",Bram Stoker,Fiction,,This Norton Critical Edition presents fully annotated the text of the 1897 First Edition.,1997,3.99,488,724147
9780393974294,0393974294,The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism,,Vincent B. Leitch,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qYN4QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This welcome addition to the Norton anthologies binds the writings from 148 authors--among them Gorgias of Leontini, Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Quintilian, Dante, Corneille, Dryden, Aphra Behn, Vico, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Poe, Baudelaire, Lukacs, Heidegger, Gramsci, Barthes, Raymond Williams, Haraway, Hebdige, hooks, Judith Butler, and the most recent theorist, Stuart Moulthrop.",2001,4.13,2662,1438
9780393977516,039397751X,Sense and Sensibility,"Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism",Jane Austen,Fiction,,"Two sisters are drawn into unhappy romances despite the cool judgment of one and the emotional intensity of the other in this nineteenth-century novel that is accompanied by related writings, annotations, and criticisms.",2002,4.07,269,740
9780393977530,0393977536,George Bernard Shaw's Plays,"Mrs Warren's Profession, Pygmalion, Man and Superman, Major Barbara : Contexts and Criticism",Bernard Shaw,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FXaFQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents four plays by George Bernard Shaw, incuding ""Mrs. Warren's Profession,"" ""Pygmalion,"" ""Man and Superman,"" and ""Major Barbara,"" each with an explanatory annotation, and includes information on the author and his work, a chronology, and a selected bibliography.",2002,3.94,551,120
9780393977615,0393977617,Death and the King's Horseman,"Authoritative Text : Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism",Wole Soyinka;Simon Gikandi,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q2loQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This Norton Critical Edition of Death and the King's Horseman is the only student edition available in the United States. Based on events that took place in 1946 in the ancient Yoruban city of Oyo, Soyinka's acclaimed and powerful play addresses classic issues of cultural conflict, tragic decision-making, and the psychological mindsets of individuals and groups. The text of the play is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations for the many allusions to traditional Nigerian myth and culture.",2003,3.76,254,249
9780393978193,0393978192,The Tempest,"Sources and Contexts, Criticism, Rewritings and Appropriations",William Shakespeare;Peter Hulme;William Howard Sherman,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PUpyQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"" and includes excerpts from its sources, eighteen works of criticism by writers ranging from John Dryden to Barbara Fuchs, and seventeen works based on the play by such authors as Percy Shelley and Ted Hughes.",2004,3.81,355,567
9780393978896,0393978893,Wuthering Heights,"The 1847 Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism",Emily Bronte;Emily Brontë,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dBKCQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847.,2003,3.84,464,1041597
9780393979169,0393979164,Passing,"Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism",Nella Larsen;Carla Kaplan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ee0LQQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women s literature.""",2007,3.83,546,323
9780393979312,0393979318,1 Henry IV,"Text Edited from the First Quarto : Contexts and Sources, Criticism",William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9mJ5QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play.",2003,3.82,432,89
9780393979534,0393979539,The Scarlet Letter And Other Writings,"Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism",Nathaniel Hawthorne,Fiction,,"Presents an annotated edition of ""The Scarlet Letter,"" the story of a young wife convicted of adultery in seventeenth-century New England, and includes five shorter works by Hawthorne, a selection of the author's letters and notebook entries, and critical commentary.",2005,3.63,768,2446
9780394448046,0394448049,A Tear and a Smile,,Kahlil Gibran,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dm62x7LhV_YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Contains 56 parables, stories, and poems in Gibran's wholly inimitable manner. Illustrated with 4 of his own paintings and drawings, it is the most important edition to the canon of this great writer.",1950,4.03,228,2035
9780394536491,0394536495,The Castle in the Forest,A Novel,Norman Mailer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gsFmAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A mysterious SS man offers an insightful glimpse of the life and career of Adolf Hitler, offering a unique perspective on his family, his childhood and adolescence, and the evolution of the man who became the personification of evil, in a panoramic novel that explores the essence of the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all.",2007,3.13,477,2258
9780394541556,0394541553,Maus,a survivor's tale,Art Spiegelman,Children of Holocaust survivors,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=okiAAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1991,4.34,159,202242
9780394571072,039457107X,Race of Scorpions,,Dorothy Dunnett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z2ErAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1462, twenty-one-year-old widower and merchant/adventurer Niccolo and his private army become caught between warring factions--respectively led by Queen Carlotta and her brother, James--battling for control of Cyprus",1990,4.42,534,21
9780394584041,039458404X,Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking,,Marcella Hazan,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TKFCulve1Z0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,With more than 100 illustrations by Karin Kretschman.,1992,4.17,704,14222
9780394604800,0394604806,"Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, Major Barbara, Androcles and the Lion",,Bernard Shaw,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g3TSoY-HI6cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this volume, the texts of 3 of Shaw's most popular plays are given.",1979,3.55,479,10
9780394700137,0394700139,Ulysses,A Study by Stuart Gibbert,James Joyce,,,,1958,4.17,405,1868
9780394700151,0394700155,Hawthorne's Short Stories,,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T5quKR5QkDIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Here are the best of Hawthorne's short stories. There are twenty-four of them -- not only the most familiar, but also many that are virtually unknown to the average reader. The selection was made by Professor Newton Arvin of Smith College, a recognized authority on Hawthorne and a distinguished literary critic as well. His fine introduction admirably interprets Hawthorne's mind and art.",1946,4.06,384,1139
9780394701493,0394701496,"Three Famous Short Novels: short novels, Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear",,William Faulkner,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w4w-ugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1963,3.86,320,1433
9780394704371,0394704371,The Will to Power,,Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche;Walter Arnold Kaufmann;R. J. Hollingdale,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jRa6gqsqSTIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers a selection from the author's notebooks, chosen by his sister, that reveals his views on nihilism, art, morality, religion, the theory of knowledge, and other subjects",1968,4.05,575,7692
9780394718132,0394718135,The Occult,A History,Colin Wilson,"Body, Mind & Spirit",,Discusses the parapsychological phenomena which have intrigued mankind through the ages and examines selected individuals renowned for their involvment in the occult,1973,3.92,606,34
9780394733524,0394733525,The Dot and the Line,A Romance on Lower Mathematics,Norton Juster,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tDfPKQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A mathematically oriented romantic fable about the eternal triangle, in this case a straight line who is hopelessly in love with a dot who in turn loves a squiggle",1991,4.33,62,55
9780394735306,0394735307,The Tale of Genji,,Murasaki Shikibu,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gL_FxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1977,3.71,1090,307
9780394743042,0394743040,The Ravishing of Lol Stein,,Marguerite Duras,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YtSMDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Lol Stein's comfortable married life is disrupted when she returns to her hometown and recalls how she was abandoned by a former fiance,1986,3.67,181,1939
9780394746166,0394746163,Common Ground,A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families,J. Anthony Lukas,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ki-WmAYpkIkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston.",1986,4.27,688,1998
9780394746234,0394746236,"The Civil War, a Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville",,Shelby Foote,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B9d3AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the course of the war from 1862 to 1864, discusses the strategies of both sides in major battles, and assesses the performance of the Union generals",1986,4.42,856,9457
9780394749136,0394749138,"The Civil War, a Narrative",,Shelby Foote,United States,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=08uZswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1986,4.53,2965,213
9780394751221,0394751221,The history of sexuality,The use of pleasure,Michel Foucault,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bvebugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior?",1988,4.07,304,2827
9780394756967,0394756967,The Wall,,John Hersey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r5VBDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Combines factual history and fictional details to relate the motives, impulses, and deeds of individuals in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi persecution",1988,4.28,640,1784
9780394757650,0394757653,The Simple Art of Murder,,Raymond Chandler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yj2fmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An essay on detective fiction accompanies eight stories about a politician's murder, a hotel detective, missing pearls, and gangsters",1950,4.16,384,4794
9780394757681,0394757688,The Long Goodbye,,Raymond Chandler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2_kilyJANekC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An encounter with a drunk brings both adventure and trouble to a cynical middle-aged private detective,1992,4.22,379,25244
9780394758268,0394758269,The High Window,,Raymond Chandler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=37aywgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Philip Marlowe, a private detective, searches for a priceless gold coin Mrs. Murdock suspects was stolen by a member of her family",1988,4.08,265,12648
9780394758275,0394758277,"Farewell, My Lovely",,Raymond Chandler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PtT0C1rWniIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.",1992,4.15,292,24015
9780394758282,0394758285,The Big Sleep,,Raymond Chandler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a_KRwlNLDYcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder",1992,4.01,231,97885
9780394759845,0394759842,Oscar Wilde,,Richard Ellmann,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KF7GTFAuIQ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents an in-depth study of the complex and tragic life of Oscar Wilde and a tribute to his inimitable wit and brilliant writings,1988,4.24,736,2616
9780394800165,0394800168,Green Eggs and Ham,,Theodor Seuss Geisel;Dr. Seuss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VTolm6HG2EgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sam-I-Am tries to persuade his friend to try green eggs and ham.,1960,4.3,62,539202
9780394800271,0394800273,Snow,,Roy McKié;Philip D. Eastman,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Oz_rWxBPqtQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Snow makes a wonderful playland for boys and girls,1962,4.15,72,4264
9780394800769,0394800761,Happy Birthday to You!,,Dr. Seuss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S7bWAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Describes a birthday celebration in Katroo presided over by the Birthday Bird.,1959,4.12,64,4130
9780394800837,0394800834,McElligot's Pool,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6Pi31997cx8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A boy imagines the rare and wonderful fish he might catch in McElligot's pool.,1974,4.07,64,4403
9780394800912,0394800915,Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sc2EvwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tells, in verse, what happens when all ninety-nine zillion nine trillion and three creatures in the world go to sleep.",1962,4.17,58,8683
9780394820378,0394820371,The Phantom Tollbooth,,Norton Juster,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6bPVDtEj2WIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.,1996,4.21,256,206193
9780394832203,0394832205,Juniper,,Monica Furlong,Occult fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GpjhJwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While apprenticed to the witch woman Juniper, a young girl struggles to save her family from the evil machinations of her power-hungry aunt Meroot. Prequel to ""Wise Child.""",1991,4.16,198,111
9780394844848,039484484X,The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins,,Dr. Seuss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yYHNyt-XsqIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Each time Bartholomew Cubbins attempts to obey the King's order to take off his hat, he finds there is another one on his head.",1938,4.04,56,12794
9780394895833,0394895835,Baby's Animal Friends,,Phoebe Dunn,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ytIAZymbm9oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Photographs capture the special relationship between small children and baby animals. On board pages.,1988,3.4,28,15
9780395131534,0395131537,Winston S. Churchill,,Randolph Spencer Churchill;Martin Gilbert,Biography & Autobiography,,,1966,,,
9780395291306,0395291305,The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth,,Ruth S. Noel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vJGaZNvAqoUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explains the fourteen different languages and assorted alphabets of Middle-earth, translates Elvish poetry, war slogans, and sayings, and features a complete dictionary of non-English words in the Middle-earth classics",1980,3.97,207,4635
9780395419182,0395419182,Winston S. Churchill,,Randolph Spencer Churchill,Great Britain,,,1966,4.25,1438,19
9780395500767,0395500761,"Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar",,Richard Brautigan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qe8nSj13h_UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Two novels and a collection of poetry offer a sixties counterculture look at America,1989,4.15,400,8532
9780395530078,0395530075,The Natural Way to Draw,A Working Plan for Art Study,Kimon Nicolaïdes,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tjWRImvzWYgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Great for the beginner and the expert, this book offers readers exercises to improve their work.",1941,3.88,240,36530
9780395544259,0395544254,The Turtle and the Monkey,,Paul Galdone,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oXCpw48yj0EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Greedy Monkey makes every effort to cheat Turtle out of the bananas that rightfully belong to her.,1990,3.76,32,49
9780395547038,0395547032,"Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster",Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions,Richard Brautigan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bHUI0jsPlXEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Richard Brautigan was the author of ten novels, including a contemporary classic, Trout Fishing in America, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of stories.Here are three Brautigan novels--A Confederate General from B ig Sir, Dreaming of Babylon and The Hawkline Monster--reissues in a one-volume omnibus edition.",1991,4.25,608,1691
9780395599686,0395599687,Memoirs of the Second World War,,Winston Churchill,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JUxuJEY0B50C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Surveys the war and its politics,1991,4.4,1088,420
9780395606490,0395606497,Sauron Defeated,"The End of the Third Age (the History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four). The Notion Club Papers, And, The Drowning of Anadûnê",John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fTB1PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Features an alternate ending, never before published, to the ninth volume in the history of Middle-earth and introduces Tolkien fans to ""The Notions Club"" and ""Adunaic""--Tolkien's fifteenth invented language. 15,000 first printing.",1992,4,496,2508
9780395647417,039564741X,The Lord of the Rings,,J. R. R. Tolkien;Alan Lee,Fiction,,"The three books that make up The Lord of the Rings, presented in a boxed set of hardcover editions. Set contains The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. On his eleventy-first birthday Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest — to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard, Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.",1992,,,
9780395657836,0395657830,In Search of Dracula,The History of Dracula and Vampires,Raymond T. McNally;Radu Florescu,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P22TnNTonYwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Traces the history and folklore of vampires,1994,3.86,320,1230
9780395680926,0395680921,Morgoth's Ring: The legends of Aman,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hVbBPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes and documents the myths and legends of the Elder Days, as they were evolved and transformed by Tolkien and includes never-before-published documents in which the author struggles to examine the nature and destiny of his characters. 13,500 first printing.",1993,4.12,478,1573
9780395706749,0395706742,Revenge of the Lawn,The Abortion ; So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away,Richard Brautigan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D9t9mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition. REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from ""A High Building in Singapore"" to the ""Perfect California Day."" This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes ""The Lost Chapters of TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA."" THE ABORTION: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE 1966: A public library in California where none of the books have ever been published is full of romantic possibilities. But when the librarian and his girlfriend must travel to Tijuana, they have a series of strange encounters in Brautigan's 1971 novel. SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY: It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his twelfth summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Written just before his death, and published in 1982, this novel foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide.",1995,4.29,544,2026
9780395710418,0395710413,The War of the Jewels,"The Later Silmarillion, Part Two, the Legends of Beleriand",John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L6GlngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An analysis of Tolkien's story of Middle Earth looks at the wars of Elves and Men against Morgoth, the ""Grey Annals,"" and Beleriand geography",1994,3.92,470,3300
9780395740101,039574010X,The Old Way of Seeing,,Jonathan Hale,Architecture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i37eAwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Demonstrating the ideas that make great architecture possible, an architectural critic charts the course of the art, showing how architects lost their sure course around 1830 and explaining how to recapture the basics that can improve our visual environme",1995,3.89,256,76
9780395746561,0395746566,Sector 7,,David Wiesner,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DNszRi0dflEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"While on a school trip to the Empire State Building, a boy is taken by a friendly cloud to visit Sector 7, where he discovers how clouds are shaped and channeled throughout the country.",1999,4.21,48,4962
9780395754900,0395754909,The Riverside Shakespeare,,William Shakespeare;Gwynne Blakemore Evans;Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature Harry Levin;Herschel Baker;J. J. M. Tobin;Anne Barton;Heather Dubrow;William T. Liston;Frank Kermode;Harry Levin;Marie Edel;Hallet Smith;Charles H. Shattuck,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TQGftgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare. The authors of the essays on recent criticism and productions are Heather DuBrow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and William Liston, Ball State University, respectively.",1996,4.55,2057,3702
9780395776087,0395776082,An American Plague,The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic Of 1793,Jim Murphy,Juvenile Nonfiction,,"Recreates the devastation rendered to the city of Philadelphia in 1793 by an incurable disease known as yellow fever, detailing the major social and political events as well as the time's medical beliefs and practices.",2003,3.8,165,3338
9780395809990,0395809991,The Riverside Milton,,John Milton,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LBZbAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Students and scholars will rejoice that the famed works of John Milton (1608-1974) now join those of Chaucer and Shakespeare in the definitive, one-volume Riverside series. Milton's early poetry is here and his important prose, but pride of place is given to his epics, PARADISE LOST and PARADISE REGAINED as well as his final masterpiece, the dramatic SAMSON AGONISTES.",1998,4.26,1248,740
9780395877432,0395877431,Demonic Males,Apes and the Origins of Human Violence,Richard W. Wrangham;Dale Peterson,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fP0c4b3jbMYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Draws on recent discoveries about human evolution to examine whether violence among men is a product of their primitive heritage, and searches for solutions to the problems of war, rape, and murder",1996,4.02,368,662
9780395883976,0395883970,The Gettysburg Address,,Abraham Lincoln,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AhM9QPgp7UMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The power and strength of President Abraham Lincoln's words are accentuated by illustrations in a reprint of the Gettysburg Address of 1863.,1997,4.53,32,4967
9780395957998,0395957990,Roverandom,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cmGw_3eMv8gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rover, a dog who has been turned into a toy dog encounters rival wizards and experiences various adventures on the moon with giant spiders, dragon moths, and the Great White Dragon. By the author of The Hobbit. Reprint.",1998,3.87,128,453
9780399142789,0399142789,Conversations with God,An Uncommon Dialogue,Neale Donald Walsch,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sGi2910ckdcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents God's answers to the author's questions concerning everyday life and how man should respond to opportunities and challenges,1996,4.17,240,25242
9780399143069,0399143068,Three Complete Novels,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2qgAAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A compilation of three of the author's most renowned novels includes Come to Grief, Decider, and Wild Horses, detailing various crimes revolving around horses and horse-racing.",1997,4.21,707,29
9780399146268,0399146261,Three Complete Novels,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7e0IAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Includes three novels by the horror writer that explore themes of death, memory, and psychic phenomena.",2000,4.17,784,19345
9780399147319,0399147314,Three Complete Novels,,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RM4CNsqScQ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three dramatic tales of romantic suspense journey from a Montana ranch to a Virginia horse farm to an island off the coast of Georgia in an omnibus anthology that features True Betrayals, Montana Sky, and Sanctuary. 20,000 first printing.",2001,4.4,852,660
9780399150210,0399150218,Hercule Poirot's Casebook,,Agatha Christie,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=okVDkgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Here, for the first time in one volume, is the complete collection of fifty stories about Hercule Poirot.",1989,4.3,861,1852
9780399153594,0399153594,The Last Assassin,,Barry Eisler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=53xGPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hoping to reconcile with the mother of his child, reluctant contract killer John Rain inadvertently places them in the path of dangerous enemies and is forced to recruit the help of his nemesis from the Japanese FBI and an ex-marine sniper to preserve all of their lives. By the author of Killing Rain. 50,000 first printing.",2006,4.25,338,179
9780399153730,039915373X,White Lies,,Jayne Ann Krentz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ucLkzRU09WMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fearing that her psychic abilities have damaged her chances of having a healthy relationship, Clare Lancaster travels to California to assist her father's business and meets financial consultant Jake Salter, with whom she shares an unlikely chemistry.",2007,4.01,371,7437
9780399153891,0399153896,John's Story,The Last Eyewitness,Tim F. LaHaye,Bible,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LbzSwQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At ninety years old, John is the last of the original twelve apostles still alive, the only one not martyred. Committed to spreading the word of Jesus Christ, he is called by God to write a gospel in order to set the record straight. Recalling his time with Jesus, John brigns to life the miracles and messages of the man who would change the course of history.",2006,3.93,310,1108
9780399153938,0399153934,Book of the Dead,,Patricia Daniels Cornwell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sk1yb-1qE1YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Relocating to Charleston after a particularly grueling case, Dr. Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pathology practice but is quickly targeted by local politics and a covert saboteur before a series of violent deaths bring her skills into high view. 1,500,000 first printing. BOMC, Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.",2007,3.65,511,22475
9780399154003,0399154000,Under Orders,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NKCM8GcDwNwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When three corpses turn up on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day, including a jockey who had earlier in the day won the Triumph Hurdle, ex-jockey-turned-sleuth Sid Halley investigates a possible link to Lord Enstone's mysterious losing streak, a probe that drags him ever deeper into the dark underside of the racing game. 350,000 first printing.",2006,3.86,308,3985
9780399154195,0399154191,The Navigator,A Novel from the NUMA Files,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JkXaerObYWAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Years after an ancient Phoenician statue is stolen from the Baghdad museum, a series of murders sparks interest in the statue's relevance in Austin and Zavala, who lead the NUMA team on a historical investigation into the lost treasures of King Solomon. 650,000 first printing.",2007,3.93,437,5941
9780399226908,0399226907,"Eric Carle's Very Little Library: The very hungry caterpillar (1st board book ed., 1994)",,,Caterpillars,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oiMwvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Colorful and full of imagination, the world of Eric Carle is a delight! Sings songs, cook, and create with the book box based of the worl of Eric Carle.",2003,4.29,13,3773
9780399504334,0399504338,Amphigorey,Fifteen Books,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uQe2a18Ly6wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Fifteen works by the American artist and author provide a journey into a macabre world,1980,4.05,220,35332
9780399529207,0399529209,Lord of the Flies,,William Golding,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3KRdJZbAN_sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The classical study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.,2003,3.67,336,1122
9780399532719,0399532714,The Out-of-sync Child Has Fun,Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder,Carol Stock Kranowitz,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JrSiX9ZWxAkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,KRANOWITZ/OUT OF SYNC CHLD FUN REV,2006,4.23,352,1186
9780413735904,0413735907,A Clockwork Orange,,Anthony Burgess,English drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C-PTAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violence, mugging and gang rape. Alex also revels in the music of Beethoven. The Gang communicates in a language which is as complicated as their actions. When a drug-fuelled night of fun ends in murder, Alex is finally busted and banged up. He is given a choice - be brainwashed into good citizenship and set free, or face a lifetime inside. Anthony Burgess's play with music, based on his own provocative 1962 novella of the same name, was first published in 1987. A Clockwork Orangewas made into a film classic by Stanley Kubrick in 1971 and was dramatizes by the RSC in 1990.",1998,3.82,51,27
9780413771162,0413771164,The Truth,Stage Adaptation,Terry Pratchett,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3fmdQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels There's been a murder. Allegedly. William de Worde is the Discworld's first investigative journalist. He didn't mean to be - it was just an accident. But, as William fills his pages with reports of local club meetings and pictures of humorously shaped vegetables, dark forces high up in Ankh-Morpork's society are plotting to overthrow the city's ruler, Lord Vetinari.",2002,4.28,336,41665
9780413771605,0413771601,The Name of the World,,Denis Johnson,College teachers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HMOhAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Michael Reed is a man going through the motions, numbed by the death of his wife and child. But when events force him to act as if he cares, he begins to find people who - against all expectation - help him through his private labyrinth.",2001,3.51,129,1571
9780413772329,0413772322,Resuscitation of a Hanged Man,,Denis Johnson,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7HJnPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the confused aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, Leonard English follows a vague vision of redemption, and an even vaguer offer of employment to a Cape Cod resort populated by religious zealots and promiscuous transvestites.",2004,3.69,272,958
9780413772428,041377242X,Jesus' Son,Stories,Denis Johnson,Short stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C-2nPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of linked stories narrated by a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, Jesus' Son is a disturbing portrayal of loneliness and hope. He travels through an American underworld of burnt-out sports stars, hospital waiting rooms, doomed relationships and senseless violence.",2004,4.13,192,321
9780413772787,0413772780,The birds,,Aristophanes;Sean O'Brien,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yBpbAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A contemporary adaptation of The Birds by an award-winning poet, published to tie in with a major production at the National Theatre directed by Kathryn Hunter Pez and Eck are on the hunt for the perfect society in ""a city where free men might live like birds"". But when they start building the bird city for real, Pez starts to have ambitions - which seem not a million miles away from dictatorship. As the fantasy utopia threatens to turn into a tyranny the birds start to rebel. Sean O'Brien's new verse version brings Aristophanes' devastatingly ironic comment on human ambition bang up-to-date and is brimful of jokes ancient and modern. This adaptation by the winner of the Forward Prize for Poetry of Aristophanes' classic comedy is published to coincide with the National Theatre production and tour in 2002.",2003,2.67,96,3
9780415050791,0415050790,The Presocratic Philosophers,,Jonathan Barnes,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wrNzVF5julgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""By and large, scholars have asked what the Presocratics said, and what external circumstances may have prompted their sayings; they have not asked whether the Presocratics spoke truly, ow whether their sayings rested on sound arguments. It is those latter questions with which my book is primarily concerned.""--Preface, p.xi.",1982,4.14,728,63
9780415183734,0415183731,Introduction to Phenomenology,,Dermot Moran,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ouELk-xPkGQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The book should be of interest to all students who seek to complement their knowledge of analytic philosophy and further their understanding of European thought.,2000,4.25,592,204
9780415211291,0415211298,"Eats, Shoots & Leaves",The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation,Lynne Truss,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1iKmjwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,TRUSS/EATS SHOOTS AND LEAVES,2006,,,
9780415247719,0415247713,A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick,,Michael J. Davey,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7SZJSAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Moby Dick' is one of the great American novels. This literary sourcebook contains everything essential to an informed reading of this epic text, including a contextual overview, contemporary documents, early critical reviews and important annotated passages from the novel.",2004,3.61,208,50
9780415253895,0415253896,The Road to Serfdom,,Friedrich August Hayek,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eTve6XEUbYIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Hayek argues convincingly that, while socialist ideals may be tempting, they cannot be accomplished except by means that few would approve of.",2001,4.18,272,235
9780415254083,0415254086,Tractatus Logico-philosophicus,,Ludwig Wittgenstein,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p86r0bvRxQAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the 20th century, this was the only philosophical work that Wittgenstein published during his lifetime.",2001,4.06,142,12924
9780415266710,0415266718,The Franco-Prussian War,"The German Invasion of France, 1870-1871",Michael Howard,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qNQFngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1870 Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the Continent but the whole climate of European moral and political thought. The overwhelming triumph of German military might, evoking general admiration and imitation, introduced an era of power politics, which was to reach its disastrous climax in 1914. First published in 1961 and now with a new introduction, The Franco-Prussian War is acknowledged as the definitive history of one of the most dramatic and decisive conflicts in the history of Europe.",2001,4.05,532,190
9780415278416,0415278414,Phenomenology of Perception,,Maurice Merleau-Ponty,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q3HwhfjRmswC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato. Drawing on case studies such as brain-damaged patients from the First World War, Merleau-Ponty brilliantly shows how the body plays a crucial role not only in perception but in speech, sexuality and our relation to others.",2002,4.15,544,4887
9780415283045,0415283043,New Media Language,,Jean Aitchison;Diana M. Lewis,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t5sJTjdN0aUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Investigating how changes to the world's media have affected, and been affected by, language this book explores a wide range of topics looking at the important and wide-ranging implications of these changes on the world - and our world-view.",2003,3,209,2
9780415285841,0415285844,Marxism and Literary Criticism,,Terry Eagleton,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kUXXeSBNMx8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis. Sharp and concise, it is, without doubt, the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Marxist philosophy and social theory since the nineteenth century.",2002,3.89,84,599
9780415356299,0415356296,The British Empiricists,,Stephen Priest,Empiricism,,,2007,3.87,257,314
9780415901475,0415901472,Mary Shelley,"Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters",Anne Kostelanetz Mellor,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aCZQnS9S6EwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.",1988,3.93,308,75
9780415907446,0415907446,Assemblywomen,,Aristophanes;Jeffrey Henderson,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pn5BDBelRSYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents three comedies by the ancient Athenian playwright depicting the varying social, political, and cultural roles of women in ancient Greece",1996,3.92,256,93
9780415926324,0415926327,Chomsky on Democracy & Education,,Noam Chomsky;Carlos Peregrín Otero,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3ORu91WxxL4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This volume draws together a range of Chomsky's writings arguing that the goal of education is to produce free human beings whose values are not accumulation and domination, but rather free association on terms of equality.",2003,3.93,480,80
9780415970235,0415970237,Diana Wynne Jones,Children's Literature and the Fantastic Tradition,Farah Mendlesohn,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0NVlQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This study follows the aesthetic of the sublime from Burke and Kant, through Wordsworth and the Shelleys, into Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy. Exploring the continuities between the romantic and Victorian ""periods"" that have so often been rather read as differences, the book demonstrate that the sublime mode enables the transition from a paradigm of overwhelming power exemplified by the body of the king to the pervasive power of surveillance utilized by the rising middle classes. While the domestic woman connected with the rise of the middle class is normally seen as beautiful, the book contends that the moral authority given to this icon of depth and interiority is actually sublime. The binary of the beautiful and the sublime seeks to contain the sublimity of womanhood by insisting on sublimity's masculine character. This is the book's most important claim: rather than exemplifying masculine strength, the sublime marks the transition to a system of power gendered as feminine and yet masks that transition because it fears the power it ostensibly accords to the feminine. This aesthetic is both an inheritance the Victorians receive from their romantic predecessors, and, more importantly, a broad historical phenomenon that questions the artificial boundaries between romantic and Victorian.",2005,4.09,240,46
9780416651201,0416651208,The Homecoming,,Harold Pinter,Literature,,,1970,,,
9780425099339,0425099334,Shattered,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2RoXIvtZOpQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As Alex and Colin speed toward their new home in San Francisco where Courtney awaits them, they are pursued by a madman who is also eager to see Courtney.",1985,3.9,289,19255
9780425099995,0425099997,The Psychology of Winning,,Denis Waitley,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_CcCAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""A heavyweight amoung motivational writers.""?Charles Paul conn, author of An Uncommon Freedom.",1986,4.2,176,1229
9780425100417,0425100413,The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories,,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=36hHPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nine tales of mystery and murder are marked by the detective skills of famous sleuths--Hercule Poirot, Mr. Parker Pyne, and Miss Marple",1984,3.95,214,5701
9780425116562,0425116565,The Cardinal of the Kremlin,,Tom Clancy,Intelligence service,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1bp6BvF6BhwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In hun strijd om als eerste een verdediging tegen de ""star war""-raketten te vinden zetten de Russen en de Amerikanen alles op alles.",1989,4.03,547,76
9780425127261,0425127265,The Bone Yard,,Dean Koontz,Fiction,,"A collection of short stories in the fields of horror, suspense, and dark fantasy, dealing with money, murder, evil forces, and faceless killers",1991,4.01,329,260
9780425134351,0425134350,Patriot Games,,Tom Clancy,"Ryan, Jack (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BJqwAK8On4cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A former CIA analyst vacationing with his family in London helps thwart a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family and becomes the target of the terrorist whose brother he killed.,1992,4.13,503,164306
9780425136980,0425136981,Shadow Fires,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7XO7FMBs17YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After her husband's mangled corpse disappears from the morgue, Rachel is stalked by a mysterious stranger who is seeking revenge on her",1987,3.78,528,9527
9780425143322,0425143325,Without Remorse,,Tom Clancy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L-2QP0PdHTYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"John Kelly, an ordinary man, crosses the lines of justice and morality and becomes the legendary Mr. Clark of the CIA, a man of ruthless and brilliant cunning, whose merciless work during an all-out war game is done with complete human detachment. Reprint.",1994,4.18,750,51824
9780425144305,0425144305,Paws Before Dying,,Susan Conant,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=trRC0JqmmjMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1991,3.89,197,424
9780425144374,0425144372,Clear and Present Danger,,Tom Clancy,Intelligence service,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RKlOA3XUU5EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The sudden and surprising assassination of three American officials inColombia. Many people in many places, moving off on missions they all mistakenly thought theyunderstood. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected finish lineswere things that, once decided, were better left unseen. Tom Clancy's new thriller is based on America's war on drugs . . . and the covert --and shocking -- U. S. response.",1989,4.1,688,116535
9780425146224,0425146227,A New Leash on Death,,Susan Conant,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aKsHAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Holly Winter, a writer and amateur sleuth, and her adopted Alaskan malamute, Rowdy, team up to track down a killer lurking at a dog show. Reissue.",1994,3.79,180,1081
9780425147511,0425147517,The Key to Midnight,,Dean R. Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LUeL6EHN7wgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Millionaire investigator Alex Hunter meets exciting, desirable Joanna Rand while on a mission in Japan but finds that she is a Senator's daughter who disappeared 10 years ago and now has a new identity. By a #1 best-selling author. Reissue.",1995,3.95,419,24159
9780425147580,0425147584,Debt of Honor,,Tom Clancy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AQ5ZlsUaLRMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Every novel by Tom Clancy has been ""a jaw-tightener and a nail-biter of the first order, "" as the San Diego Union described Without Remorse. But Debt of Honor surpasses them all, with Jack Ryan facing his greatest challenge - against a peril that may become all too real. In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war. . . . The end of history. The new world order. Fine phrases, but as Jack Ryan is about to discover, history isn't dead yet - and only the nature of the threat is new. On the Pacific island of Saipan, a wealthy Japanese businessman regards his new-bought land with satisfaction. In the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka, a foreign navy begins a series of highly unusual exercises. At the headquarters of America's major stock-clearing corporation, an engineer brings a customized computer program on-line for the first time, and smiles at his own private joke. Three seemingly unrelated incidents, but all just the first links in a chain of events that will stun the world. Called out of retirement to serve as the new President's National Security Advisor, Jack Ryan quickly realizes that the problems of peace are fully as complex as those of war. Enemies have become friends, friends enemies, and even the form of conflict has changed. What he cannot realize, however, is just how close the next conflict is. And when one of those new enemies readies a strike not only at America's territory, but at the heart of her economy, it is Ryan, with the help of CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez, who must prepare an untested President to meet the challenge, if Ryan can only figure out how. For there is a debt of honor to be paid - and the price will be terrifyingly high. . .",1995,4.05,990,37878
9780425151044,0425151042,A Pinch of Poison,,Claudia Bishop,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7AgCAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Co-owners of the Hemlock Falls Inn, Sarah and Meg Quilliam are called upon to assist unpopular newspaperman Henrick Conway, a nosy reporter whose latest expose+a7 has resulted in the warning deaths of two of his relatives. Original.",1995,3.58,249,311
9780425152898,0425152898,Mind Prey,,John Sandford,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pxVszNkmRBYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Lucas Davenport risks his sanity in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.,1996,4.21,354,14337
9780425152904,0425152901,Thin Air,,Robert B. Parker;Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress),Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E1J4PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Lisa St. Claire, the beautiful young bride of a Boston police detective, vanishes mysteriously, Spense joins the search for the missing woman, following a perilous trail that leads him to a sociopathic ex-lover and into a deadly confrontation with Lisa's past. Reprint.",1996,3.9,320,3952
9780425157701,0425157709,Airborne,A Guided Tour of an Airborne Task Force,Tom Clancy,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g6jaQrjpkdAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A behind-the-scenes look at the elite branch of the military, made up of both Army and Air Force personnel, covers its people, technology, and mission",1997,3.76,326,431
9780425159538,0425159531,The Grass Dancer,,Susan Power,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KkJaAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the 1860s, when two lovers are separated by death, the cosmic drama of the two spirits desperately seeking to be reunited molds the lives and fates of their descendants, in a novel shaped by the lore of the Sioux. Reissue.",1997,3.96,352,2202
9780425161296,0425161293,Hocus Pocus,,Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1JtGrEOqk3UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tarkington College, a small, exclusive college in upstate New York, is turned upside down when ten thousand prisoners from the maximum security prison across Lake Mohiga break out and head for the college",1997,3.82,322,24973
9780425161739,0425161730,Virtual Vandals,,Tom Clancy;Steve R. Pieczenik;Diane Duane,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gU7JugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Here comes a Clancy first: a new series of novels for young adults starring a team of troubleshooting teens--the Net Force Explorers--who know more about cutting edge technology than their teachers!,1999,4,192,3236
9780425162446,0425162443,The Rapture of Canaan,,Sheri Reynolds,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QTs7HsvsbuIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ninah Huff, the teenage granddaughter of the founder of an isolated religious community, causes controversy when she is discovered to be pregnant with what she claims is a holy child",1997,3.81,320,31885
9780425164174,0425164179,One is the Loneliest Number,,Tom Clancy;Steve R. Pieczenik,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AGIyx72XnckC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When fellow student Roddy L'Officier sabotages Maj Green's latest virtual simulation program, he is exiled by the rest of the Net Force Explorers, but the brilliant outcast has some other dangerous plans for them all. Original.",1999,3.93,182,413
9780425169698,0425169693,Here on Earth,,Alice Hoffman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zYOOKZp80U8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A middle-aged woman, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, returns to her small Massachusetts hometown for the funeral of the housekeeper who raised her and finds herself thrust into the lives of the people she left behind. Reprint.",1999,3.69,336,41850
9780425170342,0425170349,Rainbow Six,,Tom Clancy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_7jR_ifoeQoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a novel of military intrigue, formidable ex-Navy SEAL John Clark takes on a world-threatening band of terrorists",1999,4.08,912,38753
9780425174807,0425174808,Divide and Conquer,,Tom Clancy;Jeff Rovin;Steve R. Pieczenik,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u5P7oHWgTF8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a mysterious cabal within the U.S. State Department causes tensions to erupt between Iran and Azerbaijan and plots to depose the President of the United States, Paul Hood and the Op-Center team must stop the conspiracy.",2000,3.79,372,2500
9780425176931,0425176932,Breaking Point,,Tom Clancy;Steve R. Pieczenik;Steve Perry,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w4m2uNG4qesC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While struggling to recover from a shattered personal life, Net Force Commander Alex Michaels races against time to find the culprits responsible for stealing plans to a top-secret atmospheric weapon that uses low-frequency wave generation to drive people mad. Original.",2000,3.7,368,7987
9780425178928,0425178927,The Raphael Affair,,Iain Pears,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FS-sAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a long-lost Raphael resurfaces, the painting triggers a chain of events that range from vandalism to murder, prompting an investigation by English art scholar Jonathan Argyll, who ends up on the run for his life. Reprint.",2001,3.55,257,98
9780425179611,0425179613,It's Not About the Bike,My Journey Back to Life,Lance Armstrong,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k16cS5-yuAQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The champion cyclist recounts his diagnosis with cancer, the grueling treatments during which he was given a less than twenty percent chance for survival, his surprising victory in the 1999 Tour de France, and the birth of his son.",2001,3.72,294,34588
9780425180051,0425180050,Line of Control,,Jeff Rovin;Steve R. Pieczenik,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JlRfqNBPPN4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the military arm of Op-Center is sent to Kashmir to capture an Islamic terrorist who is fomenting rebellion against the Indian government, they find themselves caught in the middle of a war between India and Pakistan.",2001,3.85,384,3403
9780425180969,0425180964,The Bear and the Dragon,,Tom Clancy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1Pp6gCAAQocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the wake of an assassination attempt on the SVR (former KGB) chairman, newly elected U.S. president Jack Ryan puts black ops specialist John Clark on the alert, only to have things complicated by dangerous forces in China.",2001,3.82,1137,20248
9780425181102,0425181103,Phantoms,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Tm0oXH7rBpUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A tale of an abandoned town and the unimaginable truth behind its silence... Now with a new afterword, Dean Koontz explains the impact Phantoms had on his career.",2001,3.94,448,59938
9780425181119,0425181111,Strangers,,Dean Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CUAWZvJy2EoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A group of seemingly unrelated people experiences sensations of numbing terror and fear and, groping their way toward one another, discover their sinister, shared secrets in a chilling climax that changes their lives forever. Reissue.",2002,4,704,38003
9780425181607,042518160X,Stephen King's Danse Macabre,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HxuOPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The best-selling author offers a subjective tour of favorite books, films, and television programs which have met his criteria for great horror, examines the attractions and satisfactions of horror stories, and recounts his own vital encounter with horror. Reprint.",2001,3.63,400,20474
9780425181645,0425181642,E,A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation,David Bodanis,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z20AAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's influential 1905 discovery and offers an explanation of the equation from mathematical, historical, and scientific perspectives.",2000,4.09,337,6196
9780425182383,042518238X,Stardust of Yesterday,,Lynn Kurland,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2LBXDFxpG2kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Genevieve Buchanan inherited a castle -- and a ghost to go along with it. But Kendrick de Piaget was no typical ghost. He was a handsome and infuriatingly arrogant thirteenth-century knight. At first he wanted to frighten Genevieve, though she was more charmed than scared by his ghostly tricks. But when his thoughts turned to wooing her instead, Genevieve had to face her greatest fear: falling in love."" -- from publisher's web site.",2001,4.09,368,3663
9780425182673,0425182673,Tom Clancy's Net Force,Cybernation,Tom Clancy;Steve Perry;Steve Pieczenik,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5DBTxODXUFMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a group of terrorists who call themselves ""CyberNation,"" and consider themselves an independent virtual country, seize control of the net and bring down the world's computers, the Net Force springs into action.",2001,3.75,368,1730
9780425182871,0425182878,Chosen Prey,,John Sandford,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B9DmnG_JQ-UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hoping to use a supposedly straightforward case of murder to clear his mind, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport finds himself matching wits with an ever-escalating serial killer, art history professor, congenial pervert, and sexual predator James Qatar.",2002,4.24,383,22258
9780425183038,0425183033,Cloak and Dagger,,Tom Clancy;Steve R. Pieczenik,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SquFLWvehXEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Net Force Explorer Daniel Sanchez finds himself in a wealth of trouble when a game of hide-and-seek on the Web leads to a breach of confidential Net Force files involving the CIA, forcing the Explorers to find the real culprit and clear Daniel's name. Original.",2003,3.95,208,55
9780425184486,042518448X,Death Match,,Diane Duane,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AzdILQtIcs8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the star of South Florida's spatball team is threatened by a ruthless gang of major bettors who stand to lose a fortune, Catie Murray and the Net Force Explorers delve into the cyber world to protect America's newest sports phenomenon. Original.",2003,4.1,192,112
9780425185506,0425185508,Picture Perfect,,Jodi Picoult,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QicRkNF3KgkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Falling madly in love and beginning what she believed would be the perfect marriage with Hollywood leading man Alex Rivers, renowned anthropologist Cassie Barret is heartbroken when their fairy-tale romance falls apart. Reissue.",2002,3.54,369,45142
9780425186701,0425186709,Mission of Honor,,Tom Clancy;Steve Pieczenik;Jeff Rovin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a3kF3ax9QqkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA,2002,3.9,432,1507
9780425187715,0425187713,The Magical Worlds of the Lord of the Rings,"The Amazing Myths, Legends, and Facts Behind the Masterpiece",David Colbert,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YLeKUmRahP4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers information about Tolkien's realm of Middle-Earth and its inhabitants, including details on characters, mythology, origins, and cultures.",2002,4.08,208,2053
9780425188224,0425188221,Shadowland,,Peter Straub,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=glulPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Best friends Tom Flanagan and Del Nightingale, apprentices to a master magician, enter a dark realm of immeasurable evil, more ancient than death itself, where only one of them will survive.",2003,3.91,468,10062
9780425189641,0425189643,Floating Dragon,,Peter Straub,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4WI-veLZdcsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The quaint town of Hamptead is plunged into a nightmarish world of unspeakable horror when evil arrives in the form of two very different beings--one man-made and one supernatural. Reissue.,2003,3.84,595,10510
9780425190371,0425190374,Practical Magic,,Alice Hoffman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7hHCkMIDABsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sorcery is the legacy of Gillian and Sally Owens, a legacy they both try to escape until they realize their magic is a gift, not an affliction.",2003,3.79,286,49141
9780425190913,0425190919,Sea of Fire,,Tom Clancy;Jeff Rovin;Steve R. Pieczenik,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HPa0gpSNg7gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a Singapore pirate is found in the Celebes Sea with radiation on his skin, the Op-Center team investigating nuclear disposal learns that a multinational corporation hired to dispose of nuclear waste is selling it to terrorists.",2003,3.89,400,1203
9780425191194,0425191192,McNally's Alibi,An Archy McNally Novel,Vincent Lardo;Lawrence Sanders,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ir1FQXgqf60C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hired to locate the complete text of Truman Capote's ""Answered Prayers,"" Archy McNally encounters a series of dead ends before finding the manuscript's owner murdered in a sleazy motel.",2003,3.9,304,219
9780425192030,0425192032,Lightning,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pICRe5esbSUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Aided through many crises throughout her life by the almost miraculous intervention of a stranger, Laura Shane learns the nature of her awesome destiny when, on her thirtieth birthday, the stranger finally requests her help. Reissue.",2003,4.07,384,47491
9780425192795,0425192792,Goddess of the Sea,,P. C. Cast,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9eYDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Air Force Sergeant Christine Canady wishes for a little magic in her life, she is transported to a mystical realm where she takes the form of the legendary mermaid Undine, but when the waters become dangerous, Christine must seek safety on land and in the arms of a handsome knight. Original.",2003,3.88,368,7583
9780425193723,0425193721,The Sea Hunters II,,Clive Cussler;Craig Dirgo,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=shU0A7v8fnIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects accounts of the underwater discoveries made by the author and his team of volunteers dedicated to the exploration of historic wrecks, including the tale of the ghost ship Mary Celeste, the Carpathia, and the Hunley.",2003,3.84,464,1286
9780425194522,0425194523,Raise the Titanic!,,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WDNyYFPIW3kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two Russian spies and a violent hurricane hinder Dirk Pitt's herculean efforts to raise the R.M.S. Titanic and thereby salvage the world's only supply of a rare metal, needed for a secret American defense system. Reissue.",2004,3.97,545,20805
9780425194997,042519499X,Field of Thirteen,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2cugvvYDIJsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A four-time Edgar Award winner presents a fast-paced collection of 13 tightly plotted tales featuring murder, mystery, and mayhem in the horse racing world. ""Whether it's an elegy for a sports writer on the skids or the ballad of a Welsh groom and her social-climbing daughter, the stories linger long after you turn the page.""--""Entertainment Weekly.""",2004,3.73,304,1987
9780425195482,0425195481,The Bad Place,,Dean Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x25Pu8TXqokC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After repeatedly waking up in strange places and not knowing how he arrived there, Frank Pollard enlists the help of Nick and Julie Dakota, a husband-and-wife detective team, to watch where he goes in his sleep. Reissue.",2004,3.89,427,29473
9780425196731,0425196739,Slay Ride,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1nVnPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A series of bizarre incidents befalls British investigator David Cleveland when he is sent to Norway to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of champion British jockey Robert Sherman. Reissue.,2004,3.79,288,2142
9780425196847,0425196844,Jane's Warlord,,Angela Knight,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cF_DKUqzMtgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the trail of a sadistic killer, who has the ability to travel through time, reporter Jane Colby discovers she is destined to become the killer's next victim when Baran Arvid, a genetically engineered warrior from the future, arrives to protect her from harm. Original.",2004,3.97,320,2540
9780425197387,0425197387,Dirk Pitt,Iceberg. 03,Clive Cussler,Arctic regions,,A mysterious ship sealed fast in a giant North Atlantic iceberg becomes the cause and focus of Air Force Major Dirk Pett's investigation into international conspiracy and terror.,2004,3.84,340,17702
9780425197394,0425197395,The Mediterranean Caper,,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HESwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dirk Pitt responds to a call of distress and finds himself coping with a modern Greek goddess in a red bikini, a vast drug-smuggling ring, a still-active Nazi criminal, and a perilous undersea labyrinth.",2004,3.77,391,14660
9780425197455,042519745X,10 Lb. Penalty,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nZ9gooerLCkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Entering the political arena as the trusted confidant of his politician father, ex-jockey Benedict Juliard finds himself the target of a vicious attack by his father's dangerous enemies, an assault that could not only destroy his own reputation but that of his father, a prospective prime minister. Reissue.",2004,3.89,320,3363
9780425197493,0425197492,Goddess of Spring,,P. C. Cast,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BEoFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Making a bargain with the goddess Demeter to save herself from financial ruin, bakery owner Lina is transformed into Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, and must restore order to the Underworld, but her attraction to Hades endangers her mission. Original.",2004,4.22,360,7259
9780425197547,0425197549,Guilty Pleasures,,Laurell K. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9SOVyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Vampire hunter Anita Blake (known by the vampires she kills as ""The Executioner"") is hired by the most powerful vampire in town to find out who has been murdering vampires. Reprint.",2004,4.02,355,112848
9780425198001,0425198006,Odds Against,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gt9jPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Depressed since the accident that ended his racing career, Sid Halley accepts a position at a detective agency, but only really comes out of his shell when he becomes part of a murder investigation. Reprint.",2005,4.05,288,3613
9780425198322,0425198324,Death's Acre,Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab-The Body Farm-Where The Dead Do Tell Tales,Bill Bass;William M. Bass;Jon Jefferson,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MTLS-F-HmoQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A leading forensic anthropologist traces his sometimes grisly work at his Tennessee ""body farm"" lab and cites his contributions to the investigations of several murder cases as well as his theories about such famous cases as the Lindbergh kidnapping and the mystery of the headless corpse. Reprint.",2004,4.18,320,8118
9780425198681,0425198685,Pattern Recognition,,William Gibson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aUCzDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hired to investigate a mysterious video collection that has been appearing on the Internet, market research consultant Cayce Pollard realizes that there is more to the assignment when her computer is hacked. Reprint.",2005,3.87,367,37313
9780425198735,0425198731,Blow Fly,,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fsQk77xSERAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Leaving Virginia in search of peace and quiet, Dr. Kay Scarpetta journeys to Florida, where a series of baffling murders entangles her in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the most unexpected circumstance of her life. Reprint.",2004,3.76,467,31269
9780425198803,0425198804,Master of the Night,,Angela Knight,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5btUGgdAf-oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hired to seduce gorgeous millionaire Reece Champion in order to gain entrance to a murderous organization, agent Erin Grayson gets more than she bargained for when she discovers that Reece is a vampire--and secret agent--who has his own agenda. Original.",2004,3.88,296,4597
9780425199169,0425199169,Blood Sport,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aj9hnrDv2MQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reluctantly agreeing to locate a missing priceless breeding stallion for his employer, Gene Hawkins suddenly finds himself the target of millionaire Dave Teller's socialite wife, as he falls in love with his own boss's daughter and becomes the prey of a vicious gang of horse thieves. Reprint.",2004,3.87,288,4475
9780425199329,0425199320,Trojan Odyssey,,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bQEku8FUjLwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Underwater adventurer Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew investigate a black tide infesting the ocean off Nicaragua, a study complicated by the discovery of a mysterious artifact, a powerful storm, and a conspiracy.",2004,3.93,463,14788
9780425199435,0425199436,The Glass House,,Ashley Gardner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FrMEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"London's high society goes to the Glass House to indulge their vices, and when one of them is found floating in the Thames, Captain Lacey uncovers jealousy and murder, as well as a few secrets of his own, while searching for justice. Original.",2004,4.04,256,1076
9780425199930,0425199932,Break in,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kocSLijXhQ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Successful steeplechase jockey Christmas ""Kit"" Fielding finds himself attacked, chased, kidnapped, and knifed when he comes to the aid of his twin sister Holly and her husband, Bobby Allardeck, two star-crossed lovers caught in the middle of a long-time feud between equestrian families. Reprint.",2005,4.03,320,3608
9780425200452,0425200450,Murder on the Orient Express,A Hercule Poirot Mystery,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DZ47PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express.",2004,4.16,322,144452
9780425201541,0425201546,The Magyar Venus,,Lyn Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dpSTvymwLNoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The discovery of a 25,000-year-old archaeological treasure, a rekindled romance, and a suspicious suicide send Toronto antiques dealer Lara McClintoch on a quest to the city of Budapest. Reprint.",2005,3.72,259,255
9780425201688,0425201686,Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell,,David Michaels,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cLqKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Created by Tom Clancy, written by David Michaels.",2004,3.85,355,10106
9780425201961,0425201961,Goddess of Light,,P. C. Cast,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gqon5dqmQREC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Artemis and Apollo are sent to Las Vegas where they must grant the wish of interior designer Pamela Smythe, who longs for a man with god-like qualities, Artemis dares Apollo to become Pamela's dream man, making her innermost desires become a reality. Original.",2005,4.04,355,5423
9780425203576,0425203573,Master of the Moon,,Angela Knight,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ByzM683ANPIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While hunting a powerful female vampire who is wreaking havoc in a small South Carolina town, Diana London, a werewolf, encounters Llyr Galatyn, the king of Cachamwri Sidhe, who makes all of her erotic fantasies come true. Original.",2005,4.13,336,2859
9780425203897,0425203891,Hideaway,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b1kMSSYUH9oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Hatch Harrison is brought back to life in an ambulance, his second chance turns into a nightmarish quest to squelch the evil he brought back with him from the afterlife. Reissue.",2005,3.83,413,29475
9780425204191,0425204197,Lost City,,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Pay5bDWJCnAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When an enzyme capable of prolonging life is discovered deep beneath the North Atlantic, NUMA Special Assignments Team leader Kurt Austin and his colleague, Joe Zavala, investigate a killer who is targeting the enzyme's harvesters and researchers. Reprint.",2005,3.89,515,211
9780425204238,0425204235,Black Wind,,Clive Cussler;Dirk Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=It7y2mUzFbUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.",2006,3.85,639,9757
9780425204245,0425204243,The Archimedes Effect,,Tom Clancy;Steve Perry;Steve R. Pieczenik;Larry Segriff,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Kz7wchIx_IoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA,2006,3.98,336,1238
9780425205594,0425205592,Dark Watch,,Clive Cussler;Jack B. Du Brul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EKDrHaXa9ocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates in the waters of Southeast Asia turn to Captain Juan Cabrillo for assistance, he soon learns that the pirates' predations hide a deadly international conspiracy--a scheme of death and slavery. Original. 750,000 first printing.",2005,4.09,357,5749
9780425206867,0425206866,Shakespeare's Landlord,,Charlaine Harris,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W-esRyHajWwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While trying to prove her innocence in the murder of her landlord, Lily Bard, karate student and cleaning service proprietor, finds plenty of skeletons in the closets of Shakespeare, Arkansas. Reprint.",2005,3.76,216,22369
9780425207758,0425207757,Captive Dreams,,Angela Knight;Diane Whiteside,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OfalgZ26vJUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sisters Celeste and Corinne Carson, each a best-selling author with her own fantasy-fulfilling hero, get more than they had bargained for when their ""fictional"" heroes--Jarred, a futuristic conqueror, and Mykhayl, a barbarian warrior of the past--worried about being written off, decide to kidnap their authors and imprison them in the seductive worlds that they created in their books. Original.",2006,3.91,336,1349
9780425207970,0425207978,Danse Macabre,,Laurell K. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F5wx80y_tsYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Anita Blake is worried that her careers as a Federal Marshal who raises the dead and as a vampire executioner may be jeopardized when she realizes that she may be pregnant--and the father could be a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely. 300,000 first printing.",2006,3.81,483,788
9780425208915,0425208915,Goddess of the Rose,,P. C. Cast,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2RLPAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This fourth novel in Cast's Goddess Summoning series retells the classic ""Beauty and the Beast,"" as a young high priestess must remove a curse from the Rose Realm, waking the goddess Hecate's guardian beast from his permanent slumber. Original.",2006,4.14,345,5367
9780425209219,0425209210,Master of Swords,,Angela Knight,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CMw6BYhoKwAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gawain, a virile vampire knight, vows to prove to witch Lark McClure that not all vampires are violent and out for blood, while dealing with a relentless killer who wants them both destroyed. Original.",2006,4.2,294,2784
9780425209424,0425209423,Boys That Bite,,Mari Mancusi,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w3xcngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bitten by a vampire after being mistaken for her Goth twin sister, Rayne, sixteen-year-old Sunny is in a race against time as she tries to prevent herself from becoming a vampire permanently.",2006,3.68,272,10490
9780425209615,042520961X,Shadow of the Moon,,Rebecca York,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9EV0CVre_yQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Samantha Carpenter must join forces with reporter--and werewolf--Lance Marshall to find the truth surrounding her sister's mysterious coma by gaining entrance to a secretive club called The Castle, where they, while searching for answers, stumble upon a dark evil, and a passion like no other. Original.",2006,3.79,336,530
9780425210383,0425210383,Steamed,,Jessica Conant-Park;Susan Conant,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e1CoxZhUcTMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Known in local chatrooms as GourmetGirl, Chloe Carter, a food connoisseur and expert in failed romances, continues her quest to find the perfect man, but a blind date with a fellow food lover goes horribly wrong when he is stabbed to death. Reprint.",2007,3.47,320,942
9780425210765,0425210766,Rat Race,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lAsAxFXT41oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Assigned to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore is forced to make an emergency landing, and he soon finds out that the mob has been tampering with the horseracing industry. Reprint.",2006,3.94,304,2308
9780425211069,0425211061,Mysteria,,MaryJanice Davidson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lhX_yr9fF8oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Four sensual tales center around Mysteria, a magical place where the supernatural has coexisted peacefully with the mortal world until the bewitching ladies of this realm unleash a campaign of seduction that will be talked about for centuries.",2006,3.72,340,3006
9780425211892,0425211894,Skeleton Coast,,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7anjkWPnvQUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew rescue beautiful Sloane Macintyre when her boat is attacked off the African coast, and face a deranged militant who plans to launch a devastating force of nature against those who oppose him.",2006,4.12,373,7355
9780425212011,0425212017,Strange Candy,,Laurell K. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CkvIzDI4UGMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of short fiction features ""The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death,"" an Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story, as well as ""House of Wizards,"" ""Stealing Souls,"" and ""Those Who Seek Forgiveness,"" a never-before-published Anita Blake tale.",2006,3.75,257,15140
9780425212134,0425212130,Bit the Jackpot,,Erin McCarthy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rQ7TCNr9tBMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tired of keeping tabs on his boss's wife and her female entourage, vampire Seamus Fox, the campaign manager for the Vampire Nation presidential candidate, finds himself falling for the enigmatic Cara Kim, a sultry but shy stripper who dances behind a screen to hide her identity. By the author of High Stakes. Original. 30,000 first printing.",2006,3.88,299,4186
9780425212592,0425212599,Prince of Ice,A Tale of the Demon World,Emma Holly,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YgoETVCRokgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Xishi, a courtesan trained in the sensual arts, finds herself torn between love and duty when Corum, the Prince of Ice, and a man from her past, becomes her new owner, drawing her into a forbidden world where betrayal, lust, intrigue, and passion could cost them their lives. Original.",2006,3.99,294,1323
9780425212783,0425212785,Checkmate,,David Michaels;Tom Clancy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YG47TxhM8SkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Third Echelon special operative Sam Fisher is pitted against one of the greatest enemies of the free world when a cargo freighter, armed with radioactive material, heads straight for the U.S. coast, while another strike renders a small New Mexico town helpless due to radiation poisoning. Original.",2006,3.93,402,3815
9780425213100,0425213102,Shakespeare's Champion,,Charlaine Harris,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fQi4LarUQVMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lily Bard, a cleaning lady and karate student in Shakespeare, Arkansas, would just like to live quietly, but she is forced to turn sleuth again when a man's body is found at the local gym with a barbell across his throat. Reprint.",2006,3.83,214,13645
9780425213384,0425213382,Cause of Death,,Patricia Daniels Cornwell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f8ZaPTO945oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The mysterious death of diver Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter, and the murder of a morgue assistant driving her car lead medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, her niece, and police captain Pete Marino on the trail of a deadly supremacist group.",2007,3.93,356,37965
9780425213438,0425213439,Over the Moon,,Angela Knight;MaryJanice Davidson;Virginia Kantra;Sunny,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DspEXFnOn1IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Four romance authors journey to a world of mystery, magic, and passion in an anthology featuring four tales of paranormal romance by MaryJanice Davidson, Angela Knight, Virginia Kantra, and Sunny. Original.",2007,3.9,330,3651
9780425213612,0425213617,Wicked Ties,,Shayla Black,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sdVnWD7oe00C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hiring bodyguard Jack Cole when a stalker turns dangerous, cable sex talk show host Morgan O'Malley embarks on a passionate love affair with Jack, with whom she lives out some of her most secret fantasies. Original. 25,000 first printing.",2007,3.96,341,22083
9780425213971,0425213978,Labyrinth,,Kate Mosse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ojhm1IJv0DkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, becomes a target after discovering a pair of crumbling skeletons in the Pyrenees mountains, while eight hundred years in the past, Alaèis, the daughter of a crusader, must safeguard the location of the Holy Grail.",2007,3.57,515,39225
9780425214244,0425214249,Master of Dragons,,Angela Knight,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CHpfhQd0FnwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her body is invaded by a powerful spirit, Nineva Morrow, a magically gifted fairy princess, becomes ensnared in a web of courtly intrigue where a renegade known as the Dragon Knight holds the key to her fate and her heart. Original.",2007,4.22,293,3155
9780425214435,0425214435,Eyes of Prey,,John Sandford,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pOZFDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A weary Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, still recovering from two previous brutal cases, is drawn into the search for a serial killer, an evil man of remarkable intelligence and savagery with a penchant for mutilating the eyes of his victims. Reissue.",2007,4.18,358,18139
9780425214763,0425214761,At Risk,,Patricia Daniels Cornwell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qvLtasbffmEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Massachusetts DA who is running for governor looks for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology to fight crime, but when a shocking piece of violence intervenes, her state investigator is not so sure it is a random event.",2007,3.4,289,9832
9780425215289,0425215288,Goddess of Love,,P. C. Cast,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b9S6wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Desperate to attract the attention of a sexy firefighter, Pea Chamberlain enlists the assistance of Venus, the goddess of Love, to provide the ultimate makeover, but things become complicated when Venus herself loses her heart to the object of Pea's affection. Original.",2007,4.05,292,4359
9780425216026,0425216020,New Moon,,Rebecca York,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EEMSmZQAQBcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When werewolf Logan Marshall is rescued by an extraordinary creature, a beautiful shapeshifter from another dimension, he becomes ensnared in her seductive trap as he helps her save herself--and Earth--from the wrath of her greatest enemy. Original.",2007,3.86,323,626
9780425217245,0425217248,The Harlequin,,Laurell K. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bLPTzzoJXFQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the #1 ""New York Times""-bestselling author comes this latest Anita Blake novel in which the vampire hunter faces the challenge of her life.",2007,3.91,422,37413
9780426203674,0426203674,Cat's Cradle,Warhead,Andrew Cartmel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qsf4MAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The script editor of the Doctor Who television series from 1987 to 1989 returns with the second adventure in the Cat's Cradle series of Doctor Who novels. As destruction of the environment reaches the point of no return, multinational corporations and super-rich individuals unite in a desperate effort. If Earth is to survive, somebody has to stop them. . . .",1991,3.52,262,391
9780434009053,0434009059,The Hannibal Lecter Trilogy,,Thomas Harris,"Lecter, Hannibal (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rsmgQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal - the three international bestsellers that provided literature with one of its most memorable characters - now available in one volume.",2001,4.42,1222,789
9780435233075,0435233076,Death of a Salesman,,Arthur Miller,American drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VmJa4tLn0vMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Willy Loman has been a salesman all his life, but at sixty he is forced to take stock of his life and face its futility and failure. His predicament gives him heroic stature in this modern-day tragedy.",1994,3.5,117,146272
9780435233396,0435233394,His Dark Materials,,Nicholas Wright;Philip Pullman,Children's plays,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VlBnzbljptgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"From the novels by Philip Pullman, this brilliant adaptation by Nicholas Wright of His Dark Materials is sure to be a runaway success with your students - such is the popularity of the original trilogy which has earned wide literary acclaim. Consists of the two critically acclaimed plays performed at the National Theatre both printed in one volume - thus offering exceptional value for money. Invaluable teacher's notes and student drama activities written by Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan, recognised experts in the area of Drama in English. Philip Pullman worked closely with playwright Nicolas Wright to create the text, and both writers have contributed introductions to our edition. The exciting, highly imaginative storyline, which captivates boys and girls alike, offers a wide range of textual and dramatic investigations. Parts for all the class, and ideal for smaller groups, with potential for interchangeable male/female roles.",2005,4.04,320,93
9780435909611,0435909614,When Rain Clouds Gather,,Bessie Head,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3AzcBdsfW9QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two exiles--one white, one black--in a poor village in Botswana struggle with tradition, climate, and the local chief as they try to modernize the villagers' farming methods.",1995,3.84,185,993
9780436350238,0436350238,The Complete Works of George Orwell,,George Orwell,,,,1986,4.11,230,20
9780439064866,0439064864,Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2),,"Rowling, J.K.",Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZTE0BgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the summer after Harry’s first year at Hogwarts has been his worst summer ever… the Dursleys more distant and horrible than ever before. But just as he’s packing his bags to return to school, a creature named Dobby the house-elf announces that if Harry goes back to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And it turns out, Dobby is right. Harry and Ron miss the Hogwarts Express, so they fly to school in a blue Ford Anglia, crash landing in the notorious Whomping Willow. Soon other worries accumulate: the outrageously stuck-up new professor Gilderoy Lockhart; a ghost named Moaning Myrtle, who haunts the girls' bathroom; the strange behavior of Ron's little sister, Ginny Weasley; rumors about the ""Chamber of Secrets,"" a cavern buried deep below Hogwarts; and a magical diary owned by Tom Riddle, a Hogwarts student of long ago. Harry is also shocked to discover that he can speak Parseltongue, the language of snakes - a rare ability that Lord Voldemort also possessed - and that anti-Muggle prejudice exists in the Wizarding world, even affecting Harry's friend Hermione. But all of these seem like minor concerns when someone starts turning Hogwarts students to stone: an evildoer said to be the fearsome Heir of Salazar Slytherin, on of the founders of the school. Could it be Draco Malfoy, Harry's most poisonous rival? Could it be Hagrid whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one person everyone at Hogwarts most suspects: Harry Potter himself?",2015,4.41,341,2115562
9780439087308,0439087309,10 Things I Hate about You,,David Levithan;Karen McCullah Lutz;Kirsten Smith,Dating (Social customs),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UkSIGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Told she can't date until her older sister starts, Bianca fears no one will want to take out sarcastic Kat.",1999,4.11,170,1414
9780439098267,0439098262,The Mouse and His Child,,Russell Hoban;David Small,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N32kGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Two discarded toy mice survive perilous adventures in a hostile world before finding security and happiness with old friends and new.,2001,3.97,244,1780
9780439176835,0439176832,Castle,,Garth Nix,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wUnIrx5opHIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bestselling author Garth Nix's amazing Seventh Tower series is back - now with a great new look! The Dark World is a place of ice, wind, and fury. A veil of black covers the sky. In all the world, only the Castle shines with light. Tal and Milla are struggling to make it to the Castle, each on a dangerous mission. For Tal, a Chosen, the Castle is home - even though he is not welcome anymore. For Milla, an Icecarl warrior, the Castle is a strange and mysterious place. Her presence is a threat that the Castle dwellers want to stop . . . at any cost. Sinister forces are conspiring against them. It will take all their strength to survive.",2000,3.87,215,5656
9780439176873,0439176875,The Violet Keystone,,Garth Nix,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZXVPPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As they walk the line between success and destruction, Tal and Milla search for hope in a realm where old wars throw the ultimate power up for the control of anyone strong enough to hold it.",2001,3.97,233,4984
9780439178822,0439178827,The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword,,Anne Mazer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p_NMpZLjyLIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Abby enjoys writing the advice column for the fifth-grade newspaper until people become upset with some of her answers, but then the opportunity comes along to use her writing skills to help a friend.",2001,3.96,128,1063
9780439194044,0439194040,"Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Without a Country",,Kathryn Lasky,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bycTRjCKGksC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Readers take a step back in time to 16th-century France in this year-long diary of adolescent Mary, Queen of Scots, who has fled from homeland to the Court of her betrothed in France. Mary is only nine months old when she is crowned Queen of Scotland succeeding her father King James V. Because of political conflicts, she is forced to be separated from her mother and her country from the age of five. For the benefit of forging an alliance with France, the youngster is betrothed to Francis, the son of King Henry ll of France and his wife, the vicious and jealous Queen Catherine de Medici. Mary is sent to France to live in their care until she is old enough for the marriage to take place. It is at their home, the beautiful Chateau St. Germaine, that we first meet the irresistibly charming Mary at 11 years old. Keenly intelligent, she excels academically, and shows a talent for dance, music and poetry. She's an expert horsewoman, skilled at archery and hawking.",2002,3.82,202,4682
9780439227148,0439227143,The Call of the Wild,,Jack London,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j6L-qusnoTUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When Buck is stolen from his kind family, he must quickly learn a new set of survival rules as he is taken away to the gold-crazed North by unsavory men. Original.",2000,3.85,172,255627
9780439244190,0439244196,Holes,,Louis Sachar,Blind,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ISFr-QqgHUYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Newbery Medal Award Winner 1999.,1998,3.95,233,844072
9780439286060,0439286069,Freak the Mighty,,W. Rodman Philbrick,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nkbygwlq6U0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.",2001,4,169,39447
9780439291491,0439291496,Alice in Wonderland,,Lewis Carroll,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G6COQfzW08QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.,2002,4.01,160,133
9780439294843,0439294843,No More Dead Dogs,,Gordon Korman,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8A1lfv8ETv4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For use in schools and libraries only. Truthful Wallace gives a thumbs-down to a book much to the chagrin of his English teacher, who sentences him to help with a stage version of the book. Wallace is unaware that his plot-improvement suggestions will wind up changing the entire production.",2001,3.71,180,11
9780439314558,0439314550,Conversations with J.K. Rowling,,Lindsey Fraser,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ly8dlL02FW4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From her birth in Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, England, to the stories about her favorite teachers, to the funny misunderstanding in her first fan letter, the life of the author of the Harry Potter books is revealed. Original. 250,000 first printing.",2001,3.99,96,4184
9780439321624,043932162X,Quidditch Through the Ages,,J. K. Rowling,"Animals, Mythical",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d9-FwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A history of the sport Quidditch, answering such questions such as where the Golden Snitch came from, or why the Wigtown Wanderers have meat cleavers on their robes.",2001,4.4,240,11459
9780439341202,0439341205,Every cloud has a silver lining,,Anne Mazer,Diaries,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4XVUmgYuvTMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Abby Hayes is starting fifth grade. Her supersibs, the perfect older twins and her genius little brother, have already proved their Hayes worthiness. This is going to be Abby's year ... and she's going to record every moment of it.",2001,3.93,118,29
9780439358071,0439358078,Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5),,"Rowling, J.K.",Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OIJ5BgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Lord Voldemort has returned to the Wizarding world, presenting a threat that neither the magical government nor the authorities at Hogwarts can stop. In response to his reappearance, Dumbledore reactivates the Order of the Phoenix, a secret society which works to defeat the Dark Lord's minions and protect his targets—especially Harry Potter. But Harry doesn’t want to be protected. Even as the Ministry of Magic denies his claims, The Daily Prophet discredits him, and even Dumbledore won’t look him in the eye, Harry grows more and more determined to fight his lifelong enemy Voldemort—if only he had the “weapon” the Order is guarding. In the meantime, he visits his godfather at his ghoulish London home, Grimmauld Place, and learns more about Voldemort’s deep reach into Wizarding history and the Wizarding world. Back at Hogwarts, Harry must deal with a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a surprising new member of the Gryffindor Quidditch team; the possibility of his first real romance; and the looming nightmare of the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams. He’s haunted by dreams of a heavy door at the end of a silent corridor, and a vision of his father and the young Severus Snape that changes everything he thought he knew about them. Even the joy of working with ""Dumbledore's Army"" -a group of Hogwart's students dedicated to defeating Voldemort- can't dispel the gathering darkness. Soon Harry will discover the true depth and strength of his friends; their boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifices. His fate depends on them all.",2015,4.49,870,1996446
9780439374897,0439374898,Enchantress from the Stars,,Sylvia Louise Engdahl,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bTIDy7gb46gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system.",2002,3.94,275,29
9780439389846,0439389844,The truth about Stacey,,Ann M. Martin,Babysitters Club (Imaginary organization),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OK_Esqf06akC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The truth about Stacey is that she has diabetes. Nobody knows-- except her friends in the Baby-sitters Club. But even they don't know the real truth about Stacey. Stacey's parents are her bigger problem. They won't recognize what she's going through, leaving her feeling more alone than ever.",2002,3.85,167,50
9780439401876,0439401879,The Story of a Seagull and the Cat who Taught Her to Fly,,Luis Sepúlveda;Margaret Sayers Peden;Chris Sheban,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R74DHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat, who promises to care for it until her chick hatches, then teach the chick to fly. Reprint.",2003,4.13,128,4791
9780439405577,0439405572,Don't Know Much about American History,,Kenneth C. Davis,United States,,"Presents, in question and answer format, a history of the United States from the exploration of Christopher Columbus to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.",2003,3.9,222,21169
9780439405584,0439405580,The Journey,,Kathryn Lasky,Juvenile Fiction,,"Wishing to fight off evil that exists among the owls of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger must endure harsh training from the elders to become Ga'Hoolian owls, and carry out their good deeds.",2003,4,242,10946
9780439405591,0439405599,The Rescue,,Kathryn Lasky,Juvenile Fiction,,"Soren has been reunited with this sister, Eglantine, but now he must deal with the mysterious disappearance of his mentor, Ezylryb, and in his attempt to save his teacher must fight a formidable foe.",2004,4.07,198,9852
9780439405607,0439405602,Guardians of Ga'Hoole #4: The Siege,,Kathryn Lasky,Fantasy,,"The war between the evil group led by Soren's brother, Kludd, and the owl of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree rages on.",2003,4.1,203,8964
9780439411370,0439411378,The Summit,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6VlnCfVs_WsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"As Tilt, Perry, Sammi, and Dominic prepare to ascend Mt. Everest, they must deal with low supplies, high altitude, dangerous terrain, government officials, sabotage, and an approaching storm.",2002,3.96,154,2515
9780439411875,0439411874,"The Girl, the Dragon, and the Wild Magic",,Dave Luckett,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1wpcGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Failing out of magic school, Rhianna meets a wizard who realizes she is a Wild Talent, possessing a difficult-to-manage power, and when a dragon comes to town, it's up to Rhianna to master her craft or face certain doom.",2003,3.86,119,450
9780439420068,0439420067,Eat!,,Roberta Grobel Intrater,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BnQ2nwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A group of babies enjoys some favorite foods--along with making as big as mess on their faces as possible while they eat. On board pages.,2002,3.95,10,54
9780439436540,0439436540,The Time Machine,,H. G. Wells;Melvin Burgess,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G9s8PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents the classic science fiction thriller depicting the adventures of the Time Traveler whose fantastic invention carries him into the world of the future.,2004,3.88,123,263
9780439436564,0439436567,Drowned Wednesday,,Garth Nix,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vlXIzgK7ocIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wednesday has rolled around, and Arthur Penhaligon has an invitation to return to the House that he can't refuse. Drowned Wednesday has sent a ship to pick him up from the hospital ... even though his hometown is miles from any ocean.",2006,3.86,389,22909
9780439440035,0439440033,Hope Springs Eternal,,Kristiana Gregory,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5FnzGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Albert, Nessa's old friend from the orphanage, has joined her in Kansas, but things have changed since they have been apart, and Nessa struggles to understand their new relationship.",2005,4.26,176,128
9780439454001,043945400X,Math Fables,Lessons that Count,Greg Tang,Juvenile Nonfiction,,"Simple tales and colorful computer art provide readers with an approachable guide to doing basic math, such as addition and subtraction. 4 yrs+",2004,4.06,40,0
9780439474290,0439474299,Midnight for Charlie Bone,,Jenny Nimmo,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Azg3nwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Charlie Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking and his aunts decide he must change schools and attend the Bloor's Academy for gifted children.,2003,3.81,416,35714
9780439485876,0439485878,The Seventh Tower,,Garth Nix,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MaYVLILy7xoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tal has spent his whole life in the darkness. He knows nothing else of the world. Far below the Castle, there lives an Icecarl warrior named Milla. Her fate and Tal's are irreversibly linked. Together they will discover the secrets behind the veil and the forces desperately trying to tear it apart.",2004,4.12,649,61
9780439499064,0439499062,"Anacaona, Golden Flower",,Edwidge Danticat,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3nf5GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Edwidge Danticat, the award-winning, best-selling author of THE FARMING OF BONES and KRIK? KRAK! offers a powerful addition to The Royal Diaries series with the story of Haiti's heroic queen Anacaona. With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered the island and began to settle there in 1492. The Spaniards treated the natives very cruelly, and when the natives revolted, the Spanish governor of Haiti ordered the arrests of several native nobles, including Anacaona, who was eventually captured and executed, to the horror of her people.",2005,3.74,187,1651
9780439507226,0439507227,The Discovery,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K7l6Dt6t3vEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Sharks, shipwreck, and sunken treasure in the latest adventure trilogy from Gordon Korman. Four kids are on a marine expedition for the summer, diving to explore an underwater habitat that's just been altered by a seismic event. What they find, though, is much more than fish - it's sunken treasure. Can they salvage it without anyone else getting to it first? Will the prospect of wealth set them against one another? And what about those sharks . . . . Dive is another action-packed trilogy from Gordon Korman. The narrative will shift between an account of two kids caught in the shipwreck and the story of the four kids fighting over and desperately trying to get the treasure.",2003,3.72,141,1820
9780439507233,0439507235,The Deep,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z3rMyIxYXWIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The adventure runs deep in this second action-packed installment of Gordon Korman's sunken treasure trilogy.,2003,3.78,148,1404
9780439551892,0439551897,Catwings,A Catwings Tale,Ursula K. Le Guin,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L2wXJR1wWMgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.",2003,4.08,40,6304
9780439554893,0439554896,Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,,J. K. Rowling;Mary GrandPre,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h2Y-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.",2003,4.41,352,6267
9780439554930,0439554934,Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1),,"Rowling, J.K.",Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9jA0BgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry, an orphan, lives with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. One day just before his eleventh birthday, an owl tries to deliver a mysterious letter—the first of a sequence of events that end in Harry meeting a giant man named Hagrid. Hagrid explains Harry's history to him: When he was a baby, the Dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, attacked and killed his parents in an attempt to kill Harry; but the only mark on Harry was a mysterious lightning-bolt scar on his forehead. Now he has been invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the headmaster is the great wizard Albus Dumbledore. Harry visits Diagon Alley to get his school supplies, especially his very own wand. To get to school, he takes the Hogwarts Express from platform nine and three-quarters at King's Cross Station. On the train, he meets two fellow students who will become his closest friends: Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry is assigned to Gryffindor House at Hogwarts, and soon becomes the youngest-ever Seeker on the House Quidditch team. He also studies Potions with Professor Severus Snape, who displays a deep and abiding dislike for Harry, and Defense Against the Dark Arts with nervous Professor Quirrell; he and his friends defeat a mountain troll, help Hagrid raise a dragon, and explore the wonderful, fascinating world of Hogwarts. But all events lead irrevocably toward a second encounter with Lord Voldemort, who seeks an object of legend known as the Sorcerer's Stone…",2015,4.47,320,5629932
9780439569729,0439569729,SCHOLASTIC SUCCESS WITH 4TH GRADE(WORKBOOK),,Terry Cooper,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b-EBHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"416 bright, colorful pages that give kids practice in the skills every 4th grader needs to be successful. Includes addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and decimals, problem solving, number concepts, reading comprehension, writing, grammar, maps, and lots more. For use with Grade 4.",2003,4.57,416,7
9780439574273,0439574277,The Invisible Man,,H. G. Wells;M. T. Anderson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q1lMPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A young scientist's adventures with refractions of light bring terror to the residents of Burdock.,2004,3.63,208,321
9780439574280,0439574285,The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle;Eoin Colfer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T0Q9PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects twelve stories featuring Sherlock Holmes including ""The nobel bachelor,"" ""A case of identity,"" and ""The copper beeches.""",2004,4.31,336,811
9780439629393,043962939X,Let Down Your Hair,,Jane B. Mason;Sarah Hines-Stephens,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sj85HQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rapunzel is jealous when Prince Val begins ignoring her in favor of Rose, and she faces trouble when witch Madame Gothel discovers that she has been sneaking out of the tower to attend Princess School.",2004,3.83,144,446
9780439635813,0439635810,How to Draw the Legend of Zelda,,Michael Teitelbaum;Ron Zalme,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_hw4HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing Princess Zelda, Link, King Dodongo, Deku Scrub, and other characters from the video game ""The Legend of Zelda.""",2004,4.19,32,60
9780439650366,0439650364,Werewolves Don't Run For President,,Debbie Dadey;Marcia Thornton Jones,Juvenile Fiction,,There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the presidential candidate visiting town really be . . . a werewolf? The Bailey School kids are going to find out!,2004,3.87,96,254
9780439651363,0439651360,Chasing the Falconers,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZnDBPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With their parents facing life in prison, Aidan and Meg Falconer race against time to evade the authorities and an unknown attacker to prove their innocence.",2005,4.05,154,4511
9780439651370,0439651379,The Fugitive Factor,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xebUNwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having just broken out of a juvenile detention facility, Aiden and Meg live a life on the run while trying to find evidence that will free their parents from a life sentence in prison.",2005,4.13,160,2464
9780439651394,0439651395,The Stowaway Solution,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vD3VPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the chase gets too intense on land, Aiden and Meg Falconer, fugitives from the FBI and running away from a killer, stow away on a sea bound freighter, but the crew becomes suspicious and a monster storm is on the way.",2005,4.11,160,2006
9780439651400,0439651409,Public Enemies,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zT2qowRsRhUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As Aiden and Meg Falconer have been chased from state to state by the FBI while trying to prove their parents innocent of a crime, the killer they know only as Hairless Joe has drawn near, and so has the truth they seek.",2005,4.19,150,2024
9780439651417,0439651417,Hunting the Hunter,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NXKQGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Aiden and Meg Falconer discover that Hairless Joe, a killer and madman, holds the key to freeing their parents from prison, they decide to try and trap him, despite the dangers.",2006,4.21,151,1892
9780439655484,043965548X,Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3),,"Rowling, J.K.",Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IZN5BgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort, and might even have assisted in the deaths of James and Lily Potter—Harry Potter’s parents. Now Black has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard him muttering in his sleep, ""He’s at Hogwarts... he’s at Hogwarts."" Of course, Harry already had plenty to worry about. After inflating his nasty aunt and running away on the magical Knight Bus, he finds he’s being pursued by death omens at every turn. He receives two wonderful gifts: a top-of-the-line Firebolt broomstick, and the Marauder’s Map, a magical diagram of Hogwarts made by the mysterious “Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs.” Hermione disappears frequently, burdened down by a seemingly impossible course schedule. And the soulless Dementors have come to guard Hogwarts—supposedly to protect Harry from Sirius Black, but they terrify Harry more than the fugitive ever could. To strengthen himself against them, Harry reaches out to Remus Lupin, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who was once a friend of his father’s. Lupin teaches Harry about the Patronus Charm, a defensive measure well above the level of magic generally mastered by wizards Harry’s age. But even with his broom, his map, his magic, and his loyal friends, Harry isn't safe. Because on top of everything else, there’s a traitor hidden at Hogwarts…",2015,4.55,435,2149872
9780439681360,0439681367,Underworld,,Jude Watson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b2lvGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ferus Olin, a former Jedi apprentice, journeys through the underworld of the planet Coruscant in order to rescue a Jedi who is imprisoned in the Jedi Temple by the Empire.",2005,3.96,160,799
9780439682589,0439682584,Harry Potter,"5 Years of Magic, Adventure, and Mystery at Hogwarts",J. K. Rowling,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DAAAAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first five years of Harry Potter magic are captured in a boxed set which includes The Sorcerer's Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, and The Order of the Phoenix. Simultaneous.",2004,4.78,2690,38872
9780439698399,0439698391,Do Not Open this Book!,,Michaela Muntean,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TgrUAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As Pig tries to write a book, he chastises the reader who keeps interrupting him by turning the pages.",2006,3.89,40,503
9780439700887,0439700884,Lady Friday,,Garth Nix,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hcPrAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Young Arthur Penhaligon must weigh an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity that he must seize.,2007,3.92,320,19083
9780439701662,043970166X,Thetale of Despereaux,,Kate DiCamillo,Fairy tales,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0xZIS5XWYU0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is the story of a mouse named Despereaux who loves music, stories and a princess named Pea.",2004,4.03,269,705
9780439709101,0439709105,Inkheart,,Cornelia Caroline Funke,Juvenile Fiction,,"Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can ""read"" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel ""Inkheart"" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.",2005,3.87,563,309700
9780439736466,0439736463,"Where We Are, what We See",The Best Young Artists and Writers in America : a Push Anthology,David Levithan,Juvenile Nonfiction,,"A collection of poems, stories, essays, and art drawn from the 2002, 2003, and 2004 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards showcases cutting-edge young authors and artists.",2005,3.73,288,41
9780439744669,0439744660,Sunny the Yellow Fairy,,Daisy Meadows,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YEgIngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rachel and Kirsty follow a trail of sparkly yellow dust to try and rescue Sunny, one of the colorful rainbow fairy sisters.",2003,3.83,67,2296
9780439746847,0439746841,Sky the Blue Fairy,,Daisy Meadows;Georgie Ripper,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Oyv2HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Rainbow Magic Fairies are getting colorful!,2005,3.83,80,2191
9780439746854,043974685X,Inky the Indigo Fairy,,Daisy Meadows,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S87FdJuQJaAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the evil Jack Frost sends the Rainbow Fairies away, Rachel and Kirsty hope that a magical book that transports them to the Land of Sweets will lead them to Inky.",2006,3.79,80,1971
9780439746861,0439746868,Heather the Violet Fairy,,Daisy Meadows,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q5YDUzCjIigC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the evil Jack Frost sends the Rainbow Fairies away, Rachel and Kirsty hope that a merry-go-round that transports them to a magical world will lead them to Heather.",2006,3.85,80,2197
9780439781473,0439781477,Fourth of July mice,,Bethany Roberts,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VucO7-IwLzoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Four energetic mice enjoy a parade and other festivities on Independence Day.,2005,3.23,32,1
9780439785969,0439785960,Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6),,"Rowling, J.K.",Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QzI0BgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens, the war against Voldemort has begun. The Wizarding world has split down the middle, and as the casualties mount, the effects even spill over onto the Muggles. Dumbledore is away from Hogwarts for long periods, and the Order of the Phoenix has suffered grievous losses. And yet, as in all wars, life goes on. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, having passed their O.W.L. level exams, start on their specialist N.E.W.T. courses. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate, losing a few eyebrows in the process. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Harry becomes captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, while Draco Malfoy pursues his own dark ends. And classes are as fascinating and confounding as ever, as Harry receives some extraordinary help in Potions from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. Most importantly, Dumbledore and Harry work together to uncover the full and complex story of a boy once named Tom Riddle—the boy who became Lord Voldemort. Like Harry, he was the son of one Muggle-born and one Wizarding parent, raised unloved, and a speaker of Parseltongue. But the similarities end there, as the teenaged Riddle became deeply interested in the Dark objects known as Horcruxes: objects in which a wizard can hide part of his soul, if he dares splinter that soul through murder. Harry must use all the tools at his disposal to draw a final secret out of one of Riddle’s teachers, the sly Potions professor Horace Slughorn. Finally Harry and Dumbledore hold the key to the Dark Lord’s weaknesses... until a shocking reversal exposes Dumbledore’s own vulnerabilities, and casts Harry’s—and Hogwarts’s—future in shadow.",2015,4.56,652,1944099
9780439791403,0439791405,Your Best Friend's Boyfriend,,J. E. Bright,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vj0glZZuQE0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the main character recieves attention from her best friend's boyfriend, the reader is asked to choose how the story will progress at various points along the narrative.",2006,3.35,240,48
9780439793957,0439793955,The Case of the Snowboarding Superstar,,James Preller,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n0Z2GQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Jigsaw Jones goes to Vermont with his family for winter break, he has to find a missing good luck charm without the help of his partner, Mila.",2006,3.97,80,117
9780439798730,0439798736,Thorn in Her Side,,Jane B. Mason;Sarah Hines-Stephens,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d0lQGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Briar Rose lands the role of Princess Perfecta in the school play and Nettle, who plays opposite Rose, seems almost too perfect as the evil fairy.",2006,3.87,144,210
9780439803632,0439803632,Gothic!,ten original dark tales,Deborah Noyes,Horror stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FhRQ7hS07v4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawing on dark fantasy and the fairy tale as well as horror and wild humor, ten acclaimed authors pay homage to the gothic tale in wide-ranging stories of the supernatural and surreal.",2005,3.55,241,14
9780439810715,043981071X,A break with charity,a story about the Salem witch trials,Ann Rinaldi,Trials (Witchcraft),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=72_0GWOn21cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.",2005,3.79,298,37
9780439812313,0439812313,Runny Babbit,A Billy Sook,Shel Silverstein,"Children's poetry, American",,"Runny Babbit lent to wunch and heard the saitress way, ""We have some lovely stabbit rew -- Our Special for today."" From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature. Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own. So if you say, ""Let's bead a rook That's billy as can se,"" You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk, Just like mim and he.",2005,4.12,96,51
9780439827607,0439827604,The Harry Potter Collection,The First Six Spellbinding Adventures at Hogwarts,J. K. Rowling,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v0z1PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first six years of Harry Potter magic are captured in a boxed set which includes The Sorcerer's Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, and The Half-Blood Prince.",2005,4.73,3342,27410
9780439829137,0439829135,No Accident,,Emily Blake,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-8DTLpj79msC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kelly, Tom, Alison, Zoey, and Chad experience blackmail, new enemies, lies, and dangerous decisions.",2006,4.17,160,319
9780439847773,043984777X,The Abduction,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4yZOGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Aiden's sister, Meg, is kidnapped, he teams up with the FBI to try to find her by tracking down clues only a brother could recognize.",2006,3.99,144,3232
9780439847797,0439847796,The Rescue,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g3tGAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As Aiden Falconer and FBI Agent Harris are closing in on the people who kidnapped Meg, Meg, unaware of the efforts to rescue her, tries to escape on her own and is never where she is suppose to be.",2006,4.11,140,1818
9780439856263,0439856264,Mister Monday,,Garth Nix,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mAVCTw7FQ7EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Although Arthur Penhaligon is supposed to die, he is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock, and now some bizarre creatures--including Mister Monday, his avenging messengers, and an army of dog-faced Fetchers--will stop at nothing to get the key.",2005,3.78,384,30795
9780439862691,0439862698,Ghosthunters and the Muddy Monster of Doom!,Ghosthunters Bk. 4,Cornelia Caroline Funke,Ghost stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9NUJzQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the fate of the world resting on the outcome of his battle against the mud-dripping minotaur, Tom's final exam is one that is certain to test his combined knowledge in the field and, if he survives, rightfully earn him his Ghosthunting Diploma.",2007,3.92,176,510
9780439872461,0439872464,The Trouble with Violet,,Anne Mazer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z6kSpF19og0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When strange things start happening and eight-year-old Mabel, who is very sensible, cannot figure them out, she discovers a family secret that affects her younger sister Violet.",2007,3.9,112,221
9780439872478,0439872472,Violet Makes a Splash,,Anne Mazer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ldJMV8NU-9kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Violet conjures a pool for their yard and refuses to make it disappear, Mabel, who is not magical, does not know how to explain this to their parents.",2007,3.95,112,116
9780439884761,0439884764,Guardians of Ga'hoole,"The Capture, the Journey, the Rescue, & the Siege",Kathryn Lasky,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kSvAvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the adventures of Soren, an orphaned barn owl that is captured and taken to St. Aegolius Academy where he becomes caught up in a battle between good and evil.",2006,4.25,865,595
9780439890281,0439890284,This is Push,An Anthology of New Writing,David Levithan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yerq73mtGYUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A collection of stories from the best YA writers today, who all got their start under the PUSH label, includes new stories from Kevin Brooks, Markus Zusak, Kristen Kemp, Coe Booth, and others. Original.",2007,3.62,240,222
9780439896184,0439896185,The Case of the Kidnapped Candy,,James Preller,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TE46W_fkLXcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the candy that Ms. Gleason was going to give to her class as a special Valentine's Day treat disappears, it is up to Jigsaw and Mila to find out what happened.",2007,3.74,80,100
9780439933384,0439933382,Awakening,,Robin Wasserman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9lghcQodq5UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Thirteen-year-old J.D. struggles to understand who she is, where she came from, and why she has nightmares.",2007,3.95,207,2551
9780439933414,0439933412,Betrayal,,Robin Wasserman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ffPtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"J.D. continues to search for answers about her past and about the dangerous powers that she cannot control, while the memories implanted in her brain by the mysterious Dr. Styron won't stop haunting her.",2007,3.97,209,1431
9780439944397,0439944392,Hello! Is That Grandma?,,Ian Whybrow;Deborah Allwright,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cepoNwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Who's on the phone? Lift the flaps and see! Imagine you dialled a wrong number-and got through to a sheep . . . then a cow . . . then a duck . . . then a very hungry crocodile! And all you wanted to do was wish your grandma 'Happy Birthday!' A bouncy riot of wrong numbers from best-selling author Ian Whybrow. Quirky illustrations by Deborah Allwright, and lots of fold-out flaps add to the fun.",2007,3.51,32,54
9780439959049,0439959047,Savage Stone Age Sticker Book,,Terry Deary;Martin Brown,Stone age,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=avYdPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"History with the nasty bits left in!The Savage Stone Age Sticker Book is crammed full of putrid picturepuzzles and wicked word games to bring all those horrible huntersand nasty Neanderthals to life.Want to:make a Stone Age mummy?create your very own cave painting?stampede a mighty mammoth over and over again?Get stuck in to Terry Deary's foul facts and Martin Brown's craftycartoons - with over 100 re-usable stickers, you're sure to findthe Savage Stone Age forever a-peeling!History has never been so horrible!",2005,4,20,9
9780439968089,0439968089,Trickster's Choice,,Tamora Pierce,Alanna (Fictitious character : Pierce),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sJ22AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Alianne has an oppressive heritage. She is the daughter of Alanna, Lady Knight and King's Champion - the foremost warrior of Tortall. Aly is not a fighter - she hates her mother's obsession, which constantly takes her away from her family and makes her children feel neglected and resentful. After a stormy argument with her mother, Aly runs away to make them sorry. But she gets more than she bargained for when she is kidnapped by pirates, and sold as a slave in the far-off Copper Isles. Aly's future is bleak, but then she finds out that this has all been planned, by a god, no less. Aly is a favourite of the god Kyprioth - she is the Trickster's Choice.",2004,4.28,453,43122
9780439994125,0439994128,Northern Lights,,Philip Pullman,Arctic regions,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GFcYAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twelve year-old Lyra Belacqua is drawn into a savage struggle among the armoured bears and witch-clans of the Arctic, where a scientific research station is carrying out experiments too horrible to be spoken about. In order to survive, she must leave her childhood behind and venture beyond the Northern Lights.",2001,3.96,399,751
9780439994798,0439994799,His Dark Materials,,Philip Pullman,"Children's stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E9ZkGgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The trilogy follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes against a backdrop of epic events. The story involves fantasy elements such as witches and armoured polar bears, but alludes to a broad range of ideas from fields such as physics, philosophy, and theology.",2001,4.26,1296,304
9780439999267,043999926X,Mary Queen of Scots and Her Hopeless Husbands,,Margaret Simpson,Queens,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=26lfAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mary Queen of Scots is famous for having terrible taste in husbands and losing her head on the chopping board. But do you know that she was a six-foot stunner who got kidnapped by a murderous lord? This is the inside story of Queen Mary, and includes her secret diary.",2001,3.68,208,126
9780440151883,0440151880,A Man's Protection,,Jayne Castle,,,,1982,3.88,186,266
9780440164173,0440164176,The New Centurions,,Joseph Wambaugh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9N_u5NJSrG4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Depicts the brutal experiences and rigorous training endured by three Los Angeles policemen,1987,3.93,368,2068
9780440169123,0440169127,A Pinch of Snuff,,Reginald Hill,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YR2qvIVR9esC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A routine visit to the dentist involves Police Inspector Pascoe in a bizarre case concerning the making of pornographic films in which people are actually killed on camera,1990,3.85,336,1052
9780440182931,044018293X,Suffer the Children,,John Saul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K0f_4ezr5nYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"100 years after a young girl's murder, children are again disappearing from Port Arbello.",1989,3.91,378,27480
9780440184621,0440184622,Tai-Pan,A Novel of Hong Kong,James Clavell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1NWMDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dick Straun, a pirate, smuggler, and ruthless individual, finds glory beyond his dreams as the Tai-Pan, or supreme leader, of Hong Kong. Reissue.",1966,4.27,734,38015
9780440187356,0440187354,Tinsel,,William Goldman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1ZC5dqgilrIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the glittering world of Hollywood peopled with stars, hopefuls, and hasbeens, hungry and cunning producers, starlets, moguls, and whores are willing to sacrifice everything for an elusive place at the top",1980,3.18,399,253
9780440201045,0440201047,Serenissima,,Erica Jong,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pBQ1hhEvXTYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jessica Pruitt, a popular Hollywood actress and aficionado of Shakespeare, is transported to the sixteenth century where she becomes the inspiration behind the great poet's most enigmatic work",1988,3.26,384,271
9780440208143,0440208149,An Acceptable Time,,Madeleine L'Engle,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TIO416kel1oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A quiet visit with her grandparents turns into a lesson in the fluidity of time for Polly O'Keefe when she meets several strangers from overlapping temporal planes and, with them, plays a key role in a prehistoric confrontation.",1990,3.82,343,15906
9780440214922,0440214920,Drawing Blood,,Poppy Z. Brite,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GsuXYyTNlMkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty years after his tortured cartoonist father killed his mother and siblings, cartoonist Trevor McGee returns to the scene of the crime, determined to face the demons of the past and the dark force threatening to destroy him",1994,4.03,416,8674
9780440215813,0440215811,The Blue Knight,,Joseph Wambaugh,Los Angeles (Calif.),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YrYe43nRm0wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Don't pass up the incredible values offered in this month's $3.99 promotion with Robert B. Parker's Spenser novel, Pale Kings and Princes, John Saul's terrifying Comes the Blind Fury, and Joseph Wambaugh's blockbuster, The Blue Knight. The Blue Knight is a Los Angeles cop whose beat is a world of pimps, pushers, winos, whores, and killers--a cop who lives each day on the razor's edge.",1993,3.88,320,1262
9780440216803,044021680X,Gai-Jin,,James Clavell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DpMXCO27HUYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Malcolm Struan, the heir to the most powerful English trading company in the Orient, finds his fate intertwined with that of a beautiful young French woman",1994,3.86,1236,10305
9780440220459,0440220459,Drop Shot,,Harlan Coben,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1WovmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Investigating the killing of a burned-out tennis star, sports agent Myron Bolitar uncovers a connection between the victim and a rising star from the wrong side of the tracks, while a corrupt senator and organized crime watch his every move. Reissue.",1996,3.93,341,19585
9780440221661,0440221668,The Fiery Cross,,Diana Gabaldon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4D5ivgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The time is 1771 and the colony of North Carolina teeters on an uneasy edge. Jamie Fraser is a man of worth but he has a lot to lose. His wife, Claire, is known notoriously as a wisewoman or a witch. They both know they have to survive",2005,4.27,1443,120981
9780440224044,0440224047,Purple Cane Road,,James Lee Burke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4QXE20ORx2gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Haunted by the mother he never knew, Dave Robicheaux is stunned when a chance meeting reveals that his mother was murdered by a New Orleans police officer, a discovery that has him searching for the killer.",2001,4.15,387,5304
9780440227533,0440227534,Number the Stars,,Lois Lowry,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IMZWoB8CWXMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be courageous and resourceful as she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. Reprint. Newbery Medal Winner. AB. SLJ. K. H.",1989,4.13,137,379669
9780440227700,0440227704,Many Waters,,Madeleine L'Engle,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iNV3UyVfGeUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Sandy and Dennys, twins and middle children in the Newbery-winning ""A Wrinkle in Time,"" are transported to the time just before the Flood. . .This will be enjoyed for its suspense and humor as well as its other levels of meaning."" --Pointer, ""Kirkus Reviews "" ""L'Engle blends speculative fiction with biblical theology to create another provocative spellbinding tale."" --""Philadelphia Inquirer""",1998,3.99,310,515
9780440228844,0440228840,Demon in My View,,Amelia Atwater-Rhodes,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4_sAFS4H5FcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.,2001,4.04,192,10803
9780440228899,0440228891,The Cricket in Times Square,,George Selden,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ASRsshHkoBsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.,1999,4.02,134,54174
9780440229087,0440229081,Skellig,,David Almond,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rbvZ3g0WOicC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.",2001,3.79,208,16388
9780440229124,044022912X,The Cay,,Theodore Taylor,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DSPp9BTIMqIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the adventures, joys, and heartaches of a privileged and prejudiced Dutch boy stranded on a remote tropical island with a kindly and wise West Indian, following an enemy attack on a boat leaving Curacao.",2003,3.75,156,28138
9780440229209,0440229200,Flags Of Our Fathers,Heroes of Iwo Jima,James Bradley,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QHIw64z6B0wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides the true story of the actions that led to the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima by the American Marines in February 1945, complete with maps and an eight-page photo insert. Reissue.",2006,4.17,224,235
9780440229315,0440229316,For All Time,,Caroline B. Cooney,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9a2pK8o9bNwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Annie Lockwood, a teenager in 1999, tries to travel back in time to join her lost love Strat in Egypt in 1899, but instead she ends up in ancient Egypt and in great danger. Reprint.",2003,3.91,261,1584
9780440229353,0440229359,How Angel Peterson Got His Name,And Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports,Gary Paulsen,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=maJrLrdTchMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.",2004,3.93,111,1139
9780440229407,0440229405,Shattered Mirror,,Amelia Atwater-Rhodes,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4CutP5ssIeMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As seventeen-year-old Sarah Vida, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, continues to pursue the ancient bloodsucker Nikolas, she finds herself in a dangerous friendship with two vampire siblings in her high school. Reprint.",2003,4.03,240,9290
9780440234746,0440234743,The Testament,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n5F5Qc7pchwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A suicidal billionaire, a burnt-out Washington litigator, and a woman who has forsaken technology to work in the wilds of Brazil are all brought together by an astounding mystery of the testament",2000,3.85,535,85975
9780440235163,0440235162,The Smoke Jumper,,Nicholas Evans,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ta--z2EJO4cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A woman must choose between two men, best friends, that both love her, in a poignant story of love, loyalty, honor, and guilt set against the perilous backdrop of wilderness firefighting. By the author of The Horse Whisperer. Reprint.",2002,4.06,576,28164
9780440236733,0440236738,Gone for Good,,Harlan Coben,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ppjCHXrMa50C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Investigating his girlfriend's mysterious disappearance, Will Klein learns that she is somehow tied to his brother's death and becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes that everyone he loves is harboring dark secrets. By the author of Tell No One. Reprint.",2002,4.11,432,33601
9780440237167,0440237165,The Coalwood Way,,Homer H. Hickam,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eNBvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Continuing the story of the Rocket Boys of Coalwood, West Virginia, the author recounts his senior year in high school, while the forces of change bring Coalwood to a difficult crossroads and strain threatens to tear apart the Hickam home.",2001,4.13,400,1146
9780440237976,0440237971,Midnight Predator,,Amelia Atwater-Rhodes,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sK1mbqRciEcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Turquoise Draka, a mercenary trained to fight vampires, witches, and shape-shifters, infiltrates a vampire stronghold. But ghosts from her past and new possibilities for her future distract her from the work at hand. An ALA Quick Pick.",2003,4.02,256,7939
9780440238140,0440238145,The Subtle Knife,,Philip Pullman,Juvenile Fiction,,"As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.",2003,4.12,288,4587
9780440238157,0440238153,The Amber Spyglass,,Philip Pullman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VIaPPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.",2003,4.09,467,219303
9780440238195,0440238196,Quiver,,Stephanie Spinner,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AScIYkRgQ1AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her father commands that she produce an heir, the huntress Atalanta gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece look on.",2005,3.51,177,823
9780440238607,0440238609,His Dark Materials,,Philip Pullman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zBFkAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lyra Belacqua tries to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments, helps Will Parry search for his father, and finds that she and Will are caught in a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by her uncle, Lord Asriel.",2003,4.26,1088,102687
9780440241058,0440241057,Slightly Wicked,,Mary Balogh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_9eMDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Judith allows herself one night of reckless passion with a heroic stranger before settling into a dreary life as her aunt's companion, but she is shocked when the stranger arrives at her aunt's home, Harewood Grange, to woo her cousin.",2003,4,342,8070
9780440241355,0440241359,The Rule of Four,,Ian Caldwell;Dustin Thomason,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KAtITktUHaYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Trying to decipher an ancient text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, two researchers obtain a diary that may contain the key to the code, but when a fellow researcher is killed, they realize that the book contains a dangerous secret.",2005,3.22,450,24001
9780440241898,0440241898,Shopaholic Ties the Knot,,Sophie Kinsella,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cIVSopzQCpsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Becky Bloomwood is delighted when her boyfriend proposes, but her visions of a perfect wedding day dissolve as her mother plans a backyard wedding and her high-society mother-in-law-to-be insists on a lavish affair at the Plaza Hotel.",2004,3.77,407,93132
9780440242949,0440242940,Outlander,,Diana Gabaldon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lmFKUOJbXiEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier. Reissue.",2005,4.22,850,627194
9780440243069,0440243068,The Gilded Web,,Mary Balogh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K1mKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fleeing the heat and crowds of a London ballroom, innocent Alexandra Purnell seeks refuge outside, only to be whisked away by Edmond, Earl of Amberley, who rescues her from certain scandal by offering her marriage. Reprint.",2006,3.58,480,2562
9780440243250,0440243254,Blessings,,Belva Plain,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XSGjKUwqLSgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two classic tales of romance, honor, and family by the ""New York Times""-bestselling author of ""Fortune's Hand"" are back in these specially priced editions. Reissue.",2008,3.91,393,2511
9780440322276,0440322278,18 Best Stories,,Edgar Allan Poe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=taNLbiOVk68C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The terror and horror that typify Poe's fiction are evidenced in such tales as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Pit and the Pendulum,1965,4.02,288,395
9780440362050,0440362059,My Name is Aram,,William Saroyan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2P3XAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A small boy finds excitement and promise in the daily life of his California valley during the early years of the twentieth century in this collection of short stories,1966,4.15,151,975
9780440391548,0440391547,The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller,,Henry James,Popular literature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OmsIxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1983,3.62,192,940
9780440400349,0440400341,About the B'nai Bagels,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WLaQnw69IgQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Mark feels ill at ease in right field because his mother and brother are manager and coach of his Little League team.,1985,3.56,172,296
9780440402916,0440402913,Anastasia on Her Own,,Lois Lowry,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UjlZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her mother's absence, resourceful Anastasia Krupnik has to cope with her brother Sam's chicken pox, an unexpected visit from her father's old girlfriend, and her own first date.",1985,3.89,160,1498
9780440410256,0440410258,Escape from Fire Mountain,,Gary Paulsen,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jvhtDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts tries to help two children trapped by a forest fire but finds her efforts blocked by poachers who want her to become one of the fire's victims. But after a shocking turn of events, the fire becomes the least of Nikki's problems. Will Nikki's horse, Goblin, and her years of hunting guide experience save her, or will Fire Mountain reign supreme?",1995,3.7,80,112
9780440412243,0440412242,The Children on the Top Floor,,Noel Streatfeild,Television,,"Abandoned as babies on the doorstep of television star, Malcolm Masters, Thomas, Lucy, Margery, and William also become TV performers, but problems arise when Malcolm goes off on an extended cruise, leaving the children behind.",1985,3.78,180,143
9780440413707,0440413702,Make Four Million Dollars by Next Thursday!,,Stephen Manes,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uBbkVH1kFQ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Jason attracts a lot of attention when he starts following the zany advice in a get-rich-quick book by the bizarre Dr. Silverfish.,1996,3.7,87,77
9780440414001,0440414008,"See You Around, Sam!",,Lois Lowry,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-oXbxSdpe2wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.",1998,3.68,128,235
9780440415244,0440415241,Stay!,Keeper's Story,Lois Lowry,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lr9QzT466ekC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Separated early in life from his mother and siblings, Keeper tells of his adventures with various human masters and his continual search for his little sister.",1999,3.92,128,188
9780440415800,0440415802,Summer of the Monkeys,,Wilson Rawls,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fAGE9OYnqvsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Fourteen-year-old Jay tries to recover a group of wily monkeys escaped from a circus train in the hopes the reward will buy him the gun and pony he has so long wanted.,1998,4.03,288,10711
9780440416777,0440416779,Stargirl,,Jerry Spinelli,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nqt57L2L-tIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.",2004,3.76,186,1917
9780440416883,0440416884,Harriet Spies Again,,Helen Ericson;Louise Fitzhugh,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cKg_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her married nanny returns to take care of her while her parents are away in France, Harriet hears something curious that makes her think Ole Golly is in some sort of trouble.",2003,3.83,256,1316
9780440418412,0440418410,The Boys Start the War,,Phyllis Reynolds Naylor,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fo9GHqT4-kwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first book in the hilarious trilogy featuring the feuding Hatford and Malloy families. When a new family--with three daughters--moves into the neighborhood, the Hatford brothers decide to make Caroline and her sisters so miserable that they'll want to go back to Ohio.",2002,4.02,144,1511
9780440419174,0440419174,Vincent Van Gogh,Portrait of an Artist,Jan Greenberg;Sandra Jane Jordan,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n7kv9-zZtKoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Profiles the turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh from his birth in the Netherlands, through his attempts to be a clergyman, to his years of painting, and finally, to his death in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris. An ALA Notable Book. Reprint.",2003,3.95,144,209
9780440419488,0440419484,The Orange Trees of Versailles,,Annie Pietri,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-o6KVcm2FSoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the 1670s, fourteen-year-old Marion, who has a talent for making perfumes, gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's mistress at the palace of Versailles, where she gets caught up in palace intrigue.",2005,3.77,137,174
9780440419679,0440419670,Tucket's Travels,"Francis Tucket's Adventures in the West, 1847-1849",Gary Paulsen,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M6Ru21OibroC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Francis Tucket, traveling the Oregon trail on a wagon, has many adventures after being kidnapped by Pawnee Indians, including meeting a one-armed man, rescuing abandoned children, and enduring bandits and fierce storms on his trek home.",2003,4.43,560,538
9780440419808,0440419808,The Silent Boy,,Lois Lowry,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dvW07I_A89UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Determined to become a doctor like her father when she grows up, Katy has a good sense for people and their sicknesses, so when she befriends Jacob, she sees that there is something in him that needs to be revealed.",2005,3.72,178,4933
9780440420590,0440420598,The Pizza Monster,,Marjorie Weinman Sharmat;Mitchell Sharmat,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SrgumQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Wealthy secret agent Olivia Sharp helps depressed Duncan find a friend.,2005,3.55,80,56
9780440420620,0440420628,The Sly Spy,,Marjorie Weinman Sharmat,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gy08h4CpVswC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,E.J. the spy tries to uncover a secret that Olivia is keeping for a client.,2005,3.79,74,53
9780440420637,0440420636,The Green Toenails Gang,,Marjorie Weinman Sharmat,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yP1lc7SgQV4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wealthy Olivia Sharp, agent for secrets, uncovers several secrets on a trip to Carmel, California to help a friend become a member of an exclusive club.",2005,3.74,72,41
9780440421702,0440421705,Hoot,,Carl Hiaasen,Bullying,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uKUTodG0ltIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, befriends a mysterious boy who introduces him to potty-trained alligators, burrowing owls, and sparkly-tailed poisonous snakes. A Newbery Honor Book, ALA Notable Book, & ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reissue.",2006,3.82,292,83557
9780440495048,0440495040,War Comes to Willy Freeman,,James Lincoln Collier,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qcbpIuklxIYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.,1987,3.6,192,253
9780440498056,0440498058,A Wrinkle in Time,,Madeleine L'Engle,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JHXd-tEJSxsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A midnight visitor escorts Meg, Calvin, and Charles across the barriers of space and time to another world.",1973,4.01,211,665242
9780440503064,044050306X,Masks of the Illuminati,,Robert Anton Wilson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ELDSsQoMku0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sir John Babcock discovers a secret international organization and seeks the help of Albert Einstein and James Joyce in exposing it,1990,4,368,200
9780440504702,0440504708,"I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!",Daily Affirmations by Stuart Smalley,Al Franken;Stuart Smalley,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YQAkDD59unEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a parody of self-help books, Al Franken's comic character, Stuart Smalley, describes his own efforts to cope with life over one year",1992,3.8,352,352
9780440506812,0440506816,Your Eight Year Old,Lively and Outgoing,Louise Bates Ames;Carol Chase Haber,Family & Relationships,,"The eight-year-old child is an exuberant, outgoing bundle of energy; he meets every challenge head-on, willing to try almost anything. Sometimes parents are amazed at the enthusiasm and excitement with which their child greets the world. However, eight is also a time when the child begins to do a great deal of analyzing and evaluating, finding fault in himself and others--especially Mohter. How do parents help an eight-year-old through this up-and-down age? What should parents expect in their relationships with the child and how can life in the family be made easier? What will the child's relationship with friends and siblings be like? In the successful tradition of the Gesell institute series,Your Eight-Year-Oldis a well-researched, highly accessible guide.",1990,3.88,160,177
9780440700241,0440700248,Charlotte sometimes,,Penelope Farmer;Eleanor Cameron,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TAOOI7xy5_sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1987,4.09,174,34
9780440841838,0440841836,Roald Dahl's James and the giant peach,a play,Roald Dahl,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bqoj_PS2knAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,James and his insect friends join in amazing adventures with a magical peach.,1990,4.04,91,8
9780440905608,0440905605,Beowulf,a new telling,Robert Nye,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7FUkAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon epic in prose for young readers tells about the young hero who fights and kills the water monster, Grendel.",1982,3.49,94,1615
9780440910817,0440910811,A Ring of Endless Light,,Madeleine L'Engle,Death,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UGoVwLafCtcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.",1995,4.15,332,16513
9780440936855,0440936853,A House Like a Lotus,,Madeleine L'Engle,Adolescence,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MDDyb1TxYFwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawn to the wealthy and brilliant artist Maximiliana Horne and grateful for her stimulating education at Max's direction, sixteen-year-old Polly finds herself suddenly and inexplicably betrayed by her idol.",1985,3.76,307,3882
9780440987901,0440987903,Thursday's Children,,Rumer Godden,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qUGk_DwNZokC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As he tags along to his spoiled sister's ballet classes, Doone discovers and develops his own rare and special talents.",1987,4.27,249,338
9780441003723,0441003729,Starplex,,Robert J. Sawyer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CKkIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty years after the discovery of artificial wormholes launches Earth space exploration to unforeseeable heights, Starplex Director Keith Lansing investigates a mysterious vessel that soon threatens the station with intergalactic war. Original.",1996,3.83,289,1267
9780441004096,0441004091,Tramp Royale,,Robert Anson Heinlein,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Jiy_kgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author recounts his travels around the world, detailing his experiences in places ranging from New Orleans to the Panama Canal to the African veldt",1996,3.7,371,680
9780441004997,0441004997,The Hero and the Crown,,Robin McKinley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cESw2xYEJwMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North.",1998,4.21,227,70
9780441005833,0441005837,Rose Daughter,,Robin McKinley,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RtiQPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The winner of the Newbery Award for The Hero and the Crown returns to the fairy tale of the Beauty and the Beast to create a haunting portrayal of the transformative power of love. Reprint. PW.,1998,3.77,304,16756
9780441005963,0441005969,Riddle-master,The Complete Trilogy,Patricia A. McKillip,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OR3U2m8RndoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of the complete and long out-of-print Riddle-Master trilogy, a modern-day fantasy classic, offers a new introduction by the author and brings back the magical adventures of a young prince discovering his identity in a uniquely realized land. Original.",1999,4.22,578,9117
9780441009657,0441009654,The Mirror of Merlin,,T. A. Barron,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X6HTqdHjLpsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Merlin must find his stolen sword in order to repel an encroaching evil intent on destroying the magic isle of Fincayra. But first he must confront a magical mirror that alters one's destiny.,2002,4.06,288,6682
9780441010288,0441010288,The Lost Years of Merlin,,T. A. Barron,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T5E1zLbmw4AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first title in this bestselling series, now available in paperback, follows the adventures and training of young Merlin who is destined to become the greatest wizard of all time. Illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.",2002,3.98,304,12114
9780441012039,0441012035,Neuromancer,,William Gibson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2NyiPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Case, a burned-out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system, in a special twentieth anniversary edition of the influential Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel.",2004,3.89,384,1617
9780441012114,0441012116,Conqueror's Moon,,Julian May,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4D37DAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With his father on his deathbed, Prince Conrig of Cathra and his lover, the seductive sorceress Princess Ullanoth of Moss, have hatched a plan to reunite the warring kingdoms of High Blenholm under one supreme rule, in the first volume of the Boreal Moon Tale series. Reprint.",2005,3.33,447,515
9780441012374,044101237X,Rocket Ship Galileo,,Robert Anson Heinlein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1421ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three teenagers and an older scientist develop their own atomic rocket, solve their own space problems and blast off for the moon in spite of mysterious setbacks.",2004,3.71,211,6199
9780441012398,0441012396,Deerskin,,Robin McKinley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FsSLDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her growing beauty begins to resemble her mother's too closely, Princess Lissar must flee her father's wrath, accompanied by her loyal dog Ash, and, in doing so, she unlocks a door into a world of magic. Reprint.",2005,3.89,384,17073
9780441012527,0441012523,Camouflage,,Joe W. Haldeman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=63nKN-7mzfUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An unidentified artifact, found seven miles below the surface of the sea, stumps the scientists examining it but calls out to the two immortal creatures who have wandered the Earth for centuries, never crossing paths until now. Reprint.",2005,3.63,289,4836
9780441012596,0441012590,Dragon's Treasure,,Elizabeth A. Lynn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5y7bUkQ-ye4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the sequel to Dragon's Winter, Kardur Atani, the Dragon of Chingura, has overcome his father's madness and his brother's treachery to take the throne and struggles to rule with justice while dealing with the ferocity that results from his dragon blood. Reprint.",2005,3.53,336,165
9780441013302,0441013309,The Rosetta Codex,,Richard Paul Russo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P_Q6AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Enslaved by a nomadic tribe after escaping an attack on his family's starship en route to Morningstar, a civilized oupost on a savage planet, Cale Alexandros stumbles upon a mysterious book filled with strange metal pages and cryptic writings in an ancient ruined temple, a volume that holds the key to deciphering alien languages but makes him the target of ruthless enemies. Original.",2005,3.23,384,21
9780441013432,0441013430,Old Twentieth,,Joe Haldeman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0RTfmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Jacob Brewer confronts a dangerous sentient machine that has become obsessed with humanity when he investigates the mysterious deaths of passengers on the starship Aspera during the thousand-year journey to Beta Hydrii.,2006,3.53,285,1138
9780441013678,0441013678,Count Zero,,William Gibson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EX07PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the future world of the Sprawl, an urban complex that extends from Boston to Houston, where a sentient computer database known as the Cyberspace matrix dominates humanity's fate, a corporate mercenary, awakening in a reconstructed body, in sent on a perilous mission to retrieve a defecting chief of R&D and his state-of-the-art biochip. Reprint.",2006,4.01,308,36066
9780441014224,0441014224,The God in the Moon,,Richard A. Knaak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ussPyumOoigC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nermesa Klandes joins the Aquilonian army in hopes of serving his liege, King Conan, until he becomes a hero in his own right after killing a Pictish leader, but his victory is short-lived when he unwittingly unleashes an unholy force that could destroy the Aquilonian Empire. Original.",2006,3.72,297,57
9780441014439,0441014437,Harrowing the Dragon,,Patricia A. McKillip,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bzZ8DlRNuLcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Spanning a quarter of a century, an anthology of previously uncollected short fiction explores a world of magic in such works as ""The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath,"" ""A Matter of Music,"" and ""The Fellowship of the Dragon.""",2006,3.94,308,1567
9780441014453,0441014453,The Eye of Charon,,Richard A. Knaak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xxnefx5i-bkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Warrior Nermesa Klandes, after his first assignment ends in bloodshed, must embark on a dangerous mission when caravans from Aquilonia's neighbors are being slaughtered by an unknown enemy, plunging him into a world of dark magic and demonic powers that could destroy King Conan. Original.",2006,3.88,288,41
9780441014835,0441014836,Cygnet,,Patricia A. McKillip,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MpIAun4PE3QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A single-volume pairing of two of the World Fantasy Award-winning author's classic tales includes The Sorceress and the Cygnet and The Cygnet and the Firebird, in which the fate of the Ro family unfolds in a magical world of myth and mayhem. By the author of The Tower at Stony Wood. Original. 15,000 first printing.",2007,4.08,406,535
9780441014897,0441014895,Magic Bites,,Ilona Andrews,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=46yJDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Earning a living cleaning up magical messes, mercenary Kate Daniels is drawn into a power struggle between two factions--necromancers and shapeshifters--within Atlanta's magic circles when her guardian is murdered. Original.",2007,4.07,260,82231
9780441092758,0441092756,The Castle of the Silver Wheel,,Teresa Edgerton,Fiction,,"Possessed with the gift of magic, Gwenlliant of Celydonn travels with her husband to Mochdreff to rule over a nation with a long history of animosity toward her people. Original.",1993,3.99,278,86
9780441102679,0441102670,Chapterhouse: Dune,,Frank Herbert,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ryot4Ag2GGQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fifteen thousand years after Leto II's death, the remnants of the Bene Gesserit contend with the ruthless leaders of an alien culture to forge a new civilization and preserve the best of the Old Empire",1987,3.9,436,38651
9780441248834,0441248837,Betcha Can't Read Just One,,Alan Dean Foster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xwJfUXa42wYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of funny and strange fantasy tales features George Alec Effinger's ""The Wicked Old Witch,"" Mike Resnick's ""Final Solution,"" and Ron Goulart's ""New Hope for Denture Wearers,"" plus thirteen more",1993,3.88,242,49
9780441317486,0441317480,Hard Sell,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9IdIpyHRLfAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mr. Fisk Centers buys real estate on Mars, where he drives a supersonic car in a suicide race and visits a robot mortician for a sample embalming. Reprint.",1993,3.39,268,694
9780441444250,0441444253,Killobyte,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jHdFtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the magic of Killobyte, a wheelchair-bound cop stands and fights an army of sorcerers, a heartbroken girl heals her pain through role-playing, and a mystery player satisfies his urge to kill. Reprint.",1994,3.55,312,1527
9780441505326,0441505325,Madouc,,Jack Vance,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1ZemAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1991,4.15,426,1766
9780441542154,0441542158,The Moon in Hiding,,Teresa Edgerton,Fiction,,"Televi, apprentice to the wizard Glastyn, and Ceilyn, the kingdom's most virtuous knight, are accused of witchcraft and robbery respectively",1989,4,208,160
9780441581054,0441581056,The 97th Step,,Steve Perry,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=67YMAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the fight-or-die world of the future, Ferret, a thief and smuggler on exotic worlds, becomes Pen, one of the Siblings of the Shroud and a master of lethal skills who may someday conquer an empire",1989,4.22,304,734
9780441623822,0441623824,The Omega Cage,,Steve Perry;Michael Reaves,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GEE8rNta2UAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dain Maro, unjustly sentenced to the horrific high-tech prison called the Omega Cage, attempts the impossible in crossing bone-littered deserts and deadly swamps to escape Warden Stark and his merciless hunting machines",1988,3.77,256,520
9780441627400,0441627404,The Once and Future King,,Terence Hanbury White,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kdLT8_tnpmEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes King Arthur's life from his childhood to the coronation, creation of the Round Table, and search for the Holy Grail",1987,4.08,639,82205
9780441731183,044173118X,Robot Adept,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=odIwtqONdrUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Proton and Phaze, parallel worlds of science and magic, are ripe with the seeds of revolution. Mach, a brave and sensitive robot from Proton, and his alternate self, magical Bane from Phaze, hold the power to link the two warring systems--or to destroy them entirely. Reissue.",1989,3.78,341,6092
9780441748600,0441748600,To Sail Beyond the Sunset,,Robert A. Heinlein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u_-sxgKp5kcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author ties together themes and characters from his previous stories as he traces the life and loves of Maureen Johnson, the mother of Lazarus Long",1988,3.87,434,10140
9780441864614,0441864619,Vision of Tarot,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H7UzAgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the planet Tarot nothing is real. Or everything. For the shimmering Animation curtain is moving across the worldscape like a storm of monsters, changing fantasy into hideous reality, trapping the wanderer-monk Paul in a nightmare of dragons, demons, and spectacular lusts.",1987,3.46,260,1472
9780443066016,0443066019,Anesthesiology Review,,Ronald J. Faust;Roy F. Cucchiara,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OzVyQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Review text for anesthesiology residents. Comprehensively covers essential knowledge and includes all topic areas found on the ABA/ASA exam. Includes new discussions on cardiopulmonary bypass, off-pump coronary bypass, and automatic internal cardiac defibrillator procedures.",2002,3.64,595,11
9780445405561,0445405562,Cast a Yellow Shadow,,Ross Thomas,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iQdBJwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Directed by an anonymous perpetrator to kill a South African prime minster, soldier of fortune Michael Padillo is told that his partner's kidnapped wife will die if he fails to comply. Reissue.",1967,3.95,272,192
9780446300001,0446300004,Heat,,William Goldman,Fiction,,"Las Vegas security officer Nick Escalante, an ex-Marine, chances on to a bizarre kidnapping threat and is plunged into a nightmare world of false identities, vicious grievances, and gruesome encounters",1986,3.38,244,236
9780446354738,0446354732,Nothing Lasts Forever,,Sidney Sheldon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_uUTSJW-hSAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three young doctors-their hopes, their dreams, their unexpected desires... Dr. Paige Taylor: She swore it was euthanasia, but when Paige inherited a million dollars from a patient, the D.A. called it murder. Dr. Kat Hunter: She vowed never to let another man too close again-until she accepted the challenge of a deadly bet. Dr. Honey Taft: To make it in medicine, she knew she'd need something more than the brains God gave her. Racing from the life-and-death decisions of a big major hospital to the tension-packed fireworks of a murder trial, Nothing Lasts Forever lays bare the ambitions and fears of healers and killers, lovers and betrayers. And proves once again that no reader can outguess Sidney Sheldon, the master of the unexpected.",1995,3.83,384,25396
9780446359207,0446359203,Carrion Comfort,,Dan Simmons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=37wWp0ENPXgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three elderly friends, who possess supernatural powers and who feed off of emotions generated during the murders they orchestrate, meet every year to discuss their game--an ongoing competition of mass murder and vampirism",1990,3.9,884,15056
9780446362665,0446362662,Summer of Night,,Dan Simmons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AVfhSa1w474C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, five 12-year-old boys forge the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. An ancient, sinister evil lurks in the dark, and when a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the deepest night, the people know it marks the beginning of terror. Now Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen, and Kevin must wage a fraternal war of blood against an arcane abomination.",1992,4.02,600,15327
9780446363167,0446363162,Back Bay,,William Martin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C_EeTC915JQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Meet the Pratt clas. Driven men. Determined women. Through six turbulent generations, they would pursue a lost Paul Revere treasure. And turn a family secret into an obsession that could destroy them. Here is the novel that launched William Martin's astonishing literary career and became an instant bestseller. From the grit and romance of old Boston to exclusive -- and dangerous -- Back Bay today, this sweeping saga paints an unforgettable portrait of a powerful dynasty beset by the forces of history...and a heritage of greed, lust, murder and betrayal.",1992,3.91,532,1557
9780446390576,0446390577,Bare Bones,Conversations on Terror with Stephen King,Stephen King;Tim Underwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9GJAPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a series of interviews, the acknowledged master of horror fiction reveals the creative source behind his stories, discussing his life, his career, and his philosophy on writing, and what he believes makes horror stories so popular",1989,4.16,224,3050
9780446500036,0446500038,Kushiel's Justice,,Jacqueline Carey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8KKnlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The sequel to Kushiel's avatar, Imriel returns to embark on a harsh and ugly quest to bring the murderer of his wife and son to justice""--Provided by publisher.",2007,4.25,703,15531
9780446518628,044651862X,The Celestine Prophecy,An Adventure,James Redfield,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UXolxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"You have never read a book like this before -- a book that comes along once in a lifetime to change lives forever. In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within its pages are 9 key insights into life itself -- insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially; one insight, then another, as we move toward a completely spiritual culture on Earth. Drawing on ancient wisdom, it tells you how to make connections among the events happening in your life right now and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years to come. The story it tells is a gripping one of adventure and discovery, but it is also a guidebook that has the power to crystallize your perceptions of why you are where you are in life and to direct your steps with a new energy and optimisim as you head into tomorrow.",1994,3.63,247,1280
9780446524124,0446524123,"Martin Luther King, Jr",,Martin Luther Jr King,African Americans,,,1998,,,
9780446526128,0446526126,Ten Things I Wish I'd Known - Before I Went Out into the Real World,,Maria Shriver,Self-Help,,"Award-winning broadcast journalist and NBC anchor-woman Maria Shriver reveals the lessons she has learned that have guided her journey as a career woman, wife and mother.",2000,3.69,144,980
9780446531092,044653109X,The Collectors,,David Baldacci,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qic4S8rFAMwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The assassination of the Speaker of the House sets the members of the Camel Club in a race to prevent a silent yet bloody coup in Washington""--Provided by the publisher",2006,4.02,438,32713
9780446576987,0446576980,The Book of the Dead,,Douglas J. Preston;Lincoln Child,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wKnJlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Psychotic killer Diogenes faces down his incarcerated FBI agent brother, while the Museum of Natural History reopens a long-closed tomb exhibit, a decision that coincides with a series of murders and sparks rumors about an ancient curse.",2006,4.14,454,25505
9780446578271,0446578274,The Everyday Life Bible,The Power of God's Word for Everyday Living,Joyce Meyer,Bibles,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tlPAHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Joyce Meyer's no-nonsense approach to life and dedicated study of the Scriptures has endeared her to millions as teacher, mentor, and friend. Now, for the first time, her followers can see her notes blended with the biblical text As one of the world's most recognized and respected Bible teachers, Joyce Meyer's insight on Scripture is an invaluable resource to many students of the Word of God. THE EVERYDAY LIFE BIBLE is your tool for understanding and cherishing the Bible as deeply as Joyce does. Her well-researched knowledge of Scripture and her passion for weaving the Word of God into daily life are inspiring companions to the Amplified Version of the Bible. The Bible can be difficult to read and comprehend. Joyce has chosen the Amplified Version for her personal use because of the words added to the text to illuminate the meaning and to enhance understanding. Joyce's goal in offering this unique Bible with her notes and comments is to build sturdy bridges between the words of the Bible and your everyday life. Joyce hopes THE EVERYDAY LIFE BIBLE will help you apply biblical truth to your life through her contributions, which include: Book Introductions--Joyce's thoughts on why each book is important and how it relates to practical living. Everyday Life Articles--Highlights of Joyce's teachings to help you apply specific biblical truths to your life. Life Points--Short quotes and comments from Joyce offering you encouragement and wisdom during challenging times. Putting the Word to Work--Questions that enable you to evaluate your life in light of biblical truth and instruction. Speak the Word--Verses adapted to be first-person confessions or prayers, bringing biblical promises to a new and personal level. Joyce's no-nonsense approach to life has endeared her to millions as a teacher, mentor, and friend. Having her thoughts and teachings accessible as you study Scripture will give a new dimension to the words of life and you'll feel as though you have Joyce as your own study partner.",2006,4.7,2208,1715
9780446578424,0446578428,The Serial Killers Club,A Novel,Jeff Povey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3ZBmlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Killing a serial murderer while defending himself against an attack on his life, a man inadvertently enters an exclusive club of murderers who address one another with celebrity names and share a mutual love of ""the hunt,"" an organization that the protagonist decides to stop by systematically killing off its members.",2006,3.21,279,105
9780446578844,0446578843,I Like You,Hospitality Under the Influence,Amy Sedaris,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n_nAlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers a guide to the art of entertaining, furnishing recipes, helpful advice, and offbeat tips on how to host parties with extraordinary flair, covering such topics as unique dishes to serve alcoholics and arts and crafts ideas.",2006,3.87,304,36756
9780446579629,0446579629,The Red Gloves Collection,,Karen Kingsbury,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_phtvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Compiled in this collector edition are Gideon's Gift, Sarah's Song, Maggie's Miracle, and Hannah's Hope. Readers worldwide have been touched by these heart-warming tales of hope, inspiration, and joyous miracles by bestselling author Karen Kingsbury.",2006,4.48,640,689
9780446579780,0446579785,The Coming Economic Collapse,How You Can Thrive when Oil Costs $200 a Barrel,Stephen Leeb;Glen Strathy,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2TM6lwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this incredibly timely book,renowned economist Stephen Leeb shows how surging oilprices will contribute to a huge economic collapse bysoaring to over $100, and perhaps $200, a barrel- andtells how you can avoid the pitfalls of the upcomingcrisis.",2006,3.39,211,207
9780446600347,0446600342,Where There's Smoke,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K9QUrq73KPsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a determined doctor meets the rebellious heir to a Texas oil dynasty, sparks fly . . . but the flames of passion blazing between them could destroy an empire. No one knows why Dr. Lara Mallory opened up her medical practice in the rowdy Texas town controlled by Tackett Oil. But everyone remembers her role in the well-publicized scandal that caused the downfall of White House hopeful Senator Clark Tackett. Now the iron-fisted matriarch of Tackett Oil intends to use her money and power to drive Lara out of town . . . especially when Lara meets Key, the hell-raising -- and handsome -- youngest Tackett son. Following a cataclysmic meeting, this determined doctor and brash, daring pilot find themselves hurtling on a dangerous quest for the one secret that can destroy the Tackett empire -- and anyone who dares to challenge its power. But Lara decides to find the truth behind the corruption in town, even if it costs her everything.",1994,3.96,512,5683
9780446600477,0446600474,Season of the Machete,,James Patterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A2NHngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Forsaking his life of leisure, Peter Macdonald prepares for a confrontation on a vacation island with psychopathic killers-for-hire Damian and Carrie Rose",1995,3.24,341,5401
9780446600705,0446600709,Assumed Identity,,David Morrell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vB0-qjLsg18C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tracking a devastating conspiracy into the heart of Mexico's Yucata+a7n peninsula, a master of disguise begins to lose his grasp on who he really is and struggles with his love for two women. Reprint.",1994,3.78,512,1091
9780446601856,0446601853,Charade,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mt2jEn5Y27IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A TV star with a new lease on life must team up with an ex-cop to investigate a series of murders and dark secrets while danger lurks just outside her door. A medical miracle gives TV personality Cat Delaney more than a new heart. With her second chance at life Cat trades Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a TV show for children with special needs. Here she meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer -- and the first man to see her as a woman since her surgery. But her new world turns sinister when fatal ""accidents"" begin killing other heart recipients, and a mysterious stalker starts shadowing her every move. Soon Cat realizes Alex may or may not be her most important ally -- and that her new heart comes at a terrible price: a tangled web of secrets and someone determined to take her life.",1995,3.93,496,5856
9780446602488,0446602485,Night Train to Memphis,,Elizabeth Peters,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uxgPtgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5'11"" of her takes the plunge. Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as ""Sir John Smythe."" And right in the shadow of the Sphinx she spots him. . . with his new flame. Vicky is so furious at this romantic stab-in-the-back, not to mention the sudden arrival of her meddling boss, Herr Dr. Schmidt, that she may overlook a danger as old as the pharaohs and as unchanging. . . a criminal who hides behind a mask of charm while moving in for the kill.",1995,4.06,368,3788
9780446604239,0446604232,Exclusive,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZdtyxreMq58C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An ace reporter investigates the suspicious death of her best friend's baby in this #1 New York Times bestselling political thriller of murder, passion, and intrigue in the White House. Barrie Travis is not famous; she's just a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station. Then, her old friend -- now America's First Lady -- asks her to investigate the death of her baby. Stunned by grief after the loss of her infant son, the President's wife hints that her child didn't really die of SIDS; in reality, he may have been murdered. Blind to everything but finding the truth, Barrie delves into the private lives of the president and his wife and uncovers dark and terrible secrets that will test her ethics, her patriotism, and her courage. With the help of Gray Bondurant, a mysterious former presidential aide, this story could topple the presidency and change the course of history. In this fast-moving tale from a master of suspense, Barrie must fight powerful forces that want nothing more than to see the scandalous past -- and a certain young reporter -- dead and buried.",1997,3.96,496,5660
9780446604406,0446604402,The Laws of Our Fathers,,Scott Turow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qsCa3Ae3Ga8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting. The woman turns out to be the ex-wife of a prominent state senator and an old acquaintance of Judge Sonia Klonsky, on whose desk the case lands. As the pursuit of justice takes bizarre and unusual turns, Judge Klonsky is brought face-to-face with a host of extraordinary personalities and formidable enemies bent on her destruction.",1997,3.75,817,3559
9780446605465,0446605468,The Neutronium Alchemist,Conflict,Peter F. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PqNdPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The future of humanity is in doubt when the minds of those long dead begin taking over the bodies of the living, forcing one man to search for a lost doomsday machine",1997,4.33,592,3230
9780446605588,0446605581,Fat Tuesday,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nfqPbNwaV1EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this ""intriguing"" thriller (People), a New Orleans police officer kidnaps an attorney's wife in an act of revenge -- but he's not expecting the electric attraction between them. Burke Basile is a cop with nothing left to lose. Haunted by his partner's death, the end of his marriage, and the destruction of his career, he targets his nemesis, a flamboyant attorney who helps killers evade justice. Burke's shocking revenge centers around kidnapping Remy, the lawyer's trophy wife. But Burke hasn't planned on the scorching desire he'll feel for this desperate woman, who rose from the slums of New Orleans to marry a man she can never love. Nor can he predict the fierce duel that will explode as the clock ticks toward midnight on Fat Tuesday when all masks will be stripped away -- and Burke will be forced to confront his own terrifying secret.",1998,3.84,458,8024
9780446606813,0446606812,Message in a Bottle,,Nicholas Sparks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0uvZReSiL1gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this New York Times bestseller, a single mother sets out to find the North Carolina man who sent a message meant for someone else . . . and the journey may change her life forever. Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and longing to ""Catherine,"" signed simply ""Garrett."" Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn't fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a love that is timeless and everlasting.... Nicholas Sparks exquisitely chronicles the human heart. In his first bestselling novel, The Notebook, he created a testament to romantic love that touched readers around the world. Now in this New York Times bestseller, he renews our faith in destiny, in the ability of lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when...",1999,3.96,370,2714
9780446607131,0446607134,Death of a Gossip,,M. C. Beaton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CqONGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winter's body is fished out of the river, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth and Priscilla Halburton-Smythe navigate the choppy waters of the tattler's life to find a murderer. Reprint.",1999,3.72,179,9244
9780446607209,0446607207,Tell Me Your Dreams,,Sidney Sheldon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R5cOyV8gzjcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Computer whiz Ashley Patterson is convinced she is being stalked. Coworker Toni Prescott has a penchant for Internet dating and little time for anyone else. And Alette Peters prefers quiet weekends in the arms of a beefcake artist. They know virtually nothing about each other--until the three women are linked by a murder investigation that will lead to one of the most bizarre trials of the century.,1999,3.95,384,38078
9780446608282,0446608289,Death of an Addict,,M. C. Beaton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PgXsuAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF AN ADDICT: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryFormer drug addict Tommy Jarret rents a Scottish chalet to check out reports of a sea monster. But when he is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, constable Hamish Macbeth suspects foul play. Teaming with Glasgow Detective Inspector Olivia Chater, Macbeth goes undercover and dives into the underworld to root out a cartel secretly entrenched in the Highlands.",2001,3.8,214,2840
9780446608473,0446608475,The Wild Swans,,Peg Kerr,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kOcSuQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This novel focuses on two outcasts on two journeys in two eras. In 1689 England, Lady Eliza Grey's 11 brothers are turned into swans. Rejected by her father, Eliza is flown to America by her brothers where she has a chance to save them--until she is accused of witchcraft. In the second story, set in 1981 New York, Elias Latham has AIDS, is banished from his father's house, and must learn to live on the streets. Like Eliza, Elias struggles to understand the suffering he must endure.",2001,3.66,464,336
9780446608602,0446608602,Personal Injuries,,Scott Turow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0NnWtHEBKYIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"To Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play-to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing, multimillion-dollar personal injury lawyer is caught offering bribes, he's forced to wear a wire. Even as the besieged attorney looks after his ailing wife, Feaver must also make tapes that will hurl his friends, his enemies, his city, and a particular FBI undercover agent into a crisis of conscience and law. Now Robbie Feaver is making the play of his life.",2000,3.85,528,5039
9780446608893,0446608890,Saving Faith,,David Baldacci,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=twgvDm-fjRMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When lobbyist Faith Lockhart stumbles upon a corruption scheme at the highest levels of government, she becomes a dangerous witness who the most powerful men in the world will go to any lengths to silence in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had: a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and will tell too much. Feared by some of the most powerful men in the world, Faith has been targeted to die. But when a private investigator walks into the middle of the assassination attempt, the shooting suddenly goes wrong, and an FBI agent is killed. Now Faith Lockhart must flee for her life--with her story, her deadly secret, and an unknown man she's forced to trust...",2000,3.86,528,14862
9780446609197,0446609196,A Highland Christmas,,M. C. Beaton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vu1jewAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...A HIGHLAND CHRISTMAS: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery Celebrate the Holidays with M. C. Beaton, The Queen of The Cozy Mystery. In the dark, wintry highlands of Lochdubh, Scotland, where the local Calvinist element resists the secular trimmings of Christmas, the spirit of Old St. Nick is about as welcome as a flat tire on a deserted road. Nor is crime taking a holiday, as Constable Hamish Macbeth soon finds himself protecting an unhappy girl, unlocking the secrets of a frightened old woman, and retrieving some stolen holiday goods. Now the lanky lawman must use all his Highland charm and detective skills to make things right. And he had better do it quickly, for the church bells will soon toll and all of Lochdubh will be forced to face another dreary winter without the comforting embrace of Yuletide cheer.",2002,3.86,160,3455
9780446610179,0446610178,The Sky Is Falling,,Sidney Sheldon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qHC9KKCPgngC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Winthrops are America's royal family, and its Prince Charming is the sexy, charismatic Gary Winthrop. Now the man on his way to becoming the Senate's brightest new star is found murdered in his home-the latest in a series of incidents that have killed five members of the family in a single year. One of the last people to see Gary Winthrop alive is Washington anchorwoman Dana Evans. She makes it her mission to investigate these seemingly random tragedies, little realizing that her search will sweep her across several continents, place her and her young son in grave danger, and lead her to a truth that will astound the world.",2001,3.56,399,16782
9780446611084,0446611085,Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas,,James Patterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yqnglffxl1oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Katie Wilkinson has finally found the perfect man - but one day he suddenly disappears, leaving behind only a diary written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby, Nicholas. In it she intimately reveals the romance between herself and the child's father, her hopes for their marriage, and her unparalleled joy in motherhood. As Katie reads on, she realizes that the man she loves is Suzanne's husband. Now, filled with terror and hope, Katie must struggle to understand what has happened - and find out if her new love has a prayer of surviving.",2003,4.16,289,128191
9780446611916,0446611913,Up Country,,Nelson DeMille,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bVflWIEA-ckC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Retired Army investigator Paul Brenner is called back into service to investigate the death of a soldier thirty years earlier in Vietnam--a case that stirs up many unpleasant memories. Reprint.,2003,4.02,880,14167
9780446612623,0446612626,Reversible Errors,,Scott Turow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bRSV77Q9KsMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Corporate lawyer Arthur Raven is the court-appointed attorney for a Death Row inmate. Convinced his client is innocent thanks to new evidence, Raven is a fervent crusader--and also a rookie in the vicious world of criminal law.",2003,3.84,553,4943
9780446612760,0446612766,Still Life with Crows,,Douglas Preston;Lincoln Child,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vLPTtgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe.",2004,4.19,564,25211
9780446614160,0446614165,Words of Silk,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9QiYGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Laney McLeod's life changes the minute she gets stuck in an elevator in Manhattan-and relies on handsome stranger Deke Sargent to help her fight her claustrophobia. When the power comes back on, Deke and Laney find themselves in a passionate embrace that leads to a night of love. Shocked at her indiscretion, Laney disappears the next morning. Months later, she receives an even greater shock: Deke shows up in her life with an astounding announcement. Unable to forget the chemistry between them, but afraid that she's just another notch on this wealthy playboy's bedpost, Laney is about to discover an even deeper fear...one that she must face or forever lose the one man she can't resist.",2005,3.55,224,2600
9780446614832,0446614831,3rd Degree,,James Patterson;Andrew Gross,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U4iBuffnoCkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In James Patterson's shockingly suspenseful #1 New York Times bestseller, one member of the Women's Murder Club is hiding a secret so dangerous that it could destroy them all. One of James Patterson's best loved heroines is about to die. Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. When Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. A lost infant and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled. Then a prominent businessman is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message left behind by the killer. Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her figure out who is committing these murders-and why they are intent on killing someone every three days. Even more terrifying, the killer has targeted one of the four friends who call themselves the Women's Murder Club. Which one will it be?",2005,4.01,339,60777
9780446616416,0446616419,Kitty and the Midnight Hour,,Carrie Vaughn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UeIpVizqFbIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station-and a werewolf in the closet. Sick of lame song requests, she accidentally starts 'The Midnight Hour', a late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. After desperate vampires, werewolves, and witches across the country begin calling in to share their woes, her new show is a raging success. But it's Kitty who can use some help. With one sexy werewolf-hunter and a few homicidal undead on her tail, Kitty may have bitten off more than she can chew...",2005,3.66,259,26939
9780446616836,0446616834,Love Beyond Reason,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=srU7PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This story reflects the trends and attitudes that were popular at the time, but its theme are eternal and universal. As in all romance fiction, the plot revolves around star-crossed lovers. There are moments of passion, anguish, and tenderness-all integral facets of falling in love.",2005,3.64,272,1764
9780446617451,0446617458,The White Wolf's Son,The Albino Underground,Michael Moorcock,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rCd8PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"- Aspect published the previous novel in the series, The Skrayling Tree, in hardcover (0-446-53104-9) in 2003 and in mass market (0-446-61340-1) in 7/04. The prior novel. The Dreamthief's Daughter (Aspect hardcover, 2001, 0-446-52618-5; mass market, 2002, 0-446-61120-4) received praise from the Washington Post, Denver Post, and Locus, where it was featured on the 2001 Recommended Reading list. - Aspect reissued Moorcock's classic Gloriana, or the Unfulfill'd Queen in trade paperback in 8/04. Gloriana won Moorcock the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the British Fantasy Award. - Moorcock's Elric the Eternal Champion saga has been optioned by Universal Pictures, with Chris and Paul Weitz (American Pie) producing. - Michael Moorcock is a vanguard author, editor, journalist, critic, and rock musician, who is editor of the controversial magazine New Worlds. A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, Moorcock has won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the British Fantasy Award, among others.",2006,3.86,432,272
9780446617796,0446617792,The Angel Experiment,A Maximum Ride Novel,James Patterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s2sZyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In James Patterson's blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the ""flock""--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the ""School"" where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of wack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare--this one involving fighting off the half-human, half-wolf ""Erasers"" in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives. Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb--now her betrayed and greatest enemy--that her purpose is save the world--but can she?",2006,4.08,413,184133
9780446658089,0446658081,Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak,,Clifford D. Simak,"Science fiction, American",,,1972,3.94,253,62
9780446670784,0446670782,Curries Without Worries,,Sudha Koul,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G4qUHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A thorough but accessible guide to Indian cuisine explains spices and seasonings and offers more than sixty-five simple, easy-to-prepare recipes for vegetarian and non-vegetarian curries, roasts, kebabs, and more. Reprint.",1996,3.98,160,35
9780446673785,0446673781,One L,The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School,Scott Turow,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gcM4joetJ70C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Newsweek calls him ""an extraordinarily canny and empathetic observer."" In bestseller after bestseller, Turow uses his background as a lawyer to create suspense fiction so authentic it reads with the hammering impact of fact. But before he became a worldwide sensation, Scott Turow wrote a book that is entirely true, the account of his own searing indoctrination into the field of law called ... The first year of law school is an intellectual and emotional ordeal so grueling that it ensures only the fittest survive. Now Scott Turow takes you inside the oldest and most prestigious law school in the country when he becomes a ""One L,"" as entering students are known at Harvard Law School. In a book that became a national bestseller, a law school primer, and a classic autobiography, he brings to life the fascinating, shocking reality of that first year. Provocative and riveting, One L reveals the experience directly from the combat zone: the humiliations, triumphs, hazings, betrayals, and challenges that will make him a lawyer-and forever change Turow's mind, test his principles, and expose his heart.",1988,3.66,288,5872
9780446676434,0446676438,When the Wind Blows,,James Patterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BUQ9PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. Late one night, near the woods of her animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon that will change the course of her life forever.... Her name is Max. With breathtaking energy, eleven-year-old Max leads Frannie and Kit to uncover one of the most diabolical and inhuman plots of modern science. When the Wind Blows is as unique a story as has ever been told, filled with suspense and passion.",2000,3.92,416,41994
9780446676502,0446676500,"The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.",,Clayborne Carson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k8VNeihMoZQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With knowledge, spirit, good humor, and passion, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak to our most burning contemporary issues and still inspire the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all. Written in his own words, this history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who chafed under and eventually rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who continually questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his wisdom; the loving husband and father who sought to balance his family's needs with those of a growing, nationwide movement; and the reflective, world-famous leader who was fired by a vision of equality for people everywhere. Relevant and insightful, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. offers King's seldom disclosed views on some of the world's greatest and most controversial figures: John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mahatma Gandhi, and Richard Nixon. It also paints a rich and moving portrait of a people, a time, and a nation in the face of powerful change. Finally, it shows how everyday Americans from all walks of life confronted themselves, each other, and the burden of the past-and how their fears and courage helped shape our future.",2001,4.34,400,13079
9780446677493,0446677493,Hope is the Thing with Feathers,A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds,Christopher Cokinos,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y7RmuQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the histories of six extinct North American birds, how they were killed and who attempted to protect them, and discusses what can be learned from these losses to save today's endangered wildlife.",2001,4.21,384,294
9780446678452,0446678457,Cane River,,Lalita Tademy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BqCdYgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The ""New York Times"" bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick--the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women based on one family's ancestral past.",2002,4.05,522,41627
9780446679084,0446679089,Plum Island,,Nelson DeMille,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BNzdYgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wry wit of The Gold Coast...this is vintage Nelson DeMille at the peak of his originality and the height of his powers...Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide cop John Corey is convalescing in rural eastern Long Island when an attractive young couple he knows is found shot to death on the family patio. The victims were biologists at Plum Island, a research site rumored to be an incubator for germ warfare.Suddenly, a local double murder takes on shattering global implications -- and thrusts Corey and two extraordinary women into a dangerous search for the secret of PLUM ISLAND....",2002,4.04,592,34296
9780446691406,0446691402,Gloriana,,Michael Moorcock,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6j3QtgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fable satirizing Spenser's ""The Fairie Queen"" and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities choke her, prohibiting any form of sexual satisfaction, no matter what fetish she tries. Her problem is in fact symbolic of the hypocrisy of her entire court. While her life is meant to mirror that of her nation - an image of purity, virtue, enlightenment and prosperity - the truth is that her peaceful empire is kept secure by her wicked chancellor Monfallcon and his corrupt network of spies and murderers, the most sinister of whom is Captain Quire, who is commissioned to seduce Gloriana and thus bring down Albion and the entire empire.",2004,3.64,496,1699
9780446691437,0446691437,The War of Art,Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles,Steven Pressfield,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7y6WvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Art of War meets ""The Artist's Way"" in this no-nonsense, profoundly inspiring guide to overcoming creative blocks of every kind.",2003,4.02,168,46883
9780446691864,0446691860,The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition,A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction,Jon Stewart;The Writers of The Daily Show,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x2JoPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For everyone who was too cheap to buy the hardcover, the blockbuster, award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller is now in trade paperback-with a new introduction, fully updated, and with equally unsettling nude photos of the newest Supreme Court justices, and a text corrected by the most reputable college professor we could find/afford.Including:Historical inaccuracies, gross distortions, complete fabrications-corrected by real-life bearded college professor.",2006,4.02,227,1819
9780446692519,0446692514,Feynman's Rainbow,A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life,Leonard Mlodinow,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KiXftgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As a young physicist, Leonard Mlodinow looked for guidance from his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Drawing on transcripts from their meetings during their time together at Cal Tech, Mlodinow shares Feynman's provocative thoughts and observations. At once a moving portrait of a friendship and an affecting account of Feynman's final, creative years, this book celebrates the inspiring legacy of one of the greatest thinkers of our time.",2004,4,192,2635
9780446694858,0446694851,Three Weeks with My Brother,,Nicholas Sparks;Micah Sparks,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6JIMvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As moving as his bestselling works of fiction, Nicholas Sparks's unique memoir, written with his brother, chronicles the life-affirming journey of two brothers bound by memories, both humorous and tragicIn January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother, Micah, set off on a three-week trip around the globe. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at thirty-seven and thirty-eight respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. Against the backdrop of the wonders of the world and often overtaken by their feelings, daredevil Micah and the more serious, introspective Nicholas recalled their rambunctious childhood adventures and the tragedies that tested their faith. And in the process, they discovered startling truths about loss, love, and hope.Narrated with irrepressible humor and rare candor, and including personal photos, THREE WEEKS WITH MY BROTHER reminds us to embrace life with all its uncertainties...and most of all, to cherish the joyful times, both small and momentous, and the wonderful people who make them possible.",2006,4.02,368,35997
9780446695602,0446695602,Sister Freaks,Stories of Women Who Gave Up Everything for God,Rebecca St. James,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rbDWxQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Bestselling author and award-winning singer Rebecca St. James brings together a group of inspirational true stories about young women who gave their all for Jesus.,2005,4.11,320,485
9780446695671,044669567X,Strip Tease,,Carl Hiaasen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iuAQPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Murder, politics, and G-strings collide in this caper from the bestselling author of Tourist Season. Hilarity and chaos break out in a strip joint when a bachelor party gets out of hand, making the drunken guest of honor a threat to ""big money"" and ""big government.""",2005,3.84,464,12108
9780446696111,0446696110,The Guardian,,Nicholas Sparks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DyxAPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Julie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died - a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now four years have passed. Still living in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina, twenty-nine-year-old Julie is emotionally ready to make a commitment to someone again. But who? Should it be Richard Franklin, the handsome, sophisticated engineer who treats her like a queen? Or Mike Harris, the down-to-earth nice guy who was her husband's best friend? Choosing one of them should bring her more happiness than she's had in years. Instead, Julie is soon fighting for her life in a nightmare spawned by a chilling deception and jealousy so poisonous that it has become a murderous desire...",2005,4.15,400,144654
9780446696517,044669651X,True Believer,,Nicholas Sparks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kgfuSgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the towns cemetery. What he doesnt plan on, however, is falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter of the town psychic. Now, if the young lovers are to have any kind of future at all, Jeremy must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows, or do something hes never done beforetake a giant leap of faith.",2006,3.8,465,66639
9780446696616,0446696617,1st to Die,,James Patterson,Fiction,,"Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong. Full of the breathtaking drama and unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson is famous, 1st to Die is the start of the #1 New York Times bestselling series of crime thrillers.",2005,4.07,424,259028
9780446698221,0446698229,Fear and Loathing,On the Campaign Trail '72,Hunter S. Thompson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ulIMHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The ""gonzo"" political journalist presents his frankly subjective observations on the personalities and political machinations of the 1972 presidential campaign, in a new edition of the classic account of the dark side of American politics. Reprint.",2006,4.11,481,16591
9780446698870,0446698873,The Black Dahlia,,James Ellroy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R2s-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total madness.",2006,3.75,348,68551
9780446699075,0446699071,Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Arctic Event,,Robert Ludlum;James H. Cobb,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W05LxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a mysterious World War II-era aircraft, a discovery that forces the Russian Federation into a shocking admission. The unmarked plane is a Soviet strategic bomber that disappeared with its crew more than fifty years ago while carrying two metric tons of weaponized anthrax. Desperate to prevent a political and diplomatic firestorm, the U.S. president dispatches a Covert-One team led by Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith to the crash site. But others have reached the frigid, windswept island first, including an international arms dealer and his crew of vicious mercenaries. As for the Russians, they are lying: a second, even deadlier secret rests within the hulk of the lost bomber, a secret the Russians are willing to kill to protect. Trapped in a polar wilderness, Smith and his team find themselves fighting a savage war on two front--against an enemy they can see and another hiding within their own ranks.",2007,4.01,390,4299
9780446699556,0446699551,The Closers,,Michael Connelly,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mjh8vgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch joins LA's elite Open/Unsolved Unit to help piece together the mysterious death of a teenage girl. He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain, and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal. But something bigger and darker beckons, and Harry must battle to fit all the pieces together. Shaking cages and rattling ghosts, he will push the rules to the limit -- and expose the kind of truth that shatters lives, ends careers, and keeps the dead whispering in the night . . .",2006,4.12,432,28571
9780448095158,0448095157,The Haunted Bridge,,Carolyn Keene,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7P6fwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Nancy Drew becomes involved in a double mystery concerning a haunted bridge and jewel thieves.,1972,3.92,180,7364
9780448400631,0448400634,Anne of Avonlea,An Anne of Green Gables Story,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-rIrrEC7euEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sixteen-year-old Anne returns to Avonlea to teach in her former school and works to gain the respect of pupils not much younger than she,1990,4.22,315,79
9780448409573,0448409577,The Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes,,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=huXrOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, the master of deductive reasoning, solves several mysteries with the aid of his friend, Dr. John Watson. @KeepDiggingWatson Why are the lights at 221 Baker Street so damn bright in the morning? Why does Watson talk so loud? Elementary, my dear STFU! From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less",1996,4.18,218,120
9780448416731,0448416735,Nancy Drew Starter Set,The Secret of the Old Clock/The Hidden Staircase/The Bungalow Mystery/The Mystery at Lilac Inn/The Secret of Shadow Ranch/The Secret of Red Gate Farm,Carolyn Keene,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G_ALAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This specially priced starter set includes six Nancy Drew favorites: ""The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase, The Bungalow Mystery, The Mystery at Lilac Inn, The Secret of Shadow Ranch"" and ""The Secret of Red Gate Farm.""",1998,4.25,0,2579
9780448435367,0448435365,Lara's Leap of Faith,,Alexandra Moss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=93bofL-ySOsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ellie's first term at the Royal Ballet School is filled with excitement, hard work, homesickness, an unexpected chance to perform, and new friendships, tainted only by the rude and hateful behavior of Lara, the girl she crashed into during their audition.",2005,4.06,144,151
9780448437439,0448437430,Who Was John F. Kennedy?,,Yona Zeldis McDonough;Jill Weber,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qjCzJgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the life of the president who saw America through the Cuban Missile Crisis, established the Peace Corps, and was assassinated during his first term.",2004,4.19,112,598
9780448437699,0448437694,Isabelle's Perfect Performance,,Alexandra Moss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mSBCAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In their second term at the Royal Ballet School, Ellie and her friends prepare for an important appraisal of their dancing while also trying to get along with Isabelle, an unfriendly new girl.",2005,4.05,144,124
9780448442518,0448442515,Boys Or Ballet?,,Alexandra Moss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wVnvOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Being with Luke consumes Ellie's time, but when she is cast in the Royal Opera House's Christmas ballet, juggling homework, friends, rehearsals, and a boyfriend becomes too difficult and she must make a heart-wrenching decision.",2006,3.86,144,93
9780448444826,0448444828,Who Was Anne Frank?,,Ann Abramson,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bz37nhfyjygC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Looks closely at Anne Frank's life before the secret annex, what life was like in hiding from the Nazis, and the legacy of her diary.",2007,4.26,103,1763
9780449001134,044900113X,In the Beginning,,Chaim Potok,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=amZOQd6B5MsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul.""--The New York Times All beginnings are hard--that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, horrifying war, he must begin once more--this time to define a resolute path of personal belief that departs boldly from the tradition of his teachers and his own father, a courageous defender of their people. Learning how to remember his past as he nourishes the future, David struggles to complete his first long journey into ancient beginnings. ""A major work in every sense.""--Pittsburgh Press",1997,4.08,416,2168
9780449001158,0449001156,The Gift of Asher Lev,,Chaim Potok,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e8GGDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the death of a beloved uncle brings him back to his native Brooklyn after two decades, painter Asher Lev is plunged into a conflict between the culture into which he was born and the life that he has forged for himself.",1997,4.15,384,6071
9780449001172,0449001172,Wartime Lies,,Louis Begley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V-aLDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A haunting, unforgettable novel about an orphaned boy and his gallant aunt, and how, assuming false identities, they survive the horrors of war. Louis Begley's extraordinary novel is a work of wisdom and lyric power about the complex, terrifying process of growing up when the adult world has become insane.",1997,3.7,240,503
9780449001240,0449001245,Naked Came the Manatee,,Carl Hiaasen;Dave Barry;Elmore Leonard,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2QYdvjKMQy8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A story of suspense written serially by thirteen Florida writers--including Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, and Elmore Leonard--features such strange occurances as a riot in Coconut Grove and an appearance by Fidel Castro.",1998,3.49,208,2253
9780449001967,0449001962,Murder in Foggy Bottom,,Margaret Truman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=guWKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three plane crashes bring together the efforts of suave investigator Max Pauling, a beautiful bird-watcher, and a shady militia group, in a mystery that takes readers from the State Department to the rogue black markets of Russia. Reprint.",2002,3.7,368,657
9780449002988,0449002985,Your Oasis on Flame Lake,,Lorna Landvik,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=75ZUoDVs6XUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the sleepy town of White Falls, Minnesota, Cadillac salesman Dick Lindstrom realizes his dream when he opens Your Oasis on Flame Lake, a tiny cabaret club in his tastefully furnished basement",1998,3.59,320,2140
9780449003886,0449003884,The Bride Finder,,Susan Carroll,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5403B1bcCbAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Madeline Breton is summoned by the wizard Septimus Fitzleger, otherwise known as the Bride Finder, to redeem the mysterious Anatole St. Leger from his isolation in a castle in Cornwall, she becomes ensnared in an illusory world of dark forces",1999,3.81,416,1215
9780449004135,0449004139,A Thread of Grace,A Novel,Mary Doria Russell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7_eqMJMEP3gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive.",2005,4.02,442,11450
9780449004838,044900483X,Children of God,A Novel,Mary Doria Russell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8ucImQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A priest named Emilio Sandoz embarks on a quest to demystify God's providence that leads him to question the possibility of faith,1999,4.06,451,14493
9780449005576,0449005577,Catching Alice,,Clare Naylor,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vDkKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discouraged by the simultaneous loss of her job, apartment, and boyfriend, twentysomething Alice Lewis accepts the offer of her American girlfriend, Tash, to move to Los Angeles to take a job in a glamorous PR firm, but she soon discovers that she is being pursued by a mystery man, who has crossed the Atlantic to woo her. Reissue.",2000,3.35,328,916
9780449005866,0449005860,A Pirate Looks at Fifty,,Jimmy Buffett,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yL_ugvhprYcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In honor of his fiftieth birthday, the popular singer-songwriter and author shares reminiscences about his life, tracing his odyssey from reporter to musical success.",2000,3.83,420,2927
9780449006535,0449006530,Midnight Voices,,John Saul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EbcT8O8qyi4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After Caroline and her two children move into her new spouse's apartment on Central Park West, her son's instinctive misgivings become a horrifying reality when a young girl vanishes and Caroline's daughter begins to waste away.",2003,3.75,384,2696
9780449007389,0449007383,Murder at Ford's Theatre,,Margaret Truman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oqg_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the body of a young theatre volunteer named Nadia Zarinski is found in a dark alley, two cops, Rick Klayman and Moses ""Mo"" Johnson, soon discover that Nadia was the intern for, and the rumored lover of, an influencial right-wing Senator, plunging them into a world of greed and corruption.",2003,3.72,376,592
9780449146972,0449146979,The Changeling,,Philippa Carr,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5jE316OI8qgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,FICTION-ROMANCE/GOTHIC,1990,3.99,369,341
9780449149911,0449149919,"Lost Boy, Lost Girl",,Peter Straub,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YWrcm8VcvbYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The bizarre suicide of a woman and the disappearance of her teenage son, Mark, draws the boy's uncle, Timothy Underhill, back to his hometown of Millhaven, where his investigation uncovers a neighborhood haunted by the presence of a serial killer and by an abandoned house whose inhabitant, a lost girl, may have lured Mark into her mysterious domain. Reprint.",2004,3.48,368,3940
9780449207338,0449207331,Iberia,Spanish Travels and Reflections,James Albert Michener,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G6CXVQRHZswC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Photographs and the author's personal thoughts and recollections enhance this informal portrait of Spanish life and culture,1968,3.7,960,2067
9780449210505,0449210502,The Bridge at Andau,,James A. Michener,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_Z6IPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping. His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future--until, at four o'clock in the morning on a Sunday in November, the citizens of Budapest awoke to the shattering sound of Russian tanks ravaging their streets. The revolution was over. But freedom beckoned in the form of a small footbridge at Andau, on the Austrian border. By an accident of history it became, for a few harrowing weeks, one of the most important crossings in the world, as the soul of a nation fled across its unsteady planks. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Poland. Praise for The Bridge at Andau ""Precise, vivid . . . immeasurably stirring.""--The Atlantic Monthly ""Dramatic, chilling, enraging.""--San Francisco Chronicle ""Superb.""--Kirkus Reviews ""Highly recommended reading.""--Library Journal",1985,3.94,288,1076
9780449213537,0449213536,Drifters,,James A. Michener,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DUFaAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eight wanderers, spanning three generations, find themselves thrown together in the Spanish resort town Torremolinos.",1986,4.04,768,6037
9780449218471,0449218473,Journey,,James A. Michener,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-XQ2qiWJtrQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1897, four English aristocrats and their Irish servant hazard their lives along with thousands of others in a vain, arduous trek across the Arctic in search of Klondike gold. By the author of the best-seller, Mexico. Reprint.",1994,3.8,336,1507
9780449221396,0449221393,Driving Force,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I2s25y1doC4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a hitchhiker picked up by one of his drivers is later found murdered, ex-jockey Freddie Croft, the owner of a profitable fleet of horse vans, is drawn into the mystery.",1993,3.96,384,2548
9780449224465,0449224465,Darker Than Amber,,John D. MacDonald,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=koOGPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,McGee rescues a girl who was thrown off a Florida bridge.,1996,4.04,283,2544
9780449227947,0449227944,Asylum,,John Saul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=okFLmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the conclusion to the serial thriller by the popular horror writer, newspaperman Oliver Metcalf finds the key to the grisly horrors afflicting the New England town of Blackstone in a mysterious package that arrives on his doorstep. Original.",1997,4.1,97,908
9780449452691,0449452697,Centennial,,James A. Michener,,,""" Michener is America's best writer, and he proves it once again in CENTENNIAL."" THE PITTSBURGH PRESSA stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflicts that shaped the destiny of our legendary West.",1994,4.23,1086,94
9780449700815,044970081X,Ice Castles,,Leonore Fleischer,Blind,,"Intent on becoming a champion figure skater, Alexis Winston continues training even after she is blinded in an accident.",1983,3.87,220,161
9780449702024,0449702022,Winter of Magic's Return,,Pamela F. Service,Fantasy.,,"In a time five hundred years after a nuclear holocaust, Wellington, Earl, and Heather become convinced that a new age of magic is on the way and set out to right the world's wrongs.",1986,4.25,194,227
9780449904961,0449904962,Indian Givers,How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World,J. McIver Weatherford,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7NT8PGuSCEEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Charts the wide-ranging and lasting impact of Native American culture on American and European society,1990,4.12,288,1668
9780449908402,0449908402,The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore,"Loving Fully, Living Freely",Alan Cohen,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xHx0me5kLxwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author of Dare to Be Yourself presents a series of illuminating essays designed to assist readers on a journey toward spiritual enlightenment and fulfilling self-discovery. Reprint.,1993,4.27,416,165
9780449910832,0449910830,The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton,A Novel,Jane Smiley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=In6LDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Offers the pre-Civil War memoirs of an abolitionist who in 1855 enters the fray between Kansas free-staters and slave-holding Missourians,1998,3.57,452,2080
9780449911419,0449911411,And I Don't Want to Live this Life,,Deborah Spungen,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4OkkAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control--who almost destroyed her parents' marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family. ""Honest and moving...Her painful tale is engrossing."" WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD From the Paperback edition.",1996,4.09,408,4595
9780449911839,0449911837,Davita's Harp,,Chaim Potok,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YzUDLcXxOPsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The daughter of a nonbelieving Jewish mother and a nonbelieving gentile father--dedicated Communists both--Davita Chandal, growing up as the world suffers through the Spanish Civil War and World War II, turns to Judaism for consolation and spiritual sustenance",1996,3.98,371,4869
9780449911891,0449911896,The Tin Can Tree,,Anne Tyler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=diHuC95PuLkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Following the tragic accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose, members of the Pike family, including her ten-year-old brother Simon, confront their grief in their own ways. Reader's Guide included. Reissue. 20,000 first printing.",1996,3.6,264,2325
9780449911945,0449911942,Rabbit at Rest,,John Updike,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GXWJDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award In John Updike's fourth and final novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending him mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to return to the world of work. As, through the year of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past.",1996,3.97,608,13038
9780450040184,0450040186,The Shining,,Stephen King,Boys,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tVt-uQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Danny is only five years old, but he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of an old hotel, his visions grow out of control. Cut off by blizzards, the hotel seems to develop an evil force, and who are the mysterious guests in the supposedly empty hotel?",1977,4.21,447,911271
9780450524684,045052468X,The Dark Half,,Stephen King,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0Ym_QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Written by the author of CARRIE, 'SALEM'S LOT, THE SHINING and CHRISTINE, this novel features Thad Beaumont, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has developed a lucrative thriller-writing alter ego named George Stark. He stops being fun so Beaumont wants to kill him.",1990,3.76,469,105027
9780450610097,0450610098,Nightmares and Dreamscapes,,Stephen King,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NdxgQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of horror stories.,1994,3.93,864,61981
9780451147950,0451147952,"Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal",,Ayn Rand;Clarence Belden Randall,Capitalism,,,1952,3.87,340,3426
9780451150653,0451150651,'Salem's Lot,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=icSZwYRrX9MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart, and the insular evils of small-town America.",1976,4.01,446,399
9780451155757,0451155750,The Dead Zone,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H8ruHGhl3kYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After four and a half years in a coma, Johnny Smith awakens with a knowledge of the death zone and an ability to see the future, a horrible power that he does not want and cannot escape",1980,3.92,402,145883
9780451160195,0451160193,Fools Die,A Novel,Mario Puzo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HSSZxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Merlyn and his brother, Artie, find themselves immersed in corruption and violence as they navigate the worlds of gambling, publishing, and the film industry.",1979,3.71,544,5017
9780451160317,0451160312,I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,,Joanne Greenberg,Mental illness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I2R1xwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.",1989,3.86,288,23725
9780451160522,0451160525,The Gunslinger,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6wJGxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Roland, the world's last gunslinger, tracks an enigmatic Man in Black toward a forbidding dark tower, fighting forces both mortal and other-worldly on his quest. Reissue.",1982,3.96,315,1826
9780451161352,0451161351,Cujo,A Novel,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Vy6hD4mvel8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The #1 bestseller- for King's rabid fans. Acute family dog turns into a vicious family killer in King's canine classic.,1982,3.7,304,2575
9780451163080,0451163087,For the New Intellectual,The Philosophy of Ayn Rand,Ayn Rand,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5eurZ41ne-cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Here is Ayn Rand's first non-fiction work--a challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the ""atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion"" that they create. As incisive and relevant today as it was sixty years ago, this book presents the essentials of Ayn Rand's philosophy ""for those who wish to acquire an integrated view of existence."" In the title essay, she offers an analysis of Western culture, discusses the causes of its progress, its decline, its present bankruptcy, and points the road to an intellectual renaissance. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philosophy--and ethic of rational self-interest--that stands in sharp opposition to the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality--""a philosophy for living on Earth""--are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.",1961,3.68,224,2674
9780451163936,0451163931,The Virtue of Selfishness,A New Concept of Egoism,Ayn Rand;Nathaniel Branden,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vtGzoVxe0REC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of the author's philosophy, Objectivism.",1964,3.5,176,11122
9780451166586,0451166582,The Eyes of the Dragon,A Story,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dWMsEPygyAMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After Flagg, the evil court magician, sees a mouse chance upon a grain of dragon sand behind Prince Peter's shelves and die--as did the king--in fire and smoke, he plots to imprison Peter in the Needle and seize control of the kingdom. Reissue.",1988,3.93,380,2849
9780451168610,0451168615,Skeleton Crew,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AAsZqx_jQpIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of twenty-two horror tales by the grandmaster of the genre. Reissue.,1986,3.95,566,1857
9780451169518,0451169514,It,A Novel,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kJtLVMg9_XQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A group of teenagers stumbles upon an evil force that will eventually draw them all back to Derry, Maine, for a final showdown. Reissue.",1990,4.23,1090,293877
9780451170118,0451170113,Night Shift,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jIQL9IxsU_sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty stories of horror and nightmarish fantasy transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the nonliving",1978,3.99,326,1273
9780451173317,0451173317,The Waste Lands,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kXaHJGQVZLIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The foundations of Black House were built on The Dark Tower series,1993,4.24,590,983
9780451185976,0451185978,The Langoliers,,Stephen King,Horror tales,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fTIsuJUtuc0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On a flight from Los Angeles to Boston, only 11 passengers survive--but landing in a dead world makes them wish they had not survived.",1995,3.92,761,262
9780451187260,0451187261,Matters of Choice,,Noah Gordon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eZDIpaB8VZYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Dr. Roberta Cole faces her hardest test--whether to keep the medical secret of a desperate girl or betray it to keep the love of the man who has erased the pain of her own failed marriage. Reprint.,1997,3.37,448,2548
9780451188458,0451188454,The Bone Collector,,Jeffery Deaver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eA7YPtfG1a0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Look who's back to chill readers to the bone... The first novel featuring Detective Lincoln Rhyme, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stone Monkey.",1998,4.19,528,132188
9780451190758,0451190750,Thinner,,Stephen King;Richard Bachman,Allegories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eEssEH-V3wYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For use in schools and libraries only. After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death.",1985,3.7,320,147510
9780451192523,0451192524,Ritual Sins,,Anne Stuart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EUNRNwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Intent on destroying the man who had wrung millions of dollars from her dying mother, Rachel Connery sets out to turn the tables on the notoriously manipulative, charismatic Luke Bardell, a man who relishes a challenge. Original.",1997,3.69,396,664
9780451194862,0451194861,Wizard and Glass,,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gAkYfIpKVVUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While Roland the Gunslinger and his companions leap between worlds, he relates his experiences with the elusive, powerful emotion of love in a journey into his own past",1998,4.25,702,864
9780451197962,0451197968,The Running Man,,Stephen King;Richard Bachman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3g9dN4rVVEUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Welcome to America in 2025 when the best men don't run for president. They run for thier lives--in the ultimate death game.,1999,3.86,317,79294
9780451200266,0451200268,Devil's Embrace,,Catherine Coulter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2l5yNa-GUU8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lord Anthony Welles kidnaps Cassandra Brougham, takes her away from her English fiance to Italy, and attempts to force her to marry him.",2000,3.8,397,3319
9780451203267,0451203267,The Stranger Beside Me,,Ann Rule,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H1vTjY_9R4YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the perspective of the former policewoman, crime writer, and unknowing personal friend, tells the story of Ted Bundy, a brilliant law student executed for killing three women, who confessed to killing thirty-five others.",2001,4.14,550,47930
9780451205551,0451205553,Trauma,,Graham Masterton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u7orAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It takes a lot to disturb Bonnie Winter, a working wife and mother whose job is to clean up crime scenes, as she deals with the horrors of what people do to each other every day, in this chilling short novel that explores the hidden menace in everyday life. Original.",2002,3.54,224,333
9780451206527,0451206525,Dead Sleep,,Greg Iles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zVXcq9xpAw8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A mysterious series of paintings in a Hong Kong art museum, including one featuring a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her, draws photojournalist Jordan Glass into a painful search for the murderer of her twin sister, killed one year earlier, as she becomes embroiled in a deadly duel with the anonymous killer who knows all too much about her. Reprint.",2002,4.04,452,7844
9780451206701,0451206703,Blessings from the Other Side,Wisdom and Comfort from the Afterlife for This Life,Sylvia Browne;Lindsay Harrison,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IWqaAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The noted psychic assembles a collection of reflections on forgiveness, celebrations, anniversaries, and the holidays.",2002,3.95,208,38
9780451207142,0451207149,The pillars of the earth,,Ken Follett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HdTZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A story of passion and idealism, which describes a group of men and women in the Middle Ages whosedestinies are fatefully linked with the building of a cathedral.",2002,4.31,973,530446
9780451207357,0451207351,The Love You Make,An Insider's Story of the Beatles,Peter Brown;Steven S. Gaines,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KNhjqGbX-I0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A close friend and business manager for the legendary group portrays the personal lives of the members of the Beatles, from their youth in Liverpool to their rise to success in the world of pop music to the death of John Lennon in 1980. Reprint.",1983,4.09,464,2438
9780451207500,0451207505,Trapped,,Greg Iles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mNQnPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a psychopathic con man kidnaps Will and Karen Jennings's five-year-old daughter, the couple decides to fight back to save their daughter. Reissue. (A Columbia Pictures film, releasing August 2002, starring Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, & Courtney Love) (Suspense)",2002,3.99,434,313
9780451207524,0451207521,Jackdaws,,Ken Follett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mCJ3vU6tmOYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the Allies preparing for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, Felicity ""Flick"" Clariet, a British special operations agent, must take on the job of destroying German lines of communication with the aid of an all-woman team.",2002,3.95,496,352
9780451207647,0451207645,The Oath,,John Lescroart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pgJa_33k7AQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Attorney Dismas Hardy makes a discovery that threatens his family and his friendship with homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky while representing Dr. Eric Kensing, a man accused of murdering the head of San Francisco's largest HMO.",2003,4.02,468,2681
9780451207791,0451207793,The Key to Rebecca,,Ken Follett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BGxfAVH7ppsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While Rommel's army bears down on Cairo, a ruthless Nazi agent called ""The Sphinx"" prowls the city's ancient streets to pave the way for an invasion, with no one to stand in his way but a luckless British officer and a Jewish girl, in the classic suspense novel of World War II. Reprint.",2003,3.88,352,18661
9780451208644,0451208641,Black Like Me,,John Howard Griffin,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sFhLPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A white writer recounts his experiences in the American South following treatments that darkened his skin and shares his thoughts on the problems of prejudice and racial injustice.,1996,4.13,208,52092
9780451208705,0451208706,The Man from St. Petersburg,,Ken Follett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dTA7DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Just before World War I, two men--one a noble Russian emissary, the other a denizen of Europe's underground--set in motion a concatenation of world-shaking, ultimately fatal events.",2003,3.87,320,15320
9780451209795,0451209796,Codebreakers' Victory,How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II,Hervie Haufler,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mhJnAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first ever comprehensive look at World War II codebreaking and how it changed history, veteran cryptographer Haufler's accessible account is ground-breaking work based on years of research and interviews and the mining of previously top-secret archives. In compelling detail, Haufler shows us how cryptography brought the Japanese and Germans to their knees as only one who fought on the frontlines of this 'secret war' could tell it.",2003,4.15,352,39
9780451210555,0451210557,No Second Chance,,Harlan Coben,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0CQtDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Shot twice by an unseen assailant, Dr. Marc Seidman lies in a hospital bed. His wife has been killed. His baby daughter has vanished. Then the ransom note arrives.",2004,4.07,452,21141
9780451210630,0451210638,A Case of Need,,Michael Crichton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nHJPPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a young woman dies mysteriously on an operating table and her physician is accused of murder, a colleague's investigation takes him from a deadly sex and drug underworld to the heights of Boston society as he searches for the truth. A first novel. Reissue.",2003,3.7,416,15655
9780451210845,0451210840,The Gunslinger,,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X7ZJaea0P7cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Roland, the world's last gunslinger, tracks an enigmatic Man in Black toward a forbidding dark tower, fighting forces both mortal and other-worldly on his quest",2003,3.96,300,5740
9780451210852,0451210859,The Drawing of the Three,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=78jqOFNt1ocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Roland is drawn through a gateway of time and space into the drug-and-crime-ridden world of the twentieth-century to battle a dark power determined to prevent his search for the Dark Tower.,2003,4.23,463,163647
9780451210906,0451210905,A Whole Lotta Love,,Donna Hill;Brenda Jackson;Monica Jackson;Francis Ray,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=39uMGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Four curvaceous bombshells find love and romance in a delightful collection that features Donna Hill's Over the Rainbow, in which full-figured restaurateur Jessica Morgan finds the man of her dreams when she poses for a plus-size magazine, as well as other works by Brenda Jackson, Monica Jackson, and Francis Ray. Original.",2004,4.46,384,646
9780451211477,0451211472,Night Over Water,,Ken Follett,FICTION,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zKc_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An English aristocrat, a German scientist, a murderer, a thief, and a beautiful woman are among the desperate passengers who board the most luxurious airliner ever built to escape from England just two days after the 1939 declaration of war against Germany. Reprint. 12,000 first printing.",2004,3.81,448,13965
9780451211576,045121157X,Monkeewrench,,P. J. Tracy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IHFKPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Grace McBride and the team at her software company are horrified when events in their murder mystery computer game are replicated in the real world by a ruthless killer, a situation that prompts them to analyze the game in order to anticipate his next move. Reprint.",2004,4.12,421,7696
9780451213099,0451213092,On Wings of Eagles,,Ken Follett,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D4g-DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recreates the harrowing, real-life adventure of the successful prison break engineered by Col. Bull Simons, a World War II and Vietnam commando, who rescued two Texans imprisoned in a Teheran jail on behalf of Ross Perot. Reprint.",2004,3.93,416,7462
9780451213235,0451213238,The Agony and the Ecstasy,A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo,Irving Stone,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U-aHPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A classic historical novel honoring the five hundredth anniversary of the artist's famed David sculpture dramatizes the life of the Renaissance artistic genius Michelangelo, recalls his love affairs, his disputes with cardinals and popes, and his years of working on the Sistine Chapel. Reprint.",1961,4.07,776,903
9780451215772,045121577X,The Innocent,,Harlan Coben,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=htnPvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Years after being released from jail, Matt Hunter's hopes of moving on with his pregnant wife are shattered when he becomes the focus of a serial murder investigation.",2006,3.96,503,20470
9780451216779,0451216776,Dispatch,,Bentley Little,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u2lLGZbVPQoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A man with a talent for writing letters that get results, from editorials to complaints to love letters--Jason Handford is delighted when he is offered a job to write letters for a living, until he discovers that his new career has horrific implications. Original.",2005,3.61,386,1259
9780451216953,0451216954,Dark Lover,A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood,J. R. Ward,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6dP7ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When one of his most trusted fighters is killed, orphaning a half-breed daughter, Wrath, the only purebred vampire left on Earth, finds Beth Randall and ushers her into the world of the undead where she must fulfill her destiny by his side. Original.",2005,4.2,393,250693
9780451217400,0451217403,The Godfather,,Mario Puzo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=acy0U6WyM7MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A portrait of a Mafia family focuses on the life and times of patriarch Don Vito Corleone, a Sicilian-American godfather, and his sons.",2005,4.37,448,177
9780451217417,0451217411,Black Sunday,,Thomas Harris,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=du1sdvdQ2lQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An Arab terrorist group engages an American Navy pilot to bomb the Super Bowl football game.,2005,3.6,311,6784
9780451217608,0451217608,Bitter is the New Black,"Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-centered Smart-ass, Or, why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office : a Memoir",Jen Lancaster,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p-fEDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A hilarious memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life, perfect job, and perfect man vanish when she goes from a six-figures career to unemployment. Original.",2006,3.9,400,43933
9780451217769,0451217764,A Certain Justice,,John T. Lescroart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YKLZ6QLkkVEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A novel that examines the nature of justice--and injustice--follows an ordinary man who, through no fault of his own, is hounded, hunted, and almost destroyed for a crime he did not commit.",2006,4,624,2921
9780451218049,0451218043,Lover Eternal,A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood,J. R. Ward,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5tyYDAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fierce warrior and legendary lover, Rhage, a vampire cursed by the Scribe Virgin and owned by the dark side, finds salvation in Mary Luce, the innocent young beauty he has sworn to protect, and together they battle against their enemies and fight for eternal love. Original.",2006,4.35,441,152091
9780451219244,0451219244,Promise Me,,Harlan Coben,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IaYTSP42YUQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar offers a ride home to a young girl to prevent her from accepting a ride from a drunk driver, but when the girl disappears, he is forced to rescue her to prove his innocence.",2007,3.98,504,20365
9780451219367,0451219368,Lover Awakened,A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood,J. R. Ward,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FoubDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Zsadist, the most feared member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, rescues Bella from the evil Lessening Society, he is nearly driven insane by rage against her tormentors, and must confront his tortured past in order to have a future with this brave beauty who is his destiny. Original.",2006,4.45,448,141779
9780451219442,0451219449,Belle Ruin,,Martha Grimes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9DmkaAnLfrgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discovering the crumbling remains of a once-fabulous hotel in the woods near her small home town, twelve-year-old cub reporter Emma Graham stumbles upon clues pertaining to a forty-year-old unsolved crime involving deeply buried family secrets. By the author of The Winds of Change. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.",2006,3.51,368,1125
9780451219718,0451219716,What Angels Fear,A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery,C. S. Harris,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5FIoDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The prime suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a young woman whose body is left in an ancient church, young aristocrat Sebastian St. Cyr becomes a fugitive and flees a ruthless powerbroker with ties to the Prince Regent. Reprint.",2006,3.89,410,9606
9780451219954,0451219953,The Last Templar,,Raymond Khoury,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gU4I5BC5nLYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the opening gala of a Vatican exhibit attended by archaeologist Tess Chaykin is stormed by four horsemen dressed as Templar Knights who steal an artifact, FBI anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly and Tess team up for an investigation. Reprint.",2006,3.6,523,36519
9780451220721,0451220722,The Old Wine Shades,A Richard Jury Mystery,Martha Grimes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cIomFjp_x30C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-NOW IN PAPERBACK,2007,3.61,391,2566
9780451221254,0451221257,"Bright Lights, Big Ass","A Self-indulgent, Surly Ex-sorority Girl's Guide to why it Often Sucks in the City, Or, Who are These Idiots and why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?",Jen Lancaster,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mpSuFnlGo5MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A hilarious new memoir by the best-selling author of Bitter Is the New Black chronicles the not-so-wonderful moments of her life in the big city, from reporting rude neighbors to Homeland Security or harboring a crush on her grocery store clerk, to fighting and losing the Battle of the Stairmaster. Original.",2007,4.06,380,28477
9780451406286,0451406281,Angel Christmas,,Topaz;Mary Balogh;Emma Merritt;Marilyn Campbell;Patricia Rice;Carole Nelson Douglas,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U0ymAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Five yuletide romances about divine intervention include Mary Balogh's ""Guarded by Angels,"" Marilyn Campbell's ""The Trouble With Angelina,"" Carole Nelson Douglas's ""Catch a Falling Angel,"" Emma Merritt's ""Brush of Angel Wings,"" and Patricia Rice's ""Tin Angel."" Original.",1995,3.56,384,70
9780451408693,0451408691,Shadow Lover,,Anne Stuart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e18HAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Taking care of her dying Aunt Sally, the only mother she has ever known, Carolyn Smith is stunned when Sally's son Alex returns after eighteen years, especially since she witnessed his murder on the night of his supposed disappearance, and as she races against time to expose the sensual imposter, she enters a world of dark secrets, passion, and deceit. Original.",1999,3.8,320,1105
9780451409225,0451409221,The Medusa Stone,,Jack Du Brul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FFi12aWgYlYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ten years ago, the American spy satellite Medusa malfunctioned and crashed--but not before its sensors revealed a secret buried deep in the Earth, hidden for thousands of years from the eyes of man. It's a priceless discovery that some will die to find--and kill to possess.",2000,4.09,464,1312
9780451409638,0451409639,Pandora's Curse,,Jack Du Brul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MqHTpboViNcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A deadly fifty-year-old secret from World War II, hidden away at a top-secret Nazi submarine base, could spell disaster for the modern world when a ruthless corporate mercenary plans to hold the entire world hostage, unless geologist Philip Mercer and his colleague, Anika Klein, can stop him. Original.",2001,4.17,472,1541
9780451410542,0451410548,River of Ruin,,Jack Du Brul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BknFmsMfibcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bidding on a rare diary, written during the French attempt to dig the Panama Canal, geologist Philip Mercer finds himself caught up in a complex Chinese plot to trigger a shift in the world's balance of power.",2002,4.19,534,1162
9780451411181,0451411188,Deep Fire Rising,,Jack Du Brul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ps9bE_2GyucC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dr. Philip Mercer, a wealthy geologist charged with overseeing the installation of a temporary nuclear waste holding tank at Nevada's infamous Area 51, discovers a secret group called the Order and their plans for world domination.",2003,4.17,483,1021
9780451411617,0451411617,Jerusalem Inn,,Martha Grimes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4eeMF4ULOkEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard spends his Christmas holiday at a colorful country inn near a vast estate inhabited by the titled, the rich, the famous, and, suddenly, the deceased. Reprint.",2004,3.96,320,3429
9780451412102,0451412109,Vulcan's Forge,,Jack Du Brul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7ApaxBjBnicC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The dramatic eruption of a volcano in the Pacific Ocean results in a world-wide battle for domination when it becomes obvious that Vulcan's Forge can provide a limitless supply of clean nuclear energy.,2005,3.99,372,3296
9780451412119,0451412117,Charon's Landing,,Jack Du Brul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pSqCw3yLg1MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Paid millions of dollars by a rogue Arab oil minister to sabotage the Alaska pipeline, Russian mastermind Ivan Kerikov accidentally crosses paths with geologist Philip Mercer, who begins to unravel a tangled web of ecological and economic terrorism. Reprint.",2006,4.07,496,1069
9780451412355,0451412354,Lover Revealed,A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood,J. R. Ward;Jessica Bird Ward,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PDKAAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The only human allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, ex-homicide cop Butch O'Neal, after saving a civilian vampire from the dreaded slayers, is left for dead and only the aristocratic vampire beauty he desires can bring him back. Original.",2007,4.3,455,104180
9780451450647,0451450647,Robot Visions,,Isaac Asimov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6lYJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Spanning Asimov's fifty-year career, this collection of eighteen stories and essays offers a visionary study of humanity's future relationship with robots, including both classic and original pieces, all based on Asimov's three laws of robotics. Reissue.",1991,4.22,496,7425
9780451452580,0451452585,Dealing in Futures,,Joe Haldeman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y5sBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This collection contains eleven of the author's finest stories, ranging from faraway planets beyond human comprehension to a nightmare future Earth. By the author of The Forever War. Original.",1993,3.72,352,185
9780451452610,0451452615,Bored of the Rings,A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings,Henry Beard;Harvard Lampoon;Douglas C. Kenney,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9kt9QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two authors from The Harvard Lampoon present a hilarious parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy, The Lord of the Rings. Reprint.",1993,3.12,149,4325
9780451452887,0451452887,The Innkeeper's Song,A Novel,Peter S. Beagle,Fiction,,"As Tikat searches for the lover whose death and resurrection he witnessed, he meets three women--each of whom hides a secret, and who respectively each undertake her own impossible mission. By the author of The Last Unicorn.",1993,3.89,346,1979
9780451454249,0451454243,The Forest House,,Marion Zimmer Bradley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=68RD0_Io7S0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a tale set in Druidic England, Eilan feels torn between her love for a young Roman soldier and her inner need to become a priestess for her Goddess",1995,3.86,462,14898
9780451456816,0451456815,Not of Woman Born,,Constance Ash;Robert A. Silverberg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nOEIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of stories that detail modern science's effect on humankind's notions of conception, birth, and parenting includes contributions from Michael Armstrong, Robert Silverberg, Susan Palwick, and others",1999,3.8,288,59
9780451457592,0451457595,The River's Gift,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qLonvb7XtRMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fifteen-year-old Ariella spends her days in the forest caring for the animals, but when her father dies and she is threatened with marriage to a cousin she has never seen, a remarkable horselike creature from the woods will reward the girl's compassion with a special gift.",1999,3.88,128,1029
9780451461636,0451461630,Thin Air,,Rachel Caine,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kzuPoTva2bsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin prevents Mother Earth from destroying the planet, she struggles to recover her identity after losing her memories at the hands of a vengeful jinn.",2007,3.96,307,5824
9780451523938,0451523938,Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,,Robert Louis Stevenson;Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7VtGPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A humane scientist attempts to explore the most loathsome forces of evil behind the doors of his London laboratory,1987,3.8,128,434
9780451525260,0451525264,Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation,,Victor Hugo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x1mNsVDyoSAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean has difficulty adjusting to the outside world, which scorns and shuns him",1987,4.16,1463,559595
9780451526915,0451526910,Arrowsmith,,Sinclair Lewis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ce0EYs267ZEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A man of science must overcome public ignorance and the petty greed of associates as he seeks knowledge,1998,3.81,428,5741
9780451527035,0451527038,The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories,,Jack London,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LuuBx2SATXIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a collection of tales that explore the adventures and hardships of man and beast in the frigid Yukon and other northern territories.,1998,3.83,192,53
9780451527363,0451527364,The Odyssey,The Story of Odysseus,Homer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h7um_MHBNFoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents in prose translation the story of Odysseus' return from the Trojan War to his homeland,1999,3.75,304,252
9780451527400,0451527402,Beowulf,The British tradition,Burton Raffel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CcMDLQSuecIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The oldest extant poem in a modern European language chronicles a feudal newly Christianized world still populated by the monsters and demons of the ancient world. Reprint.,1999,3.43,160,2735
9780451527455,0451527453,Great Dialogues of Plato,,Plato,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gUja4HKRVe0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new translation of the complete texts of the Republic, Apology, Crito Phaido, Ion, Meno, and Symposium reveals the genius of Plato as he struggled with education, justice, the ""philosopher king,"" and utopian visions of society. Reprint. BAKER & TAYLOR Bks",1999,4.16,528,1891
9780451527882,0451527887,The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,,Victor Hugo;Walter J. Cobb,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xDgIhiqgHdIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the famed novel set against the backdrop of medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed. Reissue.",2001,3.99,510,136349
9780451527929,0451527925,Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained,,John Milton,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BdQYA3-EhmkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the complete texts of the seventeenth-century English poet's two great epic poems about creation, fall, and redemption of humankind and the moral and spiritual dilemmas of God's judgment. Reprint.",2001,4.08,357,320
9780451528018,0451528018,The Hound of the Baskervilles,,Arthur Conan Doyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VM5J5_0wW8AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sir Charles Baskerville's sudden heart attack and death have the townspeople in shock and searching for the one to blame--the family dog--while Sherlock Holmes leads the investigation.,2001,4.1,256,178632
9780451528209,0451528204,Madame Bovary,,Gustave Flaubert;Mildred Marmur,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t_Q_TncPS1UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An ordinary woman's unfulfilled dreams of romantic love lead her to a series of desperate acts, including adultery, in a classic novel set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century bourgeois France. Reissue.",2001,3.66,448,468
9780451528308,0451528301,Ten Great Works of Philosophy,,Robert Paul Wolff,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uMxnFS4jS88C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From ancient Greece to 19th-century America, this collection traces the history of civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers including Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Stuart Mill, and others.",2002,3.82,592,85
9780451528520,0451528522,The Invisible Man,,Herbert George Wells,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pGDCwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A scientist who has discovered a way to make himself invisible unleashes his growing madness and frustrations by terrorizing a small town, in a new edition of the science fiction classic. Reprint.",2002,3.63,192,101659
9780451528551,0451528557,The Time Machine,,Herbert George Wells,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QheiKTNdrQoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A classic novel of the future follows the Time Traveller as he hurtles one million years into the future and encounters a world populated by two distinct races, the childlike Eloi and the disgusting Morlocks who prey on the Eloi. Reprint.",2002,3.88,118,320900
9780451528643,0451528646,"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, And, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",,Mark Twain,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hrQMxsCJIAoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new edition of two popular American novels presents Twain's classic works depicting the youthful escapades of two boys living along the Mississippi, accompanied by an updated bibliography and a new introduction. Reprint.",2002,4.08,520,32742
9780451528803,0451528808,The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories,,graf Leo Tolstoy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XBVzkO6sKOsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Murder, greed, lust, vanity, love-four of Tolstoy's most famous and essential stories in one volume.",2003,4.1,304,7123
9780451528827,0451528824,Anne of Green Gables,,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n92H8Sb-tKgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Everyone's favorite redhead, the spunky Anne Shirley, begins her adventures at Green Gables, a farm outside Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. When the freckled girl realizes that the elderly Cuthberts wanted to adopt a boy instead, she begins to try to win them?and, consequently, the reader?over.",2003,4.24,320,583568
9780451528834,0451528832,Grade 4 Common Core Exemplar Collection,,,English language,,"""Common Core Classroom Collections include a mix of titles representing the level of complexing and quality required by the Common Core State Standards""--Publisher's website.",,4.13,281,1709
9780451529060,0451529065,The Origin of Species,By Means of Natural Selection of the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life,Charles Darwin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xxCZsO5hWJoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"States the evidence for a theory of evolution, explains how evolution takes place, and discusses instinct, hybridism, fossils, distribution and classification.",2003,3.99,576,760
9780451529251,0451529251,Wuthering Heights,,Emily Bronte;Emily Brontë,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FW9-yWeWuPwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,No Marketing Blurb,2004,3.84,322,1894
9780451529510,0451529510,The Travels of Marco Polo,,Marco Polo;Milton Rugoff;Howard Mittelmark,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UbaqNAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicling the 13th-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, Tibet, India, and, finally, China. This edition includes a new Introduction and a new Foreword. Original.",2004,3.59,297,64
9780451529770,0451529774,Around the World in Eighty Days,,Jules Verne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=INID2nIhzqoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the adventures of English gentleman Phileas Fogg and his manservant, Passepartout, on their journey around the world in the late nineteenth century.",2005,3.92,236,148
9780451530042,0451530047,David Copperfield,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0eESDQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"David Copperfield suffers from his abusive stepfather and the betrayal of the scheming Uriah Heep, finds a new life with his formidable aunt, and falls in love with Dora, as he fights to escape his impoverished and unhappy childhood.",2006,3.98,928,352
9780451530097,0451530098,Pygmalion,A Romance in Five Acts,Bernard Shaw;Alan Jay Lerner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3Q9XQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Accompanied by the adaptation and lyrics of the Broadway play ""My Fair Lady,"" this play follows Professor Henry Higgins as he transforms a rough-hewn girl into a sophisticated lady of society.",1980,4.25,240,14709
9780451530158,0451530152,A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,,James Joyce,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=re9vDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows rebellious artist Stephen Dedalus from his days as a young student to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, to his college years, during which he challenges the conventions of his upbringing.",2006,3.61,256,417
9780451530370,0451530373,"Chekhov, the Major Plays",,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RvdPAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This volume includes the classic plays Ivanov (1889), The Sea Gull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1902), Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904); each a masterwork of naturalistic drama.",2006,4.18,406,94
9780451530387,0451530381,The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth,,Andrew Carnegie,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xkblhKZ7tg8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the life and work of Andrew Carnegie, describing how he left Scotland at age thirteen, began a menial job at a bobbin factory, and eventually amassed a fortune, most of which he gave to charitable causes.",2006,4,336,346
9780451530462,0451530462,Howards End,,Edward Morgan Forster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A2byngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The classic novel explores the divisions of culture and class in late-Victorian England through the story of a disputed inheritance.,2007,3.96,312,101
9780452007178,0452007178,Four Plays,,Aristophanes,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VR-vw70l8QcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Classic Greek plays offer a caricature of Socrates, a flawed utopia, a clever plan to gain peace, and a debate between deceased playwrights",1984,4.06,624,5986
9780452011670,0452011671,The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles,"Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone",Sophocles;Paul Roche,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9g55SgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Contains the complete texts of Sophocles' Theban trilogy about a noble family's fall from wealth and power by pride, incest, suicide, and murder.",1996,3.97,288,529
9780452011878,0452011876,Atlas Shrugged,,Ayn Rand,Capitalism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TecPMQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The decisions of a few industrial leaders shake the roots of capitalism and reawaken man's awareness of himself as an heroic being.,1957,3.68,1168,311883
9780452156616,0452156610,Sleeping Beauty Novels,,A.N. Roquelaure,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z6AvGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Celebrate the daring gifts of Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, with this beautifully repackaged boxed set of the three erotic novels in her acclaimed Sleeping Beauty trilogy.",1999,3.99,724,10728
9780452253803,0452253802,Stephen King's Creepshow,A George A. Romero Film,Stephen King;Berni Wrightson;Michele Wrightson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nsOHOgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stories in comic strip form tell of a murdered man returning from the grave, a bizarre meteor, a monster that devours people, a husband's terrible revenge, and a plague of cockroaches",1982,4.07,66,33816
9780452260115,0452260116,Song of Solomon,,Toni Morrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-FDBtB705qcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This novel takes readers into a magical and richly peopled world which encompasses four generations of African American life. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.,1987,4.04,337,1647
9780452265813,0452265819,"Because it is Bitter, and Because it is My Heart",,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XucKBeVujdUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A white woman and a black woman in upstate New York during the 1950s are strangely and fatefully linked when one witnesses a murderous street fight in which the other is involved,1991,3.89,416,2631
9780452268180,0452268184,When Food is Love,Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy,Geneen Roth,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ICute3VbMQcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An examination of the link between eating disorders and the need for intimacy explains how eating disorders sabotage intimate relationships and why many people overeat to satisfy their emotional hunger. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",1992,4.04,224,1474
9780452270831,0452270839,Feeding the Hungry Heart,The Experience of Compulsive Eating,Geneen Roth,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ba4EAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the experiences of compulsive eaters, examines their obsessions with both food and thinness, and tells how to change one's attitude about eating. Reissue.",1993,3.97,224,717
9780452270848,0452270847,Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating,,Geneen Roth,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ECphPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides the support and practical advice necessary for readers to restructure their bad eating patterns.,1984,4.01,224,179
9780452272262,0452272262,"The Porcelain Dove, Or, Constancy's Reward",,Delia Sherman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C43gAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Narrated by the family's chatterbox chambermaid, it is a rich, sinister, and funny novel of romance, sorcery, and aristocracy.",1994,3.42,416,203
9780452273085,0452273080,For Keeps,,Pauline Kael,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2HlVPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of film reviews, most of them originally published in the ""New Yorker,"" selected from the author's previous collections, covers movies from ""Hud"" to ""Dances with Wolves""",1996,4.47,1312,360
9780452274426,0452274427,In the Time of the Butterflies,,Julia Alvarez,Dominican Republic,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kzozxAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The life and death of three revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic, told by a surviving fourth. One by one the Mirabal Sisters, as they were known, join the opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship in the 1950s, suffering imprisonment and torture while their men watch powerless. They are released, then one night their jeep is ambushed. A story based on real events by the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.",1994,4.14,324,44546
9780452275003,0452275008,Zombie,,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-heVpwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After Quentin P, a convicted sex offender, is paroled, he embarks on a series of murders, in a chilling book that is told from Quentin's point of view as he kills and eludes the police. Reprint.",1996,3.34,181,5722
9780452276963,0452276969,The McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook,Over 300 Delicious Low-Fat Recipes You Can Prepare in Fifteen Minutes Or Less,John A. McDougall;Mary McDougall,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OUk4swEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The authors of The McDougall Program and The McDougall Program for a Healthy Heart present more than three hundred delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes for wholesome salads, appetizers, main and side dishes, and desserts, all of which are meatless, dairyless, and virtually fat-free. Reprint.",1999,3.98,336,294
9780452277243,0452277248,Man Crazy,A Novel,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UqbTsoto9QQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Follows a young woman from her early life on the run with her mother to her involvement with a cult and her struggle to free herself of its influence over her,1998,3.39,282,118
9780452278158,0452278155,Savage Love,Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist,Dan Savage,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iWmsV0n0mNYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An original and funny thinker, trashing around in the playground of human sexuality, Savage advises on a wide range of titillating topics.",1998,3.84,352,885
9780452278875,0452278872,Journals of Ayn Rand,,Ayn Rand;Leonard Peikoff;David Harriman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HKivDAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The private journals of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century reveal the progression of Rand's literary and philosophical ideals,1999,3.95,752,307
9780452280670,0452280672,Something to Declare,,Julia Alvarez,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MStSPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author traces her life as the daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic and her efforts to assimilate and to become a writer.,1999,3.98,300,711
9780452281257,0452281253,Anthem,,Ayn Rand,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z2s-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a future world where all individuality has been crushed, a man--Equality 7-2521--dares to defy the ideals of collectivism, make personal choices, seek forbidden knowledge, and love the woman he desires.",1999,3.63,105,106642
9780452281325,0452281326,The Feeling Good Handbook,,David D. Burns,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=akVIQFz0Cx4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses how to overcome fears, phobias, and panic attacks; improve intimate communication, and cope with anxiety disorders, and includes information about commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs",1999,4,729,4666
9780452281431,0452281431,Beauty's Punishment,,A. N. Roquelaure;Anne Rice,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mJHgAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Beauty is sold into erotic slavery and forced to obey the orders of the Captain and Mistress Lockley,1984,3.62,233,21844
9780452282094,0452282098,City of God,a novel,E. L. Doctorow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yT9aAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The theft and mysterious reappearance of a cross from a Manhattan church precipitates a hunt for the culprits that will soon uncover a strange prophecy about a rebirth of the United States. Reprint.,2001,3.41,272,2315
9780452282179,0452282179,Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Lover,101 True Stories of Soul Mates Brought Together by Divine Intervention,Arielle Ford,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IUkMAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a collection of 101 true-life stories about couples who have been brought together by divine intervention and other miraculous events.,2001,4.11,412,36
9780452282193,0452282195,The Bluest Eye,,Toni Morrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nny9cICuRQIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.,1994,4,216,3262
9780452282827,0452282829,We Were the Mulvaneys,,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FBtVGkViY7cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Mulvaneys, at first a close and very lucky family, drift apart over the years, until the youngest son, Judd, discovers the secret of their downfall and sets out to help reunite the family",1996,3.72,454,83736
9780452284234,0452284236,1984,,George Orwell,London (England),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ocq6hABFxOEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government, considered a ""Negative Utopia,"" watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by.",2003,4.17,339,9298
9780452284555,0452284554,Riding the Bus with My Sister,A True Life Journey,Rachel Simon,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZcVHPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author describes the year she spent riding the buses of her Pennsylvania city with her sister, and how taking part in those journeys allowed her to slow down her life and develop stronger interpersonal connections.",2003,3.75,304,5020
9780452284982,0452284988,A Long Short War,The Postponed Liberation of Iraq,Christopher Hitchens,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Oc9laDDP6M8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents an eyewitness account of the 2003 war in Iraq while arguing that the war actually began in 1990 when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and discusses how the conflict has divided public opinion.",2002,3.74,112,363
9780452285934,0452285933,Stolen,,Kelley Armstrong,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V12ZZ0_kDdgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The only living female werewolf, thirty-year-old Elena Michaels takes on a mission to confront Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has been capturing Elena's fellow paranormal brethren, conducting experiments on them, and hunting them to their deaths in a live video game. By the author of Bitten. Reprint.",2004,4.15,468,36843
9780452286030,0452286034,Bitten,,Kelley Armstrong,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HoU1H7g0sCgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.",2004,4.05,436,77935
9780452286535,0452286530,The Jane Austen Book Club,,Karen Joy Fowler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ucmLDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love, in a comedy of contemporary manners. By the author of Sarah Canary. Reprint.",2005,3.08,288,56434
9780452287068,0452287065,The Bluest Eye,,Toni Morrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-f5TPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"To commemorate Morrison's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Knopf here republishes her full canon of novels. This edition of ""The Bluest Eye"" (1970) contains a new afterword by the author.",2005,4.01,216,121960
9780452287075,0452287073,How the García Girls Lost Their Accents,,Julia Alvarez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EYJGPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcias--Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters--must learn a new way of life in the Bronx, while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved.",2005,3.63,304,17234
9780452288195,0452288193,War and Peace and War,The Rise and Fall of Empires,Peter Turchin,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cOXJjgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Argues that the key to the formation of an empire lies in a society's capacity for collective action, resulting from people banding together to confront a common enemy, and describing how the growth of empires leads to a growing dichotomy between rich and poor, increasing conflict instead of cooperation, and inevitable dissolution. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2007,4.15,416,252
9780453005074,0453005071,The Bachman Books,Four Early Novels,Stephen King,Fiction,,"A collection of Stephen King's early works, written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman",1977,4.11,692,1064
9780465003129,0465003125,The Sword and the Shield,The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB,Christopher Andrew;Vasili Mitrokhin,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9TWUAQ7Xof8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fascinating description of a treasure trove of secret documents found by the FBI offers facts about every country in the world, as well as information that contributes to the history of the last century. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.",1999,3.93,736,1085
9780465007806,0465007805,The Clock Of The Long Now,Time and Responsibility,Stewart Brand,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9Q18tAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? Discipline in thought allows freedom. One needs the space and reliability to predict continuity to have the confidence not to be afraid of revolutions Taking the time to think of the future is more essential now than ever, as culture accelerates beyond its ability to be measured Probable things are vastly outnumbered by countless near-impossible eventualities. Reality is statistically forced to be extraordinary; fiction is not allowed this freedom This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.",2000,4.11,208,508
9780465008025,046500802X,The Evolution of Desire,Strategies of Human Mating,David M. Buss,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ns9rNl3am34C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,David Buss updates his classic study of the origin of human mating behavior with fascinating new research.,2003,4.07,354,1320
9780465014873,0465014879,Crime And Punishment In American History,,Lawrence Friedman,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ynzODQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A history of the criminal justice system from colonial times to the present argues that the evolution of the criminal justice system has reflected transformations in American culture, economics, politics, and social structure",1994,3.89,590,108
9780465014903,0465014909,The Culture of Fear,Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things,Barry Glassner,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E6n9rZokBXQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear describes the high costs of living in a fear-ridden environment where realism has become rarer than doors without deadbolts.Why do we have so many fears these days? Are we living in exceptionally dangerous times? To watch the news, you'd certainly think so, but Glassner demonstrates that it is our perception of danger that has increased, not the actual level of risk. The Culture of Fear is an expose of the people and organizations that manipulate our perceptions and profit from our fears: politicians who win elections by heightening concerns about crime and drug use even as rates for both are declining; advocacy groups that raise money by exaggerating the prevalence of particular diseases; TV newsmagazines that monger a new scare every week to garner ratings.Glassner spells out the prices we pay for social panics: the huge sums of money that go to waste on unnecessary programs and products as well as time and energy spent worrying about our fears.",2000,3.7,210,3025
9780465016907,0465016901,The Drama of the Gifted Child,The Search for the True Self,,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TgtTzYqHdEQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents’ expectations and win their ”love.” Alice Miller writes, ”When I used the word ’gifted’ in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb… Without this ’gift’ offered us by nature, we would not have survived.” But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.",1997,4.09,144,11373
9780465016914,046501691X,Drama Of The Gifted,,Alice Miller,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bWHZ4krDO1YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Examines the cyclical patterns of parental exploitation and the resulting loss of self-esteem in their children.,1990,4.09,118,94
9780465017744,0465017746,After Theory,,Terry Eagleton,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aJiNswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As heralded everywhere from NPR to the pages of the New York Times Magazine, a new era is underway in our colleges and universities: after a lengthy tenure, the dominance of postmodern theory has come to an end. In this timely and topical book, the legendary Terry Eagleton (""one of [our] best-known public intellectuals.""-Boston Globe) traces the rise and fall of these ideas from the 1960s through the 1990s, candidly assessing the resultant gains and losses. What's needed now, After Theory argues, is a return to the big questions and grand narratives. Today's global politics demand we pay attention to a range of topics that have gone ignored by the academy and public alike, from fundamentalism to objectivity, religion to ethics. Fresh, provocative, and consistently engaging, Eagleton's latest salvo will challenge everyone looking to better grasp the state of the world.",2004,3.83,240,756
9780465023950,0465023959,The Pleasure of Finding Things Out,The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman,Richard Phillips Feynman,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s6LzV_U6PskC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of short works by the noted scientist includes his report on the space shuttle Challenger disaster and his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.,1999,4.25,270,8014
9780465024964,0465024963,The Classical World,An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian,Robin Lane Fox,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Srhcjy8JTaEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Armies and empires, statesmen and tyrants--the acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox vividly recounts the history of two great civilizations and one thousand years that forged the Western world",2005,3.92,672,1222
9780465031269,0465031269,Why is sex fun?,the evolution of human sexuality,Jared M. Diamond,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e7IPAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why are human females the only mammals to go through menopause? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? There is no more knowledgeable authority than the award-winning author of THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE to answer these intriguing questions. Here is a delightfully entertaining and enlightening look at the unique sex lives of humans.,1997,3.71,176,4256
9780465037384,0465037380,Knowledge And Decisions,,Thomas Sowell,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oaKSswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Annointed, Sowell, one of America's most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns that society suffers from an ever-widening gap between firsthand knowledge and decision making—a gap that threatens not only our economic and political efficiency, but our very freedom because actual knowledge gets replaced by assumptions based on an abstract and elitist social vision f what ought to be.Knowledge and Decisions, a winner of the 1980 Law and Economics Center Prize, was heralded as a ”landmark work” and selected for this prize ”because of its cogent contribution to our understanding of the differences between the market process and the process of government.” In announcing the award, the center acclaimed Sowell, whose ”contribution to our understanding of the process of regulation alone would make the book important, but in reemphasizing the diversity and efficiency that the market makes possible, [his] work goes deeper and becomes even more significant.”",1996,4.38,422,720
9780465056743,0465056741,Philosophy In The Flesh,,George Lakoff,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=csAStAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the center of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing them, philosophers have made certain fundamental assumptions-that we can know our own minds by introspection, that most of our thinking about the world is literal, and that reason is disembodied and universal-that are now called into question by well-established results of cognitive science. It has been shown empirically that:Most thought is unconscious. We have no direct conscious access to the mechanisms of thought and language. Our ideas go by too quickly and at too deep a level for us to observe them in any simple way.Abstract concepts are mostly metaphorical. Much of the subject matter of philosopy, such as the nature of time, morality, causation, the mind, and the self, relies heavily on basic metaphors derived from bodily experience. What is literal in our reasoning about such concepts is minimal and conceptually impoverished. All the richness comes from metaphor. For instance, we have two mutually incompatible metaphors for time, both of which represent it as movement through space: in one it is a flow past us and in the other a spatial dimension we move along.Mind is embodied. Thought requires a body-not in the trivial sense that you need a physical brain to think with, but in the profound sense that the very structure of our thoughts comes from the nature of the body. Nearly all of our unconscious metaphors are based on common bodily experiences.Most of the central themes of the Western philosophical tradition are called into question by these findings. The Cartesian person, with a mind wholly separate from the body, does not exist. The Kantian person, capable of moral action according to the dictates of a universal reason, does not exist. The phenomenological person, capable of knowing his or her mind entirely through introspection alone, does not exist. The utilitarian person, the Chomskian person, the poststructuralist person, the computational person, and the person defined by analytic philosopy all do not exist.Then what does?Lakoff and Johnson show that a philosopy responsible to the science of mind offers radically new and detailed understandings of what a person is. After first describing the philosophical stance that must follow from taking cognitive science seriously, they re-examine the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self: then they rethink a host of philosophical traditions, from the classical Greeks through Kantian morality through modern analytic philosopy. They reveal the metaphorical structure underlying each mode of thought and show how the metaphysics of each theory flows from its metaphors. Finally, they take on two major issues of twentieth-century philosopy: how we conceive rationality, and how we conceive language.",1999,4.07,640,1100
9780465069347,0465069347,The Republic of Plato,Second Edition,Allan Bloom,Philosophy,,"Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. This second edition includes a new introduction by Professor Bloom, whose careful translation and interpretation of The Republic was first published in 1968. In addition to the corrected text itself there is also a rich and valuable essay—as well as indexes—which will better enable the reader to approach the heart of Plato's intention.",1991,3.93,487,1637
9780465069903,0465069908,River Out of Eden,A Darwinian View of Life,Richard Dawkins,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U5z2vQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"How did the replication bomb we call ”life” begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as ”the sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius”), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery.",1996,3.97,172,5653
9780465070596,0465070590,Shattered Bonds,The Color of Child Welfare,Dorothy E. Roberts,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D47-Km6fyNkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Identifies a disproportionate representation of African-American children in the U.S. foster care system, noting racial disparities and political policies that negatively impact black communities, contribute to child poverty rates, and adversely separate families. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2002,4.2,352,145
9780465081424,0465081428,A Conflict Of Visions,,Thomas Sowell,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DNXk8bV6vaoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the ""constrained"" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the ""unconstrained"" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.",2002,4.32,304,1668
9780465081431,0465081436,Applied Economics,Thinking Beyond Stage One,Thomas Sowell,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2JqpPY5zXtMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A companion volume to Basic Economics discusses the application of economics to such world problems as medical care, discrimination, and the development of nations, examining economic policies in terms of their immediate and longer-term repercussions.",2004,4.14,256,1466
9780465081981,0465081983,Stephen Hawking's Universe,The Cosmos Explained,David Filkin,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q1XgUZzNFGoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. Now, in everyday language, Stephen Hawking's Universe reveals step-by-step how we can all share his understanding of the cosmos, and our own place within it. Stargazing has never been the same since cosmologists discovered that galaxies are moving away from each other at an extraordinary speed. It was this understanding of the movement of galaxies that allowed scientists to develop a theory of how the universe was created—the Big Bang theory. Working with this theory, Stephen Hawking and other physicists felt challenged to come up with a scientific picture that would tackle the fundamental question: what is the nature of the universe? Stephen Hawking's Universe charts this work and provides simple explanations for phenomena that arouse our curiosity. This work is a voyage of discovery with an astonishing set of conclusions that will enable us to understand how matter can be produced from nothing at all and will provide us with an explanation for the basis of our existence and that of everything around us.",1998,4.28,304,1383
9780465092758,0465092756,Not Even Wrong,The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law,Peter Woit,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pcJA3i0xKAUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Has physics gone off in the wrong direction? Peter Woit presents the other side of the growing debate on string theory--arguing that it's not even science,2006,3.93,291,1447
9780470008294,0470008296,Jane Austen For Dummies,,Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m8WTNQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explains Austen's methods, motivations, and morals The fun and easy way(r) to understand and enjoy Jane Austen Want to know more about Jane Austen? This friendly guide gives the scoop on her life, works, and lasting impact on our culture. It chronicles the events of her brief life, examines each of her novels, and looks at why her stories - of women and marriage, class and money, scandal and hypocrisy, emotion and satire - still have meaning for us today. Discover * Why Austen is so popular * The impact on manners, courtships, and dating * Love and life in Austen's world * Her life and key influences * Her most memorable characters",2006,4.02,362,517
9780470038321,0470038322,Personal Finance For Dummies,,Eric Tyson,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6-gnlAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Too many personal finance consultants offer financial advice that ignores the big picture and instead focuses on investing. You need much more than that to plan your future. You need a broader understanding of personal finance that includes all areas of your financial life in order to become financially sound. Personal Finance for Dummies, 5th Edition is full of detailed, action-oriented financial advice that will show you how to lower expenses and tame debts as well as invest wisely to achieve your financial goals! Now in its 5th edition, this up-to-date guide covers all the latest trends to ensure your financial stability. Just some of the updates and revisions include: Reviews of the new and revised tax laws and how to take advantage of them The latest scoop on Medicare and Social Security and what it means for you Updated investment advice on mutual funds and other managed investments Enhanced smart spending tips Coverage of new bankruptcy laws and how to eliminate consumer debt Smart ways to use credit and improve credit scores Expanded coverage on educational savings options This hands-on, straightforward guide features ways to survive life changes such as starting your first job, getting married, having children, and retiring, as well as helpful tactics for preventing identity theft and fraud. With Personal Finance for Dummies, 5th Edition, you’ll be able to achieve financial strength and start concentrating on the more important things in life!",2006,3.77,458,113
9780470043608,0470043601,Crash Proof,How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse,Peter D. Schiff;John Downes,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wqe1NAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. It is a reality today. The country has gone from the world's largest creditor to its greatest debtor; the value of the dollar is sinking; domestic manufacturing is winding down - and these trends don't seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp, clear-sighted eye on these factors and explains what the possible effects may be and how investors can protect themselves. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients reposition their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt, too-little savings, a declining dollar, and lack of domestic manufacturing. Crash-Proof is an informed and informative warning of a looming period marked by sizeable tax hikes, loss of retirement benefits, double digit inflation, even - as happened recently in Argentina - the possible collapse of the middle class. However, Schiff does have a survival plan that can provide the protection that readers will need in the coming years.",2007,3.79,272,1066
9780470045299,0470045299,eBay For Dummies,,Marsha Collier,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9VIhmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Thinking about buying or selling items on eBay? Whether you want to use eBay to make smart bids and win auctions or turn household clutter into cash, eBay for Dummies, Fifth Edition is your passport to the most successful trading community on the planet. Beginning with an overview of what eBay is and how to become a registered user, eBay for Dummies helps you discover how you can: Search for items to buy and list items to sell on eBay Place a bid—and determine how much you should spend Use pictures and basic HTML to make your eBay listings more appealing Communicate well and close deals without a problem Identify auction terms (reserve price, starting bid, Buy It Now, etc.) Organize your transactions and interactions using the My eBay page Resolve buying and selling issues with eBay’s Trust & Safety program And much more! Registering at eBay makes you part of a really unique community of people who like to collect, buy, and sell items of just about every kind! So if you’re ready to join the millions of people who use their home computers to make great deals, buy cool stuff, and turn a profit, eBay for Dummies does all the legwork so you can sit back and let the bidding begin!",2006,3.5,386,102
9780470046043,047004604X,Texas Hold'em For Dummies,,Mark Harlan,Games & Activities,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8N-ZDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Turn on the TV, drop by a newsstand, or just browse the checkout your local supermarket and you'll see firsthand that Texas Hold 'Em is the poker game everyone's playing. It's a game that's deceptively simple, yet within its easy framework you’ll find truth and trickery, boredom and fear, skill and misfortune—in other words, all the things that make life fun and worth living! Texas Hold'em For Dummies introduces you to the fundamental concepts and strategies of this wildly popular game. It covers the rules for playing and betting, odds, etiquette, Hold'em lingo, and offers sound advice to avoid mistakes. This handy reference guide gives new and even seasoned players winning strategies and tactics not just for playing the game, but for winning. You'll learn: Rules and strategies for limit, no-limit, tournament, and online play How to ""play"" the other players The importance of your bankroll—recommended sizes and more Hands you should and should not play How to camouflage your play and dodge traps When, who, and how to bluff How to maximize your win with check-raising and trapping The different approaches for playing in private games, casinos, card rooms, tournaments, and on the Internet How to use mathematics to your advantage Texas Hold 'Em is a game of both skill and chance. But it's a game that can be beaten, and whether you want to make money, sharpen your game, or just have a good time, Texas Hold 'Em for Dummies will give you the winning edge.",2006,3.83,267,98
9780470055540,0470055545,Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer 6th Edition with IHT/FEHT 3.0 CD with User Guide Set,,Frank P. Incropera,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Xup3PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2006,4,997,6
9780470861714,0470861711,The Man Who Changed Everything,The Life of James Clerk Maxwell,Basil Mahon,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mGo_jtHwL0sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century — and his discoveries went on to shape the twentieth century.",2004,4.12,256,450
9780471133124,0471133124,Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and ConfusiÃ3n de Confusiones,,Charles Mackay,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h23HW5EJnyEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A study of crowd behavior includes two landmark books of the past, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusions de Confusions, that show how markets are shaped by the fluctuations of mob psychology. Reprint.",1996,3.91,224,34
9780471265184,0471265187,Astronomy,A Self-Teaching Guide,Dinah L. Moché,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vBFuFT4fOQUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""A lively, up-to-date account of the basic principles of astronomy and exciting current field of research.""-Science Digest For a quarter of a century, Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide has been making students and amateur stargazers alike feel at home among the stars. From stars, planets and galaxies, to black holes, the Big Bang and life in space, this title has been making it easy for beginners to quickly grasp the basic concepts of astronomy for over 25 years. Updated with the latest discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics, this newest edition of Dinah Moch?'s classic guide now includes many Web site addresses for spectacular images and news. And like all previous editions, it is packed with valuable tables, charts, star and moon maps and features simple activities that reinforce readers' grasp of basic concepts at their own pace, as well as objectives, reviews, and self-tests to monitor their progress. Dinah L. Moch?, PhD (Rye, NY), is an award-winning author, educator, and lecturer. Her books have sold over nine million copies in seven languages.",2004,3.89,343,109
9780471272427,0471272426,The Skeptic's Dictionary,"A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions",Robert Carroll,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h7m6NAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A wealth of evidence for doubters and disbelievers ""Whether it's the latest shark cartilage scam, or some new 'repressed memory' idiocy that besets you, I suggest you carry a copy of this dictionary at all times, or at least have it within reach as first aid for psychic attacks. We need all the help we can get."" -James Randi, President, James Randi Educational Foundation, randi.org ""From alternative medicine, aliens, and psychics to the farthest shores of science and beyond, Robert Carroll presents a fascinating look at some of humanity's most strange and wonderful ideas. Refreshing and witty, both believers and unbelievers will find this compendium complete and captivating. Buy this book and feed your head!"" -Clifford Pickover, author of The Stars of Heaven and Dreaming the Future ""A refreshing compendium of clear thinking, a welcome and potent antidote to the reams of books on the supernatural and pseudoscientific."" -John Allen Paulos, author of Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper ""This book covers an amazing range of topics and can protect many people from being scammed."" -Stephen Barrett, M.D., quackwatch.org Featuring close to 400 definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, The Skeptic's Dictionary is a lively, commonsense trove of detailed information on all things supernatural, occult, paranormal, and pseudoscientific. It covers such categories as alternative medicine; cryptozoology; extraterrestrials and UFOs; frauds and hoaxes; junk science; logic and perception; New Age energy; and the psychic. For the open-minded seeker, the soft or hardened skeptic, and the believing doubter, this book offers a remarkable range of information that puts to the test the best arguments of true believers.",2003,4.03,446,522
9780471292456,0471292451,Color Drawing,"Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers",Michael E. Doyle,Architecture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f6NCc9SYu0IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stunningly updated, totally redesigned, practical, and ready to use This new edition of Michael Doyle's classic Color Drawing is the ultimate up-to-date resource for professionals and students who need to develop and communicate design ideas with clear, attractive, impressive color drawings. In an easy to use, step-by-step approach, this comprehensive guide presents a total system of color design drawing that encompasses approaches to sketch communication as well as more finished presentation drawing. Totally redesigned to provide quick, easy access to key information, this Second Edition covers the basics of color phenomena, media, techniques, and approaches to illustrating materials necessary to communicate design ideas. With nearly 400 new color illustrations, it contains a new section on color and design principles for creating more sophisticated presentation drawings and offers innovative ideas for the reproduction and distribution of finished drawings. Color Drawing features: * A complete body of illustrated instruction that demonstrates the development of design ideas from initial concept through presentation drawing * Finely honed explanations of each technique and process * Faster and easier ways to create design drawings * Methods for combining hand-drawn and computer-generated drawing techniques This remarkably versatile volume is both an illuminating textbook and a completely reliable self-teaching tool, as well as a handy quick reference. It is an excellent guide for students at any level and an unparalleled resource for design professionals.",1999,4.22,360,153
9780471292517,0471292516,A Modernist View of Plated Desserts (Grand Finales),,Tish Boyle;Timothy Moriarty,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pW4FAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Modernism is simply the result of the extremely progressive evolution of the American pastry industry. With the use of all ethnic influences, creative flavor combinations enhanced by incredibly visual designs is truly the global trend-setter for the millennium."" Norman Love Corporate Pastry Chef, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Milk Chocolate-Ginger Mousse with Liquid Chocolate Center Norman Love Corporate Pastry Chef, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Naples, Florida. Mont Blanc Michael Hu Executive Pastry Chef, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York Midnight Macadamia Torte Kim O'Flaherty Pastry Cook, Essex House Hotel, New York. Chocolate and Pear Mousse Ensemble Eric Perez Executive Pastry Chef, Ritz-Carlton Tyson's Corners, Virginia. Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding with Specky Vanilla Ice Cream and Caramel Marshall Rosenthal Executive Pastry Chef, Trump Taj Mahal Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey Butter Pecan Custard Cake Wayne Brachman Executive Pastry Chef, Mesa Grill and Bolo, both in New York.",1997,4.24,288,17
9780471409762,0471409766,Bad Astronomy,"Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing ""Hoax""",Philip C. Plait,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3NBaBaKCbqoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Advance praise for Philip Plait s Bad Astronomy ""Bad Astronomy is just plain good! Philip Plait clears up every misconception on astronomy and space you never knew you suffered from."" --Stephen Maran, Author of Astronomy for Dummies and editor of The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia ""Thank the cosmos for the bundle of star stuff named Philip Plait, who is the world s leading consumer advocate for quality science in space and on Earth. This important contribution to science will rest firmly on my reference library shelf, ready for easy access the next time an astrologer calls."" --Dr. Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Borderlands of Science ""Philip Plait has given us a readable, erudite, informative, useful, and entertaining book. Bad Astronomy is Good Science. Very good science..."" --James ""The Amazing"" Randi, President, James Randi Educational Foundation, and author of An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural ""Bad Astronomy is a fun read. Plait is wonderfully witty and educational as he debunks the myths, legends, and 'conspiracies that abound in our society. 'The Truth Is Out There' and it's in this book. I loved it!"" --Mike Mullane, Space Shuttle astronaut and author of Do Your Ears Pop in Space?",2002,4.04,277,5113
9780471430452,0471430455,The Warren Buffett CEO,Secrets from the Berkshire Hathaway Managers,Robert P. Miles,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uKOPrA4Ib9kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The first book to fully explore the Warren Buffet investment philosophy introduces readers to the strategies and fundamentals adopted by this successful management team.,2003,4.05,432,36
9780471648796,0471648795,The Science of Sherlock Holmes,"From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases",E. J. Wagner,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6h29NAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Praise for The Science of Sherlock Holmes ""Holmes is, first, a great detective, but he has also proven to be a great scientist, whether dabbling with poisons, tobacco ash, or tire marks. Wagner explores this fascinating aspect of his career by showing how his investigations were grounded in the cutting-edge science of his day, especially the emerging field of forensics.... Utterly compelling."" —Otto Penzler, member of the Baker Street Irregulars and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop ""E. J. Wagner demonstrates that without the work of Sherlock Holmes and his contemporaries, the CSI teams would be twiddling their collective thumbs. Her accounts of Victorian crimes make Watson's tales pale! Highly recommended for students of the Master Detective."" —Leslie S. Klinger, Editor, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes ""In this thrilling book, E. J. Wagner has combined her considerable strengths in three disciplines to produce a work as compelling and blood-curdling as the best commercial fiction. This is CSI in foggy old London Town. Chilling, grim fun."" —John Westermann, author of Exit Wounds and Sweet Deal ""I am recommending this delightful work to all of my fellow forensic scientists.... Bravo, Ms. Wagner!"" —John Houde, author of Crime Lab: A Guide for Nonscientists ""A fabulously interesting read. The book traces the birth of the forensic sciences to the ingenuity of Sherlock Holmes. A wonderful blend of history, mystery, and whodunit."" —Andre Moenssens, Douglas Stripp Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Missouri at Kansas City, and coauthor of Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases",2006,4.22,244,1989
9780471678786,0471678783,All the Shah's Men,An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror,Stephen Kinzer,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LRuRQAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including some lengthy internal CIA reports) that have now been declassified. Stephen Kinzer's compelling narrative is at once a vital piece of history, a cautionary tale, and a real-life espionage thriller.",2004,4.24,272,4933
9780471705222,0471705225,Information Technology for Management,Transforming Organizations in the Digital Economy,Efraim Turban,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8V9GAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"IT's Going Global... From Shanghai to San Francisco, IT is playing an increasingly vital role in helping organizations gain the competitive advantage around the globe. That's why the Fifth Edition of ""Information Technology for Management"" offers a global perspective on how IT is transforming business. In this comprehensive, up-to-date Fifth Edition, Efraim Turban, Ephraim McLean, James Wetherbe, and new coauthor Dorothy Leidner present late-breaking developments in the field, as well as a new chapter on Global Interorganizational Systems. IT's About Transformation: The text focuses on how organizations operate and compete in the digital economy, and how IT can assist this transformation. The new edition also features increased strategy coverage. IT's Current: The Fifth Edition introduces new research, current examples and case studies, and updated reference materials. IT's Managerial: The text's strong managerial orientation makes IT relevant and interesting to business students. Technological topics are conveniently covered in six technology guides at the end of the text. IT's Wireless: A special chapter covers innovations and opportunities in mobile computing and the wireless revolution. IT's Hands-on: Students solve realistic IT problems when they are ""hired"" as interns at The Wireless Cafe, a simulated high-tech restaurant in Shanghai.",2006,3.93,724,107
9780471714392,0471714399,Limbo,"Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams",Alfred Lubrano,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rGvDDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values. Torn between the world they were raised in and the life they aspire too, they hover between worlds, not quite accepted in either. Himself the son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano informs his account with personal experience and interviews with other professionals living in limbo. For millions of Americans, these stories will serve as familiar reminders of the struggles of achieving the American Dream.",2005,4.11,248,559
9780471738848,0471738840,Data Structures and Algorithms in Java,,Michael T. Goodrich;Roberto Tamassia,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XXCKQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fundamental data structures in a consistent object-oriented framework Now revised to reflect the innovations of Java 5.0, Goodrich and Tamassia's Fourth Edition of Data Structures and Algorithms in Java continues to offer accessible coverage of fundamental data structures, using a consistent object-oriented framework. The authors provide intuition, description, and analysis of fundamental data structures and algorithms. Numerous illustrations, web-based animations, and simplified mathematical analyses justify important analytical concepts. Key Features of the Fourth Edition: * Updates to Java 5.0 include new sections on generics and other Java 5.0 features, and revised code fragments, examples, and case studies to conform to Java 5.0. * Hundreds of exercises, including many that are new to this edition, promote creativity and help readers learn how to think like programmers and reinforce important concepts. * New case studies illustrate topics such as web browsers, board games, and encryption. * A new early chapter covers Arrays, Linked Lists, and Recursion. * A new final chapter on Memory covers memory management and external memory data structures and algorithms. * Java code examples are used extensively, with source code provided on the website. * Online animations and effective in-text art illustrate data structures and algorithms in a clear, visual manner. Access additional resources on the web www.wiley.com/college/goodrich): * Java source code for all examples in the book * Animations * Library (net.datastructures) of Java constructs used in the book * Problems database and search engine * Student hints to all exercises in the book * Instructor resources, including solutions to selected exercises * Lecture slides",2005,3.82,720,151
9780471743675,0471743674,The Warren Buffett Way,,Robert G. Hagstrom,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=54idNZfWyl0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A decade has passed since the book that introduced Warren Buffett to the world - The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom - first appeared. Since then, Buffett has solidified his reputation as the greatest investor of all time - quietly amassing a multibillion-dollar fortune, despite the wild fluctuation of the markets. Although Buffett has claimed time and again that what he does is not beyond anybody else's competence, some people still do not understand how this value investing legend can consistently perform so well. That's where Robert Hagstrom and the Second Edition of The Warren Buffett Way come in. This completely revised and updated look at the Oracle of Omaha encompasses Buffett's numerous investments and accomplishments over the past ten years, as well as the timeless and highly successful investment strategies and techniques he has always used to come out a market winner.",2010,4.12,245,218
9780471758181,0471758183,Lady on the Hill,How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon,Howard E. Covington,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YFp5AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lady on the Hill tells the inspiring story of the thirty-five-year effort to restore this fading beauty to her former glory--all without a penny of government funding or outside foundation grants. Central to this true-life tale of rebirth against the odds is George Vanderbilt's grandson William A. V. Cecil, a well-mannered, highly educated man who, when caught up in an idea, becomes a whirling dervish, generating enough energy and enthusiasm to motivate everyone around him. And, according to author Howard Covington Jr., Cecil gets a week's worth of ideas before he's done with his Monday morning shave. In the late 1950s, attorneys, financial managers, and tax accountants were united in advising Cecil and his brother, George, to sell off the estate's 12,000 acres in order to create a suburban subdivision. Cecil quietly ignored this advice and came up with a better idea: over the next four decades, he would turn this down-at-the-heels mansion that was a drain on the family business into the most successful, privately preserved historic site in the United States, perhaps even the world. Cecil succeeded beyond even his wildest dreams. Not only did he raise the money needed to begin and continue a painstaking, decades-long restoration of the house itself, but he also achieved a goal that even his grandfather had found elusive. He made Biltmore Estate a self-sustaining, working enterprise that included a vibrant tourist destination, a working winery and vineyard, and a farming operation; employed hundreds of people; and attracted hundreds of millions of dollars to the local economy every year. Lady on the Hill tells a lively tale of eccentric, upper-crust characters, seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and one man's determination, innovation, loyalty, and stubborn persistence to succeed against the odds. It also provides a brilliant, if unorthodox, model for anyone involved with the preservation and restoration of a historic home.",2006,3.89,331,371
9780471773863,0471773867,Baby Signing For Dummies,,Jennifer Watson,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=75MH8vwXyBwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Packed with more than 100 clearly illustrated signs, along with baby-specific signing techniques, and stories and games to make learning fun, this easy-to-use guide helps to strengthen the parent-child bond, includes tips on incorporating baby signs into the daycare setting, and even helps babies develop an IQ advantage over infants who do not sign.",2006,3.63,257,36
9780471780939,0471780936,Power of An Hour,Business and Life Mastery in One Hour A Week,Dave Lakhani,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=idPQNAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Praise for The Power of an Hour ""The master at getting what you want from others now tells us how to get what we want from ourselves! This is really a great book, and I recommend it highly-for you, for your team, and for your children."" -Bob Burg, author, Endless Referrals ""If you want to make predictable, systematic change in your life or your business, buy this book. Each chapter is a stand-alone system that results in powerful change . . . fast."" -David Hancock, The Entrepreneurial Publisher, CEO, Morgan James Publishing ""Dave's methods helped me take my business from $0 to $10 million in sales.If you're a creative business owner who wants total focus and massive success, run, don't walk, and get this book!"" -Stephanie Frank, author, The Accidental Millionaire ""The Power of an Hour is a mighty powerful way to sort out your financesby first sorting out yourself!"" -Mark Joyner, #1 bestselling author, The Irresistible Offer ""The disease of the twenty-first century, no matter who you are or what you do,is Time Deficit Disorder. Dave Lakhani offers a brilliant solution in this book.Get it and take the cure-you'll be surprised how much better you feel!"" -David Garfinkel, author, Customers on Demand",2006,3.31,205,163
9780471782476,0471782475,The Science of Stephen King,"From Carrie to Cell, The Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Masters Fiction",Lois H. Gresh;Robert Weinberg,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ns5kJxqNcUUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Introduction: Where Science and Fiction Intersect -- From Proms to Cells: The Psychic World of Stephen King -- Carrie -- Firestarter -- The Dead Zone -- Hearts in Atlantis Cell -- The Green Mile -- On the Highway with Stephen King -- ""Trucks""--They Came From Outer Space -- Dreamcatcher -- The Tommyknockers -- The Fourth Horseman -- The Stand -- Up the Dimensions with Stephen King -- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger -- Insomnia -- Traveling in Time with Stephen King - The Langoliers -- Parallel Worlds -- ""The Mists"" -- From a Buick 8 -- The Dark Tower -- The Tailisman -- Longevity an Genetic Research - The Golden Years -- Evil, Obsession, and Fear -- The Tommyknockers -- Carrie -- The Talisman -- It -- The Stand -- Danse Macabre -- The Shining -- Misery -- ""Night Surf.""",2007,3.49,272,58
9780472064847,0472064843,Feminist Measures,Soundings in Poetry and Theory,Lynn Keller;Cristanne Miller,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KADTtlj82WIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explores the role of gender in poetic production, the tensions between poetry and contemporary literary theory, and the fluid boundaries between theoretical and literary writing.",1994,4.4,424,5
9780472065219,0472065211,Simulacra and Simulation,,Jean Baudrillard,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9Z9biHaoLZIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought,1994,3.98,164,8919
9780472080526,0472080520,Their Sisters' Keepers,"Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930",Estelle B. Freedman,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Pa8JcZhehLQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This study of prison reform adds a new chapter to the history of women's struggle for justice in America,1984,4.23,272,21
9780486201122,0486201120,The Philosophy of History,,Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ROJdwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1956,3.82,457,28
9780486202914,0486202917,The Will to Believe,"And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality",William James,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8qRGDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Intellect, will, belief, chance, and free will are among the topics touched upon in two works by the American psychologist",1956,4.06,448,429
9780486203942,0486203948,Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science,,Martin Gardner,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TwP3SGAUsnkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Reviews fads, hoaxes, and cults propagated under the guise of being scientifically founded and proven",1957,4.06,384,998
9780486212326,0486212327,Three Graphic Novels,,E.F. Bleiler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eUPpDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO BY HORACE WALPOLE; VATHEK BY WILLIAM BECKFORD; THE VAMPYRE BY JOHN POLIDORI; AND A FRAGMENT OF A NOVEL BY LORD BYRON.,1966,3.75,291,225
9780486215310,0486215318,Best Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells,,Herbert George Wells,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q6Hbdb3AVJEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eighteen supernatural tales deal with such phenomena as an invisible man, a crystal egg from Mars, a blood-sucking orchid",1966,3.84,320,60
9780486217611,0486217612,The World as Will and Representation,,Arthur Schopenhauer,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KM6XiJqLhucC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The German philosopher explains his thoughts about intellectual perception and abstract representation and critically analyzes Kant's ideas and teachings. Bibliogs,1958,4.18,534,7203
9780486218434,0486218430,Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet,,Gail Grant,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gaMIILrrKgkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Gail Grant's ""Technical Manual"" has long been one of the most popular and effective ballet reference guides. Completely revised and updated, this third edition is virtually a new work and should be owned by every student, teacher, choreographer, and ballet enthusiast - even those who purchased the second edition. Extensive revision, explansion and the inclusion of more than 300 new terms have added immeasurably the value of this concise, definitive manual.",1982,4.37,176,377
9780486226682,0486226689,Lost Continents,"The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature",Lyon Sprague De Camp,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3YHwFivT-ykC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines the mythologies, mystic cults, literary works and dissentations which have been presented with the theme of lost continents from Plato's dialogues.",1970,3.64,363,103
9780486249445,0486249441,Mozart's Don Giovanni,,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;Ellen H. Bleiler;Lorenzo Da Ponte,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=665b5zp1la0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Don Giovanni has been called the greatest opera ever composed, an almost perfect work. Along with ""Aida,"" ""La Boheme,"" and ""Carmen,"" Mozart's masterpiece is one of the most often performed operas. The work is so admired that when the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini was asked which of his own operas he liked best, Rossini unhesitatingly replied, """"Don Giovanni."""" This Dover edition contains the standard Italian libretto of ""Don Giovanni,"" side by side with a complete new English translation. Convenient and portable, it also includes an informative Introduction, a complete List of Characters, and an easy-to-follow Plot Summary. All repeats are given in full, so you can follow the text as it is sung, without losing your place. With this inexpensive, handy guide, opera lovers can appreciate every word of Mozart's brilliant comic drama in the original Italian or in modern English. An ideal companion for reading along with a recording, a broadcast, or at the performance itself, this superb volume is a first-rate aid to enjoyment of one of the world's most celebrated operas. """,1985,3.93,128,50
9780486256078,0486256073,1001 Illuminated Initial Letters,27 Full-Color Plates,Owen Jones,Design,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hocfAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The illuminated letters in this volume by the great Victorian designer Owen Jones, many taken from an illustrated edition of ""The Psalms of David, "" represent popular alphabet motifs that have been copied by artists and designers for more than a century throughout Europe and North America. Each page of this versatile archive contains approximately 40 magnificently embellished individual letters of the alphabet. (There's also an additional page of equally attractive Arabic and Roman numerals.) Foliated and filigreed designs--ranging from small to large, simple to spectacular--display the meticulous craftsmanship and attention to detail that have become synonymous with Victorian design. Commercial artists, graphic designers, and craftspeople will find this elegant and versatile treasury of copyright-free decorative letters an excellent and indispensable sourcebook for graphic projects calling for old-fashioned Victorian charm.Republication of the edition published by Day & Son, London, and Ludwig Denicke, Leipzig, 1864.",1988,3.46,32,11
9780486256429,0486256421,Galapagos,World's End,William Beebe,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wFKrGA5-lRoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More than 100 splendid illustrations enhance this fascinating firsthand account of a 1923 expedition to survey the wildlife of the Galápagos Islands. Beebe, a renowned biologist and explorer, combines literary skill with careful research to produce an exceptionally readable book. ""High romance, exact science, fascinating history, wild adventure."" — Nation.",1988,3.84,528,31
9780486264738,0486264734,Bartleby and Benito Cereno,,Herman Melville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L-shDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Two classics in one volume: ""Bartleby,"" a disturbing moral allegory set in 19th-century New York, and ""Benito Cereno,"" a gripping sea adventure that probes the nature of man's depravity.",1990,3.8,112,2107
9780486266893,0486266893,Candide,,Voltaire,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZTaYCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Tells the story of Candide, a naive youth, who is conscripted, shipwrecked, robbed, and tortured by the Inquisition without losing his will to live",1991,3.76,129,172319
9780486270609,0486270602,"Young Goodman Brown, and Other Short Stories",,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-AwmDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Choice collection of short fiction by one of the masters of the genre. In addition to the title story, this volume includes ""The Birthmark,"" ""Rappaccini’s Daughter,"" ""Roger Malvin’s Burial,"" ""The Artist of the Beautiful,"" ""Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment"" and ""My Kinsman, Major Molineux."" Tales deal with scientific experiment, witchcraft, revenge, more.",1992,3.86,111,8914
9780486270616,0486270610,The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories,,O. Henry,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5-ohDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents sixteen short fiction stories by nineteenth-century American author O. Henry, including the title work about the Christmas sacrifices of a young married couple.",1992,4.14,96,4337
9780486272665,0486272664,The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems,,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aA4mDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Great title poem plus ""Kubla Khan,"" ""Christabel,"" 20 other sonnets, lyrics, odes: ""Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me,"" ""Frost at Midnight,"" ""The Nightingale,"" ""The Pains of Sleep,"" ""To William Wordsworth,"" ""Youth and Age,"" many more. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.",1992,3.94,76,3005
9780486274287,0486274284,A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry,"Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from ""L'Encyclopédie, Ou Dictionnaire Raisonné Des Sciences, Des Arts, Et Des Métiers"" of Denis Diderot",Denis Diderot,Design,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lfT3wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"First paperbound edition of 485 remarkable plates (over 2,000 illustrations) that accompanied landmark work of the Enlightenment. Sharply detailed royalty-free images depict agriculture, military science, metalwork, mining, textile manufacture, masonry, carpentry, much more. Invaluable resource for art and craft use. Introduction and detailed captions by Charles C. Gillispie. Bibliography.",1993,3.6,239,5
9780486275505,0486275507,"The Road Not Taken, and Other Poems",,Robert Frost,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CGLcDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ""These deceptively simple lines from the title poem of this collection suggest Robert Frost at his most representative: the language is simple, clear and colloquial, yet dense with meaning and wider significance. Drawing upon everyday incidents, common situations and rural imagery, Frost fashioned poetry of great lyrical beauty and potent symbolism. Now a selection of the best of his early works is available in this volume, originally published in 1916 under the title Mountain Interval. Included are many moving and expressive poems: ""An Old Man's Winter Night,"" ""In the Home Stretch,"" ""Meeting and Passing,"" ""Putting In the Seed,"" ""A Time to Talk,"" ""The Hill Wife,"" ""The Exposed Nest,"" ""The Sound of Trees"" and more. All are reprinted here complete and unabridged. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: ""The Road Not Taken.""",1993,4.27,49,33004
9780486276809,0486276805,The Secret Garden Coloring Book,,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sxHdAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.,2014,4.25,48,4
9780486280233,0486280233,The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk,,Thornton W. Burgess;Harrison Cady;Thea Kliros,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dVZ8DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Relates how Jimmy Skunk repays Peter Rabbit for a practical joke and what happens when he and Unc' Billy Possum go hunting for eggs in Farmer Brown's henhouse.,1994,4.13,96,258
9780486281223,0486281221,The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,In Full Color,William Blake,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nt4Bwy6LDrwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This vivid facsimile of Blake's romantic and revolutionary publication offers a concise expression of his essential wisdom and philosophy. His distinctive hand-lettered text is accompanied by 27 color plates of his stirring illustrations.,1994,4.24,48,6894
9780486285153,0486285154,The Birth of Tragedy,,Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5pzdCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explores the origins of Greek tragedy and the elements through which it achieved greatness, which include the opposing characteristics of Dionysian irrationality and Apollonian restraint.",1995,3.98,92,201
9780486286563,0486286568,Children's Christmas Stories and Poems,In Easy-to-Read Type,Candace Ward,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Iv4nK-EmQ3wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A shortened version of Dicken's ""A Christmas Carol"" is accompanied by Christmas stories, poems, and songs",2011,4.5,96,2
9780486287591,0486287599,A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works,,Jonathan Swift,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O4wlDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Treasury of five shorter works by the author of Gulliver's Travels offers ample evidence of the great satirist's inspired lampoonery. Title piece plus The Battle of the Books, A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit and The Abolishing of Christianity in England.",1996,4.05,64,13312
9780486287768,0486287769,Great Short Stories by American Women,,Candace Ward,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W9qaDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Contains thirteen short stories by American women writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.,1996,3.95,208,289
9780486292427,0486292428,The Oresteia Trilogy,"Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies",Aeschylus;E. D. A. Morshead,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bg0mDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Classic trilogy by great tragedian deals with the bloody history of the House of Atreus. Grand in style, rich in diction and dramatic dialogue, the plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods.",1996,4.01,151,87
9780486292724,048629272X,Black Beauty Coloring Book,,Anna Sewell;John Green,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g9sGnDz5nW8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Suspenseful, moving account of a horse's experiences at the hands of many different owners, retold in large type, and illustrated with 35 ready-to-color scenes.",1996,4.25,48,68
9780486296388,0486296385,Ballet Class Coloring Book,,John Green;Caroline Denzler,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p6PBkK10xqMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Forty-two clear, accurate drawings (all in proper sequence) depict everything that goes on in a beginner's class, from lacing up the ballet shoe to executing the perfect arabesque. Illustrated instructions as well for proper posture, warm-up exercises, arm movements and much more. Inspirational, encouraging and instructive advice.",1997,3.64,48,11
9780486297163,0486297160,Best Ghost and Horror Stories,,Bram Stoker;Richard Dalby;Stefan R. Dziemianowicz;S. T. Joshi,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iiaFDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Superb selection of 14 spine-tingling stories by author of Dracula. ""The Dualitists"" (probably Stoker's most horrifying story), ""The Squaw,"" ""The Burial of the Rats,"" 11 more. Introduction by Richard Dalby.",1997,3.49,272,54
9780486297170,0486297179,Enter Jeeves,15 Early Stories,P. G. Wodehouse;David A. Jasen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zFckAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Splendid collection contains first eight stories featuring Bertie Wooster, the deliciously dim aristocrat and Jeeves, his brainy, imperturbable manservant. Also, the complete Reggie Pepper (Bertie's prototype) series.",1997,4.2,256,649
9780486406541,0486406547,The Odyssey,,Homer;George Herbert Palmer,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=udcwDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Excellent prose translation of the ancient epic poem recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage from the Trojan War. The clever hero circumvents the wrath of Poseidon to overcome an incredible array of obstacles, including a fantastic cast of adversaries — Cyclops, the one-eyed giant; the enchantress Circe; plus cannibals, sirens, and many other monstrous creatures. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.",1998,3.75,239,236
9780486406640,0486406644,The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain,A Book of Quotations,Mark Twain,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D1iMCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An anthology of wit and wisdom by Mark Twain collects quotations on a wide range of subjects, including life, love, history, culture, travel, and politics.",1998,4.2,64,934
9780486414232,048641423X,An Ideal Husband,,Oscar Wilde,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MapWGG3WJQgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Although Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, he is perhaps best known as a dramatist. His witty, clever drama, populated by brilliant talkers skilled in the art of riposte and paradox, are still staples of the theatrical repertoire. An Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards — providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, an overbearing father, and a formidable femme fatale continually exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the play moving at a lively pace. ike most of Wilde's plays, this scintillating drawing-room comedy is wise, well-constructed, and deeply satisfying. An instant success at its 1895 debut, the play continues to delight audiences over one hundred years later. An Ideal Husband is a must-read for Wilde fans, students of English literature, and anyone delighted by wit, urbanity, and timeless sophistication.",2001,4.04,78,32213
9780486414249,0486414248,Politics,,Aristotle;Benjamin Jowett;H. W. C. Davis,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9NMoAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents a English language translation of Aristotle's book about the nature of the state, constitutions, revolutions, democracy, and oligarchy.",2000,3.93,368,25018
9780486419251,0486419258,The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories,,Oscar Wilde,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fzAmDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Presents eleven of the English writer's works including the title story featuring a three hundred-year-old ghost who fails to intimidate the newest occupants of his manor house.,2001,3.93,120,1653
9780486420493,0486420493,The House of Mirth,,Edith Wharton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GJYoAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A satire of New York society at the turn of the century follows Lily Bart, who is torn between the pressure to marry a wealthy husband and the desire to be true to herself.",2002,3.95,272,743
9780486421247,0486421244,Life is a Dream,,Pedro Calderón de la Barca;Stanley Appelbaum,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i0fc64syC7IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A king is suspicious of his son's role in an impending revolution. Considered one of the outstanding Spanish dramas of all-time, this 17th-century allegory explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will. Includes an excellent new English translation, with an informative introduction and footnotes.",2002,3.98,96,341
9780486422459,0486422453,Letters to a Young Poet,,Rainer Maria Rilke;Franz Xaver Kappus;Reginald Snell,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RaNiAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908.,2002,4.33,80,30561
9780486424538,0486424537,Oliver Twist,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QJrP4tDptroC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Portrays the adventures of poor orphan Oliver Twist in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London.,2002,3.86,368,2062
9780486424545,0486424545,Howards End,,E. M. Forster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k2ZbDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life.,2002,3.96,246,54709
9780486424583,0486424588,Women in Love,,D. H. Lawrence,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e9swDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Lawrence explores the complex relationship between two couples in a novel set in a small, Midland colliery town.",2003,3.66,416,23892
9780486424620,0486424626,The Trojan Women and Hippolytus,,Euripides,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dPomDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Two literary classics of human self-understanding: The Trojan Women, one of the most powerful indictments of war ever written, and Hippolytus, a gripping depiction of the struggle to master human passion.",2002,3.56,64,31
9780486424736,0486424731,Life Is a Dream/La Vida Es Sueño,A Dual-Language Book,Pedro Calderon de la Barca;Stanley Appelbaum,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OpUoAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Presents a bilingual version of the classic seventeenth-century Spanish play about an imprisoned prince who is returned to the outside world.,2002,3.98,208,52
9780486426754,0486426750,The Pilgrim's Progress,,John Bunyan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uy6ue_mi_AwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the most powerful dramas of Christian faith ever written, this captivating allegory of man's religious journey in search of salvation follows the pilgrim as he travels an obstacle-filled road to the Celestial City. Along the way, he is confronted by monsters and spiritual terrors, among them Worldly Wiseman, Giant Despair, and the demons of the Valley of the Shadow of Death. An enormously influential 17th-century classic, universally known for its simplicity, vigor, and beauty of language.",2003,3.99,324,81657
9780486427591,0486427595,Gorgias and Timaeus,,Plato;Benjamin Jowett,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k8ipwOrlyz4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Two major works by one of history's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. Gorgias addresses the temptations of success and the rewards of a moral life; Timaeus is an explanation of the world in terms not only of physical laws but also of metaphysical and religious principles. B. Jowett translation.,2003,3.74,256,30
9780486429922,048642992X,Great Russian Short Stories,,Paul Negri,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3_CW0gsgDvsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A collection of twelve Russian short stories including ""The Queen of Spades,"" ""The Overcoat,"" ""White Nights,"" ""The Signal,"" and ""The Lady with the Toy Dog.""",2003,4,208,155
9780486431673,0486431673,Babbitt,,Sinclair Lewis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YdagDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Describes the life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor, reflecting an image of middle-class America.",2003,3.66,320,238
9780486431680,0486431681,Hunger,,Knut Hamsun;George Egerton,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b9goAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A modern classic about a penniless, unemployed young writer, this powerful, autobiographical novel paints an unforgettable portrait of a man driven to the edge of self-destruction by forces beyond his control.",2003,4.06,134,26016
9780486431840,0486431843,The Jew of Malta,,Christopher Marlowe;Havelock Ellis,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qjp-Ji2IopcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Prejudice, the intricacies of Mediterranean politics, and Machiavellian strategy abound in this masterpiece of Elizabethan theater, in which the main character schemes to cling to his wealth, his status, and his daughter.",2003,3.61,80,2822
9780486432137,0486432130,The Idiot,,Fyodor Dostoyevsky;Constance Garnett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ctkoAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Splendid novel of mid-19th-century Russian manners, morals, and philosophy focuses on a nobleman whose gentle, child-like nature has earned him the nickname of ""the idiot.""",2003,4.18,540,66
9780486432540,0486432548,Critique of Pure Reason,,Immanuel Kant;J. M. D. Meiklejohn,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U75JGtgpDt0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argues that human knowledge is limited by the capacity for perception. He attempts a logical designation of two varieties of knowledge: a posteriori, the knowledge acquired through experience; and a priori, knowledge not derived through experience. Kant maintains that the most practical forms of human knowledge employ the a priori judgments that are possible only when the mind determines the conditions of its own experience. This accurate translation by J. M. Meiklejohn offers a simple and direct rendering of Kant's work that is suitable for readers at all levels.",2003,3.94,480,69
9780486434148,0486434141,Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UNooAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A strikingly original inquiry into politics and human nature, the Discourse presents a theoretical view of people in a pre-social condition and the ensuing effects of civilization. The author develops a theory of evolution that prefigures Darwinism and encompasses aspects of ethics, sociology, and epistemology. One of the most influential works of the Enlightenment.",2004,3.83,73,9630
9780486437552,0486437558,The Philosophy of History,,Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel;J. Sibree,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=calVsYdns1EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the ""philosophy of history."" With this work, he created the history of philosophy as a scientific study. He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident nor an artificial construct, but as an exemplar of its age.",2004,3.82,480,2678
9780486437965,0486437965,Anna Karenina,,graf Leo Tolstoy;Louise Maude;Aylmer Maude,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6UsNAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Presents the classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.,2004,4.04,752,460
9780486442174,0486442179,The Sword of Welleran,And Other Stories,Lord Dunsany,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K2ZcyQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twelve tales by a master of the English language take readers on flights of fancy and make-believe. Enhanced by the author's power of expression and 10 ethereal illustrations by S. H. Simes, the collection includes such inventive tales as ""The Highwayman,"" ""In the Twilight,"" ""The Ghosts,"" ""The Lord of Cities,"" and the title piece.",2005,4.04,112,304
9780486442877,048644287X,Paradise Lost,,John Milton;John A. Himes,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HaoqAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The epic poem depicts the creation, fall, and redemption of humankind and the moral and spiritual dilemmas of God's judgment.",2005,3.81,480,209
9780486442891,0486442896,Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson,,Thomas Jefferson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j8PbwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During his remarkable lifetime, Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) served his country in many capacities — among them, as President of the United States. But ultimately, this great and talented man — an accomplished architect, naturalist, and linguist — wished to be remembered primarily as the author of the Declaration of Independence. In his autobiography, begun in 1821 at the age of 77, Jefferson presents a detailed account of his young life and the period during which he wrote the Declaration. A first draft of the document is included in this edition, as are his comments on the Articles of Confederation, his experiences as a wartime governor of Virginia, minister to France and observations during the French Revolution. Also featured here are rich remembrances and insights as Jefferson recalls his roles as Washington's secretary of state and vice president under John Adams, and his life in retirement. Fascinating as a trove of firsthand recollections by a pillar of American democracy, this highly recommended volume will be welcomed by students, scholars, and any reader interested in American history.",2005,3.86,112,598
9780486445632,0486445631,Philosophy of Right,,G. W. F. Hegel;S. W. Dyde,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KMAsAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this 1821 classic, Hegel applies his most important concept — the dialectics — to law, rights, morality, the family, economics, and the state. The philosopher defines universal right as the synthesis between the thesis of an individual acting in accordance with the law and the occasional conflict of an antithetical desire to follow private convictions.",2005,3.86,272,19
9780486447407,0486447405,The Worm Ouroboros,,E. R. Eddison;Keith Henderson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qh_y0A1QwiMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""The greatest and most convincing writer of 'invented worlds' that I have read."" J. R. R. Tolkien. Written in the best traditions of Homeric epics, Eddison's masterpiece recounts compelling tales of warriors and witches. """,2006,3.7,446,2835
9780486447612,0486447618,Great Speeches by African Americans,"Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others",James Daley,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XMUsAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Følger kampen for frihed og menneskerettigheder i 150 år. Denne antologi indeholder taler af indflydelsesrige historiske personer indenfor Afro-amerikansk kultur og politik,2006,4.29,160,222
9780486447780,0486447782,Intimate Journals,,Charles Baudelaire;Christopher Isherwood;W. H. Auden,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mr2E7yolzp0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Collection of the notorious poet's essays transcends the squalor of his financial ruin and the torture of physical decline to offer compelling thoughts on his world, society, and philosophy.",2006,3.73,128,210
9780486450063,0486450066,On the Origin of Species,By Means of Natural Selection,Charles Darwin,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PoMyAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"States the evidence for a theory of evolution, explains how evolution takes place, and discusses instinct, hybridism, fossils, distribution, and classification.",2006,3.99,336,171
9780486451381,0486451380,The Kingdom of God Is Within You,,Leo Tolstoy;Constance Garnett,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UTw1AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Banned in Russia, Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You was deemed a threat to church and state. The culmination of a lifetime's thought, it espouses a commitment to Jesus's message of turning the other cheek. In a bold and original manner, Tolstoy shows his readers clearly why they must reject violence of any sort—even that sanctioned by the state or the church—and urges them to look within themselves to find the answers to questions of morality. In 1894, one of the first English translations of this book found its way into the hands of a young Gandhi. Inspired by its message of nonresistance to evil, the Mahatma declared it a source of ""independent thinking, profound morality, and truthfulness."" Much of this work's emotional and moral appeal lies in its emphasis on fair treatment of the poor and working class. Its view of Christianity, not as a mystic religion but as a workable philosophy originating from the words of a remarkable teacher, extends its appeal to secular and religious readers alike.",2006,4.13,352,2256
9780486451404,0486451402,Quicksand,,Nella Larsen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LDw1AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Hypocrisy and prejudice compel a principled racially mixed teacher to desert a steady job and a socially prominent fiancâe.,2006,3.67,125,172
9780495006855,0495006858,Sociology in Our Times,,Diana Kendall,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mY0luMKpMycC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This cutting-edge, applied book highlights the relevance of sociology by including a diverse collection of theories, research, and lived experiences that accurately mirror the diversity in society itself. The author’s vivid, applied, personal writing style engages students, and activates compelling everyday examples that make sociology particularly relevant to today’s diverse students. SOCIOLOGY IN OUR TIMES is noted for its especially strong integration of engaging Lived Experiences - extended examples that focus on various issues to illustrate chapter coverage. These extended examples are introduced with the vignette that opens each chapter and are then carried throughout the chapter in various boxes, features, and exercises. Kendall’s text is acclaimed in the field for being the first textbook to integrate race, class, and gender issues, and for its thorough presentation of sociological theory, which includes diverse theoretical viewpoints such as feminist and postmodernist theory. Kendall shows students that sociology involves important questions and issues that they confront both personally and vicariously. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.",2006,3.22,742,1
9780495097990,0495097993,A History of Modern Psychology,,Duane Schultz;Sydney Schultz,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ge36EniJWwQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.,2007,3.85,558,179
9780500050965,0500050961,The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World,The Great Monuments and how They Were Built,Christopher Scarre,Architecture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BHaQQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A survey of the world's great ancient wonders from the Great Temple of the Aztecs, to the Nazca lines of Peru, including answers to how the architecture was created and for what purpose.",1999,4.02,304,31
9780500130377,050013037X,Jean-Jacques Rousseau and His World,,Sir Gavin De Beer,Écrivains français - 18e siècle - Biographies,,,1972,3.2,128,0
9780500203477,0500203474,Graphic Design,A Concise History,Richard Hollis,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GI9tngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From its roots in the development of printing, graphic design has evolved as a means of identification, information, and promotion to become a profession and discipline in its own right. This authoritative documentary history begins with the poster and goes on to chart the development of word and image in brochures and magazines, advertising, corporate identity, television, and electronic media, and the impact of technical innovations such as photography and the computer. For the revised edition, a new final chapter covers all the recent international developments in graphic design, including the role of the computer and the Internet in design innovation and globalization. In the last years of the twentieth century, at a time when ""designer products"" and the use of logos grew in importance, the role of graphic designers became more complex, subversive, and sometimes more politicalwitness Oliviero Toscani's notorious advertisements for Benetton. Digital technology cleared the way for an astonishing proliferation of new typefaces, and words began to take second place to typography in a whole range of magazines and books as designers asserted the primacy of their medium. Designers and companies discussed here include Neville Brody, David Carson, Design Writing Research, Edward Fella, Tibor Kalman, Jeffery Keedy, LettError, Pierre di Sciullo, Tomato, Gerard Unger, Cornel Windlin, and a host of others. Over 800 illustrations, 30 in color.",2001,3.99,232,648
9780500251218,0500251215,Greek Mythology,,Richard Buxton,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OMH4swEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2004,4.23,256,1506
9780500277591,0500277591,The Rainbow Goblins,,Ul De Rico,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kMMePQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After seven goblins try to steal it, the Rainbow is careful never again to touch the earth.",1994,4.42,32,1383
9780505521798,0505521792,Big Bad Wolf,,Linda Jones;Linda Winstead,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_oqKmVNatvMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Her heart captured by the very sight of handsome Wolf Trevelyan after he confronts her in the forest, Molly casts aside her concerned grandmother's reservations in order to pursue her instincts. Original.",1997,3.82,359,119
9780505523242,0505523248,An Original Sin,,Nina Bangs,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NnwvNAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a time when the male species is extinct, Fortune MacDonald's talents as a ""man-maker"" are extremely valuable, but when a seemingly perfect specimen turns up in her bed, she wonders if there is more to their love than physical pleasure. Original.",1999,3.75,394,367
9780505524744,0505524740,Aphrodite's Passion,,Julie Kenner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bhfj9acyNLIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Tracy Tannin, the granddaughter of a silver screen movie star, dons the girdle of Aphrodite, she becomes irresistible to all men and incredibly famous, and Hale, sent to retrieve the ancient artifact, must prove to Tracy that she is beautiful no matter what she wears. Original.",2002,3.62,352,524
9780505525154,0505525151,Call of the Moon,,Ronda Thompson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Mm0AAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A man seeking to destroy the werewolf who bit him comes across a strange beauty who takes him to the Canadian Northwest and shows him the way of the wolf.,2002,3.74,352,125
9780505525536,0505525534,Love Bites,,Lynsay Sands,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hJQPAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a lovely night-shift nurse gets in the way of someone trying to kill a handsome vampire, he must teach her to love the night . . . and him.",2003,4.12,373,18316
9780515094657,051509465X,Dancing on my grave,,Gelsey Kirkland,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yBdNxjnijVQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A biography of the American ballerina describing the high-pressure world of dance, her love affairs, clashes with teachers, descent into cocaine addiction, anorexia, and confinement in a mental institution before fighting her way back to a triumphant return.",1987,3.79,363,1555
9780515100532,0515100536,The Aviators,,W. E. B. Griffin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Lw43BCjvz58C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As the Vietnam War begins to escalate in 1964, the formation of the new Air Assault Division is delayed by logistical problems and by conflicts among the men and women who comprise the fighting force. Reissue.",1989,4.24,464,2503
9780515118360,0515118362,The Valentine Legacy,,Catherine Coulter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pFct5JG6D-UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Antagonists Jessie Warfield and James Wyndham marry and set off to search for Blackbeard's treasure,1996,3.88,406,2104
9780515122497,0515122491,The Maze,,Catherine Coulter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=80KNDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,FBI Special Agent Dillon Savich teams up with new agent Lacey Sherlock in a case that leads them back to the murder of Sherlock's sister seven years ago-and put both their lives on the line.,1998,4.11,339,12339
9780515124798,0515124796,Cold Blood,,Lynda La Plante,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jf7YZKXbQNUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recovering alcoholic and private eye Lorraine Page searches the dark underside of New Orleans for the daughter of a fading actress, who vanished during Mardi Gras, and finds herself becoming emotionally involved with the girl's father",1999,3.93,462,11
9780515125603,0515125601,Flying Finish,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4fzRGS42WZYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"To escape the demands of his ancestral home, Henry Grey takes a job ferrying race horses across the Atlantic and becomes involved in a crime syndicate",1999,3.93,276,2494
9780515128550,0515128554,Heart of the Sea,,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hldCldS4mosC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Nora Roberts brings her acclaimed Irish trilogy to a close with this tale of a woman whose dreams of riches lead her to the heart's greatest treasure.,2000,4.15,369,23839
9780515131093,0515131091,Out of this World,,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y4-0uT5WR_AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects paranormal and futuristic romantic stories, including a cop caught up in an off-world murder case, an unusual love triangle, a witch's search for the love of one man, and the longing of a telepath for human contact.",2001,4.07,357,5915
9780515133080,0515133086,Beyond Seduction,,Emma Holly,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1mDu56quFgUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"To avoid an unwanted marriage, Merry Vance comes up with a scandalous scheme to get rid of her long-time suitor--she will break all the rules of English society by posing nude for Nicholas Craven, London's most sought-after and notorious artist. Original.",2002,3.69,297,1308
9780515135961,0515135968,Shadow Game,,Christine Feehan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yzztsk4NI7wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the ""New York Times"" bestselling author comes a new series featuring a man and woman with telekinetic abilities who discover a terrifying power--and a forbidden passion--that could destroy them both. Original.",2003,4.12,323,15364
9780515136173,0515136174,Laurell K. Hamilton Set,"Guilty Pleasures, the Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned and the Lunatic Cafe",Laurell K. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z4sEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2003,4.51,1256,3276
9780515136944,0515136948,After Glow,,Jayne Castle;Jayne Ann Krentz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GC9XwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Para-archaeologist Lydia Smith, while lost in the catacombs beneath the city of Harmony, makes a startling discovery that calls into question everything she believes about her lover, Emmett London.",2004,4.13,343,4023
9780515138153,0515138150,Cravings,By Laurell K. Hamilton,MaryJanice Davidson;Eileen Wilks;Rebecca York,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sj9WHs6AA34C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Otherwordly pleasure and dangerous desire stalk the night as immortal creatures, ravenous and unforgiving, take their prey to the brink of ecstasy and fear, in this sensual collection of stories from four best-selling authors--Laurell K. Hamilton, MaryJanice Davidson, Eileen Wilks, and Rebecca York. Original.",2004,3.81,358,7853
9780515139709,051513970X,Bite,,Charlaine Harris;MaryJanice Davidson;Angela Knight;Vickie Taylor,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=048rTiUp02oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA,2005,3.77,297,14887
9780515139754,0515139750,"Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel",,Laurell K. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u3dgtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her role as consort of Jean-Claude, the seductive Master Vampire of the City, Anita Blake is faced with a dangerous conflict of interest when she assists with the search for a vampire serial killer who is stalking strippers.",2005,3.79,722,41105
9780515140774,0515140775,Spellbound,,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iYbKRHMrCloC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a novella that previously appeared in Nora Roberts' anthology, A Little Magic.",2005,3.8,96,6695
9780515140873,0515140872,Micah. (Anita Blake,Vampire Hunter #13). (Pbk.),Laurell K. Hamilton,"Blake, Anita (Fictitious character)",,"There are lots of reasons to raise the dead-some private, some public. In this case, the feds have a witness who died before he could speak on the record. They want him raised so his testimony can be taken. So here I am, on a plane to Philadelphia, flying off to do my job. But I'm not alone. Micah is with me. Micah, head of the St. Louis wereleopard pard. King to my Queen. The only one of my lovers who can stir my blood with just a glance from his chartreuse cat's eyes. I was happy to have him at my side. Until he mentioned that this will be our first time alone together. No Master Vampire. No Alpha Werewolf. Just me and Micah. And all my fears and doubts...",2006,3.63,245,39241
9780515141405,0515141402,Ghost Hunter,,Jayne Castle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1EKGRDgf26oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After calling off her marriage to ghost-hunter Cooper Boone, Elly St. Clair moves to Cadence City, but the strange disappearance of one of her new friends brings Cooper back into her life, and he's determined not to lose her again.",2006,4.13,327,4246
9780515141658,0515141658,Morrigan's Cross,,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kL_M8m6QXlEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As the powerful vampire Lilith prepares to quench her thirst for destruction by unleashing her fury in battle, a medieval sorcerer, one of the circle of six charged by the goddess Morrigan, must travel through time to stop her.",2006,4.14,321,45372
9780515141665,0515141666,Dance of the Gods,,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1xU1uQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Follows the circle of six as they protect the world--and their hearts--from a vampire who is determined to rule the earth.,2006,4.14,321,24552
9780515141672,0515141674,Valley of Silence,,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PLmxDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this thrilling conclusion to The Circle trilogy, one vampire dares to stand against Lilith and her minions, using his love for the newly crowned queen of Geall to finally complete the circle of six and change the course of history. Original.",2006,4.22,318,1344
9780517052259,0517052253,The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells,,H. G. Wells,"Science fiction, English.",,"Includes fantasies of travel in time and space, of personal madness and megalomania, and of practical and grotesque utopias",1991,4.13,0,45
9780517077740,0517077744,Three Complete Novels,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d2r6jdej-XEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,1. Morror Image 2. Best Kept Secrets 3. Slow Heat In Heaven.,1992,4.21,784,340
9780517082454,0517082454,Complete Poems,,Edgar Allan Poe,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C4Y-KgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is internationally renowned as a pioneering master of the macabre. He is regarded as one of the world's great short story writers as well as a great lyric poet, and is credited with inventing the detective story and the modern gothic horror tale. He has been an important influence on many major American and European writers including William Faulkner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, H.P. Lovecraft, and William Butler Yeats, among many others. Poe's poetry, which is collected in this volume, is more personal than his prose. The themes of love, death, and despair which recur throughout reflect the anguish he suffered in his own troubled life. ""Annabel Lee"" is a haunting lament to his young wife, Virginia, who died of tuberculosis. ""The Bells"" is an eerie and melancholy meditation which recreates with brilliant musical language the hypnotic, funereal aura of ringing bells. ""The Raven"" is a comic tour de force in which the protagonist turns his strange visitor into a symbol of his own sorrow and loss. Poe's best poems remain some of the most popular and technically accomplished in the English language. This book features a deluxe cover, ribbon marker, top stain, and decorative endpaper with a name plate.",1992,4.32,128,191
9780517084793,0517084791,Three Complete Novels,,Michael Crichton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d1bGOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three classic scientific suspense novels, Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, and The Great Train Robbery, demonstrate what made this master of the potboiling thriller the best-selling success that he is today.",1993,4.06,688,991
9780517091265,0517091267,Three Complete Novels,,Edward Morgan Forster,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UGvOCPB9u8UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Combines three masterpieces from one of Britain's most popular novelists into one beautifully bound volume, which contains A Room With a View, Howard's End, and Where Angels Fear to Tread.",1993,4.2,503,380
9780517092910,0517092913,The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales,,Hans Christian Andersen,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n4O_9qeNxZYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,More than 156 of the great Dane's best-loved fairy tales.,1984,4.28,803,95929
9780517093399,0517093391,Four Novels,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bHcCAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of Dickens's best works includes The Pickwick Papers, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities.",1993,4.29,848,31
9780517101353,0517101351,A New Collection of Three Complete Novels,,Michael Crichton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HGrNSAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fans of Jurassic Park and Rising Sun, the books and the movies, will want to own this collection of Crichton's earlier, technical suspense novels, which includes Congo, Sphere, and Eaters of the Dead.",1994,3.99,720,943
9780517118290,0517118297,Jane Austen : the Complete Novels,"Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan",Jane Austen,England,,,1981,4.55,1103,264
9780517119129,0517119129,Two Complete Novels,,Douglas Adams,"Detective and mystery stories, English.",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mVcKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Following themes of zany space exploration, time travel, and mystery, two novels that examine the dimensions of the universe and the human soul feature Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.",1987,4.18,436,238
9780517146484,0517146487,The Tolkien Companion,,J. E. A. Tyler;John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AiZNPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A complete and accessible concordance to the legends, history, languages, and people of J. R. R. Tolkien's imaginative Middle-earth provides a fan's reference to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.",1976,4.11,531,828
9780517146545,0517146541,John Irving,Three Complete Novels,John Irving,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m08LAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first three novels of this highly acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author. Compassionate, satirical, deeply insightful and humorous, these compelling novels have gained him millions of fans. Includes Setting Free the Bears, The Water-Method Man, and The 158-Pound Marriage.",1995,3.82,718,296
9780517147689,0517147688,The Complete Novels,,Jane Austen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o7TgAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A line illustrated anthology of Jane Austen's complete works includes Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and the obscure Lady Susan.",1981,4.55,1103,298
9780517149256,0517149257,The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide,,Douglas Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cA3jxBtM1vIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This outrageous volume contains six zany, out-of-this-world adventure stories by this incomparable novelist. From the very first to the very latest—all best sellers—includes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish; Young Zaphod Plays it Safe; and Mostly Harmless. 768 pages.",1996,4.38,815,2801
9780517168950,0517168952,The Crossing,,Cormac McCarthy,,,"Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild amongst the cattle lately brought onto the plain by settlers -- this when all the wisdom of trappers has disappeared along with the trappers themselves. And so Billy sets forth at the age of sixteen on an unwitting journey into the souls of boys and animals and men. Having trapped a she-wolf he would restore to the mountains of Mexico, he is long gone and returns to find everything he left behind transformed utterly in his absence. Except his kid brother, Boyd, with whom he strikes out yet again to reclaim what is theirs thus crossing into ""that antique gaze from whence there could be no way back forever."" An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once. ""From the Trade Paperback edition.",1996,4.12,425,226
9780517174968,0517174960,The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,,Arthur Conan Doyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_Ld2twEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a facsimile of the twenty-four original ""Strand Magazine"" stories about the adventures of the intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes, which first appeared in publication between 1891 and 1893.",2001,4.33,334,2135
9780517182468,0517182467,Three Terrifying Bestselling Novels,,John Saul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iwINAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Three novels of suspense including: Suffer the children ; Punish the sinners; and Cry for the strangers.,1996,4.5,678,321
9780517189603,0517189607,The Secret Garden,,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oGNbnTQdiJ4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.,1998,4.13,331,725384
9780517201664,0517201666,Three Complete Novels,,Colleen McCullough,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QDzwWuzbjhAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For the first time ever, three of the author's most beloved novels are compiled here in one extraordinary volume: Tim; An Indecent Obsession; and The Ladies of Missalonghi.",1999,3.67,768,40
9780517219027,0517219026,Three complete novels,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V-cOAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides three of the author's early horror tales.,2002,4.53,1096,12320
9780517229279,0517229277,A Christmas Carol and the Night Before Christmas,,Charles Dickens;Arthur Rackham;Clement Clarke Moore,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=90NmAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This gorgeously illustrated, gilt-edged edition of the classic Christmas story and poem will be a treasured memento of hiliday celebrations for years to come. The timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and Moore's classic poem are among the most beloved Christmas stories of all time, and this elegant leather-bound edition is perfect to give as a gift or as an addition to one's own collection.",2006,4.33,156,85
9780517309803,0517309807,Works of Jack London,,Jack London,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rEBaAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Contains The call of the wild; White Fang; The Sea-Wolf; and 40 short stories.,1980,4.19,761,19
9780517349175,0517349175,Daphne Dumaurier,3 Complete Novels,"Outlet;Outlet Book Company Staff;Daphne du Maurier, Dam;Random House Value Publishing Staff;Rh Value Publishing",,,,1988,4.12,677,33
9780517412947,0517412942,Favorite Tales of Sholom Aleichem,,Sholem Aleichem;Julius Butwin;Frances Butwin,Fiction,,"Short stories by the distinguished Yiddish author evoke the culture, life styles, and customs of the Jews of Russia",1983,4.23,692,62
9780517436325,0517436329,H.G. Wells Science Fiction Treasury,,Herbert George Wells,"Science fiction, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rk1L6ihBLYkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The time machine - The island of Dr. Moreau - The invisible man.,1984,3.94,688,17
9780517543054,0517543052,Be Here Now,,Ram Dass,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=As2aeQb2bHAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected. The enhanced edition of Be Here Now includes: Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty minute video retrospective of Ram Dass' spiritual journey *The first chapter of Ram Dass' new book, Be Love Now",2010,4.29,416,20105
9780517588376,0517588374,"Classic Myths to Read Aloud: The Great Stories of Greek and Roman Mythology, Specially Arranged for Children Five and Up by an Educational Expert",,William F. Russell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yga4h-1reBcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents the essential Greek and Roman myths that form the basis of our cultural literary heritage.,1992,4.09,272,235
9780517599242,0517599244,The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,,Douglas Adams,Science,,"The off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent are illustrated with digitally generated graphic images and tricky visual puns",1994,4.32,96,286
9780517604465,0517604469,China and Japan,,Donald A. Mackenzie,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NaAjCNdJGhUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A survey of Oriental myths and legends, discussing their origins and meanings, and drawing parallels and connections to the mythologies of other cultures",1988,3.55,404,19
9780517618875,0517618877,The Portable James Joyce,,James Joyce,Fiction,,,1947,4.16,762,18
9780517884546,0517884542,The Orion Mystery,Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids,Robert Bauval,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XLSerhdFKVsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawing on more than a decade of research, this eye-opening account of one of the great mysteries of the ancient world links the construction of the pyramids and Egyptian religion to precise astronomical study. TV tie-in. 20,000 first printing.",1994,3.93,352,1076
9780520024274,0520024273,The Pound Era,,Hugh Kenner,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=06EwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""It is notoriously difficult to recognize degrees of pre-eminence among one's near-contemporaries. We talk now of the age of Donne, a label that would have seemed bizarre to Ben Johnson. Will The Pound Era seem an appropriate designation, 50 or 100 years hence, for the epoch we think of as 'modern'? Mr. Kenner's brilliantly written book establishes an excellent case for supposing the answer to be 'Yes.'""—The Economist ""Mr. Kenner's study...is not so much a book as a library, or better, a new kind of book in which biography, history, and the analysis of literature are so harmoniously articulated that every page has a narrative sense....The Pound Era is a book to be read and reread and studied. For the student of modern letters it is a treasure, for the general reader it is one of the most interesting books he will ever pick up in a lifetime of reading.""—National Review",1973,4.39,624,591
9780520024793,0520024796,The Haunted Screen,Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt,Lotte H. Eisner,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=APHvT248QLQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Book on expressionism in German motion pictures.,1969,4.18,360,258
9780520026261,0520026268,The Politics of Cultural Despair,A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology,Fritz R. Stern,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c6wwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives spanning the years from the middle of the past century to the threshold of Hitler's Third Reich-attacked, often incisively and justly, the deficiencies of German culture and the German spirit. But they were more than the critics of Germany's cultural crisis; they were its symptoms and victims as well. Unable to endure the ills which they diagnosed and which they had experienced in their own lives, they sought to become prophets who would point the way to a national rebirth. Hence, they propounded all manner of reforms, ruthless and idealistic, nationalistic and utopian. It was this leap from despair to utopia across all existing reality that gave their thought its fantastic quality.",1974,4.05,367,90
9780520048980,0520048989,Europe and the People Without History,,Eric R. Wolf,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eJWjES159ocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Analyzes the history of European peasants, workers, and artisans as they were affected by major economic developments and trends",1982,4.13,534,962
9780520072381,0520072383,The Responsibility of Forms,"Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation",Roland Barthes,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XTLuwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These late essays of Roland Barthes's are concerned with the visible and the audible, and here the preoccupations are particularly intense and rewarding, in part because Barthes was himself, by predilection, an artist and a musician, and in part because he was of two minds about the very possibility of attaching to art and to music a written text, a criticism.",1991,3.94,320,92
9780520204959,0520204956,Geisha,,Liza Crihfield Dalby,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LGTVNSYrKucC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"00 In this classic best-seller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. Her new preface considers the geisha today as a vestige of tradition as Japan heads into the 21st century. In this classic best-seller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. Her new preface considers the geisha today as a vestige of tradition as Japan heads into the 21st century.",1998,4,367,3646
9780520206397,0520206398,Balanchine,A Biography,Bernard Taper,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fztBS9mc-Q8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Written with wit, insight, and candor, Balanchine is a book that will delight lovers of biography as well as those with a special interest in dance. For this edition the author has added a thoughtful yet dramatic account of the working out of Balanchine's legacy, from the making of his controversial will to the present day. The author explores the intriguing legal, financial, and institutional subplots that unfolded after the death of the greatest choreographer of the century, but the central plot of his epilogue is the aesthetic issue: In the absence of their creator, can the ballets retain their wondrous vitality? Taper illuminates the fascinating transmission of Balanchine's masterworks from one generation to another, an unprecented legacy in the history of ballet, that most evanescent of the arts.",1996,4.31,413,60
9780520213685,0520213688,"Haiti, History, and the Gods",,Joan Dayan,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-aQwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""By viewing Revolutionary-era Haiti through the lenses of gender and sexuality, Joan Dayan breathes life into an important slice of history.""—Karen McCarthy Brown, author of Mama Lola",1998,3.95,362,37
9780520215108,0520215109,Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France,,Robert A. Nye,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BbgwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this study of upper-class masculinity from the end of the ancien régime in 1789 to the end of World War I, Robert Nye argues that manhood, masculinity, and male sexuality is, like femininity, a cultural construct, comprising a strict set of heroic ideals and codes of honor which few men have been able to realize in practice. In doing so, Nye destabilizes and historicizes the male body, and incorporates gender into the brand of cultural history inaugurated by Norbert Elias in the 1930s.",1998,4.36,316,14
9780520229136,0520229134,Infections and Inequalities,The Modern Plagues,Paul Farmer,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gnWc1e0-7tAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Argues that illnesses such as AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, and typhoid target poor communities.",2001,4.08,424,2474
9780520231511,0520231511,Undertaker of the Mind,John Monro and Mad-doctoring in Eighteenth-century England,Jonathan Andrews;Andrew T. Scull,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_zYTngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Undertaker of the Mind is the most splendid piece of original research for many a year on the early history of British psychiatry. Brilliantly exploiting hitherto unused documentation, Andrews and Scull bring the once murky world of the eighteenth- century mad-doctor to life, and dispel many deeply embedded myths in the process. Absolutely essential reading!""--Roy Porter, author of The Creation of the Modern World ""This is a wonderfully well-written work... The authors reconstruct, in rich and convincing detail, the dilemmas faced by Monro, his patients, their families, and the broader culture when confronted with psychological distress.""--Joel Braslow, author of Mental Ills and Bodily Cures ""A telling reconstruction of the ideas and practice of probably the most famous psychiatrist in eighteenth-century Britain.... The analyses of Monro's more famous cases, Cruden, Ferrers, etc., are both stimulating and entertaining.""--William Bynum, author of Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century",2001,3.42,386,12
9780520234413,0520234413,Exiled in Paris,"Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, and Others on the Left Bank",James Campbell,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zcp4GAk8SmIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is the first book to explore the English-language literary scene in Paris after World War II, including the intersecting lives of Richard Wright, Samuel Beckett, James Baldwin, and Maurice Girodias.",2003,3.97,304,37
9780520239326,0520239326,The Whole World Is Watching,Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left,Todd Gitlin,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VbkwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This study examines the way news organizations, as the category implies, ""organize"" the news world, both for practitioners - reporters, editors and managers - and for the consumers - readers, viewers and perhaps even more important, decision-makers.",2003,3.71,352,81
9780520240582,0520240588,Berlioz,"Servitude and Greatness, 1832-1869",David Cairns,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EwIskvIA5yQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Covers the life of the French composer, including his struggle to establish himself in Paris and how his work was created.",2003,4.27,907,3
9780520241824,0520241827,浅草紅団,,Yasunari Kawabata,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m8MP88JnszwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A new translation of the only work not currently available in English by a Nobel-Prize winning author and the best known Japanese writer outside of Japan.,2005,3.35,181,349
9780520242609,0520242602,The Poems of Exile,Tristia and the Black Sea Letters,Ovid,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cyEI5755N2UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""This is no small achievement. For the language-lover the translation provides elegant, flowing English verse, for the classicist it conveys close approximation to the Latin meaning coupled with a sense of the movement and rhythmic variety of Ovid's language""--Geraldine Herbert-Brown, editor of Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at its Bimillennium ""This book fills a gap. There is no similar annotated English translation of Ovid's exile poetry. Thoroughly grounded in Ovidian scholarship, Green's introduction and notes are helpful and informative. The translation is accurate, idiomatic, and lively, closely imitating the Latin elegiac couplet and capturing Ovid's changing moods.""--Karl Galinsky, author of Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects",1994,4.12,451,412
9780520243262,0520243269,Pathologies of Power,"Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor",Paul Farmer,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HacwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Pathologies of Power"" uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most importanthuman rights struggle of our times.",2005,4.25,438,3802
9780520244955,0520244958,Giovanni and Lusanna,Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence,Gene Brucker,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=47EwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Set against the grindstone of social class, this story of Lusanna versus Giovanni, gleaned from the archives of Renaissance Florence, throws a floodlight on relations between the sexes. Gene Brucker's wonderful account has remarkable resonance.""—Lauro Martines, author of April Blood “In the years since it first appeared, Gene Brucker's Giovanni and Lusanna has attracted a large and loyal readership. There is no better introduction to the complex realities of life (and love) in Florence during the Renaissance.”—William J. Connell, Professor of History and La Motta Chair in Italian Studies, Seton Hall University PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION: ""At its core, this splendid study is about stubborn love and the forms of law, and the impossibility of each to accommodate the ultimate claims of the other.""—New York Times Book Review",2005,3.56,160,250
9780520246331,0520246330,World Atlas of Great Apes and Their Conservation,,Julian Oliver Caldecott;Lera Miles,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VMtbmkOYD-kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This comprehensive and authoritative review of the distribution and conservation status of Great Apes includes individual country profiles for each species and overview chapters on ape biology, ecology, and conservation challenges.",2005,4.56,456,9
9780520251090,0520251091,Storming the Gates of Paradise,Landscapes for Politics,Rebecca Solnit,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BtG1-Scm08kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An anthology of nearly forty essays, representing the author's work over the past ten years, offers an insightful overview of American politics, current affairs, culture, society, and history, written from the perspective of a noted environmentalist, anti-globalization activist, and public intellectual. By the author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost.",2007,4.2,416,221
9780520251748,0520251741,Gardening with a Wild Heart,Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home,Judith Larner Lowry,Gardening,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Kit0gMn0X90C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Essays discuss wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, wildland seed collecting, principles of natural design, and plant/animal interactions for California gardens.",2007,4.29,267,11
9780521002936,0521002931,Spinoza,A Life,Steven Nadler;Steven M. Nadler,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iSe95FJrfeYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The first complete biography of Spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research.,2001,4.09,422,220
9780521009379,0521009375,The Ethics and Politics of Asylum,Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees,Matthew J. Gibney,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fdyhjrmpqx0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Over the last two decades, asylum has become a highly charged political issue across developed countries. This book draws upon political and ethical theory and an examination of the experiences of the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia to consider how to respond to the challenges of asylum. In addition to explaining why asylum has emerged as such a key political issue, it provides a compelling account of how states could move towards implenting morally defensible responses to refugees.",2004,3.55,287,10
9780521010504,0521010500,Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador,,Elisabeth Jean Wood;Wood Elisabeth Jean,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QBAAN3ABKmIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Wood's model places emotions and morals at the heart of collective action.,2003,3.8,332,50
9780521011761,0521011760,Who Needs Greek?,Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism,Simon Goldhill,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ylQBwT8PFlUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Lively study of conflicts about the meaning of Greek-ness in the modern and ancient worlds.,2002,3.4,334,10
9780521274555,0521274559,The Presocratic Philosophers,A Critical History with a Selcetion of Texts,G. S. Kirk;J. E. Raven;M. Schofield,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kFpd86J8PLsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century B.C. to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides.,1983,4.24,518,652
9780521286916,0521286913,Moral Luck,Philosophical Papers 1973-1980,Bernard Williams,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wMGW2Ehldp8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both broadened and deepened their concerns in a way that now makes much earlier moral and political philosophy look sterile and trivial. Moral Luck contains a number of essays that have contributed influentially to this development. Among the recurring themes are the moral and philosophical limitations of utilitarianism, the notion of integrity, relativism, and problems of moral conflict and rational choice. The work presented here is marked by a high degree of imagination and acuity, and also conveys a strong sense of psychological reality. The volume will be a stimulating source of ideas and arguments for all philosophers and a wide range of other readers.",1981,4.1,188,110
9780521288842,0521288843,Evolution and the Theory of Games,,John Maynard Smith,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nag2IhmPS3gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this 1982 book, the theory of games, first developed to analyse economic behaviour, is modified so that it can be applied to evolving populations. John Maynard Smith's concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy is relevant whenever the best thing for an animal or plant to do depends on what others are doing. The theory leads to testable predictions about the evolution of behaviour, of sex and genetic systems, and of growth and life history patterns. This book contains a full account of the theory, and of the data relevant to it. The account is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, teachers and research workers in animal behaviour, population genetics and evolutionary biology. The book will also be of interest to mathematicians and game theorists; the mathematics has been largely confined to appendixes so that the main text may be easily followed by biologists.",1982,4,234,80
9780521290609,0521290600,Problems of the Self,Philosophical Papers 1956-1972,Bernard Williams,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RwWEgc-m0U0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is a volume of philosophical studies, centred on problems of personal identity and extending to related topics in the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy.",1976,4.02,276,52
9780521293730,0521293731,The Winter's Tale,,William Shakespeare;Susan Snyder;Deborah T. Curren-Aquino,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JoI6wGaVslUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A newly edited edition of The Winter's Tale, with a detailed introduction and full commentary.",2007,3.69,279,17397
9780521313254,0521313252,Tolstoy: Anna Karenina,,Anthony Thorlby,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eOrv5wGPnTgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A close reading of this classic novel that explores the subtle psychology in Tolstoy's characterisation.,1987,4.19,128,1191
9780521315791,0521315794,Reading Greek Tragedy,,Simon Goldhill;Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics Simon Goldhill,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zmQKcdh4i-oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill aims to combine the best contemporary scholarly criticism in classics with a wide knowledge of modern literary studies in other fields. He discusses the masterpieces of Athenian drama in the light of contemporary critical controversies in such a way as to enable the student or scholar not only to understand and appreciate the texts of the most commonly read plays, but also to evaluate and utilize the range of approaches to the problems of ancient drama.",1986,4.04,302,27
9780521316927,0521316928,Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude,,Michael Wood,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bgc5AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author places the landmark novel into the context of modern Colombia's violent history, exploring the complex vision of Gabriel Garcâia Mâarquez.",1990,4.51,132,2899
9780521317504,0521317509,"Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Human Agency and Language",,Charles Taylor,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eyaygppXlnsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Philosophical Papers will interest a very wide range of philosophers and students of the human sciences.,1985,4.31,304,48
9780521348355,0521348358,Cicero: On Duties,,Cicero;Marcus Tullius Cicero;Quintus Tullius Cicero,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PuONLmVUW4QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"De Officiis (On Duties) is Cicero's last theoretical work and contains his analysis, in a Greek theoretical framework, of the political and ethical values of the Roman governing class in the late Republic. It has often been treated merely as a key to the Greek philosophical works that Cicero used, but this volume aims to render De Officiis, which had a profound impact upon subsequent political thinkers, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. All the standard series features are present, including a wholly new translation, a concise introduction by a leading scholar, select bibliography, chronology, notes on vocabulary and brief biographies of the most prominent individuals mentioned in the text.",1991,3.95,241,1281
9780521348881,0521348889,Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of Right,,Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FVJRWWD-3fAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory, and the sociology of the modern state into the framework of Hegel's philosophy of history. Hegel's work has been interpreted in radically different ways, influencing many political movements from far right to far left, and is widely perceived as central to the communitarian tradition in modern ethical, social, and political thought. This edition includes extensive editorial material informing the reader of the historical background of Hegel's text, and explaining his allusions to Roman law and other sources, making use of lecture materials which have only recently become available. The new translation is literal, readable, and consistent, and will be informative and scholarly enough to serve the needs of students and specialists alike.",1991,3.86,569,2755
9780521386739,052138673X,The Collapse of Complex Societies,,Joseph Tainter,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YdW5wSPJXIoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.,1990,4.13,262,676
9780521398336,0521398339,The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences,,Quentin Skinner,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y5gk3pINr-YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Publisher description: This is a volume of new essays introducing the most influential developments in social and political theory over the last thirty years. In that period empiricism and the positivist ideal of the unification of science have been undermined and transformed by the impact of different, frequently Continental, traditions of thought. The introduction charts these charges and each of the contributors provides a brief and lucid account of the thought of one major figure or school which have helped to bring about these changes. Those discussed include Althusser, Derrida, Foucault, Gadamer, Habermas, Kuhn, Levi-Strauss, Rawls and the Annales historians. Each essay has suggestions for further reading and a useful general bibliography is provided at the end of the volume.",1990,3.82,224,26
9780521402408,0521402409,Fitzgerald: All The Sad Young Men,,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XV2TQpgkKPEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,An edition of twenty Fitzgerald short stories based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts.,2007,3.95,504,336
9780521406772,0521406773,The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn,Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII,Retha M. Warnicke,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_iUIzcXV4toC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Retha Warnicke's fascinating and controversial reinterpretation focuses on the sexual intrigues and family politics pervading the court, offering a new explanation of Anne's fall.",1991,3.95,338,1309
9780521437202,0521437202,Numerical Recipes in C,The Art of Scientific Computing,William H. Press,C (Computer program language),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4t-sybVuoqoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,,1992,3.86,336,7
9780521437738,0521437733,The Invention of Tradition,,"Hobsbawm, E. J. Hobsbawm;Eric Hobsbawm;Terence Ranger",History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sfvnNdVY3KIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.,1992,3.96,320,765
9780521437776,0521437776,The Myth of the Magus,,E. M. Butler;Eliza Marian Butler,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nJSXnBd78FYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"After identifying its anthropological origins in ancient rituals performed by a shaman or wizard, this text traces the development of the Magus through pre-Christian religious and mystic philosophers, medieval sorcerers and alchemists and the 18th and 19th century occult revival.",1993,3.71,320,28
9780521439619,0521439612,Nations and Nationalism Since 1780,"Programme, Myth, Reality",E. J. Hobsbawm,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-MycJ9mCn14C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Hobsbawm's classic account, revised in the light of recent political upheavals.",1992,3.89,214,1136
9780521476768,0521476763,The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus,,Lloyd Phillip Gerson;Lloyd P. Gerson,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=84sQxAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Plotinus is the greatest philosopher in the 700 year period between Aristotle and Augustine. He thought of himself as a disciple of Plato, but in his efforts to defend Platonism against Aristotelians, Stoics, and others, he actually produced a reinvigorated version of Platonism that later came to be known as ""Neoplatonism"". In this volume, sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' complex system. They place Plotinus in the history of ancient philosophy while showing how he was a founder of medieval philosophy.",1996,4.3,480,20
9780521479349,0521479347,Foucault's Virginity,Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality,Simon Goldhill;Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics Simon Goldhill,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8B4AutVAp4sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the first centuries of this era (works such as Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Cleitophon and Plutarch's Amatorius) were being composed at the same time as fundamental ideas about the body, gender and sexuality were being set in place with the rise of Christianity and the Church to dominate the pagan world. Modern writers on the history of sexuality have largely ignored this literature in favour of prose treatises, philosophy and Christian homilies. Simon Goldhill, writing with the same wit and verve as the ancient writers with whom he engages, sets out to put these texts back into the history of sexuality. The result is a dazzling celebration of sex and sexuality in the Greek literature of the first centuries CE.",1995,3.75,212,11
9780521484008,0521484006,Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens,,Aristotle,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zk7KoZp_S38C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This new collection of Aristotle's political writings provides the student with all the necessary materials for a full understanding of his work as a political scientist. In addition to a revised and extended introduction, this expanded Cambridge Texts edition contains an extensive guide to further reading and an index of names with biographical notes. Presentation of The Politics and The Constitution of Athens in a single volume will make this the most attractive and convenient student edition of these seminal works currently available.",1996,3.94,327,381
9780521498678,0521498678,The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen,,John O. Jordan,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9vxqRs9L9MoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Presents a guide to Jane Austen's work in the context of her contemporary world,1997,4.08,251,308
9780521532471,0521532477,A Midsummer Night's Dream,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A2eMEGrq5msC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A new section of the Introduction to this updated edition considers important professional theater productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The Reading List has been revised and augmented to reflect the scope of the revised edition. First Edition Hb (1985): 0-521-22194-3 First Edition Pb (1985): 0-521-29389-8,2003,3.94,168,128
9780521532488,0521532485,King Richard II,,William Shakespeare;Andrew Gurr,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cfjy434zGjEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Lively, instructive access to Shakespeare's rich and complex works.",2003,3.77,252,83
9780521532525,0521532523,"Hamlet, Prince of Denmark",,William Shakespeare;Philip Edwards,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=adqzIJYqdnYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,For this updated edition Robert Hapgood has added a section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to Hamlet.,2003,4.01,270,141
9780521535144,052153514X,Twelfth Night Or What You Will,,William Shakespeare;Elizabeth Story Donno,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q3LslgQ72XkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Elizabeth Donno's text with a wholly new Introduction by Penny Gay.,2004,3.98,186,58
9780521539814,0521539811,Aeschylus: The Oresteia,,Simon Goldhill,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=znGeSf1vHHYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Simon Goldhill focuses on the play's themes--justice, sexual politics, violence, and the role of man in ancient Greek culture--in this general introduction to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and influential of all Greek dramas. After exploring how Aeschylus constructs a myth for the city in which he lived, a final chapter considers the influence of the Oresteia on more contemporary theater. The volume's organized structure and guide to further reading will make it an invaluable reference for students and teachers. First Edition Hb (1992): 0-521-40293-X First Edition Pb (1992): 0-521-40853-9",2004,4.03,95,28
9780521599634,0521599636,Nietzsche: Daybreak,Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality,Friedrich Nietzsche,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FBFNTQlSa-8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A new edition of this important work of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy.,1997,4.17,292,786
9780521612630,0521612632,The Tragedy of King Lear,,William Shakespeare;Jay L. Halio,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XPtzudzvPJoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Updated critical edition of King Lear, including an introductory section on interpretations.",2005,3.9,334,118
9780521618748,0521618746,Hamlet,,William Shakespeare,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5m2UPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This edition of Hamlet is part of the groundbreaking Cambridge School Shakespeare series established by Rex Gibson. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of the play, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an eight-page colour section and a selection of notes including information on characters, performance, history and language.",2005,4.01,289,577429
9780521629249,0521629241,The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer,,Christopher Janaway,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PnUF-UjhX_oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A collection of specially-commissioned essays analysing Schopenhauer's philosophy.,1999,3.89,494,18
9780521639873,0521639875,Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings,,Friedrich Nietzsche;Nietzsche Friedrich,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=26IfImiDrJ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A new translation and edition of one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period.,1999,4.02,204,365
9780521639897,0521639891,Pearl S. Buck,A Cultural Biography,Peter Conn;Peter J. Conn,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fxeiP7INFNcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Describes the literary, social, and personal accomplishments of the Nobel- and Pulitzer-prize-winning author and activist.",1998,4.17,500,98
9780521654081,0521654084,Practical Philosophy,,Immanuel Kant,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0hCsbUjFiBwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This 1997 book was the first English translation of all Kant's writings on moral and political philosophy in a single volume.,1999,4.09,704,279
9780521663878,0521663873,The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes,,Anthony J. Cascardi,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zSjdL03g4VAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes offers a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes' life and work.,2002,3.6,264,10
9780521667920,0521667925,Introduction to Phenomenology,,Robert Sokolowski,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v8lFXWE3g1YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Introductory volume, presenting the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology.",2000,3.96,248,296
9780521750349,0521750342,Numerical Recipes Example Book (C++),The Art of Scientific Computing,William T. Vetterling,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gwijz-OyIYEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Contains C++ source programs that exercise and demonstrate all of the subroutines, procedures, and functions in Numerical Recipes in C++.",2002,2.75,330,4
9780521750844,0521750849,Jungle Love Level 5,,Margaret Johnson,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vIbr41ZwJVsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The kiss was just amazing. I knew instantly that Ian was the one for me. 'You're lOvely,' he said. 'Absolutely lovely. But I can't do this. Not until I've broken things off with Caroline. It just wouldn't be fair.' On holiday in the Caribbean, Lisa and Jennifer are both attracted to Ian. And Ian likes both of them. But what about his girlfriend, Caroline? And then there's Pete.",2002,3.37,95,57
9780521774338,0521774330,Genres in Dialogue,Plato and the Construct of Philosophy,Andrea Wilson Nightingale,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n3MeQikAp00C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This 1995 book is an investigation into how Plato 'invented' the discipline of philosophy.,2000,4.33,238,5
9780521805223,0521805228,Charles Taylor,,Ruth Abbey;Lecturer in Philosophy Ruth Abbey;Cambridge University Press,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WXm2NF-TXrgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Charles Taylor is a distinctive figures in contemporary philosophy. In a time of increasing specialization Taylor contributes to areas of philosophical conversation across a wide spectrum of ideas including moral theory, theories of subjectivity, political theory, epistemology, hermeneutics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and aesthetics. His most recent writings have seen him branching into the study of religion. Written by a team of international authorities, this collection will be read primarily by students and professionals in philosophy, political science, religious studies, but will appeal to a broad swathe of professionals across the humanities and social sciences.",2004,3.6,220,14
9780521831437,0521831431,A First Course in String Theory,,Barton Zwiebach,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XmsbvP1uUeIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Accessible introduction to string theory for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.,2004,4.18,578,172
9780521834346,0521834341,Myths of the Underworld Journey,"Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets","Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III",History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yEswngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Plato, Aristophanes, and the creators of the ""Orphic"" gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the mythic narrative, the boundaries of their societies. Rather than being the relics of a faded ritual tradition or the products of Orphic influence, these myths can only reveal their meanings through this detailed analysis of the specific ways in which each author makes use of the tradition.",2004,3.75,276,3
9780521855266,0521855268,Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy,,Daron Acemoglu;James A. Robinson,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gzdbfu55IGgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This book systematically explains why some countries are democracies while others are not.,2006,3.93,416,143
9780523401218,0523401213,Triax,"Three Original Novellas by James Gunn, Keith Roberts [and] Jack Vance",Robert Silverberg,Science fiction,,,1977,3.69,214,4
9780525461319,0525461310,Boltzmon!,,William Sleator,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YMUNAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the boltzman comes to deliver his wish for power, young Chris gets much more than he expected and soon his life is turned inside out in this suspenseful science fiction thriller for young readers.",1999,3.65,160,84
9780525467779,0525467777,Three Complete Novels,A Lloyd Alexander Collection,Lloyd Alexander,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jFcAAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lucian flees the wrath of his king and joins a poet-turned-jackass and a girl with mystical powers; Prince Jen sets off for the court of Yuan-Min bearing six unusual gifts; and King Tamar embarks on a quest to recover his kingdom, which he lost in a dicegame.",2001,4.24,752,88
9780525469780,0525469788,"Boy, Were We Wrong about Dinosaurs!",,Kathleen V. Kudlinski,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QrRKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines what is known about dinosaur bones, behavior, and other characteristics and how different the facts often are from what scientists, from ancient China to the recent past, believed to be true.",2005,3.93,32,243
9780525947264,0525947264,The Grits (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life,,Deborah Ford;Edie Hand,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AXM-Kg6VFh0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A tribute to southern American women features true stories, recipes, humorous anecdotes, wisdom, and advice on such topics as eating watermelon in a sundress, tending a magnolia tree, and drinking like a lady. 50,000 first printing.",2003,3.78,249,62
9780525948926,0525948929,Atlas Shrugged,,Ayn Rand,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SZN8PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Government leaders seeking control over all business become increasingly frantic as major industrial companies are being thrown into chaos following the sudden disappearance of their leaders.,2005,3.68,1176,897
9780525950127,0525950125,The Woods,,Harlan Coben,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o7fYPzejSowC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Grieving over the murder of his sister twenty years earlier and raising his six-year-old daughter alone after losing his wife to cancer, county prosecutor Paul Copeland is inadvertently tied to a murder investigation that he believes may be related to his sister's case, a discovery that threatens to reveal long-buried family secrets. 400,000 first printing.",2007,4.04,404,52366
9780529123459,0529123452,The Last Eyewitness,The Final Week,Chris Seay;David B. Capes;Brian McLaren,Bibles,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=60AJ6ko1jP0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A beautiful retelling of the last week in the life of Jesus Christ (from John 13-21), including 17 dramatic illustrations by Rob Pepper. This unique work captures the urgency of the last living disciple telling his students about the most significant event in history. It includes first person commentary told in John's voice with comments from Matthew, Mark, and Luke. The compelling story gives the reader the sense of being around a campfire with first century believers, hearing the story directly from John. So come into the story, smell the mixture of the salty air and billows of smoke floating from the bonfire and hear the Last Eyewitness.",2006,3.77,144,22
9780534491826,0534491820,Data Structures and Algorithms in C++,,Adam Drozdek,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W7Lsrs09KDYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Using the C++ programming language, author Adam Drozdek highlights three important aspects of data structures and algorithms. First, the book places special emphasis on the connection between data structures and their algorithms, including an analysis of the algorithms' complexity. Second, the book presents data structures in the context of object-oriented program design, stressing the principle of information hiding in its treatment of encapsulation and decomposition. Finally, the book closely examines data structure implementation. Overall, this practical and theoretical book prepares students with a solid foundation in data structures for future courses and work in design implementation, testing, or maintenance of virtually any software system. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.",2004,3.71,758,18
9780534613037,0534613039,Slaughterhouse Blues,The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America,Donald D. Stull;Michael J. Broadway,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RQ4pAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"SLAUGHTERHOUSE BLUES: THE MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA draws on more than 15 years of research by the authors, a cultural anthropologist and a social geographer, to present a detailed look at the meat and poultry industry in the United States and Canada. Following chapters on today's beef, poultry, and pork industries, SLAUGHTERHOUSE BLUES examines industry impacts on workers and on the communities that host its plants. The book details the authors' efforts to help communities plan for and mitigate the negative consequences of meat and poultry plants as well as community opposition to confined animal feeding operations. The book concludes by exploring alternatives to North America's model of industrialized meat production.",2004,3.48,172,26
9780552083294,0552083291,The Illustrated Man,,Ray Bradbury,"Science fiction, American",,,1952,4.14,186,29
9780552133258,0552133256,Strata,,Terry Pratchett,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SUaZQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Fantasy-roman.,1988,3.49,285,8754
9780552135399,0552135399,A Prayer for Owen Meany,,John Irving,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BrzEQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.' Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.",1990,4.23,637,246360
9780552146081,0552146080,A Tourist Guide to Lancre,,Terry Pratchett;Stephen Briggs,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xlMLAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Not only an artistic and breathtaking view of Lancre but also an interesting and informative guide to one of the Discworld's more, er, picturesque kingdoms. Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick live there. Lancre could hardly be somwhere ordinary, could it? Magic glues the Discworld together and a lot of it ends up in Lancre, principal Kingdom of the Ramtop Mountains. Between Uberwald and Whale Bay, the Octarine Grass Country and the Windersins Ocean lies the most exciting and dangerous terrain in all Discworld. The Ramtops supply Discworld with most of its witches and wizards. The leaves on the trees move even when there is no breeze. Rocks go for a stroll in the evening. Even the land, at times, seems alive. The mapp may be only two-dimensional, but watch it very carefully and you might just see it jostle about a bit.",1998,4.06,32,1620
9780552146739,0552146730,Nanny Ogg's Cookbook,,Terry Pratchett;Stephen Briggs;Paul Kidby;Tina Hannan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-PEtxFc3u6YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recipes from Nanny Ogg, the beloved witch from the Discworld series, also includes her thoughts on life, death, and etiquette, as well as other useful information. Original.",2001,4,176,5415
9780552146784,0552146781,The Swords of Night and Day,,David Gemmell,Drenai (Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_lAbcRWV2N4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A thousand years after they fell in battle, two heroes - Druss and Skilgannon - are revered throughout the war-torn lands of the Dernai, where men and women live in abject fear of the dark sorceress known as the Eternal...But what if the soul of one suc",2005,4.31,640,6690
9780552148085,0552148083,Queen of Sorcery,,David Eddings,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h-KhPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled! THE BELGARIAD Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle. But prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake and again seek dominance over all the world. Now the Orb had been stolen by a priest of Torak, and that time was at hand. The master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara the arch-sorceress were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain it before the final disaster. And with them went Garion, a simple farm boy only months before, but now in the focus of the struggle. He had never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league they travelled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept. THUS CONTINUES BOOK TWO OF THE BELGARIAD",2000,4.14,447,440
9780552148108,0552148105,Castle of Wizardry,,David Eddings,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BNADx9wti8gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled! THE BELGARIAD It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer. Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide. After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished. But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion - and for the little Princess Ce'Nedra! THUS CONTINUES BOOK FOUR OF THE BELGARIAD",2000,4.17,443,422
9780552152167,0552152161,Not Without My Daughter,,Betty Mahmoody;William Hoffer,Americans,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a-pQSxS3SBgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""An Iranian doctor living in America with his American wife Betty and their child Mahtob wants to see his homeland again. He convinces his wife to take a short holiday there with him and Mahtob. Betty is reluctant, as Iran is not a pleasant place, especially if you are American and female. Upon arrival in Iran, it appears that her worst fears are realized: Moody declares that they will be living there from now on. Betty is determined to escape from Iran, but taking her daughter with her presents a larger problem.""",2004,4.08,528,18937
9780552152945,0552152943,Moving Pictures,,Terry Pratchett,Discworld (Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0IJtkM7d6Q0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The tenth Discworld novel. The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to 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 heard of') to find out... Moving Pictures, the tenth Discworld novel is a gloriously funny saga set against the background of a world gone mad!",2005,3.94,396,49516
9780552152952,0552152951,Reaper Man,,Terry Pratchett,Discworld (Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Sosgq1p1ExsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Death has to happen. Tha'ts what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It can't just stop happening.' But it can. And it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the disc, as here, they need Death. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls. There's no telling what might happen, particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living...",2005,4.29,352,59901
9780552153157,055215315X,Lords and Ladies,,Terry Pratchett,Discworld (Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n0e14vDaCEUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The fairies are back - but this time they don't just want your teeth... Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. It's Midsummer's 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.",2005,4.17,400,51212
9780552153577,0552153575,Bravo Two Zero,,Andy McNab,"Persian Gulf War, 1991",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qZzcEpGLeC4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Sergeant Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-west Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO ZERO. Each man laden with 15 stone of equipment, they patrolled 20km across flat desert to reach their objective. Within days, their location was compromised. After a fierce firefight, they were forced to escape and evade on foot to the Syrian border. In the desperate days that followed, though stricken by hypothermia and other injuries, the patrol 'went ballistic'. Four men were captured. Three died. Only one escaped. For the survivors, however, the worst ordeals were to come. Delivered to Baghdad, they were tortured with a savagery for which not even their intensive SAS training had prepared them. BRAVO TWO ZERO is a breathtaking account of Special Forces soldiering, a chronicle of superhuman courage, endurance and dark humour in the face of overwhelming odds. Believed to be the most highly decorated patrol since the Boer War, BRAVO TWO ZERO is already part of SAS legend.",2005,4.08,416,8706
9780552154284,0552154288,Hogfather,,Terry Pratchett,Christmas,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uiP3l1w4b1EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expectation that a dentally inclined fairy would turn up. It wasn't that her parents didn't believe in such things. They didn't need to believe in them. They know they existed. They just wished they didn't. There are those who believe and those who don't. Through the ages, superstition has had its uses. Nowhere more so than in the Discworld where it's helped to maintain the status quo. Anything that undermines superstition has to be viewed with some caution. There may be consequences, particularly on the last night of the year when the time is turning. When those consequences turn out to be the end of the world, you need to be prepared. You might even want more standing between you and oblivion than a mere slip of a girl - even if she has looked Death in the face on numerous occasions...",2006,4.24,432,56929
9780552548229,0552548227,Spindle's End,,Robin McKinley,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W6Ev84nWWFoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The princess has been missing since she was a baby. And Rosie, an ordinary girl, is growing up in an unremarkable little village far away from the royal city. nremarkable, that is, in a land where magic is so common that it settles over everything like dust. But a fairy curse is the kind of magic nobody wants, because it always comes true. And Rosie cannot stay ordinary for ever .... obin McKinley, winner of the Newbery Medal, reweaves a classic fantasy tale, sparkling with magic and adventure, some wonderful animals and birds and - of course - fairies, both good and bad.""",2003,3.8,464,184
9780552548632,0552548634,Beauty,A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast,Robin McKinley,Fairy tales,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mEY96FuKriUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the family business collapses, Beauty and her two sisters are forced to leave the city and begin a new life in the countryside. However, when their father accepts hospitality from the elusive and magical Beast, he is forced to make a terrible promise - to send one daughter to the Beast's castle, with no guarantee that she will be seen again. Beauty accepts the challenge, and there begins an extraordinary story of magic and love that overcomes all boundaries. This is another spellbinding and emotional tale embroidered around a fairytale from Robin McKinley, an award-winning American author.",2004,4.05,271,251
9780552554275,0552554278,Vox,,Paul Stewart;Chris Riddell,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FcCBWM5jz1UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""High in the crumbling Palace of Statues, oily Vox Verlix - nominally the Most High Academe but no more than a prisoner in reality - is brewing a terrible plot to destroy the goblins and the shrykes at a stroke, leaving him free to ake over once again. Rook Barkwater, a young librarian knight, stumbles upon the truth when he is taken captive and forced to work for Rook. But can Rook foil Vox's plan and save the lives of his librarian collegues? A dramatic and menacing new adventure, illustrated throughout with marvellously imaginative black and white illustrations. """,2006,4.11,400,54
9780552771238,0552771236,Past Mortem,,Ben Elton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B1hgo7RElawC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With old friends like these, who needs enemies? It's a question mild mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself when, in romantic desperation, he logs on to the Friends Reunited website in search of the girlfriends of his youth. Newson is not the only member of the Class of take back '88 who has been raking over the ashes of the past. As his old class begins to reassemble in cyberspace, the years slip away and old feuds and passions burn hot once more. Meanwhile, back in the present, Newson's life is no less complicated. He is secretly in love with Natasha, his lovely but very attached sergeant, and failing comprehensively to solve a series of baffling and peculiarly gruesome murders. A school reunion is planned and as history begins to repeat itself, the past crashes headlong into the present. Neither will ever be the same again. In Past Mortem, Ben Elton - previous winner of The Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Popcorn - delivers both a heart-stopping thriller and a killer comic romance.",2005,3.74,464,4218
9780552771849,0552771848,Popcorn,,Ben Elton,Criminals,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1ryYk7Pvs1cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Bruce shoots movies. Wayne and Scout shoot to kill. In a single night they find out the hard way what's real and what's not, who's the hero and who's the villain. The USA watches slack-jawed as Bruce and Wayne together resolve some serious questions. Does Bruce use erection cream? Does art imitate life or does life simply imitate bad art? And most of all, does sugar-pie really love his honeybun?""",2003,3.49,320,5213
9780552773089,0552773085,Merde Actually,,Stephen Clarke,British,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3sTAcLyP6NoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Edgier than Bryson, hits harder than Mayle' The Times A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss's mistress? Paul opens his English tea room, and mutates (temporarily) into a Parisian waiter; samples the pleasures of typically French hotel-room afternoons; and, on a return visit to the UK, sees the full horror of a British office party through Parisian eyes. Meanwhile, he continues his search for the perfect French mademoiselle. But will Paul find l'amour éternel, or will it all end in merde? MERDE ACTUALLY In his second comedy of errors, Paul West continues to sabotage the entente cordiale. Author's apology: 'I'd just like to say sorry to all the suppository fans out there, because in this book there are no suppositories. There are, however, lots of courgettes, and I see this as progress. Suppositories to courgettes - I think it proves that I'm developing as a writer.' Stephen Clarke",2006,3.56,447,2974
9780552992091,0552992097,The Hotel New Hampshire,,John Irving,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oaqajnOR1B8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Quirky, bizarre, tragic, fiendishly funny, The Hotel New Hampshire is anything but a conventional family saga, though a family saga it certainly is. The Berry family are different. Love abounds - both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming",1986,3.9,520,49863
9780552995801,0552995800,בין אלקסרין,,Naguib Mahfouz,Arabic fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h-D56US7mSYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain's occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family. Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house's latticed windows, while his three very different sons live in fear of his harsh will.",1994,4.15,498,261
9780552997775,0552997773,The Sparrow,,Mary Doria Russell,Life on other planets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OdjZ3iREFs0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Set in the 21st century - between 20 and 60 years from now - The Sparrow is the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and talented linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who - in response to a remarkable radio signal from the depths of space - leads a scientific mission to make first contact with an extraterrestrial culture. In the true tradition of Jesuit adventurers before him, Sandoz and his companions are prepared to endure isolation, suffering - even death - but nothing can prepare them for the civilisation they encounter, or for the tragic misunderstanding that brings the mission to a devastating end. Once considered a living saint, Sandoz returns alone to Earth horrifically maimed, both physically and spiritually, the mission s sole survivor - only to be blamed for the mission s failure and accused of heinous crimes. Written in clean, effortless prose and peopled with memorable, superbly-realised characters who never lose their humanity or humour, The Sparrow is a powerful, haunting fiction - a tragic but ultimately triumphant novel about the nature of faith, of love and what it means to be human .""",1997,4.17,506,601
9780552997997,0552997994,Chocolat,,Joanne Harris,Chocolate,,"When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolaterie directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as the ultimate sin. Suddenly Vianne's shop-cum-cafe means that there is somewhere for secrets and grievances. But Vianne's plans for an Easter Chocolate Festival divide the whole community into an escalating 'Church not Chocolate' battle.",1999,3.96,320,94
9780552998000,0552998001,Blackberry Wine,,Joanne Harris,Brewing,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a4VwRkslUcQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Everyday Magic, He Called It. The Transformation Of Base Matter Into The Stuff Of Dreams. Layman S Alchemy.Jay Mackintosh Is Trapped By Memory In The Old Familiar Landscapes Of His Childhood, More Enticing Than The Present, And To Which He Longs To Return.A Bottle Of Home-Brewed Wine Left To Him By A Long-Vanished Friend Seems To Provide Both The Key To An Old Mystery And A Doorway Into Another World. As The Unusual Properties Of The Strange Brew Take Effect, Jay Escapes To A Derelict Farmhouse In The French Village Of Lansquenet, Where A Ghost From The Past Waits To Confront Him, And The Reclusive Marise Haunted, Lovely And Dangerous Hides A Terrible Secret Behind Her Closed Shutters. Between Them, A Mysterious Chemistry. Or Could It Be Magic?",2001,3.79,334,484
9780552998017,055299801X,The Short History of a Prince,,Jane Hamilton,Ballet dancers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tlZoPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Walter McCloud was constantly eclipsed by those around him - his beautiful, talented friends, his flamboyant relatives, his golden-boy brother, Daniel. He was always the outsider, never the star. But the summer of 1972 was a turning point in the life of fifteen-year-old Walter. It was the time when he realized that his great passion for dance would never be matched by his talent; the time when he discovered the funny agony of first love' and the time when he watched his brother declining into a cruel, untimely death. It is only when, twenty-four years later, Walter returns to fight for the survival of his childhood Eden, his family's lakeside summer home, that he finally discovers a way to reconcile himself to the past in a way that gives hope for the future.",1999,3.64,432,1767
9780552998086,0552998087,THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE,,JOHN IRVING,,,,2010,3.83,379,697
9780552998482,0552998486,Chocolat. Joanne Harris,,Joanne Harris,Chocolate,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1EF4xVC3e5MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Try me...Test me...Taste me.When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock especially as it",2000,3.96,320,2786
9780552998680,0552998680,My Movie Business,A Memoir,John Irving,Cider house rules. (Motion picture),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3VMvaJwvQwYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"John Irving's memoir begins with his account of the distinguished career and medical writings of the novelist's grandfather Dr Frederick C. Irving, a renowned obstetrician and gynaecologist, and includes Mr Irving's incisive history of abortion politics in the United States. But My Movie Business focuses primarily on the thirteen years John Irving spent adapting his novel The Cider House Rules for the screen - for four different directors. Mr Irving also writes about the failed effort to make his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, into a movie, about two of the films that were made from his novels (but not from his screenplays), The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire; about his slow progress at shepherding his screenplay of A Son of the Circus into production. Not least, and in addition to its qualities as a memoir - anecdotal, comic, affectionate and candid - My Movie Business is an insightful essay on the essential differences between writing a novel and writing a screenplay.",2000,3.33,158,26
9780552998765,0552998761,Tales of the City,,Armistead Maupin,City and town life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JigH-eXXd0YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This internationally beloved modern classic, first published in 1978, will be reissued with a tie-in cover to coincide with the groundbreaking three-part PBS miniseries scheduled to air January 10, 11, and 12, 1994--a joint presentation of the prestigious American Playhouse and KQED San Francisco.",2000,4.04,272,27034
9780552998772,055299877X,More Tales of the City,,Armistead Maupin,City and town life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BMakUdPrIU8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the Cityrolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac of her dreams.",2000,4.19,288,11023
9780552998789,0552998788,Further Tales of the City,,Armistead Maupin,City and town life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wF8Zs-YZ-80C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful and wildly romantic sequel to Tales of the Cityand More Tales of the City.DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track down a charismatic psychopath, Michael Tolliver looks for love, landlady Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement storeroom, and Armistead Maupin is in firm control.",2000,4.13,271,9130
9780552998819,0552998818,Sure of You,,Armistead Maupin,City and town life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oFsQQuIgN-AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"____________________ Soon to be a Netflix series starring Ellen Page and Laura Linney . . . 'San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin' Independent __________________ In this, the sixth and final self-contained volume of Armistead Maupin's epic chronicle of modern life, a fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New Yorkand a husband and child in San Francisco. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is a triumphant finale to one of the most addictively entertainingseries of novels ever written.",1991,4.03,284,5370
9780552998833,0552998834,Five Quarters of the Orange,,Joanne Harris,Cookery,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IF63k02hpw4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Beyond The Main Street Of Les Laveuses Runs The Loire, Smooth And Brown As A Sunning Snake - But Hiding A Deadly Undertow Beneath Its Moving Surface. This Is Where Framboise, A Secretive Widow Named After A Raspberry Liqueur, Plies Her Culinary Trade At The Crêperie - And Lets Memory Play Strange Games.Into This World Comes The Threat Of Revelation As Framboise S Nephew A Profiteering Parisian Attempts To Exploit The Growing Success Of The Country Recipes She Has Inherited From Her Mother, A Woman Remembered With Contempt By The Villagers Of Les Laveuses. As The Spilt Blood Of A Tragic Wartime Childhood Flows Again, Exposure Beckons For Framboise, The Widow With An Invented Past.Joanne Harris Has Looked Behind The Drawn Shutters Of Occupied France To Illuminate The Pain, Delight And Loss Of A Life Changed For Ever By The Uncertainties And Betrayals Of War.",2002,3.85,432,492
9780552998871,0552998877,The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic,,Sophie Kinsella,"Finance, Personal",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CIf0xwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the face of it, Rebecca Bloomwood has it all. Confident, single and happily living in desres Fulham, she's a financial journalist who spends her days writing articles advising other people on the importance of budgeting and prudent investment. Her private life is a different story though; Rebecca manages her own finaces in a way that would make most of her reader's hair curl. For Rebecca is a woman on a mission - she just can't stop spending (Publisher)",2000,3.63,320,2069
9780552999458,0552999458,Dead Famous,,Ben Elton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kLFmCpSyd40C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Reality television takes a deadly turn when ten contestants in a single house that comes complete with cameras and microphones are suddenly confronted by a murder with absolutely no evidence. Original.,2002,3.64,382,8415
9780552999953,0552999954,High Society,,Ben Elton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yzh0pNWJjKwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author presents a terrifying vision of a world out of control, ruled by drug lords and their criminal organizations and encouraging an environment of lawlessness and chaos.",2003,3.77,380,5981
9780553053401,055305340X,A Brief History of Time,,Stephen Hawking,Cosmology,,"""Eager to bring to his original text the new knowledge revealed by these observations, as well as his own recent research, Professor Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, written an entirely new chapter on wormholes and time travel, and updated the chapters throughout.""--BOOK JACKET.",1998,4.16,198,1524
9780553077728,0553077724,Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time,A Reader's Companion,Stephen W. Hawking,Nature,,"Interviews with Hawking, his family, colleagues, and friends provide a close-up look at one of the world's greatest physicists, as well as a lucid explanation of his major theories",1992,4.09,194,349
9780553096064,0553096060,SeinLanguage,,Jerry Seinfeld,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ApTW2DLrs1YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The popular performer presents his unique and trenchant observations on the American scene, touching on everything from relationships to Raisinettes",1993,3.63,180,359
9780553102710,0553102710,Gravity's Rainbow,,Thomas Pynchon,,,,1974,4.03,887,144
9780553103748,0553103741,The Illustrated a Brief History of Time,,Stephen Hawking,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wDr8uQ_vITQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An illustrated, large-format edition of the best-seller has been expanded to encompass the remarkable advances that have occurred in science and technology over the past eight years, with a new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and more than 240 full-color, captioned illustrations. 100,000 first printing.",1996,4.16,256,750
9780553112443,0553112449,Switch on the Night,,Ray Bradbury;Leo Dillon;Diane Dillon,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1eUMAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a magical little girl named Dark shows a frightened little boy the power of ""switching on the night"", his fears quickly fade away as he views the beauty of the stars and moon against the dark night sky. Reprint.",2004,4.09,40,186
9780553135428,0553135422,Ragtime,,E. L. Doctorow,New York (State),,"Set in America in the early years of this century, this novel interweaves the stories of three representative families -- those of an upper middle-class manufacturer, a poor immigrant, and a black ragtime musician -- with historical personages such as J.P. Morgan, Emma Goldman, Houdini, et al who supposedly become involved with fictional characters.",1975,3.88,369,203
9780553142167,055314216X,The Greatest Salesman in the World,,Og Mandino,Selling,,,1974,4.2,111,6
9780553156508,0553156500,Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt,,Donald J. Sobol,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9AV-eA0fFOYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.",1989,4.03,96,616
9780553157161,0553157167,Chicken Trek,,Stephen Manes,Contests,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sPiwWPVzNoYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Oscar spends the summer with his inventor cousin traveling around the United States in a Picklemobile eating chicken in the bag to win a contest, while being pursued by an angry woman with mystical powers, who is also determined to win the contest.",1989,4.38,128,93
9780553157277,0553157272,Jessica's Bad Idea,,Jamie Suzanne;Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z1-kst4NiE0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jessica feels like a latter-day Victor Frankenstein when she suggests a makeover for her friend Sandra Ferris, whose newfound popularity then threatens Jessica's own social standing.",1989,3.48,104,317
9780553173871,0553173871,All Fall Down,,John Saul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HESzAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1991,3.92,329,561
9780553211955,0553211951,The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain,,Mark Twain,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NxwHTVAD-3MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gathers all sixty of Twains stories, including tall tales, mysteries, sketches, and tales of travel",2005,4.28,848,5618
9780553212167,0553212168,The Brothers Karamazov,,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZI2ncEieZloC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The violent lives of three sons are exposed when their father is murdered and each one attempts to come to terms with his own guilt,1970,4.32,1072,972
9780553212419,0553212419,Sherlock Holmes the Complete Novels and Stories Book Discussion Kit,Kits for Teens,,Detective and mystery stories,,,2012,4.47,1059,23814
9780553213430,0553213431,The Complete Plays of Aristophanes,,Aristophanes,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j_dvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Background information and brief introductions accompany eleven satiric plays by the fifth century B.C. playwright, in an anthology that contains such classic and inventive works as The Birds, The Frogs, and Lysistrata. Reissue.",1981,4.21,577,1954
9780553213447,055321344X,Divine Comedy - Purgatorio,,Dante Alighieri,,,"This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through 'that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin', all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.",1988,4.02,413,429
9780553213553,0553213555,"Maggie, a Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction",,Stephen Crane,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Pn0ebWAClC0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Crane's stark portrait of a young girl growing up amid the decay and filth of the Bowery slums highlights a selection of short fiction--which also includes ""The Open Boat,"" ""The Blue Hotel,"" and ""The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky."" Reissue.",1986,3.32,240,502
9780553213973,0553213970,Journey To The Center Of The Earth,,Jules Verne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4_dvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows Professor Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans as they venture deep into a volcanic crater in Iceland on a journey that leads them to the center of the Earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries. Reissue.",2006,3.85,240,101764
9780553233506,0553233505,Slim Down Camp,,Stephen Manes,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ND8mj7p9y7oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sent to a summer camp for overweight children, a boy and girl rebel against the camp's authorities and discover their own effective method of losing weight.",1986,3.9,176,9
9780553234312,0553234315,Emma,,Charlotte Brontë;Jane Austen,Fiction,,"The ruthless and cruel Emma causes a great many problems for Mrs. Chalfont, the narrator, and for the abandoned child, Martina, in a new completion of Charlotte Bronte's last, unfinished novel",1983,3.99,215,4672
9780553243567,055324356X,Goodbye Forever,,Barbara Conklin,Juvenile Fiction,,"Suffering from feelings of loneliness and abandonment since her father's death and her sister's marriage, Kari Langtree is afraid to give her heart to the boy she meets on her Caribbean cruise.",1984,3.72,135,54
9780553248470,0553248472,The Broken Gun,,Louis L'Amour,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oYaf983hfDgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The brutal slayings of the Alverez brothers follow an announcement by western fiction writer Dan Sheridan that he is investigating the strange disappearance of twenty men and four thousand head of cattle ninety years early,1984,3.75,192,1673
9780553251616,0553251619,From Socrates to Sartre,The Philosophic Quest,T. Z. Lavine,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SJXdTo3s54YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Surveys the essential features, schools, systems, and developments in Western philosophy",1984,3.93,426,893
9780553251791,0553251791,"First, last and always",,Barbara Conklin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ky4Kpoyn-LkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gina dreams of becoming a doctor and she loves her work at the hospital as a candy striper, but she wants a boyfriend too and Dave seems perfect for her, but will her career dreams drive them apart.",1985,3.76,160,65
9780553258479,0553258478,Exodus,,Leon Uris,Eretz Israel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GfksygEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A novel of Israel.,1958,4.34,608,83870
9780553260458,0553260456,Fire Watch,,Connie Willis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3Afc9suMnrcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This collection of short science fiction includes the novella ""Fire Watch,"" the novelette ""A Letter from the Clearys,"" and twelve other acclaimed stories",1998,3.87,288,3402
9780553267600,0553267604,Magician,Apprentice,Raymond E. Feist,Apprentices,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KyqdOq0W0cUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For use in schools and libraries only. Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a ne",1985,4.18,336,611
9780553268942,0553268945,Forging the Darksword,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ttekNyu1Va4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Born without magical abilities in a magic world, Joram flees to the Outlands after being exiled from his village, and joins the scholar Saryon, practitioner of the outlawed arts of science and creator of the Darksword",1988,3.67,391,8293
9780553270624,0553270621,Winter Dreams,,Barbara Conklin;Stefanie Curtis,Blind,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=clG5Kv6s2tYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Anna lies about her appearance to attract Michael, a recently blinded accident victim, but when surgery promises to restore Michael's sight, Anna fears she will lose him forever.",1988,3.83,176,104
9780553270815,0553270818,Shakespeare Alive!,,Joseph Papp;Elizabeth Kirkland,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sWDvK-4NqmMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Brings to life Shakespeare's England and the original production of his plays,1988,3.39,240,162
9780553271096,0553271091,The Road to Gandolfo,,Robert Ludlum,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gr8yxxk39K4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A legendary but roguish U.S. Army general confronting the end of his illustrious military career, MacKenzie Hawkins conceives an intricate plot to kidnap the pope and hold him for a ransom of one dollar for every Catholic in the world. Reissue.",1992,3.64,320,5142
9780553271645,0553271644,Doom of the Darksword,,Margaret Weis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WsRxYXTU1pUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Henry is generally well-behaved, but he is occasionally arrogant and vain. Henry is at heart a hard worker, but his frequent bouts of illness hinder his work.",1988,3.66,383,6078
9780553273861,0553273868,The Delta Star,,Joseph Wambaugh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=heavDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"L.A. Wambaugh-style. A world of cops on the rocks with a twist of murder. A cheap hooker named Missy Moonbeam takes a fatal dive from the roof of a sleazy hotel. But what's a Caltech phone number doing in her trick book? And how does that connect to a dead private eye and a useless credit card? And what does all that have to do with a Whisky-class Russian sub and the Nobel Prize? Join Joseph Wambaugh's ravaged cops of Rampart Station as they follow a trail of corruption from the world of pimps and crazies to the think-tank labs of the country's top chemistry wizards--where genius and greed mix to create an award-winning case of murder. ""A page-turner . . . This is a must-read for Wambaugh fans.""--USA Today",1984,3.64,291,580
9780553273915,0553273914,The House of the Spirits,,Isabel Allende,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LImWvwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the lives of the Truebas family, starting with clairvoyant Clara de Valle's summoning of the man she intends to marry, ambitious Esteban Trueba, and following their lives through which they suffer and triumph.",1986,4.22,433,3598
9780553274066,0553274066,Triumph of the Darksword,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r6F9D8jFfzQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Science fiction.,1988,3.57,350,4720
9780553274912,0553274910,Starting Over,,Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3dTCfeiOsg0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Desperate to fit in after living in a series of foster homes, Sally Larson moves in with her cousin Dana's family and causes resentment at Sweet Valley High.",1987,3.37,153,3
9780553275216,0553275216,Forbidden Love,,Kate William;Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S2_u4ZiQzrEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The secret engagement between Maria Santelli and Michael Harris is threatened by their families' enmity and by Michael's possessiveness and jealousy.,1987,3.33,138,5
9780553275605,0553275607,The New Jessica,,Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g0hQ2Nj2ti0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tired of being mistaken for her identical twin sister, Elizabeth, Jessica Wakefield undergoes a complete makeover, dyes her hair black, and begins wearing outrageous clothes.",1986,3.45,136,1032
9780553275674,0553275674,Double Love,,Francine Pascal;Kate William,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MyTyiBXbQTkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jessica Wakefield and her identical twin sister, Elizabeth, become rivals for the love of Todd Wilkins, a handsome basketball player.",1983,3.54,182,105
9780553275780,055327578X,Secrets,,Francine Pascal;Kate William,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H50LAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jessica Wakefield will go to any length to be chosen as queen of the fall dance at Sweet Valley High, even if it involves breaking somebody's trust.",1983,3.46,118,41
9780553275865,0553275860,Narcissus and Goldmund,,Hermann Hesse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=43HGbacBDQgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Leaving the medieval monastary of Mariabronn, Goldmund embarks on a fantastic journey to recapture his past and discover his future",1971,4.2,320,1107
9780553276725,0553276727,Dear Sister,,Kate William;Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VPLpEN6xSaQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The motorcycle accident which has left Elizabeth Wakefield in a coma forces Jessica, her twin sister, to realize just how much Elizabeth means to her.",1984,3.53,160,2018
9780553277876,0553277871,The Angry Hills,,Leon Uris,Fiction,,"An account of the Jewish brigade from Palestine that fought with the British army in Greece in World War II. The spy-chase story drew on the actual experiences of Uris's uncle, who had fought as a volunteer in the campaign.",1984,3.66,245,1133
9780553279375,0553279378,I Know why the Caged Bird Sings,,Maya Angelou,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PohuyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A black woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.,1993,4.22,289,326424
9780553280876,0553280872,Alone in the Crowd,,Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c_c7ZtrXbDYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Painfully shy and introverted, Lynne Henry, a talented musician, anonymously enters a songwriting contest sponsored by her secret love, Guy Chesney, and his band, and it is up to Elizabeth to help Lynne share her musical gifts.",1986,3.45,136,675
9780553282801,0553282808,Mitla Pass,,Leon Uris,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L_T4CvZVF2wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Writer Gideon Zadok leaves the glitter of Hollywood for the newly created State of Israel, where he learns much about himself and love on a dangerous military operation he covers as a war correspondent",1989,3.84,495,3211
9780553284119,0553284118,Creature,,John Saul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vPknSnxQVTMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For Ellen and Blake Tanner, along with their son Mark, Silverdale, Colorado seems too good to be true, but the family is soon subjected to secret rituals and a hidden evil",1990,3.84,416,9846
9780553285727,0553285726,Journey of Awakening,A Meditator's Guidebook,Ram Dass;Daniel Goleman,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7wVPVr8NK6YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses meditation benefits and techniques, and offers a directory of retreat facilities and centers",1990,4.16,448,858
9780553286397,0553286390,Dragon Wing,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nY1PnwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wolf Haas' Detective Brenner series has become wildly popular around the world for a reason: They're timely, edgy stories told in a wry, quirky voice that's often hilarious, and with a protagonist it's hard not to love. In this episode, Brenner-forced out of the police force-tries to get away from detective work by taking a job as the personal chauffeur for two-year-old Helena, the daughter of a Munich construction giant and a Viennese abortion doctor. One day, while Brenner's attention is turned to picking out a chocolate bar for Helena at a gas station, Helena gets snatched from the car. Abruptly out of a job, Brenner decides to investigate her disappearance on his own. With both parents in the public eye, there's no scarcity of leads-the father's latest development project has spurred public protest, and the mother's clinic has been targeted by the zealous leader of an anti-abortion group. Brenner and God is told with a dark humor that leaves no character, including Brenner, unscathed. Haas tells the story of a fallible hero who can be indecisive and world-weary, baffled and disillusioned by what he finds, but who presses forward nonetheless out of a stubborn sense of decency-a two-year-old is kidnapped, so you find her, because that's just what you do.",1990,3.95,430,22899
9780553289510,0553289519,Texas! Lucky,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0YH8bGuQWwIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's beloved Texas! trilogy introduces readers to a close-knit family struggling to go on without its patriarch--and to a man in pursuit of an elusive woman who may hold his future in her hands. Charismatic and easy on the eyes, Lucky Tyler is a born rebel. His romantic conquests have earned him his nickname, while his temper gives him his reputation as the family hothead. One night, he gets in a fight over a woman in distress, followed by a night of passion neither of them will soon forget. But the lady in question has a knack for disappearing. When news breaks of a suspicious fire at Tyler Drilling, Lucky is the prime suspect. Now the mystery woman is more than just the object of his obsession. She's his alibi. Devon Haines has tried her best to escape Lucky. Yet his bold pursuit and self-assurance are irresistible. In order to clear him of criminal charges, she must reveal her darkest secret; withholding her help could cost him everything he holds dear. Either way, she risks losing him forever.",1991,3.86,336,6808
9780553290851,0553290851,22 Indigo Place,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WxwetYA5cZ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When insurmountable debts force Laura Nolan to put 22 Indigo Place, her ancestral home, on the market, she is shocked when the most promising buyer turns out to be James Paden, the gorgeous class cut-up from her school days",1991,3.63,200,2458
9780553292787,0553292781,The Wakefields of Sweet Valley,,Kate William;Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QL9aqCWBAeEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A saga covering the origin and history of Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield's family begins in 1860 as Alice Larson sails from Sweden to America, traces her twin granddaughters' lives in the Roaring Twenties, and culminates in the marriage of Elizabeth andJ",1991,3.91,346,1404
9780553293425,0553293427,Pebble in the Sky,,Isaac Asimov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kKVoQuvNjBQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two.",1991,3.88,308,13363
9780553295009,0553295004,Texas! Sage,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k-2TzqI8kiIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Returning home accompanied by Harlan Boyd, the handsome stranger who witnessed her fiance+a7 dumping her, Sage Tyler asks him to keep her broken engagement a secret from her oil-rich family. Reprint.",1992,4.02,352,5949
9780553295412,0553295411,Fire Sea,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xqVXsEaWaJMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Henry is generally well-behaved, but he is occasionally arrogant and vain. Henry is at heart a hard worker, but his frequent bouts of illness hinder his work.",1992,4.06,414,15900
9780553297607,0553297600,Forbidden Knowledge,The Gap Into Vision,Stephen R. Donaldson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p3hbqvHvnH8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With an enormous corporation in control of all explored space, beautiful Morn Hyland must use her feminine wiles to win the affections of Succorso and defeat her new enemy--an alien force intent on mutating human bodies into alien forms. Reprint.",1992,3.99,480,4888
9780553297836,055329783X,A Whole New Light,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=riEu7WdgK5cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her late husband's business partner, Worth Lansing-- never anything more than a friend--asks her to spend a weekend with him in Acapulco, Cyn McCall must choose between a life spent in mourning and a new beginning. Reprint.",1992,3.55,227,2817
9780553299496,0553299492,The Robots of Dawn,,Isaac Asimov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jDjUjdFggVIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to prove that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime. Reprint.",1994,4.15,435,29837
9780553299618,0553299611,Lila,An Inquiry Into Morals,Robert M. Pirsig,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uDWP4lZMyOMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes a voyage down the Hudson River undertaken by Phaedrus and a troubled companion, who provokes a philosophical crisis as the philosopher-narrator wrestles with essential questions of morality",1992,3.78,480,5131
9780553345841,0553345842,The Mind's I,Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul,Douglas R. Hofstadter;Daniel Clement Dennett,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hz22QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, ""The Mind's I"" is a searching, probing nook--a cosmic journey of the mind--that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time. From verbalizing chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like fiction of Borges to the tantalizing, dreamlike fiction of Lem and Princess Ineffable, her circuits glowing read and gold, ""The Mind's I "" opens the mind to the Black Box of fantasy, to the windfalls of reflection, to new dimensions of exciting possibilities.",1982,4.14,512,4715
9780553345896,0553345893,The Glory and the Dream,"A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972",William Manchester,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f9dOPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explore's American history from the Great Depression, through two World Wars and Korea to the anti-war protests of Vietnam",1990,4.42,1397,1370
9780553346114,0553346113,Seven Plays,,Sam Shepard;Joseph Chaikin,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-a0szDa6MksC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Henry is generally well-behaved, but he is occasionally arrogant and vain. Henry is at heart a hard worker, but his frequent bouts of illness hinder his work.",1984,4.18,336,4900
9780553372120,0553372122,The Sixties,"Years of Hope, Days of Rage",Todd Gitlin,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xYxKAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author, a student activist during the sixties, offers a personal perspective on the social and political changes of that decade",1993,3.72,544,456
9780553374599,0553374591,Feersum Endjinn,,Iain Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-38GAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Living the last of his eight lives, Count Alandre Sessine VII races against time to defuse a lethal conspiracy on its way to Earth, while a betrayer is fast on his heels. Original.",1995,3.82,311,311
9780553375268,0553375261,The Dog Who Loved Too Much,"Tales, Treatments and the Psychology of Dogs",Nicholas H. Dodman,Pets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8cb2KmAm1SQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An examination of canine behavioral disorders shares often humorous case studies that offer reassurance to troubled pet owners and address such conditions as growling and separation anxiety,1997,4.09,258,669
9780553375930,0553375938,Girls in Pants,The Third Summer of the Sisterhood,Ann Brashares,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-IyTvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The members of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduate from high school and spend their last summer before college learning about life and themselves. Includes readers' guide with discussion questions and an interview with the author.,2005,3.82,338,59536
9780553377767,0553377760,The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse,,Hermann Hesse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3_hvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of twenty-two fairy tales by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, most translated into English for the first time, show the influence of German Romanticism, psychoanalysis, and Eastern religion on his development as an author. Simultaneous.",1995,3.99,266,3182
9780553379334,055337933X,Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates,,Tom Robbins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fOOrSoBlXVoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Switters, an anarchist pacifist who works for the government and carries a gun, chases after his teenage stepsister, only to become madly enamored of a nun a decade older than him, in this hilarious new novel by the author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2000,4.03,445,24266
9780553380163,0553380168,A Brief History of Time,,Stephen Hawking,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YmGxbPHFO_EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An anniversary edition of a now-classic survey of the origin and nature of the universe features a new introduction by the author and a new chapter on the possibility of time travel and ""wormholes"" in space",1998,4.16,212,214520
9780553380958,0553380958,Snow Crash,,Neal Stephenson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mqpvVydYo-8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies.",2000,4.03,438,187493
9780553380965,0553380966,The Diamond Age,,Neal Stephenson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LIWY6afN5kQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.,2000,4.19,499,68751
9780553381009,0553381008,Stories,,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ccCMJihqqEMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An anthology of short fiction by the great Russian writer encompasses thirty of his finest tales, including ""The Huntsman,"" ""The Boring Story,"" ""The Lady with the Little Dog,"" ""Ward No. 6,"" ""The Student,"" ""The FiancTe,"" and ""The Bishop,"" representing various periods in his creative work. Original.",2000,4.35,467,26267
9780553381344,0553381342,The bonfire of the vanities,,Tom Wolfe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bA63bU4h3h8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker in Manhattan, finds himself arrested following a freak accident and becomes involved with prosecutors, politicians, the press, and assorted hustlers. Reprint.",1987,3.84,690,57301
9780553381399,0553381393,Tides of War,A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War,Steven Pressfield,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EY1EDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the story of the great Athenian warrior and general Alcibiades, from his great victories on behalf of Athens to his later alliances with Sparta and Persia and his role in the eventual downfall of Athens.",2001,3.89,448,3285
9780553381412,0553381415,Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,When Loving Hurts and You Don't Know Why,Susan Forward;Joan Torres,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bCJ_PBO1A68C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Profiles of men who emotionally abuse women and the women who are attracted to them are accompanied by advice for women who want to improve or terminate misogynistic relationships while increasing their self-respect, courage, and confidence. Reprint.",2002,4.09,304,1499
9780553381535,0553381539,Beach Music,,Pat Conroy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dCmix3nC-4sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Living in Rome with his daughter, Jack McCall finds his grief following his wife's suicide interrupted by the arrival of his sister-in-law and two friends seeking his help in tracking down a classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protestor. Reprint.",2002,4.15,592,37413
9780553381542,0553381547,The Prince of Tides,,Pat Conroy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WOYztK9oEzEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Interweaves the events of Tom Wingo's summer in New York and his relationship to Susan Lowenstein, his sister Savannah's beautiful psychiatrist, and the complex history of the South Carolinian Wingo family, from World War II through Vietnam. Reprint.",2002,4.24,679,173886
9780553381696,0553381695,A Clash of Kings,,George R. R. Martin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NnE07xtwhqYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With his estate divided and his family scattered, Lord Eddard Stark returns to his territory to fight an ancient spell that is slowly devouring what is left of his land. Reprint.",2002,4.41,969,599010
9780553382044,0553382047,Last of the Amazons,,Steven Pressfield,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AflvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the ""New York Times"" bestselling author of ""Gates of Fire"" comes a stunning epic of love and war that breathes authentic life into the grand myth of the ferocious female warrior culture of the Amazons.",2003,3.75,400,2083
9780553382617,0553382616,The Shelters of Stone,,Jean M. Auel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BmAgthvTtbwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the fifth volume of the best-selling Earth's Children series, which began with The Clan of the Cave Bear, Ayla and Jondalar continue their epic journey across Ice Age Europe to join Jondalar's people, the Zelandonii, confronting new hardships and perilous challenges along the way. Reprint.",2004,3.82,891,33918
9780553383041,0553383043,A Wizard of Earthsea,,Ursula K. Le Guin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hwlCPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.,2004,4,183,182174
9780553383430,0553383434,Interface,,Neal Stephenson;Frederick George,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zdto5-jmGe0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a near-future political thriller, a network of investors has a vested and sinister interest in the presidential race, and together the shadowy coalition attempts to control the worldwide economy by using a special biochip implant to control the mind of a presidential candidate. Originally written under the pseudonym of Stephen Bury. Reissue. 30,000 first printing.",2005,3.67,640,4572
9780553383447,0553383442,The Cobweb,,Neal Stephenson;J. Frederick George,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WvnNmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While his wife, an army reservist, flies to a Mideast crisis, Clyde Banks, a deputy sheriff in a small Midwestern town uncovers a plot that might have connections reaching halfway across the globe. By the author of Interface. Originally written under the pseudonym of Stephen Bury. Reissue. 30,000 first printing.",2005,3.61,448,2391
9780553383683,055338368X,Gates Of Fire,An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae,Steven Pressfield,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wdKJDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Chronicles the battle of three hundred Spartan warriors against a huge force of Persian soldiers in 480 B.C. against the background of life in ancient Sparta and its extraordinary culture.,2005,4.41,392,20649
9780553384284,0553384287,Odd Thomas,,Dean Ray Koontz,FICTION,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=61-UDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.",2006,3.96,446,221395
9780553400038,0553400037,True Blue,The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny,Daniel Topolski;Patrick Robinson,London (England),,,1989,4.23,320,63
9780553409024,0553409026,The Celestine Prophecy,An Adventure,James Redfield,Manuscripts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JZGsGkL2cuYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"You have never read a book like this before... The Celestine Prophecy contains secrets that are currently changing our world. Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in a Peruvian manuscript, it tells you how to make connections between the events happening in your own life right now...and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years to come. The story it tells is a gripping one of adventure and discovery, but it is also a guidebook that has the power to crystalize your perceptions of why you are where you are in life...and to direct your steps with a new energy and optimism as you head into tomorrow. A book that comes along just once in a lifetime to change lives forever.",1994,3.63,282,563
9780553409680,0553409689,Death of a Snob,,M. C. Beaton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fIUfAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Police Constable Hamish Macbeth is offered a holiday at Jane Wetherby's Happy Wanderer health farm on the Isle of Eileencraig, he accepts. Unfortunately it is not the holiday he hoped for. When one of the guests, stuck-up Morag, is found dead, Hamish must solve the death of a snob.",1996,3.78,192,17
9780553485172,0553485172,Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog,,Donald J. Sobol,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YX4Ki8m_EvEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.",1999,4.04,80,497
9780553485219,0553485210,Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander,,Donald J. Sobol,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fflvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Encyclopedia Brown, the super sleuth in sneakers, solves ten new mysteries, including ""The Case of the Slippery Salamander,"" ""The Case of the Banana Burglar,"" and ""The Case of the Dead Cockroach.""",2000,4.09,96,389
9780553493849,0553493841,Control Freak,,Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xkUVAfWIpSEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Connor doesn't know what everyone's problem is. His mom, his sister, Alanna--none of them can take care of themselves anymore. So he'll just have to do it for them, whether they like it or not.",2001,3.36,192,124
9780553493979,0553493973,Sweet 18,,Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yL8SKAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The twins graduate-and say goodbye to SVH for good. Elizabeth can't believe she's finally turning 18 and graduating high school. She's been waiting for this moment her entire life. She can't wait to say good-bye to the past and start a new life. And the best part of it all-she gets to do it with her twin sister. But for Jessica, the only thing worse than turning 18 is turning 18 and graduating the same week. What if she's not ready for her entire life to change? And what if it means losing her sister?",2003,3.51,179,117
9780553494808,0553494805,The Time Travelers,,Caroline B. Cooney,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IuRSrP7kBXwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents two novels involving fifteen-year-old Annie Lockwood who travels back in time to the year 1895 and finds romance.,2006,3.94,420,293
9780553507355,0553507354,Last Wish,,Francine Pascal;Kate William,Sweet Valley (Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2bS5AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1999,3.92,231,2
9780553560275,0553560271,Shadows,,John Saul,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CRxIzZW9DYQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As one by one the children housed at The Academy, a clifftop mansion school for gifted children, begin to die mysterious deaths, Josh McCallum, a brilliant but lonely boy, knows that someone or something evil is to blame. Reprint.",1993,3.92,393,10458
9780553560688,0553560689,The Road to Yesterday,,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=je0KAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of stories set on Anne Shirley's beloved Prince Edward Island features the tale of the man who is eager to keep his brother out of the clutches of a woman he considers dangerous and then falls for her himself. Reprint.,1993,3.81,403,2958
9780553561586,0553561588,Nightmare Asylum,,Steve Perry,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NiL7r1EwI-sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wilks, Billie, and Bueller, the last survivors of an assault on the aliens' home planet, flee Earth and its alien infestation in a usually unmanned military transport, in a desperate attempt to stay alive. Original.",1993,3.67,277,1065
9780553562606,0553562606,A Dark and Hungry God Arises,The Gap Into Power,Stephen R. Donaldson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SQSD-HP1WbEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the sequel to The Real Story and Forbidden Knowledge, a scheme unravels to reveal deeper schemes. By the author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Reprint.",1993,4.08,518,5356
9780553562835,0553562835,"Sam Walton, Made in America",My Story,Sam Walton;John Huey,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5ym_S0pa_L0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an account of his rise to the top of the American retail business, the reminiscences of the billionaire retailer are combined with interviews with Walton's family and friends",1993,4.14,346,13083
9780553563382,0553563386,It Doesn't Take a Hero,The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf,H. Norman Schwarzkopf;Peter Petre,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EdyaQy7AjGoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The memoirs of the commander of the Allied Forces during the Persian Gulf War detail General Schwarzkopf's life and military service,1993,4.04,640,2483
9780553563504,0553563505,The Hollow Man,,Dan Simmons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N_7bAoVER6AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After the death of his wife, telepath Jeremy Bremen is inundated with all the thoughts and worries of the people he encounters, and he flees across the country to escape",1993,3.44,342,2462
9780553563696,0553563696,The Hand of Chaos,,Margaret Weis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tgh9t46pePYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Henry is generally well-behaved, but he is occasionally arrogant and vain. Henry is at heart a hard worker, but his frequent bouts of illness hinder his work.",1993,4.06,446,15964
9780553564938,0553564935,Magician,Master,Raymond E. Feist,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uuuVPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As a captive slave of the Tsurani, warlike invaders from another world, Pug, an apprentice sorcerer, learns to control his awesome magical powers in order to battle an ancient Evil",1993,4.26,499,57779
9780553566406,0553566407,A Kiss Before Dying,,Kate William;Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dPseUDC8IY8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Jessica and Elizabeth both try to end and gang activity surrounding the high school.,1996,3.68,197,261
9780553567687,0553567683,Adam's Fall,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ucGGDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lilah Mason, a compassionate, dedicated physical therapist is determined to help Adam, her toughest patient, even though he continually challenges her methods and authority, but in helping Adam win his battle, she is gradually losing her heart. Reprint.",1994,3.74,208,3002
9780553569971,055356997X,I. Asimov,A Memoir,Isaac Asimov,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S4k-DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A self-portrait by the late master of science fiction and popular scientific thought looks back on his life and career, discussing his writings, religious beliefs, friendships and personal relationships, and innovative ideas. Reprint.",1995,4.19,578,1680
9780553570687,0553570684,Happily Ever After,,Kate William;Francine Pascal,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=21UKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a conclusion to a three-part miniseries, Elizabeth avoids Prince Laurent because of his engagement to Antonia, but the prince breaks off his engagement to declare his love for Elizabeth. Original.",1997,3.6,199,242
9780553571578,0553571575,Heaven's Price,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YBhb0oPyqLAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When an injury sends Broadway dancer Blair Simpson to a small town for a long convalescence, she falls in love with her new landlord, an affair she fears may cost her her passion for dance. Reprint.",1995,3.54,240,1762
9780553572490,0553572490,Vice,,Jane Feather,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=buXRUxtAh5YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the run since accidentally killing her elderly groom on their honeymoon, Juliana considers a shocking proposal by the handsome Duke of Redmayne in which she would pose as his mistress. Original.",1996,3.51,419,462
9780553572988,0553572989,The Rise of Endymion,,Dan Simmons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b-iUS4OlDLsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, Aenea, a new messiah, comes of age and must deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples, but not before embarking on a mission to discover the very meaning of the universe. Reprint. NYT.",1998,4.17,709,34995
9780553573305,0553573306,Brightness Reef,,David Brin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l-N0RXekUocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of Startide Rising returns to the setting of his Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel to tell the story of the planet Jijo, home to an illegal colony whose existence is threatened by mysterious visitors. Reprint. PW. K.",1996,3.9,661,8792
9780553574012,0553574019,The Martians,,Kim Stanley Robinson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7G6gmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of stories tells the tale of the colonists of the red planet and their experiences during its terraformation.,2000,3.56,434,1434
9780553574135,0553574132,Shadows of the Empire,,Steve Perry,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZYckM3D_M-UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A novel set during the period between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi follows Leia's preparations to rescue Han Solo and Luke's flight from both Darth Vader and an equally powerful dark lord, Xizor. Reprint.",1997,3.82,385,14093
9780553575651,0553575651,Ship of Destiny,,Robin Hobb,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gFQ4r-B9pd0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chaos stalks the world as the war between Bingtown and Chalced escalates, Althea and Brashen cope with their blinded Liveship, and a powerful dragon, capable of untold destruction or redemption, appears.",2001,4.22,789,44120
9780553575958,0553575953,Floaters,,Joseph Wambaugh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hu_yoIvxkDMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the arrival of the America's Cup regattas, San Diego Mission Bay cops Fortney and Leeds find their hands full and pursue cup contender Blaze, who sets off a bizarre criminal trail. Reprint.",1997,3.5,291,548
9780553576009,0553576003,Tidings of Great Joy,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6W60GpT1FTMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A marriage of convenience between architect Ria Lavender and mayoral candidate Taylor MacKensie--the result of an unanticipated pregnancy--breaks out into a passionate fire at Christmas,1999,3.63,231,1656
9780553576016,0553576011,Send No Flowers,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NOOfXzOYvIoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The young widow, Alicia Russell, is shocked when her lover, Pierce Reynolds, suddenly begins to act coldly toward her",2000,3.56,225,2551
9780553576054,0553576054,The Rana Look,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Et7QVZ2BnmoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tired of being treated as a commodity, Rana Ramsey, a top fashion model, decides to assume a new identity in a small Texas town, where she meets handsome quarterback, Trent Gamblin.",2003,3.5,256,2364
9780553576061,0553576062,Sunny Chandler's Return,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c_pvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On a bet, sexy sheriff Ty Beaumont woos Sunny Chandler, who has returned to her hometown to attend her best friend's wedding, but, unexpectedly, finds himself falling in love with the headstrong young woman. Reprint.",2004,3.59,256,2855
9780553576375,0553576372,The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein,,Theodore Roszak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NDS1zonfKzcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The passionate story of Elizabeth Lavenza, a girl rescued from poverty and raised by a remarkable noblewoman of Geneva, describes how the demise of her sensual bond with Victor Frankenstein sends him hurtling into a secret life, and along a path of destruction. Reprint.",1996,3.55,440,223
9780553578126,055357812X,Legacy of the Darksword,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qNWfgMIeBw8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The rise of an evil alien race empowered by a new form of magic forces the remnants of humanity to search for a newly forged Darksword,1998,3.46,400,133
9780553578683,0553578685,The Third Victim,,Lisa Gardner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A-yKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the idyllic town of Bakersville, Oregon, is torn apart by a shooting at the local school and by the arrest of the sheriff's son for the crime, Deputy Sheriff Rainie Conner heads up her first homicide investigation.",2001,4.16,384,23807
9780553578973,0553578979,Iron Fist,,Aaron Allston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qq3rislRpkoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Wedge Antilles sends the controversial Wraith Squadron on a mission to pose as ruthless pirates seeking to join Zsinj's forces in order to infiltrate the warlord's fleet and uncover his carefully guarded plans for destruction. Original.,1998,4.03,320,7448
9780553579758,0553579754,Fear Nothing,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qq7iDO756qYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Christopher Snow, a young man whose genetic disorder has made him dangerously vulnerable to light, witnesses a series of disturbing after-dark incidents that involve him in a violent mystery only he can solve. Reissue.",1998,3.99,448,30848
9780553580143,0553580140,Reave the Just and Other Tales,,Stephen R. Donaldson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sESMToS9hLgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Contains eight stories of heroic adventure in alternative worlds, highlighting the individual's power to overcome adversity and dark fairy tales.",2000,3.9,486,1104
9780553580334,0553580337,Dune,House Corrino,Brian Herbert;Kevin J. Anderson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wb8Z4Bc3_I8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the origins of the rivalry between Duke Leto and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the actions that transformed Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck into heroes, the birth of Paul Atreides, and the creation of the tyrannical Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino",2002,3.67,667,11952
9780553580518,0553580515,Passage,,Connie Willis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gbRDDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Joanna Lander, a clinical psychologist obsessed with near-death experiences, joins forces with Dr. Richard Wright, a neurologist who has discovered a way to manufacture NDEs with the help of a mind-altering drug.",2002,3.69,780,7177
9780553580549,055358054X,The Truelove Bride,,Shana Abé,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FHcJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Skeptical about magic, Avalon d'Farouche does not believe her alleged part in a mysterious legend, until Hanoch dies and his son returns from the Crusades to claim what is his--Avalon's heart. Original.",1999,3.66,357,374
9780553580839,0553580833,The Summer House,,Jean Stone,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xYB2TYqEdQEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Married to the man her father molded as the perfect presidential candidate, Liz Adams cannot hide the pain of her dictated life in the face of tragedy and finds at Martha's Vineyard the long-lost love she let slip away. Original.",2000,3.87,352,127
9780553581355,055358135X,War of the Rats,,David L. Robbins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YAZ6r_SDgToC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During the siege of Stalingrad at the height of World War II, two master snipers--Chief Master Sergeant Vasily Zaitsev and German marksman Heinz Thorvald--embark on a deadly and calculating competition to destroy each other. By the author of Souls to Keep. Reprint.",2000,4.11,512,1731
9780553581850,0553581856,A Kiss to Remember,,Teresa Medeiros,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bj6FDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After his mother dies, Sterling Harlow sets out to reclaim her estate and evict his mother's ward Laura Fairleigh, but on the way there he is rendered unconscious and loses his memory, and Laura sets out to convince Sterling that he is her betrothed.",2002,3.88,353,3522
9780553581997,0553581996,Intimate Enemies,,Shana Abe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FPcTpC2KeFEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Left the leader of the Clan MacRae following hte battlefield death of her father, Lauren MacRae is forced into a dangerous and passionate alliance with her clan's sworn enemy, English overlord Arion du Morgan, in order to protect her lands from marauding Norsemen. Original.",2000,3.82,390,395
9780553582000,0553582003,The Secret Swan,,Shana Abé,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eUlhRcrg97UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Returning home to his young bride after eight years as a prisoner of war, Tristan Geraint comes face to face with a beautiful, strangely familiar woman who claims to be his wife's cousin and who stirs in him an unexpected passion. Original.",2001,3.66,393,681
9780553582024,055358202X,A Feast for Crows,,George R. R. Martin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Uj6FDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The uneasy peace that exists following the death of Robb Stark is threatened by new plots, intrigues, and alliances that once again will plunge the Seven Kingdoms into all-out war for control of the Iron Throne.",2006,4.13,1061,491147
9780553582901,0553582909,Icebound,,Dean Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jGYQyJMsN5IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A secret Arctic experiment turns into a frozen nightmare when a team of scientists, stranded on a drifting iceberg with a massive explosive charge, battles the elements for survival, only to discover that one of them is a murderer. Reissue.",2000,3.76,408,16801
9780553582918,0553582917,Intensity,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9X7qX1lHizMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The sole survivor of a homicidal sociopath's latest killing spree, Chyna Shepherd unwittingly discovers the identity of the murderer's intended next victim and confronts her own troubled past and overwhelming fear to protect herself and the life of a complete stranger from the ultimate evil. Reissue.",2000,4.04,436,62698
9780553582956,055358295X,Death of a Blue Movie Star,,Jeffery Deaver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PDUz33ZcF1kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The explosion of the Velvet Venus Theater, an X-rated movie house, makes twenty-one-year-old Rune determined to create a documentary on adult films, but she soon discovers that she is also tracking a killer to her prospective film career forever, in a revised edition of the best-selling author's classic thriller. Reprint.",2000,3.52,336,1159
9780553583151,0553583158,Legacy of the Dead,,Charles Todd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p_pvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The carnage of World War I comes back to haunt Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge when he discovers that the woman who has become the prime suspect in the callous murder he is investigating is the grieving fiancTe of Hamish, a young Scot whom he was forced to execute unwillingly on the battlefield of the war. By the author of A Test of Wills. Reprint.",2001,4.15,356,3906
9780553583168,0553583166,Watchers of Time,An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery,Charles Todd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qfpvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard arrives in the Norfolk port of Osterley to investigate the murder of the local Catholic priest, who had attended the deathbed of Herbert Baker, a Protestant who had demanded to see a Catholic priest as he lay dying.",2002,3.98,421,3045
9780553583175,0553583174,A Fearsome Doubt,,Charles Todd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0ZvbnCsgUb0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seven years after sending Ben Shaw to the gallows for the brutal murders of elderly women, Inspector Ian Rutledge is approached by Shaw's widow, who claims that her husband had been innocent, and sets out to uncover the truth about a potential miscarriage of justice. By the author of Watchers of Time. Reprint.",2003,4.04,384,2656
9780553583298,0553583298,Hard News,,Jeffery Deaver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Mcgq7VEP6vYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Working as an assistant camera operator for a major news network, Rune discovers a tape in the network's archives of a man convicted of murder, and, convinced of his innocence, she begins resurrecting the old murder case.",2001,3.46,304,945
9780553584486,0553584480,The Face,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h5nm4yFO8S4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a Hollywood star becomes the target of a twisted killer, ex-cop Ethan Truman confronts the secrets of his tragic past and premonitions of his own impending violent death as he struggles to solve the macabre riddles of a killer.",2003,3.7,649,18321
9780553584509,0553584502,The Taking,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J-r1X7gEfYcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Molly and Neil Sloan and their neighbors in a small California mountain town encounter a threat that transforms their peaceful streets into a ghostly labyrinth as they discover the horrifying reality of what is happening around them.,2005,3.78,410,31794
9780553584530,0553584537,Alone,,Lisa Gardner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Jgm9S9MkxwMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Bobby Dodge, a sniper with the Massachusetts State Police SWAT team, saves a woman and her young son from her armed husband, he finds himself investigating the shooting of a man who had accused his wife of poisoning their son.",2005,3.97,451,41823
9780553584974,0553584979,The Last Mermaid,,Shana Abé,FICTION,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CcKGDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A mysterious legend, a locket, and the enchanted Scottish island of Kell become the thread that ties three haunting romance stories that span more than one thousand years. By the author of The Secret Swan. Original.",2004,3.73,581,1297
9780553585759,0553585754,Echo of Eternity,,Maggie Furey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C_nImAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the fall of the Curtain Walls and a devastating attack by vicious winged invaders, the world of Myrial confronts its ultimate challenge as the remnants of the Shadowleague struggle to regroup, find a missing ring (the symbol of Myrial's divine power, and search for a man who possesses the Dragon Seer's knowledge of all tribal memories. Original.",2003,3.88,582,434
9780553585803,0553585800,Forty Signs of Rain,,Kim Stanley Robinson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TI18I2jV1BgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the first installment of a trilogy of eco-thrillers set in Washington, D.C., environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to a distracted government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests. Reprint.",2005,3.54,393,2956
9780553586077,0553586076,The Secret on Ararat,,Tim F. LaHaye;Bob Phillips,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6q-kPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Michael Murphy, a field archaeologist and scholar of biblical prophecy, embarks on a perilous new quest that takes him to Mt. Ararat in search of Noah's Ark, an expedition that leads to dramatic discoveries about the Bible's prophecies and revelations about the evil about to be unleashed on humankind. Reprint.",2006,4.23,416,3061
9780553586619,0553586610,A Cold Treachery,,Charles Todd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6c_kD_HSfu4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In December 1919, when five members of a family are found slaughtered in the kitchen of their Lake District cottage, Inspector Ian Rutledge heads up the investigation into the crime and into the disappearance of the missing youngest child in the family, negotiating a maze of suspects, dark secrets, and motives to uncover a killer. Reprint.",2005,4.14,416,2830
9780553587074,0553587072,Industrial Magic,,Kelley Armstrong,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gJBEmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Paige Winterbourne matches wits with an otherworldly killer preying on the teenage offspring of the underworld's most influential Cabals, including the Cortez Cabal, whose own rebellious scion, Lucas, is Paige's boyfriend.",2004,4.13,528,757
9780553587081,0553587080,Haunted,,Kelley Armstrong,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d6t2mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eve Levine, a deceased witch roaming the afterworld, is summoned by the Fates to help capture the Nix, an evil demi-demon who inhabits the bodies of would-be killers and compels them to complete their lethal acts.",2005,4.09,495,21181
9780553587159,0553587153,Seventy-Seven Clocks,,Christopher Fowler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_N1BM5XM2M8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Peculiar Crimes Unit detectives John May and Arthur Bryant become embroiled in a twisted and complex conspiracy involving blackmail, priceless artworks, violence, and ritual murder when they investigate the bizarre death of a guest at London's famed Savoy Hotel. Original.",2005,3.89,496,2018
9780553587241,0553587242,Beach Girls,,Luanne Rice,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QT84GBfkL50C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jack Kilvert returns to Hubbard's Point with his daughter, Nell, in the hopes of recapturing old friendships, and is reunited with reclusive artist Stevie Moore, the one-time best friend of his estranged sister, Madeleine.",2004,4.06,448,8026
9780553587890,0553587897,Frankenstein: City of Night: A Novel,,,Horror tales,,Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison must stop the engineered killers of New Orleans.,,3.97,455,1041
9780553588040,0553588044,The Smoke Thief,,Shana Abe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yHdlXF1ln9MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kit, the young leader of a mysterious tribe possessing the power to transform themselves into dragons, journeys to London to find a rogue drƒkon who has been using his abilities to steal a fortune in jewels, but when he sets a trap for the culprit, he comes face to face with a beautiful and enigmatic young woman. Reprint.",2006,3.74,352,6635
9780553588118,0553588117,Prince of the Blood,,Raymond E. Feist,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GVrB3M5QJAAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Percy is incredibly accident-prone, and holds the dubious record of the most accidents. Percy has had a small rivalary with Harold, however, they are always willing to help each other when in trouble.",2005,3.97,429,18852
9780553588194,0553588192,Exit Strategy,,Kelley Armstrong,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l3NJmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nadia Stafford, a former police officer turned assassin dedicated to taking out criminals, is hired to take out a ruthless and efficient serial murderer who is endangering the entire killer-for-hire community by bringing the Feds all too close for comfort.",2007,3.88,480,6043
9780553588255,0553588257,Velocity,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sBtehF_9OFkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A series of communications from a deranged killer in which he is offered a number of devastating choices and deadlines draws Bill Wiles into a confrontation with pure evil as his life becomes a downward spiral into a nightmare in which he must risk everything in a desperate race against time. Reprint.,2005,3.86,460,51746
9780553588262,0553588265,Forever Odd,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5tVIOmhXsG4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the unique world of Pico, Odd--an unforgettable hero who lives between the living and the dead--takes a stand against evil in a battle where there are no innocent bystanders. Reprint.",2006,3.97,364,59417
9780553589474,0553589474,Public Secrets,,Nora Roberts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S4wRrGr5yqcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Emma, a celebrity child who grew up amidst painful secrets, struggles to break free from her past, but her newfound love for a caring detective is challenged by repressed memories, murderous secrecy, and seduction. Reprint.",2006,4.02,481,10769
9780553763256,0553763253,Lines and Shadows,,Joseph Wambaugh,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PuevDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The true story only Joseph Wambaugh could tell. A band of California cops set loose in no-man's-land to come home heroes. Or come home dead. Not since Joseph Wambaugh's bestselling The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascinating, as totally gripping as Lines and Shadows. The media hailed them as heroes. Others denounced them as lawless renegades. A squad of tough cops called the Border Crime Task Force. A commando team sent to patrol the snake-infested no-man's-land south of San Diego. Not to apprehend the thousands of illegal aliens slipping into the U.S., but to stop the ruthless bandits who preyed on them nightly--relentlessly robbing, raping, and murdering defenseless men, women, and children. The task force plan was simple. They would disguise themselves as illegal aliens. They would confront the murderous shadows of the night. Yet each time they walked into the violent blackness along the border, they came closer to another boundary line--a fragile line within each man. And crossing it meant destroying their sanity and their lives. Praise for Lines and Shadows ""With each book, it seems, Mr. Wambaugh's skill as a writer increases. . . . In Lines and Shadows he gives an off-trail, action-packed true account of police work and the intimate lives of policemen that, for my money, is his best book yet.""--The New York Times Book Review ""A saga of courage, craziness, brutality and humor. . . . One of his best books, comparable to The Onion Field for storytelling and revelatory power.""--Chicago Sun-Times",1995,3.79,416,662
9780553802023,055380202X,The Universe in a Nutshell,,Stephen W. Hawking;STEPHEN W AUTOR HAWKING,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VXIc358dF4gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author explores recent scientific breakthroughs in the fields of supergravity, supersymmetry, quantum theory, superstring theory, and p-branes as he searches for the Theory of Everything that lies at the heart of the cosmos.",2001,4.15,216,27792
9780553803525,0553803522,Social Intelligence,The New Science of Human Relationships,Daniel Goleman,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=akQLxTM-5_8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The best-selling author of Emotional Intelligence redefines the nature of human relationships and its impact on every aspect of daily life, bringing together the latest research in biology and brain science to reveal how one's daily encounters shape the brain and affect the body, from daily mood to the immune response. 250,000 first printing.",2006,3.98,403,9957
9780553803709,0553803700,"I, Robot",,Isaac Asimov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QEhWPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored in nine science fiction stories.,2004,4.19,224,225145
9780553803815,0553803816,Sailing from Byzantium,How a Lost Empire Shaped the World,Colin Wells,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jTmBvyaDdM0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A history of the Byzantine Empire describes the cultural, artistic, religious, and scientific heritage of Byzantium that was preserved in the wake of the empire's 1453 fall to enemy conquerors, and its influence on Western civilization.",2006,3.87,368,602
9780553804799,0553804790,The Husband,,Dean Ray Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=797pS6VOUQYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When landscaper Mitchell Rafferty receives a phone call that his wife has been kidnapped and there is a two million dollar ransom, his extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing, seventy-two hour journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption. 525,000 first printing.",2006,3.81,400,38265
9780553804935,0553804936,The Dream Thief,,Shana Abé,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sJ5fmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In eighteenth-century England, Lia, the daughter of the leader of the drakon tribe whose members can transform from human to dragon, uses her own talents to locate a powerful diamond, a gem that could allow a human to control the drakon.",2006,3.83,288,179
9780553813531,0553813536,The Devil in the White City,,Erik Larson,Architecture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UiW6V3Y8GJwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Chicago World Fair was the greatest fair in American history. This is the story of the men and women whose lives it irrevocably changed and of two men in particular- an architect and a serial killer.The architect is Daniel Burnham, a man of great integrity and depth. It was his vision of the fair that attracted the best minds and talents of the day. The killer is Henry H. Holmes. Intelligent as well as handsome and charming, Holmes opened a boarding house which he advertised as 'The World's Fair Hotel'. Here in the neighbourhood where he was admired and liked by all, he seduced, tortured and murdered young women, incinerating them in the furnace he had built in the basement of his hotel.Spicing the narrative are the sad, charming and funny stories of a supporting cast of historical characters including Buffalo Bill, Scott Joplin, Theodore Dreiser and George Ferris, the steel tycoon whose mammoth wheel became America's answer to the Eiffel tower. The interweaving and juxtaposition of these two men's different 'missions'- one good and one evil- provides the core to a non- fiction suspense drama of the highest order.",2004,3.99,496,1216
9780553813951,0553813951,Nights in Rodanthe,,Nicholas Sparks,Divorced people,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lCmewAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, forty-five-year-old Adrienne Willis reconsiders her entire life, until a trip to Rodanthe in North Carolina's outer banks leads to an encounter with successful surgeon Paul Flanner.",2003,3.83,222,137905
9780553815023,0553815024,The Sinner,,Tess Gerritsen,Boston (Mass.),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TGvkcRz-zyEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Within the walls of a cloistered convent, a scene of unspeakable carnage is discovered. On the snow lie two nuns, one dead, one critically injured - victims of a seemingly motiveless, brutally savage attack. Medical examiner Maura Isles' autopsy of the murder victim yields a shocking surprise, but the case takes a disturbing twist. The body of another woman has been found. And someone has gone to a lot trouble to remove her face, hands and feet. As long buried secrets are revealed so Dr Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, find themselves part of an investigation that leads to an awful, dawning realisation of the killer's identity...",2004,4.14,419,31763
9780553815399,0553815393,The Mapmaker's Wife,"A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon",Robert Whitaker,Amazon River Region,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zTU_SuhfxpkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""In the early 18th Century a group of scientists set off from France to discover the unknown land of South America in a trip that nearly ended in disaster. Scaling the 16,000 foot Peruvian Andes, the scientists faced the depravations and dangers of the rain forest wild cats, insects and vampire bats and barely ended the mission. Some went mad, others succumbed to smallpox, one was stoned to death by locals and another was killed in a bullfight. The youngest, Jean Godin, fell in love and married beautiful local girl Isabel Grameson. earing the end of the expedition, Godin headed out alone to ensure the passage back was safe to take his family home to France. Disaster struck as Spain and Portugal closed their territorial borders to the French and Godin found himself stranded in French Guyana, unable to return to Isabel. hat followed was an extraordinary and heart rending 20 year separation that culminated with Isabel, determined to be reunited with the man she loved, setting out to find him. Thirty others set out with her and 10 horrific weeks later Isabel emerged from the Amazonian wilderness naked, alone and near starvation. The story of her journey and survival held 18th centur",2005,3.59,448,44
9780553816952,0553816950,Princess,,Jean Sasson,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rXsp6RvUVoMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""In a land where Kings still rule, I am a Princess. You must know me only as Sultana, for I cannot reveal my true name for fear that harm will come to me and my family for what I am about to tell you. hink of a Saudi Arabian princess and what do you see? A woman glittering with jewels, living a life of unbelievable luxury. She has gold, palaces, swimming-pools, servants, designer dresses galore. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no vote, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind the veil, she is a prisoner, her jailers her father, her husband, her sons. Sultana' is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the King. For the sake of her daughters, she decided that it was time for a woman in her position to speak out about the reality of life for women in her country, whatever their rank. She tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage - a happy one, until her husband decided to take a second wife - and of the lives of her sisters, her friends and her servants. In contrast to the affection and easy camaraderie amongst the women, she relates a history of appalling oppressio",2004,4.02,280,884
9780553817065,055381706X,The Surgeon,,Tess Gerritsen,Boston (Mass.),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=04p3495xOgYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Today they will find her body. I know how it will happen. I can picture, quite vividly, the sequence of events that will lead to the discoverya In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on his victims before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician - a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them. But as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investigation, they make a startling discovery. Closely linked to these killings is Catherine Cordell, a beautiful medic with a mysterious past. Two years ago she was subjected to a horrifying rape and attempted murder but shot her attacker dead. Now she is being targeted by this new killer who seems to know all about her past, her work at the Pilgrim Medical Center, and where she lives. The man she believes she killed seems to be stalking her once again, and this time he knows exactly where to find hera",2005,4.1,416,103747
9780553817072,0553817078,The Apprentice,,Tess Gerritsen,Boston (Mass.),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z5lY0mP_cdkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Surgeon has been locked up for a year but his chilling legacy still haunts the city, and especially Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. But now a new killer is at work and Rizzoli senses something horrifyingly familiar about this murderer's modus operandi. It's when the FBI starts taking an interest in the investigation that Rizzoli begins to wonder just what makes this case so different, so dangerous that the Feds feel the need to get involved. But then the unthinkable happens: the Surgeon escapes. And suddenly there are two brilliant, twisted killers on the loose - master and apprentice, united in their hunt for the most challenging prey of all: the very woman who is hunting them.",2005,4.14,411,547
9780553900699,0553900692,Light,,M. John Harrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lWd5hkQwjToC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness. In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn’ t yet exist—a quantum world that he and his physicist partner hope to access through a breach of time and space itself. In this future, Seria Mau Genlicher has already sacrificed her body to merge into the systems of her starship, the White Cat. But the “inhuman” K-ship captain has gone rogue, pirating the galaxy while playing cat and mouse with the authorities who made her what she is. In this future, Ed Chianese, a drifter and adventurer, has ridden dynaflow ships, run old alien mazes, surfed stellar envelopes. He “went deep”—and lived to tell about it. Once crazy for life, he’s now just a twink on New Venusport, addicted to the bizarre alternate realities found in the tanks—and in debt to all the wrong people. Haunting them all through this maze of menace and mystery is the shadowy presence of the Shrander—and three enigmatic clues left on the barren surface of an asteroid under an ocean of light known as the Kefahuchi Tract: a deserted spaceship, a pair of bone dice, and a human skeleton. From the Trade Paperback edition.",2004,,,
9780553902143,0553902148,The Last of the Mohicans,,James Fenimore Cooper,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JqnnTcDDFwUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Illus. in black-and-white. This action-packed edition of James Fenimore Cooper's famous adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French and Indian War to vivid life.,2005,,,
9780563388548,0563388544,THE GOON SHOW,UNABRIDGED,VÁRIOS AUTORES,,,,2005,4.5,2,0
9780563486497,056348649X,Doctor Who,The Inside Story,Gary Russell,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BDsfK1WPuXgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Doctor Who"" fans might believe they know everything about the latest incarnation of BBC-TVUs SF series, but this book shows just how much they've missed. Pre-production drawings and paintings, countless behind-the-scenes candid shots, and comments and opinions from everyone involved provide the scoop on the how, why, who, and where of all things ""Doctor Who.""",2006,4.21,256,273
9780563522751,0563522755,Terry Jones' Medieval Lives,,Terry Jones;Alan Ereira,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7Rh7J6xzjpAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of course, those key questions: which monks were forbidden the delights of donning underpants... and did outlaws never wear trousers? Terry Jones and Alan Ereira are your guides to this most misrepresented and misunderstood period, and they point you to things that will surprise and provoke. Did you know, for example, that medieval people didn't think the world was flat? That was a total fabrication by an American journalist in the 19th century. Did you know that they didn't burn witches in the Middle Ages? That was a refinement of the so-called Renaissance. In fact, medieval kings weren't necessarily merciless tyrants, and peasants entertained at home using French pottery and fine wine. Terry Jones' Medieval Lives reveals Medieval Britain as you have never seen it before - a vibrant society teeming with individuality, intrigue and innovation.",2005,4.02,240,1867
9780567044716,0567044718,Colossians and Philemon,,Robert McL Wilson,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=61CEyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For over one hundred years International Critical Commentaries have had a special place among works on the Bible. They bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help the reader understand the meaning of the books of the Old and New Testaments. The new commentaries continue this tradition. All new evidence now available is incorporated and new methods of study are applied. The authors are of the highest international standing. No attempt has been made to secure a uniform theological or critical approach to the biblical text: contributors have been invited for their scholarly distinction, not for their adherence to any one school of thought.",2005,5,512,1
9780571084838,0571084834,Lord of the Flies,,William Golding,Airplane crash survival,,"After a plane crash strands them on a tropical island while the rest of the world is ravaged by war, a group of British schoolboys attempts to form a civilized society but descends into brutal anarchy.",1954,3.67,223,4498
9780571090242,0571090249,Death of a Naturalist,Volume one,Seamus Heaney,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=et6dAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Death of a Naturalist marks the auspicious outset of an acclaimed master. As a first book of poems, it is remarkable for its accurate perceptions and its rich linguistic gifts.",1969,4.29,57,63
9780571125296,0571125298,The Real Thing,A Play,Tom Stoppard,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LNy0n77P2eYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A tie-in edition to the upcoming Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's extraordinary play about love and marriage--the work that has been called ""the most moving play"" (""The New York Times"") he has ever written.",1984,3.94,112,3469
9780571143726,0571143725,"New Selected Poems of Seamus Heaney, 1966-1987",,Seamus Heaney,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2JECtQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987). 'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' John Banville 'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey",2002,4.19,246,336
9780571144563,057114456X,Immortality,,Milan Kundera,Czech fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EyZ4PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A modern classic, ""Immortality"" is ""ingenious, witty, provocative, and formidably intelligent, both a pleasure and a challenge to the reader"" (""Washington Post Book World"").",1992,4.13,400,20908
9780571161157,0571161154,The Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog and Cat,,Juliette de Baïracli Levy,Pets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BaPewAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dog and cat owners are becoming increasingly concerned about the saftey of processed pet food and the possible side-effects of over-use of antibiotics and hormone treatments. This new edition, thoroughly revised and updated, covers Natural Rearing, herbal medicine and disease prevention.",1991,4.29,368,100
9780571164660,0571164668,The White Castle,,Orhan Pamuk,Civil law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y55qQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of the 1990 Independent Award for foreign fiction, this book tells the story of a young Italian scholar who is captured by pirates. Put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market, he is bought by a Turkish servant, eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West.",1990,3.45,161,6669
9780571169207,0571169201,Even Cowgirls Get the Blues ; My Own Private Idaho,,Gus Van Sant,Hitchhiking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YK7QxQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Adapted from Tom Robbins' cult novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a rambunctious epic of cowgirls, FBI agents and ecstatic whooping cranes. My Own Private Idaho charts the pilgrimage of a narcoleptic hustler who is searching for his long-lost mother in a world absent of love.",1993,3.79,199,94
9780571172481,0571172482,Lawrence Durrell,A Biography,Ian S. MacNiven,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=77J0QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Traces the life of the English author and discusses how his private world was assimilated into his writings,1998,4.04,801,24
9780571178568,0571178561,The Last Temptation,,Nikos Kazantzakis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tbA-HQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Novel which portrays Christ as a sensitive human being who is torn between his own passionates desires and his triumphant destiny on the cross.,2000,4.16,589,109
9780571191031,0571191037,Tales from Ovid,Twenty-four Passages from the Metamorphoses,Ovid;Ted Hughes,Latin poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ViuRQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original, but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were somehow the same person. Tales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe. In them, Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands, alongside his Crow and Gaudete, as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time.",1997,4.23,264,174
9780571191635,0571191630,View with a Grain of Sand,Selected Poems,Wisława Szymborska,Polish poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aoJ8QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Selection of poetry of Szymborska - pronounced Shimboorska - the Polish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.,1996,4.33,214,30
9780571193783,0571193781,The New Life,,Orhan Pamuk,Bus travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KOAJGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A parable about love, literature and fanaticism. A young university student becomes obsessed with a magical book that delves into the dangerous natures of love and self. Abandoning his studies and his family, he goes with the beautiful Janan on a search for the meaning of the book's darker secrets.",1998,3.55,296,4422
9780571197514,0571197515,Tom Stoppard: Plays 5,"Aracadia, The Real Thing, Night & Day, Indian Ink, Hapgood",Tom Stoppard,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sR0YSeUweGwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Plays Five: Arcadia The Real Thing Night & Day Indian Ink Hapgood This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language. Arcadia received the Evening Standard, the Oliver, and the Critics Awards and The Real Thing won a Tony Award.",1999,4.3,608,548
9780571200610,0571200613,Garden State,,Rick Moody,Teenagers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ve3aPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This first novel by the acclaimed author of Demonology and The Ice Storm traces a group of friends in Haledon, New Jersey, through one Spring in their rocky passage towards adulthood. The kids are out of school, trying to start a band, trying to find work; looking for something to do within the degraded terrain of their suburban hometown. Garden State starkly captures the lyricism of their lives in an intense and unforgettable story of friendship and betrayal.",2002,3.07,212,702
9780571201136,057120113X,Beowulf,Translated by Seamus Heaney,Seamus Heaney,Beowulf,,"Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.",1999,3.43,106,172
9780571201150,0571201156,Letters Home,"Correspondence, 1950-1963",Sylvia Plath,"Authors, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TKZTPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This volume collects together Sylvia Plath's correspondence, addressed chiefly to her mother, from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s up to her suicide in London in February 1963.",1999,4.2,502,2326
9780571201754,057120175X,The Poisonwood Bible,,Barbara Kingsolver,Americans,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SZLCQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959, The Poisonwood Bible is the story of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.",2000,4.05,616,1325
9780571202119,057120211X,"Girl, Interrupted",Screenplay,James Mangold;Lisa Loomer;Anna Hamilton Phelan,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JnzDQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Set in the changing world of the 1960s, the motion picture Girl Interrupted is the searing story of Susanna, a young woman who finds herself at a mental institution for troubled young women. Susanna's 'short rest', prescribed by a psychiatrist she had met just once, becomes a strange journey into Alice's Wonderland, as she spends nearly a year both struggling and flirting with the thin line between 'normal' and 'crazy'. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she's been committed, and ultimately she has to choose between the world of those who belong on the inside - such as the seductive and dangerous Lisa - and those who can engage with the reality of the outside world."" ""This volume includes storyboards and a discussion by the film's director James Mangold about the film-making process by which this screenplay by James Mangold and Lisa Loomer and Anna Hamilton Phelan was transferred to the screen.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved",2000,3.97,167,236
9780571202805,0571202802,Gilliam on Gilliam,,Terry Gilliam;Ian Christie,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=82RQJgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The candid filmaker turns his his vision inward to explore the motivation behind Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, and other groundbreaking films. Original.",1999,4.1,294,255
9780571203031,0571203035,The Music of Chance,,Paul Auster,Gambling,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZQFiQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him, he was past the point of wanting it to end . . .' Following the death of his father and the inheritance of a large sum of money, Jim Nashe takes to the open road in pursuit of a 'life of freedom'. But as the money runs out he finds that his sense of disillusionment has only been compounded by his year on the road. However, having picked up Pozzi, a hitchhiking young gambler, he is drawn into a dangerous game of poker with Flower and Stone, two eccentric and reclusive millionaires. Unwittingly, Nashe finds himself in a situation in which, although the stakes have been raised, he will finally meet a challenge equal to his questions.",2000,3.9,217,6704
9780571203123,0571203124,My Century,,Günter Grass,"History, Modern",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5MOAPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Here, Gunter Grass writes of great events and seemingly trivial ones, of technical developments and scientific discoveries, of achievements in culture, sport, of megolamania, persecution and murder, war and disasters and of new beginnnings.",2000,3.45,248,775
9780571203154,0571203159,Taxi Driver,,Paul Schrader,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MITuHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A drama about a New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption.,2000,4.11,116,986
9780571205219,0571205216,"The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962",Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College,Sylvia Plath,"Poets, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TDJgQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.' John Carey, Sunday Times",2001,4.31,752,105
9780571206926,0571206921,Laughable Loves,,Milan Kundera,Czech Republic,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZpupPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Laughable loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but then was banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games and strategems employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs ad impulses that can start a terrifying train of events. Sexual attraction is shown as a game that often turns sour, an experience that brings with it painful insisghts and releases uncertainty, panic, vanity and a constant need for reassurance.",1999,3.87,287,14380
9780571207084,0571207081,Herzog on Herzog,Conversations with Paul Cronin,Paul Cronin,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kRzxwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An invaluable set of career-length interviews with the German genius hailed by François Truffaut as ""the most important film director alive"" Most of what we've heard about Werner Herzog is untrue. The sheer number of false rumors and downright lies disseminated about the man and his films is truly astonishing. Yet Herzog's body of work is one of the most important in postwar European cinema. His international breakthrough came in 1973 with Aguirre, The Wrath of God, in which Klaus Kinski played a crazed Conquistador. For The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Herzog cast in the lead a man who had spent most of his life institutionalized, and two years later he hypnotized his entire cast to make Heart of Glass. He rushed to an explosive volcanic Caribbean island to film La Soufrière, paid homage to F. W. Murnau in a terrifying remake of Nosferatu, and in 1982 dragged a boat over a mountain in the Amazon jungle for Fitzcarraldo. More recently, Herzog has made extraordinary ""documentary"" films such as Little Dieter Needs to Fly. His place in cinema history is assured, and Paul Cronin's volume of dialogues provides a forum for Herzog's fascinating views on the things, ideas, and people that have preoccupied him for so many years.",2003,4.44,352,1344
9780571207565,0571207561,Collected Children's Stories,,Sylvia Plath,"Children's poetry, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i6oCGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three classic children's stories, Mrs Cherry's Kitchen, The Bed Book and The It Doesn't Matter Suit, collected together in one volume for the first time.",2001,4.22,54,111
9780571207992,0571207995,The Wars,,Timothy Findley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AqnDQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war - the War to End All Wars. He found himself in the nightmare world of trench warfare; of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and rotting corpses. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performed a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death.The Wars is quite simply one of the best novels ever written about the First World War.",2001,3.87,218,6229
9780571209057,057120905X,Famous Last Words,,Timothy Findley,Prisoners of war,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XwOkQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament - the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in a scandal and political corruption.Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul and it is Findley's fine achievement that he has combined these elements into a web that constantly surprises and astounds the reader.",2001,3.99,416,1348
9780571210916,0571210910,Finders Keepers,"Selected Prose, 1971-2001",Seamus Heaney,Englisch - Geschichte - Lyrik - Aufsatzsammlung,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SixqPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In addition to his well-regarded verse, Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney has amassed a body of prose works over the last 30-plus years, previously published chiefly in three separate books. Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001, offers a ""best of"" (of sorts) as Heaney sifts through previous writings and offers a variety of strong works, from memoir to lecture transcripts to literary criticism.",2003,4.15,432,16
9780571211500,057121150X,Fat Pig,A Play,Neil LaBute,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4ZVqDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Cast ages: adult.,2004,3.56,112,2312
9780571212927,0571212921,A Beautiful Mind,,Sylvia Nasar,Mathematicians,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5ePBQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Beautiful Mind is Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography about the mystery of the human mind, the triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. A Beautiful Mind has inspired the Oscar-winning film directed by Ron Howard and featuring Russell Crowe in the lead role of John Nash.",2001,4.13,461,111633
9780571214266,0571214266,The Greek Islands,,Lawrence Durrell,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Jbh1PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As every reader of Durrell knows, his writing is steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean, and especially the islands of Greece. This captivating and highly unusual text, originally conceived as a picture book and now reset in paperback format, weaves together evocative descriptions, history and myth with Durrell's personal reminiscences. No traveller to Greece or admirer of the genius of Durrell should miss it.",2002,3.9,332,21
9780571215164,0571215165,Vernon God Little,A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death,D. B. C. Pierre,Black humor (Literature),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ys2sQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2003 WINNER OF THE 2003 WHITBREAD FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre debuts of the twenty-first century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. 'A showpiece of superb comic writing . . . Out of the detritus of a morally bankrupt society, Pierre has fashioned a work of comic art.' Sunday Telegraph 'In a just world, this ridiculously funny first novel would come free with every television set . . . Not since reading John Kennedy O'Toole's masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces . . . have I laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice . . . this novel reads like a modern day fairytale.' Mail on Sunday",2004,3.59,279,23912
9780571217359,0571217354,Finnegans Wake,,James Joyce,Dreams,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7ZSqPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The complete text of James Joyce's dream masterpiece, one of the great works of twentieth-century literature. This copyright edition incorporates Joyce's own alterations and corrections to the first printing in 1939. 'Here words are not the polite contortions of twentieth-century printer's ink. They are alive. They elbow their way on to the page, and glow and blaze and fade and disappear.' Samuel Beckett",1975,3.67,628,9596
9780571218851,0571218857,Tales From Firozsha Baag (Ji),,Rohinton Mistry,Apartment houses,,"In these eleven intersecting stories, Rohinton Mistry opens our eyes and our hearts to the rich, complex patterns of life inside this Bombay apartment building. The occupants - from Jaakaylee, the ghost-seer, through Najamai, the only owner of a refrigerator in Firozsha Baag, to Rustomji the Curmudgeon and Kersi, the young boy whose life threads through the book - all express the tensions between the past and the present, between the old world and the new.",2002,3.93,250,78
9780571219315,0571219314,The Kid Stays in the Picture,,Robert Evans,Motion picture actors and actresses,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yCZFPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""'It's the wildest, most profane, most ridiculously riveting movie memoir ever!' - Newsweek""",2004,3.91,462,2081
9780571219711,0571219713,The Moth Diaries,,Rachel Klein,Boarding schools,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=94hfPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At an exclusive boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her growing obsession is her roommate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy's friendship with her new and disturbing classmate. Ernessa is a mysterious, moody presence with pale skin and hypnotic eyes. Around her swirl dark rumours, suspicions and secrets as well as a series of ominous disasters. As fear spreads through the school, what is true and what is dreamed bleed together into a waking nightmare of gothic menace, fuelled by the anxieties, lusts and fears of adolescence. At the centre of the diary is the question that haunts all who read it: Is Ernessa really a vampire? Or has the narrator trapped herself in her own fevered imagination?",2005,3.49,245,59
9780571224388,0571224385,The Unbearable Lightness of Being,,Milan Kundera,Adultery,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OU1_PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a story of irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being', offering a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations. First published in 1984, Kundera's masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy and was at once hailed by critics as a contemporary classic. This special hardback edition commemorates the twentieth anniversary of its first publication in English. 'There are novels that are tragic, or entertaining, and this one is both. There are very few that give a fresh perspective on existence, and force the reader to reassess his own life and attitudes.' Sunday Times 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a work of the boldest mastery, originality and richness.' Vanity Fair",2004,4.09,320,233448
9780571225378,0571225373,A Pale View of Hills,,Kazuo Ishiguro,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_vtQPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwells on the recent suicide of her elder daughter, Keiko. Despite the efforts of her surviving daughter to distract her thoughts, Etsuko finds herself recalling a particular summer in Nagasaki after the bomb fell.",2005,3.73,183,11763
9780571225392,057122539X,The Unconsoled,,Kazuo Ishiguro,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OD1EPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Unconsoled is an extraordinary study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control,2005,3.53,535,7083
9780571225552,0571225551,The Avignon Quintet,,Lawrence Durrell,"Short stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SiLSGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An omnibus edition of the five novels published by Durrell in a kaleidoscopic sequence between 1974 and 1985. The books are set mainly in Avignon and the ancient kingdom of Provence, though significant episodes in the quintet are set in the Egyptian desert, Venice, Paris, Vienna and Geneva.",2004,4.09,1376,285
9780571226337,0571226337,City of Glass,,Paul Auster;Paul Karasik;David Mazzucchelli,City and town life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gRq-QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'It was a wrong number that started it . . .' Chosen as one of the '100 Most Important Comics of the Century', Faber is proud to publish the graphic novel City of Glass for the first time in the UK. As Art Spiegelman explains in his new introduction, David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik 'created a strange doppelganger of the original book' and 'a breakthrough work.' Paul Auster's Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.",2005,3.92,144,993
9780573605734,0573605734,Breakfast of Champions,,,Science fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ODcO8CSwnNIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1984,4,106,15
9780573612251,0573612250,Medea,,Robinson Jeffers,Greek drama (Tragedy),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s0lmnH_2MBEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1976,4.2,130,99
9780575048362,0575048360,Eric,,Terry Pratchett,Fantasy fiction,,Eric calls up a demon to grant him three wishes - but what he gets is the Discworld's most incompetent wizard ...,1990,3.75,126,179
9780575066892,057506689X,Soul Music,,Terry Pratchett,Discworld (Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q16dPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Other children got given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Yes. There¿s a Death in the family. It¿s hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe ¿ especially when you have to take over the family business and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered the Discworld. It¿s lawless. It changes people. It¿s called Music with Rocks In. It¿s got a beat and you can dance to it, but¿ It¿s alive. And it won¿t fade away.",1999,4.04,424,49067
9780575068858,057506885X,The Last Hero,A Discworld Fable,Terry Pratchett,Discworld (Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5MK2QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"He's been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember when a hero didn't have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation, and when people didn't tell you off for killing dragons. But he can't always remember, these days, where he put his teeth . . . So now, with his ancient sword and his new walking stick and his old friends -- and they're very old friends -- Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. He's going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. The last hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That'll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time.",2001,4.17,160,790
9780575073357,0575073357,The Man in the High Castle,,Philip K. Dick,Alternative histories (Fiction),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8HBAPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But it¿s not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out and America has been divided between the Nazis and the Japanese. In the neutral buffer zone that divides the two superpowers lives the man in the high castle, the author of an underground bestseller, a work of fiction that offers an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers didn¿t win the war. The novel is a rallying cry for all those who dream of overthrowing the occupiers. But could it be more than that? Subtle, complex and beautifully characterized, The Man in the High Castle remains the finest alternative world novel ever written, and a work of profundity and significance.",2001,3.63,256,437
9780575073616,0575073616,Worlds,,Joe Haldeman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FWH3wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Towards the end of the twenty-first century 41 Worlds, small satellites with a total population of half a million, orbit the Earth, which has seen many changes, not least of which is a second revolution in America. Marianne O¿Hara, a brilliant political sciences student, is from New New York, a hollowed out asteroid and the largest of the Worlds, but is to spend a year on Earth as a postgraduate student. Because the political relationship between the Worlds and Earth is complex and voltatile, Marianne unwittingly finds herself caught up with a group of fanatics determined on a third revolution in America - even if such a revolution could lead to the destruction of the Earth...",2002,3.51,240,39
9780575075368,0575075368,Dark Lord of Derkholm,,Diana Wynne Jones,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ILwjHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Can the Wizard Derk and his family of human and griffin children save the world from the depradations of the evil Mr Chesney?,2003,4.12,328,12369
9780575075597,0575075597,Replay,,Ken Grimwood,Fantasy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9vmNPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow . . . But a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to that. Until Jeff wakes up in his eighteen-year-old body, all his memories of the next twenty-five years intact. If he applies those memories, he can be rich in this new chance at life and can become one of the most powerful men in America. Until he dies at forty-three and wakes up in his eighteen-year-old body again . . .",2005,4.16,272,412
9780575075825,0575075821,Grendel,,John Gardner,Beowulf,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yHfCHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Grendel is drawn up from the caves under the mere where he lives with his bloated, inarticulate hag of a mother into the fresh night air, it is to lay waste Hrothgar's meadhall and heap destruction on the humans he finds there. What else can he do? For he is not like the men who busy themselves with God, love and beauty. He sees the infuriating human rage for order and recognises the meaninglessness of his own existence. GRENDEL is John Gardner's masterpiece; it vividly reinvents the world of Beowulf. In Grendel himself, a creature of grotesque comedy, pain and disillusioned intelligence, Gardner has created the most unforgettable monster fantasy.",2004,3.69,144,221
9780575076266,0575076267,The Hyperion Omnibus,,Dan Simmons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b2ReHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Hyperion books are credited with single-handedly reinventing and reinvigorating SF in the 1990s. A broad canvased, hugely imaginative and exciting SF epic, the books draw on the works of Keats and provide a uniquely intelligent and literary approach with cutting edge science, compelling characterisation and edge-of-your-seat excitement. The story is continued in ENDYMION and THE RISE OF ENDYMION, which Gollancz will also be publishing in an omnibus volume.",2004,4.42,779,2490
9780575076815,057507681X,A Scanner Darkly,,Philip K. Dick,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SDkDHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Substance D -- otherwise known as Death -- is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and soon, without knowing what is happening to him, he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring.",2006,4.02,219,65288
9780575402904,0575402903,Dark Visions,,Stephen King;George R. R. Martin;Dan Simmons,"Horror tales, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qpJoGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Take three of the leading names in contemporary horror writing, commission one-third of a book's worth of stories from each, and the result is DARK VISIONS. Stephen King leads off with three stories, including ""Sneakers"", about a very unusual haunting, and ""Dedication"", one of the most powerful and unsettling of all his works. Dan Simmons pays homage to Philip K Dick with ""Metastasis"", one of three highly accomplished stories. And George Martin rounds off the book with the brilliant werewolf novella, ""The Skin Trade"". DARK VISIONS is a brilliantly original showcase from three masters of the macabre.",2000,3.89,381,142
9780575601970,0575601973,A Sudden Wild Magic,,Diana Wynne Jones,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a0EcNgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A breathtakingly original, funny adventure of wars, worlds and otherworlds by one of the greatest fantasy writers in Britain",1997,3.76,380,101
9780582418172,0582418178,The Body,,Stephen King;Robin Waterfield,Friendship in adolescence,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Rth4QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1960s America, four young boys go on a journey to search for the body of a boy killed by a train. As they travel, they discover how cruel the world can be, but also how wondrous.",1999,4.26,80,27417
9780582418271,0582418275,The Firm,,John Grisham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0qI5ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law graduate, becomes suspicious of his Memphis tax firm when mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations.",1999,4,76,522946
9780582461468,0582461464,Of Mice and Men,,John Steinbeck;Susan Shillinglaw,Cowboys,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BiJiRgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Henry Green is a boy who loves chocolate. He likes it bitter, sweet, dark, light, and daily; for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks; in cakes, candy bars, milk, and every other form you can possibly imagine. Henry probably loves chocolate more than any boy in the history of the world. One day -- it starts off like any other day -- Henry finds that strange things are happening to him. First he makes medical history with the only case of Chocolate Fever ever. Then he finds himself caught up in a wild and hilarious chase, climaxed by a very unusual hijacking From the Paperback edition.",2000,3.86,160,2088
9780586008355,0586008357,The Caves of Steel,,Isaac Asimov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sz7CQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A Classic Robot novel.,1993,4.16,206,59865
9780586040102,0586040102,Banco,,Henri Charrière,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rqiAVILt4dIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The sensational sequel to 'Papillon'. ‘Banco' continues the adventures of Henri Charriere - nicknamed Papillon - in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charriere is soon involved in hair-raiding exploits with goldminers, gamblers, bank-robbers and revolutionaries - robbing and being robbed, his lust for life as strong as ever. He also runs night clubs in Caracas until an earthquake ruins him in 1967 - when he decides to write the book that brings his international fame.",1973,3.73,406,2148
9780586066881,0586066888,A Darkness at Sethanon,,Raymond E. Feist,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QT078GAmji0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An evil wind blows through Midkemia. Dark legions have risen up to crush the Kingdom of the Isles and enslave it to dire magics. The final battle between Order and Chaos is abotu to begin in the ruins of the city called Sethanon.Now Pug, the master magician sometimes known as Milamber, must undertake an awesome and perilous quest to the dawn of time to grapple with an ancient and terrible Enemy for the fate of a thousand worlds.",1987,4.19,527,49946
9780586071397,0586071393,Faerie Tale,,Raymond E. Feist,Fairy tales,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MsdacfG57IAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A contemporary fantasy novel about the Hastings family who move from California to upstate New York into a ramshackle, old house in a deep wood and become involved in ancient, Celtic magic and occult horror when they are lured into the world of some luminous elfin beings.",1989,3.87,490,7700
9780586203194,0586203192,2061,Odyssey Three,Arthur C. Clarke,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uSj0D8f70LUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Science fiction-roman.,1997,3.55,302,20216
9780586203798,0586203796,Mistress of the Empire,,Raymond E. Feist;Janny Wurts,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y2tFKRiYA0cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Book 3 of the Empire trilogy.,1997,4.31,860,440
9780586203811,0586203818,Servant of the Empire,,Raymond E. Feist;Janny Wurts,Fantasy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xmmI3ZYsBboC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1990,4.29,827,22247
9780586210680,0586210687,The Master of Whitestorm,,Janny Wurts,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vIaCQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Everyone knew that there was no escape from the slave galleys of the Murghai: once chained to an oar the only release is death. But Korendir refuses to recognize impossibilities and aided by his rowing companion, Haldeth, he leads a desperate but successful revolt.",1992,3.91,413,78
9780586210697,0586210695,The Curse of the Mistwraith,,Janny Wurts,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ju3E6WIy1ygC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraith's stranglehold: Arithon, Master of Shadow, and Lysaer, Lord of Light. Arithon and Lysaer soon find that they are inescapably bound to a series of events dictated by their own deepest convictions. Yet as the sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven know well, there is more at stake than one battle with the Mistwraith: between them the half-brothers hold the balance of the world—its harmony and its future—in their hands.",2004,3.76,830,4528
9780586217832,0586217835,Magician,,Raymond E. Feist,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3IYA72d9dgMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The first book in the Riftwar series.,1993,4.33,681,49332
9780590032490,0590032496,The witches,,Roald Dahl,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tpQxolGFYSkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.",1997,4.17,208,254867
9780590100564,0590100564,Common Ground,"The Water, Earth, and Air We Share",Molly Bang,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LSpkG31BYDUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Imagines a village in which there are too many people consuming shared resources and discusses the challenge of handling our world's environment safely.,1997,3.75,40,92
9780590103879,0590103873,Expository Writing,,Tara McCarthy,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9HKHFJuu5OQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Down-to-Earth Approach James Henslin shares the excitement of sociology with his acclaimed down-to-earth approach and personal writing style. Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 12/e, highlights the sociology of everyday life and its relevance to students' lives. Six central themes help students stimulate their sociological imagination: down-to-earth sociology, globalization, cultural diversity, critical thinking, the new technology, and the influence of the mass media on our lives. MySocLab is an integral part of the Henslin program. Engaging activities and assessments provide a teaching and learning system that helps students discover sociology in their lives. With MySocLab, students can watch videos on sociological core concepts, explore real-world sociology through the new Social Explorer, and develop critical thinking skills through writing. This title is available in a variety of formats and prices - digital and print. Pearson offers its titles on the devices students love through Pearson's MyLab products, CourseSmart, Amazon, and more.",1998,4.33,88,3
9780590135894,0590135899,Scary stories 3,more tales to chill your bones,Alvin Schwartz,Folklore,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tQNDoaGr8OkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.",1991,4.21,113,105
9780590209328,0590209329,Descriptive Writing,,Tara McCarthy,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WrPw4CDBl6YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides ideas and strategies for exploring and teaching descriptive writing in grades 4-8. Includes reproducibles, graphic organizers, mini-lessons and checklists.",1998,,,
9780590209342,0590209345,Persuasive Writing,,Tara McCarthy,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=juB6zbcyUBQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Provides practical ideas and strategies for exploring and teaching persuasive writing in grades 4-8. Includes reproducibles, graphic organizers, mini-lessons and check-lists.",1998,3.2,64,5
9780590213110,0590213113,P.S. Longer Letter Later,,Paula Danziger,Friendship,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Usv9XSDU274C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara-Starr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara-Starr's family moves to another state.,1999,3.77,234,2650
9780590227162,0590227165,How Much is that Guinea Pig in the Window?,,Joanne Rocklin,Contests,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DH5UGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mr. Day's fourth-grade class has a contest, recycling bottles and cans so that they will have enough money to buy a guinea pig.",1995,4.12,48,24
9780590254762,0590254766,"The lion, the witch and the wardrobe",,Clive Staples Lewis,Fantasy,,"Four English school children enter the magic land of Narnia through the back of a wardrobe and assist Aslan, the golden lion, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.",1995,4.21,189,860
9780590255226,0590255223,Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Cdw3HQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Just as the Headmaster of Macdonald Hall is on the verge of retirement, a wave of practical jokes hits the school, and roommates Bruno and Boots become prime suspects.",2000,4.04,208,901
9780590317672,0590317679,Run,,William Sleator,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ctBxKTLJoyYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three teen-agers, thrown together by chance in an isolated house, become increasingly aware of a threat lurking in the darkness outside.",1973,3.07,137,53
9780590321143,0590321145,Blind Flight,,Hilary Milton,Blind,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4BiSkciyNYIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Flying with her uncle in his small plane, 13-year-old Debbie who has been blind for about a year must suddenly take control of the plane when her uncle loses consciousness.",1982,3.71,122,23
9780590326292,0590326295,Trapped!,,Arthur Roth,Survival,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZjL0QlkKzBIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1983,3.71,119,86
9780590407328,0590407325,The Trolley Car Family,,Eleanor Clymer,Family life,,The Parker's acquisition of an old trolley car results in a delightful summer in the country and a new job for Father.,1987,4.14,256,300
9780590413817,0590413813,Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's farm,,Betty MacDonald,Behavior,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kwVoNYhvKuMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cured a child who could not tell the truth, another who neglected her pets, and a boy who broke everything in sight.",1987,4.16,128,63
9780590419277,0590419277,Radio Fifth Grade,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F65B2m_PckgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Mayhem breaks out in the fifth grade when the Venice Menace bullies his classmates into letting him become a regular guest on ""Kidsview,"" the school's radio program.",1991,3.55,192,509
9780590422673,0590422677,Avalanche,,Arthur Roth,Adult education,,"Chris Palmer is always competing with his brother, a star athlete. During a skiing trip, his rifle sets off a thundering avalanche, leaving Chris buried alive under a mountain of snow.",1989,3.65,144,260
9780590425575,0590425579,Drina Dances Again,,Jean Estoril,Acting,,"When an untimely injury sidelines her from her dancing, Drina joins the cast of a play to keep her mind off her pulled muscle.",1989,4.1,186,219
9780590428880,0590428888,Blubberina,,Jahnna N. Malcolm,Ballet,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=isdFgD0YTxYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Because of her plumpness, Gwen is not allowed to go up on pointe and the Bunheads have begun calling her ""Blubberina,"" so the girls mobilize to help Gwen lose that extra weight and get her toe shoes.",1989,3.4,135,13
9780590430265,0590430262,The Littles and the Lost Children,,John Peterson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W6hXPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winkie and Tip Small-Fry, two members of a community of small people, become lost in Trash City, the secret community under the town dump.",1991,3.75,112,291
9780590434119,059043411X,Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots,,Debbie Dadey;Marcia Thornton Jones,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QY6a-2MatiMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The third-grade class at Bailey Elementary is convinced that its teacher is a vampire.,1990,3.8,80,6834
9780590440615,0590440616,Werewolves Don't Go to Summer Camp,,Debbie Dadey;Marcia Thornton Jones,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=amxxngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Bailey Elementary School third graders are greeted at camp by Mr. Jenkins, a growling barefoot creature who eats raw hamburgers and avoids lights.",1991,3.83,96,2119
9780590444255,0590444255,Koko's Kitten,,Francine Patterson;Ronald H. Cohn,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OHxxHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tells the story of a gorilla that communicates with humans using sign language and her love for her kitten, All Ball.",1987,4.3,32,944
9780590456807,0590456806,The Stranger,,Caroline B. Cooney,Horror stories.,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jLemheqAQVkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawn to the dark and mysterious Jethro, Nicoletta follows the strange boy to a deserted cave, where she learns his dark secrets.",1993,3.55,198,55
9780590475365,0590475363,The mystery of the missing cat,,Gertrude Chandler Warner,Cats,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TZDsr_QvXZkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The mysterious disappearance of a reclusive neighbor's cat involves the Boxcar children in some complicated detective work.,1994,3.8,119,3
9780590488129,0590488120,These Happy Golden Years,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=591ySlNL2r8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.",1953,4.19,289,297
9780590488150,0590488155,On the Banks of Plum Creek,,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Family,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DTMo9tftGN8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.",1965,4.2,339,187
9780590598873,0590598872,Babysitters Club,,Ann M. Martin,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z3cBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1995,3.85,0,5241
9780590692083,0590692089,Mary Anne and the Little Princess,,Ann M. Martin,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wl30GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eight-year-old Victoria Kent, distantly in line for the British throne, is spending six months in the states with her parents and Mary Anne is hired as her companion.",1996,3.58,142,15
9780590764704,0590764705,"Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye",K,Ann M. Martin,English language,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BKx1KAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Stacey and her parents are moving back to New York! Not only are the Babysitters losing their treasurer but Claudia is losing her best friend.,1988,3.65,132,2623
9780590849029,0590849026,Angels Don't Know Karate,,Debbie Dadey;Marcia Thornton Jones,Juvenile Fiction,,"Miss Angela Michaels, the new karate teacher in Bailey City, who is also the school crossing guard, is so kind and generous that Melody becomes convinced that she is a guardian angel. Original.",1996,3.8,67,727
9780590876124,0590876120,The Littles and Their Amazing New Friend,,John Peterson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3uy8G-2RWOAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On a hill above the Big Valley, the Littles make a discovery that changes their world--tiny people are living in the forest up there!",1999,3.92,112,181
9780590956161,0590956167,The Meanest Thing to Say,,Bill Cosby;Varnette P. Honeywood,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BCaaNgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a new boy in his second grade class tries to get the other students to play a game that involves saying the meanest things possible to one another, Little Bill shows him a better way to make friends.",1997,3.53,40,956
9780590975001,0590975005,The BFG,,Roald Dahl,Dreams,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Az9hbS7zbuUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Summary: Kidnapped from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannibal giants.",1982,4.22,207,99
9780590988490,0590988492,Wanted!,,Caroline B. Cooney,Juvenile Fiction,,"When her father is murdered and the police obtain an e-mail confession that implicates her, Alice Robie realizes she will have to flee and prove her innocence. Original.",1997,3.68,230,1924
9780593040591,0593040597,The Illustrated A Brief History of Time,,Stephen W. Hawking,Cosmology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pe7TOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is Stephen Hawking's updated, expanded and illustrated edition of his celebrated work which includes the most recent developments in the field, many of which were forecast by him. At the same time, he explains his complex theories through a fresh visual dimension. Over one hunded and fifty stunning colour illustrations have been specially commissioned for this purpose to help the reader understand what have become popular mythic images of our century, but which nonetheless remain difficult, abstract ideas to grasp. It includes a new introduction written specially for this edition.",1996,4.16,259,307
9780593043165,0593043162,A Brief History of Time,,Stephen Hawking,Cosmology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v6CQvQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has become an international publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over nine million copies worldwide and lives on as a science book that continues to captivate and inspire new readers each year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening ten years there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and macro-cosmic world. Indeed, during that time cosmology and the theoretical sciences have entered a new golden age. Professor Hawking is one of the major scientists and thinkers to have contributed to this renaissance. In this special, fully updated edition, which marks the tenth anniversary of the book's original ground-breaking publication, Professor Hawking has included the most recent developments in the field, many of which were forecast by him. He has also written a new introduction as well as an additional chapter on wormholes and time travel. A Brief History of Time has rightly been hailed as the publishing sensation of the past decade and is surely destined to become one of the greatest classics of science writing.",1998,4.16,241,222
9780595092147,0595092144,Firedrake,,Richard A. Knaak,Fiction,,"The New York Timesbestselling fantasy author Richard A. Knaak brings to print an epic realm of magic and intrigue! In a land ruled by the shape-lifting Dragon Kings, Cabe Bedlam is hunted for both the legacy he represents and the future he may bring. Yet, dragons may be the least of the dangers, for in a land drenched with sorcery, Cabe's very legacy may be what destroys him!",2000,3.78,276,619
9780595272099,0595272096,Vesco from Wall Street to Castro's Cuba,"The Rise, Fall, and Exile of the King of White Collar Crime",Arthur Herzog,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RWAP4tMr7PUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The account of Robert Vesco, the Kingfish, who bilked investors of $250 million dollars in the early seventies and fled the country just ahead of the Feds, ultimately landing in Cuba.",2003,4.17,408,5
9780595321803,0595321801,The Changeling,,Zilpha Keatley Snyder,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bpaT5DgvTdgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Had it not been for the firm belief of two young girls that one of them was a changeling, their lives would have been very different.",2004,4.17,228,1155
9780596003067,0596003064,High performance MySQL,"optimization, backups, replication and load balancing",Jeremy D. Zawodny;Derek J. Balling,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pspQAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide for MySQL administrators covers such topics as benchmarking, indexes, the stages of processing a query, hardware configuations, copying data to multiple servers, and preventing hardware failure.",2004,4.24,304,388
9780596006624,0596006624,Hackers & Painters,Big Ideas from the Computer Age,Paul Graham,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=shycAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, Internet startups and more. He also tells important stories about the kinds of people behind technical innovations, revealing their character and their craft.",2004,4.06,272,6198
9780596006792,0596006799,BSD Hacks,100 Industrial Tip & Tools,Dru Lavigne,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e6ebAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In the world of Unix operating systems, the various BSDs come with a long heritage of high-quality software without restrictions. Steeped in the venerable Unix traditions the immense power and flexibility of the BSDs are yours to hack. Of course, first you have to know what you have at hand and how to use it. Written by trainers, developers, hobbyists, and administrators, BSD Hacks collects 100 tips and tricks to fill your toolbox. Whether you're a new user, an administrator, or a power user looking for new ideas to take your knowledge to the next level, each hack will let you peek inside the mind of another Unix fan. Learn how to : Customize and install software exactly as you want it on one or dozens of machines ; Configure the command line the way you like it, to speed up common tasks and make difficult things easy ; Be a good network neighbor, even to other operating systems ; Make the most of the copious documentation or find (and document) answers when there's no documentation ; Allocate bandwidth by time, department, or use ; Secure your system with good passwords, intelligent firewall rules, proper logging, and a little foresight ; Plan for and recover from disaster, including catastrophic Internet loss and hardware failures ; Automate your backups, safely and securely. BSD Hacks is for anyone using FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin (under or alongside Mac OS X), or anything else BSD-flavored. Whether you're new to BSD or an old hand-even seasoned Linux folk can Learn a lot from their cousins-you will reach new levels of understanding and have a lot of fi-in along the way.",2004,3.79,450,40
9780596006938,0596006934,IMovie 4 & IDVD,The Missing Manual,David Pogue,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iHWandF67TIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explains how to use the Macintosh video production programs to capture and edit digital videos, apply effects, create DVD menus, and burn DVDs.",2004,3.25,496,4
9780596523695,0596523696,Ruby Cookbook,,Lucas Carlson;Leonard Richardson,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E_KMa5Zab0MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Provides information on using the Ruby programming language, covering such topics as strings and arrays, XML processing, Ruby on Rails, databases, and graphics.",2006,3.82,873,163
9780596527082,059652708X,MySQL Cookbook,,Paul DuBois,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hVq4K3px5_kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Describes the features and functions of MySQL 5.0 along with short code pieces and programming examples.,2007,3.99,980,125
9780596527419,0596527411,CSS Cookbook,,Christopher Schmitt,Computers,,"Provides information and examples on using CSS to format Web pages, covering such topics as Web typography, links, navigation, page layouts, and Web site design.",2006,3.88,516,161
9780600601166,0600601161,The New Hite Report,The Revolutionary Report on Female Sexuality Updated,Shere Hite,Sexual behavior surveys,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7gzFQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This new report includes previously unpublished data and personal accounts from women in the UK and Commonwealth. The original ""Hite Report on Female Sexuality"" was based on samples of women exclusively in the USA. First published in 1976, it explored women's feelings about sex and has had a profound influence on generations of readers. In it, women between the ages of 14 and 78 described their most intimate feelings and answered questions about orgasm, masturbation and their sexual desires. This book brings Shere Hite's thinking to a new generation of women and draws conclusions based on up-to-date and relevant worldwide findings to one of the most probing surveys ever undertaken.",2000,3.76,667,22
9780606349154,0606349154,One Hundred Years of Solitude,,Gabriel Garcia Marquez;Gregory Rabassa,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VshEPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the 20th century's enduring works, Marquez's masterpiece is the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career. Alternately reverential and comical, this novel weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling.",2006,4.06,417,18
9780609602195,0609602195,The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook,Secrets from the Legendary Specialty Food Store for Simple Food and Party Platters You Can Make at Home,Ina Garten,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5eIVAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of recipes for appetizers, entrees, desserts, and accompaniments",1999,4.15,256,27422
9780609610572,0609610570,Execution,The Discipline of Getting Things Done,Larry Bossidy;Ram Charan;Charles Burck,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H-yLDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An updated edition of the best-selling reference features a new introduction on how to execute necessary business processes in light of today's challenging economic and financial environment. Cowritten by the author of What the CEO Wants You to Know.,2002,3.86,278,21120
9780609801406,0609801406,Full House,The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin,Stephen Jay Gould,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E4JAjd9v8XYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life",1997,3.95,256,1604
9780609804247,0609804243,Awakening Intuition,Using Your Mind-Body Network for Insight and Healing,Mona Lisa Schulz,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Krb1esfF0a4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Explains how to access intuition through the signals given by one's body and feelings in order to attain maximum physical and psychological health,1999,3.92,397,304
9780609808344,0609808346,Dispatches from the Tenth Circle,The Best of The Onion,Robert Siegel,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7vTrdF38Q_sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects articles from The Onion satirizing people and issues including legislators, religion, small towns, anti-tobacco propaganda, celebrities, and Starbucks.",2001,4.2,174,3443
9780613013376,0613013379,Theater Shoes,,Noel Streatfeild,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SDntRC5-ZwUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When their father is captured during the war, three children come to London to live with their grandmother and join all the cousins of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.",1994,4.02,252,82
9780613371650,0613371658,The Princess Diaries,,Meg Cabot,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KpjTpilQrdgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With wry, observant wit, crown princess Mia chronicles her rocky first month of high school.",2001,3.78,283,210665
9780613926553,0613926552,Laura Ingalls Wilder Country,The People And Places in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Life,"William Anderson;William T Anderson, Ed.",History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uSRWPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a portrait of the land and people made famous in the ""Little House"" series, using family photos, memorabilia, and archival material",1990,4.23,120,463
9780613996983,0613996984,East of Eden,,John Steinbeck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E7sfPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California,1992,4.37,602,34
9780618002238,0618002235,The Two Towers,Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bv6FxN76KeQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The standard hardcover edition of the second volume of The Lord of the Rings includes a large format fold-out map. Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape, the rest of the company was attacked by Orcs. Now they continue the journey alone down the great River Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.",1994,4.44,328,7687
9780618009367,0618009361,Farmer Giles of Ham,"The Rise and Wonderful Adventures of Farmer Giles, Lord of Tame, Count of Worminghall, and King of the Little Kingdom",John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rIXKwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the story that inspired Tolkien's Roverandom, a reluctant hero finds himself confronting a foul dragon in order to save his village from destruction.",1999,3.84,127,5221
9780618042203,0618042202,The ring sets out,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,"Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C4M5PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1994,4.31,283,992
9780618056736,0618056734,Unweaving the Rainbow,"Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder",Richard Dawkins,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GWj0q_rdvd8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers an assessment of what science is, how it feeds the human appetite for wonder, and how ""unweaving"" the mysteries of science can be even more beautiful than the mystery itself.",2000,4.02,352,9168
9780618056804,0618056807,Baumgartner's Bombay,,Anita Desai,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x3xoZHiciKoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A ""beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story"" (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he flees Nazi Germany -- and his Jewish heritage -- for India, only to be imprisoned as a hostile alien and then released to Bombay at war's end. In this tale of a man who, ""like a figure in a Greek tragedy . . . seems to elude his destiny"" (NEW LEADER), Desai's ""capacious intelligence, her unsentimental compassion"" (NEW REPUBLIC) reach their full height.",2000,3.47,240,648
9780618056811,0618056815,The 42nd Parallel,,John Dos Passos,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TFlVe4ySsKQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their ""own little corners,"" John Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted as one of the best novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library and by some of the finest writers working today, U.S.A. is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page. The trilogy opens with THE 42nd PARALLEL, where we find a young country at the dawn of the twentieth century. Slowly, in stories artfully spliced together, the lives and fortunes of five characters unfold. Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caught on the storm track of this parallel and blown New Yorkward. As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make cameo appearances.",2000,3.82,326,5052
9780618056828,0618056823,Nineteen Nineteen,,John Dos Passos,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rMXfXAIZIJEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his ""vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America"" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope, but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, employing a host of experimental devices that would inspire a whole new generation of writers to follow, Dos Passos captures the many textures, flavors, and background noises of modern life with a cinematic touch and unparalleled nerve. 1919 opens to find America and the world at war, and Dos Passos's characters, many of whom we met in the first volume, are thrown into the snarl. We follow the daughter of a Chicago minister, a wide-eyed Texas girl, a young poet, a radical Jew, and we glimpse Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Unknown Soldier.",2000,4,400,2063
9780618056835,0618056831,The Big Money,,John Dos Passos,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L0ystQhdbmAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume ""fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline"" (American Heritage) and marks the end of ""one of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken"" (Time). Here we come back to America after the war and find a nation on the upswing. Industrialism booms. The stock market surges. Lindbergh takes his solo flight. Henry Ford makes automobiles. From New York to Hollywood, love affairs to business deals, it is a country taking the turns too fast, speeding toward the crash of 1929. Ultimately, whether the novels are read together or separately, they paint a sweeping portrait of collective America and showcase the brilliance and bravery of one of its most enduring and admired writers.",2000,4.04,464,2003
9780618056996,0618056998,The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien,A Selection,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vGFR3sZmpmEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Selected letters discuss his books, their meanings, his interests and also reveal his view of the world.",2000,4.14,502,4541
9780618057023,0618057021,J.R.R. Tolkien,A Biography,Humphrey Carpenter,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PaP8XzOxTpQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Carefully traces Tolkien's life, revealing surprising links between his own experience and his written works, especially The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Silmarillion. Reprint.",2000,4.06,304,8606
9780618057078,0618057072,The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,,Julian Jaynes,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6Q0kSEh_beUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.",2000,4.24,491,3258
9780618074518,0618074511,Clear Light of Day,,Anita Desai,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HBKAELY0tV4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The classic novel by the author of Diamond Dust evokes the traumatic history of India after the departure of the British in a story of a Hindu family in Old Delhi and the complex relationships that develop among four people. Reprint.,2000,3.68,183,2169
9780618083558,0618083553,The History of the Lord of the Rings,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien;Christopher Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_NsHAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, now firmly acknowledged as one of the most popular books of the twentieth century, has captivated generations of readers with its completely convincing fantasy. In The History of The Lord of the Rings, the author's son & literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, examines the creation of that epic from its inception to its finished form. At the core of these books are many early drafts & unpublished passages by Tolkien, which add greatly to a thorough understanding of his masterpiece. Combining his father's unique vision with his own privileged insight & editorial commentary, Christopher Tolkien's The History of The Lord of the Rings is a set of four volumes -- including one unique to this collection -- that no fan of The Lord of the Rings can afford to overlook. ""One marvels anew at the depth, breadth, & persistence of J.R.R. Tolkien's labor. No one sympathetic to his aims, the invention of a secondary universe, will want to miss this chance to be present at the creation."" -- Publishers Weekly.",2000,4.38,1680,230
9780618083572,061808357X,The Return of the Shadow,"The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One",John Ronald Reuel Tolkien;Christopher Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CzXSh4NhOy4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes, outline plans, and narrative drafts, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. Tolkien for long believed would be a far shorter book, 'a sequel to The Hobbit'. The enlargement of Bilbo's 'magic ring' into the supremely potent and dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord is traced and the precise moment is seen when, in an astonishing and unforeseen leap in the earliest narrative, a Black Rider first rode into the Shire, his significance still unknown. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed while his indentity remains an absolute puzzle, and the suspicion only very slowly becomes certainty that he must after all be a Man. The hobbits, Frodo's companions, undergo intricate permutations of name and personality, and other major figures appear in strange modes: a sinister Treebeard, in league with the Enemy, a ferocious and malevolent Farmer Maggot. The story in this book ends at the point where J.R.R. Tolkien halted in the story for a long time, as the Company of the Ring, still lacking Legolas and Gimli, stood before the tomb of Balin in the Mines of Moria. The Return of the Shadow is illustrated with reproductions of the first maps and notable pages from the earliest manuscripts.",2000,4.02,512,2263
9780618083619,0618083618,J.R.R. Tolkien,Artist & Illustrator,Wayne G. Hammond;Christina Scull,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DiU0zVedmA8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of more than two-hundred reproductions of Tolkien's drawings, sketches, and paintings explores his career as an artist.",2000,4.13,224,8087
9780618084746,0618084746,The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,,Carson McCullers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HdCPQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town.",2000,3.98,359,75018
9780618111206,0618111204,Once a Wolf,How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf,Stephen R. Swinburne;Jim Brandenburg,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UkZWugAVvPYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With powerful and rare photos by a former photographer for the National Geographic Society, ""Once a Wolf"" explores the long-troubled relationship of humans and wolves. The book traces the persecution of the wolf throughout history and also reveals the role scientists have played in wolf preservation. Full color.",2001,4.06,48,42
9780618127337,061812733X,Stern Men,,Elizabeth Gilbert,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=coBvZTs5Yf8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Ruth Thomas, a spunky young woman born into the midst of a feud between two factions of Maine lobstermen, manages to negotiate an end to the conflict. A first novel. Reprint.",2001,3.39,304,4065
9780618127368,0618127364,Colter,The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had,Rick Bass,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3irVaKvVuLIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author shares his memories of his favorite dog, Colter, and the diverse ways in which he transformed the author's life, in a look at the dynamic relationship between humans and dogs.",2001,3.86,208,446
9780618131709,0618131701,Chimera,,John Barth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m7UiIU8WxCsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In CHIMERAJohn Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called ""stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant,” Barth retells these tales from varying perspectives, examining the myths’ relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world. A winner of the National Book Award, this feisty, witty, sometimes bawdy book provoked Playboy to comment, ""There’s every chance in the world that John Barth is a genius.”",2001,3.73,308,1727
9780618134304,0618134301,Henry Adams and the Making of America,,Garry Wills;Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Historian Garry Wills,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=idzRhAdjnysC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A profile of nineteenth-century historian Henry Adams assesses his influence on the study of history, discussing his use of archival sources, firsthand reportage, eyewitness accounts that transformed historical study.",2005,3.79,480,91
9780618134328,0618134328,Nixon Agonistes,The Crisis of the Self-made Man,Garry Wills,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5cVKKLSC788C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"From one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president's opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixon was actually a liberal. Both entertaining and essential, Nixon Agonistes captures a troubled leader and a struggling nation mired in a foolish Asian war, forfeiting the loyalty of its youth, puzzled by its own power, and looking to its cautious president for confidence. In the end, Nixon Agonistes reaches far beyond its assessment of the thirty-seventh president to become an incisive and provocative analysis of the American political machine.",2002,4.12,640,427
9780618153978,0618153977,The Lord of the Rings,,J. R. R. Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ye0OAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Beginning on December 19, New Line Cinema will present a grand trilogy of live-action feature films: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, & The Return of the King. The three separately released installments of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings will mark the return of ""cliffhanger cinema"" for the first time since the serial adventures of decades past. Tolkien's mythic vision will come to life through the cutting-edge cinema technology & artistry of director Peter Jackson. Houghton Mifflin, publisher of the epic masterworks of J.R.R. Tolkien for more than sixty years, is proud to offer new movie tie-in volumes, each available separately & in boxed sets. Paperback & hardcover editions & boxed sets will have different cover art.",2001,4.49,1223,216
9780618181902,0618181903,Hear the Wind Blow,,Mary Downing Hahn,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BVFAmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With their mother dead and their home burned, a thirteen-year-old boy and his little sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the final days of the Civil War.",2003,4.05,224,246
9780618196258,0618196250,Midnight is a Place,,Joan Aiken,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HV8MmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In northern England in 1842, fourteen-year-old Lucas leads a lonely, monotonous existence in the house of his unpleasant guardian until the unexpected arrival of an unusual little girl presages a series of events that completely change his life.",2002,3.91,304,838
9780618249060,0618249060,Silent Spring,,Rachel Carson,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HeR1l0V0r54C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Discusses the reckless annihilation of fish and birds by the use of pesticides and warns of the possible genetic effects on humans.,2002,3.97,378,28033
9780618251322,0618251324,The Best American Sports Writing 2003,,Glenn Stout;Buzz Bissinger,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rLEqAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Includes articles chosen from magazines and newspapers on topics ranging from bullfighting to basketball, baseball, and boxing",2003,3.85,352,48
9780618251452,0618251456,Two of Us,"The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Beatles",Peter Smith,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GhRKYgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of A Good Family offers poignant, entertaining account of how his and his son's mutual love for the music of the Beatles sparked a closer relationship, describing how they used the songs and exploits of the Fab Four to spark discussions of such topics as friendship, teamwork, art, sorrow, failure, and mortalitiy.",2004,3.53,206,51
9780618254118,0618254110,Queen of Scots,The True Life of Mary Stuart,John Alexander Guy,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PmqqAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new historian of Mary Queen of Scots draws on new sources to shatter various myths surrounding this odd monarch and uncover some of the scandals and political machinations underpinning, and undermining, her throne.",2004,3.95,581,1637
9780618257768,0618257764,Inventing America,Jefferson's Declaration of Independence,Garry Wills,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V-XP_riSQU8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. ""No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing"" (Edmund S. Morgan New York Review of Books ).",2002,3.92,432,151
9780618258024,0618258027,The Lord of the Rings,The Two Towers : Visual Companion,Jude Fisher,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_2qFvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explores the people, places, and ideas found in the motion picture adaptation of the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings.""",2002,4.51,72,4501
9780618260225,0618260226,The Lord of the Rings,The Making of the Movie Trilogy,Brian Sibley,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7bT5gO7CrVMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the making of the movie trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings,"" covering topics including filming locations, special effects, costumes, battle scenes, characters, and music.",2002,4.46,192,7624
9780618260300,0618260307,"The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again",,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ljWL5A7D2JAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A newly rejacketed edition of the classic tale chronicles the adventures of the inhabitants of Middle-earth and of Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit who brought home to The Shire the One Ring of Power.",2001,4.26,366,2364968
9780618260584,0618260587,The Lord of the Rings,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c-izugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An epic detailing the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-Earth, in which the tiny Hobbits play a key role.",2002,4.49,1216,1606
9780618329670,0618329676,The Best American Mystery Stories 2004,,Nelson DeMille;Otto Penzler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WeSBCKu7Cd8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada,2004,3.53,448,95
9780618339556,0618339558,Fergus and the Night-Demon,An Irish Ghost Story,Jim Murphy,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OKeoo26uyvUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On his way to town to have some fun, a lazy but clever young man faces a terrible demon, who declares that his time has come.",2006,3.71,32,70
9780618346257,0618346252,The Fellowship of the Ring,Being the First Part of the Lord of the Rings,J. R. R. Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S35cUR-u4y4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After discovering the true nature of the One Ring, Bilbo Baggins entrusts it to the care of his young cousin, Frodo, who is charged with bringing about its destruction and thus foiling the plans of the Dark Lord.",2003,4.35,398,2009749
9780618380442,0618380442,The Hermit's Story,Stories,Rick Bass,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tL1PmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Encompassing both previously published pieces and original fiction, this richly varied anthology of short stories by the author of Colter and Where the Sea Used to Be features the title story, about a man and woman who travel across a frozen lake under the ice, as well as ""The Distance,"" Eating,"" ""The Cave,"" and ""Real Town,"" among others. Reprint.",2003,4.12,192,427
9780618391004,0618391002,The Lord of the Rings,Weapons and Warfare,Chris Smith,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wu8x5MNS1rAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes in detail, with over one thousand photographs, the battles, armies, and armor used in the War of the Ring based on J.R.R. Tolkien's ""Lord of the Rings"" trilogy, including battle plans and character histories and descriptions.",2003,4.53,218,18934
9780618391028,0618391029,JRR Tolkien Companion & Guide,,Christina Scull;Wayne G. Hammond,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wohlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An in-depth reference to Tolkien's life and works provides brief alphabetical entries on a wide range of topics that encompass the author's source materials, synopses of his writings, a chronology, analysis of his characters, and the personal and historical influences on his writings.",2006,4.53,1002,37
9780618391103,061839110X,The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earth,,Brian Sibley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gCENA64Y-O4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Includes four posters depicting Tolkien's world of Middle-Earth with maps from The Hobbit, Beleriand, and Numenor, accompanied by a manual describing the signicance of geographical evolution in the author's works.",2003,4.13,80,7585
9780618422531,0618422536,Understanding the Lord of the Rings,The Best of Tolkien Criticism,Neil D. Isaacs;Rose A. Zimbardo,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GEWXQbASXZUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Selected essays on Tolkien's trilogy include W. H. Auden's essay on the hero's quest, C. S. Lewis's piece on the value of myth, Marion Zimmer Bradley's article on hero worship, Tim Shippey's piece on the film trilogy, and much more. Original.",2005,4.02,304,2063
9780618439096,0618439099,Dunk,,David Lubar,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ulrb63WKXlMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away. Reprint.",2004,3.8,272,888
9780618445578,0618445579,The Bake Shop Ghost,,Jacqueline K. Ogburn;Marjorie Priceman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qwi5oabCNkwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Miss Cora Lee Merriweather haunts her bake shop after her death, until the newest shop owner, Annie Washington, makes a deal with her.",2005,4.26,32,236
9780618446704,0618446702,Reefer Madness,"Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market",Eric Schlosser,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xpoumAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reports on America's ""shadow"" economy of illegal drugs, pornography, and illegal migrant workers, arguing that these underground industries continue to grow with government intervention.",2004,3.77,352,5187
9780618446711,0618446710,The Last Shot,"City Streets, Basketball Dreams",Darcy Frey,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VXp3l0ZXZscC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Dreaming of a college scholarship and escape from the neighborhood, the talented Abraham Lincoln High School Railsplitters see basketball as their only hope, but the reality of SATS, the NCAA, and college recruitment are tough to overcome.",2004,4.16,233,4979
9780618446872,0618446877,Dark Star Safari,Overland from Cairo to Cape Town,Paul Theroux,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NO5sC72BSNgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author recounts his odyssey down the length of Africa, from Cairo to South Africa, describing the bad food, many delays, discomforts, and dangers of his trip, along with the people and places of the real Africa.",2004,3.96,485,10830
9780618470228,0618470220,The Best American Sports Writing 2006,,Glenn Stout;Michael Lewis,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4bry8JuAiPEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Includes articles chosen from magazines and newspapers on topics ranging from bullfighting to basketball, baseball, and boxing",2006,3.75,416,81
9780618471164,0618471162,"Since 1500, Chapters 15-30",The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History,Richard W. Bulliet,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DS0C7QE9ZvwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Earth and Its Peoples Brief Edition is a compact presentation of world history with a comparative approach and a global, balanced perspective. The themes of ""Environment and Technology"" and ""Diversity and Dominance"" unite the regions of the world. The Earth and Its Peoples Brief Edition offers a high level of scholarship with a supportive, student-friendly format.",2005,4,34,8
9780618477906,061847790X,Trip to the North Pole,,Ellen Weiss;Robert Zemeckis;William Broyles;Chris Van Allsburg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QgVmKEDNkrsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On Christmas eve, a young boy joins some other children on a magical train ride to the North Pole, in an adaptation of the new movie being released this holiday season. Original.",2004,3.62,128,53
9780618477944,0618477942,Fun Home,A Family Tragicomic,Alison Bechdel,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=muxkYCmy7-wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.",2006,4.09,240,48909
9780618479030,0618479031,"Natural Health, Natural Medicine",The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health,Andrew Weil,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qliYOteXA30C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The best-selling books of Andrew Weil, ""the guru of alternative medicine,"" (San Francisco Examiner) offer a comprehensive blend of traditional and alternative methods that help to achieve better health in the modern world. Natural Health, Natural Medicine is a comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to maintain optimum health and treat common ailments. This landmark book incorporates Dr. Weil’s theories of preventive health maintenance and alternative healing into one extremely useful and readable reference, featuring general diet and nutrition information as well as simple recipes, answers to readers’ most pressing questions, a catalogue of home remedies, invaluable resources, and hundreds of practical tips. This edition includes up-to-the-minute scientific findings and has been expanded to provide trustworthy advice about low-carb diets, hormone replacement therapy, Alzheimer’s, attention deficit disorder, reflux disease, autism, type 2 diabetes, erectile dysfunction, the flu, and much more.",2004,4.12,448,568
9780618485222,0618485228,The Namesake,,Jhumpa Lahiri,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nx-vY7ac1OcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An incisive portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life, in a debut novel that spans three decades, two continents, and two generations. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. Reprint.",2004,3.98,291,203953
9780618506910,0618506918,Entre Amis,An Interactive Approach,Michael Oates;Larbi Oukada,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M91wPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Entre amis is a performance-oriented program designed to expand students' interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communicative skills by presenting and rehearsing situations similar to those they will encounter in real life. Based on a progressive approach, Entre amis features thorough coverage of all four-language skills with a strong emphasis on oral communication. The language presented and practiced is always embedded in a French cultural context.",2005,3.52,528,21
9780618510825,0618510826,The Lord of the Rings Complete Visual Companion,,Jude Fisher,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7_IRAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Photographs, screenshots, and images from all three films provide a visual compendium of the film trilogy ""The Lord of the Rings,"" documenting the varied characters and locales as seen through Peter Jackson's vision of Middle-earth.",2004,4.5,224,343
9780618526413,0618526412,The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,,Carson McCullers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z_Pvxz9iRJ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town.",2000,3.97,359,2594
9780618554591,0618554599,Firefighters in the Dark,,Dashka Slater;Nicoletta Ceccoli,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ee5sT-sVtyoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While in bed at night, an imaginative child hears sirens from the nearby fire station and creates fantastic stories about what the firefighters are going to do.",2006,3.62,32,84
9780618574810,0618574816,Tolkien And The Great War,The Threshold Of Middle-earth,John Garth,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OODLVikjYksC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The author focuses on a little-discussed aspect of J. R. R. Tolkien's life--his harrowing experiences in the trenches during World War I--revealing how the death of two comrades in particular influenced his later life and literary career. Reprint.,2005,3.7,398,6167
9780618574957,0618574956,The Two Towers,Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wpCBdbLSmLcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After losing Gandalf and being divided from their other companions during an Orc attack, Frodo and Sam continue towards Mordor, Land of the Enemy, to destroy the Ring, accompanied only by a mysterious figure that follows them.",2004,4.44,413,2197
9780618574971,0618574972,The Lord of the Rings: The return of the king,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M7XMAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1967,4.52,508,1607
9780618582150,0618582150,The Best American Travel Writing 2006,,Tim Cahill;Jason Wilson,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H8GRNgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in the previous year, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.",2006,3.93,352,488
9780618586455,0618586458,The Best American Spiritual Writing 2006,,Philip Zaleski,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hJ46LRV50KUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A selection of the finest spiritual writing of the year offers essays and articles on faith, spirituality, and their influence on politics, creativity, literature, and other fields, reflecting Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, and other diverse perspectives.",2006,3.52,336,28
9780618611690,061861169X,The Polar Express,,Chris Van Allsburg,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9946PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus, in a slip-cased gift edition of the holiday classic. A Caldecott Medal Book.",2005,4.3,32,83
9780618615384,0618615385,Mcdougal Littell Science,Earth Science,James Trefil;Houghton Mifflin Company;Rita Ann Calvo;Kenneth Cutler,Juvenile Nonfiction,,,2005,2.5,972,2
9780618619078,0618619070,Bury the Chains,Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves,Adam Hochschild,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8p6c9N5K2i0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Offers an account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world.",2006,4.27,496,1258
9780618619160,061861916X,The Ancestor's Tale,A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution,Richard Dawkins;Yan Wong,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rR9XPnaqvCMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A renowned biologist provides a sweeping chronicle of more than four billion years of life on Earth, shedding new light on evolutionary theory and history, sexual selection, speciation, extinction, and genetics.",2005,4.13,688,18593
9780618640140,0618640142,The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook,,Alan Lee,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JUdOAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A large-format collection of drawings and paintings culled from the illustrated edition of the Lord of the Rings and the recent film trilogy includes more than 150 illustrations from the author as well as twenty full-color plates made for Peter Jackson's production company.,2005,4.27,192,9593
9780618685509,0618685502,Gossamer,,Lois Lowry,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4vJZmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds. 100,000 first printing.",2006,3.89,144,13463
9780618709861,061870986X,In the Lake of the Woods,,Tim O'Brien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sEQmQYilkpEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Pursued by rumors of the atrocities he committed in Vietnam, a politician and his wife seek refuge in a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota, where a mystery unfolds when the wife mysterious vanishes into the nearby wilderness. Reprint.",2006,3.78,303,14031
9780618710317,0618710310,Chew on this,Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food,Eric Schlosser;Charles Wilson,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=469DC75tfvwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A behind-the-scenes look at the fast food industry.,2006,3.75,259,3640
9780618710508,0618710507,The Diezmo,,Rick Bass,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C1DnmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A novel based on the real-life incident of the Mier Expedition, one of the most tragic events in Texas history, follows two young men on an expedition to the Mexican border, during which they are captured in a raid on the Mexcian village of Mier and end up as pawns in an international chess game that will determine the fate of Texas. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.",2006,3.46,224,11
9780618710539,0618710531,Three Nights in August,"Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy, Inside the Mind of a Manager",H. G. Bissinger;Buzz Bissinger,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ncQZnwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Nights Lights chronicles a three-game series between baseball rivals Cardinals and Cubs, focusing particular attention on the stars of the game, Albert Pujols, Sammy Sosa, Mark Prior, and Scott Rolen. Reprint.",2006,3.87,287,6560
9780618711659,0618711651,Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,,Jonathan Safran Foer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FHEy-iv2Y5IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.",2006,3.98,326,325230
9780618711666,061871166X,The Hungry Tide,,Amitav Ghosh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LN16i5rklB4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents a novel of life in modern India, chronicling the interwoven journey of an American marine biologist and a Delhi businessman who travel to the remote Sundarban islands.",2006,3.94,333,11220
9780618711673,0618711678,King Leopold's Ghost,"A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa",Adam Hochschild,History,,"In ""an enthralling story, full of fascinating characters, intense drama, high adventure, deceitful manipulation, courageous truth-telling, and splendid moral fervor"" (""Christian Science Monitor""), Hochschild tells the story of King Leopold of Belgium, a megalomaniac of monstrous portions. 31 photos. Map.",2006,4.16,384,95
9780618773558,061877355X,The Chosen,"The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton",Jerome Karabel,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zwf-Ofc--toC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A professor of sociology at the University of California presents the findings of his survey of admissions at Princeton, revealing a century of exclusion that cuts to the core of the American experience, while raising important questions about the stratification of higher education in America. Reprint.",2006,4.06,736,193
9780618894642,0618894640,Children of Húrin,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W6crAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fantasy adventure saga set in the early days of Middle-Earth features humans and elves, dwarves and dragons, orcs and dark sorcerers clashing in an epic battle between good and evil.",2007,3.97,313,2612
9780631163022,0631163026,The Ideology of the Aesthetic,,Terry Eagleton,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QzYDaoaUyLYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Eagleton provides a brilliant and challenging introduction to these concerns, as characterized in the work of Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Lukacs, Adorno, Habermas, and others. Wide in span, as well as morally and politically committed, this is Terry Eagleton's major work to date. It forms both an original enquiry and an exemplary introduction.",1991,4.13,432,257
9780631169406,0631169407,On Certainty,,Ludwig Wittgenstein,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZGHG6WkVF5EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defence of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein's reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.",1991,4.16,114,69
9780631186274,0631186271,Western Philosophy,An Anthology,John G. Cottingham,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=imkTo_sNrKcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today, Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition. In 100 substantial and carefully chosen extracts, the volume covers all the main branches of philosophy - theory of knowledge and metaphysics, philosophy of mind, religion and science, moral philosophy (theoretical and applied), political theory and aesthetics. Chronologically and thematically arranged, the readings are introduced and linked together by a lucid philosophical commentary which guides the reader through the key arguments. This outstanding text will support a wide variety of introductory courses in philosophy, as well as providing more advanced students with a handy collection of classic source materials.",1996,4.06,656,66
9780631198192,0631198199,Liberals and Communitarians,,Stephen Mulhall;Adam Swift,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tpPfWtJahCcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This is a substantially updated edition of the established guide to this key debate in modern political philosophy.,1996,4.04,388,26
9780631231271,0631231277,Philosophical Investigations,"The German Text, with a Revised English Translation 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition",Ludwig Wittgenstein,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JoPYriJM1cwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Philosophical Investigations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) present his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning.",1991,4.23,464,10629
9780634041129,0634041126,Michael W. Smith,Freedom,Michael W. Smith,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6iIrPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"(Piano Solo Personality). Our piano solo folio features all 12 tunes from the first instrumental CD by this multi-million-selling CCM artist. Recorded in Ireland and released in 2000, Freedom includes the songs: The Call * Carol Ann * Cry of the Heart * Free Man * Freedom * Freedom Battle * The Giving * Hibernia * Letter to Sarah * The Offering * Prayer for Taylor * Thy Word.",2002,3.8,72,4
9780635034700,0635034700,"The Mystery of the Ancient Pyramid (Cairo, Egypt)","Cairo, Egypt",Carole Marsh,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2WDcIRrSRCMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Mimi, Papa, Grant and Christina find themselves in Egypt trying to solve a mystery involving a missing mummy, a curse and a mad archaeologist.",2006,3.61,128,27
9780664226107,0664226108,The Gospel According to Tolkien,Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-Earth,Ralph C. Wood,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xcQSngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,": In this accessible and engaging book, Ralph Wood shows us that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece is a deeply Christian work because it does not blink back the horrors of our terrible times but confronts them with startling honesty. Readers keep turning to this work because here they are immersed in significance and meaning - perceiving the Hope than can be found amidst despair; the Charity that overcomes vengeance; and the Faith that springs from the strange power of weakness. The Gospel According to Tolkien will be loved by both longtime Tolkien fans and those recently drawn to his books through the popular feature films.",2003,4.07,169,538
9780664228910,0664228917,That Godless Court?,Supreme Court Decisions on Church-state Relationships,Ronald Bruce Flowers,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kjLLlS9hWmYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The religion clauses of the First Amendment, which seem simple and clear, have been and continue to be controversial in their application. Church-state issues have never been more complex, controversial, and divisive than they are today. In this helpful and instructive book, Ronald B. Flowers explains clearly and concisely the intricacies and implications of Supreme Court decisions in the volatile area of church-state relations. This is an ideal primer for those Americans who have listened to the debates about what the Supreme Court has and has not said about the relationship between church and state, and where the boundaries between the two have been eroded. It is also ideal for use in the classroom, specifically in undergraduate courses in religion and the court, introductions to U.S. constitutional law, constitutional law and politics, and the Supreme Court. The book is also a helpful tool for pastors, clarifying contemporary church-state issues that impact their churches and parishioners directly and indirectly.",2005,3.54,228,12
9780664241582,0664241581,Luther and Erasmus,Free Will and Salvation,Ernest Gordon Rupp;Philip Saville Watson,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IU_8JDjxL34C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This volume includes the texts of Erasmus's 1524 diatribe against Luther, De Libero Arbitrio, and Luther's violent counterattack, De Servo Arbitrio. E. Gordon Rupp and Philip Watson offer commentary on these texts as well. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.",1969,3.81,364,107
9780670032563,0670032565,The New Spirit,,Havelock Ellis,,,,1970,4.24,422,138227
9780670034666,0670034665,Self-made Man,One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again,Norah Vincent,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PGiBQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Los Angeles Times columnist recounts her eighteen-month undercover stint as a man, a time during which she underwent considerable personal risks as she worked a sales job, joined a bowling league, frequented sex clubs, dated, and encountered firsthand the rigid codes and rituals of masculinity. 80,000 first printing.",2006,3.32,290,4053
9780670034802,0670034800,Swapping Lives,,Jane Green,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x6Y1CioZ3QQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Longing for a traditional family life in the country in spite of her successful career and many friends, magazine director Vicky Townsley participates in a contest that has her switching places for one month with Amber Winslow, a busy wife and mother. By the author of The Other Woman. 150,000 first printing.",2005,3.58,410,24212
9780670036653,067003665X,The Roald Dahl Treasury,,Roald Dahl,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NJfZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents selections from the author's children's books arranged in such categories as ""Animals,"" ""Magic,"" ""Family, friends and foes,"" and ""Matters of importance""",2003,4.43,448,2091
9780670037605,0670037605,Mayflower,"A Story of Courage, Community, and War",Nathaniel Philbrick,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qk9AXww_XysC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A history of the Pilgrim settlement of New England challenges popular misconceptions, discussing such topics as the diseases of European origin suffered by the Wampanoag tribe, the fragile working relationship between the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors, and the devastating impact of the King Philip's War. By the author of Sea of Glory. 450,000 first printing.",2006,3.87,461,29543
9780670037773,067003777X,Special Topics in Calamity Physics,,Marisha Pessl,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6wAkEofYH_IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood at the side of her aphorism-prone father, Blue van Meer attends the elite St. Gallway School in her senior year, where she falls in with a charismatic group of friends before the deaths of a teacher and student awaken her analytical instincts. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.",2006,3.71,514,31644
9780670037780,0670037788,Helen of Troy,,Margaret George,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M_35s5ud9QIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Married at a tender age to the Spartan king Menelaus, the beautiful Helen bears him a daughter and anticipates a passionless marriage before falling in love with the Trojan prince Paris, with whom she flees to Troy with devastating consequences.",2006,3.92,611,8104
9780670037865,0670037869,Dust,A Richard Jury Mystery,Martha Grimes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HT9ir9clPfkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Richard Jury investigates the death of a wealthy bachelor with a mysterious past who was last seen in a club named Dust.,2007,3.64,342,2532
9780670038381,0670038385,The Mistress's Daughter,,A. M. Homes,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PjNZlxRmi9oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A woman who was adopted as a newborn recounts her experience of meeting her birth parents, describing how adoption affected her sense of identity, her efforts to learn about her late birth mother's personal life, and her discouragement with her birth father's unwillingness to invite her into his family.",2007,3.28,256,3218
9780670044368,0670044369,Vinyl Cafe Diaries,,Stuart McLean,Canada,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lNAdAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The further adventures of Dave and Morley.,2003,4.19,302,883
9780670261550,0670261556,Death of a Salesman,,Arthur Miller,Fiction,,"Reprint of the 1967 ed. published by Viking Press, New York.",1967,3.5,139,1197
9780670820559,0670820555,Spycatcher,The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer,Peter Wright,Espionage,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gkeJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The former assistant director of MI5 offers an account of British Intelligence, including his work on the Ring of Five and exposing Soviet espionage and the conspiracy to oust Harold Wilson from the office of Prime Minister in the 1970s",1987,3.72,392,154
9780670876129,0670876127,The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking,,Astrid Lindgren;Michael Chesworth,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n0sHAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of three previously published books: Pippi Longstocking, Pippi goes on board, and Pippi in the South Seas.",1997,4.25,290,4671
9780670886586,0670886580,Haroun and the Sea of Stories,,Salman Rushdie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O-6nPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series debuted with an 'A' for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a 'B' for Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and a 'C' for Willa Cather's My Antonia. It continues with more perennial classics, perfect to give as elegant gifts or to showcase on your own shelves. R is for Rushdie. Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. Haroun, a 12-year-old boy sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers.",1999,4.01,224,21536
9780670910618,0670910619,Matthew Flinders' Cat,,Bryce Courtenay,Alcoholics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G9I1AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim. Ryan is a ten-year-old, a near street kid heading for all the usual trouble. The two meet and form an unlikely friendship.",2002,3.8,611,2627
9780670913527,0670913529,Artemis Fowl,The Eternity Code,Eoin Colfer,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TOqePwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom; but he's taking on more than a bunch of fairies when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the Lep-Recon (lower elements police reconnaissance unit).",2003,4.05,329,179
9780670915415,0670915416,In the Shadow of No Towers,,Art Spiegelman,Graphic novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0mLvAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman raced to the World Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or dead. Once she was found safe in her school at the foot of the burning towers he returned home, to meditate on the trauma, and to work on a comic strip. Subversive, iconic, and burningly articulate, In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman's extraordinary account of 'the hijacking on 9.11 and the subsequent hijacking of those events' by America.",2004,3.68,48,2818
9780671000745,0671000748,Echo Platoon,,Richard Marcinko;John Weisman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NqJ7l2bMCIYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With Iran and Russia angling to take over oil resources in the Caspian Sea, the Navy SEALs, accompanied by Major Jessica Van Pachen and the Rogue Warrior, are sent in to protect American interests in the region. Reprint.",2001,3.95,402,530
9780671001957,0671001957,Pieces,,Stephen Chbosky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p4wiuiViP0IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Collects short stories written by winners of MTV's ""Write Stuff"" competition, expressing change and life's experiences, such as broken engagements, doomed relationships, and reunions between high school friends.",2000,3.52,155,1087
9780671003470,067100347X,The Law of Enclosures,,Dale Peck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eYkgIE2OIigC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The story of a forty-year marriage follows the turbulence and joys shared by Henry and Beatrice, who in the emotional fallout of their relationship discover that they still have mutual feelings of love for each other. Reprint.",1997,3.65,320,73
9780671004545,0671004549,You Belong To Me,,Mary Higgins Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zOTWszVu2GMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"“The mistress of high tension” (The New Yorker) and undisputed Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark brings us another New York Times bestselling novel that USA TODAY calls “her page-turning best” about a killer who targets lonely women on cruise ships, a masterful combination of page-turning suspense and classic mystery. When Dr. Susan Chandler decides to use her daily radio talk show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear and are later found to have become victims of killers who prey on the lonely and insecure, she has no idea that she is exposing herself—and those closest to her—to the very terror that she hopes to warn others against. Susan sets out to determine who is responsible for an attempt on the life of a woman who called in to the show offering information on the mysterious disappearance from a cruise ship, years before, of Regina Clausen, a wealthy investment advisor. Soon Susan finds herself in a race against time, for not only does the killer stalk these lonely women, but he seems intent on eliminating anyone who can possibly further Susan’s investigation. As her search intensifies, Susan finds herself confronted with the realization that one of the men who have become important figures in her life might actually be the killer. And as she gets closer to uncovering his identity, she realizes almost too late that the hunter has become the hunted. Is she the next one marked for murder?",1999,3.86,384,20406
9780671007638,0671007637,Runaways,,V.C. Andrews,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zxTAAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The spellbinding Orphans series concludes in this thrilling new novel from V.C. Andrews®... ""All for one and one for all"" was the girls' motto. In the grim foster home for orphans run by Louise and Gordon Tooey, at least Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly had each other. Calling themselves ""sisters,"" together they could forget the past and dream of a new chance...a real home. Then they discovered a secret even more haunting than Gordon's heavy boots pounding on the wooden floors. Their fragile hopes of a better life shattered, they escaped the only way they could. Soon they were runaways in a borrowed car, desperately wishing to wake up one morning in a place of sunshine and love. Raven hoped to be a singer, Butterfly wanted to be a dancer, Crystal planned for college, and Brooke privately hoped to find her mother in California. On the open road the chains of sadness that had bound them seemed to melt away, and the kindness of strangers made a secure future seem almost real. But the highway was a dangerous place, and soon they were penniless and more vulnerable than ever. Alone under the wide western sky, they had only each other to ask if they should give up their dreams...or if they were really halfway to a haven of safety and happiness....",1998,3.77,342,5004
9780671009441,0671009443,Private Parts,,Howard Stern;John D. Simons,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LTJFsGNJwyYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An autobiography by the original ""shock jock"" shares his observations on politics, current affairs, women, and the entertainment business",1997,3.76,660,3746
9780671014919,0671014919,My Gal Sunday,,Mary Higgins Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mL-Mf2cSlucC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride become an irresistible sleuthing duo in four acclaimed stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense. Henry Parker Britland IV—wealthy, worldly, and popular—is enjoying an early retirement. His new wife, Sunday—as clever as she is lovely—has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her a media darling. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team...and never more so than when they set out to solve baffling high-society crimes. From a long-unsolved case they reconstruct aboard the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry frantically back to the White House, the former president and his bride engage in some of the most audacious and original sleuthing ever imagined. Only Mary Higgins Clark can so seamlessly meld spellbinding suspense, wit, and romance. My Gal Sunday is entertainment of the highest order.",2003,3.57,206,5220
9780671015206,0671015206,The Millionaire Next Door,,Thomas J. Stanley;William D. Danko,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ldpaww5kkmoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Reveals that the accumulation of wealth in the United States is most often done through hard work, diligent savings, and living a frugal lifestyle",1998,4.02,258,56189
9780671019099,0671019090,The Tenth Man,,Graham Greene,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-2JwRgEsYdgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Held prisoner by the Germans during World War II, a wealthy French lawyer is chosen to die but makes a cowardly trade for his life, a decision that he must pay for as a free man. Reprint.",1998,3.72,160,2769
9780671020828,067102082X,The Gun Seller,,Hugh Laurie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8DJq3GXqGP8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A spoof of the spy genre set in Britain features a drifter who orchestrates a magnificent caper involving the CIA, international terrorists, arms dealers, a high-speed chase on skis, and buxom, blonde beauties.",1998,3.68,340,14183
9780671021009,0671021001,She's Come Undone,,Wally Lamb,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Oj3qixCHJNMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.",1998,3.86,465,281643
9780671024185,0671024183,Morgan's Run,,Colleen McCullough,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XtgXaI7yBrMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Colleen McCullough captivated millions with her beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds. Now she takes readers to the birth of modern Australia with a breath-taking saga brimming with drama, history, and passion. It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown continent with the criminals of English society. For Richard Morgan, twelve months as a prisoner on the high seas would be just the beginning in a soul-trying test to survive in a hostile new land where, against all odds, he would find a new love and a new life. From the dank cells of England's prisons to the unforgiving frontier of the eighteenth-century outback, Morgan's Run is the epic tale of one man whose strength and character helped settle a country and define its future.",2002,3.94,848,3394
9780671024208,0671024205,The October Horse,,Colleen McCullough,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XWWDrNeqFgUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now in paperback--the sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of ""The Thorn Birds"" that brings to life Gaius Julius Caesar during the last days of the Roman Republic.",2003,4.28,1110,4186
9780671024239,067102423X,Bag of Bones,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cnKmAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations. Reprint.",1999,3.89,736,147964
9780671024819,0671024817,Wither,,J G Passarella,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L3ANZWIU2RgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a quiet college town is invaded by bloodhungry demons, a savvy college freshman teams up with a local amateur historian to uncover a terrifying crime in the town's past. Reprint.",2000,3.72,438,531
9780671025700,0671025708,The Last Dance,,Ed McBain,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OGxiKastPxsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want someone's eyeglasses smashed, it'll cost you a subway token. You want his fingernails pulled out? His legs broken? You want him hurt so bad he's an invalid his whole life? You want him...killed? Let me talk to someone. It can be done. The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct is nothing much in this city, especially to detectives Carella and Meyer. But everyone has a story, and this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money. His story takes Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks on a search through Isola's seedy strip clubs and to the bright lights of the theater district. There they discover an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug -- and a killer who stays until the last dance.",2000,3.69,336,727
9780671026011,0671026011,The Empty Chair,,Jeffery Deaver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xLPy2D0d2F4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme faces his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murderer dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme is in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing...and keeping him is another. Now Rhyme, in North Carolina to undergo risky spinal cord surgery, finds himself hunting a ruthless killer in the heart of a southern swampland -- and going head-to-head with his protégé, Amelia Sachs, in a rivalry that tests the limits of both their expertise and their love.",2001,4.07,512,448
9780671026226,0671026224,Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed,,Clive Cussler;Craig Dirgo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dxBMJjQA_WsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Includes photographs, summaries of each Dirk Pitt novel, an interview with Cussler, and Dirk Pitt trivia questions",1998,3.88,544,2001
9780671027124,0671027123,All Through the Night,,Mary Higgins Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XYXRNUVVCeIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Alvirah, an amateur detective, and her husband Willy investigate when an after-school shelter for neighborhood kids is prevented from moving into a neighboring building by a couple living there who claim to have inherited it",1999,3.7,256,6116
9780671027636,0671027638,The Fuck Up,,Arthur Nersesian,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Szo1AwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A dark comedy of urban life features an aspiring, but incompetent, writer, who is dumped by his girlfriend, fired for asking for a raise, and stumbles into a robbery",1999,3.57,304,10013
9780671035976,0671035975,How to Stop Worrying and Start Living,,Dale Carnegie,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zHBEKfn52l4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The first trade paperback edition of the classic guide to conquering the fears and worries that prevent individuals from living full and happy lives offers practical advice on how to eliminate business and financial anxieties, turn criticism into an advantage, avoid fatigue, and more. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2004,4.11,358,57572
9780671036355,0671036351,Present Tense,,L. A. Graf,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mXg_PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After the Enterprise is hurtled three days into the past by the explosion of a dying world, expeditions to the surface of that world take on a perilous new meaning when Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy mysteriously vanish.",2002,3.65,253,170
9780671039721,0671039725,Carrie,,Stephen King,Fiction,,Presents the unnerving story of a terribly ostracized young girl with supernatural powers of telekinesis.,2002,3.95,253,2663
9780671039745,0671039741,Salem's Lot,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZZ-fPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a classic tale of horror by Stephen King, a man returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to find it infested with vampires. Reprint.",1999,4.01,631,3386
9780671039943,0671039946,Ice,,V. C. Andrews,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kdBWlQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ice Goodman, a troubled young girl, must draw on her extraordinary singing voice to escape the tragedy, deception, and her mother's jealousy that threaten to destroy her world. Original.",2001,3.75,208,2406
9780671040840,0671040847,The Living Blood,,Tananarive Due,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JGMqSE_qFMgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Struggling to rebuild her life after the disappearance of her husband and the death of her oldest daughter, Jessica discovers that her other daughter inherited her father's immortality and sets out for Africa for guidance.",2002,4.33,515,1777
9780671041557,067104155X,Diablo: Legacy of Blood,,Richard A. Knaak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W447TRc7bk4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In a novel based on the popular computer game, Norrec Vizharan stumbles upon the ancient armor of Bartuc, the legendary Warlord of Blood, a cursed artifact that draws Norrect into a tortured struggle against his own bloodthirsty desires as he searches for the truth about the terrifying curse before he is lost to the darkness forever or falls into the hands of the evil demons pursuing him. Original. (A Blizzard Entertainment M-rated electronic game) (Horror)",2001,3.77,355,2039
9780671042851,0671042858,The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dtjKROABhp4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The acclaimed #1 New York Times and undisputed King of Horror Stephen King offers a frightening suspense novel about a young girl who becomes lost in the woods as night falls. On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. But when she wanders off by herself, and then tries to catch up by attempting a shortcut, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror. As night falls, Trisha has only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, and only her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fears. For solace she tunes her Walkman to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox baseball games and follows the gritty performances of her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. And when her radio’s reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is with her—protecting her from an all-too-real enemy who has left a trail of slaughtered animals and mangled trees in the dense, dark woods…",1999,3.58,264,1962
9780671047641,0671047647,Venice: Lion City,The Religion of Empire,Garry Wills,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OaarttemhYgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A unique historical perspective on Venice, one of the world's most fascinating cities, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, is told through the art, which is connected to its imperial religion and which details the labor, warfare, government, prayer, and discipline of the time. Reprint.",2002,3.74,416,121
9780671211486,067121148X,Uncle Shelby'S Abz Book,,Shel Silverstein,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aPEfnSNCURwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Writing for an adult audience, the popular children's book author presents a humorous satire of alphabet books.",1985,4.37,80,2503
9780671417017,0671417010,Confessions of an Actor,Laurence Olivier an Autobiography/#07444,Laurence Oliver,Performing Arts,,"An autobiography by the English actor discusses his theatrical and film career and offers a candid account of his personal life, focusing on his relationship with actress Vivien Leigh",1982,3.71,348,272
9780671440695,0671440691,"Soldier, general of the army, president-elect, 1890-1952",,Stephen E. Ambrose,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6c7tAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1985,4.2,637,152
9780671447205,0671447203,The Bluest Eye,,Toni Morrison,African Americans,,"Tells the story of eleven-year old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl. She prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blonde, blue-eyed children in America, people will notice her, and her world will be different. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom, Pecola's life changes in painful, devastating ways.",1972,4.01,160,239
9780671447540,0671447548,Mornings on Horseback,"The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt",David McCullough,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FwemES2QqsUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Examines the life of Theodore Roosevelt from age ten to twenty-seven, focusing on the influence of his family relationships and experiences on his growth to manhood",1982,4.12,445,21832
9780671455279,0671455273,Sweet and Low,,Emma Lathen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XiQ0OPxLiiYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1982,3.82,189,73
9780671475024,0671475029,The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer,,"Simon & Schuster, Limited",Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_NWbEtYNLWUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2004,3.49,383,35
9780671519162,0671519166,Guilty as Charged,A Mystery Writers of America Anthology,Scott Turow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oBqZfJNVr_cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An anthology of courtroom drama and whodunit suspense includes short works by such popular authors as John Lutz, Stuart Kaminsky, Jay Brandon, John Jakes, Lia Matera, and Bill Brozini. Original.",1996,3.76,10,147
9780671519186,0671519182,The Night Awakens,A Mystery Writers of America Anthology,Mary Higgins Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TLK4yMezNiMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The crowned Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers -- brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes of passion. Now, in that same haunting tradition, she invites a star-studded cast of authors to share original stories of men and women joined in love...and driven to murder. Sara Shankman puts a chilling new spin on payback...Joseph Hansen slaps a rancher with a cold wake-up call out on the trail...Loren D. Estleman cuts a honeymoon short when a bride learns she's married to the mob...Brendan DuBois drives a brother to distractionon the road to revenge...Sally Gunning pushes jealousy to a murderous extreme...Nancy Pickard exposes the truth behind the headlines as a young love leads to old-fashioned homicide...and a panoply of other renouned writers spellbind us with the seductive charms of love, lust, and other lethal attractions.",2000,3.5,303,158
9780671519988,0671519980,The Leader In You,The Leader In You,Dale Carnegie,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kvE_lAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For nearly a century, the words and works of Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., have translated into proven success—a claim verified by millions of satisfied graduates; a perpetual 3,000-plus enrollment roster per week; and book sales, including the mega-bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People, totaling over thirty million copies. Now, in The Leader In You, coauthors Stuart R. Levine and Michael A. Crom apply the famed organization’s time-tested human relations principles to demonstrate how anyone, regardless of his or her job, can harness creativity and enthusiasm to work more productively. With insights from leading figures in the corporate, entertainment, sports, academic, and political arenas—and encompassing interviews and advice from such eminent authorities as Lee Iacocca and Margaret Thatcher—this comprehensive, step-by-step guide includes strategies to help you: identify your leadership strengths; achieve your goals and increase your self-confidence; eliminate an “us vs. them” mentality; become a team player and strengthen cooperation among associates; balance work and leisure; control your worries and energize your life; and much more! The most important investment you will ever make is in yourself—once you discover the key that unlocks The Leader In You.",1995,4.09,256,3550
9780671524098,0671524097,Sharp Edges,,Jayne Ann Krentz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qaphBUh4GHYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A museum curator and a rough-hewn private investigator enter the sinister, high-stakes world of priceless art, where they discover that the most valuable commodity is knowing whom to trust",1998,3.86,368,2794
9780671553029,067155302X,Harvest,,Tess Gerritsen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GY5mZyojjv8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Medical resident Dr. Abby Matteo is elated when the elite cardiac transplant team at Boston's Bayside Hospital taps her as a potential recruit. But faced with a tormenting life-and-death decision, Abby helps direct a crash victim's harvested heart to a dying teenager -- instead of the wealthy older woman who was supposed to receive it. The repercussions leave Abby shaken and plagued with self-doubt. Suddenly, a new heart appears, and the woman's transplant is completed. Then Abby makes a terrible discovery. The donor records have been falsified -- the new heart has not come through the proper channels. Defying the hospital's demands for silence, she begins her own investigation that reveals a murderous, unthinkable conspiracy. Every move Abby makes spawns a vicious backlash...and on a ship anchored in the waters of Boston harbor, the grisly truth lies waiting.",1997,4.1,368,15234
9780671553043,0671553046,Life Support,,Tess Gerritsen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s-bKpPSlbbUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen weaves authenticity into another novel of searing medical suspense, as a dedicated woman doctor probes into the cause of a mystifying and lethal outbreak. The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine -- until she admits a man in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain. The delirious man barely responds to treatment -- and then disappears without a trace. Before Toby can find him, a second case occurs, revealing a terrifying fact: the virus can only be spread through direct tissue exchange. Following a trail of death that winds from a pregnant sixteen-year-old prostitute to her own home, Toby discovers the unthinkable: the epidemic didn't just happen -- someone let it loose....",1998,3.99,400,10757
9780671559342,0671559346,Alien Stars,,"C. J. Cherryh;Haldeman, Joe W;Mitchell, Elizabeth;Zahn, Timothy",Fiction,,Three notable science fiction authors pit men and women against difficult alien races in their respective stories of extraterrestrial wars of the future,1985,3.55,254,58
9780671569020,0671569023,Orchid,,Jayne Castle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H4CYlAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"New York Times bestselling author JAYNE CASTLE The wildly popular alter ego of bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz creates “delectably entertaining paranormal romantic suspense” (Booklist) in the “unique, synergistic world of St. Helen’s” (Library Journal ), the not-so-distant space colony where hearts and minds are gloriously in sync! Atop psychic for exclusive Psynergy Inc., Orchid Adams has her hands full with a baffling murder—which doesn’t exactly allow time for husband hunting. Is it even possible there’s a man on St. Helen’s who measures up to her dreams of wedded bliss? Take her new client, Rafe Stonebraker: primitive and elemental, an unlicensed P.I. with some serious secrets, Rafe is hardly marriage material. So why does his powerful presence have Orchid imagining the most outrageous affair? Rafe is embroiled in solving a strange theft while thwarting a hostile takeover of Stonebraker Shipping; he needs a wife—and fast—to salvage his credibility. Orchid Adams doesn’t fit the profile he had in mind, but she fits in his arms. Will their electrifying connection end up getting them burned?",1998,4.15,327,3654
9780671578633,0671578634,The Man Who Sold The Moon,,Robert A. Heinlein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3dIOAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Comprehensive Teacher's Guide available.,2000,3.9,295,8933
9780671631987,0671631985,Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons,,Siegfried Engelmann;Phyllis Haddox;Elaine Bruner,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MUucJV0dRaIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With more than half a million copies in print, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is the definitive guide to giving your child the reading skills needed now for a better chance at tomorrow, while bringing you and your child closer together. Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you’ll do something wrong? Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read. Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It’s a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your child gain the essential skills of reading. Everything you need is here—no paste, no scissors, no flash cards, no complicated directions—just you and your child learning together. One hundred lessons, fully illustrated and color-coded for clarity, give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to become a good reader.",1986,4.15,395,2083
9780671639617,0671639617,Field Guide to Home Buying in America,,Stephen M. Pollan;Mark Levine,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vBlqNS-UPQkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Covers home selection, financing, real estate agents, negotiation, contracts, title, closing, insurance, and moving",1988,2.5,256,4
9780671646196,0671646192,Wind Child,,Nancy Harding,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g53cK359PC0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nancy Harding uses her storytelling gifts to depict a young woman who would defy every tradition of her male-dominated society--and triumph! Set against the ancient world of the Scythian tribes of 513 B.C., Wind Child is a passionate, exhilarating, unforgettable tale.",1990,3.2,331,10
9780671662349,0671662341,Anne Frank Remembered,The Story of the Woman who Helped to Hide the Frank Family,Miep Gies;Alison Leslie Gold,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7wO8QDEanr8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second World War, presents a vivid story of life under Nazi occupation.",1988,4.28,252,52443
9780671685638,0671685635,Ghost Story,,Peter Straub,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IU18-v_3Tm4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Questions arise concerning the connections between a strangely detached young girl's captivity in a seedy Florida motel, a death that occurs at a party for a visiting actress, and a young California instructor's obsession with one of his students",1989,3.95,567,59658
9780671695187,0671695185,Blue World,,Robert R. McCammon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wbjwXe3xqT0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of tales of the macabre accompanied by the novella ""Blue World""",1990,3.93,435,4335
9780671704643,0671704648,Cyclops,,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r-sliMbOibQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A secret moon base called the Jersey Colony constructed by a group of powerful Americans and a secret American/Cuban pact between the president and Fidel Castro challenges all of Dirk Pitt's incomparable skills,1989,3.87,473,11445
9780671708634,0671708635,The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,Restoring the Character Ethic,Stephen R. Covey,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4JAUkUM-EYUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A presentation of a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems.",1990,4.09,368,2419
9780671722074,0671722077,A Cast of Corbies,,Josepha Sherman;Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VFMCAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A strange pall has settled over Alanda. Everywhere representatives of the Church seek to ferret out unauthorized magic -- and music, because it is magic at its roots, has come under suspicion. And that which is suspect, if it cannot be crushed altogether, must be stripped of its mystery, made tame and answerable to the power of the priests. Throughout the lands the Free Bards, those who will not or cannot join the priest-condoned Guild, are being driven away. But all who are Free are free to choose: to flee or to fight.",1994,3.78,320,2026
9780671722876,0671722875,Shakespeare's Sonnets,,Helen Hunt;William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xS77dGhrBPkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a collection of 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets and includes detailed notes on the sonnets and an overview of Shakespeare's life and literary impact.,2004,4.25,391,670
9780671727796,0671727796,The Color Purple,,Alice Walker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kCIGPi0G49cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years",1985,4.19,295,425928
9780671728205,0671728202,Night of the Fox,,Jack Higgins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UYkBG9eGyq0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When an American officer who knows the time and place of the D-Day invasion disappears in German-occupied Jersey, the Allies choose Harry Martineau to direct the rescue mission",1991,3.91,352,4808
9780671731427,0671731424,Wolf's Hour,,Robert McCammon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p6rfbhztTewC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This book is a remarkable tale of pulse-pounding excitement with a uniquely sympathetic, fascinating portrait of the werewolf as nobel warrior-and conflicted being. Complex, compelling and utterly real.",1990,4.05,603,8478
9780671732462,0671732463,Journey To Ixtlan,,Carlos Castaneda,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FK-ce4u0a1QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Drawing from his ten-year apprenticeship in sorcery, the author discusses the philosophy and teachings of his instructor, a Yaqui Indian",1991,4.13,272,8139
9780671732479,0671732471,Second Ring of Power,,Carlos Castaneda,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fPxHEmzBVugC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Transformed by Don Juan from a bent, gray-haired old woman into a sensual sorceress whose mission is to test Castaneda, Dona Soledad turns her mysterious and awesome powers against Castaneda in a struggle that nearly consumes him",1991,4.02,328,2692
9780671732486,067173248X,Power of Silence,,Carlos Castaneda,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yWLDWbieTM4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Carlos recollects more of the teachings of Don Juan, including the true importance and meaning of sorcery and magic, and the illusory nature of all realities",1991,4.21,288,2189
9780671732509,0671732501,Fire from Within,,Carlos Castaneda,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yTLsRbts0EQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The author depicts his instruction by the sorcerer Don Juan in the mystical religious concepts and practices of the Mexican Indians,1984,4.13,304,2477
9780671732523,0671732528,Tales of Power,,Carlos Castaneda,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jiUZLptkQmwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Carlos is taught his last lessons by Don Juan before he and Don Genaro disappear, including the concepts of naugal and tonal, and the ways of the impeccable warrior",1992,4.15,304,4405
9780671737764,0671737767,STINGER,STINGER,Robert McCammon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X0Y9PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the remote Texas town of Inferno, a creature of evil beyond anything the world has ever encountered descends. He traps the town and ravages the land with grisly executions and horrible mutations . . . until the people rise up in a final, desperate battle. From the author of Swan Song. Original.",1988,3.87,538,5715
9780671739164,0671739166,The Story of Philosophy,,Will Durant,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PXIg5EOsbIQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Examines the history of speculative thought by focusing on such dominant personalities as Plato, Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche",1991,4.11,704,10039
9780671741037,0671741039,Swan Song,,Robert McCammon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gBgqNFGFpFoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan -- and destroy her. But those who would protect the girl are determined to fight for what is left of the worldŠand their souls. In a wasteland born of rage, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, the last survivors on earth have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of humanity....",1987,4.28,956,44348
9780671742515,0671742515,Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul,,Douglas Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h7pjdEPBeGUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When a passenger check-in desk shoots through the roof of a terminal at Heathrow Airport in flames, Dirk Gently investigates the cosmic forces at play",1990,4.06,307,65988
9780671743055,0671743058,Boy's Life,,Robert McCammon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k2dbVCIeyZcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The witnesses to a horrific murder, Cory Mackenson and his father investigate and come face to face with the vicious Blaylock clan, a secret society united by racial hatred, and a reptilian creature inhabiting the river. Reissue.",1992,4.35,580,17365
9780671763794,0671763792,Joy Within,,Joan Goldstein;Manuela Soares,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qEAx4Rid6d4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Carefully avoiding and particular religious or spiritual point of view, this book offers a practical step-by-step guide to meditation for beginners. It explains what meditation is and details its many benefits, including inner peace, stress reduction, relaxation, and joy. Illustrated.",1990,4.38,144,8
9780671769918,067176991X,Mystery Walk,,Robert R. McCammon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8f7Q_V41QOYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"As Billy Creekmore and Wayne Falconer, two young men with remarkable psychic gifts, learn to use their powers, they and their world are threatened by the machinations of their elusive, nightmarish enemy, the Shape Changer. Reissue.",1992,3.87,432,2242
9780671771300,0671771302,Justine,,Lawrence Durrell,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Rg6O0hs_D7UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1969,3.9,253,44
9780671771621,0671771620,The Hidden Persuaders,,Vance Packard,Advertising,,,1958,3.89,242,14
9780671774677,0671774670,Best Stories,,Hugh Garner,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oDItzsVOayQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,,1971,3.68,465,18590
9780671792800,0671792806,Principle Centered Leadership,,Stephen R. Covey,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w4zCIPZrniQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The author invites business readers to center their professional lives around principles of excellence and quality and discusses the six conditions of effectiveness and the patterns of organizational excellence,1992,4.09,336,14453
9780671793562,067179356X,In the Name of Love,Ann Rule's Crime Files,Ann Rule,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zb8Bqft2wuQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A collection of true crime cases includes the case of Jerry Harris, a self-made millionaire whose disappearance prompted his wife's eight-year search for answers",1998,4.03,414,1308
9780671795665,067179566X,Star Trek: The Next Generation: Nightshade,,Laurell K. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vJrXlAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Newly reissued, the exciting Star Trek novel from New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton! After 200 years of civil war, the planet Oriana is dying. Most of the surface vegetation is gone, the air is almost unbreathable, and the population is nearly extinct. The two warring factions have finally agreed to talk peace, and Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are sent to help them negotiate a settlement. Picard, Lt. Worf, and Counsellor Troi beam down to Oriana, just as the Enterprise is called away on another urgent mission. Alone on the planet, the U.S.S. Enterprise team learns that there are people who would rather finish the devastating conflict than talk peace. Now, Worf and Troi must prevent planet-wide disaster, before time runs out.…",1992,3.48,276,1139
9780671797867,0671797867,Scar Lover,,Harry Crews,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kv2k1sIyZ3MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In a dozen novels and his non-fiction books and articles, Harry Crews has shown himself to be a true American original. With Scar Lovers he returns to the familiar, unmistakable ""Crews territory""--a Southern landscape peopled by quirky, odd, and oddly appealing individuals--to explore the realities of redemption and the power of love without boundries of fear.",1993,3.78,288,776
9780671820121,0671820125,End zone,,Don DeLillo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=76hZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1973,3.64,200,2099
9780671823498,0671823493,The Good Earth,,Pearl Sydenstricker Buck,China,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ozQ8Rh-Xg8sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land and more land, while weathering famine and drought and revolution.",1958,3.98,260,54
9780671854058,0671854054,Star Trek,"Log Seven, Log Eight, Log Nine, Log Ten",Alan Dean Foster,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lh2EAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Four exciting stories taken from the log books of the USS Enterprise - The Counter-Clock Incident, The Eye of the Beholder, Bem and Slaver Weapon.",1995,3.71,788,21
9780671867423,0671867423,Lincoln at Gettysburg,The Words that Remade America,Garry Wills,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OS96yrpGmaQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An account of Lincoln's revolutionary speech describes how, in the space of 272 words, the President brought to bear the rhetoric of the Greek Revival, the categories of transcendentalism, and the imagery of the Rural Cemetary Movement",1992,4.13,317,119
9780671876999,0671876996,Forever After,,Roger Zelazny,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H9edPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The heroes of a millennium-long battle against the forces of evil prepare to enjoy life after winning the war, unaware that they have unearthed four mantic objects whose combined powers unleash chaos throughout the world. Original.",1995,3.71,291,232
9780671877668,0671877666,The Ship Avenged,,S. M. Stirling,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rJ0LAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hoping to settle old scores with the Kolnari who destroyed her home and with an unscrupulous uncle, Joat is challenged to overcome a ""breakout"" disease that destroys its victim's minds and is threatening the entire universe.",1997,4.06,364,3155
9780671877781,067187778X,The Free Bards,,Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VvkEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Comines the stories of Rune, the greatest violinist who played the Ghost of Skull Hill to sleep; Robin who must recruit the Ghost to aid their cause; and Nightingale who joins forces with T'fyrr, a nonhuman with the face of a raptor",1997,4.18,712,1517
9780671878849,0671878840,Berserkers,The Beginning,Fred Saberhagen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YiUHAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Complete at last in one volume--the beginning of the war against the berserkers! The death machines are programmed to destroy all life in the Galaxy. But one branch of Galactic humanity, descended from a world called Earth, stands in the way.",1998,3.73,377,226
9780671882365,0671882368,What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew,From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England,Daniel Pool,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HKj8jUM630EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Essays provide a view of British life during the nineteenth century,1994,3.85,416,4749
9780671887179,0671887173,Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People,Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day,Stephen R. Covey,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Azod01f_mFQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Provides a daily reading program that keys on the author's guidelines to personal fulfillment and success and offers inspiration, insights, and motivational guidance",1994,3.9,384,328
9780674002050,0674002059,Seamus Heaney,,Helen Hennessy Vendler,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Rvgrd6aQShAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Poet and critic are well met, as one of our best writers on poetry takes up one of the world's great poets. Whereas other books on the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelt chiefly on the biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing, this book looks squarely and deeply at Heaney's poetry as art.",2000,4.08,208,60
9780674006720,0674006720,American Tragedy,"Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War",David E. Kaiser,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3nDsj5ySmtAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Documents the origin of American involvement in the Vietnam War and how the policies in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations led to war.",2000,3.5,576,29
9780674008205,0674008200,This Craft of Verse,,Jorge Luis Borges;Calin Andrei Mihailescu,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rqYSXkkJbKwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Transcribed from recently discovered tapes, this work stands as a deeply personal yet far-reaching introduction to the pleasures of the word, and as a first-hand testimony to the life of literature. 1 halftone.",2002,4.31,160,778
9780674018297,067401829X,The Gardens of Emily Dickinson,,Judith FARR;Louise Carter,Architecture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tK8nnFJ-KxUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explores how Emily Dickinson's devotion to gardening is intertwined with her vocation as a poet, demonstrating that more than a third of her poems allude to her flowers and how her love of gardening shaped her choice of metaphors.",2005,3.86,350,50
9780674022577,0674022572,Rebecca's Revival,,Jon F Sensbach,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tcFAr0vaBxEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The remarkable story of Rebecca Protten, a Caribbean slave who helped inspire the rise of black Christianity in the Atlantic world, is revealed in this account of her evangelical efforts on three continents.",2005,3.68,302,125
9780674022874,0674022874,The Writer of Modern Life,Essays on Charles Baudelaire,Walter Benjamin,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H5P5SM0gNYUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire as late-Romantic dreamer, and evokes instead the modern poet caught in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of the urban commodity capitalism that had emerged in Paris around 1850.",2006,4.3,307,262
9780674023857,0674023854,Iron Kingdom,"The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947","Christopher M. Clark;University Christopher Clark, MD",History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4LPODzLgDVEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's legacy is far more complex. Though now a fading memory in Europe's heartland, the true story of Prussia offers a remarkable glimpse into the dynamic rise of modern Europe. What we find is a kingdom that existed nearly half a millennium ago as a patchwork of territorial fragments, with neither significant resources nor a coherent culture. With its capital in Berlin, Prussia grew from being a small, poor, disregarded medieval state into one of the most vigorous and powerful nations in Europe. Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great to the destructive conquests of Napoleon, and from the ""iron and blood"" policies of Bismarck to the creation of the German Empire in 1871, and all that implied for the tumultuous twentieth century. By 1947, Prussia was deemed an intolerable threat to the safety of Europe; what is often forgotten, Clark argues, is that it had also been an exemplar of the European humanistic tradition, boasting a formidable government administration, an incorruptible civil service, and religious tolerance. Clark demonstrates how a state deemed the bane of twentieth-century Europe has played an incalculable role in Western civilization's fortunes. Iron Kingdom is a definitive, gripping account of Prussia's fascinating, influential, and critical role in modern times.",2006,4.14,776,2413
9780674035010,0674035011,Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers,"A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker",Mary Fitt;Kathleen Freeman,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B75GgVdxYT0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This book is a complete translation of the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers given in the fifth edition of Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.",1983,4.22,172,46
9780674215184,0674215184,Doubling the Point,Essays and Interviews,Professor of General Literature J M Coetzee;J. M. Coetzee,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dZ7_o8ElbQoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Nadine Gordimer has written of J.M. Coetzee that his vision goes to the nerve-centre of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer's mastery of tension and elegance. Doubling the Point takes the reader to the center of that vision. These essays and interviews, documenting Coetzee's longtime engagement with his own culture, and with modern culture in general, constitute a literary autobiography.",1992,4.04,438,81
9780674268586,067426858X,Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy,,Bernard Williams,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CNCvqVQon9kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Toward the goal of reorienting ethics away from rigid systems and toward the individual, a noted philosopher criticizes systematic moral theory from Kant on and elucidates a provocative alternate view",1985,4.05,230,520
9780674268630,0674268636,The Ethics of Authenticity,,Charles Taylor,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f11Q-RNvmSEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Everywhere we hear of decline, of a world that was better before the influence of modernity. While some lament Western culture's slide into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity's challenges.",1992,3.9,152,630
9780674295032,067429503X,The Fate of Reason,German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte,Frederick C. Beiser,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3QUVngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Fate of Reason is the first general history devoted to the period between Kant and Fichte, one of the most revolutionary and fertile in modern philosophy. The philosophers of this time broke with the two central tenets of the modem Cartesian tradition: the authority of reason and the primacy of epistemology. They also witnessed the decline of the Aufkldrung, the completion of Kant's philosophy, and the beginnings of post-Kantian idealism. Thanks to Beiser we can newly appreciate the influence of Kant's critics on the development of his philosophy. Beiser brings the controversies, and the personalities who engaged in them, to life and tells a story that has uncanny parallels with the debates of the present.",1993,4.49,410,109
9780674618763,0674618769,"New Worlds, Ancient Texts",The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery,Anthony Grafton;Nancy G. Siraisi;April Shelford,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=APVWL5avg7oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"On encountering what he called ""the Indies"", the Jesuit Jose de Acosta wrote, ""Having read what poets and philosophers write of the Torrid Zone, I persuaded myself that when I came to the Equator, I would not be able to endure the violent heat, but it turned out otherwise... What could I do then but laugh at Aristotle's Meteorology and his philosophy?"" Acosta's experience echoes that of his fellow travelers to the New World, and it is this experience, with its profound effect on Western culture, that Anthony Grafton charts. Describing an era of exploration that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. The intellectual shift mapped out here, a movement from book learning to empirical knowledge, did not take place easily or quickly, and Grafton presents it in all its drama and complexity. What he recounts is in effect a war of ideas fought, sometimes unwittingly by mariners, scientists, publishers, scholars, and rulers over one hundred fifty years. He shows us explorers from Cortes and Columbus to Scaliger and Munster, laden with ideas gathered from ancient and medieval texts, in their encounters with the world at large. In colorful vignettes, firsthand accounts, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional images and notions of the world beyond Europe. The fundamental cultural revolution that Grafton documents still reverberates in our time. By taking us into thisbattle of books versus facts, a conflict that has shaped global views for centuries, Grafton allows us to re-experience and understand the Renaissance as it continues to this day.",1992,3.58,296,70
9780674637122,0674637127,The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets,,Helen Vendler,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mw3bBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images",1999,4.3,692,575
9780674644847,0674644840,Origins of the Modern Mind,Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition,Merlin Donald,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4Sk4vWkrUAgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? Origins of the Modern Mind traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to the era of artificial intelligence, and presents an original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form. Illustrated with line drawings.",1991,4.17,424,88
9780674673779,0674673778,Playing in the Dark,Whiteness and the Literary Imagination,Toni Morrison,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y7uJCEl_Ed4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Examines the effect of a racially divided society on ninteenth century American writings, and discusses works by Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain",1992,4.22,110,3428
9780674705593,0674705599,The Principles of Psychology,"The principles of psychology / William James. Notes, appendixes, apparatus, general index",William James,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JKeCfOnHSA8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents an authoritative new edition of the classic text that corrects hundreds of errors and incorporates all of the changes James made in the eight printings he supervised, along with revisions and new material the author added to his own annotated copy.",1981,4.18,1376,3
9780674777705,0674777700,The Roman Empire,,Colin Michael Wells,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1urqHVQ0qQAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Offers a history of the Roman Empire from 44 B.C. to A.D. 235.,1995,3.58,384,101
9780674802803,0674802802,Sex and Reason,,Richard A. POSNER,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AgLmubyQqKoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explores the complex history of human sexuality from ancient Greece to modern Sweden and contends that, although sexual drives and orientations are biological in nature, much of individual sexuality is determined through self-interested choices.",1994,3.9,458,74
9780674821064,0674821068,"Sor Juana, Or, The Traps of Faith",,Octavio Paz,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8rFnC58v-S8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A life of the seventeenth-century poet, intellectual, and feminist who became a nun and eventually gave up secular learning, places her in her times and in Spanish intellectual tradition, and examines the contradictions in her personality.",1988,4.21,547,41
9780674824263,0674824261,Sources of the Self,The Making of the Modern Identity,Charles Taylor,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qoG8asWZRGoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses contemporary notions of the self, and examines their origins, development, and effects",1989,4.19,624,1303
9780674854291,0674854292,Summer for the Gods,The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion,,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y8vslpEgqFwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides a modern perspective on the legal and historical influence of the 1925 Scopes trial, the landmark case about teaching evolution in the classroom",1998,3.9,318,1416
9780674891999,0674891996,"Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle",Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time,Stephen Jay Gould,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UeGXJ5b8Ph0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history,1987,3.92,240,311
9780674940529,0674940520,The Visible Hand,,Alfred D. Chandler Jr.,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hUkqx76sF6oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Examines the processes of production and distribution in the U.S. and the ways in which their management has become increasingly systematized,1977,3.99,624,208
9780674954014,0674954017,Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language,An Elementary Exposition,Saul A. Kripke,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N5I3hNIS_yIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule.,1982,4.01,160,846
9780674961876,0674961870,"The World, the Text, and the Critic",,Edward W. Said,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cwF60MVVGAsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Argues that contemporary critics force works of literature to fit their theories and examines the impact of Marxism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, and structuralism on literary criticism",1983,4.19,336,194
9780674990333,0674990331,De officiis,C. Philosophical Treatises,Marcus Tullius Cicero;Walter Miller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4lN0AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions and a number of others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as translations from the Greek. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.",1975,3.95,448,104
9780674990463,0674990463,Metamorphoses,In Two Volumes,Publius Ovidius Naso (Dichter),"Mythology, Classical",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hZ2EAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1984,4.42,496,757
9780674990470,0674990471,Metamorphoses,,Ovid,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Mfp0AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile. Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.",1976,4.57,499,60
9780674991842,0674991842,Plato in twelve volumes,Symposium ; Gorgias. Lysis,Plato,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tRaDAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt, and Sicily is possible; that he was wealthy is likely; that he was critical of 'advanced' democracy is obvious. He lived to be 80 years old. Linguistic tests including those of computer science still try to establish the order of his extant philosophical dialogues, written in splendid prose and revealing Socrates' mind fused with Plato's thought. In Laches, Charmides, and Lysis, Socrates and others discuss separate ethical conceptions. Protagoras, Ion, and Meno discuss whether righteousness can be taught. In Gorgias, Socrates is estranged from his city's thought, and his fate is impending. The Apology (not a dialogue), Crito, Euthyphro, and the unforgettable Phaedo relate the trial and death of Socrates and propound the immortality of the soul. In the famous Symposium and Phaedrus, written when Socrates was still alive, we find the origin and meaning of love. Cratylus discusses the nature of language. The great masterpiece in ten books, the Republic, concerns righteousness (and involves education, equality of the sexes, the structure of society, and abolition of slavery). Of the six so-called dialectical dialogues Euthydemus deals with philosophy; metaphysical Parmenides is about general concepts and absolute being; Theaetetus reasons about the theory of knowledge. Of its sequels, Sophist deals with not-being; Politicus with good and bad statesmanship and governments; Philebus with what is good. The Timaeus seeks the origin of the visible universe out of abstract geometrical elements. The unfinished Critias treats of lost Atlantis. Unfinished also is Plato's last work of the twelve books of Laws (Socrates is absent from it), a critical discussion of principles of law which Plato thought the Greeks might accept. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plato is in twelve volumes.",1975,4.39,560,426
9780674991873,0674991877,History of the Peloponnesian War,In Four Volumes,Thucydides,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0GaEAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431 421, 415 413, and 413 404 BCE) that Thucydides was still unifying into one account when he died some time before 396 BCE. Although unfinished and as a whole unrevised, in brilliance of description and depth of insight this history has no superior.",1976,4.28,480,33
9780674992023,0674992024,Hiero,Agesilaus ; Constitution of the Lacedaemonians ; Ways and Means ; Cavalry Commander ; Art of Horsemanship ; On Hunting ; Constitution of the Athenians,Xenophon,Electronic books,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4Q0IAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Minor works by Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) include Hiero, a dialogue on government; Agesilaus, in praise of that king; Constitution of Lacedaemon, on the Spartan system; Ways and Means, on the finances of Athens; a manual of Horsemanship. The Constitution of the Athenians, though not by Xenophon, is an interesting document on Athenian politics. Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this ""March Up-Country"" (Anabasis); but meanwhile he entered service under the Spartans against the Persian king, married happily, and joined the staff of the Spartan king, Agesilaus. But Athens was at war with Sparta in 394 and so exiled Xenophon. The Spartans gave him an estate near Elis where he lived for years writing and hunting and educating his sons. Reconciled to Sparta, Athens restored Xenophon to honour but he preferred to retire to Corinth. Xenophon's Anabasis is a true story of remarkable adventures. Hellenica, a history of Greek affairs from 411 to 362, begins as a continuation of Thucydides' account. There are four works on Socrates (collected in Volume IV of the Loeb Xenophon edition). In Memorabilia Xenophon adds to Plato's picture of Socrates from a different viewpoint. The Apology is an interesting complement to Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial. Xenophon's Symposium portrays a dinner party at which Socrates speaks of love; and Oeconomicus has him giving advice on household management and married life. Cyropaedia, a historical romance on the education of Cyrus (the Elder), reflects Xenophon's ideas about rulers and government; the Loeb edition is in two volumes. We also have his Hiero, a dialogue on government; Agesilaus, in praise of that king; Constitution of Lacedaemon (on the Spartan system); Ways and Means (on the finances of Athens); Manual for a Cavalry Commander; a good manual of Horsemanship; and a lively Hunting with Hounds. The Constitution of the Athenians, though clearly not by Xenophon, is an interesting document on politics at Athens. These eight books are collected in the last of the seven volumes of the Loeb Classical Library edition of Xenophon.",1925,3.94,576,18
9780674992184,0674992180,Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes,,Marcus Tullius Cicero,"Consuls, Roman",,,1967,,,
9780674992405,0674992407,Epictetus,"the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments",Epictetus,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ya9fAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These volumes contain the teachings (""Discourses"") of the slave-philosopher Epictetus (55 A.D-135 AD). Also included in volume 2 are ""Fragments"", additional pieces from other (now lost) books of the ""Discourses""; and ""The Encheirdion"", a collection of practical precepts for stoicism which can be seen as a handbook for life.",1967,4.35,576,107
9780674992559,0674992555,"The Art of Love, and Other Poems",,Ovid,Love poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZNwiygEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the didactic poetry of Face Cosmetics, Art of Love, and Remedies for Love, Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) demonstrates abstrusity and wit. His Ibis is an elegiac curse-poem. Nux, Halieutica, and Consolatio ad Liviam are poems now judged not to be by Ovid.",1985,4.02,400,93
9780674992627,0674992628,"Plato, with an English Translation",,Plato,"Philosophy, Ancient",,,1914,,,
9780674994805,0674994809,Babrius and Phaedrus,,Babrius;Phaedrus;Ben Edwin Perry,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7lmEAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Babrius's humorous and pointed fables in Greek verse probably date from the first century CE. From the same period come the lively fables in Latin verse written by Phaedrus, which satirize social and political life in Augustan Rome.",1965,4.31,736,16
9780674995666,067499566X,Αλκηστισ,"African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song",Euripides,Alcestis (Greek mythology),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MEDczAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Euripides of Athens (ca. 485-406 BC), famous in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations wrote nearly ninety plays. Of these, eighteen (plus a play of unknown authorship mistakenly included with his works) have come down to us from antiquity. In this first volume of a new Loeb edition of Euripides David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text of three plays and an accurate and graceful translation with explanatory notes. Alcestis is the story of a woman who agrees--in order to save her husband's life--to die in his place. Medea is a tragedy of revenge in which Medea kills her own children, as well as their father's new wife to punish him for his desertion. The volume begins with Cyclops, a satyr play--the only complete example of this genre to survive. Each play is preceded by an introduction. In a general introduction Kovacs demonstrates that the biographical tradition about Euripides---parts of which view him as a subverter of morality, religion, and art--cannot be relied on. He argues that this tradition has often furnished the unacknowledged starting point for interpretation, and that the way is now clear for an unprejudiced consideration of the plays themselves. David Kovacs, Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia has written widely about Euripides.",1994,4.47,464,30
9780674995741,0674995740,Fragmenta,,Plutarcus;Ευριπιδες,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EqJzlSgSSDcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in the third volume of a new edition that is receiving much praise, is the text and translation of three of his plays. Trojan Women, a play about the causes and consequences of war, develops the theme of the tragic unpredictability of life. Iphigenia among the Taurians and Ion exhibit tragic themes and situations (the murder of close relatives). Each ends happily with a joyful reunion. As in the first three volumes of this edition, David Kovacs gives us a freshly edited Greek text and an admired new translation that, in the words of Greece and Rome, is ""close to the Greek and reads fluently and well;"" his introduction to each play and explanatory notes offer readers judicious guidance.",1999,3.97,528,27
9780674996236,0674996232,Hesiod,,Hesiodtus,Agriculture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CgGbIKguHwsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,,2006,4.03,434,33
9780676977110,0676977111,Never Let Me Go,,Kazuo Ishiguro,Boarding school-fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=taygTbyo9w4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A gothic tour de force. A meditation on mortality and lost innocence: a portrait of adolescence as that hinge moment in life when self-knowledge brings intimations of one's destiny.,2006,3.81,288,1091
9780679406839,0679406832,Gift from the Sea,,,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l8q6m9Xgek0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A woman's reflections on life, its stages, and its states, comparing them with the natural treasures of life in the sea",1991,4.17,132,1314
9780679409960,0679409963,Doctor Faustus,,Thomas Mann,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g3XaCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by T. J. Reed; Translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter,1992,4.08,580,86
9780679411673,0679411674,Toni Morrison,,Toni Morrison,African Americans,,"Presents six novels by American Nobel laureate Toni Morrison--""Beloved,"" ""Sula,"" ""Jazz,"" ""Tar Baby,"" ""Song of Solomon,"" and ""The Bluest Eye""--Which explore the African-American experience in America's predominantly white culture.",1994,3.8,229,389
9780679413356,0679413359,The Aeneid,,Virgil,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DZg2yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Virgil's poem about the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy,1992,3.83,483,176
9780679420255,0679420258,If on a Winter's Night a Traveler,,Italo Calvino;William Weaver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jJSZPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ten different and thoroughly dissimilar novels intertwine as the beginning of each book, interrupted at a critical moment of suspense, leads into yet another novel reflecting yet another literary mode",1993,4.06,254,1412
9780679420262,0679420266,The Stranger,,Albert Camus;Matthew Ward,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6d_pQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An ordinary man is unwittingly caught up in a senseless murder in Algeria.,1993,3.97,117,1041
9780679420293,0679420290,Crime and Punishment,,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hG5P6jrzJLAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A man must endure relentless physical and mental punishments as retribution for his act of murder,1993,4.2,564,6890
9780679424789,0679424784,Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner,,William Faulkner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a2KKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. They explore many of the themes found in the novels and feature characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely Faulkner's. In ""A Rose for Emily,"" the first of his stories to appear in a national magazine, a straightforward, neighborly narrator relates a tale of love, betrayal, and murder. The vicious family of the Snopes trilogy turns up in ""Barn Burning,"" about a son's response to the activities of his arsonist father. And Jason and Caddy Compson, two other inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, are witnesses to the terrorizing of a pregnant black laundress in ""That Evening Sun."" These and the other stories gathered here attest to the fact that Faulkner is, as Ralph Ellison so aptly noted, ""the greatest artist the South has produced."" Including these stories: ""Barn Burning"" ""Two Soldiers"" ""A Rose for Emily"" ""Dry September"" ""That Evening Sun"" ""Red Leaves"" ""Lo!"" ""Turnabout"" ""Honor"" ""There Was a Queen"" ""Mountain Victory"" ""Beyond"" ""Race at Morning""",1993,4.09,320,1001
9780679428954,067942895X,The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou,Poems (1965-1992),Maya Angelou,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B6283eMxBFgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a definitive collection of poetry from Angelou's previous anthologies--Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water, Oh Pray my Wings Gonna Fit Me Well, And Still I Rise, I Shall Not Be Moved, On the Pulse of Morning, and Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? 50,000 first printing.",1994,4.42,273,7701
9780679431367,0679431365,The Sword of Honour Trilogy,,Evelyn Waugh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kSQCAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh’s career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war too much for him. Yet, though often somber, the Sword of Honour trilogy is also a brilliant comedy, peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh’s early satires. The deepest pleasures these novels afford come from observing a great satiric writer employ his gifts with extraordinary subtlety, delicacy, and human feeling, for purposes that are ultimately anything but satiric.",1994,4.24,711,1068
9780679431374,0679431373,Gargantua and Pantagruel,,François Rabelais,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u91sPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fantasy of life amongst the monks and friars of 16th-century France which remains a satirical and comic classic. Rabelais espouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cruelty.",1994,3.71,807,50
9780679434047,0679434046,In the Kitchen with Rosie,Oprah's Favorite Recipes,Rosie Daley,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GR41sSVe84gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,With 50 recipes and 8 pages of full-color photographs by Micheal McLaughlin.,1994,3.03,142,752
9780679444596,0679444599,Rabbit Angstrom,A Tetralogy,John Updike,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ajoz5zL4HVgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Four novels trace the life of Harry ""Rabbit"" Angstrom against the changing American society from the sixties to the eighties",1995,4.26,1520,1492
9780679446088,0679446087,A fine balance,a novel,Rohinton Mistry,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R5EfAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The eagerly awaited novel from the author of the award-winning Such a Long Journey is set in India in the mid-1970s. A ""State of Internal Emergency"" has been declared, and in the days of bleakness and hope that follow, four disparate people find their lives becoming unexpectedly and inextricably entwined. Author readings.",1996,4.36,624,51
9780679451211,0679451218,The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America,,,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fd0PAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide for bird enthusiasts specifically designed for use in the field features descriptions of 703 species of birds from west of the Rocky Mountains, and illustrations that depict species from different views.",2003,4.7,473,709
9780679600053,0679600051,Swann's Way,,Marcel Proust,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4QyKv5OkFnMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in the late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of the family carries on with young Odette de Crecy.,1992,4.14,640,247
9780679600176,0679600175,The Sound and the Fury,,William Faulkner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Tn2ig0OohfcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Depicts the troubled childhood of Jason, Quentin, Caddy, and Benjy Compson, members of a southern family.",1992,3.86,368,495
9780679601128,0679601120,Stars in Their Courses,"The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863",Shelby Foote,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vLza8sd4PXUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Recreates the Battle of Gettysburg from both the Confederate and Union perspectives,1994,4.45,304,1407
9780679601326,0679601325,The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker,,Dorothy Parker,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lcplQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Ketubot Part I,1994,4.49,457,1264
9780679602989,0679602984,Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories,,Hunter S. Thompson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0Rx-QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Contains the journalist's classic account of his visit to Las Vegas, and includes three companion pieces",1998,4.21,283,1689
9780679641049,0679641041,"Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West",,Cormac McCarthy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r0YRXUstZ18C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one outlaw, known as ""the Kid,"" a boy of fourteen. 15,000 first printing.",2001,4.18,351,1206
9780679641810,0679641815,"In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV",Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book),Marcel Proust,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tP_YugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Flower and plant have no conscious will. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust's men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong. Homosexuality . . . is as devoid of moral implications as the mode of fecundation of the Primula veris or the Lythrum salicoria.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SAMUEL BECKETT The theme of Sodom and Gomorrah is sexual ambiguity. In the opening scene, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men that is played out 'as though in obedience to the laws of an occult art' The book unfolds on matters of 'vice,' 'inversion,' mystery, desire, love, longing, and illusion. The final volume of a new, definitive text of A la recherche du temps perdu was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new French editions.",2000,,,
9780679642848,0679642846,The Red and the Black,A Chronicle of 1830,Stendhal,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qlFoAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During the Bourbon Restoration, Julien Sorel disregards all moral codes as he attempts to accumulate power.",2003,3.87,560,76
9780679643241,0679643249,The Killer Angels,A Novel of the Civil War,Michael Shaara,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=liqRlBP-iXAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an effort to draw out the Union Army of the Potomac, the Confederate Army invades the North, and the armies clash in a bloody battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for four days.",2004,4.32,337,410
9780679643258,0679643257,The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou,,Maya Angelou,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jHlC1bp5cB8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A single volume omnibus edition featuring Angelou's celebrated autobiographies contains I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, The Heart of a Woman, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, and A Song Flung Up to Heaven. 20,000 first printing.",2004,4.62,1184,961
9780679643425,0679643427,The Murders in the Rue Morgue,The Dupin Tales,Edgar Allan Poe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8FHavR4kEucC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The story of a retired detective who is called upon to solve a perplexing pair of murders is accompanied by commentary, biographical notes, and a reading group guide.",2006,3.87,160,5994
9780679643524,0679643524,Darkness Visible,A Memoir of Madness,William Styron,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MRJHPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author chronicles his descent into depression, discussing not only his own experience and recovery but also how others can find help.",2007,4.04,96,378
9780679720225,0679720227,The Fall,,Albert Camus,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OqEOMA-X0EkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A man's confessions reveal his perception of justice and his own downfall,1956,4.05,147,50175
9780679721031,0679721037,Hiroshima,,John Hersey,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1z89O0uIlLwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The classic tale of the day the first atom bomb was dropped offers a haunting evocation of the memories of survivors and an appeal to the conscience of humanity,1989,3.96,152,49487
9780679721819,0679721819,Mama Day,,Gloria Naylor,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BqffU2XpzO0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a small Georgia town, Mama Day, uses her gifts as a seer and healer, but her powers are ultimately tested when her beloved niece's life hangs in the balance",1989,4.17,312,8690
9780679722311,0679722319,Where I'm Calling from,New and Selected Stories,Raymond Carver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=amQvCBCLWA4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A unique collection by an extraordinary writer, this collection of Carver's best spans his literary career and includes seven new works. Since his untimely death in August of 1988, Raymond Carver's popularity has increased dramatically.",1989,4.42,544,17969
9780679722946,0679722947,Running Dog,,Don DeLillo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YqtSn1551H4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A woman reporter and a staff assistant to an American senator learn of an erotic film shot in Hitler's Berlin bunker which was to have been sold by a man found murdered and dressed as a woman in Manhattan,1989,3.42,256,1285
9780679722953,0679722955,The Names,,Don DeLillo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c8BhNGSQGfAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an expatriate's world of turmoil and danger, American risk analyst James Axton learns of a ritual-murder cult in the Aegean and follows the trail to its secret meanings in the ancient city of Lahore",1989,3.64,339,2990
9780679723059,0679723056,What We Talk about when We Talk about Love,Stories,Raymond Carver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rymEu6EJUykC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stories feature men and women without education, insight, or prospects, who, ironically, are too unimaginative to ever give up",1989,4.18,159,34613
9780679723127,0679723129,Gideon's Trumpet,,Anthony Lewis,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QH3zJKi2VOwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The story of a convict's defense of his contention that a person on trial should not be denied the assistance of counsel,1989,3.9,288,2193
9780679723134,0679723137,Invisible Man,,Ralph Ellison,African American men,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KqetQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility,1990,3.86,581,318
9780679723165,0679723161,Lolita,,Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x9NDbpRYu50C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him,1997,3.89,317,18462
9780679723691,0679723692,Cathedral,Stories,Raymond Carver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RrzYN5h2m_QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption.",1989,4.29,230,21140
9780679724698,0679724699,The History of Sexuality,Women's Decisions Concerning Contraception,Michel Foucault,Sex customs,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0Mbc5eMjLpoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This controversial account, by one of the greatest intellectuals of the 20th century, explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex.",1990,4.04,176,14218
9780679724773,067972477X,"I, Claudius","From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54",Robert Graves,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cRzDTtqqPtMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The emperor Claudius tells of his life during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula and the events that led to his rise to power in a classic novel reconstructing ancient Rome",1989,4.27,468,43469
9780679725169,0679725164,"No Exit, and Three Other Plays",,Jean-Paul Sartre,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Xw5CMJFaTNkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"English translations of four plays which dramatize the theme of man's responsibility for his own actions, by the leader of French existentialism",1989,4.1,275,23906
9780679725220,0679725229,"Ada, Or, Ardor, a Family Chronicle",,Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xbxpYMFjbIsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in a ""dreambright"" America, at the turn of the century, the novel depicts an incestuous love affair",1990,4.14,604,7620
9780679725404,0679725407,Aké,The Years of Childhood,Wole Soyinka,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G2kwaeBgPmUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Nigerian playwright, poet, and novelist recounts his first eleven years growing up under the influence of his parents, traditional Yoruba customs, and Christian missionaries",1981,3.92,230,1213
9780679726098,0679726098,Strong Opinions,,Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Mu4ycvVhlQUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Interviews, articles, and editorials from the 1960s and 1970s reveal Nabokov's personal views on a range of subjects, including art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times",1990,3.99,368,745
9780679726203,0679726209,Mary,A Novel,Владимир Владимирович Набоков,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O3DSPA1OwuEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Lyrical prose records a young Russian exile's recollections of his first love affair,1989,3.67,114,3267
9780679726487,0679726489,The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus,All the Words,Graham Chapman;Monty Python (Comedy troupe);Terry Gilliam;Eric Idle;Terry Jones,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9vZzgf3V7qAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the complete scripts of the Monty Python television series, first shown on BBC televison from 1969 to 1974",1989,4.44,384,1191
9780679727224,0679727221,The Defense,A Novel,Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov;Michael Scammell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8HGb31KVsxMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Luzhin's prodigious talent at chess earns him the title of grandmaster, but his passion soon leads to obsession, and his world falls apart during a championship match when his defense fades under his opponent's surprising strategy.",1990,3.95,256,6967
9780679727231,067972723X,The Eye,,Владимир Владимирович Набоков,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vFwRqvh9LA4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After being humiliated by her husband, Smurov commits suicide, only to experience even greater embarrassment in the afterlife.",1990,3.68,104,2772
9780679727293,0679727299,The Annotated Lolita,,Владимир Владимирович Набоков;Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XbceThIh5WsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The textural discussion accompanying this novel examines the thematic and technical elements which make it a literary classic,1991,3.89,457,2919
9780679729778,0679729771,Maus II,a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began,Art Spiegelman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2hGxd5wQhRsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a comic-book-style tale of the author's parents, Vladek and Anja, Vladek survives Auschwitz, is reunited with Anja, and sires young Art",1991,4.39,144,111555
9780679729914,0679729917,The Best of Roald Dahl,,Roald Dahl,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zbMjpIDHwykC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Stories relate the macabre exploits of an assortment of comical and grotesque characters from all walks of life,1990,4.38,520,6067
9780679729976,0679729976,The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov,,Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cAGNnXblgCYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of 65 stories about human relations, human nature, and political satire includes 13 first-time English translations",1995,4.3,685,5766
9780679730613,0679730613,Hit Men,Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business,Fredric Dannen,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8vDWEujPAy4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An inside look at the multibillion-dollar music industry examines the business practices of the big record labels and includes profiles of the kingpins of the industry,1991,3.95,432,664
9780679731146,0679731148,A Year in Provence,,Peter Mayle,Provence (France),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c3CaKi39-F0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A month-by-month account of the author's experience in the first year of restoring a two-centuries old stone farmhouse in back country Provence, France.",1991,3.96,207,52434
9780679731184,0679731180,The Origin of Satan,,Elaine Pagels,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MDj2vcp55PEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A study of the role of the devil in biblical and modern times theorizes that dissident social gorups that resisted Christianity, such as pagans and Jews, were typically portrayed as demons and therefore established as threats. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.",1996,3.9,240,5537
9780679731375,0679731377,A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters,,Julian Barnes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eE_rOY_Quh8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers an idiosyncratic, revisionist history of life on planet Earth, from a playful account of Noah by a stowaway on the Ark, to the spiritual odyssey of a American astronaut",1990,3.9,320,9619
9780679732174,0679732179,"Go Down, Moses",,William Faulkner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SOSMDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, seven interrelated stories deal with the complex, changing relationships between Blacks and whites and between man and nature",1942,3.93,365,8097
9780679732266,0679732268,Light in August,,William Faulkner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bke4fyic0a4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a novel about hopeless perseverance in the face of mortality, guileless Lena Grove searches for the father of her unborn child, Reverend Hightower is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen, and drifter Joe Christmas is consumed by his mixed ancestry",1985,3.94,507,46181
9780679732341,0679732349,Chilly Scenes of Winter,,Ann Beattie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eGjw1o1IQ5gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is the story of a love-smitten Charles; his friend Sam, the Phi Beta Kappa and former coat salesman; and Charles' mother, who spends a lot of time in the bathtub feeling depressed.",1991,3.91,288,1016
9780679732549,0679732543,Shoot the Piano Player,,David Goodis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t_9MDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself. The result is a moody thriller that, like the best hard-boiled fiction, carries a moral depth charge.",1990,4.02,158,2691
9780679732716,0679732713,The Beggar Maid,Stories of Flo and Rose,Alice Munro,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fUZWJkUtCccC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Originally published as: Who do you think you are? 1978.,1991,3.93,210,2688
9780679733768,0679733760,A Midwife's Tale,"The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812",Laurel Ulrich,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BG207wB6bj4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the life of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Maine during the eighteenth century, by drawing on the detailed diary she kept for twenty-seven years of her life",1991,3.99,444,4933
9780679733782,0679733787,The Woman in the Dunes,,Kōbō Abe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1Si7T_VmVfQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The inhabitants of a remote seaside village imprison a Japanese biologist in a deep sand pit,1964,3.91,241,13984
9780679733843,0679733841,The Rebel,An Essay on Man in Revolt,Albert Camus,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q6L0Ria0P0wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author traces the ways in which the theories of philosophers such as Rousseau, Hegel and Marx have been misused.",1991,4.14,320,8830
9780679734031,0679734031,The Art of Fiction,Notes on Craft for Young Writers,John Gardner,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QOEUGCYw5XYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide to creative writing examines diverse facets of writing technique, and contains analyses of works by writers from Homer to Mark Twain",1991,4,224,4877
9780679734482,0679734481,Success,,Martin Amis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L2DpLn2lM5cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Soaring with malicious poetry and almost unbearably accurate in its characterizations, Martin Amis turns Success into a sort of Jacobean revenge comedy. Its antagonists are two mismatched foster brothers who perform a merciless tango of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed love.",1991,3.66,224,2150
9780679734499,067973449X,Dead Babies,,Martin Amis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fUrMtSgY5i8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P. G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious drug taking and sexual gymnastics. There's even a heifer to be slugged and a pair of doddering tenants to be ingeniously harassed. But none of these variously bright and dull young things has counted on the intrusion of ""dead babies"" -- dreary spasms of reality. Or on the uninvited presence of a mysterious prankster named Johnny, whose sinister idea of fun makes theirs look like a game of backgammon.",1975,3.36,206,5652
9780679734505,0679734503,Crime and Punishment,A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PJTlydN3Mf0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A man must endure relentless physical and metal punishments as retribution for his act of murder,1993,4.2,564,7163
9780679734789,0679734783,Hype and Glory,,William Goldman,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a9DXQOD1GrsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of ""Adventures in the Screen Trade"" provides an inside look at the Cannes Film Festivals and the Miss America Pageant from his unique perspective as a judge, offering anecdotes about the judging process",1991,3.69,306,123
9780679734994,0679734996,The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays,,Wendy Wasserstein,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sn1CGv9Rq5sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three plays deal with recent college graduates deciding what to do with their lives, a woman trying to be a successful executive and mother, and an art historian changing with the times from the sixties to the eighties",1991,3.83,249,2732
9780679735250,0679735259,Dispatches,,Michael Herr,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5TrkpWDJTVwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A documentation of the day-to-day realities of the war in Vietnam experienced by men on patrol, under siege at Khe Sanh, strapped into helicopters, and faced with continuing nightmares after their return to the United States",1991,4.23,260,12590
9780679735472,067973547X,Touching the Rock,An Experience of Blindness,John M. Hull,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FcKGDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An intensely personal exploration of blindness reveals a world of sound and echo, of people without faces, of the strange relationship between waking and dreaming, and of new perceptions of nature, personality, and human experience",1992,3.97,248,128
9780679735779,0679735771,American Psycho,A Novel,Bret Easton Ellis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1fMSEAFJanAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to face and it takes us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare.",1991,3.82,399,193100
9780679735878,0679735879,The Unconsoled,,Kazuo Ishiguro,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hypKrsU9DEYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Arriving in a European city with significant gaps in his memory, Ryder, a renowned pianist, is overwhelmed by an onslaught of strangers who seem to know him and of whom he experiences vague, dreamlike recollections. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.",1996,3.53,535,560
9780679736400,0679736409,"Last Tales: The cardinal's first tale ; The cloak ; Night walk ; Of hidden thoughts and of heaven ; Tales of two old gentlemen ; The cardinal's third tale ; The blank page ; New Gothic Tales: The cyratids, an unfinished tale ; Echoes ; New Winter's tales: A country tale ; Copenhagen season ; Converse at night in Copenhagen",,Karen Blixen,,,,1975,4.09,352,322
9780679736530,0679736530,The Hamlet,The Corrected Text,William Faulkner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1lIMRpyDihMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the growing power of Flem Snopes, a white-trash farmer, in the Mississippi town of Frenchman's Bend",1991,3.87,409,4082
9780679736851,0679736859,Athena,A Novel,John Banville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KJo8PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An artist with a violent past meets a woman who appears to emerge from his paintings, and their subsequent compulsive affair is reflected in his artwork, until the woman suddenly vanishes. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",1996,3.65,240,379
9780679736882,0679736883,The Radicalism of the American Revolution,,Gordon S. Wood,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TfxvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Examines colonial society and the transformations in colonial life that resulted from the republican tendencies brought to the surface by the Revolution,1993,4.05,447,4064
9780679737117,0679737111,Mortals,,Norman Rush,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZAKWDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the heart of Botswana, the live of three ex-patriate Americans--a contract CIA agent undercover in the guise of an English instructor at a private school, his disaffected wife, and an iconoclastic black holistic physician--entangle with that of a local populist leader as a violent insurrection erupts in the area. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2004,3.75,736,459
9780679737315,0679737316,Selected Speeches and Writings,,Abraham Lincoln,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7PuBQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Records Lincoln's campaigns for public office, the evolution of his stand against slavery, his debates with Stephen Douglas, and the great addresses of his presidency",1992,4.23,515,169
9780679742586,0679742581,"Caramelo, Or, Puro Cuento",A Novel,Sandra Cisneros,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nWNpPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of famous shawl makers, one of which has come into Lala's possession.",2003,3.89,441,9001
9780679744474,0679744479,Written on the Body,,Jeanette Winterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZZ5d7mvfriUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A combined love story and philosophical meditation on the body as a physical phenomenon thrusts the reader into the life of a married woman and her erotic relationship with an unidentified lover who narrates the story,1994,4.07,192,20182
9780679745396,0679745394,After Henry,,Joan Didion,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Iau9QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents essays that discern the social and political importance behind the day's most lurid news,1993,3.82,320,1145
9780679745570,0679745572,The grass harp,including A tree of night and other stories. Truman Capote,Truman Capote,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OjevJqEkYYoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The protagonists of these nine short stories learn to accept the harsh loneliness of life,1993,4.01,272,4451
9780679745648,0679745645,"Other Voices, Other Rooms",,Truman Capote,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vJ0Eo_6O9-cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A boy matures amidst the odd characters who live in Skully's Landing,1994,3.81,232,10212
9780679748144,0679748148,Sanctuary,The Corrected Text,William Faulkner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BHCou3cBjQsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An assortment of perverse characters act out this dramatic story of the kidnapping of a Mississippi debutante,1993,3.64,317,8999
9780679749066,0679749063,The Great American Novel,,Philip Roth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pcQj2pcrRgcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A baseball farce in which Philip Roth casts an unlikely group of men as the country's baseball heroes.,1973,3.64,416,174
9780679749844,0679749845,The Comfort of Strangers,,Ian McEwan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O16AzUYDdmkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While on holiday, a young couple meets the son of the local gentry and his wife and are drawn by sexual obsession into a nightmare of violence",2002,3.42,128,10331
9780679753773,067975377X,"Asa, as I Knew Him",,Susanna Kaysen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jjADbFibh-sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dinah Sachs relives the history of her relationship with Asa Thayer, the handsome editor of the magazine where she works, and in doing so, describes the failure of passion and the creativity and transcendence inherent in love",1994,3.58,159,205
9780679755487,0679755489,The Death of Virgil,,Hermann Broch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-qg_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound. Begun while Broch was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, The Death of Virgil is part historical novel and part prose poem -- and always an intensely musical and immensely evocative meditation on the relation between life and death, the ancient and the modern.",1995,4.19,496,756
9780679755524,0679755527,The Son Avenger,,Sigrid Undset,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n8YHAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, 'The Son Avenger' suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twilight figure of 'Olav the Bad, ' Undset has created an antihero as moving as Oedipus or Lear.",1995,4.39,288,257
9780679756767,0679756760,When I was Puerto Rican,,Esmeralda Santiago,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OK8ZV3VwYwEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",1994,4.01,274,8289
9780679759256,0679759255,When She was Good,,Philip Roth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qsw1HwaanPcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose ""goodness"" is a terrible disease. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. With his unerring portraits of Lucy and her hapless, childlike husband, Roy, Roth has created an uncompromising work of fictional realism, a vision of provincial American piety, yearning, and discontent that is at once pitiless and compassionate.",1995,3.53,320,1639
9780679760238,0679760237,In Pharaoh's Army,Memories of the Lost War,Tobias Wolff,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bVbK-dkQiT8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author recalls his experiences during the Vietnam war, reminiscing about his service in the Mekong Delta, his feelings about the miltary life, and the impact of the Vietnam experience on his life",1995,4.08,240,2329
9780679761044,0679761047,Snow Country,,Yasunari Kawabata,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2_iSExrgqy8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the story of a tragic affair between a wealthy dilettante and a mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, in a tale of wasted love by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",1996,3.68,175,12085
9780679761051,0679761055,Beauty and Sadness,,Yasunari Kawabata,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XgjKkQX4DIoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A destructive love affair between a married writer and a teenage girl that continues to haunt both of them more than twenty years after their last embrace.,1996,3.86,206,4649
9780679761785,0679761780,Blues for Mister Charlie,A Play,James Baldwin,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vd2JDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A drama focusing on the murder of a black youth by a white man in a Southern town and the racism and violent emotions it engenders.,1995,4.12,144,1131
9780679762096,0679762094,Aman,The Story of a Somali Girl,Virginia Lee Barnes,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YUiPy-MH1AMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Recounts the experiences of a girl growing up in Somalia during the fifties and sixties and offers a personal look at Somali culture,1994,3.76,368,532
9780679762652,0679762655,Thousand Cranes,,川端康成,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HG4DuQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Kikuji is invited to attend a tea ceremony, he is unaware that Chikako has arranged for him to view a prospective bride.",1959,3.76,147,5900
9780679762690,0679762698,Encore Provence,New Adventures in the South of France,Peter Mayle,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_2llP4TemxMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author continues his celebration of Provence in a new collection of culinary delights, profiles of colorful Gallic characters, and personal observations",2000,4,240,9805
9780679762706,0679762701,Art & Lies,A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd,Jeanette Winterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0K-vmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On a high-speed train hurtling through the near future, three passengers come together--Handel, an ex-priest-turned-surgeon whose humanity is sacrificed to intellect; Picasso, an outcast woman comforted only by her painting; and Sappho, the lesbian poet. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",1996,3.87,240,3407
9780679763437,0679763430,The Camera My Mother Gave Me,,Susanna Kaysen,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Br6A1Zy4OOkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author relates her odyssey through the world of gynecological medicine in an attempt to diagnose a mysterious disorder, and addresses larger questions that arise when sexual pleasure is replaced by pain.",2002,3.3,149,973
9780679763970,067976397X,Corelli's Mandolin,A Novel,Louis De Bernières,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dsJFZOR11yMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The idyllic world of the Greek island of Cephallonia is forever changed by the inexorable changes of World War II, as the inhabitants struggle to cope with the Axis invasion and occupation",1995,3.97,437,61387
9780679764014,0679764011,"Resistance, Rebellion, and Death",,Albert Camus,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XVFBSyuWHo0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author's personal beliefs and his reactions to the major issues of his lifetime are reflected in these selected writings,1961,4.2,288,2356
9780679764175,0679764178,Letting Go,,Philip Roth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8D-0IVlkpL4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Newly discharged from the Korean War, Gabe Wallach struggles to live seriously and act generously. The reader will find acclaimed author Philip Roth's fictional study of 1950's American morals and social mores far different from those of today. TIME calls Roth ""The uncontested master of comic irony"".",1997,3.69,630,1053
9780679765844,0679765840,The Simple Truth,Poems,Philip Levine,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FCUGuTA6OJUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers thirty-three poems that interweave a complex web of myth, public and private history, family, memory, and invention as they explore the timeless truths of human existence",1994,4.22,69,630
9780679767091,0679767096,Walt Whitman's America,A Cultural Biography,David S. Reynolds,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WY2UFkNTR0EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A study of the life and works of one of America's finest poets is set against the social, cultural, and political backdrop of his time, offering new insights into his poetry, ideas, and imagery",1996,4.17,672,371
9780679767305,0679767304,Selected Stories,,Andre Dubus,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zMEerqX1z7wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty-three stories representing fifteen years of the author's career explore the polarities of violence and tenderness, destruction and salvation, and hedonism and asceticism",1996,4.27,476,2709
9780679767398,0679767398,"South of the Border, West of the Sun",,Haruki Murakami,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y9zjOV4o-vkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Years after their separation, two Japanese childhood sweethearts are reunited, and happily married Hajime finds himself prepared to risk everything for the chance to be with his now mysterious first love Shinamoto. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2000,3.87,213,3650
9780679767473,0679767479,The Untouchable,,John Banville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lOeXpung8tkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A winner of the Lannan Literary Award and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of Year relates the story of a British intelligence agent and art historian to the Queen who is exposed as a Russian agent. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",1998,3.96,367,2077
9780679767824,0679767827,Psycho Shop,,Alfred Bester & Roger Zelazny,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X9OCDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"“A dark acid curio, brisk, fast, memorable, a rare improvisational duet from two of our best.”—Greg Bear “Alfred Bester was one of the handful of writers who invented modern science fiction.” —Harry Harrison, author of Adventures of the Stanless Steel Rat “Let there be light, and let there always be Roger Zelazny.”—Philip José Farmer, author of To Your Scattered Bodies Go From Publishers Weekly: This odd novel, left incomplete when Bester died in 1987, was finished by Zelazny, who himself died in 1995. In his introduction, Bear refers to Bester (The Deceivers) and Zelazny (Donnerjack) as masters of SF jazz, geniuses of improvisation, and the book has that feel to it. The plot is full of bizarre twists and turns. Neat ideas surface and disappear in an eyeblink and characters transform radically from one page to the next. Alf Noir, an investigative reporter, is sent to Rome to look into the mysterious Black Place of the Soul-Changer and its enigmatic proprietor, Adam Maser. Alf discovers that Maser is a Psychbroker, a sort of pawnbroker of the spirit, dealing in emotions, talents and psychological traits. Want more courage, the ability to see into the infrared, an understanding of ancient Persian? Maser will trade it to you for your mind-reading ability, or a rare coin, or perhaps for the secret of the collective unconscious. Alf discovers that Maser isn't human, but a highly evolved cat from the far future. Nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted, not even Maser's sexy assistant, an evolved snake with whom Alf has an affair. There's much fun to be had here, but the book doesn't represent either writer in top form. Bester's style in the first part of the novel seems dated, and things don't gel until Zelazny takes over halfway through the book. Vintage has brought Bester's finest work back into print, and for this it deserves praise, but this novel is most likely to appeal to Zelazny's much larger readership.",2013,3.6,207,727
9780679772675,0679772677,A civil action,,Jonathan Harr,Law,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8YWPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young Boston trial lawyer is drawn into a case involving two industrial chemical plants and a cluster of childhood leukemia victims that is to encompass nine difficult years and bring him to near bankruptcy. Reprint. 100,0000 first printing. Tour.",1996,3.96,512,13237
9780679776215,0679776214,The Grotesque,A Novel,Patrick McGrath,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fVPxDdoEzlYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A paralyzed Sir Hugo Coal chips away at the mystery of the murder of his daughter's fiance+a7, weighing the possible motives of those who share his manor, including his enigmatic butler, Fledge. Reprint. Movie tie-in.",1996,3.63,178,785
9780679776314,0679776311,The Road to Reality,A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe,Roger Penrose,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=coahAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents an overview of the physical laws of the universe, with an explanation of the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics, cosmology, the Big Bang, black holes, and string and M theory.",2007,4.1,1099,5892
9780679776819,0679776818,Birdsong,,Sebastian Faulks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qZxaAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1910, Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, journeys to France, becomes embroiled in a series of traumatic events, including a clandestine love affair, and finds himself trapped amid the horrors of the First World War. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.",1997,4.08,483,55388
9780679781172,067978117X,The Living and the Dead,Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War,Paul Hendrickson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nfxvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A critical study of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his role in the Vietnam War focuses on the lives of five people who become intertwined in the resulting chaos--a combat Marine, an Army nurse, a Vietnamese refugee, a Quaker, and an artist. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.",1997,4.03,448,129
9780679781486,067978148X,The Rules of Attraction,,Bret Easton Ellis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UoiIA-jWSo0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With irony and compassion, the author of Less Than Zero chronicles the sexual affairs--heterosexual, homosexual, and orgiastic--of a group of students at a self-consciously bohemian New England college. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",1998,3.7,283,32277
9780679781493,0679781498,Less Than Zero,,Bret Easton Ellis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jrrQddLXFiYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, a best-selling novel follows a cast of upper-class, good-looking, oversexed, drug-addled, thrill-seeking, college-age characters on the road to perdition. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.",1998,3.58,208,51555
9780679783183,0679783180,The Charterhouse of Parma,,Stendhal,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZKk_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the adventures of young Fabrizio del Dongo as he joins Napoleon's army just before the Battle of Waterloo, and struggles to keep hidden his love for Clelia amid the intrigues and secrets of the small court of Parma.",2000,3.82,532,10608
9780679783398,0679783393,Basic Writings of Nietzsche,,Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n5CcS5VUJWoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Six works selected from Nietzsche's writings, including ""The Birth of Tragedy,"" ""Beyond Good and Evil,"" and ""On the Genealogy of Morals"" reflect the philosopher's critique of Western morality and insights into Christianity and art.",2000,4.11,862,3144
9780679783480,0679783482,Shalimar the Clown,A Novel,Salman Rushdie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oJcKQQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1991, Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls--ex-ambassador to India, and America's counterterrorism chief--is murdered on the Los Angeles doorstep of his illegitimate daughter's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, who calls himself Shalimar the Clown.",2006,3.87,398,11110
9780679783619,067978361X,In the Land of White Death,An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic,Valerian Ivanovich Alʹbanov,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=58QiDr5XCbUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Russian navigator describes an ill-fated 1912 Arctic expedition aboard the Saint Anna, and his grueling cross-country journey to get help in 1914.",2000,4,288,1836
9780679785897,0679785892,Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,Hunter S. Thompson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VN-JDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Records the experiences of a free-lance writer who embarked on a zany journey into the drug culture,1998,4.08,204,259867
9780679801115,0679801111,In the Hand of the Goddess,,Tamora Pierce,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DPqs5k3NuzkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Alanna achieves the honor of becoming Prince Jonathan's squire and must be strong and courageous in order to protect him from the destructive forces of the evil sorcerer. Reprint.,1997,4.25,209,1432
9780679832690,0679832696,P.J. Funnybunny Camps Out,,Marilyn Sadler,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ygFNKTPvyvgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Although P.J. and his friends refuse to let Donna and Honey Bunny go camping with them because ""camping is not for girls, "" the girls follow and get proof that camping is hard work even for boys.",1993,3.86,32,159
9780679838869,0679838864,Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business,,Barbara Park,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LRK1ms8iJDkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.",1993,3.98,68,10723
9780679847595,0679847596,Ballet Shoes,,Noel Streatfeild,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0UvIaTS6wysC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a classic children's story, three unsinkable orphans, believing that they are destined for greatness, set out to make their marks in the world of show business. Reprint.",1993,4.07,233,28222
9780679853954,0679853952,"Dear God, Help!!! Love, Earl",,Barbara Park,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4cCq5ucKskMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Earl is ready to do anything to avoid the meanest kid in school-even if it means playing dead.,1994,3.95,144,36
9780679854340,0679854347,Theater Shoes,,Noel Streatfeild,Juvenile Fiction,,"During World War II in England, three motherless children, whose father is reported missing in action, go to live with their grandmother in London and join the members of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.",1994,4.02,272,4388
9780679867128,0679867120,Daisy-head Mayzie,,Dr. Seuss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rC9T3CBVUsgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Young Mayzie McGrew becomes a worldwide sensation when a daisy grows out of the top of her head, and everyone attempts to get rid of it.",1994,3.86,56,3128
9780679882817,0679882812,Dr. Seuss's ABC,An Amazing Alphabet Book!,Dr. Seuss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mdn4Wi8YYQAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Pictures illustrate things that begin with each letter of the alphabet, including Aunt Annie's alligator and a yawning yellow yak",1996,4.08,21,27135
9780679887430,0679887431,The Berenstain Bears and the Blame Game,,Stan Berenstain;Jan Berenstain,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eAYKSx5K4TAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Members of the Bear family try to solve their problems without playing the blame game of arguing over who is responsible for every disaster.,1997,3.87,32,722
9780679888093,0679888098,The Little Butterfly,,,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZwEpErWLxtoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows a newly hatched caterpillar from birth to metamorphosis, mating, and migration.",1998,4.06,24,16
9780679889106,0679889108,The Lorax,,Dr. Seuss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V-cyAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Once-ler describes the consequences of local pollution and business practices that harm the environment.,1998,4.35,72,245819
9780679889113,0679889116,Three Tales of My Father's Dragon,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1xo5KBC5JR0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A compilation of three tales which relate the fantastic adventures of Elmer Elevator and a baby flying dragon named Boris.,1998,4.27,242,3352
9780679890522,0679890521,The Trail of Tears,,Joseph Bruchac;Diana Magnuson,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QxRUPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1838, settlers moving west forced the great Cherokee Nation, and their chief John Ross, to leave their home land and travel 1,200 miles to Oklahoma. An epic story of friendship, war, hope, and betrayal.",1999,3.88,48,155
9780679890706,067989070X,Earthquake in the Early Morning,,Mary Pope Osborne,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9f5PDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.",2001,3.93,96,6580
9780679891116,0679891110,The Cat in the Hat,,Dr. Seuss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WocHzQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat who shows them some tricks and games.,1997,4.16,61,290
9780681224773,0681224770,Leaves of Grass,1855 Edition,Walt Whitman,American poetry,,,1998,4.12,155,29
9780681403222,0681403225,The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide,Complete & Unabridged,Douglas Adams,Fiction,,Five stories by Douglas Adams.,1987,4.58,624,424
9780684800288,0684800284,Every Night Italian,,Giuliano Hazan,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GkQA_gwlRhsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Reveals the secret to preparing quick, flavorful Italian cuisine in recipes for appetizers, antipasto, main entrees, salads, and desserts",2000,3.75,256,65
9780684800707,0684800705,"The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stories",The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka,Franz Kafka,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YTDxAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as ""The Judgment"" and ""The Stoker"" -- now includes two new stories, ""First Sorrow"" and ""The Hunger Artist.""",2000,4.04,352,13610
9780684801520,0684801523,The Great Gatsby,,Francis Scott Fitzgerald,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eaLjDeMV_WsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact she has married",1995,3.91,216,9677
9780684801537,0684801531,A Life in Letters,A New Collection Edited and Annotated by Matthew J. Bruccoli,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1oz-yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life. In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America's most enduring and elegant authors. A Life in Letters is the most comprehensive volume of Fitzgerald's letters -- many of them appearing in print for the first time. The fullness of the selection and the chronological arrangement make this collection the closest thing to an autobiography that Fitzgerald ever wrote. While many readers are familiar with Fitzgerald's legendary ""jazz age"" social life and his friendships with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, and other famous authors, few are aware of his writings about his life and his views on writing. Letters to his editor Maxwell Perkins illustrate the development of Fitzgerald's literary sensibility; those to his friend and competitor Ernest Hemingway reveal their difficult relationship. The most poignant letters here were written to his wife, Zelda, from the time of their courtship in Montgomery, Alabama, during World War I to her extended convalescence in a sanatorium near Asheville, North Carolina. Fitzgerald is by turns affectionate and proud in his letters to his daughter, Scottie, at college in the East while he was struggling in Hollywood. For readers who think primarily of Fitzgerald as a hard-drinking playboy for whom writing was effortless, these letters show his serious, painstaking concerns with creating realistic, durable art.",1995,4.24,528,178
9780684804422,0684804425,The Pat Hobby Stories,,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SJLYUSj_qHMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Seventeen episodes in the life of a Hollywood scenario hack in the late 1930's. Introduction by Arnold Gingrich, publisher of ""Esquire,"" in which the stories appeared from January 1940 to May 1941.",1995,3.58,192,889
9780684804453,068480445X,The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,A New Collection,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Jbv7PvYYgDMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Gathers more than forty Fitzgerald stories and provides brief background information on each piece,1995,4.23,775,903
9780684804521,0684804522,The Garden of Eden,,Ernest Hemingway,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tsOzjNzcvPcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. ""A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, and strangely contemporary,"" The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master ""doing what nobody did better"" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).",1995,3.73,248,14366
9780684806372,0684806371,American writers,,Gale Group,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-ACmyoVIwxkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important American writers. Presents scholar-signed essays prepared by experts in the field.,2001,0,400,0
9780684809663,0684809664,"Janet, My Mother, and Me",A Memoir of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray,William Murray,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UySkO8TVBUgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author recounts the relationship between his mother and Janet Flanner, and their influence on his life",2000,3.46,320,35
9780684813219,0684813211,Achilles in Vietnam,Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character,Jonathan Shay,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6EEnD9VyLa4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a “transcendent literary adventure” (The New York Times) and “clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried).",1994,4.24,272,1057
9780684813639,0684813637,John Adams,,David McCullough,Biography & Autobiography,,"In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- ""the colossus of independence,"" as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as ""out of his senses""; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era. As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson's Paris ""interest"" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President. Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites -- one a Massachusetts farmer's son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were alike in their devotion to their country. At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties, they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history. Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly, they died on the same day -- their day of days -- July 4, in the year 1826. Much about John Adams's life will come as a surprise to many readers. His courageous voyage on the frigate Boston in the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few would have dared and that few readers will ever forget. It is a life encompassing a huge arc -- Adams lived longer than any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St. James's, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation, to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.",2001,4.06,752,1785
9780684813783,0684813785,The Making of the Atomic Bomb,,Richard Rhodes,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5o70W8CR6vMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Traces the development of the atomic bomb from Leo Szilard's concept through the drama of the race to build a workable device to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima,1986,4.35,886,13764
9780684823782,0684823780,Mere Christianity,"Comprising The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality",C. S. Lewis,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3RJkMgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Discusses the essence of Christian faith and the doctrine of the Trinity.,1996,4.32,191,233819
9780684825007,0684825007,Italians,,Luigi Barzini,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h4DGyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Examines the character and history of the Italian people.,1996,3.85,352,558
9780684825106,0684825104,The Promise of Rest,,Reynolds Price,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y2I1lAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this stunning and fully independent conclusion to A Great Circle, Reynolds Price tells the complex, moving story of a man's return home to die of AIDS and of the unexpected effect that his arrival -- and his death -- has on his family. Wade Mayfield's parents are separated, but for the remaining months of his life they and their friends come together to care for Wade with the love they can muster. They are unprepared, however, for the astonishing mystery Wade has prepared to reveal once he is gone -- a mystery that initiates the possible reunion of his parents and promises to continue the proud traditions of a complex, multiracial family.",1996,3.99,368,251
9780684826356,0684826356,The Reawakening,,Primo Levi,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1SLMomBN0ZwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"First published in English in 1965, ""The Reawakening"" is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, ""Survival in Auschwitz."" The inspiring story of Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it tells of his strange and eventful journey home to Italy by way of the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. Levi's railway travels take him through bombed-out cities and transit camps, with keen insight he describes the former prisoners and Russian soldiers he encounters along the way. An extraordinary account of faith, hope, and undying courage, ""The Reawakening"" was praised by Irving Howe as ""a remarkable feat of literary craft.""",1995,4.27,230,1204
9780684826806,0684826801,Survival In Auschwitz,,Primo Levi,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6w1uHveM54EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The author describes his twenty month ordeal in the Nazi death camp.,1996,4.31,187,27701
9780684829456,0684829452,Three case histories,,Sigmund Freud;Philip Rieff,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f1ksAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1996,3.91,282,616
9780684830513,0684830515,The Sun Also Rises,,Ernest Hemingway,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_-KBsJuQaCgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In the socially dislocated period after World War I, an American expatriate and a British peeress conduct a hopeless love affair.",1996,3.82,222,1599
9780684831831,068483183X,Touched With Fire,,Kay Redfield Jamison,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=265d7u5NCXAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the bestselling psychologist of bipolar disorders who wrote An Unquiet Mind. One of the foremost psychologists in America, “Kay Jamison is plainly among the few who have a profound understanding of the relationship that exists between art and madness” (William Styron). The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers, and musicians. Her work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists subject to exalted highs and despairing lows were in fact engaged in a struggle with clinically identifiable manic-depressive illness. Jamison presents proof of the biological foundations of this disease and applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of some of the world's greatest artists including Lord Byron, Vincent Van Gogh, and Virginia Woolf.",1996,4.01,384,4087
9780684832401,0684832402,The Denial of Death,,Ernest Becker,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wP9zAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Drawing from religion and the human sciences, particularly psychology after Freud, the author attempts to demonstrate that the fear of death is man's central concern",1997,4.17,336,5894
9780684837932,0684837935,A Calendar of Wisdom,"Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts",Leo Tolstoy,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mFb7wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a brightness undimmed by time. Unjustly censored for nearly a century, it deserves to be placed with the few books in our history that will never cease teaching us the essence of what is important in this world.",1997,4.1,384,423
9780684839745,0684839741,Good as Gold,,Joseph Heller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bOje2c-UzAYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Dr. Bruce Gold, a forty-eight-year-old Jewish professor of English, faces the possibilities of being appointed to a high State Department position and being disowned by his family",1997,3.36,445,2548
9780684839790,0684839792,Tolkien,The Illustrated Encyclopaedia,David Day,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nzh93npJTe4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Sections alphabetically list facts about the history, geography, sociology, natural history, and biography of Tolkien's imaginary world",1991,4.13,288,3919
9780684841212,0684841215,Something Happened,,Joseph Heller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X-CILqF-RugC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22.",1974,3.52,576,5983
9780684841250,0684841258,God Knows,,Joseph Heller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MGWhOTocVpQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller.",1997,3.8,368,2896
9780684842233,0684842238,On Death and Dying,,Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zb-ZNYFUXhsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Explains the attitudes of the dying toward themselves and others and presents a humane approach to relieving the psychological suffering of the terminally ill and their families,1997,4.16,288,140
9780684842509,0684842505,The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,,F. Scott Fitzgerald;Matthew Joseph Bruccoli,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1a9cbpoIhecC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his novels such as THE GREAT GATSBY, but during his all-too-brief literary life, he sold some 160 short stories to popular magazines. Here, noted scholar and biographer Matthew Bruccoli assembles in one volume the full scope of the best of Fitzgerald's short fiction. These 43 sparkling masterpieces are offered in a handsome Scribner Classics edition, perfect for the home library.",1998,4.23,800,11931
9780684843124,0684843129,"Two Girls, Fat and Thin",A Novel,Mary Gaitskill,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I5QU-nNmg1sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of ""Because They Wanted To"", this captivating novel shimmers with dark intensity and wicked wit. In a stunning synthesis of eroticism, rage, pathos, and humor, Gaitskill's ""fine storyteller's pace and brilliant metaphors"" (""The New York Times Book Review"") create a haunting and unforgettable journey into the dark side of contemporary life and the deepest recesses of the soul.",1998,3.63,320,1584
9780684843322,0684843323,The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway,The Finca Vigia Edition,Ernest Hemingway,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=27YWOGDIvNEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as ""The Snows of Kilimanjaro,"" ""Hills Like White Elephants,"" and ""A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,"" and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.",1998,4.29,650,29556
9780684844077,0684844079,Soul of the Sword,An Illustrated History of Weaponry and Warfare from Prehistory to the Present,Robert L. O'Connell,Technology & Engineering,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eoEagVTujdcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A sweeping illustrated history of war and the implements used to perpetrate it takes readers on a fascinating tour of humanity's most persistant and destructive character trait and the technology that has been developed to promote warfare. 35,000 first printing.",2002,4.08,400,36
9780684844640,0684844648,Across the River and Into the Trees,,Ernest Hemingway,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vYPNBLcwhDMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"During World War II, Colonel Richard Cantwell, an American soldier, falls in love with a young Italian countess in Venice",1998,3.34,272,5269
9780684845777,0684845776,Unlimited Power,The New Science Of Personal Achievement,Tony Robbins,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qf1NuwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Anthony Robbins calls it the new science of personal achievement. You'll call it the best thing that ever happened to you. If you have ever dreamed of a better life, Unlimited Power will show you how to achieve the extraordinary quality of life you desire and deserve, and how to master your personal and professional life. Anthony Robbins has proven to millions through his books, tapes, and seminars that by harnessing the power of the mind you can do, have, achieve, and create anything you want for your life. He has shown heads of state, royalty, Olympic and professional athletes, movie stars, and children how to achieve. With Unlimited Power, he passionately and eloquently reveals the science of personal achievement and teaches you: * How to find out what you really want * The Seven Lies of Success * How to reprogram your mind in minutes to eliminate fears and phobias * The secret of creating instant rapport with anyone you meet * How to duplicate the success of others * The Five Keys to Wealth and Happiness Unlimited Power is a revolutionary fitness book for the mind. It will show you, step by step, how to perform at your peak while gaining emotional and financial freedom, attaining leadership and self-confidence, and winning the cooperation of others. It will give you the knowledge and the courage to remake yourself and your world. Unlimited Power is a guidebook to superior performance in an age of success.",1997,4.22,448,23058
9780684846118,068484611X,Tearing the Silence,On Being German in America,Ursula Hegi,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XtESq3kXXkgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Reveals the feelings of those German-born Americans who still carry the burden of shame brought on by the Holocaust,1998,3.86,304,256
9780684846316,0684846314,The Wheel of Life,A Memoir of Living and Dying,Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wpWicdZJHJsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An authority on death and dying offers a memoir of her lifetime of work, from war-ravaged Poland to her seminars at the University of Chicago, and details her belief that there is life after death",1998,4.16,288,1035
9780684846941,0684846942,Kate Vaiden,,Reynolds Price,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=13k-lQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"0ne of the most feisty, spellbinding and engaging heroines in modern fiction captures the essence of her own life in this contemporary American odyssey born of red-clay land and small-town people. We meet Kate at a crucial moment in middle age when she begins to yearn to see the son she abandoned when she was seventeen. But if she decides to seek him, will he understand her? Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Kate Vaiden is a penetrating psychological portrait of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances, a story as joyous, tragic, comic and compelling as life itself.",1998,3.91,306,1313
9780684848150,0684848155,Underworld,A Novel,Don DeLillo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m0oRCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A work combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years gives readers a glimpse into the realities upon which America's modern culture is based and explores the complex relationship between ""waste analyst"" Nick Shay and artist Klara Sax",1998,3.92,827,1471
9780684848235,0684848236,Ronald Reagan,How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader,Dinesh D'Souza,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Xn4JEGVh-bYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explores Reagan's political career, from his role in the California tax revolt to the economic success the United States experienced during his term in office",1999,4.12,304,1027
9780684849300,0684849305,The Children's Book of America,,William J. Bennett;Michael Hague,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5LcLtxBGOSsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents stories of significant events and people in American history, patriotic songs, and American folk tales and poems.",1998,4.17,112,86
9780684849690,0684849690,The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn,A Novel,Robin Maxwell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DmY-lfd_sncC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Upon her coronation as Queen, Elizabeth I receives her mother Ann Boleyn's diary and learns of her love for her and her torment at the hands of Henry VIII",1998,3.8,281,5109
9780684850276,0684850273,The Fall of a Sparrow,A Novel,Robert Hellenga,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MxU1a_lzr0oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Tells the story of a midwestern professor who, his career ruined by an affair with a student, travels to Bologna to attend a trial of terrorists who had killed his eldest daughter",1999,3.69,464,799
9780684850627,0684850621,The Walrus Was Paul,The Great Beatle Death Clues,R. Gary Patterson,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hf26FKVpe_YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A guide to the hoax that Paul McCartney was killed in an automobile accident in 1966 and replaced by a look-a-like,1998,3.73,208,425
9780684852225,0684852225,Close Range,Wyoming Stories,Annie Proulx,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-u1PWw7Q2ZAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A collection of short stories, which includes the short story, Brokeback Mountain.",2000,3.99,285,12219
9780684852560,068485256X,The Last Temptation of Christ,,Nikos Kazantzakis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KKscoUF0OJsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Novel which portrays Christ as a sensitive human being who is torn between his own passionates desires and his triumphant destiny on the cross,1998,4.16,506,8672
9780684852638,0684852632,Shadow,Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate,Bob Woodward,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=phfBgXFkgVIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over,” President Ford declared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered. With special emphasis on the human toll, Woodward shows the consequences of the new ethics laws, and the emboldened Congress and media. Powerful investigations increasingly stripped away the privacy and protections once expected by the nation's chief executive. Shadow is an authoritative, unsettling narrative of the modern, beleaguered presidency.",2000,3.71,608,1014
9780684852706,0684852705,Hamlet's Dresser,A Memoir,Bob Smith,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KZxn1zPfQEsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A Shakespeare instructor to the acting community discusses his childhood spent with an overwhelmed mother, critical father, and severely handicapped sister; the discovery of Shakespeare that gave him a purpose and a means of viewing the world; and his work with celebrated actors, seniors, and college students. Reprint.",2003,3.75,288,363
9780684853765,0684853760,Out of the Woods,Stories,Chris Offutt,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=foXPsJ2tLKMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This collection of eight stories by the award-winning author of ""The Good Brother"" captures the lives of men shaped by the rough, isolated culture of rural Kentucky.",2000,4.06,176,450
9780684854274,0684854279,Merde!,The Real French You Were Never Taught at School,Genevieve,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q4TUK4-dUrAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explains the meaning of French slang expressions, idioms, epithets, and colloquialisms",1998,3.95,112,149
9780684854281,0684854287,Merde Encore!,,Genevieve,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mVY62inJrbwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explains the meaning of French slang expressions, idioms, and colloquialisms, and identifies common French gestures",1998,3.94,104,45
9780684854465,0684854465,Mad Cowboy,Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat,Howard F. Lyman;Glen Merzer,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n2zDhP8PB5gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The former cattle rancher whose appearance on ""The Oprah Winfrey Show"" sparked a lawsuit against both him and Winfrey exposes the hazardous practices of the cattle and dairy industries.",2001,4.13,224,1804
9780684854670,0684854678,The Noonday Demon,An Atlas of Depression,Andrew Solomon,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZgbbAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations -- around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incom-parable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning.",2002,4.17,576,8749
9780684856025,0684856026,Cryptozoology A To Z,The Encyclopedia Of Loch Monsters Sasquatch Chupacabras And Other Authentic M,Loren Coleman;Jerome Clark,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4ZTgX7BZXqoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Explores the truth and the myths behind such legendary creatures as the Loch Ness monster and Sasquatch,1999,4,272,761
9780684856476,0684856476,The Rum Diary,A Novel,Hunter S. Thompson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0AuXF547DqoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A young reporter's life in the 1950s. Paul Kemp breaks into the profession on a newspaper in Puerto Rico and through his eyes are portrayed colorful characters in the days when newspapers flourished.,1999,3.82,224,43921
9780684857084,0684857081,Easy Riders Raging Bulls,How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood,Peter Biskind,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=codQ42093roC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Examines the impact upon Hollywood of the generation of filmmakers from the 1960s to the 1980s,1999,4.11,512,5004
9780684859231,0684859238,To Have and Have Not,,Ernest Hemingway,Fiction,,"To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the ""haves"" and the ""have nots"" and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. In turn funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not takes literary high adventure to a new level. As the Times Literary Supplement observed, ""Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous.""",1999,3.56,176,18450
9780684865522,0684865521,No Heroes,A Memoir of Coming Home,Chris Offutt,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fE3tUcY6yRgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author of The Same River Twice recalls his painful but ultimately revealing attempt to return home to the rural hills of Kentucky to give back to his hometown community and to record the personal story of his parents-in-law, Holocaust survivors who had emigrated from Poland in 1946. Reprint.",2003,3.85,272,179
9780684867427,0684867427,Jukebox Queen Of Malta,A Novel,Nicholas Rinaldi,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q03_6aP44JoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Jukebox Queen of Malta is an exquisite and enchanting novel of love and war set on an island perilously balanced between what is real and what is not. It's 1942 and Rocco Raven, an intrepid auto mechanic turned corporal from Brooklyn, has arrived in Malta, a Mediterranean island of Neolithic caves, Copper Age temples, and fortresses. The island is under siege, full of smoke and rubble, caught in the magnesium glare of German and Italian bombs. But nothing is as it seems on Malta. Rocco's living quarters are a brothel; his commanding officer has a genius for turning the war's misfortunes into personal profit; and the Maltese people, astonishingly, testify to the resiliency of the human spirit. When Rocco meets the beautiful and ethereal Melita, who delivers the jukeboxes her cousin builds out of shattered debris, they are drawn to each other by an immediate passion. And, it is their full-blown affair that at once liberates and imprisons Rocco on the island. In this mesmerizing novel, music and bombs, war and romance, the jukebox and the gun exist in arresting counterpoint in a story that is a profound and deeply moving exploration of the redemptive powers of love.",2000,3.47,368,118
9780684867489,0684867486,Yesterday I Cried,Celebrating The Lessons Of Living And Loving,Iyanla Vanzant,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=imTTXGVtdUEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The National Bestseller What is the lesson in abuse, neglect, abandonment, rejection? What is the lesson when you lose someone you really love? Just what are the lessons of life's hard times? Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has had an amazing and difficult life -- one of great challenges that unmasked her wonderful gifts and led to wisdom gained. In this simple book, she uses her own personal experiences to show how life's hardships can be re-languaged and revisioned to become lessons that teach us as we grow, heal, and learn to love. The pain of the past does not have to be today's reality. Iyanla Vanzant is an example of how yesterday's tears become the seeds of today's hope, renewal, and strength.",2000,4.22,304,2250
9780684867854,0684867850,Of Time and the River,A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth,Thomas Wolfe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6G16-JUIP5YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Leaving his Southern home for Harvard University, New York City, and then, Europe, Eugen Gant explores his manhood and his American identity, falling in love with a beautiful stage designer along the way.",1999,4.19,896,751
9780684868196,0684868199,Picture This,A Novel,Joseph Heller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0NGb6oS3DIcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Conjured back to life by Rembrandt's famous ""Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer,"" Aristotle surveys history and profiles historical personalities, ultimately concluding that not much has changed in 2,500 years",2000,3.68,352,1184
9780684873176,0684873176,The Mutineer,"Rants, Ravings, and Missives from the Mountaintop 1977-2005",Hunter S. Thompson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AXL7PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The third and final collection of literary legend Hunter S. Thompson's previously unpublished letters bears witness to his final years (1976-2005).,2014,4.1,752,84
9780684873206,0684873206,Hey Rube,"Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Modern History from the Sports Desk",Hunter S. Thompson,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TkhXPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sports, politics, and sex collide in Hunter S. Thompson’s wildly popular ESPN.com columns. From the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and father of “Gonzo” journalism comes Hey Rube. Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a century, Hunter S. Thompson devastated his readers with his acerbic wit and uncanny grasp of politics and history. His reign as ""The Unabomber of contemporary letters"" (Time) is more legendary than ever with Hey Rube. Fear, greed, and action abound in this hilarious, thought-provoking compilation as Thompson doles out searing indictments and uproarious rants while providing commentary on politics, sex, and sports—at times all in the same column. With an enlightening foreword by ESPN executive editor John Walsh, critics' favorites, and never-before-published columns, Hey Rube follows Thompson through the beginning of the new century, revealing his queasiness over the 2000 election (""rigged and fixed from the start""); his take on professional sports (to improve Major League Baseball ""eliminate the pitcher""); and his myriad controversial opinions and brutally honest observations on issues plaguing America―including the Bush administration and the inequities within the American judicial system. Hey Rube gives us a lasting look at the gonzo journalist in his most organic form―unbridled, astute, and irreverent.",2005,3.68,272,2242
9780684873213,0684873214,Screwjack,A Short Story,Hunter S. Thompson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ncxfQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hunter S. Thompson's legions of fans have waited a decade for this book. They will not be disappointed. His notorious Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since the private printing in 1991 of three hundred fine collectors' copies and twenty-six leather-bound presentation copies. Only the first of the three pieces included here -- ""Mescalito,"" published in Thompson's 1990 collection Songs of the Doomed -- has been available to the public, making the trade edition of Screwjack a major publishing event. ""We live in a jungle of pending disasters,"" Thompson warns in ""Mescalito,"" a chronicle of his first mescaline experience and what it sparked in him while he was alone in an L.A. hotel room in February 1969 -- including a bout of paranoia that would have made most people just scream no, once and for all. But for Thompson, along with the downside came a burst of creativity too powerful to ignore. The result is a poetic, perceptive, and wildly funny stream-of-consciousness take on 1969 America as only Hunter S. Thompson could see it. Screwjack just gets weirder with its second offering, ""Death of a Poet."" As Thompson describes this trailer-park confrontation with the dark side of a deservingly doomed friend: ""Whoops, I thought. Welcome to the night train."" The heart of the collection lies in its final, title piece, an unnaturally poignant love story. What makes the romantic tale ""Screwjack"" so touching, for all its queerness, is the aching melancholy in its depiction of the modern man's burden: that ""we are doomed. Mama has gone off to Real Estate School ...and after that maybe even to Law School. We will never see her again."" Ostensibly written by Raoul Duke, ""Screwjack"" begins with an editor's note explaining of Thompson's alter ego that ""the first few lines contain no warning of the madness and fear and lust that came more and more to plague him and dominate his life...."" ""I am guilty, Lord,"" Thompson writes, ""but I am also a lover -- and I am one of your best people, as you know; and yea tho I have walked in many strange shadows and acted crazy from time to time and even drooled on many High Priests, I have not been an embarrassment to you...."" Nor has Hunter S. Thompson been to American literature. Quite the contrary: What the legendary Gonzo journalist proves with Screwjack is just how brilliant a prose stylist he really is, amid all the hilarity. As Thompson puts it in his introduction, the three stories here ""build like Bolero to a faster & wilder climax that will drag the reader relentlessly up a hill, & then drop him off a cliff....That is the Desired Effect"".",2000,3.57,64,3363
9780687002825,0687002826,Exclusion and Embrace,"A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation",Miroslav Volf,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Cqto7sVhTS8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion. Increasingly we see that exclusion has become the primary sin, skewing our perceptions of reality and causing us to react out of fear and anger to all those who are not within our (ever-narrowing) circle. In light of this, Christians must learn that salvation comes, not only as we are reconciled to God, and not only as we ""learn to live with one another,"" but as we take the dangerous and costly step of opening ourselves to the other, of enfolding him or her in the same embrace with which we have been enfolded by God. Is there any hope of embracing our enemies? Of opening the door to reconciliation? Miroslav Volf, a Yale University theologian, has won the 2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon, 1996). Volf argues that ""exclusion"" of people who are alien or different is among the most intractable problems in the world today. He writes, ""It may not be too much to claim that the future of our world will depend on how we deal with identity and difference. The issue is urgent. The ghettos and battlefields throughout the world--in the living rooms, in inner cities, or on the mountain ranges--testify indisputably to its importance."" A Croatian by birth, Volf takes as a starting point for his analysis the recent civil war and ""ethnic cleansing"" in the former Yugoslavia, but he readily finds other examples of cultural, ethnic, and racial conflict to illustrate his points. And, since September 11, one can scarcely help but plug the new world players into his incisive descriptions of the dynamics of interethnic and international strife. Exclusion happens, Volf argues, wherever impenetrable barriers are set up that prevent a creative encounter with the other. It is easy to assume that ""exclusion"" is the problem or practice of ""barbarians"" who live ""over there,"" but Volf persuades us that exclusion is all too often our practice ""here"" as well. Modern western societies, including American society, typically recite their histories as ""narratives of inclusion,"" and Volf celebrates the truth in these narratives. But he points out that these narratives conveniently omit certain groups who ""disturb the integrity of their 'happy ending' plots."" Therefore such narratives of inclusion invite ""long and gruesome"" counter-narratives of exclusion--the brutal histories of slavery and of the decimation of Native American populations come readily to mind, but more current examples could also be found. Most proposed solutions to the problem of exclusion have focused on social arrangements--what kind of society ought we to create in order to accommodate individual or communal difference? Volf focuses, rather, on ""what kind of selves we need to be in order to live in harmony with others."" In addressing the topic, Volf stresses the social implications of divine self-giving. The Christian scriptures attest that God does not abandon the godless to their evil, but gives of Godself to bring them into communion. We are called to do likewise--""whoever our enemies and whoever we may be."" The divine mandate to embrace as God has embraced is summarized in Paul's injunction to the Romans: ""Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you"" (Romans 15:7). Susan R. Garrett, Coordinator of the Religion Award, said that the Grawemeyer selection committee praised Volf's book on many counts. These included its profound interpretation of certain pivotal passages of Scripture and its brilliant engagement with contemporary theology, philosophy, critical theory, and feminist theory. ""Volf's focus is not on social strategies or programs but, rather, on showing us new ways to understand ourselves and our relation to our enemies. He helps us to imagine new possibilities for living against violence, injustice, and deception."" Garrett added that, although addressed primarily to Christians, Volf's theological statement opens itself to religious pluralism by upholding the importance of different religious and cultural traditions for the formation of personal and group identity. The call to ""embrace the other"" is never a call to remake the other into one's own image. Volf--who had just delivered a lecture on the topic of Exclusion and Embrace at a prayer breakfast for the United Nations when the first hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center--will present a lecture and receive his award in Louisville during the first week of April, 2002. The annual Religion Award, which includes a cash prize of $200,000, is given jointly by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville to the authors or originators of creative works that contribute significantly to an understanding of ""the relationship between human beings and the divine, and ways in which this relationship may inspire or empower human beings to attain wholeness, integrity, or meaning, either individually or in community."" The Grawemeyer awards--given also by the University of Louisville in the fields of musical composition, education, psychology, and world order--honor the virtue of accessibility: works chosen for the awards must be comprehensible to thinking persons who are not specialists in the various fields.",1996,4.27,306,1895
9780688003470,0688003478,The Merlin Trilogy,,Mary Stewart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oVI0VKDbhZYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Arthurian legend is one of the most enduring and powerful of myths, and Mary Stewart's classic The Merlin Trilogy is one of its most beloved and acclaimed retellings. In prose that is as vividly, achingly real as it is poetic, New York Times bestselling author Mary Stewart brings to life the man behind the myth: Myrddin Emrys ... Merlinus Ambrosius ... Merlin. The Crystal Cave The Hollow Hills The Last Enchantment Born the bastard son of a Welsh princess, Myrddin Emrys -- or, as he would later be known, Merlin -- leads a perilous childhood in The Crystal Cave, haunted by portents and visions. But destiny has great plans for this no-man's-son, taking him from prophesying before the High King Vortigern to the crowning of UtherPendragon ... and the conception of Arthur -- king for once and always. Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon in The Hollow Hills, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted by dreams of the magical sword Caliburn, hidden for centuries. When Uther Pendragon is killed in battle, the time of destiny is at hand, and Arthur must claim the fabled sword to become the true High King of Britain. In The Last Enchantment, Arthur Pendragon is king at last. Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time of promise as Merlin works to keep safe the once and future king. But sinister powers plot to destroy Camelot, and when the witch-queen Morgause -- Arthur's own half sister -- ensnares him in an incestuous liaison, a fatal web of love, betrayal, and bloody vengeance is woven. Extensively researched and beautifully written, The Merlin Trilogy is the epic culmination of an acclaimed career, a legend in and of itself.",1980,4.39,928,4040
9780688023720,068802372X,Karate is a Thing of the Spirit,A Novel,Harry Crews,Fiction,,,1983,3.84,218,230
9780688039691,0688039693,Leadership and the One Minute Manager,Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership,Ken Blanchard;Patricia Zigarmi;Drea Zigarmi,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a_k3uwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In clear, simple terms Leadership and the One Minute Manager® teaches managers the art of Situational Leadership®--a simple system that refutes the conventional management mandate of treating all employees equally. Here, you'll learn why tailoring management styles to individual employees is so important; why knowing when to delegate, support, or direct is critical; how to identify the leadership style suited to a particular person; and how consistent use of the One Minute techniques will produce better management and enhanced motivation on all levels. This remarkable, easy-to-follow book is a priceless guide to creative, personalized leadership that elicits the best performance from your staff--and the best bottom line for any business. If your management motto is ""everyone should be treated equally,"" Leadership and the One Minute Manager. will show you why this style not only hinders workplace efficiency, but also frustrates your staff. In clear, simple terms, Ken Blanchard, co-author of the enormously popular The One Minute Manager., coupled with business gurus Patricia and Drea Zigarmi, teach managers the art of Situational Leadership.. You'll learn why tailoring management styles to individual employees is so important; when to delegate, support, or direct; how to identify the leadership style suited to a particular person; and how consistent use of the One Minute techniques will produce better management and enhanced motivation on all levels. This remarkable, easy-to-follow book is a priceless guide to creative, personalized leadership that elicits the best performance from your staff and the best bottom line for any business.",1999,3.97,111,2445
9780688052300,0688052304,Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,An Inquiry Into Values,Robert M. Pirsig,Essentialism (Philosophy),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jOGwxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The novel, published in 1974, uses a long motorcycle trip to frame a prolonged exploration of the world of ideas, about life and how best to live it. It references perspectives from Western and Eastern Civilizations as it explores the central question of the how to pursue technology so that human life is enriched rather than degraded. Narrated in the first person, it incorporates a parallel presentation of trip details and an ongoing retrospective concerning dramatic events from the Narrator's past, creating rich symbolism and including numerous analogies reinforcing the overall theme of coming to terms with the mysteries of why we exist and how best to live.",1984,3.77,412,414
9780688085872,0688085873,A Short History of World War II,,James L. Stokesbury,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uDBhlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have usually been written from an exclusively British or American point of view, or have ignored the important causes and consequences of the War. A Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940's. Lucidly written and eminently readable, it is factual and accurate enough to satisfy professional historians. A Short History of World War II will appeal equally to the general reader, the veteran who fought in the War, and the student interested in understanding the contemporary political world.",1980,3.93,416,454
9780688090258,0688090257,Worlds enough and time,the conclusion of the Worlds trilogy,Joe Haldeman;Joe W. Haldeman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6HMhAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the last volume of the parable of Earth's destruction and humanity's doomed flight from it, Mariane O'Hara frantically records the lives of her family and contemporaries when most of the earth's history and literature is wiped out from computer banks.",1992,3.7,332,322
9780688093686,068809368X,The first man in Rome,,Colleen McCullough,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kMRmPpDKdUgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A story tracing the creation of Republican Rome presents those who founded an empire, including Marius and Sulla, each determined to become the First Man of Rome",1990,4.1,896,294
9780688094553,0688094554,Ten Days to Self-Esteem,,David D. Burns,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vvPNyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Do you wake up dreading the day? Do you feel ciscouraged with what you've accomplished in life? Do you want greater self-esteem, productivity, and joy in daily living? If so, you will benefit from this revolutionary way of brightening your moods without drugs or lengthy therapy. All you need is your own common sense and the easy-to-follow methods revealed in this book by one of the country's foremost authorities on mood and personal relationship problems. In Ten Days to Self-esteem, Dr. David Burns presents innovative, clear, and compassionate methods that will help you identify the causes of your mood slumps and develop a more positive outlook on life. You will learn that You feel the way you think: Negative feelings like guilt, anger, and depression do not result from the bad things that happen to you, but from the way you think about these events. This simple but revolutionary idea can change your life! You can change the way you feel: You will discover why you get depressed and learn how to brighten your outlook when you're in a slump. You can enjoy greater happiness, productivity, and intimacy—without drugs or lengthy therapy. Can a self-help book do all this? Studies show that two thirds of depressed readers of Dr. Burns's classic bestseller, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, experienced dramatic felief in just four weeks without psychotherapy or antidepressant medications. Three-year follow-up studies revealed that readers did not relapse but continued to enjoy their positive outlook. Ten Days to Self-esteem offers a powerful new tool that provides hope and healing in ten easy steps. The methods are based on common sense and are not difficult to apply. Research shows that they really work! Feeling good feels wonderful. You owe it to yourself to feel good!",1999,3.97,336,408
9780688095130,0688095135,Korean Short History,,James L. Stokesbury,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2R2FlwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As pungent and concise as his short histories of both world wars, Stokesbury's survey of ""the half war"" takes a broad view and seems to leave nothing out but the details. The first third covers the North Korean invasion of June 1950, the Pusan perimeter crisis, MacArthur's master stroke at Inchon and the intervention by Chinese forces that November. At this point, other popular histories of the war reach the three-quarter mark, ending often with a cursory summary of the comparatively undramatic three-and-a-half years required to bring the war to its ambiguous conclusion on July 27, 1953. Stokesbury renders the latter period as interesting as the operational fireworks of the first six months: the Truman-MacArthur controversy; the political limitations on U.S. air power; the need for the Americans to fight the war as cheaply as possible, due to NATO commitments; the prolonged negotiations at Panmunjom over the prisoner-exchange issue; and the effect of the war on the home front. Whether the United States could have/should have stayed out of the war in the first place comes under discussion: ""no"" on both counts, according to the author.",1990,3.65,280,110
9780688140717,0688140718,Trapped in T Mirror,,Elan Golomb,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=40J1X4UypE4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this compelling book, Elan Golomb identifies the crux of the emotional and psychological problems of millions of adults. Simply put, the children of narcissist -- offspring of parents whose interest always towered above the most basic needs of their sons and daughters -- share a common belief: They believe they do not have the right to exist. The difficulties experienced by adult children of narcissists can manifest themselves in many ways: for examples, physical self-loathing that takes form of overeating, anorexia, or bulimia; a self-destructive streak that causes poor job performance and rocky personal relationships; or a struggle with the self that is perpetuated in the adult's interaction with his or her own children. These dilemmas are both common and correctable, Dr. Golomb tells us. With an empathic blend of scholarship and case studies, along with her own personal narrative of her fight for self, Dr. Golomb plumbs the depths of this problem, revealing its mysterious hold on the affairs of otherwise bright, aware, motivated, and worthy people. Trapped in the Mirror explores. the nature of the paralysis and lack of motivation so many adults feel stress and its role in exacerbating childhood wrongs why do many of our relationships seem to be ""reruns"" of the past how one's body image can be formed by faulty parenting how anger must be acknowledge to be overcome and, most important, how even the most traumatized self can be healed. Rooted in a profoundly humanist traditional approach, and suffused with the benefit of the latest knowledge about intrafamily relationships, Trapped in the Mirror offers more than the average self-help book; it is truly the first self-heal book for millions.",1995,3.82,272,729
9780688143886,0688143881,"Julius, the Baby of the World",,Kevin Henkes,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Tm0QqnrL-MIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The riotously funny Lilly, last seen in Chester's Way (Greenwillow), thinks her new baby brother, Julius, is disgusting -- if he was a number, he would be zero. But when Cousin Garland dares to criticize Julius, Lilly bullies her into loudly admiring Julius as the baby of the world.Lilly knows her baby brother is nothing but dreadful -- until she claims him for her own. ""Henkes displays a deep understanding of sibling rivalry and a child's fragile self-esteem....Lilly is a superb and timely heroine."" -- Publishers Weekly. """,1995,4.27,32,6528
9780688143923,068814392X,The Twelve Dancing Princesses,,Marianna Mayer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=03BIrNldt1YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For generations, children have loved the enchanting story of the twelve beautiful princesses and the handsome young lad who solves the mystery of their tattered shoes. Now Marianna Mayer brings to life all the splendor and romance of this beloved classic, from the dazzling forests Of silver, gold, and diamonds to a twilight palace where the bewitched princesses dance to hypnotic music. And award-winning artist Kinuko Craft add, her own magic: a visual feast of exquisite, jewel-like paintings that sweep across the pages. Together, Mayer and Craft have created an unforgettable world that readers of all ages will want to return to again and again.",1998,4.32,40,83
9780688149895,0688149898,Love Poems,,Nikki Giovanni,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rY3IlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contoversial writers.Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary ""Seduction"" to the tender new poem, ""Just a Simple Declaration of Love,"" from the whimsical ""I Wrote a Good Omelet"" to the elegiac ""All Eyez on U,"" written for Tupac Shakur, these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Nikki Giovanni is beloved and revered. Romantic, bold, and erotic, Love Poems expresses notions of love in ways that are delightfully unexpected. Articulating in sensuous verse what we know only instinctively, Nikki Giovanni once again confirms her place as one of our nations's most distinguished poets and powerful truth-tellers. In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, starting with her explosive early years in the Black Rights Movement, Nikki Giovanni has earned a reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Her mind-speaking work has made her a universal favorite and a number-one best-seller.The love poems-the revolutionary ""Seduction,"" the whimsical ""I Wrote a Good Omelet,"" and the tender ""My House"" to name just a few-are among the most beloved of all Nikki Giovanni's works. Now, Love Poems brings together these and other favorites with over twenty new poems. Romantic, bold, and erotic, Love Poems will once again confirm Nikki Giovanni's place among the country's most renowned poets and truth tellers.",1997,4.27,96,1654
9780688151324,0688151329,Behind a Mask,The Unknown Thrillers Of Louisa May Alcott,Louisa May Alcott,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hi0dRWdAhq0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Six years before she wrote Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, in financial straits, entered ""Pauline's Passion and Punishment,"" a novelette, in a newspaper contest. Not only did it win the $100 prize, but, published anonymously, it marked the first in the series of ""blood & thunder tales"" that would be her livelihood for years. In Behind a Mask, editor Madeleine Stern introduces four Alcott thrillers: ""Pauline's Passion and Punishment,"" ""The Mysterious Key,"" ""The Abbot's Ghost,"" and the title story, ""Behind a Mask."" First published in one volume in 1975, they are regarded as Alcott's finest work in this genre.",1997,3.76,281,1019
9780688152024,0688152023,NYC Ballet Workout,"Fifty Stretches And Exercises Anyone Can Do For A Strong, Graceful, And Sculpted Body",Peter Martins,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eB47sy06bEcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"New York City Ballet Workout is a revolutionary fitness program that will help you begin to develop lean abs, firm buttocks, a contoured waist, sculpted legs, slim thighs, strong arms, perfect posture, flexbility you never thought possible--and grace and poice of a dancer. More than three hundred stunning step-by-step and other photographs throughout make this the most beautiful and easy-to-use exercise book ever created.This elegant book is unlike any exercise book ever published. Graced with more than 300 instructional exercise photographs and extraordinary duotone portraits of New York City Ballet dancers, The New York City Ballet Workout explores the company's philosophy of balancing art, life, and fitness. By combining elements of New York City Ballet's balletic regimen with practical strength-building exercises, The New York City Ballet Workout can help people achieve a strong, graceful, and flexible body--one that displays the impeccable poise that is the trademark of New York City Ballet dancers. Many exercises of The New York City Ballet Workout were once confined to the world's elite rehearsal studios. Now, as refined by Peter Martins and his company, these exercises have been designed as a comprehensive, holistic approach to the body that can be used by anyone from the out-of-shape to the serious athlete, to attain a lean, hard, beautiful body. From flexibility to endurance, this is a complete exercise program for men and women.",1997,4,208,231
9780688153878,0688153879,Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory,How to Release Your Superpower Memory in 30 Minutes Or Less a Day,Kevin Trudeau,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nI4pXULkI6UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Do you think you have a ""bad memory""? Impossible, says Kevin Trudeau, the world's foremost authority on memory improvement training. There are no bad memories, only untrained memories. In order to release our natural memory, Trudeau says, we just need to learn to retrieve what we already know. As founder of the American Memory Institute, Kevin Trudeau has already helped more than one million people do just that. Each Mega Memory lesson in this book takes no more than thirty minutes per day and uses pictures, rather than the laborious word-association techniques of other memory systems, to activate our inborn memory. With this easy-to-follow system, you'll be able to instantly remember names, phone numbers, addresses, financial data, speeches, and schoolwork. Even better, Trudeau's system ensures instant recall and long-term Mega Memory. All you need is the desire to unleash your Mega Memory, and you can reap all these incredible rewards! Labeled with a learning disability at an early age, Kevin Trudeau was convinced his problem was an inability to recall information. He read everything he could on memory improvement. Eventually, he developed his own program for memory retrieval and formed the American Memory Institute. His Mega Memory home study system is the most utilized self-improvement series of all time.",1997,3.51,368,124
9780688154721,0688154727,Chester's Way,,Kevin Henkes,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FFUb6SyP8dEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chester and Wilson had their own way of doing things, and they did everything together. When they cut their sandwiches, it was always diagonally. When they rode their bikes, they always used hand signals. If Chester was hungry, Wilson was too. They were two of a kind, and that's the way it was - until indomitable Lilly, who had her own way of doing things, moved into the neighborhood.",1997,4.22,32,5021
9780688166250,0688166253,The Purpose of Your Life,"Finding Your Place In The World Using Synchronicity, Intuition, And Uncommon Sense",Carol Adrienne,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J_DExV9GGmAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The co-author of The Celestine Prophecy Experiential Guide helps readers uncover the unsuspected, untapped power of synchronicity and intuition that will bring success, satisfaction, and serenity. Everyone really has a purpose in life, says Carol Adrienne in her new guide to harnessing the power inside yourself. The question is: How do you learn to go with the flow and let your true nature guide you? Chapter by chapter, The Purpose of Your Life explains how to locate the source of your innate energy and focus it, how to align yourself with the natural forces that swirl around us always, and how to develop the intuition that fosters synchronicity. The book is packed with illuminating anecdotes and profiles of fascinating people -- from artists to urban planners to Zen masters -- who describe how they found their own purposes. There are practical exercises throughout, along with charts, self-questionnaires, and other tools that help you understand yourself and your deepest aspirations. As you learn to recognize and trust the voice of intuition, you'll find new doors opening and new possibilities everywhere. You'll feel invigorated by the potential you've unleashed, a power that will only grow with each new accomplishment. And you'll discover the serenity and satisfaction that come only to those who are living life to the fullest. The Force is with you -- all you have to do is reach out and start to use it.",1999,3.75,320,209
9780688171629,0688171621,Naked Pictures of Famous People,,Jon Stewart,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y3mpejO-RDAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In these nineteen whip-smart essays, Jon Stewart takes on politics, religion, and celebrity with a seethingly irreverent wit, a brilliantsense of timming, and a palate for the obsurd -- and these one-of-a-kind forays into his hilarious world will expose you to all its wickedly naked truths. He's the MTV generation's master of modern humor, a star of film, TV, and the comedy stage. This sultan of savvy serves up a whip-smart, utterly original collection of comic essays in Naked Pictures of Famous People. And as of January 11, 1999, you can enjoy the intelligence and self-deprecating charm he brings to contemporary comedy on Comedy Central's ""The Daily Show."" In his first book, he translates that unique talent to the page, with humorous forays into a vast array of subjects: fashion, urban life, fast cars, cocktail culture, modern Jewishness, politics, and dating. A seethingly irreverent wit, Stewart has a genius for language and brilliant timing that makes his up-to-the-minute collection a must-have for humor lovers in search of a Woody Allen for the 90s.He's the MTV generation's master of modern humor, a star of film, TV, and the comedy stage. This sultan of savvy serves up a whip-smart, utterly original collection of comic essays in Naked Pictures of Famous People. And as of January 11, 1999, you can enjoy the intelligence and self-deprecating charm he brings to contemporary comedy on Comedy Central's ""The Daily Show."" In his first book, he translates that unique talent to the page, with humorous forays into a vast array of subjects: fashion, urban life, fast cars, cocktail culture, modern Jewishness, politics, and dating. A seethingly irreverent wit, Stewart has a genius for language and brilliant timing that makes his up-to-the-minute collection a must-have for humor lovers in search of a Woody Allen for the 90s.",1999,3.59,164,8623
9780688172176,0688172172,Phantoms in the Brain,Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind,V. S. Ramachandran,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TMnuNquN2RgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we're so clever at philosophy, music and art. Some of his most notable cases: A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud's theory of denial. A man who insists he is talking with God challenges us to ask: Could we be ""wired"" for religious experience? A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters illustrates how, in a sense, we are all hallucinating, all the time. Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- the human mind -- yielding new and provocative insights into the ""big questions"" about consciousness and the self.",1999,4.25,352,14549
9780688172244,0688172245,The Lost Tomb,"In 1995, An American Egyptologist Discovered The Burial Site Of The Sons Of Ramesses Ii--this Is His",Kent R. Weeks,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wbcRHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kent Weeks made international headlines when, seventy feet below the surface of Egypt's Valley of the Kings he found the largest and most complicated mausoleum yet discovered, the tomb of Ramesses II's sons. Now for the first time, Weeks shares up-to-the-minute details on the thrilling discovery and contemplates what the tomb, called KV5, will reveal as the excavation moves forward. Built in the age of Exodus, the tomb could potentially transform ancient and biblical history. Its lower levels, possibly containing mummies of Ramesses II's sons, may shed new light on many of the mysteries of the Old Testament, including the story of Moses and the flight of the Israelites from Egypt. Weeks draws on his own diaries, as well as those of his wife and his foreman, to describe the excitement and risks that surround such a significant find. From floodwaters that threatened the opened tomb and the precarious craw spaces deep within it, to thieving tourists and scorpions, this adventure is not for the weak of heart. Photographs and sketches illustrate the crew's progress and the objects and decorations found in the tomb's chambers and hallways The result a true-life, impossibly thrilling Raiders of the Lost Arkwill entrance readers from beginning to end.",1999,4.07,384,374
9780689707490,0689707495,Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,,Judi Barrett,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fQU6UrNfe4MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The beloved, bestselling tale of edible weather is brought to life! If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn't it be marvelous! Or would it? It could, after all, be messy. And you'd have no choice. What if you didn't like what fell? Or what if too much came? Have you ever thought of what it might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?",1982,4.16,32,114747
9780689716041,0689716044,The Bears on Hemlock Mountain,,Alice Dalgliesh,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2gt4hQwGJOcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An eight-year-old boy who is frightened of traveling over Hemlock Mountain overcomes his fear by taking the trip while chanting, ""There are no bears on Hemlock Mountain,"" in a suspenseful tale. Reissue.",1992,3.78,64,2017
9780689718762,0689718764,The Fourth of July Story,,Alice Dalgliesh,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_gaVAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Two-time Newbery Honor author Alice Dalgliesh makes history come alive in this accessible story of America's birthday. Full color.,1995,4,32,242
9780689802171,068980217X,My Name Is Maria Isabel,,Alma Flor Ada;Ana M. Cerro,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HntuDZ95FnwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Third grader Marâia Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the United States, wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment ""My Greatest Wish"" gives her that opportunity.",1995,3.88,64,450
9780689822841,0689822847,Hitty Her First Hundred Years,,Rachel Field,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tyLHV3_ov0kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hitty is a doll of great charm and character. It is indeed a privilege to publish her memoirs, which, besides being full of the most thrilling adventures on land and sea, also reveal her delightful personality. One glance at her portrait will show that she is no ordinary doll. Hitty, or Mehitable as she was really named, was made in the early 1800s for Phoebe Preble, a little girl from Maine. Young Phoebe was very proud of her beautiful doll and took her everywhere, even on a long sailing trip in a whaler. This is the story of Hitty's years with Phoebe, and the many that follow in the life of a well-loved doll.",1998,3.85,256,6850
9780689823824,0689823827,A Child's Garden of Verses,,Robert Louis Stevenson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=luTZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. Tasha Tudor's watercolor paintings evoke a simpler time in the past, and celebrate two of the things she loves most -- children and nature. Her talents are the perfect match for these inspiring poems, making this a handsome gift edition that will be cherished by families for generations.",1999,4.3,67,21780
9780689833762,0689833768,Sad Underwear and Other Complications,More Poems fo Children and Their Parents,Judith Viorst,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e-sEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Knock, knock. Who's there? Someone with sad underwear. Sad underwear? How can that be? When my best friend's mad at me, Everything is sad. Even my underwear. Only Judith Viorst, with the perfect pitch for the trials of childhood that has made her Alexander books modern classics, could create an ode to melancholy unmentionables. But the title poem is just one of the many pleasures in this collection, which bursts with wit and understanding -- and the occasional poignant note. Sure to delight readers of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky, as well as Viorst's own legions of fans, Sad Underwear is a perfect companion volume to her celebrated If I Were In Charge of the World.",2000,3.87,80,104
9780689834196,0689834195,Salt in His Shoes,Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream,Deloris Jordan;Roslyn M. Jordan,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hYzQwk3rU24C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Young Michael Jordan, who is smaller than the other players, learns that determination and hard work are more important than size when playing the game of basketball.",2003,4.21,32,1054
9780689835612,0689835612,Where Is Baby's Mommy?,A Karen Katz Lift-the-Flap Book,Karen Katz,Juvenile Nonfiction,,Is Mommy behind the chair? Is Mommy behind the plant? Join baby as he plays hide-and-seek with Mommy. The sturdy format and easy-to-lift flaps in this delightful interactive book are perfect for parents and children to share.,2001,4.15,14,408
9780689837180,0689837186,Poppy,,Avi,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8oSYPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Poppy is a colourful, memorable journey of courage and self-discovery for the child in us all.",2005,3.96,163,6589
9780689840333,0689840330,Silver on the Tree,,Susan Cooper,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N5E_PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three Drew children, who are mortal, but have their own vital part in the story. These six fight fear and death in the darkly brooding Welsh hills, in a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the British Isles, and that brings Susan Cooper's masterful sequence of novels to a satysfying close.",2000,4.15,274,27396
9780689845369,0689845367,The Tombs of Atuan,,Ursula K. Le Guin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y8e_DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The second novel in the renowned Earthsea series from Ursula K. LeGuin When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the Tombs' greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. But Ged also brings with him the light of magic, and together, he and Tenar escape from the darkness that has become her domain. With millions of copies sold, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere. Complex, innovative, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time.",2001,4.09,180,69119
9780689846175,0689846177,"Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat",,Amy Tan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HBe-WlRiTZwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ming Miao tells her kittens about the antics of one of their ancestors, Sagwa of China, that produced the unusual markings they have had for thousands of years.",2001,4.02,40,967
9780689848827,068984882X,The Storm,,Cynthia Rylant,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u_ZPY9VBJA8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Pandora the cat becomes a lighthouse keeper and saves the life of Seabold the dog, and together the two of them create a family with three young mice rescued from the sea.",2003,4.18,80,401
9780689849121,0689849125,Voting Rights Days,,Ellen Weiss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZjagAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in 1916, Hitty's owner is the daughter of a suffragist and so is able to witness up-close the political struggles involved in getting women their right to vote. Reader's Guide available. Simultaneous.",2002,4.3,75,9
9780689849251,0689849257,Counting Christmas,,Karen Katz,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4f_TAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Join in the fun and count down to Christmas!,2003,3.56,32,147
9780689851131,0689851138,Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?,,Shel Silverstein,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=70LqAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Shel Silverstein Who wants a cheap Rhinoceros? Looking for a new pet? Bored with cats, dogs, goldfish, gerbils, and hamsters? How about a cheap rhinoceros? Shel Silverstein's loving look at the joys of rhino ownership may convince you to be the one lucky kid to take home this very, very unusual pet.",2002,3.96,64,1857
9780689851902,0689851901,"What a Scare, Jesse Bear",,Nancy White Carlstrom,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VGgCAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jesse Bear has a wonderful time getting ready for Halloween. He loves carving pumpkins and trying on costumes. But when it comes time for trick-or-treating, Jesse gets scared. With his parents by his side, Jesse soon builds up the courage to put on his scary mask -- and even plays a trick of his own!",2012,3.47,32,100
9780689852237,0689852231,The House of the Scorpion,,Nancy Farmer,Young Adult Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2gtCtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This modern classic takes on an iron-fisted drug lord, clones bred for their organs, and what it means to be human. Winner of the National Book Award as well as Newbery and Printz Honors. Matteo Alacrán was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt’s first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. Then he was placed in the womb of a cow, where he continued the miraculous journey from embryo to fetus to baby. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster—except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself. As Matt struggles to understand his existence, he is threatened by a sinister cast of characters, including El Patrón’s power-hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But escape from the Alacrán Estate is no guarantee of freedom, because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn’t even suspect.",2004,4.1,380,68128
9780689860065,0689860064,Dragondrums,,Anne McCaffrey,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sBbR4jhAJG8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Award-winning fantasy author Anne McCaffrey returns with her bestselling Harper Hall Trilogy, wonder-filled imaginative classics now available in digest format.",2003,4.06,243,27535
9780689860072,0689860072,Dragonsinger,,Anne McCaffrey,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IiLlZh6U5tAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Menolly flees her home, because she is not permitted to make music there, and is taken by the Masterharper himself to Harpershall, where she learns that only her own self-doubt stands in her way.",2003,4.28,288,34207
9780689861130,0689861133,"Moo, Baa, la la La!",,Sandra Boynton,Animal sounds,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gz40AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Children will love joining in and imitating the animal noises and sounds in this big, bold board book format, illustrated with Sandra Boynton's seriously silly signature animals.",2004,4.2,14,28261
9780689862465,0689862466,The Octopus,,Cynthia Rylant;Preston McDaniels,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8B8-CwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Whistler and Lila, two of the mice children who live in a lighthouse, meet a young octopus when they visit the beach during low tide.",2005,4.16,64,117
9780689863110,068986311X,The Eagle,,Cynthia Rylant;Preston McDaniels,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cxC9XoIu7sQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Two mice that live in a lighthouse along with a dog, a cat, and another mouse, lose their compass while exploring the forest, and learn to use their instincts before being rescued by an eagle.",2005,4.08,64,155
9780689868016,0689868014,Rash,,Pete Hautman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JMRcoWAp_ewC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In a future society that has decided it would ""rather be safe than free,"" sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.",2006,3.75,256,2927
9780689868832,0689868839,The Children's Homer,The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy,Padraic Colum,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_ySymvznW8oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Publishers WeeklyColum's stirring telling of the Greek epics is unequaled as an introduction to the classic myths for young readers.,2004,3.89,256,104
9780689869037,0689869037,Invisible,,Pete Hautman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-uZWPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"You could say that my railroad, the Madham Line, is almost the most important thing in my life. Next to Andy Morrow, my best friend. Lots of people think Doug Hanson is a freak -- he gets beat up after school, and the girl of his dreams calls him a worm. Doug's only refuge is creating an elaborate bridge for the model railroad in his basement and hanging out with his best friend, Andy Morrow, a popular football star who could date any girl in school. Doug and Andy talk about everything -- except what happened at the Tuttle place a few years back. It does not matter to Andy that we live in completely different realities. I'm Andy's best friend. It does not matter to Andy that we hardly ever actually do anything together. As Doug retreats deeper and deeper into his own reality, long-buried secrets threaten to destroy both Doug and Andy -- and everything else in Doug's fragile world.",2006,3.84,160,2269
9780689869907,0689869908,Beatrice's Goat,,Page McBrier,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4MNEDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this story based on a case from Project Heifer, a young girl's dream of attending school in her small Ugandan village is fulfilled after her family is given an income-producing goat.",2004,4.24,40,523
9780689870163,0689870167,Michael's Golden Rules,,Deloris Jordan;Michael Jordan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dwsUbrl_ub8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Jonathan's friend Michael, Michael's parents, and Jonathan's family help him do his best in the Badgers' big baseball game.",2007,3.95,32,82
9780689870408,068987040X,Amelia's 6th-Grade Notebook,,Marissa Moss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SpSMovFNmOwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Problems arise for Amelia when she starts sixth grade at the same middle school where her older sister Cleo is an eighth-grader, and she gets the school's meanest teacher for three of her classes.",2005,4.01,80,616
9780689873195,0689873190,The Au Pairs,,Melissa de la Cruz,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ydhKP0xSPc4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three girls with three agendas and the ultimate destination: the Hamptons. Summer in the city? Way overrated. Everybody who's anybody in New York City summers in the Hamptons. Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui all want a piece of the action, all for different reasons. So the girls answer a classified ad to become au pairs. How bad can it be, watching a couple of kids on the beach all day? They've got the swank address, the sweet ride, and an all-access pass to the hottest social scene on the East Coast. It's shaping up to be the summer of their lives.",2005,3.65,294,6077
9780689874093,068987409X,I Love Saturdays y domingos,,Alma Flor Ada,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7NgEbt2Ds5kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Saturdays and Sundays are very special days for the child in this story. On Saturdays, she visits Grandma and Grandpa, who come from a European-American background, and on Sundays -- los domingos -- she visits Abuelito y Abuelita, who are Mexican-American. While the two sets of grandparents are different in many ways, they also have a great deal in common -- in particular, their love for their granddaughter. While we follow our narrator to the circus and the pier, share stories from her grandparents' pasts, and celebrate her birthday, the depth and joy of both cultures are conveyed in Spanish and English. This affirmation of both heritages will speak to all children who want to know more about their own families and ethnic backgrounds.",2004,4.03,32,33
9780689876707,068987670X,Star Bright,,Cathy Hapka,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JPuiCfxaS8QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"PopTV is going to follow Star around for twenty-four hours and her team is very excited, but everything begins to go wrong once the cameras start rolling.",2005,3.67,160,3
9780689878558,0689878559,Alanna,The First Adventure,Tamora Pierce,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_uvOvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight."" And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. So one day they decide to switch places: Disguised as a girl, Thom heads for the convent to learn magic; Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page. But the road to knighthood is not an easy one. As Alanna masters the skills necessary for battle, she must also learn to control her heart and to discern her enemies from her allies. Filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil, Alanna's first adventure begins -- one that will leard to the fulfillment of her dreams and the magical destiny that will make her a legend in her land. Alanna's journey continues...",2005,4.27,274,96683
9780689878589,0689878583,The Woman Who Rides Like a Man,,Tamora Pierce,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fdhVGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Let her prove herself worthy as a man."" Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert of Tortall. Captured by fierce desert dwellers, she is forced to prove herself in a duel to the death -- either she will be killed or she will be inducted into the tribe. Although she triumphs, dire challenges lie ahead. As her mythic fate would have it, Alanna soon becomes the tribe's first female shaman -- despite the desert dwellers' grave fear of the foreign woman warrior. Alanna must fight to change the ancient tribal customs of the desert tribes -- for their sake and for the sake of all Tortall. Alanna's journey continues...",2005,4.21,284,58610
9780691008530,0691008531,Soldiers of Destruction,"The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945",Charles W. Sydnor,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QYU4QJsUWLYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Surveys the emergence of the Nazi SS and its Death's Head Division, noting the impact of this elite and powerful army upon military history",1990,4,375,67
9780691013800,0691013802,"Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts",Seventy Poems,Wisława Szymborska,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=weA9DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Translated and Introduced by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire Regarded as one of the best representatives since World War II of the rich and ancient art of poetry in Poland, Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) is, in the translators' words, ""that rarest of phenomena: a serious poet who commands a large audience in her native land."" The seventy poems in this bilingual edition are among the largest and most representative offering of her work in English, with particular emphasis on the period since 1967. They illustrate virtually all her major themes and most of her important techniques. Describing Szymborka's poetry, Magnus Krynski and Robert Maguire write that her verse is marked by high seriousness, delightful inventiveness, a prodigal imagination, and enormous technical skill. She writes of the diversity, plenitude, and richness of the world, taking delight in observing and naming its phenomena. She looks on with wonder, astonishment, and amusement, but almost never with despair.",1981,4.33,232,213
9780691015972,069101597X,Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae,,Charles Segal,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ClJYo5FOFLIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Includes afterword (p. 349-393) by the author: Dionysus and the Bacchae in the light of recent scholarship.,1997,4.62,440,12
9780691017778,0691017778,The Myth of the Eternal Return,"Or, Cosmos and History",Mircea Eliade,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sqI9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This essay on humanity's experience of history and its interpretation begins with a study of the traditional or mythological view and concludes with a comparative estimate of modern historiological approaches.,1971,4.23,195,1706
9780691019048,0691019045,Eugene Onegin: Commentary and index,,Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l00OTAOKbesC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The description for this book, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, will be forthcoming.",1990,4.22,1056,43
9780691019055,0691019053,EUGENE ONEGIN - A NOVEL IN VERSE V.1,A NOVEL IN VERSE,Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gNqtvQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents Pushkin's poetic Russian classic about the heartless fop who is the object of an ardent young woman's selfless love.,1990,4.22,309,269
9780691019406,0691019401,The Essential Kierkegaard,,S瞨en·Kierkegaard,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tCeOYFnTGR4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,An anthology containing substantial excerpts from the Danish philosopher's major works.,2000,4.18,524,1737
9780691019581,0691019584,A Source Book in Indian Philosophy,,"Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sir",Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6VKtDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Features significant works from the Vedic and Epic periods, the Heterodox and Orthodox systems, and contemporary Indian thought",1957,4.11,720,144
9780691019628,0691019622,Fear and Trembling,And The Sickness Unto Death,Soren Aabye Kierkegaard;Søren Kierkegaard,Christianity,,"The two books comprised in this volume are in greater demand than any other works of Kierkegaard. This preference is a credit to the public taste, for Kierkegaard himself called them ""the most perfect books I have written,"" though in this commendation he included The Concept of Dread, and later stretched it to include Training in Christianity.",1954,4.1,420,495
9780691020167,0691020167,Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature,,Richard Rorty,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cxYFw3NkPMoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. Richard Rorty, a Princeton professor who had contributed to the analytic tradition in philosophy, was now attempting to shrug off all the central problems with which it had long been preoccupied. After publication, the Press was barely able to keep up with demand, and the book has since gone on to become one of its all-time best-sellers in philosophy. Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation. They compared the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. In their view, knowledge is concerned with the accuracy of these reflections, and the strategy employed to obtain this knowledge--that of inspecting, repairing, and polishing the mirror--belongs to philosophy. Rorty's book was a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of thought that it spawned. He argued that the questions about truth posed by Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and modern epistemologists and philosophers of language simply couldn't be answered and were, in any case, irrelevant to serious social and cultural inquiry. This stance provoked a barrage of criticism, but whatever the strengths of Rorty's specific claims, the book had a therapeutic effect on philosophy. It reenergized pragmatism as an intellectual force, steered philosophy back to its roots in the humanities, and helped to make alternatives to analytic philosophy a serious choice for young graduate students. Twenty-five years later, the book remains a must-read for anyone seriously concerned about the nature of philosophical inquiry and what philosophers can and cannot do to help us understand and improve the world.",1980,4,424,2720
9780691020419,0691020418,Kierkegaard's Writings,"3*Either/or, part I",Søren Kierkegaard,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=azb9xgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1987,4.25,702,1073
9780691020686,069102068X,Images and Symbols,Studies in Religious Symbolism,Mircea Eliade,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zeE9DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. The author describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of people of the East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.",1961,4.15,192,337
9780691024714,0691024715,Vladimir Nabokov,The American Years,Brian Boyd,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C8lF4iqAgRQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of Lolita catapulted him to world fame and financial security.,1991,4.31,800,254
9780691027494,0691027498,The Rise of Christianity,A Sociologist Reconsiders History,Rodney Stark,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HcFSaGvgKKkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Rodney Stark, a sociologist by training, has written a book that should end much of the Christian-bashing occuring in academia. Stark demonstrates that Christianity became popular very quickly because it offered its adherents a better faith than competing religions and treated those believers better both physically and spiritually.",1996,4.04,246,42
9780691037387,0691037388,Making Democracy Work,Civic Traditions in Modern Italy,Robert D. Putnam;Robert Leonardi;Raffaella Nanetti,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6hpoGGrHH-oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a world full of hope for democratization but wary of government failure, this book offers empirical evidence for the importance of civic community in developing successful institutions. As part of a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions - regions that vary greatly from the standpoint of wealth, social structure, and political leanings - Robert Putnam and his collaborators spent two decades evaluating the performance of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services. Their findings were surprising: regions that enjoy effective government in the 1990s have inherited a legacy of civic engagement that can be traced back to the early Middle Ages. Just as Tocqueville traveled to America to try to understand democracy, Putnam and his colleagues draw broad lessons for democratic theory from their twenty-year journey through Italy. Their conclusions challenge the simple-minded thesis of the primacy of economics and the easy optimism of social engineers. Based on dozens of case studies and thousands of interviews with politicians, community leaders, and ordinary citizens, this book illuminates patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity. It also contributes to the discussion of democracy in the newly freed lands of Eurasia and the developing world and to the gathering debate about how to revitalize democracy in America.",1993,3.83,280,567
9780691037790,0691037795,Multiculturalism,(Expanded Paperback Edition),Charles Taylor;Amy Gutmann,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vjxwzLGTFJYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and ""The Politics of Recognition,"" this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which considers whether the institutions of liberal democratic government make room--or should make room--for recognizing the worth of distinctive cultural traditions, remains the centerpiece of this discussion. It is now joined by Jürgen Habermas's extensive essay on the issues of recognition and the democratic constitutional state and by K. Anthony Appiah's commentary on the tensions between personal and collective identities, such as those shaped by religion, gender, ethnicity, race, and sexuality, and on the dangerous tendency of multicultural politics to gloss over such tensions. These contributions are joined by those of other well-known thinkers, who further relate the demand for recognition to issues of multicultural education, feminism, and cultural separatism. Praise for the previous edition:",1994,3.81,192,325
9780691050843,0691050848,The Nature of Space and Time,,Stephen Hawking;Roger Penrose,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LstaQTXP65cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents a series of lectures delivered in 1994 by Hawking and Penrose, renowned professors at Cambridge and Oxford, respectively, on the general topic of how mathematical physics might best represent the realities of the universe.",2000,4.09,152,945
9780691096100,0691096104,The Essential John Nash,,John Nash,Mathematics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_WGYDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography A Beautiful Mind, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. The Essential John Nash reveals his work--in his own words. This book presents, for the first time, the full range of Nash's diverse contributions not only to game theory, for which he received the Nobel, but to pure mathematics--from Riemannian geometry and partial differential equations--in which he commands even greater acclaim among academics. Included are nine of Nash's most influential papers, most of them written over the decade beginning in 1949. From 1959 until his astonishing remission three decades later, the man behind the concepts ""Nash equilibrium"" and ""Nash bargaining""--concepts that today pervade not only economics but nuclear strategy and contract talks in major league sports--had lived in the shadow of a condition diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia. In the introduction to this book, Nasar recounts how Nash had, by the age of thirty, gone from being a wunderkind at Princeton and a rising mathematical star at MIT to the depths of mental illness. In his preface, Harold Kuhn offers personal insights on his longtime friend and colleague; and in introductions to several of Nash's papers, he provides scholarly context. In an afterword, Nash describes his current work, and he discusses an error in one of his papers. A photo essay chronicles Nash's career from his student days in Princeton to the present. Also included are Nash's Nobel citation and autobiography. The Essential John Nash makes it plain why one of Nash's colleagues termed his style of intellectual inquiry as ""like lightning striking."" All those inspired by Nash's dazzling ideas will welcome this unprecedented opportunity to trace these ideas back to the exceptional mind they came from.",2007,3.92,244,76
9780691097183,0691097186,The complete works of Aristotle,the revised Oxford translation,Aristoteles,"Philosophy, Ancient",,,1985,4.43,1776,676
9780691099507,0691099502,The Complete Works of Aristotle,The Revised Oxford Translation,Aristotle,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z9FnyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1984,4.43,2512,2296
9780691102573,0691102570,Hamlet in Purgatory,,Stephen Greenblatt,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G1d_Cq5Yfp8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution--as well as a capacious new reading of the power of Hamlet. In the mid-sixteenth century, English authorities abruptly changed the relationship between the living and dead. Declaring that Purgatory was a false ""poem,"" they abolished the institutions and banned the practices that Christians relied on to ease the passage to Heaven for themselves and their dead loved ones. Greenblatt explores the fantastic adventure narratives, ghost stories, pilgrimages, and imagery by which a belief in a grisly ""prison house of souls"" had been shaped and reinforced in the Middle Ages. He probes the psychological benefits as well as the high costs of this belief and of its demolition. With the doctrine of Purgatory and the elaborate practices that grew up around it, the church had provided a powerful method of negotiating with the dead. The Protestant attack on Purgatory destroyed this method for most people in England, but it did not eradicate the longings and fears that Catholic doctrine had for centuries focused and exploited. In his strikingly original interpretation, Greenblatt argues that the human desires to commune with, assist, and be rid of the dead were transformed by Shakespeare--consummate conjurer that he was--into the substance of several of his plays, above all the weirdly powerful Hamlet. Thus, the space of Purgatory became the stage haunted by literature's most famous ghost. This book constitutes an extraordinary feat that could have been accomplished by only Stephen Greenblatt. It is at once a deeply satisfying reading of medieval religion, an innovative interpretation of the apparitions that trouble Shakespeare's tragic heroes, and an exploration of how a culture can be inhabited by its own spectral leftovers.",2002,3.94,344,209
9780691102962,0691102961,The Two-Mile Time Machine,"Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future",Richard B. Alley,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oSEQG31t2tIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides an account of the 1990s research in Greenland that revealed a history of global climatic change, and suggests that ""switches"" and ""dials"" that control Earth's climate may cause severe weather changes in the future.",2002,3.99,229,139
9780691119427,0691119422,Shamanism,Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy,Mircea Eliade,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OxCnDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where Shamanism was first observed--to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the Shaman--at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet.",2004,4.22,610,1933
9780691120522,0691120528,Hegel's Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit,,Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel;Yirmiyahu Yovel,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=woV2QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a new translation, with running commentary, of what is perhaps the most important short piece of Hegel's writing. The Preface to Hegel's first major work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, lays the groundwork for all his other writing by explaining what is most innovative about Hegel's philosophy. This new translation combines readability with maximum precision, breaking Hegel's long sentences and simplifying their often complex structure. At the same time, it is more faithful to the original than any previous translation. The heart of the book is the detailed commentary, supported by an introductory essay. Together they offer a lucid and elegant explanation of the text and elucidate difficult issues in Hegel, making his claims and intentions intelligible to the beginner while offering interesting and original insights to the scholar and advanced student. The commentary often goes beyond the particular phrase in the text to provide systematic context and explain related topics in Hegel and his predecessors (including Kant, Spinoza, and Aristotle, as well as Fichte, Schelling, Hölderlin, and others). The commentator refrains from playing down (as many interpreters do today) those aspects of Hegel's thought that are less acceptable in our time, and abstains from mixing his own philosophical preferences with his reading of Hegel's text. His approach is faithful to the historical Hegel while reconstructing Hegel's ideas within their own context.",2005,4.04,223,103
9780691122946,0691122946,On Bullshit,,Harry G. Frankfurt,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WBfnlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a theory of bullshit, how it differs from lying, how those who engage in it change the rules of conversation, and how indulgence in bullshit can alter a person's ability to tell the truth.",2005,3.57,67,8773
9780694524754,0694524751,The Chronicles of Narnia CD Box Set,The Chronicles of Narnia CD Box Set,C. S. Lewis,Juvenile Fiction,,"Listen to all seven stories in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia in this unabridged 31-CD collection, read by some of the world's most renowned performers: The Magician's Nephew narrated by Kenneth Branagh The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe narrated by Michael York The Horse and His Boy narrated by Alex Jennings Prince Caspian narrated by Lynn Redgrave The Voyage of the Dawn Treader narrated by Derek Jacobi The Silver Chair narrated by Jeremy Northam The Last Battle narrated by Patrick Stewart Enter C. S. Lewis's magical world of Narnia. Each of these extraordinary, timeless stories stands alone, but together they are the history of a fantastic world that becomes as real as our own.",2004,4.26,31,198
9780696211522,0696211521,Second Home,Finding Your Place in the Fun,,House & Home,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PS0sY21SInsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides advice on planning, budgeting, real estate shopping, building, remodeling, and decorating lakefront cottages, beach houses, ski chalets, or log cabins.",2000,3.83,216,6
9780698112681,0698112687,Sisters,The Story of Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine,Charles Higham,Biography & Autobiography,,A candid portrait of the lives and careers of actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine traces their lifelong competition and jealousy for each other,1984,3.3,257,66
9780698115675,0698115678,The Legend of the Poinsettia,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OrhFg2D3o-sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Lucida is unable to finish her gift for the Baby Jesus in time for the Christmas procession, a miracle enables her to offer the beautiful flower we now call the poinsettia.",1997,4.19,32,2285
9780698116412,0698116410,Many Luscious Lollipops,A Book about Adjectives,Ruth Heller,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1jgyPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Brief rhyming text and pictures introduce adjectives and their uses.,1998,4.06,48,307
9780698117976,0698117972,"Mine, All Mine",A Book about Pronouns,Ruth Heller,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KHfYAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introduces various types of pronouns, explains how and when to use them, and provides whimsical glimpses of what our language would be without them.",1999,4.07,48,109
9780698118751,0698118758,Fantastic! Wow! and Unreal!,A Book about Interjections and Conjunctions,Ruth Heller,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kzEsAgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introduces and explains various interjections and conjunctions, including ""awesome,"" ""alas,"" and ""yet.""",2000,4.21,32,78
9780701137687,0701137681,In Search of Lost Time,,Marcel Proust,,,,1992,4.14,534,21
9780701179793,0701179791,The Risk of Darkness,A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel,Susan Hill,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0eoukgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Children have been vanishing - there are no leads - just a kidnapper at large. The police have failed, the families are distraught and the morale at Lafferton station has collapsed. Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serailler receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire. Has the abductor struck again? And will they find this child alive? In The Risk of Darkness Simon Serailler takes on killing and kidnap, evil and innocence. The result is a compulsively readable and often chilling novel. 'Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does the result is stunning' Ruth Rendell",2006,3.95,320,2913
9780704102477,0704102471,The Egg and I,,Betty MacDonald,Farm life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W3dGPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1992,3.93,288,6223
9780706425611,0706425618,The Time Machine,The Island of Dr Moreau ; The Invisible Man ; The First Men on the Moon ; The Food of the Gods ; In the Days of the Comet ; The War of the Worlds,Herbert George Wells,"Science fiction, English",,,1985,4.13,828,4
9780711983083,0711983089,The Beatles years,,Barry Miles;Keith Badman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_TBkf1ttNBYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The most revealing and personal 30-year chronicle of the group ever written. .,2001,4.53,376,12
9780712607940,0712607943,Ender's Game,,Orson Scott Card,,,,1985,4.3,304,257
9780712645621,0712645624,The Mansion on the Hill,"Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce",Fred Goodman,Music trade,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eQevAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,'The Mansion on the Hill' will disabuse you once and for all of the notion that rock 'n' roll was ever really about changing the world. It is absolutely essential read for any music aficionado whose curiosity is not satisfied by myth alone.,2003,3.93,448,2
9780713998788,0713998784,The World is Flat,A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century,Thomas L. Friedman,Computer science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dT94QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The explosion of advanced technologies, knowledge pools and resources that have connected over the planet levelling the playing field as never before, each of us is potentially an equal and competitor of the other.",2005,3.68,496,97
9780713998948,0713998946,America,(the Book) : a Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction,Jon Stewart;Ben Karlin;David Javerbaum,Democracy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IChOPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"American democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which is why so many other nations are eager for it to be imposed on them. But just what exactly is it? Jon Stewart and his fellow patriots from the Emmy-winning The Daily Show finally deliver the answer. They offer their insights into a unique system of government, dissecting its institutions, explaining its history and processes, and exploring the reasons why concepts like 'One man, one vote', 'Government by the people', and 'Every vote counts' have become such popular urban myths. Includes such favourites as Ancient Rome: The First Republicans; The Founding Fathers: Young, Gifted and White; The President: King of Democracy; The Supreme Court: 18 Legs, Four Tits, One Mission; Running for Office: What Are You Thinking?; The Media: Can It Be Stopped?; The Future of Democracy: The Constitutional Robocracy and You",2005,4.02,228,79299
9780714529035,0714529036,Hooked,Film Writings 1985-1988,Pauline Kael,Motion pictures,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z5uVPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1990,4.04,528,91
9780714530031,0714530034,Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho,,Stephen Rebello,Psycho (Motion picture : 1960),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SxNfkgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Thirty years after its creation, Psycho ramains the yardstick by whicy all other thrillers are measured. Stephen Rebello gives readers an intimate glance at the making of this incredible movie from beginning (the true life crime on which Psycho is based) to end (Hitchcock's obsessive instructions to darken theaters and close the curtains for 30 seconds after the opening credits, in order to raise the suspense). 16 pages of photographs.",1998,3.9,224,13
9780714541105,0714541109,"Collected Plays: As you desire me; Think it over, Giacomino!; This time it will be different; The imbecile",,Luigi Pirandello,,,,1987,3.92,236,12
9780715629949,0715629948,Euripides,Iphigenia at Aulis,Pantelis Michelakis,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=km9iAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Iphigenia at Aulis dramatises the myth of Iphigenia, the young virgin sacrificed by her father Agamemnon at the start of the expedition against Troy. Produced at the end of the Peloponnesian war, it explores the breakdown of social norms which turns Greeks against Greeks, men against women, and condemns young brides to death. Pantelis Michelakis examines the mythological, socio-political and institutional context, the main themes and major issues in modern criticism, and ends with an outline of performance history and reception.",2006,4.02,144,12
9780715633991,0715633996,The Egyptologist,A Novel,Arthur Phillips,Americans,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I_FyPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The New York Times Bestseller Arrives In The UK; The Egyptologist is a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an archaeologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in turmoil. Exploring issues of class, greed, ambition, and the very human hunger for eternal life, The Egyptologist is a triumph of narrative bravado.",2005,3.27,392,51
9780716799566,0716799561,Economics: European Edition,,Paul Krugman;Robin Wells;Kathryn Graddy,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JgGyX4ocbjcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Economics: European Edition is the ideal text for introductory economics, bringing together an international scope of real world examples and economic theory. The text is supported by a number of features to enhance student understanding as well as supplements to consolidate the learning process.",2007,3.95,1088,111
9780718132385,0718132386,Banker,,Dick Francis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SGj1A5voN78C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It is difficult to say where disaster begins, to point towards one particular happening as the first definite step towards distant cataclysm. Looking back, Tim Ekaterin sees the beginning as the day his boss stepped into a fountain. Onwards from there, he comes across people and events as yet unconnected but which, when woven together by time and chance, leads towards violent explosive action and the threat of death. Set in the worlds of thoroughbred racing and merchant banking, the story covers a span of three years, growing from quiet harmless-seeming seeds to a wholly horrific harvest.",2000,4.04,288,2984
9780718144463,0718144465,Sushi for Beginners,,Marian Keyes,Business women,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=905hAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Who will have the nervous breakdown? Will it be Clodagh who awaits her beautiful husband's homecoming, or Lisa, hard and brittle and recently demoted? Or perhaps it will be Ashling who is so normal that she is actually weird.",2000,3.69,448,269
9780718149291,0718149297,Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls,,Ruth Downie,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VIWeOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A detective novel with a series of characters to relish - Gaius Petreius Ruso and a cast of corrupt officers, cut throat villains, beguiling slaves, wanton women and charming centurions.",2006,3.73,464,38
9780719045783,0719045789,Orientalism,"History, Theory and the Arts",John MacKenzie;John MacDonald MacKenzie,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hwhwfod4rTEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Orientalism debate, inspired by the work of Edward Said, has been a major source of cross-disciplinary controversy. This work offers a re-evaluation of this vast literature of Orientalism by a historian of imperalism, giving it a historical perspective",1995,2.95,256,12
9780719071157,0719071151,A Farewell to Arms?,"Beyond the Good Friday Agreement, Second Edition",Michael Cox;Adrian Guelke;Fiona Stephen,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G5wuwrmrdWoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Neither naively optimistic nor hopelessley pessimistic, this collection of writings by experts on the history of the troubles in Northern Ireland paints a realistic picture of the peace processes that have dotted the province's landscape.",2006,4.33,624,0
9780719566226,0719566223,Maisie Dobbs,A Novel,Jacqueline Winspear,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ESS5HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A favorite mystery series of Hillary Clinton (as mentioned in What Happened, The New York Times Book Review, and New York Magazine) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel Macavity Award Winner for Best First Novel Alex Award Winner Fiercely independent Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, and Maisie is exceptional in many ways. Having started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in the Great War, Maisie has wisdom, experience and understanding beyond her years. Little does she realise the extent to which this strength of character is soon to be tested. For her first case forces her to uncover secrets long buried, and to confront ghosts from her own past . . . 'In Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear has given us a real gift' Alexander McCall Smith",2005,3.92,292,157
9780719566233,0719566231,Birds of a Feather,,Jacqueline Winspear,Children of the rich,,"London, 1929. Joseph Waite is a man who knows what he wants. With his Havana cigars and Savile Row suits, he is one of Britain's wealthiest men. And the last thing he needs is a scandal. When his eighteen-year-old daughter runs away from home, he is determined to keep the case away from the police and the newspapers. So he turns to a woman renowned for her discretion and investigative powers - the extraordinary Maisie Dobbs. Immediately sensing the tensions pervading the Waite household, Maisie soon discovers that there are many reasons why Charlotte might have left home. Instinctively Maisie feels that Charlotte is safe. Yet, suddenly, she finds herself confronting a murder scene . . . With wonderful characters and a page-turning plot, Birds of a Feather is a brilliant mystery. Fans of Maisie Dobbs will be delighted to see Maisie's stunning perception and sleuthing abilities back in action, while the emotional heart of her second mystery will appeal to yet more fans.",2005,3.96,307,21
9780720608724,0720608724,Black Sugar,Trisexual Poems,Jeremy Reed,"Erotic poetry, English",,,1992,4.2,288,174
9780721601946,0721601944,Robbins and Cotran Review of Pathology,,Edward C. Klatt;Stanley Leonard Robbins;Vinay Kumar,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nsWWQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More than 1,000 questions cover everything from the fundamentals of gross and microscopic pathology to the latest findings in molecular biology and genetics. This is an ideal preparatory tool for the classroom, the USMLE Step 1, or the American Board of Pathology exam.",2005,4.37,432,51
9780722533949,0722533942,The Valkyries,,Paulo Coelho,Angels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=89VH5qQpmnoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author was instructed by his mysterious spiritual master to find and speak to his guardian angel to overcome his dark past. This book gives an account of his quest into the Mojave desert where he encountered angelic beings who challenged him to follow his dreams.,1996,3.31,243,16151
9780722539019,0722539010,How to Seduce Your Dream Man,100 Strategies to Bring Mr Right to Heel,Anna Maxted,Man-woman relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TMNpOQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1999,3.89,224,9
9780722540404,072254040X,Mutant Message from Forever,,Marlo Morgan,Aboriginal Australians,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yREnAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the bestselling author of 'Mutant Message Down Under' comes a fabulous tale of aboriginal twins, separated at birth, and the search for their roots that takes them halfway across the world. Marlo Morgan weaves the entrancing story of babies Geoff and Beatrice, who are taken from their mother by Christian missionaries. Geoff is sent to a sheep ranch, where he grows up wild, and is then uprooted to the US by an American minister. Beatrice is brought up by nuns in an Australian orphanage where for 18 years she encounters continual racism. The story follows them as they grow into adults and eventually meet again, to discover the different paths their lives have taken. Eventually both twins are reunited with the ageless values and healing wisdom that is their Aboriginal heritage.",2000,3.73,323,755
9780723247784,0723247781,The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck,,Beatrix Potter,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fZiuvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Relates how the barnyard collie and pups rescue Jemima Puddle-Duck from the fox's cooking pot.,2002,4.06,57,9246
9780723247791,072324779X,The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies,,Beatrix Potter,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D2uQtkxjD9UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This original, authorised version has been lovingly recreated electronically for the first time, with reproductions of Potter's unmistakeable artwork optimised for use on colour devices such as the iPad. When the cupboard is bare at the Flopsy Bunny's burrow, the family all have to go in search of food. They soon find some old lettuces on Mr McGregor's rubbish heap, but who can imagine the horrors that await them as they enjoy a nap after lunch! Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny are two of Beatrix Potter's most popular characters and they are brought together in this exciting tale of danger and friendship. The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies is number ten in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books, the titles of which are as follows: 1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit 2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 3 The Tailor of Gloucester 4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice 6 The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle 7 The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher 8 The Tale of Tom Kitten 9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck 10 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies 11 The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse 12 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes 13 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 14 The Tale of Mr. Tod 15 The Tale of Pigling Bland 16 The Tale of Samuel Whiskers 17 The Tale of The Pie and the Patty-Pan 18 The Tale of Ginger and Pickles 19 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson 20 The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit 21 The Story of Miss Moppet 22 Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes 23 Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes",2010,4.19,58,5051
9780723257639,0723257639,The World of Peter Rabbit,,Beatrix Potter,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OY6YPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Issued in container.,2006,4.63,1072,210
9780723258056,0723258058,A Journal,,Beatrix Potter (Illustratorin),"Novelists, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1HRFwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2006,4.34,32,341
9780727852663,0727852663,The Dig,,Alan Dean Foster;Sean Clark,Interplanetary voyages,,"Destined to be a multimedia smash hit, this epic SF story is based on an exciting CD-ROM game created by LucasArts. When a mysterious asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, a space shuttle is sent to ""nudge"" it into a safe orbit. The three astronauts who venture to the surface find themselves trapped as the asteroid suddenly leaves orbit, transporting them to a strange planet lightyears away.",1997,3.4,336,2
9780727853417,0727853414,Exit to Eden,,Anne Rampling;Anne Rice,Photographers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NeI8PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Welcome to the Club; it's there to satisfy your deepest desires - if you can afford to indulge them. Mysterious, elegant, sparkling in the Caribbean sun, the lights never go out, the champagne never stops flowing and the rich and beautiful play tantalising games of pain and pleasure.",1998,3.57,336,12404
9780727861153,0727861158,Desert Heat,,Ja Jance;Judith A. Jance,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YDFDPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Life is good for Joanna Brady in the small desert community of Bisbee. She has Jenny, her adored nine-year-old daughter, and solid, honest, and loving husband, Andy, a local lawman who's running for Sheriff of Cochise County. But her good life explodes when a bullet destroys Andy Brady's future and leaves him dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun. The police brass claim that Andy was dirty -- up to his neck in drugs and smuggling -- and that the shooting was a suicide attempt.",2004,4,256,39
9780727862426,0727862421,The Dark City,,Max Allan Collins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pu0SAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After The Untouchables, Eliot Ness goes solo. In 1929, Eliot Ness put away Al Scarface Capone and became the biggest living legend this side of law and order. Now it's 1935. With The Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression falling darkly across the nation, Ness arrives in Cleveland to straighten out a crooked city. An anonymous ring of bent cops is dealing in vice, graft, gambling and racketeering, overlorded by a mysterious top cop known as the outside chief. But between corrupt politicians, jealous colleagues, a parasitic reporter and two blondes with nothing in common, Ness has big troubles pulling the sheets off the bed of blue vipers. Until the outside chief makes a move, and Ness moves just a bit quicker.",2005,3.87,233,48
9780735611313,0735611319,Code,the hidden language of computer hardware and software,Charles Petzold,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gYlQAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A discussion of the history and future of coding theory celebrates the ingenuity of language systems and their uses from Braille and Morse code through binary codes to 32-bit operating systems.,2000,4.38,400,4423
9780735617223,0735617228,Writing Secure Code,,Michael Howard;David LeBlanc,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Uafp7m2wPcMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Covers topics such as the importance of secure systems, threat modeling, canonical representation issues, solving database input, denial-of-service attacks, and security code reviews and checklists.",2003,4.01,768,318
9780735711020,073571102X,Homepage Usability,55 Websites Deconstructed,Jakob Nielsen;Marie Tahir,Business enterprises,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1vtSxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2001,3.72,336,333
9780736805995,0736805990,"The Girlhood Diary of Louisa May Alcott, 1843-1846",Writings of a Young Author,Louisa May Alcott,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_dP353QNgTkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Excerpts from the girlhood diary of Louisa May Alcott, describing her family life, lessons, and experiences on a communal farm in the 1840s. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.",2001,3.87,32,26
9780736903707,0736903704,"Israel, My Beloved",,Kay Arthur,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0FmemAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bestselling author Kay Arthur tells the dramatic story of the nation of Israel, painting a living panorama that will forever change the way we view God's people. This new paperback edition features a new cover and a historical timeline.",2001,4.17,448,649
9780736908160,0736908161,Living with Passion and Purpose,,Elizabeth George,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fjl_mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With gentle encouragement and solid Bible teaching, this study reveals how readers can become more like Jesus in their daily lives. Excellent for group and individual study.",2005,3.96,160,19
9780736909525,0736909524,The Rapture,,Tim F. LaHaye,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xUgNAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of more than 40 books, LaHaye says The Rapture is the result of the most comprehensive study and research effort of his career. His complete, compelling defense of the pre-Tribulation theory prides a timeline and chart of the events of the Rapture, a strong case against mid- and post-Tribulation theories and more.",1998,3.52,256,4
9780736910194,0736910190,Life Management for Busy Women,Growth and study guide,Elizabeth George,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OdeIjgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Women eager to bring simplicity to their busy lives will embrace the principles presented in this exciting study guide based on Elizabeth George's new Life Management for Busy Women. With clear and inspired steps for women eager to become better stewards of their time and their lives, this study guide complements all the major sections of the book, including: Spiritual Life: first things first Home Life: minding the stewardship of place Mental Life: minding your mind Easily adaptable to individual or group study, Life Management for Busy Women Growth and Study Guide will help women of all ages, in all stages of life, learn to see and follow God's blueprint for their lives.",2002,4.54,166,10
9780736910736,0736910735,Simple Acts of Faith,Heartwarming Stories of One Life Touching Another,Margaret Feinberg,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hSnhJMi6TiQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The beloved art of Normal Rockwell chronicles small-town America and reflects the simple kindnesses that paint ordinary life with shades of the extraordinary. This gathering of select Rockwell classics is joined by stories that illuminate acts of goodwill that transformed people's lives: A cycle shop owner gives Lance Armstrong his first bike, and the rest is history. The young, hurting Frank Peretti is shown compassion that opens up his heart. One man's sharing of faith changed the life of shoe salesman Dwight L. Moody. Norman Rockwell fans, Americana collectors, and those who cherish an uplifting look at life will treasure this celebration of family, community, and the goodness that overflows from the simplest acts of faith.",2003,4.55,48,11
9780736911689,0736911685,A Wife After God's Own Heart Growth and Study Guide,,Elizabeth George,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dC5VswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"George's popular guides have helped thousands of women not only mine the riches of God's Word more deeply, but also grow more spiritually strong. Women can use this newest addition to the series alongside the corresponding book so they can take their next steps forward in spiritual growth.",2004,4.75,160,8
9780736913829,0736913823,Loving God with All Your Mind,,Elizabeth George,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZGHmmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawing on biblical wisdom as well as personal experience, George helps women handle their emotions and discover inner peace that comes from focusing on what is true.",2005,4.43,276,1434
9780737000368,0737000368,The Greenlander,,Mark Adlard,Adventure stories,,,1978,3.72,192,60
9780738206363,0738206369,Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track,The Letters of Richard P. Feynman,Richard Phillips Feynman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HpgNSVS6fUYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of the correspondence of the maverick physicist, Nobel laureate, and author offers an insightful and intimate glimpse into the mind and life of a scientific luminary.",2005,4.24,512,1786
9780738511672,0738511676,Middlesex Borough,,,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c7a7U-5CGzEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Protected by the Watchung Mountains on the north and bordered by clean, bubbling brooks, Middlesex Borough has flourished in the past century. Located some thirty miles west of New York City, the borough was known for its brilliant and varied gardens, farms, and greenhouses. Orchids and other blooms grown at Thomas Young Orchids and other local greenhouses were distributed in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York and were said to have been favored by Eleanor Roosevelt. Middlesex Borough explores this town's unique history from its incorporation in 1913 to the mid-1900s with vintage photographs and fascinating text. During the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, residents of the westerly portion of Piscataway Township, at the urging of George Harris, decided to secede from Piscataway and form an independent town. The newly created Middlesex Borough consisted of large farms owned by the Stout, Reidy, Conover, Giles, Guernsey, and Harris families, with clusters of small homes bordering them. The Central Railroad of New Jersey passed through the town, bringing new residents to Middlesex from New York City and fostering the development of small factories and workers' houses in the Lincoln section, the housing developments of Pierce Estates and Dewey Park, and, later, the spacious homes and properties in the Beechwood Heights section of the borough.",2003,5,128,2
9780738519388,0738519383,Juneau and Sauk Counties,1850-2000,Jacqueline Ann;Sheila Zenk,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gMZrK2qNGIEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Wild flowers and powerful rivers carved out the landscape, and the beauty of the Baraboo Bluffs touched the pioneers' spirits. Ships full of immigrants plowed across the ocean, while dreams, faith, and courage helped families into the oxen-drawn wagons that carried them to Juneau and Sauk Counties. As the forces in their homelands pushed them toward south central Wisconsin, brother wrote to brother, mother to son, neighbor to former neighbor, bringing people from the same communities in the Old World to settle near each other in the new. Highway 12 in Sauk Prairie became known as Yankee Street, and Lyndon Station in Juneau County was called Irish Alley. Today, the counties are home to many popular tourist destinations, including Rocky Arbor State Park, Devil's Lake, and the Wisconsin Dells. The images in these pages showcase photographs from family, community, and historical society collections.",2002,2.67,128,3
9780738528526,0738528528,Sebastopol,,Western Sonoma County Historical Society,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AV7207YoIMMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Since the 1850s, the soothing countryside hamlets of Sonoma County have beckoned settlers of every stripe-farmers, homesteaders, businesspeople, and commuters. Sebastopol has always been among the county's loveliest towns, retaining its small-town feel even as its population has steadily grown. This book of vintage photography presents Sebastopol's journey through time, the early Mexican land grants and initial settlements, Luther Burbank's far-ranging botanical experiments, and the rich farming industry that made this town one of California's premier agricultural zones, producing grapes, hops, cherries, and dairy products. In these pages readers will experience Sebastopol's turn-of-the-century days at the Apple Fair, with its astonishing fruit sculptures. The first days of railroads are illustrated with images of the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railway, an electric train system that took passengers to and from Sebastopol Depot. The architecture of the region and the stories of local businesses and institutions are all shown here, along with Sebastopol's early religious institutions, schools, sawmills, factories, and even its small airport in the 1920s. Together with views of the town's sporting teams, natural history, outlying communities, and important citizens, these photographs tell a unique story of a unique place that transcends the generations.",2003,4.4,128,4
9780738539560,0738539562,Lake Orion,,James E. Ingram;Lori Grove,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OioLW2Hq3sQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Orion Township, established in 1835, became a prosperous agrarian and resort community by the beginning of the 20th century. The village of Lake Orion developed as the center of commerce for township residents and a summer community of tourists and revivalists. Passenger boats and an amusement park popularized Lake Orion as a vacation destination with hotels and summer cottages. Suburban development has since transformed the landscape, but township signposts proudly display a vestige of the past: Orion Township, where living is a vacation. Orion Township, established in 1835, became a prosperous agrarian and resort community by the beginning of the 20th century. The village of Lake Orion developed as the center of commerce for township residents and a summer community of tourists and revivalists. Passenger boats and an amusement park popularized Lake Orion as a vacation destination with hotels and summer cottages. Suburban development has since transformed the landscape, but township signposts proudly display a vestige of the past: Orion Township, where living is a vacation.",2006,5,128,0
9780738543390,073854339X,Cypress Gardens,,Mary M. Flekke;Sarah E. MacDonald;Randall M. MacDonald,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RSgQH7YOoUAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"History of Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven, Florida.",2006,3,128,5
9780738544922,0738544922,Center City Philadelphia in the 19th Century,,The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=svr39oWQq2MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Philadelphia, as laid out in the 1680s, extended from the Delaware River to the Schuylkill River and from Vine Street to South Street, an area known today as Center City. As its population grew, the settled areas expanded westward from the Delaware River beyond early important landmarks such as Christ Church, the Pennsylvania State House, and Pennsylvania Hospital. By the mid-19th century, commercial, religious, and cultural institutions arose along Broad Street, and exclusive residential neighborhoods developed even farther west in areas previously undeveloped or used as industrial sites. Bustling shopping districts anchored by stores such as Wanamaker's Grand Depot and Strawbridge and Clothier ran for blocks along Chestnut and Market Streets. Center City Philadelphia in the 19th Century highlights the buildings, people, and activities of this area from the 1840s until the end of the century.",2006,4.44,128,9
9780738546780,073854678X,Selections from the Oakland Tribune Archives,,Annalee Allen,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zuHQJTSS4JwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The landmark Oakland Tribune clock tower has been telling the time in neon in downtown Oakland since it was built in 1923, but the paper itself first appeared on city streets as early as 1874. For over a half century, the paper was owned and published by the influential and civic-minded Knowland family, who spearheaded efforts to modernize the Port of Oakland, construct the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, and establish a regional park system for Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Following the Loma Prieta earthquake, the damaged clock tower on Thirteenth Streetwhere Harry Houdini once hung by his heels above gawking crowds on Broadwaywas sadly vacant, but today it is once again busy with the buzz and bustle of the newsroom.",2006,3,128,2
9780738706122,0738706124,Book of Nightmares,,John Peel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qTM7fXd9C7MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When the evil wizard Destiny kidnaps Pixel, Score and Helaine must rescue him from the planet Zarathan, where nightmares come true and those who fall asleep die.",2005,4.11,192,326
9780739403457,0739403451,Rincewind the Wizzard,The Colour of Magic ; The Light Fantastic ; Sourcery ; Eric,Terry Pratchett,Discworld (Imaginary place),,"Includes ""The Colour of Magic"", ""The Light Fantastic"", ""Sourcery"" and ""Eric"".",1999,4.21,649,1557
9780739409558,0739409557,The Lord of the Rings,,,"Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character)",,"An epic detailing the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-Earth, in which the tiny Hobbits play a key role.",2002,4.49,1137,94
9780739410127,0739410121,Hitchhiker's Trilogy,,Douglas Adams,"Dent, Arthur (Fictitious character)",,"Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent.",2000,4.4,839,687
9780739412534,0739412531,All the Pretty Horses,,Cormac McCarthy,Americans,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8LtotgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.",1992,3.98,302,663
9780739414392,0739414399,The Chrestomanci Quartet,,Diana Wynne Jones,Chrestomanci (Fictitious character),,Four adventures of the Chrestomanci.,2000,4.5,664,78
9780739422953,0739422952,The Last Herald-mage,,Mercedes Lackey,"Fantasy fiction, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=thWAtwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Is Vanyel foreseeing his own doom, as he believes in his darkest moments?",1990,4.48,900,5107
9780739423851,0739423851,Wizard's Castle,,Diana Wynne Jones,Fantasy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hB7hAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Howl's moving castle - Eldest of three sisters, in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared Wizard Howl. Castle in the air - Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a magic carpet and his life changes dramatically as his daydreams come true and",2002,4.44,376,439
9780739427361,0739427369,A Tolkien Miscellany,,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,"Fantasy fiction, English",,,2002,4.11,370,60
9780739432174,0739432176,The Abhorsen Trilogy,"Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen",Garth Nix,"Fantasy fiction, American",,Sabriel and Lirael must battle against ancient evils in order to protect the Old Kingdom and learn of their own destinies.,2003,4.66,777,89
9780739432976,0739432974,The complete guide to Middle-earth,from The hobbit through The lord of the rings and beyond,Robert Foster,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-B0J1LGgTaoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1971,4.17,569,20
9780739439708,0739439707,Time Quartet,,Madeleine L'Engle,Science fiction,,"Blending magic with quantum physics, Madeleine L'Engles's novels have mesmerized generations of readers. Rediscover these well-loved classics in our exclusive 4-in-1 omnibus edition. A Wrinkle in Time / A Wind in the Door / A Swiftly Tilting Planet.",2003,4.35,646,165
9780739444054,0739444050,The Foundation Trilogy,"Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation",Isaac Asimov,Science fiction,,,2004,4.4,624,321
9780739447345,0739447343,The Christmas Thief,,Mary Higgins Clark,Christmas stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=onvZ9JEL5GEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Amateur sleuth Alvirah Meehan and private investigator Regan Reilly join together to solve a case involving an eighty-foot blue spruce tree destined for Rockefeller Center and a recently released prisoner.,2004,3.61,253,11
9780739449073,0739449079,Night fall,a novel,Nelson DeMille,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CTwObLsDoisC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2004,4.09,773,28
9780739456903,0739456903,The Sundering,Volumes I and II.,Jacqueline Carey,Brothers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ch1xDZ-VzMUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2005,3.82,733,304
9780739461198,0739461192,Marley and me : love and life with the world's worst dog,,John Grogan,Labrador retriever,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IDUYoCOVRx8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wriggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, and stole women's undergarments. Obedience school did no good--Marley was expelled. And yet his heart was pure. Just as Marley joyfully refused any limits on his behavior, his love and loyalty were boundless, too. A dog like no other, Marley remained steadfast, a model of devotion, even when his family was at its wit's end. Unconditional love, they would learn, comes in many forms.",2005,4.13,291,406585
9780739469057,0739469053,Twelve sharp,,Janet Evanovich,Bail bond agents,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AOjulIMfBeMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is trying to track down a female stalker.",2006,4.14,401,19
9780739844328,0739844326,Bill Gates,Computer Legend,Sara Barton-Wood,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fr814OOgLHsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the life of Bill Gates, from his childhood, to his education, and to his days as mastermind and head of Microsoft a multi-billion dollar computer software company.",2001,5,48,0
9780740720123,0740720120,Another Day in Paradise,The Fourth Sherman's Lagoon Collection,Jim Toomey,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yaMEEFASNPcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Another Day In Paradise"" marks the latest collection of the popular strip, which takes a satirical, sea-floor look at modern culture through the eyes of Sherman, his sidekick sea turtle Fillmore, and schools of other coral reef critters.",2001,4.34,130,65
9780740721359,0740721356,Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995,,Bill Watterson,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3-7lJJFjDnAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Compiles a selection of Sunday cartoons selected and commented upon by the author.,2001,4.71,96,3537
9780740721946,0740721941,Another Day in Cubicle Paradise,,Scott Adams,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tHCkvtdDcLoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Dilbert and his co-workers--along with Dogbert, Catbert, and the boss--explore the mysteries of corporate America, from unusual personnel decisions and the worst meetings on record to schizoid secretaries and consultants from hell.",2002,3.99,128,396
9780740748479,0740748475,The Complete Calvin and Hobbes,,Bill Watterson,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wmjG5g4Yx7gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Brings together every ""Calvin and Hobbes"" cartoon that has ever appeared in syndication, along with stories and poems from classic collections.",2005,4.82,1456,31249
9780742529786,0742529789,Chomsky on Miseducation,,Noam Chomsky,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5tI8-zT5IGEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This collection of Chomsky's influential writings on education builds a larger understanding of our educational needs, starting with the changing role of schools today, yet broadening our view toward new models of public education for citizenship.",2004,3.77,199,279
9780743202411,0743202414,A Primate's Memoir,A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons,Robert M. Sapolsky,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=90IilQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons. “I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,” writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist’s coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky’s twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate’s Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti—for man and beast alike. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes evermore enamored of his subjects—unique and compelling characters in their own right—and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate’s Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.",2002,4.35,304,4769
9780743202558,0743202554,"New Jewish Wedding, Revised",,Anita Diamant,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cTD6AAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide to planning a Jewish wedding includes advice on choosing attire, a rabbi, and vendors, offers examples of readings and invitations, and provides information for converts, non-Jews, and same sex couples.",2001,3.96,288,678
9780743203043,0743203046,Bowling Alone,The Collapse and Revival of American Community,Robert D. Putnam,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rd2ibodep7UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Shows how changes in work, family structure, women's roles, and other factors have caused people to become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and democratic structures--and how they may reconnect.",2001,3.79,544,4418
9780743203319,0743203313,The Blackwater Lightship,A Novel,Colm Toibin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V9rUaWjCelwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With AIDS about to claim a well-loved young man, three generations of his family are reunited at his bedside in Ireland, in a novel that explores the nature of love and the complex interrelationships among family members.",2001,3.86,288,4194
9780743203586,0743203585,The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse,,P.G. Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-4jKL9zk9KIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of humorous stories, including ""The Truth about George,"" ""Ukridge's Dog College,"" ""The Coming of Gowf,"" ""The Purity of the Turf,"" and ""A Slice of Life.""",2000,4.49,701,1845
9780743203593,0743203593,"How Right You Are, Jeeves",,P.G. Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SbpOU7kDNusC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"English comedy with bumbling Bertie Wooster and his all knowing valet, Jeeves.",2000,4.17,206,2690
9780743203623,0743203623,Jeeves And The Tie That Binds,,P.G. Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yqHynP2B1VIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"After saving his master so often in the past, Jeeves may finally prove to be the unwitting cause of Bertie Wooster's undoing when the Junior Ganymede, a club for butlers in London's West End, requires its members to provide details about their employers. When information is inadvertently revealed to a dangerous source, it falls to Jeeves to undo the damage.",2000,4.23,205,2717
9780743203968,0743203968,The Body Artist,A Novel,Don DeLillo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PQdaAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld. Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American. In The Body Artist his spare, seductive twelfth novel, he inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. Lauren is living on a lonely coast, in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her own life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love and human perception. The Body Artist is a haunting, beautiful and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.",2002,3.24,128,6943
9780743210768,074321076X,Sarah Ban Breathnach's Mrs. Sharp's Traditions,Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations of Comfort and Joy,Sarah Ban Breathnach,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YpAHAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers hearth and home wisdom, including ideas to enhance modern life with old-fashioned traditions.",2001,4.07,256,301
9780743211482,0743211480,Not Much Fun,The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker,Stuart Y. Silverstein,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7ShGLd882uEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"More than one hundred previously unpublished poems by Dorothy Parker scrutinize the perils and folly of love, experiment with various rhyme schemes, and tackle topical views of the times in which she lived. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2001,4.18,256,430
9780743211994,0743211995,An Hour Before Daylight,Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood,Jimmy Carter,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZuPhhI0-KoAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The former president offers an account of growing up on a Georgia farm during the Depression and provides profiles of the people who shaped his life.,2001,3.89,288,1831
9780743219570,0743219570,Cover Her Face,An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery,P.D. James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oaIv9NpNXBIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. Cover Her Face is P. D. James's electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.",2001,3.94,250,25497
9780743222044,0743222040,Drugs and Crime Deviant Pathways,,Cândido da Agra;Serge Brochu;Marie-Marthe Cousineau,Criminal behavior,,,2002,3.83,208,33
9780743222051,0743222059,The Skull Beneath the Skin,,P. D. James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i1JsQmfSsxQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Combining the classic ingredients of a murder mystery with elements of horror, apparitions and hairbreadth episodes, ""The Skull Beneath The Skin"" creates a dark and claustrophobic atmosphere in a masterpiece of crime fiction. When leading actress Clarissa Lisle receives threats to her life the young detective, Cordelia Gray, is hired to accompany her to a private island where she is going to star in ""The Duchess Of Malfi."" In this gripping dramatization, the sharp-witted slueth, played by Greta Scaachi, finds herself in the enclosed setting of a chilling country house on an island with a blood-stained history.",1982,3.8,352,4707
9780743222983,0743222989,Authentic Happiness,Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment,Martin E. P. Seligman,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CM9tBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Argues that happiness can be a learned and cultivated behavior, explaining how every person possesses at least five of twenty-four profiled strengths that can be built on in order to improve life.",2004,3.95,336,8200
9780743223133,0743223136,John Adams,,David McCullough,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mtBkcldvD3cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as “out of his senses”; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. This is history on a grand scale—a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.",2002,4.06,751,264047
9780743223850,0743223853,Yanks,The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I,John Eisenhower,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4UjYAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the perfect match of subject and author, John S. D. Eisenhower, a noted military historian, presents the definitive account of the birth of the modern Amer- ican army and its decisive role in World War I. With the help of his wife Joanne, Eisenhower captures the viewpoints of the actual participants, blending a narrative told from the perspective of top officers with the stories of average soldiers. Drawing on diaries and memoirs, he brings each engagement to life, from the initial planning to the actual battlefield experiences of soldiers whose exploits at Belleau Woods and along the Meuse-Argonne would become the stuff of legend. Along the way, he shows how General Pershing and other leaders -- including George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, Billy Mitchell, and Peyton March -- transformed the American Expeditionary Force from a small, underequipped force into a strong, efficient, and effective army. Fast-paced, lively, and engaging, Yanks illuminates the central role of the American army in turning the tide in the biggest war the world had ever known.",2002,3.69,368,104
9780743225083,0743225082,Man and Boy,A Novel,Tony Parsons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pM0UuyMT0sUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Facing his thirtieth birthday with trepidation, Harry Silver watches his perfect life crumble around him when his wife leaves him and he must adjust to raising his son alone.",2001,3.56,368,12406
9780743226721,0743226720,Seventeen Seventy-six,,David McCullough,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R1Jk-A4R5AYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution that includes the siege of Boston, the American defeat at Brooklyn, the retreat across New Jersey, and the American victory at Trenton.",2006,4.07,386,158126
9780743227193,0743227190,President Nixon,Alone in the White House,Richard Reeves,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ajLBlZwwB0IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"PRESIDENT NIXON shows a man alone in a White House ruled by secrets and lies, trying to impose old values at home and new balances of power everywhere in the world. Reeves proves that the Watergate scandal was no abberation in an administration foreshadowed by a series of successful uses of 'national security' to cover coups, burglaries, lies, the abandonment of America's allies - and even murder. Reeves portrays a man of vision and iron will who created, used and was used by a small cast of hard, ambitious men who formed a poisonous circle around their insecure leader. Alone, Nixon challenged and changed the world's political and military balance while also plotting to destroy both the Democratic and Republican parties in an attempt to create secretly a new party of the centre. This account of Nixon's stewardship will stand as the balanced, authoratative portrait of an astonishng president and his ruined presidency.",2002,3.96,704,374
9780743227445,0743227441,The Other Boleyn Girl,,Philippa Gregory,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mx8-sy_e6r8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The #1 New York Times bestseller from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory is a rich, compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue surrounding the Tudor court of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the infamous Boleyn family. When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of the handsome and charming Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family’s ambitious plots as the king’s interest begins to wane, and soon she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. With her own destiny suddenly unknown, Mary realizes that she must defy her family and take fate into her own hands. With more than one million copies in print and adapted for the big screen, The Other Boleyn Girl is a riveting historical drama. It brings to light a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamorous court in Europe, and survived a treacherous political landscape by following her heart.",2001,4.05,661,408775
9780743231534,0743231538,Shampoo Planet,,Douglas Coupland,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j5apPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tyler Johnson is an apocalyptic entrepreneur in the making. His memories begin with Ronald Reagan. With his neat girlfriend, smart jokes and shampoo collection, he works at the nuclear power plant where his hippie parents used to demonstrate, plotting his fortune. But fortune has other plans - the return of a Paris summer fling, one of the 'low-ambition Euro-teens', who takes Tyler on the road to the shimmering dreams of L.A.",2002,3.5,282,8182
9780743233217,0743233212,Them,Adventures with Extremists,Jon Ronson,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ArxxlAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry and So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled secret room. As a journalist and a Jew, Ronson was often considered one of ""Them"" but he had no idea if their meetings actually took place. Was he just not invited? Them takes us across three continents and into the secret room. Along the way he meets Omar Bakri Mohammed, considered one of the most dangerous men in Great Britain, PR-savvy Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Thom Robb, and the survivors of Ruby Ridge. He is chased by men in dark glasses and unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp. In the forests of northern California he even witnesses CEOs and leading politicians -- like Dick Cheney and George Bush -- undertake a bizarre owl ritual. Ronson's investigations, by turns creepy and comical, reveal some alarming things about the looking-glass world of ""us"" and ""them."" Them is a deep and fascinating look at the lives and minds of extremists. Are the extremists onto something? Or is Jon Ronson becoming one of them?",2003,3.95,336,11066
9780743235655,0743235657,Shout!,The Beatles in Their Generation,Philip Norman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l2I0twz__BIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A fresh look at the story of the Beatles' rise to success and the people who helped them develop their music, image, and style.",2005,4.03,546,4452
9780743236140,0743236149,Man and Wife,A Novel,Tony Parsons,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GFupHDzCyh4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Harry Silver is ready to try again at living ""happily ever after."" It won't be easy: not when he has to juggle his wife, his ex-wife, his son, his stepdaughter, his work, and his new wife's fast-growing career. Did Harry commit to marriage to Cyd too soon after his split with Gina? Can you love -- really love -- a child who is not your own? Can you be a good father to a child you only see on the weekends? When Harry meets a woman who makes him question all these things and more, his tangled web becomes even more knotty. A brilliant sequel to the international bestseller Man and Boy, Tony Parsons' Man and Wife is a story about families -- and love -- in the new century, written with his trademark humor, passion, and superb storytelling that have made millions across the globe laugh and cry.",2002,3.48,352,3115
9780743243780,0743243781,Teacher Man,A Memoir,Frank McCourt,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YhgcwJ1L-s0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom, and came to terms with the undervalued importance of teaching.",2006,3.75,272,25726
9780743243803,0743243803,The Partly Cloudy Patriot,,Sarah Vowell,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eDpc5fbo8vkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author shares her perspective on such topics as the 2000 election, present-day civil rights activists, and the relationship between the United States and Canada.",2003,3.88,197,25289
9780743243827,074324382X,Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?,The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music,Mark Zwonitzer;Charles Hirshberg,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qTdns8tiSqUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Traces the bluegrass country music achievements of the Carter family, from their discovery by a New York record maker to their rise to stardom and eventual breakup, noting their influence on the careers of top performers.",2004,4.27,432,854
9780743244251,0743244257,Cosmopolis,A Novel,Don DeLillo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4_ocfLBdl2kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A brilliant billionaire asset manager, en route via white stretch limo to the local haircutter, finds his trip interrupted by a presidential motorcade, music idol's funeral, movie set, and violent political demonstration, and receives a number of important visitors in the fields of security, technology, currency, finance, and theory. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.",2004,3.22,224,449
9780743244589,0743244583,Chronicles,Volume One,Bob Dylan,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KUqouQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. “I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.” So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan’s eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan’s New York is a magical city of possibilities—smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book’s side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota, and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times. By turns revealing, poetical, passionate, and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan’s thoughts and influences. Dylan’s voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful, and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.",2005,3.98,320,40505
9780743245920,074324592X,The Boat of Dreams,A Christmas Story,Richard Preston,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KaAyuAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stumbling upon an ornery old man in the trailer they call home, Lila and Will Foster, who have recently lost their father, realize that their visitor is Santa Claus, who grants them a Christmas wish--their father's beautiful lobster boat.",2003,3.31,111,111
9780743247542,074324754X,The Glass Castle,A Memoir,Jeannette Walls,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V8kznwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the tradition of Mary Karr's ""The Liars' Club"" and Rick Bragg's ""All Over But the Shouting,"" Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family.",2006,4.26,288,752358
9780743249294,0743249291,Wideacre,A Novel,Philippa Gregory,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RAWLDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"As an eighteenth-century Englishwoman without property rights, Beatrice Lacey is destined to lose what she loves most--her family's ancestral estate of Wideacre--unless her ambitious schemes succeed. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.",2003,3.3,656,18538
9780743249300,0743249305,The Favored Child,A Novel,Philippa Gregory,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hla-lAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes the thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller Wideacre as the once-great Lacey estate is restored to its former grandeur—though not without cost. The Wideacre estate is bankrupt. The villagers are living in poverty and formerly stunning hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But, in the Dower House nearby, two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the estate, rivals for the love of the village, they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry. Only one can be the favored child—only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land and the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again. Only one can be Beatrice Lacey’s true heir. Sensual, gripping, and mystical, The Favored Child irresistibly sweeps the reader into a world of secrets, betrayals, and power in this revolutionary period of English history.",2003,3.61,624,9430
9780743250412,0743250419,The Master,A Novel,Colm Toibin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1G9xAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Nineteenth-century writer Henry James is heartbroken when his first play performs poorly in contrast to Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and struggles with subsequent doubts about his sexual identity, his decision not to marry, and his difficulties with emotional intimacy. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.",2005,3.83,339,7082
9780743250443,0743250443,Generation of Swine,Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's,Hunter S. Thompson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hysRM1imbJ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The second volume of the Gonzo Papers comments on the television coverage of Hurricane Gloria, blood pressure machines, the Super Bowl, the hijinks of televangelists, the Iran Contra hearings, the 1988 Presidential race, and other topics, in a collection of cynical, provocative essays. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2003,3.77,336,5860
9780743250450,0743250451,The Great Shark Hunt,Strange Tales from a Strange Time,Hunter S. Thompson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tESC9BnR85cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Brings together a selection of the legendary American journalist's articles on subjects ranging from the Super Bowl to Watergate, from Hemingway to Brando, and from sharks to drugs.",2003,4.08,624,10747
9780743250979,0743250974,The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook,,Stephen R. Covey,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-Evbj5_0DcQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Outlining seven key organizational rules for improving effectiveness and increasing productivity at work and at home, a companion volume to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People presents a step-by-step guide that includes in-depth exercises and solutions that teach the fundamentals of fairness, integrity, honesty, and dignity and help readers set goals, enhance relationships, and promote success. Original. 75,000 first printing.",2003,4.22,192,1685
9780743252218,0743252217,Sea of Thunder,"Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941-1945",Evan Thomas,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=je8dswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A suspenseful account of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 is told through the commands of four naval leaders, including two American commanders and two Japanese admirals, and offers insight into how the war reflected profound cultural differences. 100,000 first printing.",2006,4.11,415,2332
9780743253970,0743253973,A Separate Peace,,John Knowles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MXodmuKR7vYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war. Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles’s crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.",2003,3.57,208,169719
9780743255486,0743255488,Plan of Attack,,Bob Woodward,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4YPgJAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering over two years, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam. Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three and a half hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush, Plan of Attack is part presidential history charting the decisions made during 16 critical months; part military history revealing precise details and the evolution of the Top Secret war planning under the restricted codeword Polo Step; and part a harrowing spy story as the CIA dispatches a covert paramilitary team into northern Iraq six months before the start of the war. This team recruited 87 Iraqi spies designated with the cryptonym DB/ROCKSTARS, one of whom turned over the personnel files of all 6,000 men in Saddam Hussein's personal security organization. What emerges are astonishingly intimate portraits: President Bush in war cabinet meetings in the White House Situation Room and the Oval Office, and in private conversation; Dick Cheney, the focused and driven vice president; Colin Powell, the conflicted and cautious secretary of state; Donald Rumsfeld, the controlling war technocrat; George Tenet, the activist CIA director; Tommy Franks, the profane and demanding general; Condoleezza Rice, the ever-present referee and national security adviser; Karl Rove, the hands-on political strategist; other key members of the White House staff and congressional leadership; and foreign leaders ranging from British Prime Minister Blair to Russian President Putin. Plan of Attack provides new details on the intelligence assessments of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and the planning for the war's aftermath.",2004,3.67,480,4492
9780743255783,074325578X,Frankenstein,A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OB6cYGw12UAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The story of Dr. Frankenstein and the obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature is accompanied by 629 SAT vocabulary words highlighted and defined on pages opposite those of the text.,2003,3.78,448,18
9780743255813,074325581X,The Scarpetta Collection Volume II,All That Remains and Cruel & Unusual,Patricia Cornwell,Fiction,,"International publishing sensation Patricia Cornwell's legion of readers will welcome this omnibus edition of her third and fourth megabestselling Kay Scarpetta novels, All That Remains and Cruel & Unusual. These two novels, presented here complete and unabridged, helped to confirm Patricia Cornwell's status as queen of the forensic thriller and one of the world's top bestselling authors. All That Remains A killer is stalking young lovers. Taking their lives and leaving just a tantalizing clue. When the bodies of young couples start turning up in remote woodland areas, Dr. Kay Scarpetta's task as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements. Eight times she must write that the cause of death is undetermined. But when the latest young woman to go missing is the daughter of one of America's most powerful women, Kay also finds herself prey to political pressure and press harassment. The killings must stop. Now. Scarpetta soon discovers that someone is withholding vital evidence, or even faking it. Meanwhile, a cunning sadistic killer is still at large. Cruel & Unusual At 11:05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue, Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been waiting for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a postmortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling for Scarpetta, but she has been here before. And Waddell's death is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a garbage Dumpster. To Scarpetta, the two cases seem unrelated, until she recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a strikingly similar position. Was Waddell innocent? Is someone else out there, who may attack again?",2003,4.15,672,29
9780743255905,0743255909,The Trial of Queen Caroline,The Scandalous Affair that Nearly Ended a Monarchy,Jane Robins,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-c6W2dDkrLwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Traces the early nineteenth-century adultery trial of Queen Caroline, describing her loveless arranged marriage to George IV, their mutual separation and affairs with other people, and the public's riotous defense of Caroline. 40,000 first printing.",2006,3.37,384,51
9780743258074,074325807X,Benjamin Franklin,An American Life,Walter Isaacson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L64OOJGaCKIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strategist, and statesman while tracing his life as one of America's Founding Fathers.",2004,3.99,586,94903
9780743260947,0743260945,The Sleeping Doll,,Jeffery Deaver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jtYeoK0ym14C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"California Bureau of Investigation interrogator and body language expert Kathryn Dance works to recapture a dangerous escaped killer with the help of three victims from his former cult and the lone survivor from a family he slaughtered. By the author of The Bone Collector. 300,000 first printing.",2007,3.93,428,347
9780743261982,0743261984,Liars and Saints,A Novel,Maile Meloy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lgcngkRJnhsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. “Each chapter…has the seductive aura of a finely crafted story. Liars and Saints is instructive and bittersweet and yet somehow never nostalgic” (Los Angeles Times). Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. In a family driven as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together. By turns funny and disturbing, irreverent and profound, Liars and Saints is a masterful display of Maile Meloy’s prodigious gifts and of her penetrating insight into an extraordinary American family and into the nature of human love. “Meloy may be the first great American realist of the twenty-first century: The Santerres aren’t real but they feel like they are, and the reader will not soon forget them” (The Boston Globe).",2004,3.59,272,2206
9780743262170,0743262174,"Cry, the Beloved Country",,Alan Paton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dSJ8gNyS-NMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty. Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, “We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.” Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.",1987,3.89,316,3035
9780743264730,0743264738,Einstein,His Life and Universe,Walter Isaacson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IMtGnwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk-",2007,4.1,675,99410
9780743264914,0743264916,I Heard that Song Before,,Mary Higgins Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ujiZgSMzIBYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Marrying the son of her father's wealthy employer, twenty-eight-year-old gardener's daughter Kay Lansing becomes increasingly disturbed by the suspicion surrounding her husband, Peter, in regard to the mysterious deaths of his first wife and a high-school senior. 1,000,000 first printing. Lit Guild, Doubleday, Mystery Guild, & BOMC Main.",2007,3.82,318,528
9780743267748,0743267745,I'm Too Young To Be Seventy,I'm Too Young To Be Seventy,Judith Viorst,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SuPUwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The beloved author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with wry good humor. Fans of Viorst’s funny, touching, and wise decades poems will love these verses filled with witty advice and reflections on marriage, milestones, and middle-aged children. Viorst explores, among the many other issues of this stage of life, the state of our sex lives and teeth, how we can stay married though thermostatically incompatible, and the joys of grandparenthood and shopping. Readers will nod with rueful recognition when she asks, “Am I required to think of myself as a basically shallow woman because I feel better when my hair looks good?,” when she presses a few helpful suggestions on her kids because “they may be middle aged, but they’re still my children,” and when she graciously—but not too graciously—selects her husband’s next mate in a poem deliciously subtitled “If I Should Die Before I Wake, Here’s the Wife You Next Should Take.” Though Viorst acknowledges she is definitely not a good sport about the fact that she is mortal, her poems are full of the pleasures of life right now, helping us come to terms with the passage of time, encouraging us to keep trying to fix the world, and inviting us to consider “drinking wine, making love, laughing hard, caring hard, and learning a new trick or two as part of our job description at seventy.” I'm Too Young to Be Seventy is a joy to read and makes a heartwarming gift for anyone who has reached or is soon to reach that—it’s not so bad after all—seventh decade.",2005,3.94,64,188
9780743269261,0743269268,The Virgin's Lover,,Philippa Gregory,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tc-nDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes a riveting and scandalous love triangle between a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition far exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them. In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen, yet one woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth’s ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth’s excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisors warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls back in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.",2005,3.7,441,42685
9780743269513,0743269519,The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,Powerful Lessons in Personal Change,Stephen R. Covey,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NWN2xAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.",2004,4.09,372,387431
9780743270205,0743270207,The Organized Student,Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond,Donna Goldberg,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g0c9PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A must-read for parents, The Organized Student contains hands-on strategies for teaching your disorganized child how to organize for success in middle school and high school, with special tips for kids with ADD/ADHD and learning disorders. The overstuffed backpack, the missing homework, the unused planner, the test he didn’t know about. Sound familiar? When the disorganized child meets the departmentalized structure of middle school, everything can fall apart. Even the academically successful child will start to falter if she misses deadlines, loses textbooks, or can’t get to class on time. This practical book is full of hands-on strategies for helping parents identify and teach organizational skills. Educational consultant Donna Goldberg has developed these methods by working with hundreds of students and in this book she provides: · Assessments to gather information about your child’s learning style, study habits, and school requirements · Guidelines for taming that overstuffed binder and keeping it under control · PACK—a four-step plan for purging and reassembling a backpack or locker · Instructions for organizing an at-home work space for the child who studies at a desk or the child who studies all over the house · Ways to help your child graduate from telling time to managing time · Special tips for kids with learning disabilities and kids who have two homes...and more The Organized Student is a must for any parent who has heard the words, “I can’t find my homework!”",2005,3.84,246,207
9780743270755,0743270754,Team of Rivals,The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,Doris Kearns Goodwin,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ONhhui9SRsMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in an account that also describes how he used the same abilities to rally former opponents in winning the Civil War.",2006,4.28,916,125020
9780743270793,0743270797,Untouchables,My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India,Narendra Jadhav,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k9hfQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman. Their story has rarely been told. This remarkable book achieves something altogether unprecedented: it gives voice to India's voiceless. In Untouchables, Narendra Jadhav tells the awe-inspiring story of his family's struggle for equality and justice in India. While most Dalits had accepted their lowly position as fate, Jadhav's father rebelled against the oppressive caste system and fought against all odds to forge for his children a destiny that was never ordained. Based on his father's diaries and family stories, Jadhav has written the triumphant story of his parents -- their great love, unwavering courage, and eventual victory in the struggle to free themselves and their children from the caste system. Jadhav vividly brings his parents' world to light and unflinchingly documents the life of untouchables -- the hunger, the cruel humiliations, the perpetual fear and brutal abuse. Compelling and deeply compassionate, Untouchables is a son's tribute to his parents, an illuminating chronicle of one of the most important moments in Indian history, and an eye-opening work of nonfiction that gives readers access and insight into the lives of India's 165 million Dalits, whose struggle for equality continues even today.",2005,3.82,320,299
9780743271325,0743271327,Brokeback Mountain,Now a Major Motion Picture,Annie Proulx,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tO5UnwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The friendship between Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys, evolves into an intimate relationship while they are working together as a herder and camp tender, sharing a bond that spans many years and frequent separations.",2005,3.94,55,23424
9780743272094,0743272099,Love Smart,Find the One You Want--Fix the One You Got,Dr. Phil McGraw,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v96amVzqanwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents a guide for singles that explains how to find the right person and how to sustain a loving, committed relationship, offering helpful advice on the world of dating, emotional differences, and online romance.",2005,3.55,284,66
9780743272490,0743272498,The Constant Princess,,Philippa Gregory,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T8nmrTAg1A8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A fictional portrait of Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine of Aragon, follows her through her youthful marriage to Henry's older brother, Arthur, her widowhood, her marriage to Henry, and the divorce that led to Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn.",2006,3.89,390,133277
9780743272506,0743272501,The Boleyn Inheritance,,Philippa Gregory,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=caWnfWM77oIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An only survivor of the ambitious Boleyn family, lady-in-waiting Jane Boleyn testifies against Henry VIII's latest queen, Anne of Cleeves, and conspires to place her young cousin, Catherine Howard, on the throne. By the author of The Other Boleyn Girl. 225,000 first printing.",2006,3.86,518,66751
9780743272537,0743272536,Virgin Earth,A Novel,Philippa Gregory,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZJeA9rj26a8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A sequel to Earthly Joy follows the life of John Tradescant the Younger, who works as a gardener to King Charles I before fleeing to the Royalist colony of Virginia in order to protect his family, a decision that tests his botanical talents and involves him in the plight of Native Americans whose lives are threatened by colonial settlers. Reprint. 85,000 first printing.",2006,3.61,661,4349
9780743272773,0743272773,How to Win Friends and Influence People for Teen Girls,,Donna Dale Carnegie,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eIc2lQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Donna Dale Carnegie, daughter of the late motivational author and teacher Dale Carnegie, brings her father’s time-tested, invaluable lessons to the newest generation of young women on their way to becoming savvy, self-assured friends and leaders. How to Win Friends and Influence People for Teen Girls offers concrete advice on teen topics such as peer pressure, gossip, and popularity. Teen girls will learn the most powerful ways to influence others, defuse arguments, admit mistakes, and make self-defining choices. The Carnegie techniques promote clear and constructive communication, praise rather than criticism, emotional sensitivity, tolerance, and a positive attitude—important skills for every girl to develop at an early age. Of course, no book for teen girls would be complete without taking a look at how to maintain friendships with boys and deal with commitment issues and break-ups with boyfriends. Carnegie also provides solid advice for older teens beginning to explore their influence in the adult world, such as driving and handling college interviews. Full of fun quizzes, “reality check” sections, and true-life examples, How to Win Friends and Influence People for Teen Girls offers every teenage girl candid, insightful, and timely advice on how to influence friends in a positive manner.",2005,3.9,208,426
9780743272933,0743272935,The Good Earth,,Pearl S. Buck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U6OgdLXPwvAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.,2004,3.98,357,3908
9780743273053,0743273052,Love-Lies-Bleeding,A Play,Don DeLillo,Euthanasia,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=olPfiFnF2dAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a complicated love, his son, his young wife, the older woman -- his wife of years past -- who feels the emotional tenacity of a love long-ended. It is their question to answer. When does life end, and when should it end? In this remote setting, without seeking medical or legal guidance, they move unsteadily toward last things. Luminous, spare, unnervingly comic and always deeply moving, Love-Lies-Bleeding explores a number of perilous questions about the value of life and how we measure it. --Publisher.",2005,,,
9780743275033,0743275039,The Coffin Dancer,,Jeffery Deaver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0CB5qeg08gAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"New York Police Department criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his student Amelia Sachs lead the hunt for a serial killer who changes his appearance with each murder, except for a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing in front of a coffin",2004,4.17,358,36
9780743281591,0743281594,Diary of a Mistress,A Novel,Miasha,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XFtxvwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What should a wife believe? The words of her husband or the diary of his mistress? From the author of Secret Society comes a tale of love and jealousy in which two women struggle to separate fact from fiction. Monica counts her blessings -- she has a husband who is not only devoted to her but is also committed to being a strong, caring father to their twin sons. When Carlos surprises her with an unforgettably romantic getaway, Monica knows her husband is still very much in love with her -- and she with him. But an unexpected package threatens to change everything Monica's ever believed about her husband. Angela has adopted a sex-them-and-leave-them attitude toward the married men she's bedded over the last five years. Then she met Monica's Carlos. Now she will stop at nothing to get him for herself -- even if that means destroying her own life and another woman's family.",2006,4.35,182,2449
9780743284288,0743284283,Female Chauvinist Pigs,Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture,Ariel Levy,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IubF3WamjDYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Examines how some women are promoting chauvinism by behaving in sexually compromising ways, in an account that evaluates how women may be contributing to misogynistic and stereotyped belief systems.",2006,3.68,236,8373
9780743284790,0743284798,Persian Mirrors,The Elusive Face of Iran,Elaine Sciolino,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nop3PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The book that revealed Iran to the West, now with a new Afterword. Elaine Sciolino updates Persian Mirrors to include coverage of the 2005 presidential election in Iran. As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, Sciolino has had more experience covering revolutionary Iran than any other American reporter. She was aboard the airplane that took Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Tehran in 1979 and was there for the revolution, the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war, the rise of President Khatami, the riots of 1999, and the crisis over Iran's nuclear program. In Persian Mirrors, Sciolino takes us into the public and private spaces of Iran, uncovering an alluring and seductive nation where a great battle is raging -- not for control over territory, but for the soul of its people.",2005,3.82,418,528
9780743284882,0743284887,Chuck Klosterman IV,A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas,Chuck Klosterman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z8Zb3BwcviMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A collection by the pop culture commentator includes some of his most noteworthy profiles and trend stories, a selection of favorite opinion pieces, and a semi-autobiographical short story, in a volume complemented by twenty ""hypothetical questions.""",2006,3.85,374,14475
9780743286978,0743286979,Kissinger,A Biography,Walter Isaacson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1ouw7wxedwQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A biography of the political figure, based on more than one hundred and fifty interviews with Kissinger and others, chronicles his childhood in Nazi Germany, his rise in politics, and his political relationships.",2005,3.94,896,2317
9780743289412,0743289412,Lisey's Story,A Novel,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QF82jtAaC4MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as an award-winning novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems, on which she eventually comes to depend for survival. 1,250,000 first printing.",2006,3.67,513,56882
9780743292498,0743292499,True Evil,,Greg Iles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BDksxCLvFIsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The idyllic life of busy Natchez doctor Chris Shepard is turned upside down when undercover FBI agent Alex Morse recruits him for a case involving a local divorce attorney who is suspected of murdering the spouses of his clients. By the author of Turning Angel. 350,000 first printing.",2006,4.08,512,12524
9780743292542,0743292545,You On A Diet,The Owner's Manual for Waist Management,M. D. Roizen (Michael F.);Michael F. Roizen,Reducing diets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4wRJwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The only way that dieting can work is to make eating so easy and automatic that you never even realize that you're dieting. Through their entertaining style, Drs. Roizen and Oz teach you about your body.",2006,3.65,370,4382
9780743296168,0743296168,The Good House,,Tananarive Due,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=62tLnSyQLTAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Award-winning author Tananarive Due's spine-wingling tale of supernatural suspense 'waves a stronger net than ever' (Kirkus Reviews) as a woman searches for the inherited power that can save her hometown from the forces of evil.,2006,3.93,597,2385
9780743297264,0743297261,Does Anything Eat Wasps?,"And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask",New Scientist,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UII7PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"How fat do you have to be to become bulletproof? Why do people have eyebrows? Why do pineapples have spines? How much does a head weigh? What affects the color of earwax? How quickly could I turn into a fossil? Have you ever thought up a question so completely off-the-wall, so seemingly ridiculous, that you couldn't even find the courage to ask it? Maybe at the sports bar you were transported by the beauty of your beer to wonder, ""How long could I live on beer alone?"" Or, cycling through the park, you mused, ""Did nature invent any wheels?"" Or looking up at the night sky, you had a moment of angst, ""What would happen if the moon suddenly disappeared -- if it were vaporized or stolen by aliens?"" Full of fun factlets, Does Anything Eat Wasps? is a runaway bestseller around the world. It celebrates the weird and wacky questions -- some trivial, some baffling, all unique -- and their multiple answers culled from ""The Last Word,"" a long-running column in the internationally popular science magazine, New Scientist. Tackling the imponderables of everyday life, sparkling with humor, and bursting with delightful erudition, Does Anything Eat Wasps? is irresistibly entertaining and utterly engrossing. So, go on. Put away your lab coat and your pencil -- science is fun again.",2006,3.51,224,573
9780743297301,074329730X,The SPEED of Trust,The One Thing that Changes Everything,Stephen R. Covey;Rebecca R. Merrill,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nQZnDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The son of the author of the best-selling 7 Habits series explains how trust is a key catalyst for personal and organizational success in the twenty-first century, in a guide for businesspeople that demonstrates how to inspire trust while overcoming bureaucratic obstacles. 100,000 first printing.",2006,3.98,384,16043
9780743297318,0743297318,"Look Homeward, Angel",,Thomas Wolfe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=koSYQSSCjKwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A Southern family with a great appetite for living is dominated by the father until an older son, Eugene, is able to free himself from his rural North Carolina hometown to seek the challenges of an Ivy League education and big city life. Reissue. 75,000 first printing.",2006,3.94,644,10780
9780743406567,0743406567,Fargo Rock City,A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota,Chuck Klosterman,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AhhOOYzmcPsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Empirically proving that—no matter where you are—kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498). With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil. The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock—his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet—but he still found a way to bang his nappy little head. Before the journey was over, he would slow-dance to Poison, sleep innocently beneath satanic pentagrams, lust for Lita Ford, and get ridiculously intellectual about Guns N' Roses. C'mon and feel his noize.",2002,3.8,288,12200
9780743409155,0743409159,Eye of the Storm,,Virginia C. Andrews,Partition of decedents' estates,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sYS6HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The third book in the magnificent RAIN series,2002,3.82,368,36
9780743410588,0743410580,Like Shaking Hands With God,A Conversation About Writing,Kurt Vonnegut Jr.;Lee Stringer,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BlX-WELO5u8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Features photographs and transcripts of a seminar hosted by the authors on October 1, 1998 during which they spoke together about the process of writing, being a writer, and what it means to be human. Reprint.",2000,3.72,80,843
9780743412629,0743412621,The Second Time Around,A Novel,Mary Higgins Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6en6XMXSLOgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The ""Queen of Suspense,"" Mary Higgins Clark, delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing twists that might have been ripped from today's headlines. When Nicholas Spencer, the charismatic head of a company that has developed an anticancer vaccine, disappears without a trace, reporter Marcia ""Carley"" DeCarlo is assigned the story. Word that Spencer, if alive, has made off with huge sums of money -- including the life savings of many employees -- doesn't do much to change Carley's already low opinion of Spencer's wife, Lynn, who is also Carley's stepsister and whom everyone believes is involved. But when Lynn's life is threatened, she asks Carley to help her prove that she wasn't her husband's accomplice. As the facts unfold, however, Carley herself becomes the target of a dangerous, sinister group that will stop at nothing to get what they want.",2004,3.75,373,7254
9780743414920,0743414926,The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara,"Book One, Ilse Witch",Terry Brooks,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3nmHAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2000,3.96,454,72
9780743417341,0743417348,The Inhuman Condition,,Clive Barker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RaMMCIm7BQ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents five horror tales, including a bloody parable of the body in revolt, a conundrum centered in a piece of string, a fable of Hell on Earth, a story of an unholy coupling of the living and the dead, and a vision of depravity.",2001,3.97,180,6129
9780743417518,0743417518,Star Trek Voyager Companion,,Paul Ruditis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oEPl84FQpxgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A companion to the popular syndicated television show offers a complete show-by-show guide to the series, including plot summaries and behind-the-scenes details.",2003,3.95,482,159
9780743418133,0743418131,Deck the Halls,,Mary Higgins Clark;Carol Higgins Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hdF6HTBvK30C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When Regan Reilly's father is kidnapped three days before Christmas, she investigates the disappearance with the help of her parents' neighbors, Willy and Alvirah Meehan.",2001,3.61,292,6933
9780743418263,0743418263,Music & Silence,,Rose Tremain,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1MwkLA1GrtgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Brought to the Danish court in 1629 to serve in the king's orchestra, English lutenist Peter Claire soon finds himself caught up in royal intrigue when he falls for a young woman who is the companion of the queen. Winner of the Whitbread Prize. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.",2001,3.95,512,2793
9780743418713,0743418719,Salem Falls,,Jodi Picoult,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AntrxtyyJ0cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but fresh accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him again.",2002,3.81,434,65364
9780743418720,0743418727,Perfect Match,The World Astrology Book of Love and Relationships,Jodi Picoult,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pss0rZQUF08C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"District Attorney Nina Frost and her husband, Caleb, face a nightmare when they discover that their young son Nathaniel has been molested, a trauma that has left him mute, terrified, and unable to reveal the identity of his attacker.",2002,3.94,368,206
9780743422000,0743422007,"God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian",,Kurt Vonnegut,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mspRQTHcVFQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"'Vonnegut is our strongest writer...the most stubbornly imaginative' - John Irving Setting himself up as a 'reporter on the afterlife,' Vonnegut bravely allows himself to be dispatched on a round-trip to the Pearly Gates - or at least that's what he claims - in these 30-odd comic and irreverent 'interviews' with the likes of William Shakespeare, Adolf Hitler and Clarence Darrow. A delight for all Vonnegut devotees, it will appeal to just about anyone with a sense of humour.",2001,3.84,80,12423
9780743422079,0743422074,Blink-182,Tales from Beneath Your Mom,Blink-182;Anne Hoppus;Tom Delonge;Mark Hoppus;Travis Barker,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CzH6_3CiNMYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a behind-the-scenes look at the band, including their life on the road, videos, and backstage antics.",2001,4.4,112,158
9780743426916,0743426916,The Diablo: The Black Road,,Mel Odom,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fSGE8cPJktwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Returning to his hometown of Bramwell after years of wandering, mercenary Darrick Lang discovers that a dark and horrifying force has ensnared its citizens and now seeks to seize him, in a chilling novel of dark fantasy, based on the popular video game. Original. (A Blizzard Entertainment M-rated electronic game) (Horror)",2002,3.67,360,1179
9780743426923,0743426924,The Diablo: The Kingdom of Shadow,,Richard A. Knaak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aedR1xHEYRsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since the beginning of time, the angelic hosts of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in a struggle for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now come to the mortal realm...and neither Man nor Demon nor Angel will be left unscathed.... Legend speaks of a long-dead city known as Ureh, thought by many to have been a gateway to the High Heavens. It is believed that every two thousand years, when the stars align and the shadow of Mount Nymyr falls upon the ruins, Ureh is reborn -- and all its lost riches are revealed to those brave enough to seek them out. Now, after a lifetime of research and intense calculation, the Vizjerei sorcerer, Quov Tsin, has come to witness Ureh's rebirth for himself. But that which awaits Tsin and his hired band of mercenaries is nothing like what they expected. They will find that the dream of radiant Ureh is, in fact, a twisted nightmare of horror -- one that will draw them inexorably into The Kingdom of Shadow An original tale of swords, sorcery, and timeless struggle based on the bestselling, award-winning M-rated computer game from Blizzard Entertainment. Intended for mature readers.",2002,3.94,339,1144
9780743428187,0743428188,The Twentieth Wife,A Novel,Indu Sundaresan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5eCjOvGFGeMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The story of Mehrunnisa, the daughter of servents who became the an empresses of the Mughal empire.",2003,4.04,380,11007
9780743428675,0743428676,Black Cat,,V. C. Andrews,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3r9uPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Still maintaining her guise as her deceased brother Noble, Celeste struggles to raise Baby Celeste, a child she is forced to deny as her own, but when her mother marries a kindly neighbor, vicious enemies threaten to reveal the truth.",2004,3.75,375,22
9780743428958,0743428951,Last Man Standing,,David Baldacci,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7vc6jMHADcAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seven seconds. That's all it took for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team, his reputation. Point man of the FBI's super-elite Hostage Rescue Team, Web roared into a blind alley towards a drug leader's lair, only to meet a high-tech, custom-designed ambush that killed everyone around him. Coping with the blame-filled words of anguished widows and the suspicions of colleagues, Web tries to put his life back together. To do so, he must discover why he was the one man who lived through the ambush - and find the only other person who came out of the alley alive... a ten-year-old boy who has since disappeared. Acting on his instincts, Web believes he knows where the killer will strike next. Only this time, he may not survive the attack. In his extraordinary new work, Baldacci uses his unsurpassed storytelling skills to explore the essence of survival itself, as a conspiracy of violence surrounds an FBI agent whose fate was to be the ... LAST MAN STANDING.",2002,4.05,548,55
9780743431019,0743431014,Songs of the Humpback Whale,A Novel,Jodi Picoult,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nOY7ISKV4wEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Back in print by popular demand, Picoult's acclaimed debut novel treats fans old and new to a poignant story of family, friendship and love.",2001,3.2,346,26836
9780743435383,0743435389,March Upcountry,,David Weber;John Ringo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N8hTPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When his spaceship crashes en route to a boring ceremonial appearance, Roger MacClintock, a spoiled young prince, and his guardian Royal Marines must take a perilous trek across a planet filled with dangerous plants and hostile peoples.",2002,4.18,608,9455
9780743436502,0743436504,Roughing It,,Mark Twain,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E0XFeOLwD18C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An anthology of autobiographical essays describes the author's action-packed adventures and experiences during the six years he spent drifting through California, Nevada, and other locales in the American West.",2003,3.9,560,5659
9780743437493,0743437497,The Shining,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vUZoxITGufkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them, as they journey into a world in which old horrors come to life to destroy the living. Reprint.",2002,4.21,505,1283
9780743437813,0743437810,The Vanished Man,A Lincoln Rhyme Novel,Jeffery Deaver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vrVqO7oSC2EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Hunting down a killer and master illusionist whose first of several brutal murders took place at a prestigious New York music school, investigator Lincoln Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, work together to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance. Reprint.",2004,4.09,560,14626
9780743440745,0743440749,One More for the Road,A New Story Collection,Ray Bradbury,"Fantasy fiction, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JVB4PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Master of storytelling treats us to eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected. Tales of abandoned places and betrayed love; of a house where time has no boundaries; of a faraway planet plagued by an epidemic of sorrow; a wheat field that hides a strangely welcome enemy; the ghosts of dear friends, of errant sons and lost fathers, are but a few of the ingredients that have gone into Bradbury's savoury cocktail. One More for the Road is a superb refreshment served with wit, heart and flair by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.",2003,3.69,289,21
9780743444040,0743444043,Double Dealer,,Max Allan Collins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SWBlnQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Meet the little known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas -- the forensic investigators. Led by veteran Gil Grissom, the remarkable team assigned to the Criminalistics Bureau's graveyard shift -- including Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes, and Sara Sidle -- must combine cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned savvy as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. While Nick and Catherine investigate a newly discovered fifteen-year-old murder, Grissom and the rest of the team must uncover the indentity of a cold-blooded killer -- one whose execution-style, ""double-tap"" signature has provoked the interest of FBI agent Rick Culpepper.",2003,3.65,320,1006
9780743449021,0743449029,Shooting Stars Omnibus,"Cinnamon, Ice, Rose and Honey",V.C. Andrews,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p1pPcgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"FOUR GIRLS TOUCHED BY SPECIAL GIFTS. FOUR STUNNING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS -- - TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME Cinnamon...She escaped her family's turmoil by dreaming of imaginary worlds. But it's her talent for the theater that gives Cinnamon a chance...to truly escape. Ice...To her mother's dismay, she was a silent wallflower, not a social butterfly. Now, her secret gift -- her solid-gold singing voice -- may become her saving grace. Rose...When she danced, she could dream -- and when her father's secrets threatened to destroy her world, a most unlikely person gives Rose the courage to follow her heart. Honey...Raised on her strict grandfather's farm, her natural-born talent for the violin gave her a new life -- and love with a handsome soul mate. Will a shocking revelation shatter her newfound happiness?",2002,3.94,656,1211
9780743449656,0743449657,Serpent,,Clive Cussler;Paul Kemprecos,Archaeological expeditions,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cldoPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria's silent steel hull - and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction.",2002,3.9,480,6769
9780743449670,0743449673,Shock Wave,A Novel,Clive Cussler,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vsh3PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A mysterious plague in the Antarctic.A diamond empire run by an evil genius.A devastating new technology that threatens to annihilate millions. Tasman Sea, 1856. A British clipper ship bound for Australia's penal colony is crushed in a raging typhoon. A few pitiful survivors wash up on a deserted island. Among them are Betsy Fletcher and Jess Dorsett, who discover an immense supply of exquisite diamonds... Seymour Island, Antarctica, 2000. Dirk Pitt rescues Maeve Fletcher, a descendant of Betsy and Jess, after an unknouwn cataclysm kills thousands of marine animals and nearly two hundred people aboard a cruise ship. Pitt traces the carnage to the global diamond operations of Maeve's father, Arthur Dorsett, and her callous sisters. From a chilling escape at a high-security Canadian mine to a tiny boat adrift on lonely, shark-infested seas, the ingenious Pitt is racing to thwart Dorsett's ruthless plans - before an unthinkable disaster claims millions of innocent lives.",2002,4.01,537,13648
9780743454148,0743454146,The Footprints of God,,Greg Iles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BkFn-8jmUj4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Resisting those who would use a revolutionary new technology for unethical purposes, doctor David Tennant and psychiatrist Rachel Weiss find themselves running for their lives from a ruthless team of NSA agents and turning to David's unusual dreams for guidance. Reprint.",2004,3.77,528,6051
9780743454537,0743454537,My Sister's Keeper,A Novel,Jodi Picoult,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vGZSso_uyWsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A popular novel about a girl suing her parents because they want her to donate a kidney to her sister was named by the American Library Association as one of the top 10 books banned in 2009, with the novel being pulled from the shelves for a host of reasons, including homosexuality, sexually explicit material, religious viewpoint, drugs and suicide. Reprint. A best-selling book.",2005,4.07,423,950402
9780743454551,0743454553,Vanishing Acts,A Novel,Jodi Picoult,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=33Q_BAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Working with the Search and Rescue bloodhound team to find missing people, single mother Delia Hopkins anticipates her upcoming nuptials, until a series of unsettling flashbacks threatens to devastate her life and the lives of those she most loves. By the author of My Sister's Keeper and Second Glance. Reprint. 300,000 first printing.",2005,3.69,426,85123
9780743455961,0743455967,On Writing,,Stephen King,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d999Z2KbZJYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The author shares his insights into the craft of writing and offers a humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer.,2002,4.33,320,160056
9780743456814,0743456815,Sex and the City,Kiss and Tell,Amy Sohn;Sarah Jessica Parker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XusFlQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fan's resource for the award-winning cable television program features information about the show's actors, producers, costume designers, and sets, and provides summaries of each season and interviews with the cast.",2002,4,160,87
9780743456869,0743456866,He Sees You When You're Sleeping,A Novel,Mary Higgins Clark;Carol Higgins Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_GeyXWZySMgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Sterling Brooks is sent back to Earth by the Heavenly Council to help reunite a heartbroken seven-year-old girl with her father and grandmother, who were forced into the witness protection program because two mobsters have put a price on their heads. Reprint.",2002,3.79,230,473
9780743457620,0743457625,From Sawdust to Stardust,"The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy",Terry Lee Rioux,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5JUOIKG2XcwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An authoritative biography of the late DeForest Kelley, best known as the actor who played Dr. Leonard ""Bones"" McCoy on Star Trek, follows his life and career from his early days in Hollywood Westerns to his rise to fame as the crusty physician on the original Enterprise. Original. 12,500 first printing.",2005,4.11,362,178
9780743457910,0743457919,The Honourable Schoolboy,,John le Carre,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=91LDldURV7IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Trying to rebuild his espionage organization after a traitor is unmasked, George Smiley sends one of his most trusted agents on a mission to the Far East.",2002,3.95,589,11083
9780743458191,0743458192,Changeling,,Roger Zelazny,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6Zo8PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two novels in one volume include Changeling, in which the wizard Mor, after defeating Det Morson and destroying his castle, finds Det's infant son Pol amidst the ruins, and Madwand, in which Pol, son of Lord Det and a powerful sorcerer, must learn how to control his powers before he can take the throne. Original.",2003,3.72,244,1772
9780743461511,0743461517,"Click, Clack, Moo",Cows that Type,Doreen Cronin;Betsy Lewin,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VtszAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. All day long he hears Click, clack, moo. Click, clack, moo. Clickety, clack, moo. But the problems really begin when the cows start leaving Farmer Brown notes. First it was electric blankets... where will it end? And when the animals don't get what they want they go on strike, of course! Doreen Cronin's unusual text and Betsy Lewin's quirky illustrations make this a hilarious story.",2003,4.24,30,337
9780743463089,0743463080,Eight Black Horses,,Ed McBain,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f-oLAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When cryptic notes featuring patterns of eight black horses are delivered to Steve Carello, and a sudden rise in corpses occurs, the cops of the 87th Precinct realize the Deaf Man is back with a vengeance.",2003,3.91,336,710
9780743464116,0743464117,Band of Brothers,"E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest",Stephen E. Ambrose,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jlFL20cX9HIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Through soldiers' journals and letters, describes Easy Company's contributions to the campaigns in western Europe and recounts their stories of survival.",2002,4.43,432,77632
9780743464796,0743464796,Pendulum,Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science,Amir D. Aczel,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GKhhPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"He was neither a mathematician nor a trained physicist and yet Léon Foucault always knew that a mysterious force of nature was among us. Like Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, and others before him, Foucault sensed a dramatic relationship between the rotating skies above and the seemingly motionless ground beneath our feet. But it wasn't until 1851 -- in Paris, inside the Panthéon, and in the company of fellow amateur scientist Napoleon III -- that Foucault swung a pendulum and demonstrated an extraordinary truth about the world: that it turns on its axis. Pendulum is a fascinating journey through the mind and findings of one of the most important and lesser-known characters in the history of science. Through careful research and lively anecdotes, world-renowned author Amir D. Aczel reveals the astonishing range and breadth of Foucault's discoveries. For, in addition to offering the first unequivocal proof of Earth's rotation, Foucault gave us the modern electric compass and microscope, was a pioneer in photographic technology, and made remarkable deductions about color theory, heat waves, and the speed of light. At its heart, Pendulum is a story about the illustrious period in France during the Second Empire; the crucial triumph of science over religion; and, most compelling, the life of a struggling, self-made man whose pursuit of knowledge continues to inform our notions about the universe today.",2004,3.72,288,179
9780743466509,0743466500,The Price of Pleasure,,Kresley Cole,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v_u5lAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kresley Cole returns with a breathtaking romantic saga of love, honor, and passion unbound -- as a man of duty faces his greatest trial, and a young castaway discovers her greatest desire.... A man noted for his courage and integrity, Captain Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, an English girl lost at sea a decade before. He's given her ailing grandfather his word -- as a gentleman -- to find and protect her. But one look at a grown Victoria and Grant has never felt less like one. Tori relishes freedom, untamed passion, and spontaneity above stifling order. Even more so when a proud, cold British captain arrives to rescue her, though she has no wish to be. As Grant tries to convince her to leave her island home, she begins to see in him a man hungering for more. A man who once laughed. A man who desires her but won't take what she offers. Grant struggles to control his own savage passions -- and fails, Tori must decide what she wants more -- her unfettered independence or the only man who could tame her wild heart....",2004,4,353,118
9780743466523,0743466527,Fall on Your Knees,,Ann-Marie MacDonald,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HsgMVk8q6h4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Spanning five generations and moving from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, to the bleak landscape of World War I, and to the emerging jazz scene in New York City, this epic tale tells the story of four sisters.",2002,3.96,672,54468
9780743467544,074346754X,Homecoming,,Christie Golden,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fYBwQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After seven years trapped in the Delta Quadrant, Admiral Kathryn Janeway and the crew of Voyager miraculously find their way home, where they find new opportunities, adventures, and reunions with loved ones, until a mysterious cybernetic plague strikes Earth, transforming humans into a new generation of Borg. Original.",2003,3.91,262,1515
9780743468596,0743468597,First Things First,"To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy",Stephen R. Covey,Conduct of life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KRZEPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the spirit of THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE, the international bestseller, FIRST THINGS FIRST is a revolutionary guide to managing your time by learning how to balance your life. Traditional time management suggests that working harder, smarter and faster will help you gain control of your life, and that increased control will bring peace and fulfilment. The authors of FIRST THINGS FIRST disagree. In the first real breakthrough in time management in years, Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca R. Merrill apply the insights of the 7 HABITS to the daily problems of people who must struggle with the ever increasing demands of work and home life. Rather than focusing on time and things, FIRST THINGS FIRST emphasises relationships and results. And instead of efficiency, this new approach emphasises effectiveness. Covey offers a principle-centred approach that will empower readers to define what is truly important; to accomplish worthwhile goals; and to lead rich, rewarding and balanced lives.",2002,4.09,360,23
9780743470124,0743470125,Goodnight Nobody,A Novel,Jennifer Weiner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nUtLjcr6WtYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Having relocated to an alienating Connecticut suburb after a mugging in her native New York City, wife and mother Kate Klein undertakes a murder investigation during her children's school hours when a local mom is killed.",2006,3.65,400,53505
9780743470797,0743470796,", said the shotgun to the head.",,Saul Williams,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XEk6TX2xeX8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The greatest Americans Have not been born yet They are waiting quietly For their past to die please give blood Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an Incongruent mean of babble and brilliance...,2003,4.22,192,2687
9780743471220,0743471229,The Diablo: The Sin War #1: Birthright,Birthright,Richard A. Knaak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zmc4swEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since the beginning of time, the angelic forces of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in an eternal conflict for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now spilled over into Sanctuary -- the world of men. Determined to win mankind over to their respective causes, the forces of good and evil wage a secret war for mortal souls. This is the tale of the Sin War -- the conflict that would forever change the destiny of man. Three thousand years before the darkening of Tristram, Uldyssian, son of Diomedes, was a simple farmer from the village of Seram. Content with his quiet, idyllic life, Uldyssian is shocked as dark events rapidly unfold around him. Mistakenly blamed for the grisly murders of two traveling missionaries, Uldyssian is forced to flee his homeland and set out on a perilous quest to redeem his good name. To his horror, he has begun to manifest strange new powers -- powers no mortal man has ever dreamed of. Now, Uldyssian must grapple with the energies building within him -- lest they consume the last vestiges of his humanity.",2006,3.74,326,1186
9780743471237,0743471237,Diablo: The Sin War #2: Scales of the Serpent,Diablo Sin War,Blizzard Entertainment,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=widqvQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since the beginning of time, the angelic forces of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in the Eternal Conflict for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now spilled over into Sanctuary -- the world of men. Determined to win mankind over to their respective causes, the forces of good and evil wage a secret war for mortal souls. This is the tale of the Sin War -- the conflict that would forever change the destiny of man. Bent on destroying the evil cult of the Triune, Uldyssian does not yet suspect that Inarius -- secret Prophet of the Cathedral of Light -- has been subtly aiding his quest. Obsessed with restoring Sanctuary to its former glory, Inarius has been playing Uldyssian against the two great religions in a reckless attempt to topple them both. But another player has slipped back into the equation. The demon Lilith, once Inarius's lover, seeks to use Uldyssian as her own pawn in a scheme to turn humans into an army of naphalem -- godlike beings, more powerful than any angel or demon, who could overturn all Creation and elevate Lilith to supreme being. An original tale of swords, sorcery, and timeless struggle based on the bestselling, award-winning M-rated computer game from Blizzard Entertainment. Intended for mature readers.",2007,3.86,327,830
9780743471329,0743471326,Diablo: Moon of the Spider,,Richard A. Knaak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GcY6PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since the beginning of time, the angelic hosts of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in a struggle for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now come to the mortal realm...and neither Man nor Demon nor Angel will be left unscathed.... DIABLO Driven by nightmares to the ruins of a mysterious tomb, Lord Aldric Jitan hopes to awaken a terrible evil that has slept since the fall of Tristram. Drawn by the growing darkness in the land, the enigmatic Necromancer, Zayl, stumbles upon Jitan's plot -- unaware that one of his own brethren has set these dire events in motion. Now, as the celestial Moon of the Spider rises, the nefarious demon, Astrogha, prepares to unleash his minions upon Sanctuary. MOON OF THE SPIDER An original tale of swords, sorcery, and timeless struggle based on the bestselling, award-winning M-rated computer game from Blizzard Entertainment. Intended for mature readers.",2006,3.95,336,722
9780743474160,0743474163,Paradise,,Judith McNaught,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bw2vjzr_H6sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Faced paced romantic novel, Corporate raider Matthew Farrell comes a long way from a kid working the steel mills.",2003,4.32,709,26661
9780743474764,0743474767,The Best of Ray Bradbury,The Graphic Novel,Ray Bradbury,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6K-_AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects top adaptations of the popular science-fiction author's works, in a fan's compendium that includes ""Come Into My Cellar,"" ""The Golden Apples of the Sun,"" and ""A Sound of Thunder."" Original.",2003,4.07,162,297
9780743477109,0743477103,Macbeth,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wemvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Offers explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as an introduction to Shakespeare's language, life, and theater.",2003,3.89,246,560816
9780743477116,0743477111,Romeo and Juliet,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1cEsNsWYbK4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as an introduction to Shakespeare's language, life, and theater",1992,3.74,283,1811259
9780743477369,0743477367,Dracula,,Bram Stoker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7jnX3BU6QBwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A new edition of the classic horror novel features the immortal vampire count and his fellow creatures of the night, whose horrific thirst for blood leads him from the mountains of Central Europe to England, until the savvy Dr. Van Helsing comes up with a way to end his reign of terror. Reprint.",2003,3.99,528,9584
9780743477543,0743477545,A Midsummer Night's Dream,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=axN5DAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Shakespeare's popular comedy of love and mistaken identity is accompanied by a section on reading Shakespeare's language, information on Shakespeare's life and theater, explanatory notes, annotated reading lists, and an essay",1993,3.94,298,371813
9780743477550,0743477553,Othello,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f4zGDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Yet most readers and audiences believe the couple's strong love would overcome these differences were it not for Iago, who sets out to destroy Othello. Iago's false insinuations about Desdemona's infidelity draw Othello into his schemes, and Desdemona is subjected to Othello's horrifying verbal and physical assaults. The authoritative edition of Othello from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an ebook. Features include: · The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference · Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation · Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play · Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play · Scene-by-scene plot summaries · A key to famous lines and phrases · An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language · Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the pla",1993,3.88,314,261813
9780743477567,0743477561,The Merchant of Venice,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7Q_wyQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father’s will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. In creating Shylock, Shakespeare seems to have shared in a widespread prejudice against Jews. Shylock would have been regarded as a villain because he was a Jew. Yet he gives such powerful expression to his alienation due to the hatred around him that, in many productions, he emerges as the hero. Portia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that “droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.” The authoritative edition of The Merchant of Venice from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading Essay by Alexander Leggatt The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.",2004,3.8,237,130122
9780743477888,074347788X,Undaunted Courage,The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier,Stephen E. Ambrose,Explorers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1egIOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains and into the Rockies. It was completely uncharted territory; a wild, vast land ruled by the Indians. Charismatic and brave, Lewis was the perfect choice and he experienced the savage North American continent before any other white man. UNDAUNTED COURAGE is the tale of a hero, but it is also a tragedy. Lewis may have received a hero's welcome on his return to Washington in 1806, but his discoveries did not match the president's fantasies of sweeping, fertile plains ripe for the taking. Feeling the expedition had been a failure, Lewis took to drink and piled up debts. Full of colourful characters - Jefferson, the president obsessed with conquering the west; William Clark, the rugged frontiersman; Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition; Drouillard, the French-Indian hunter - this is one of the great adventure stories of all time and it shot to the top of the US bestseller charts. Drama, suspense, danger and diplomacy combine with romance and personal tragedy making UNDAUNTED COURAGE an outstanding work of scholarship and a thrilling adventure.",2003,4.22,592,38555
9780743480697,0743480694,The Sea Hunters,True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks,Clive Cussler;Craig Dirgo,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K1Byb0FCifMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Collects accounts of the underwater discoveries made by the author and his team of volunteers dedicated to the exploration of historic wrecks, including the Lexington and the Arkansas.",2003,3.82,432,1963
9780743480710,0743480716,Underworld,,Greg Cox;Danny McBride,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d8-KkRoDIKkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The centuries-long struggle between vampires and their sworn enemies, the werewolves, takes a bizarre turn in modern-day Budapest when vampire warrior Selene, a Death Dealer, finds herself drawn to Michael, an inncent American recently infected with the lupine curse. Original. (A Sony Pictures film, written by Danny McBride, releasing September 2003, starring Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly, Robby Gee, Erwin Leder, Wentworth Miller, Sophia Myles, Bill Nighy, & Michael Sheen) (Horror)",2003,4.09,384,1988
9780743480727,0743480724,Blood Enemy,Underworld,Greg Cox,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AsBkvj5LUeYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Once the servants of the vampires, the werewolves use their power to transform themselves into beasts of unearthly ferocity against their former masters, aristocrats with a sensual appetite for blood, in a clandestine conflict, in a prequel to the blockbuster film. Original. (Prequel to the Sony Pictures film, written by Danny McBride, starring Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly, Robby Gee, Erwin Leder, Wentworth Miller, Sophia Myles, Bill Nighy, & Michael Sheen) (Horror)",2004,3.9,310,531
9780743482776,0743482778,Twelfth Night,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=auH_ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Background information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan theater, and the text accompany his play about unrequited love and mistaken identity.",2004,3.98,220,133832
9780743482790,0743482794,Macbeth,,William Shakespeare;Dr. Barbara A. Mowat;Paul Werstine,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HysVAjLGOC0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Macbeth: The DVD Edition includes everything you've come to expect from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeare's plays -- facing-page explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, illustrations from the Folger archives -- combined here with a bonus DVD of a performance of Macbeth recorded before a rapt audience in the Folger's intimate Elizabethan Theatre. Conceived and directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) and Aaron Posner, this acclaimed production showcases the inventive magic of Teller, who, with Posner, contributes a new foreword to this edition, writing about their vision of the play as a ""supernatural horror thriller."" Macbeth: The DVD Edition is the perfect volume for those encountering the play for the first time and for those finding brilliant new insights into a classic. THIS DVD EDITION INCLUDES: • DVD of the 2008 Folger Theatre/Two River Theater Company production -- with over 50 minutes of special features, including interviews with the directors, actors, designers, and scholars • Foreword by directors Teller and Aaron Posner on the staging of Macbeth • Freshly edited text based on the 1623 First Folio • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • A key to the play's famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language in Macbeth • Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books • An essay by Susan Snyder that provides a modern perspective on the play",2004,3.89,272,503
9780743482806,0743482808,Romeo and Juliet,,William Shakespeare;Barbara A. Mowat;Paul Werstine,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZF0U9-ZsQZgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Offers explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as an introduction to Shakespeare's language, life, and theater.",2004,3.74,281,292
9780743484961,0743484967,Twelfth Night,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DPQ2dddy3_gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Background information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan theater, and the text accompany his play about unrequited love and mistaken identity.",2005,3.98,222,182
9780743487146,0743487141,The Languages of Pao,,Jack Vance,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bQkHAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the Panarch of Pao is assassinated, Beran Panasper, his son and heir, must flee to the planet Breakness where he finds the truth behind his father's death...and much more. Reprint.",2004,3.8,224,862
9780743487559,0743487559,The Count of Monte Cristo,,Alexandre Dumas;Margaret Brantley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y0Y-r1VscgQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"After escaping from the island fortress where he has been imprisoned for treason, young sailor Edmund Dantes sets out to discover the treasure of Monte Cristo and seek revenge against the people who falsely accused him. Includes a selection of study aids.",2004,4.24,620,186
9780743487566,0743487567,The Scarlet Letter,,Nathaniel Hawthorne;Margaret Brantley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y5qkBRTY3WkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Hawthorne's classic treatise on morality, judgment, and exile in Puritan America. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context • An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations • Detailed explanatory notes • Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work • Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction • A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON",2004,3.39,400,1361
9780743487580,0743487583,Frankenstein,,Mary Shelley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UL6Cwv2Z1iQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.,2004,3.78,324,12755
9780743487672,0743487672,The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin,,Kate Chopin;Nina Baym,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7UpKPr2SCP4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents ""The Awakening"" and other short stories, including ""Beyond the Bayou,"" ""A respectable woman,"" and ""A Pair of Silk Stockings.""",2004,3.89,296,9422
9780743487696,0743487699,My Antonia,,Willa Cather;Alyssa Harad,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P0XNPODZqPAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl. Includes background information, a chronology of the author's life, explanatory notes, critical analyses, and other reference material.",2004,3.78,314,5974
9780743488440,074348844X,The Notebooks of Lazarus Long,,Robert A. Heinlein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6DcGAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an illustrated, hand-lettered edition of maxims, Lazarus Long, the oldest living member of the human race, shares his wit and wisdom culled from his twenty-four-century odyssey through space and time. Reprint.",2004,4.07,56,3192
9780743491594,0743491599,Twisted,The Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver,Jeffery Deaver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=__kSTI5Z_jsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An anthology of short fiction includes ""The Christmas Present,"" a holiday tale featuring Lincoln Rhyme, as well as ""Gone Fishing,"" ""Triangle,"" ""The Kneeling Soldier,"" and ""Without Jonathan.""",2004,3.92,480,3011
9780743491686,0743491688,Star Trek: The Original Series: Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows,,David R. George III,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_Pz9jwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Displaced in time, Dr. Leonard McCoy's life takes two bizarre, divergent paths as his actions in the past threaten to forever alter the present and destroy the future as he discovers an unimaginable altered history. Original.",2006,4.14,640,316
9780743491693,0743491696,Star Trek: The Original Series: Crucible: Spock: The Fire and the Rose,,David R. George III,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jfO0xgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After watching his friend preserve the timeline at the cost of his own happiness, Spock returns to the present where he is forced to confront a similar crisis and chooses instead to willfully alter the past, only to find himself struggling to deal with his unwanted emotions. Original.",2006,3.95,390,201
9780743491778,0743491777,A Star Trek: The Next Generation: Time #7: A Time to Kill,,David Mack,Fiction,,"On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise™ has never been told. UNTIL NOW. At the height of the Dominion War and unknown to all save those in the highest levels of command, the Federation secretly armed the neutral planet Tezwa with devastating weapons -- part of a contingency plan against the Dominion if the front lines collapsed. But Tezwa also lies near the border of the Klingon Empire...making the Federation's covert strategy in direct violation of their fragile peace treaties,and creating the potential threat of scandal and all-out war. Now Tezwa's power-hungry prime minister is all too eager to flex his newfound military muscle, menacing a nearby Klingon border world. Sent on an urgent diplomatic mission, Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew are caught in the crossfire as the crisis quickly escalates. With time running out and billions of lives at stake, only one man can avert the looming disaster -- Ambassador Worf, who must choose between his oath to the Federation and his loyalty to Martok, Chancellor of the Klingon Empire....",2004,3.97,338,602
9780743495929,0743495926,Getting the Love You Want,A Guide for Couples,Harville Hendrix,Love,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Vc56PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Originally published in 1988, GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT has helped thousands of couples attain more loving, supportive and deeply satisfying relationships. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Harville Hendrix shares with you what he has learned about the psychology of love during more than thirty years of working as a therapist and helps you transform your relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship. For this edition of his classic book, Dr Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, have added a new introduction describing the powerful influence this book has had on so many people over the years. With its step-by-step programme, GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT will help you create a loving, supportive and revitalized partnership.",2005,4.07,336,5513
9780743496148,0743496140,The Manolo Matrix,,Julie Kenner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rxB-qUD74ocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"USA Today bestselling author of The Givenchy Code Julie Kenner reloads for her second novel of high-heeled thrills as another woman gets pulled into a mysterious world of extreme gaming where she must play or die. Aspiring actress Jennifer Crane knows all about games -- the games girls play to get a guy; the games actresses play to land a part; and the good old game of credit-card roulette. (How else is a girl supposed to afford her shoes?) But she never expected to be playing a game with life-or-death consequences. Unable to successfully score an acting gig, she has, instead, been cast in the role of reluctant bodyguard to a real-life assassin's target -- a dashing FBI agent of all people! -- and must embark with him upon a scavenger hunt across Manhattan in search of the ultimate prize: survival. Before this, Jenn's definition of fighting dirty has been elbowing her way to the front of the line at a Manolo sample sale. Now, if she wants to stay alive, she's going to have to learn a few new uses for her stilettos. . . and they ain't pretty. Fast, flirty, and full of great footwear, The Manolo Matrix is another electrifying adventure in this breakout series for fashionistas who love a perfectly appointed mystery.",2006,3.61,352,635
9780743496162,0743496167,Never Go Home Again,A Novel,Shannon Holmes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i89aAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The experience and quality that I bring to my writing can't be faked. I know what I know. Through my novels, I invite readers to journey with me into the streets. Come see what I've seen. Let me show the gritty and grimy undercarriage of society, the ""flip side"" of the game.... -- Shannon Holmes Inspired by the events of his own life, the Essence bestselling author of B-More Careful and Bad Girlz presents a vivid, unflinching novel about a young man's coming of age in the city streets. Never Go Home Again is the story of Corey Dixon, a young man whose father tries as best he can to steer him away from the lure of the streets. And yet, like so many others in his neighborhood, Corey finds the lucrative drug trade too tempting to resist. While he makes fast money for a while, ultimately Corey must pay the price for his choice of his profession: his freedom. By the age of sixteen, Corey is sentenced to prison. Incarcerated at Riker's Island, Corey lives through experiences that threaten to destroy his body, his mind, and his spirit. Still, in the midst of his horrific imprisonment, he discovers inner strength and -- against unimaginable odds -- manages to survive. Corey makes a new kind of family for himself in jail, including a teacher who encourages him to ""never go home again."" In the course of his journey of self-discovery, Corey comes to realize the wisdom in his mentor's words. Unflinching and riveting, Never Go Home Again is a powerful, true-to-life story of redemption that no reader will soon forget.",2005,4.04,320,217
9780743497282,0743497287,No Place Like Home,,Mary Higgins Clark,Abused wives,,,2005,3.86,472,10798
9780743498715,0743498712,Tinker,,Wen Spencer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N4gMAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Inventor, girl genius Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves. She runs her salvage business, pays her taxes, and tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with gadgets of her own design. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrap yard, life as she knows it takes a serious detour. Tinker finds herself taking on the Elven court, the NSA, the Elven Interdimensional Agency, technology smugglers and a college-minded Xenobiologist as she tries to stay focused on what's really important - her first date. Armed with an intelligence the size of a planet, steel-toed boots, and a junkyard dog attitude, Tinker is ready to kick butt to get her first kiss.",2004,4.07,448,4362
9780743499095,0743499093,This Rough Magic,,Mercedes Lackey;Eric Flint;Dave Freer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sh8gAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Demon Chernobog-Foiled but Not Defeated in The Shadow of the Lion-is Back to Conquer Venice. First Time in Paperback. Venice had been thrown into chaos by the scheming of Chernobog, who came within a hair of seizing absolute power, but was thwarted by the guardian Lion-spirit, who awoke to protect his city from the power-mad demon. But the power of the Lion does not extend beyond Venice, and Chernobog has a new ally in the King of Hungary, who has laid siege to the island of Corfu as the first step in his plan to seize control of the Adriatic from Venice. Trapped on the island is the small band of heroes who awoke the Lion and blocked Chernobog's power grab before. They are far from the Lion's power to help them, but as Manfred and Erik lead a guerrilla movement to fight the Hungarian invaders, Maria discovers that the ancient magical powers of the island are coming to life again, stirred by the siege. If she can make an alliance with them, she may be able to repel the invaders-but not without paying a bitter personal price. . . .",2005,3.85,893,1176
9780743499262,0743499263,Irish Girls Are Back in Town,,Cecelia Ahern;Patricia Scanlan;Gemma O'Connor;Sarah Webb,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sHU9IqexNqwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An anthology of nineteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Cecelia Ahern, Patricia Scanlan, Gemma O'Connor, Suzanne Higgins, and Morag Prunty.",2005,3.72,384,772
9780743499484,0743499484,The Dead Yard,,Adrian McKinty,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GQhDKlrFQnYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this breathtaking sequel to ""Dead I Well May Be,"" the mercenary Michael Forsythe is forced to infiltrate an Irish terrorist cell on behalf of the FBI, confronting murder, mayhem, and the prospect of his own death.",2006,4.12,364,1408
9780744001402,0744001404,Performance Assessments for Adult Education,Exploring the Measurement Issues : Report of a Workshop,Dan Birlew,Games & Activities,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UTugeaivILoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With this guide, gamers can augment their game play. Complete walkthroughs and all the maps help players navigate the game. Character descriptions, and complete lists of items, monsters and magic are included.",2002,4.27,272,367
9780744002539,0744002532,Final Fantasy® Origins Official Strategy Guide,,Casey Loe;Laura M. Parkinson,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GEgFAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers walkthroughs, area maps, strategies, equiptment, and character profiles for both games.",2003,4,256,24
9780744004298,0744004292,Grand Theft Auto,San Andreastm,Tim Bogenn;Rick Barba,Games & Activities,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DpGAvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents information on game basics, characters, missions, weapons, vehicles, and strategy.",2004,4.04,272,72
9780744004410,0744004411,World of Warcraft Atlas,,Brady Games,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ag3jAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"BradyGames' World of WarCraft Atlas includes the following: Complete resource detailing each area of this expansive MMORPG. Maps are provided for every area including all regions and major cities. Each illustration shows critical locations and characters such as NPCs, enemies, mobs, shops, merchants, flight points, entry and exit points from regions and where they lead. As an added bonus, cross-referenced indices of all information are also provided for ease of use. Platform: PC CD-ROM Genre: MMORPG This product is available for sale worldwide.",2005,4.08,192,236
9780744004441,0744004446,Killer 7 Official Strategy Guide,,BradyGames,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I-KdAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"BradyGames' Killer 7 Official Strategy Guide includes the following: Detailed walkthrough for the entire adventure. Area maps that pinpoint critical items. Boss strategies to defeat every enemy and ultimately, Kun Lan. Character profiles for all 7 personalities that comprise the “Smith Alliance”. Game secrets, puzzle solutions, and more! Platform: PlayStation 2 and GameCube Genre: Action Game This title is available for sale in North America only.",2005,4,128,2
9780744005615,0744005612,Juiced,,Doug Walsh,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eJ8f6s21-BMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"BradyGames' Juiced Official Strategy Guide includes the following: Track Maps: Each map is broken down to give you the best chance of winning. Full Car List: Get all the stats on all the hottest rides! Crew Management Tips: Get the best crew and learn what it takes to win! Rival Crew Challenges: Discover the ins and outs of every challenge and get the best strategy to crush rival crews! And More: Racing schedules, part listings, pro tips, crewmate data, and showoff tricks! Platform: PlayStation 2, Xbox, & PC Genre: Sports/Racing This title is available for sale worldwide.",2005,0,112,0
9780744005837,0744005833,Dragon Quest VIII,Journey of the Cursed King Official Strategy Guide,Dan Birlew,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6kstAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides helpful hints and strategies for playing the PlayStation 2 video game Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King. Includes: how to master every spell and ability in the game; character info; a bestiary; side quests; map; item lists; a fold-out map; and much more.,2005,4.14,240,35
9780744006452,0744006457,Castlevania,Curse of Darkness : Official Strategy Guide,BradyGames (Firm),Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EF6AAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"BradyGames' Castlevania: Curse of Darkness Official Strategy Guide includes the following: A complete walkthrough of the entire game. Detailed maps of every area. In-depth listing of unlockables, items and weapons. Expert strategies to defeat every boss. Extensive bestiary. Game secrets revealed! Platform: PlayStation 2 Genre: Action/AdventureThis product is available for sale in North America only.",2005,3.7,176,10
9780744520057,0744520053,Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,,Selina Hastings,Arthurian romances,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JU_eAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sir Gawain is perhaps the most famous of all the legendary knights of King Arthur's Round Table. In this exciting story, his honour and bravery are put to the test when challenged by the mighty Green Knight.",1991,3.89,29,58
9780744578263,0744578264,The Sea-thing Child,,Russell Hoban,Birds,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CEt9OQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Washed up on the beach during a storm, the sea-thing child clings fearfully to the shore until he discovers his true destiny. Suggested level: primary.",2000,3.79,48,100
9780744598636,074459863X,The Judy Moody Mood Journal,,Megan McDonald,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ftynPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This colorful reissue of a way-not-boring journal invites Judy Moody to explore their many moods and other facets of their life. It includes interactive activities, Judy Moody facts, and plenty of writing space. Illustrations. Consumable.",2003,4.15,128,320
9780745317885,074531788X,Propaganda and the Public Mind,Conversations with Noam Chomsky,David Barsamian;Noam Chomsky,Language and languages,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nTMEirKUw-QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An invitation to take part in a conversation with one of the great minds of our time. First published in 2001, this book collects a series of discussions with the journalist David Barsamian. It is the perfect complement to Chomsky's major works of media study such as Manufacturing Consent and Necessary Illusions. Events discussed in detail are the so-called 'Battle of Seattle' protests against the World Trade Organisation, US involvement in East Timor, and the beginning of the movement towards a second Iraq War.",2001,4.05,256,629
9780745622088,0745622089,Zizek,A Critical Introduction,Sarah Kay,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JJfIC6_Ws3QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Zizek is hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinker of modern times. His work is a powerful, often explosive combination of Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy which tests key psychoanalytical concepts against the ideas of major European thinkers, especially Hegel. It has ignited enthusiasm and stimulated new approaches across a vast range of disciplines, and seems to be attracting an ever-growing readership. In part, this is because Zizek himself has a panoramic range of interests encompassing film studies, literature, cyber culture, ethics, theology and, above all, politics. It is also because he is a highly entertaining writer, having a flair for anecdote, a smutty sense of humour and the knack of capturing complex ideas in concrete form. Sarah Kay's book provides a lucid and comprehensive introduction to Zizek's work. His writings to date are presented and evaluated here for the first time, together with an outline of their development and explanations of his key premises, themes and terms. This book will be essential reading for students of cultural studies, literary studies, philosophy and social and political theory.",2003,3.38,195,36
9780745628479,0745628478,Political Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide for Students and Politicians,,Adam Swift,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VM3R5IfrqT8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, liberty, equality,community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values? Political Philosophy: A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians answers these important questions. Accessible and lively, the book is an ideal student text, but it also brings the insights of the world's leading political philosophers to a wide general audience. Using plenty of examples, it equips readers to think for themselves about the ideas that shape political life. Democracy works best when both politicians and voters move beyond rhetoric to think clearly and carefully about the political principles that should govern their society. But clear thinking is difficult in an age when established orthodoxies have fallen by the wayside. Bringing political philosophy out of the ivory tower and within the reach of all, this book provides us with tools to cut through the complexities of modern politics. In so doing, it makes a valuable contribution to the democratic process.",2001,3.93,194,6
9780745628974,0745628974,Conversations with Zizek,,Slavoj Žižek;Glyn Daly,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ExMYKdVRjHIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this new book, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. An excellent introduction to one of the most engaging and controversial cultural theorists writing today. Žižek is a Slovenian sociologist who trained as a Lacanian and uses Lacan to analyse popular culture and politics. Illustrates the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multi-culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. Provides a unique glimpse of Žižek’s humour and character and offers new material and fresh perspectives which will be of interest to followers of Žižek’s writings.",2003,3.87,171,114
9780745633794,074563379X,Sociology,,Anthony Giddens;Simon Griffiths,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vbu2gis26C0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This fully revised and updated version of Anthony Giddens′s Sociology, now in its fifth edition, offers an unrivalled introduction for students new to the subject – lucid, lively, authoritative and original. Written by one of the world′s leading sociologists, this comprehensive textbook manages to be clear, accessible and jargon–free, but without oversimplifying complex debates. Earlier editions of Sociology broke new ground by incorporating cutting–edge debates, such as the impact of globalisation, into an introductory text. This fifth edition remains a state of the art textbook, with fresh and engaging new material added throughout. While covering all of the core topics of sociology, the fifth edition also includes a great deal of substantive new material, ensuring that students are introduced to the most recent sociological debates. Throughout, the book weaves together classical and contemporary theory and data, and provides a wide range of everyday examples to which students can easily relate. The fifth edition also benefits from: ∗ New discussions of global inequality, disability, ageing and the life course, risk, the network society, and terrorism, as well as many other additional and up–to–date topics. ∗ Numerous learning aids in every chapter, such as summary points, questions for further thought, and additional reading suggestions, which help to reinforce students′ knowledge. ∗ Lots of extra photographs, diagrams, case studies and cartoons, to bring ideas to life and fire students′ imaginations. ∗ High–quality supplementary resources on a dedicated website, including a full instructors′ manual and additional student aids, all specially designed to stimulate students′ learning and critical thinking. The fifth edition of this classic textbook is an ideal teaching text for first–year university and college courses, and will be essential reading for all students who are looking for an exciting, authoritative and easy–to–follow introduction to sociology. Please visit the accompanying website at: http://www.polity.co.uk/giddens5/",2006,3.96,1000,974
9780745635323,0745635326,Political Philosophy,A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians,Adam Swift,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=koYetXlCc-IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values? This edition answers this questions, using examples to equip readers to think for themselves about the ideas that shape political life. Bringing It provides tools to cut through the complexities of modern politics, aiming to make a contribution to the democratic process.",2006,3.93,240,164
9780745950549,074595054X,The Gifts of the Jews,How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels,Thomas Cahill,Bible,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=35dHPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The bestselling author of ""How the Irish Saved Civilization"" reveals the critical change that made Western civilization possible, in this irresistible exploration of the origins of some of humankind's oldest and most closely held beliefs. Line drawings.",2001,3.87,304,3066
9780747238904,0747238901,The Brotherhood of the Rose,,David Morrell,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bwNnPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chris and Saul were orphans - raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought them sweets. He treated them like sons. He trained them to be assassins. Now he is trying to have them killed.",1992,4.13,416,5299
9780747252139,0747252130,Never Far from Nowhere,,Andrea Levy,Blacks,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pFKsQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG. NEVER FAR FROM NOWHERE is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a council estate. They go to the same grammar school, but while Vivien's life becomes a chaotic mix of friendships, youth clubs, skinhead violence, A-levels, discos and college, Olive, three years older and a skin shade darker, has a very different tale to tell...",1996,3.68,282,601
9780747264866,0747264864,Millie's Fling,,Jill Mansell,City girl,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BEp9HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness When Millie Brady saves Orla Hart's life she doesn't realise how drastically it will change her own - not least because the boyfriend who was asking her to move in with him at the time stormed off in a huff. Actually, Millie's relieved. She's happy to enjoy a man-free summer in Cornwall. But Orla has other ideas. She's determined that Millie should meet the man of her dreams. Trouble is, Millie's taste in men doesn't tally with Orla's. The one who really interests her is Hugh Emerson, and he's the man with whom Orla's adamant she mustn't get involved...",2001,3.74,512,7852
9780747266686,0747266689,Neverwhere,,Neil Gaiman,Businessmen,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yilZKwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,'The sort of book Terry Pratchett might produce if he spent a month locked in a cellar with Franz Kafka' Wire,2000,4.18,372,1067
9780747266976,0747266972,Black Evening,,David Morrell,Short stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H9JsPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the American heartland to the edge of Hell, David Morrell, the bestselling author of the classics FIRST BLOOD and THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE, presents a career-spanning examination into his own life - and the fears we all share. From his first published short fiction to his latest, award-winning stories BLACK EVENING includes: 'The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves' - Winner, Best Novella, Horror Writers of America Award, 'Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity' - Winner, Best Novella, Horror Writers of America Award and 'Dead Image' - Nominee, Best Novella, World Fantasy Award.",2000,3.85,435,262
9780747267195,0747267197,Deep Waters,,Barbara Nadel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HDcBHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A man's body, virtually decapitated, is found by the Bosphorus. His identity card names him as Rifat Berisha, an Albanian. The family is impenetrable but when Inspector Cetin Ikmen, whose mother was Albanian, consults his cousin, Samsun, he's left in little doubt that Berisha's death is likely to be the result of a fis, an implacable blood feud between rival Albanian families. Which means the blood already shed will have to be avenged. And if the Berishas or their enemies discover Ikmen is from a noted Albanian clan, some of the spilt blood might be his...",2002,3.98,448,293
9780747267430,074726743X,Open House,,Jill Mansell,Humorous fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O3RmGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness Nell O'Driscoll's known Marcus Kilburton for years - according to her diary, she even had a crush on him as a teenager. When he decides to open Kilburton Castle to the public, Nell takes a job as his assistant - and soon sparks are flying between them. But is Nell free to pursue Marcus, when a figure from her past refuses to let go? Meanwhile, Nell's best friend, Hetty Brewster, has other problems. Her husband has abandoned her for a bitchy but successful writer. Now the press is full of stories about the frumpy, boring wife losing out to a younger, slimmer model. But Hetty's about to get her chance for sweet revenge - if she can stop being a nice person long enough to take it!",2003,3.89,448,2359
9780747267447,0747267448,Two's Company,,Jill Mansell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8nfZHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness Jack and Cass Mandeville are a dream couple, ridiculously happy together and successful to boot - Jack as a journalist and Cass with her own hugely popular radio show. Indeed, almost every member of the Mandeville family is famous in their own right: from stunning Cleo, a supermodel with attitude, to Sean, the rising star of the comedy circuit. Incredibly good-looking and likeable, the family have captured the hearts of the nation - and the nation's press. But on the day that Jack hits the big 40 - the same day that a redhead called Imogen turns up to interview Jack and Cass for Hi! magazine - their proverbial bubble is about to burst...",2003,3.59,448,1394
9780747267454,0747267456,Solo,,Jill Mansell,Chick lit,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m6-XHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness When Tessa Duvall, a struggling artist, reluctantly agreed to accompany her best friend Holly to a party at the elegant Charrington Grange Hotel, she had every intention of sneaking off early. For parties full of strangers bored the knickers off Tessa and this one proved to be no exception - until she encountered Ross Monahan, whose wicked reputation was as high profile as the hotel he owned and ran with such panache. But whilst Holly set about ensnaring his reluctant brother Max, Tessa simply accepted Ross for what he was, a sensational one-night stand...until she realised, weeks later, that one-night stands can have far-reaching consequences...",2002,3.66,421,3261
9780747267621,0747267626,Hard Eight,,Janet Evanovich,Bail bond agents,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D0t0QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Stephanie Plum is hired to find a missing child, she begins to wonder if she is working on the right side of the law when events turn suspicious.",2003,4.17,339,152
9780747268468,0747268460,Kiss,,Jill Mansell,Female friendship,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TrK7GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness When Izzy is knocked off her motor bike she doesn't just lose her dignity - she loses as a result not one but two long-term boyfriends, her job and, to boot, her extremely bijou flat. Gina, who caused the accident, has more important things to worry about - her husband's mistress is pregnant and she's suddenly on her own. Why should she care about Izzy? Yet somehow the well-heeled Gina finds herself opening her home to Izzy and her spirited teenage daughter. And it's there that Izzy meets heart-stoppingly handsome Sam, whose lingering kiss is all it takes for her to find the true love that has always eluded her - though there are just a few obstacles between that first kiss and the 'happy ever after'...",1993,3.68,512,1466
9780747268475,0747268479,Sheer Mischief,,Jill Mansell,Cornwall (England : County),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sAV5QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness It's not that Janey Sinclair isn't pleased to see her sister. It's just that being woken at seven by Maxine, complete with police escort, isn't quite how she'd planned to spend her Sunday. Even so Janey, who's just rebuilding her life after her husband disappeared, is delighted that her sister's back in the Cornish town where they grew up. When Maxine sets her sights on Guy Cassidy, an impossibly glamorous fashion photographer, Janey knows there's no limit to the mischief her sister will get up to in order to dispatch her rivals. But little do they know that the competition is a lot closer to home than they think...",2001,3.83,504,2404
9780747526032,0747526036,The Private Parts of Women,,Lesley Glaister,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZW6-AAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A handsome new cover edition of Lesley Glaister's compelling and disturbing novel,1996,3.82,288,21
9780747534938,0747534934,Three Stories and a Reflection,,Patrick Süskind,,,"In this exquisite collection, Patrick S skind's genius for unmasking self-deception and dramatising human obsession is once again beautifully demonstrated.",1997,3.57,128,21
9780747541608,0747541604,"The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Or, After the Outing",,Edward Gorey,"American wit and humor, Pictorial",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LC4vPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,'A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh...',1998,4.19,32,46225
9780747544210,0747544212,"Easy Riders, Raging Bulls",How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood,Peter Biskind,Film producers and directors,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_PhXwvS21CIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Based on hundreds of interviews with directors such as Coppola, Scorsese, Hopper and Spielberg, as well as producers, stars, studio executives, writers, spouses, ex-spouses, and girlfriends, this is the story of the crazy world that the directors ruled. Originally published in 1998.",1999,4.11,506,384
9780747546245,074754624X,Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,,J. K. Rowling,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5eSxngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry can't know that the atmosphere is darkening around him, and his worst enemy is preparing a fate that it seems will be inescapable . . . With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvellous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master story-teller.",2000,4.55,636,18097
9780747548317,0747548315,The Turtle Diary,,Russell Hoban,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oSD53x_ZlZMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In the aquarium at the London Zoo, three sea turtles swim endlessly in 'their little bedsitter of ocean'. Two lonely people, William G and Neaera H, become obsessed with the turtles' captivity, and resolve to rescue them and release them in to the sea. William's and Neaera's diaries tell the story of how they achieve the turtles' freedom, and in the process re-define their own lives.",2000,4,182,846
9780747553663,0747553661,Ransom,,Jay McInerney,Kyoto (Japan),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jDdAPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since Christopher Ransom has been living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, he has devoted himself to the study of karate. He doesn't just want to be good, he wants to be transformed. Two years after a lapse in his scruples drew him into crisis on the Khyber Pass, it is through karate that Ransom has regained some control, beginning to subsume his disillusionment and assuage his guilt. But soon he finds himself threatened by everything he thought he had left behind -- a sequence of bizarre events whose consequences he cannot escape.",2001,3.27,279,752
9780747553861,0747553866,Pastoralia,,George Saunders,"Humorous stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y72kAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Pastoralia was published to huge literary acclaim, establishing George Saunders, one of the New Yorker's 'twenty writers for the 21st century', as one of the most hypnotic and original voices of contemporary fiction.",2001,4.11,188,12763
9780747556404,0747556407,Pilgermann,,Russell Hoban,Crusades,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W-Fij5nmKwkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'Pilgermann here. I call myself Pilgermann, it's a convenience. I don't know what I am now .'",1983,4,240,247
9780747559047,074755904X,Riddley Walker,,Russell Hoban,Canterbury (England),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2DzwArTXKRIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The stunning and unique novel which is hailed as a modern classic.,2002,4.03,236,297
9780747563006,0747563004,The Botany of Desire,A Plant's-eye View of the World,Michael Pollan,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7RjzwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Pollan tells the story of four domesticated species - the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato, and describes how each has thrived by satisfying humankind's most basic desires.",2003,4.06,291,107
9780747563655,0747563659,Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake,,Louis Sachar,"Adventure stories, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v5Aws6V1CoIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"How to survive the rigours of Camp Green Lake, the setting of Louis Sachar's bestselling novel Holes",2003,3.62,96,470
9780747564171,0747564175,Tuck Everlasting,,Natalie Babbitt,Aging,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bZCaPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is the story of the Tuck family, who are doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring.",2003,3.87,139,348
9780747566755,0747566755,The Story of Mr Sommer,,Patrick Süskind;Michael Hofmann,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jD4hHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes - father, mother, brother, sister, a house on a lake, tree-climbing, going to the races, music lessons, a bicycle, a crush on a girl in the class - is bedevilled by the mystifying appearances of the eccentric Mr. Sommer. Moving through the landscape in silent haste, like a man possessed, with his empty rucksack and his long, odd-looking walking stick, Mr Sommer runs like a black thread through the boys days.",2003,3.85,128,1974
9780747566823,0747566828,"Super Fast, Out of Control!",,Louis Sachar,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cFubPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The seventh story in the series featuring all the characters of the previous books. Marvin proves his bravery to himself and his friends and family after tackling the terrifyingly steep Suicide Hill on his bike.,2005,3.75,128,0
9780747569114,0747569118,Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger,,Louis Sachar,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vUs-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"All the kids at Wayside had to spend 243 days at horrible schools while Wayside was closed to get rid of an infestation of cows! Now they're back and the fun begins on every floor. Miss Mush has prepared liver in purple sauce, and it is pet day on the 30th floor and there is a substitute teacher.",2004,4.19,176,17456
9780747569121,0747569126,Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School,,Louis Sachar,Arithmetic,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-oViPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These Sideways Arithmetic problems may look puzzling at first, but you can use real maths to solve them, and the answers are perfectly logical. There are hints and clues, plus all the answers are in the book. Best of all, the kids you read about in the other titles about Wayside School are here to help you! Try solving the maths brainteasers in this book and you will be learning a lot of maths - but you will also be enjoying it and laughing too much to notice.",2004,3.87,96,3627
9780747569138,0747569134,More Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School,,Louis Sachar,Arithmetic,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EMj7HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Welcome back to maths class at Wayside School. How much is PEPPERS + PIG LIPS? If Jenny's shirt has sparkles on it, will Todd have egg in his hair? These Sideways Arithmetic problems may look puzzling at first, but you can use real maths to solve them, and the answers are perfectly logical. Three are lots of clues and hints, plus all the answers are right there in the book. Best of all the children you have read about in the other books about Wayside School are here to help you! Try solving the brainteasers in this book, along with Mrs Jewls and the children from her class, and maths will be a dream!",2004,3.92,112,839
9780747571773,0747571775,Sideways Stories from Wayside School,,Louis Sachar;Peter Allen,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J8E7PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.",2004,4.15,144,79394
9780747572602,0747572607,The Collected Works of Billy the Kid,,Michael Ondaatje,Outlaws,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tWDYmAXyodsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Classic novel by Michael Ondaatje, reliving the short life of Wild West outlaw, Billy the Kid.",2004,3.99,105,2764
9780747572930,0747572933,A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound,,John Irving,Bedtime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=45_bGAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a child hears a noise in the night he gets up to investigate. He calls his father to help him and they work through all the things that the 'noise' could be, eventually realising that it is nothing to be scared of. An empowering book about over coming ones fears handled with brilliant originality by John Irving and Tatjana Hauptmann.",2004,4.01,32,664
9780747573623,074757362X,Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,,J. K. Rowling,England,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z4V4PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Harry Potter is lucky to reach the age of thirteen, since he has survived the murderous attacks of the feared Dark Wizard Voldemort three times. But his hopes for a quiet term concentrating on Quidditch are dashed when a maniacal mass-murderer escapes from Azkaban, pursued by the soul-sucking Dementors who guard the prison. It's assumed that Hogwarts is the safest place for Harry to be. But is it a coincidence that he can feel eyes watching him in the dark, and should he be taking Professor Trelawney's ghoulish predictions seriously?",2004,4.55,480,3116
9780747573647,0747573646,The Little Friend,,Donna Tartt,Brothers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2ojFwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her brother Robin twelve years earlier, and it seems to Harriet that the family may never recover. So, inspired by Captain Scott, Houdini, and Robert Louis Stevenson, she sets out with her only friend Hely to find Robin's murderer and punish him. But what starts out as a child's game soon becomes a dark and dangerous journey into the menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town.",2005,3.45,555,759
9780747574323,0747574324,Cherries in the Snow,,Emma Forrest,Cosmetics industry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yKvrikIxOq4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sex in the City for twenty-somethings,2005,3.48,269,201
9780747574651,0747574650,Old School,,Tobias Wolff,Authors,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qNrFwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It's 1960, in America, at a prestigious boys' public school, a place of privilege that places great emphasis on its democratic ideals. A teenage boy in his final year, on a scholarship, has learned to fit in with his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself and his background. Class is ever present, but the only acknowledged snobbery is a literary snobbery. These boys' heroes are writers - Fitzgerald, Cummings, Kerouac. They want to be writers themselves, and the school has a tradition whereby once a term big names from the literary world are invited to visit. A contest takes place with the boys admitting a piece of writing and the winner having a private audience with the visitor. When it is announced that Hemingway will be the next to come to the school, competition among the boys is intense, and the morals the school and the boys hold dear - honour, loyalty and friendship - are tested. No one writes more astutely than Wolff about the process by which character is formed, and here he illuminates the irresistible strength, even the violence, of the self-creative urge. This is a novel that, in its power and its beauty, in its precision and its humanity, is at once contemporary and timeless.",2005,3.82,195,7763
9780747575474,0747575479,When Harry Met Sally,,Nora Ephron,Man-woman relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u2e0mgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a romantic comedy about the difficult, frustrating, awful, funny search for happiness in an American city where the primary emotion is unrequited love- is delighting audiences everywhere.",2004,4.24,98,3089
9780747576099,0747576092,Gossip Girl 7,Nobody Does It Better,Cecily von Ziegesar,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rN8qWqIJSwAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The further adventures of New York's busiest private-school vixens.,2005,3.62,240,40
9780748702558,0748702555,Romeo and Juliet,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i8ss1Z35ZU4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.",1985,3.74,288,180
9780749305796,0749305797,How to Develop Self-confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking,,Dale Carnegie,Confianza en sí mismo,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8LF7K1ZUQC0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""This book will show you how to overscome the natural fear of public speaking and even learn to enjoy it. rawing on Dale Carnegie's years of experience as a business trainer, this practical book will help you to become a successful speaker. His invaluable advice includes ways to- * Develop poise * Gain self-confidence * Improve your memory * Make your meaning clear * Begin and end a talk effectively * Interest and charm your audience * Improve your diction * Win an argument without making enemies Dale Carnegie's methods have helped millions of people worldwide. Make sure you have the advantage, and make them work for you too.",1990,4.14,256,57
9780749307844,0749307846,How to Win Friends and Influence People,,Dale Carnegie,Conduct of life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aO7CQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dale Carnegie aims to show how to makes friends, increase your prestige, break out of the vicious circle of worry and generally get the better of life, using a series of simple and practical rules, techniques and attitudes.",1990,4.18,256,199
9780749311612,0749311614,The Covenant,,James Albert Michener,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LFabPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1980,4.18,1240,17163
9780749312022,0749312025,Space,,James Albert Michener,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t22BPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1992,3.97,815,35
9780749858520,0749858524,Little Miss Scary,,Adam Hargreaves;Roger Hargreaves,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8mFYAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Little Miss Bad is not good. She is always doing naughty things and worst of all, she lies When she is asked directions to the town by Miss Quick - Miss Bad sends her the opposite way. And one day she lies to Mr Greedy that the baker has no more cakes Everyone is getting very fed up with Miss Bad's lies. How will they get her to start telling the truth?",2003,3.73,32,175
9780749858537,0749858532,Little Miss Bad,,Roger Hargreaves,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4IgNAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Little Miss Bad is not good. Far from it. In fact, about as far as you can get, which is a long way Can Little Miss Sunshine trick Little Miss Bad into confessing all her wrongdoings?",2003,3.89,34,224
9780749919443,0749919442,Transform Your Life,A Step-by-step Programme for Change,Diana Cooper,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wPoLAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Diana Cooper believes we can all transform our lives if we really want to. This inspiring book will help you to be who you want to be and do what you want to do. It will help you to bring hidden blockages to the surface, establish new positive belief patterns, and make your dreams come true.",1998,4,176,6
9780749934422,0749934425,Portrait in Death,,J. D. Robb;Nora Roberts,"Dallas, Eve (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7PZKPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'She was still three feet away when she'd smelled it. She'd walked with death too many times to mistake it.' After a tip from a reporter, Eve Dallas finds the body of a young woman in a Delancey street dumpster. Just hours before, the news station had mysteriously received a portfolio of professional portraits of the woman. The photos seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary for any pretty young woman starting a modeling career. Except that she wasn't a model. And that these photos were taken after she had been murdered. Now Dallas is on the trail of a killer who's a perfectionist and an artist. He carefully observes and records his victim's every move. And he has a mission: to own every beautiful young woman's innocence, to capture her youth and vitality - in one fateful shot...",2004,4.38,354,142
9780750012614,0750012617,Drina's Dancing Year,,Jean Estoril,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JnPGOQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1995,4.08,176,10
9780750012638,0750012633,Drina Dances in Italy,,Jean Estoril,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ISc8HQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1992,4.1,191,20
9780750012669,0750012668,Drina Dances in Paris,,Jean Estoril,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fAVFHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1992,4.16,185,146
9780750244916,0750244917,Roald Dahl,The Storyteller,Jason Hook,"Novelists, English",,"Born in Wales in 1916 to Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl went on to become one of the world's most famous authors. This book charts his life - from descriptions of his happy childhood and school life, to his time spent as an RAF pilot during WWII. His stories include bestsellers such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits and Matilda.",2003,4.06,48,0
9780750666008,0750666005,Brand New Justice,How Branding Places and Products Can Help the Developing World,Simon Anholt,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MmahV_o4oh4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Recently vilified as the prime dynamic driving home the breach between poor and rich nations, here the branding process is rehabilitated as a potential saviour of the economically underprivileged. Brand New Justice, now in a revised paperback edition, systematically analyses the success stories of the Top Thirteen nations, demonstrating that their wealth is based on the 'last mile' of the commercial process: buying raw materials and manufacturing cheaply in third world countries, these countries realise their lucrative profits by adding value through finishing, packaging and marketing and then selling the branded product on to the end-user at a hugely inflated price. The use of sophisticated global media techniques alongside a range of creative marketing activities are the lynchpins of this process. Applying his observations on economic history and the development and impact of global marketing, Anholt presents a cogent plan for developing nations to benefit from globalization. So long the helpless victim of capitalist trading systems, he shows that they can cross the divide and graduate from supplier nation to producer nation. Branding native produce on a global scale, making a commercial virtue out of perceived authenticity and otherness and fully capitalising on the 'last mile' benefits are key to this graduation and fundamental to forging a new global economic balance. Anholt argues with a forceful logic, but also backs his hypothesis with enticing glimpses of this process actually beginning to take place. Examining activities in India, Thailand, Russia and Africa among others, he shows the risks, challenges and pressures inherent in 'turning the tide', but above all he demonstrates the very real possibility of enlightened capitalism working as a force for good in global terms. * Controversial and thought-provoking analysis of issues that are central to 21st century economic thought; radical new thinking on wealth-creation in the developing world. * Unites world-class branding and marketing knowledge with an emerging-market development agenda. * Concrete answers to the problems of anti-capitalism, medium level poverty and the brand backlash; a way for the marketing and advertising industries to regain respect and a more positive reputation",2005,3.69,184,15
9780750937252,0750937254,Ulysses Found,,Ernle Bradford,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QBdGPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having settled in Malta after the end of World War 2, Ernle Bradford decided to trace the route of Ulysses. This book is a journal of his travels, describing both the amazing sights and the pitfalls that befell Homer's character.",2005,4.04,238,34
9780751333329,0751333328,The Story of Philosophy,,Bryan Magee,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5qqvOQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Philosophy is a subject that influences many aspects of our lives and our understanding of our experiences yet it can seem dauntingly inaccessible. This book features history of Western philosophy. It traces over 2500 years of Western philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to modern thinkers.,2001,4.13,240,498
9780751363784,0751363782,The Three Musketeers,,,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FXByRAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2000,4.07,64,56
9780751370737,0751370738,20000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA,,JULIO VERNE,,,"The adventure begins when Professor Aronnax accidentally becomes a prisoner of the very monster he is seeking to destroy - the submarine Nautilus, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Invited to experience the marvels of the Nautilus' magnificent undersea world, Aronnax struggle to piece together Nemo's tragic past. This exciting retelling captures the essence of Verne's visionary and unforgettable story, while also explaining the fascinating facts and fantasies of Captain Nemo's marvelous ocean realm. A unique cross-section of the Nautilus, color photographs, diagrams, and narrative illustrations explore Verne's unique vision and knowledge of the deep.",,3.71,64,34
9780751503890,0751503894,The Physician,,Noah Gordon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FPsTngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eleventh-century England and Persia are the backgrounds of this story of an orphan named Rob Cole, who is apprenticed to a travelling barber-surgeon and, discovering in himself a gift for healing, decides to study medicine with the legendary Avicenna.",2001,4.37,720,22137
9780751504330,0751504335,Different Seasons,,Stephen King,Escapes,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kDJgQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Different Seasons contains four stories with an interlacing of horror that capture the dark corners of our times. In Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a man convicted of a bloody murder lives in prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by a con who knows all the ropes and pulls all the strings. He has more brains than anyone else in this sinister slammer, and a diabolically cunning plan of revenge that no one can guess until it's too late. And brace yourself for icy shock in three more stunning novellas of suspense. Four young boys come face to face with life, death and hints of their own mortality....A teenager becomes both the puppet and the puppet master of evil... A disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death. The greatest horror master of our time turns the screws of suspense to lock you into terrifying tension and nerve-tingling twists.",1982,4.35,560,397
9780751504354,0751504351,Red Phoenix,,Larry Bond,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eLRtPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Violent riots formented by foreign agents are breaking out in South Korea. Seizing the opportunity, North Korea launches a lightning invasion, with heavy Soviet support, whose aim is to unite North and South under Communist rule. The second Korean War has begun and World War III may be imminent.",1992,4,791,25
9780751504385,0751504386,Skeleton Crew,,Stephen King,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WcrCQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Unrivalled monarch of the macabre Stephen King again takes the unsuspecting reader on a fantastic journey through the dark, shadowy areas of our innermost fears. In a bumper collection of truly chilling tales, we meet Gramma, who only wants to hug little George, even after she was dead; The Raft - a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite; The Monkey - an innocent-looking toy with sinister powers; the unspeakable horror of The Mist. And there is a gruesome host of other stories, each with the distinctive blend of unimaginable terror and realism that typifies King's writing.",1993,3.95,612,93593
9780751504835,0751504831,Something Under the Bed is Drooling,,Bill Watterson,Boys,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8JJmQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. The author won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year and has also illustrated Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Snow Goons , Calvin and Hobbes' Yukon Ho! and Weirdos From Another Planet .",1988,4.7,127,137
9780751505030,075150503X,Pacific Vortex!,,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YzdMPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail The thrilling first Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler. Fully armed and with all hands on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished. No wreckage, no signals, no survivors: nothing . . . until ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt finds a single, chilling clue in the shark-torn surf off Hawaii - the log of the Starbuck. 'Do not search for us, it can only end in vain . . . ' A crazed journal of madness and death is all that remains. And the Captain's final, scrawled, fear-crazed note locates the Starbuck's grave hundreds of miles from her last known position! The search for the Starbuck plunges Dirk Pitt into his most shattering assignment to date - a whirlpool of deep-sea mystery and terror - the Pacific Vortex! 'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy 'The Adventure King' Daily Express",2008,3.78,346,210
9780751506006,0751506001,The Helene Hanff Omnibus,,Helene Hanff,"Authors, American",,,1993,4.23,591,71
9780751506457,0751506451,The Maiden,,Cynthia Harrod-Eagles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o37aGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"1720: political intrigue besets the kingdom as the Stuarts try to claim the throne occupied by the Hanoverians and the Morlands have to use all their wiles to keep their fortunes intact. Jeremy Morland, sole heir to his father's will, has no option but to marry to cold-hearted Lady Mary to secure Hanoverian protection and safeguard his inheritance. Then the rebellion of '45 and the bloody massacre at Culloden thrust his daughter Jemima into the spotlight as the saviour of the family. Independent, single-minded, and a rare beauty, Jemima is a capable caretaker of the Morland heritage. Although Morland Place and its lands suffer from the excesses of her dissolute husband, Jemima's quiet courage earns her an abiding love and loyalty.",1985,4.27,413,322
9780751506471,0751506478,The Tangled Thread,,Cynthia Harrod-Eagles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tyqLOQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the Morland Dynasty Series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. The 22 volumes that comprise this elegantly produced series offer entertainment of the most compelling kind.",1987,4.31,474,297
9780751514629,0751514624,Different Seasons,,Stephen King,Castle Rock (Me. : Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qXKAQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A Stephen King novel telling of unfair imprisonment and escape.,1995,4.35,560,121420
9780751517200,0751517208,It's a Magical World,A Calvin and Hobbes Collection,Bill Watterson,"American wit and humor, Pictorial",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qrFqQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This collection of cartoons features Calvin and Hobbes . It shows Calvin-turned-firefly waking Hobbes with his flashlight glow; Spaceman Spiff rocketing through alien galaxies as he battles Dad-turned-Bug-Being; and Calvin's always inspired snowman art.,1997,4.76,176,138
9780751527346,0751527343,The Pilgrim of Hate,,Ellis Peters,Benedictine monasteries,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ef6CvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the year of our Lord 1141, civil war over England's throne leaves a legacy of violence- and the murder of a knight dear to Brother Cadfael. And with gentle budstrewn May, a flood of pilgrims comes to the celebration of Saint Winifred at the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, carrying with it many strange souls and perhaps the knight's killer. Brother Cadfael's shrewd eyes see all: the prosperous merchant who rings false, and angelic lame boy, his beautiful dowess sister, and two wealthy penitents. In the name of justice, Cadfael decides to uncover the strange and twisted tale that accompanies these travellers. Instead he unearths a quest for vengeance, witnesses a miracle, and finds himself on a razor's edge between death and the absolution of love.",1998,4.07,271,34
9780751529814,0751529818,Tuesdays with Morrie,"An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson",Mitch Albom,Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LXkCKQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final ""class"": lessons in how to live.""--Back cover.",2003,4.09,210,651567
9780751531244,0751531243,Spencerville,,Nelson DeMille,Abused wives,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=01pXPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After twenty-five years of working in the shadowy world of espionage Keith Landry is on his way home. Driving along the highway, humming a few bars of 'Homeward Bound', the twenty-five years' service he has given the US government are fast becoming a distant memory. He is safe. He is alone. And life has never felt sweeter as the signs for hometown Spencerville come into view. Keith Landry has promised himself no more violence, no more death. But a chance meeting with childhood sweetheart Annie Baxter makes it a promise he cannot keep. As passion is rekindled between them, jealousy flares. For Annie is married to a violent and sadistic bully: the man who runs Spencerville, Sheriff Baxter. And he won't tolerate any man near his wife. Especially Keith Landry.",2001,3.66,564,49
9780751533118,0751533114,The Waiting Sands,,Susan Howatch,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qalsewAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dearest Raye,' Decima had written...'I'm writing to ask if you can possibly come up to Ruthven for a few days. My twenty-first birthday falls next Sunday, and it would be such a relief if you could stay until after the celebration dinner party which Charles is giving for me on Saturday night. Please come, Raye. I may be behaving very stupidly by panicking like this, but I would feel so much less frightened if I knew you were beside me at Ruthven till after midnight on Saturday...' Dependable Rachel Lord hasn't heard from her friend Decima for over two years when out of the blue she is invited to Ruthven, the fairy tale Scottish castle that Decima will inherit on her coming of age. Her arrival is met with relief by Decima who is convinced her husband, Charles, means her harm. Is Decima in her right mind? Or is Rachel being duped by her worldlier friend? As the eve of the 21st birthday celebration approaches, a shocking event leaves Rachel in no doubt.",2002,3.43,192,305
9780751533439,0751533432,The Dream Kingdom,,Cynthia Harrod-Eagles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oRBdGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Edwardian England is a country at the peak of its power; a kingdom of peace, prosperity and progress. As Jessie and Violet enjoy their coming-out in the glittering Season of 1908, their thoughts are of pleasure, dancing and falling in love. For the Morlands things seem set fair: new business ventures expand their influence and wealth; there are weddings, babies in the nursery, careers for the boys now reaching manhood. It is an exciting age, with new technologies - motor cars, telephones, radio, aeroplanes - extending man's control over the natural world. But under the appearance of permanence, a different reality is stirring. Socialism, the suffrage movement, the constitutional crisis, all call forth ever more dissent and anger. Increasingly violent protests and strikes disturb the peace; war with Germany looms ever closer. With the King's death, it begins to seem that the safe Edwardian world was only a dream, from which the wakening will be hard indeed.",2004,4.33,640,186
9780751533453,0751533459,The White Road,,Cynthia Harrod-Eagles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=stJpGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"August 1914: the whole country is thrilled by the declaration of war. The British Experditionary Force goes off toe France to defend gallant little Belgium, and thousands more young men rush to volunteer, hoping to see action before the war ends at Christmas. At home everyone competes to be doing the most for the war effort. The Morlands have their share of volunteers, and no-one can say they aren't at the very heart of things. But when Christmas comes the war is far from over, and nine in ten of the men who marched, singing, down the white road to Mons have fallen ...",2006,4.26,480,186
9780751535389,0751535389,Something Borrowed,,Tina Reilly,Birthparents,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w3BDHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Adopted as a baby, Vicky McCarthy's curiosity about where she came from has finally got the better of her: she wants to trace her birth mother. If that doesn't cause friction enough, there's a new face to contend with at work: Ed O'Neill, whom Vicky is convinced is being groomed for her job as manager of Dublin toyshop Toys Galore. Sal, Vicky's go-getting best friend, thinks Ed is gorgeous, and that if Vicky doesn't bag him, she will. But Vicky is going out with Marti, manager of an up-and-coming boy band, with a six-year-old son and complications of his own . . . Something Borrowed is the brilliant fourth novel from Tina Reilly: a fresh, frank, funny tale of loves lost and found.",2004,3.69,480,150
9780752224411,0752224417,The Lost World,Jurassic Park : the Junior Novelization,Gail Herman,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YXhuPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Summer 1997 will see the release of Steven Spielberg's colossal new film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the long awaited sequel to the unforgettable and highest grossing film of all time, Jurassic Park 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park Junior Novelisation' captures all the thrills and chills of The Lost World story, with heart-stopping suspense, hair-raising action and illustrated with colour photographs from the film.",1997,3.76,448,95109
9780752834528,0752834525,The Sins of the Fathers,,Lawrence Block,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a09bPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first novel in the explosive Matthew Scudder Series. The tenth novel in the series - A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - is set to be a major Hollywood film, starring Liam Neeson. A pretty young girl is butchered in her Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, is found dead in his jail cell. As far as the NYPD is concerned, the case is closed. But ex-cop Matt Scudder, is persuaded to look into the case by the dead girl's father. And suddenly he's up to his neck in sleaze and corruption, phoney religious cults and murderous lust. In New York's underbelly, the children have no choice but to pay the price for their parent's most unspeakable sins...",2000,3.87,182,7148
9780752842691,0752842692,Lay Down My Sword and Shield,,James Lee Burke,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dCppPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A powerful novel of conflict, history and shadows from the past ... by the bestselling, acclaimed author of THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN. 'As I stood there on my front porch that hot, breathless July day, leaning against the column with the six bullet holes, now worn and smooth, I could see Hack's whitewashed marker under the pin oaks in the Holland family cemetery ... Four generations of my family were buried there.' Hack Holland is a product of the South, both old and new. Hard-drinking ex-POW and wealthy, progressive Democrat, he stands in the long shadow cast by his ancestors. When Holland's candidacy for a congressional seat brings him increasingly into conflict with those around him, his almost unwitting involvement with a violent civil rights conflict forces him to reassess his future - and his past... Praise for one of the great American crime writers, James Lee Burke: 'James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed.' Michael Connelly 'A gorgeous prose stylist.' Stephen King 'Richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers America has ever produced.' Daily Mail Fans of Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly and Don Winslow will love James Lee Burke: Hackberry Holland Series 1. Lay Down My Sword and Shield 2. Rain Gods 3. Feast Day of Fools 4. House of the Rising Sun Dave Robicheaux Series 1. The Neon Rain 2. Heaven's Prisoners 3. Black Cherry Blues 4. A Morning for Flamingos 5. A Stained White Radiance 6. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead 7. Dixie City Jam 8. Burning Angel 9. Cadillac Jukebox 10. Sunset Limited 11. Purple Cane Road 12. Jolie Blon's Bounce 13. Last Car to Elysian Fields 14. Crusader's Cross 15. Pegasus Descending 16. The Tin Roof Blowdown 17. Swan Peak 18. The Glass Rainbow 19. Creole Belle 20. Light of the World 21. Robicheaux Billy Bob Holland Series 1. Cimarron Rose 2. Heartwood 3. Bitterroot 4. In The Moon of Red Ponies * Each James Lee Burke novel can be read as a standalone or in series order *",2003,3.89,320,1621
9780752848266,0752848267,The Next Accident,,Lisa Gardner,"Conner, Rainie (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tztXPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"FBI Agent Pierce Quincy is haunted by his daughter's death in a drunk- driving accident. Pierce knew about his daughter's problem with alcohol, and about her loneliness. And so, he is sure, did the man who killed her. Rainie Conner is an ex-cop with a past overshadowed by violence. She was once involved with Pierce in a harrowing case that brought them together personally and professionally. Then he came to her rescue. Now it is time for her to help him. This killer is different. He has an insatiable hunger for revenge - and for fear. He isn't satisfied with taking his victims' lives, he wants to get inside their minds and strip them of every defence. And his target is Quincy's only surviving daughter. Rainie believes that only way to stop him is to put herself directly into the killer's murderous path and become - the next accident.",2002,4.17,389,12914
9780752851310,0752851314,The Choirboys,,Joseph Wambaugh,Los Angeles (Calif.),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pUpSPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"They are the Choirboys ¿ the patrol squad of the LA Police attempting to stay sane in an insane world. The five sets of partners on the night-watch are men of varying temperaments and backgrounds, but they are joined together by the job and they have elected to spend their pre-dawn hours in MacArthur Park in relaxing drink and sex sessions they call ¿choir practice¿. This is the story of men endangered ultimately not by the violence of their jobs but by their choice of off-duty entertainment. This is a boisterous and freewheeling novel, as chillingly authentic as only a veteran police officer could make it.",2002,4.06,368,4155
9780752851808,0752851802,The Dain Curse,,Dashiell Hammett,Continental Op (Fictitious character),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q7NuHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die - violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts and finds himself confronting something infinitely more dangerous. This is the Continental Op's most bizarre case.",1929,3.83,256,5395
9780752852614,0752852612,Red Harvest,,Dashiell Hammett,Continental Op (Fictitious character),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gDKAPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that meant taking on the entire town...",2003,3.98,224,17297
9780752853697,0752853694,The Unadulterated Cat,A Campaign for Real Cats,Terry Pratchett;Gray Jolliffe,Cats,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gb8aHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us - the pussies that purr into their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one. For example: real cats have ears that look like they've been trimmed with pinking shears; real cats never wear flea collars . . . or appear on Christmas cards . . . or chase anything with a bell in it; real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything else left on the table, if they think they can get away with it. Real cats can hear a fridge door opening two rooms away . . .",2002,3.83,157,4862
9780752856179,0752856170,The Continental Op,,Dashiell Hammett,Continental Op (Fictitious character),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e2aZPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,'An acknowledged literary landmark' Robert Graves,2004,4.15,288,5145
9780752857930,0752857932,The Pusher,,Ed McBain,87th Precinct (Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NNdsHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two a.m. in the bitter cold of winter: the young Hispanic man's body is found in a tenement basement. The rope around his neck suggests a clear case of suicide - until the autopsy reveals he'd overdosed on heroin. He was a pusher, and now a thousand questions press down on the detectives of the 87th Precinct. Who set up the phony hanging? Whose fingerprints were on the syringe found at the scene? Who was making threatening phone calls, attempting to implicate Lieutenant Byrnes' teenage son? Somebody is pushing the 87th Precinct hard, and Detective Steve Carella and Lieutenant Pete Byrnes have to push back harder - before a frightening and deadly chain tightens its trip.",2003,3.89,192,1051
9780752858470,0752858475,The Scorpio Illusion,,Robert Ludlum,Women terrorists,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nzGOPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer until his wife was murdered. Now Hawthorne has been called out of retirement for one last assignment. For he is the only man who can track down the world's most dangerous terrorist, Amaya Bajaratt, who has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. Hawthorne must follow Amaya's serpentine trail to uncover the sinister network that exists to help this consummate killer. And Hawthorne must discover the shattering truth behind the Scorpio Illusion...",2005,3.84,624,5894
9780752858623,0752858629,Trevayne,,Robert Ludlum,Organized Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qfVhPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Trevayne was a self-made millionaire by the time he was thirty. Then he went into government, carving out a brilliant and honourable career. Now he is head of one of the biggest foundations in the USA. Fearless, intelligent and incorruptible, he thinks no one can touch him... Then his investigation into the 'secret government' leads him beyond the corridors of official power into a nightmare maze where Mafia leaders and 'legitimate' billionaires mix, where even the Presidency can be bought and sold. And where a man like Trevayne can be a dreaded enemy, a duped victim, or maybe - just maybe - a king.",2004,3.62,528,18
9780752858654,0752858653,The Scarlatti Inheritance,,Robert Ludlum,Defectors,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k013PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Washington, word is received that an elite member of Nazi High Command is willing to defect and divulge information that will shorten the war. But his defection entails the release of the ultra top-secret file on the Scarlatti Inheritance - a file whose contents will destroy many of the Western world's greatest and most illustrious reputations if they are made known...",2004,3.84,381,10878
9780752858937,0752858939,Beasts,,Joyce Carol Oates,College stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5eg7QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A bright, talented junior at Catamount College in the druggy 1970s, Gillian Brauer strives to realise more than a poet's craft in her workshop with the charismatic, anti-establishment professor Andre Harrow. For Gillian has fallen in love - with Harrow, with his aesthetic sensibility and bohemian lifestyle, with his secluded cottage, with the mystique of his imposing, russet-haired French wife, Dorcas. A sculptress, Dorcas has outraged the campus and alumnae with the crude, primitive, larger than life-sized wooden totems that she has exhibited under the motto 'We are beasts and this is our consolation'.As if mesmerised, Gillian enters the rarefied world of the Harrows. She is special, even though she knows her classmates have preceded her here. She is helpless. She is powerful. And she will learn in full the meaning of Dorcas' provocative motto . . .",2004,3.57,138,41
9780752861746,0752861743,The Postman Always Rings Twice,,James M. Cain,Adultery,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jjJCPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This collection features three classics from the master of the noir novel--each of which was made into a classic Hollywood film--along with five otherwise unavailable short stories. Ribbon marker.,2005,3.8,116,22279
9780752865331,0752865331,The Maltese Falcon,,Dashiell Hammett,Crime investigations,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zHE9PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue.,2005,3.91,213,66425
9780753453216,0753453215,The Iliad,,Nick McCarty;Victor G. Ambrus,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YSp_AyYThw0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Retells the classic story of the battle for Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, recounting the triumphs and defeats of Achilles, Odysseus, and Hector during the Trojan war and describing the destruction of Troy.",2000,3.85,95,8
9780753456101,0753456109,I Wonder Why I Blink,And Other Questions About My Body,Brigid Avison,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=in4oK5lb604C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a question and answer format addresses basic physiology, such as why one has bones, why one needs food, and how the body grows.",2003,3.93,32,37
9780753459645,0753459647,I Wonder Why the Sun Rises,and Other Questions About Time and Seasons,Brenda Walpole,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SqpYsTCG6bMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,What is a leap year? Why are bees busy in summer? Who eats the moon? Why does it get dark at night? In I Wonder Why the Sun Rises by Brenda Walpole children will find out the answers to these and many more questions about time and seasons.,2006,3.95,32,50
9780753806791,0753806797,Eden in the East,The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia,Stephen Oppenheimer,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C01yQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book completetly changes the established and conventional view of prehistory by relocating the Lost Eden—the world's first civilisation—to Southeast Asia. At the end of the Ice Age, Southeast Asia formed a continent twice the size of India, which included Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Borneo. In Eden in the East, Stephen Oppenheimer puts forward the astonishing argument that here in southeast Asia—rather than in Mesopotamia where it is usually placed—was the lost civilization that fertilized the Great cultures of the Middle East 6,000 years ago. He produces evidence from ethnography, archaeology, oceanography, creation stories, myths, linguistics, and DNA analysis to argue that this founding civilization was destroyed by a catastrophic flood, caused by a rapid rise in the sea level at the end of the last ice age.",1998,3.96,575,88
9780753809259,0753809257,The White Hotel,,D. M. Thomas,Austria,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_npfQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of our century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, Thw white hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.""--Back cover.",1999,3.83,240,3058
9780753810743,0753810743,Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms,,Alistair Moffat,Great Britain,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g28qHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Moffat builds up a thesis which enables him to reveal the location and identity of the real Arthur, asserting that he was not a king but a cavalry general chosen around 500AD to lead a coalition army. The key to this argument lies in place-names and their derivation, and that the lost medieval city of Roxburgh and its castle were Arthur's Camelot.",2000,3.73,282,57
9780753811467,0753811464,Maya,,Jostein Gaarder,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z0tIPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norwegian evolutionary biologist estranged from his wife Vera; and an enigmatic Spanish couple, Ana and Jose, who are absorbed in their love for each other. Why does Ana bear such a close resemblance to the model for Goya's famous Maja paintings? What is the significance of the Joker as he steps out of his pack of cards? As the action moves from Fiji to Spain, from the present to the past, unfolding further stories within the stories, the novel reveals an astonishing richness and complexity. As bold and imaginative in its sweep as Sophie's World, it shows again that Jostein Gaarder's unique and special gift is to make us wonder at the awe-inspiring mystery of the universe.",2001,3.6,352,3603
9780753813959,0753813955,Pure Drivel,,Steve Martin,Surealism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3pGFPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'A mix of urbane wit and surreal extrapolations - Douglas Adams meets Flann O'Brien' Independent Who else but Steve Martin could combine irrefutable evidence that Mars is populated by kittens with a treatise on sledgehammers? In this brilliantly witty collection of pieces Steve Martin takes a subversive glimpse at the world and a sideways swipe at the conventional. From memory tips for the over-fifties to his insightful exposition of 'Wittgenstein's Banana', never has 'pure drivel' been so entertaining.",2003,3.68,144,5043
9780753814413,0753814412,My Favourite Year,A Collection of Football Writing,Nick Hornby,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W2e4SQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Roddy Doyle¿s account of the Republic of Ireland¿s triumphant journey through Italia ¿90 is just one of the many first-class pieces in this anthology of original football writing. Contributors include: Roddy Doyle, Harry Pearson, Harry Ritchie, Ed Horton, Olly Wicken, D.J. Taylor, Huw Richards, Nick Hornby, Chris Pierson, Matt Nation, Graham Brack, Don Watson and Giles Smith. ¿A new kind of football writing developed ¿ passionate, disrespectful, self-mocking, yet steeped in personal bias. In book form, young writers such as Nick Hornby and Pete Davies became to the New Football Writing what Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson had been to the New Journalism¿ Terence Blacker, Sunday Times",2001,3.69,288,385
9780753817988,0753817985,Mouse Or Rat?,Translation as Negotiation,Umberto Eco,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R9B9QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Based on a series of lectures on translation, these essays are discussions on the difficulties of translating faithfully. Using examples from classic literary texts including his own novels, Eco examines the rights and wrongs, the misunderstandings and the 'negotiations' needed in order to translate.",2004,3.83,208,291
9780753819920,0753819929,The Orange Girl,,Jostein Gaarder,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DoznGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together' To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful girl standing in the aisle, clutching a huge paper bag of luscious-looking oranges. Suddenly the tram gave a jolt and he stumbled forward, sending the oranges flying in all directions. The girl simply hopped off the tram leaving Georg's father with arms full of oranges. Now, from beyond the grave, he is asking his son to help him finally solve the puzzle of her identity.",2005,3.91,151,11638
9780753821862,0753821869,Razor's Edge,The Unofficial History of the Falklands War,Hugh Bicheno;Richard Holmes,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TgwoAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The controversial memoir of a top British spy which finally reveals what really went on behind the scenes of the Falklands War For five years before the Falklands War, Hugh Bicheno was one of the top British spies in Argentina. As such, he gathered hard, corroborated intelligence on Argentine intentions over the Falklands - which the British establishment then chose to ignore. The reasons behind this British decision, and its disastrous and inevitable consequences in the South Atlantic, are the main story of this book. There were three main players in the war, each of them trying to overcome their own cultural baggage. The Argentines were riddled with guilt: after years of fighting a morally repugnant campaign against its own people, the Argentine military saw a war for the Malvinas islands as a perfect opportunity to win back their self-respect. The hands of the Americans were also bloody from the likewise dirty wars they had sponsored and abetted in Central America. For Britain it was simply the last straw after decades of humiliation.",2007,3.77,400,39
9780755301942,0755301943,Atlantic Shift,,Emily Barr,Cellists,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zu04HQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gorgeous, world-famous cellist Evie Silverman is classical-lite through and through. Real musicians despise her. Her talent has been promoted way beyond its value because - apparently - everyone loves a blonde girl in lipstick who can do interesting things between her thighs. She's played for the President of the United States. She's played at No 10 Downing Street. And tonight she's playing for Royalty. But tonight she's also going to change her life. Tonight she's going to leave her husband. Tonight, for the first time in fifteen years, she's going to stand on her own two feet. For tomorrow begins her new life - starting with a trip to New York. It all too soon becomes apparent that breaking the rules - and escaping from your past - isn't what it's cracked up to be...",2005,3.31,406,132
9780755301973,0755301978,Full Speed,,Janet Evanovich;Charlotte Hughes,"Holt, Max (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lclXPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Treat yourself to FULL SPEED by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes. Praise for the FULL series: 'A fine romance with plenty of kisses' Mirror; 'A wild mix of intrigue, sex and pyrotechnics' The Times Their enemies haven't got a prayer... Journalist Jamie Swift and millionaire Max Holt drive each other crazy when they work together - but they just can't stop. Especially when they both have their reasons for wanting to investigate a charismatic preacher with suspected ties to the Mob and a long history with his female church members. The trouble is, someone has got wind of Jamie and Max's snooping around, and is pretty eager to introduce them to their Maker - a lot sooner than either Jamie or Max had planned...",2003,3.82,344,10912
9780755304851,0755304853,Falling for You,,Jill Mansell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K3zCGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness Maddy Harvey was a bit of an ugly duckling as a teenager, what with her NHS specs, unfortunate hair and wonky teeth. Thankfully she's blossomed since then. But when she meets Kerr McKinnon one starry summer's night and discovers, days later, who he actually is... well, that's when the problems really start. Because everyone in Ashcombe knows what happened eleven years ago, and as far as her mother's concerned, Marcella would rather tear that family to pieces with her bare hands than see Maddy associate with a McKinnon. It's Romeo and Juliet all over again. Quick, hide those sharp knives and that little bottle of poison...",2004,3.79,448,4713
9780755305308,0755305302,Girl in Hyacinth Blue,,Susan Vreeland,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CHg8PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Girl in Hyacinth Blue tells the story of an imaginary painting by Vermeer, and the aspirations and longings of those whose lives it illuminates, and darkens. From a proud father regretting his lost love to a compromised French noblewoman, from a hanged girl to Vermeer's own gifted daughter, Susan Vreeland's beautiful and luminous tales link to form an evocative jewel.",2002,3.73,180,136
9780755311514,0755311515,The Science of Harry Potter,How Magic Really Works,Roger Highfield,Magic,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0VCgNwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Invisibility cloaks, flying broomsticks, magic doors - all the stuff of children's fantasy. But have you ever wondered if this magic could feasibly work? Roger Highfield explores the world of the Harry Potter stories and shows how cutting edge science can explain much of it. Exciting scientific concepts such as wormholes and general relativity and he also offers explanations for the more historical links between magic and science, investigating the archaelogical and anthropological evidence for witchcraft and dragons.",2002,4.04,374,19
9780755321384,0755321383,After the Mourning,,Barbara Nadel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DF_GPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the dark days of the Blitz, crime goes undercover... Undertaker Francis Hancock has seen the worst that humanity can do to itself. Why then does the murder of a young gypsy girl in Epping Forest move him so much? Travellers, gypsies, the homeless, deserters and German spies inhabit this stretch of open ground that was once her home. Francis knows it's not wise to delve into this human melting pot, but he is drawn to the exotic customs of the gypsies, their music and magic. But as he investigates the girl's murder further, the death toll rises and Francis uncovers a much bigger conspiracy, at the heart of which lies something even Adolf Hitler is prepared to kill for...",2006,3.4,352,102
9780755323005,0755323009,A Friar's Bloodfeud,,Michael Jecks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sDWoI3O80zwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bailiff Simon Puttock's servant, Hugh, has been granted leave to look after his wife, Constance, and to help raise their child. But soon after, she is attacked in their home, raped by a gang of men. Then she watches as her son is murdered and Hugh is struck down, before she too is killed and the house set afire. When Simon and Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, arrive at the grisly scene, the cottage is burned to the ground, the body of the child lying outside. Inside is a woman's torso, badly charred. There are no remains of Hugh, but the fire raged so fiercely that all believe he has perished. But nothing is so simple. Simon vows revenge, and there are dark forces lurking that will cause no end of mayhem and bloodshed.",2006,4.1,500,211
9780755323012,0755323017,The Death Ship of Dartmouth,,Michael Jecks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yVArAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a body is found lying in the middle of the road, many in the little haven of Dartmouth assume that a drunk had fallen and killed himself. At the same time, the town is on alert because a ship, the St. John, has been found ravaged by pirates out at sea, the crew killed or captured. Is this the beginning of a new onslaught by pirates, or is something more sinister happening? Sir Baldwin de Furnshill has been told by Bishop Stapledon of spies and messengers being sent to the great traitor Roger Mortimer in France. If the messengers reach Mortimer, civil war in England will soon break out. Bailiff Simon Puttock and Baldwin must uncover the truth about the deaths and they must be quick. Powerful and ruthless men in the kingdom will not tolerate their failure. This is the most important investigation of their lives: it could result in their own execution if they fail to learn the facts. But if they succeed, other men will want them silenced forever.",2006,4.07,352,7
9780756400439,0756400430,In Conquest Born,,C. S. Friedman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UWnCk-wo5OAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Zatar and Anzha, the powerful opposing generals of the Braxana and Azeans, are determined to use the war between their peoples to settle a personal feud. Reprint.",2001,3.88,530,2426
9780756400613,0756400619,The Serpent's Shadow,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PAHin0_vSZ4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the magical mysteries of India to the gaslit streets of Victorian London, Mercedes Lackey's unique departure from her Valdemar series follows a young woman doctor as she searches for the secret behind the sorcery in her blood.",2002,3.99,394,8533
9780756401108,0756401100,Sorcery Rising,,Jude Fisher,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VFgWzQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A talented knife-maker with a natural affinity with the elements of the earth, Katla Aransen, the beautiful and rebellious daughter of an Eyran merchant, finds herself targeted by Istrian fanatics after she accidentally commits sacrilege and by Saro Katla, a blade-forger; and Saro, the second son of an Istrian nobleman--are forever changed.",2003,3.55,528,1290
9780756401535,0756401534,Joust,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RcWnDAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Vetch, an Altan serf, must learn the secret of the Tian jousters and their dragons in order to save his people.",2004,4.01,448,9871
9780756401818,075640181X,The War of the Flowers,,Tad Williams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yofu6U2ocO8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When his music career becomes stagnant, thirty-year-old Theo Vilmos seeks solace in a secluded cabin in the woods, where he discovers an old book written by his great-uncle that transports him into the terrifying world of Faerie, a strange and dangerous place that holds the key to his destiny. Reprint.",2004,3.87,828,7401
9780756402211,0756402212,Exile's Valor,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ID7QjgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A former captain in the Army of Karse, Herald Alberich must protect King Sendar's daughter, Selenay, the new queen of Valdemar, from the devious members of the Valdemaran Council who unleash a campaign to strip her of her power. Reprint.",2004,4.18,438,10629
9780756402976,0756402972,Stone of Farewell,,Tad Williams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BVZVPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Battered remnants of the human army flee the evil forces of Ineluki the Storm King, desperately seeking a mysterious sanctuary called the Stone of Farewell and a solution to their dire peril. Reprint.",2005,4.1,608,35850
9780756403140,0756403146,Black Sun Rising,,C. S. Friedman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=22VxNgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the distant world of Erna, four people--Priest, Adept, Sorcerer, and Apprentice--are drawn together to battle the forces of evil, led by the demonic fae, a soul-destroying force that preys on the human mind. Reprint.",2005,3.93,496,15265
9780756403188,0756403189,Crown of Shadows,,C. S. Friedman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gXxyvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the planet Erna, a battle between a warrior priest and a demon whose raison d'etre is to see mankind suffer. Question is whose side will the physically reactive force called the ""fae"" take? By the author of Black Sun Rising.",2005,4.17,432,99
9780756403256,0756403251,Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i-r-vQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of original stories of the land of Valdemar, featuring contributions by Tanya Huff, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Fiona Patton, Judith Tarr, and Rosemary Edghill, as well as a novella by Mercedes Lackey.",2005,3.86,338,3002
9780756403454,0756403456,Regeneration,,Julie E. Czerneda,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YR3XH7bDy0YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Biologist Dr. Mackenzie Connor and her disparate band of researchers must unlock the deadly mysteries of the alien Dhryn and the Ro by finding Emily Mamani, who holds the key to infiltrating the Ro and can lead them to the legendary Survivors before their world is hurtled into a region of space devoid of life.",2006,4.13,543,53
9780756403584,0756403588,Shadowplay,,Tad Williams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OQlLAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, twins Barrick and Briony must save Southmarch Castle and the surrounding lands from their inhuman enemies.",2007,3.89,656,5930
9780756403591,0756403596,Shadowmarch,,Tad Williams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6QB1vgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Now in mass market paperback-Tad Williams' triumphant return to high fantasy!,2006,3.73,796,9476
9780756605926,075660592X,The DC Comics Encyclopedia,The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe,Phil Jimenez,Antiques & Collectibles,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gXdNNwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A richly illustrated reference provides a definitive guide to all of the superheroes and archvillains of the DC universe, featuring more than one thousand different characters, including images from the original comic books, from the past sixty years of DC Comics.",2004,4.29,352,123
9780756611774,0756611776,A Faith Like Mine,A Celebration of the World's Religions-- Seen Through the Eyes of Children,Laura Buller,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wLchAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Children of different religious backgrounds tell about their faith and what it means to them; includes background information on each religious tradition.,2005,3.91,80,50
9780756614195,0756614198,Star Wars,Complete Locations,Kristin Lund;Simon Beecroft;Kerrie Dougherty,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PAq2AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Glorious full-color illustrations create a seamless overview of the entire Star Wars universe, including material--intricate cross-sections, vivid stills, and detailed 3-D maps--from all six movies in the saga.",2005,4.3,175,128
9780756615512,0756615518,Spain,,"DK Publishing, Inc",Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Cmq9xQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.",2006,4.22,720,132
9780756616342,0756616344,Animal,,David Burnie;Don E. Wilson,Zoology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g8Z5PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers photographs and information about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and invertebrates from throughout the world.",2005,4.52,624,551
9780756620950,0756620953,Conan,,Roy Thomas;Todd McFarlane;Robert Ervin Howard,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vstsAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Featuring character profiles, maps, art from original paperbacks, and more, this is the first and only fully illustrated guide to Robert E. Howard's epic fantasy world of Hyboria and to Conan, its greatest champion. Full color.",2006,3.93,160,98
9780756622381,0756622387,Star Wars,The Complete Visual Dictionary,David West Reynolds;James Luceno,Juvenile Nonfiction,,"A guide to the characters, creatures, and weapons featured in the six-film saga ""Star Wars.""",2006,4.34,272,1067
9780756623432,075662343X,You Can Draw Star Wars,,Bonnie Burton,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-N64AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Directions on drawing characters, starships, and weapons of the Star Wars films.",2006,4.04,96,46
9780756623586,0756623588,The Marvel Comics Encyclopedia,The Complete Guide to the Characters of the Marvel Universe,"DK Publishing, Inc",Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PFllPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introduces all of Marvel's greatest heroes and villains, with full details about their powers and careers.",2006,4.36,352,1014
9780756626365,0756626366,Greece,Athens & the Mainland,Marc Dubin,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ndIw1ZdTAtkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.",2007,4.08,352,52
9780758206824,0758206828,Sugar Cookie Murder,A Hannah Swensen Holiday Mystery with Recipes,Joanne Fluke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6t7uuQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During the Christmas party at Lake Eden's community center, Hannah Swensen stumbles upon a murder when Martin Dubinski's new wife, a former Las Vegas showgirl, is found dead with Hannah's mother's silver cake knife buried in her cleavage. Reprint.",2005,3.75,380,10942
9780758207746,0758207743,Bad Boys in Black Tie,,Lori Foster;Erin McCarthy;Morgan Leigh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pV7lrrtExcEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What's a single girl to do when a sexy bad boy comes calling? Foster, Leigh and McCarthy each contribute stories in which the heroines struggle with the prospect of Mr. Right vs. Mr. Right Now.",2004,3.73,278,2139
9780758208453,0758208456,Bad Boys Over Easy,,Erin McCarthy;Jen Nicholas;Jordan Summers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kAYlmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Three top romance authors pen irresistible stories about bad boys and the women who come to love them.,2005,3.78,249,1034
9780758210371,075821037X,The Man Who Loved Jane Austen,,Sally Smith O'Rourke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aLc26Y6HjnMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After discovering a letter to Jane Austen from Fitzwilliam Darcy--a supposedly fictional character--in the back of her antique vanity's mirror, Eliza Knight searches for the only man who knows the truth behind this mystery.",2006,3.37,303,1719
9780758214096,075821409X,You Don't Know Jack,,Erin McCarthy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cVO0mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her cross-dressing psychic's prediction that she would meet her soul mate during an accident comes true, Jamie Peters finds Mr. Right in down-to-earth, honest Jack Davidson, who, unbeknownst to her, has been hired to investigate her for criminal misconduct. Original.",2006,3.72,255,2757
9780758215048,0758215045,Lemon Meringue Pie Murder,,Joanne Fluke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W0IYn16lsR8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The residents of Lake Eden, Minnesota, are planning to paint the town red, white, and blue to celebrate the Fourth of July--but the fireworks are already going off at Hannah Swensen's bake shop, The Cookie Jar. . . Lemon Meringue Pie Murder Hannah Swensen thought she'd finally discovered the recipe for a perfect life. But her sometime beau Norman Rhodes tosses a surprise ingredient into the mix when he phones to tell her he's just bought a house from local drugstore clerk Rhonda Scharf--which he plans to tear down in order to build the dream home he and Hannah designed. It seems the plan has been cooking for quite some time, and Hannah's shocked. Especially since her ring finger is still very much bare. . . The good news is that the soon-to-be-torn-down house is full of antiques--and Norman has given Hannah and her mother first dibs. They uncover some gorgeous old furniture, a patchwork quilt. . .and Rhonda Scharf's dead body. A little more sleuthing turns up the half-eaten remains of a very special dinner for two--and one of The Cookie Jar's famous lemon meringue pies. Now it's up to Hannah to turn up the heat--and get busy tracking down clues. Starting in her very own kitchen. . . Includes nine original cookie and dessert recipes for you to try! Fun. . .frothy. . .Enticing recipes for cookies and other treats, presented with helpful procedural hints, are an extra bonus. --Publishers Weekly",2006,3.88,352,12195
9780760320068,0760320063,Corvette,Fifty Years,Randy Leffingwell,Transportation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=59GF-oidcgQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides new insight and beautiful photos into the fascinating story of this amazing automobile. 383 pages.,2004,4.06,384,15
9780760328248,0760328242,Jimmy Stewart,Bomber Pilot,Starr Smith,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CbXUXfJuA9sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II--and they were legion--Jimmy Stewart was unique. ""Bomber Pilot"" chronicles his long journey to become a bomber pilot in combat.",2006,3.92,288,426
9780760329634,076032963X,The John Deere Two-Cylinder Tractor Encyclopedia,The Complete Model-by-Model History,Don Macmillan;Wayne G. Broehl,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RO0ungEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Here are the simple farm machines, the trusty green two-cylinder tractors that pulled agriculture from horses to horsepower. Compiled by the historian chosen by Deere & Company to write its story, this encyclopedia unfolds the full model-by-model history of the worlds most popular tractor--from the first one produced in 1914 to the last in 1960. Brochures and toys, archival photographs and new color images lovingly depict every facet of these sturdy machines. Entries profile the model variations and specs, the options and historical features of the John Deere two-cylinder tractor through the decades, a classic sight on the American horizon.",2007,4.75,256,4
9780760728505,076072850X,"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea",,Jules Verne,Science fiction,,Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.,2002,3.88,394,135778
9780760768952,0760768951,The Conquest of Gaul,,Julius Caesar;F. P. Long;Cheryl Walker,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AYuHPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Among the most durable and engaging texts in world literature, Julius Caesar's Conquest of Gaul tells how he and his legions conquered much of modern France in less than a decade (58-51 BCE), despite determined resistance. Perhaps the most famous Roman ever, Gaius Julius Caesar created a legacy which has resonated, for good or ill, throughout Western culture. Architect of an imperial system, eponymous sponsor of a reformed calendar system, orator second only to Cicero, conqueror of Gaul: Surely those accomplishments in the diverse fields of politics, applied mathematics, rhetoric, and military science would justify his eminence. Nevertheless, the high literary quality and historical value of this seemingly modest account match its exciting story of diplomatic maneuverings, shifting alliances, and military actions; the final chapters culminate in the revolt of the united Gallic tribes under Vercingetorix, France's first national hero, and are as compelling as any contemporary spy thriller.",2005,3.99,288,50
9780761104841,0761104844,"1,000 Places to See Before You Die",,Patricia Schultz,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JeLyE5ada5gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes essential places to see from around the world, offering information on what to find at each spot and the best time to visit.",2003,3.85,992,35589
9780761129585,0761129588,What to Expect the First Year,,Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff;Arlene Eisenberg;Sandee Eisenberg Hathaway,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nmj7-1leb3oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes each stage of child development, answers questions about child care, and includes information on common childhood ailments.",2003,3.88,832,11489
9780761316435,0761316434,Baby's Alphabet,,Jean Marzollo,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U0VSSdA1HmMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An alphabetical presentation of babies as they clap, hug, jump, kiss, laugh, yawn, and more.",2002,3.75,32,4
9780761316800,0761316809,It's Winter!,,Linda Glaser,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eSCmKfZGvmcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A child observes the coming of winter and its effects on the weather, animals, and plants. Includes suggestions for wintertime activities.",2002,3.63,32,80
9780761327059,0761327053,The Brave Women of the Gulf Wars,Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom,Karen Zeinert;Mary Miller,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eW_PqCF_kJQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Traces the roots of the Persian Gulf War and the role women played in the military, as correspondents, as medics, and on the homefront.",2005,4,112,1
9780761417071,0761417079,The Statue of Liberty,,Debra Hess,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2zZAkWGeMpkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Traces the origins of the Statue of Liberty, its creators, the different symbols and their meanings, and what it stands for today.",2003,4,40,1
9780761417095,0761417095,The American Flag,,Debra Hess,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tUrO-Vj5blEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the American flag that is a symbol that stands for freedom and justice, liberty and pride in the United States.",2003,4,39,3
9780761417101,0761417109,The Star-Spangled Banner,,Debra Hess,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e-uzISJFSL8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Looks at the events leading up to the War of 1812 and the battle of Fort McHenry, and describes the story of the ""Star Spangled Banner"" and how the poem became the national anthem of the United States.",2003,4,40,1
9780761417125,0761417125,The White House,,Debra Hess,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BXrOWi4yMkUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Traces the history of the White House, including its construction, repairs and renovations through the years, uses, and what it means to Americans today.",2003,4,40,3
9780761417132,0761417133,The Liberty Bell,,Debra Hess,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HUjM_3XtGmkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Traces the history of the Liberty Bell, including its role in the American Revolution, its famous crack, and how it became a symbol of the United States.",2003,3.83,40,4
9780761501664,0761501665,The Wealthy Barber,Everyone's Common-sense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent,David Chilton,"Finance, Personal",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RFqve7JN1l8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this new and expanded edition of one of the biggest selling financial-planning books ever, Chilton simplifies the complex puzzles of personal finance and helps you achieve financial independence. With the help of his fictional barber, Roy, and a large dose of humor, Chilton shows you how you can take control of your financial future slowly, steadily, and with sure success. Chilton's plan (detailed in an entertaining story) is no get-rich-quick scheme, but it does make financial independence possible on nothing more than an average salary. Even if you consider yourself a financial basket-case, Chilton explains how you can easily put an effective financial plan into action.About the Author ""David Chilton is the president of Financial Awareness Corporation, a financial consulting firm. ""The Wealthy Barber"" and ""The Wealthy Barber Returns"" TV shows have enjoyed tremendous popularity since first airing on Public Television in the spring of 1993.",1996,4.02,199,61
9780761512196,0761512195,Your First Year in Network Marketing,"Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!",Mark Yarnell;Rene Reid Yarnell;Rene Yarnell,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c9jvr-dJcRIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers advice on dealing with rejection, recruiting others, managing one's downline, maintaining focus and enthusiasm, conducting home meetings, and easing from a profession to full-time network marketing",1998,4.05,304,789
9780761542919,0761542914,Medal of Honor Rising Sun,Prima's Official Strategy Guide,Mark Cohen,Games & Activities,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wxxn-0QEzBEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Playmakers Win Championships -Online strategies for the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system -Expert offensive and defensive strategies -Tips for success in every mode, including the new Owner Mode -How to unlock all hidden rewards -Profiles, statistics, and key plays for every team",2003,3.67,96,3
9780761545644,0761545646,The Bard's Tale,Prima Official Game Guide,Kaizen Media Group (CRT);Craig Keller,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6_jCAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A legendary series returns . . . and gets the game guide it deserves! ·Combat tactics, puzzle solutions, Bard leveling tips, and more! ·Fully labeled maps of every area! ·Complete stats on weapons, monsters, and tunes! ·All unlockables and secrets revealed, including extra dungeons, bonus art, movie and song galleries, and Cheat Mode! ·Overview of the original Bard's Tale series! ·Extensive interview with the inXile production staff!",2004,4.17,144,6
9780761554912,0761554912,Lego Star Wars,Prima Official Game Guide,Michael Littlefield;Prima Games,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eaocAgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"* Exclusive maps that can only be found in the Prima guide. * Detailed walkthrough of Episodes I, II, and III * Hidden item locations revealed. * All characters strengths and weaknesses, as well as their unique weapons and abilities.",2006,4.62,128,27
9780761555483,076155548X,Elder Scrolls IV,Oblivion,Peter Olafson,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WeTBAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Find Your Path! ·Detailed maps for every part of the world and every major city, plus special maps for every key section of the main quest. ·Specific chapters on how to create your character and maximize your abilities and skills. ·Over 400 full-color pages packed with information on everything you need to know about the massive gameworld of Oblivion. ·Walkthroughs for every quest in the game, including the main quest, all faction quests, as well as miscellaneous and freeform quests. ·Sections on various gameplay systems including stealth, combat, magic, spellmaking and enchanting, alchemy, and more. ·Detailed bestiary chapter to help you best deal with the denizens of Tamriel and Oblivion. ·Includes new chapters on Knights of the Nine and Oblivion downloadable content.",2006,4.31,432,56
9780761929949,0761929940,The Politics of Injustice,Crime and Punishment in America,Katherine Beckett;Theodore Sasson,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GWM5DQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Examining the role of crime in American politics and culture, The Politics of Injustice, Second Edition provides a better understanding of the nature of crime and punishment in America, as well as the cultural and political contexts in which they occur. Updated throughout, this book will be of interest to students in all areas of Criminology especially those involved in critical issues in Criminal Justice.",2000,3.76,272,32
9780761956921,0761956921,Société de Consommation,"Ses Mythes, Ses Structures",Jean Baudrillard,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bbex0zAG23IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Now available in English for the first time, Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book still makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. Many of the themes which would make Baudrillard famous appear here for the first time. The book includes Baudrillard's most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure and anomie in affluent society. A chapter on the body demonstrates Baudrillard's extraordinary prescience for flagging vital subjects in contemporary culture long before others. This English translation begins with an introductory essay by Ge",1998,4.13,224,654
9780762100736,0762100737,Reader's digest complete guide to the Bible,an illustrated book-by-book companion to the Scriptures,Reader's Digest,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DOgJAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gathers background information about each chapter of the Bible, explains unfamiliar words and phrases, and includes a timeline of Biblical events",1998,4.55,448,11
9780762104208,0762104201,New Complete Guide to Sewing,Step-by-step Techniques for Making Clothes and Home Accessories,,Crafts & Hobbies,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v1ZVvZTdZRMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides general instructions for fitting, constructing, tailoring, and finishing women's, men's, and children's clothing and for making curtains and bedcoverings.",2002,4.22,384,406
9780762404780,0762404787,Irish Blessings,A Photographic Celebration,,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3yjfgz8Kcr0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collection of traditional blessings, classic verse, and photographs from throughout Ireland. A timeless tribute to the beauty of the land and the character of its people.",1999,4.13,128,28
9780762408283,0762408286,The Mini Zen Gardening Kit,,Abd Al-Hayy Moore,Gardening,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YoZFAwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This carry-along version of our enormously popular Zen Gardening Kit provides a touch of tranquility on the go. Packaged with a 32page introduction to the aesthetic enlightenment of Zen gardening, it includes a tray, fine sand, decorative rocks, and miniature wooden rake.",2000,3.21,40,13
9780762413935,076241393X,The Classic Treasury of Hans Christian Andersen,,Hans Christian Andersen;Christian Birmingham,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cYoutAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Award-winning English illustrator Christian Birmingham--one of the rising stars of children's illustration--brings eight time-honored fairy tales to life in dazzling, full-color artwork for this charming collection. Sure to become a treasured part of any childhood library, this sumptuously illustrated book includes the read-aloud favorites The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, and The Princess and the Pea.",2002,4.24,156,107
9780762419227,0762419229,God Created The Integers,,Stephen Hawking,Mathematics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3zdFSOS3f4AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Looks at landmark mathematical discoveries over the past 2500 years by such mathematicians as Euclid, Isaac Newton, Pierre Simon de Laplace, Gerog Cantor, and Alan Turing.",2005,4.06,1160,1650
9780762427321,0762427329,The Illustrated on the Shoulders of Giants,The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy,Stephen W. Hawking,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r1y3PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Hawking's revolutionary look at the scientific discoveries that changed people's perceptions of the world now comes complete with color photographs and illustrations depicting theoretical models of the planets and their orbits.,2005,4.2,256,4014
9780763616250,0763616257,Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor,,Mervyn Peake,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PCdzRQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On a fantastic island populated by unusual animals, a pirate captain finds a trustworthy companion in the little ""Yellow Creature.""",2001,4.08,48,159
9780763619312,0763619310,Judy Moody Gets Famous!,,Megan McDonald;Peter Reynolds,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=11tddgwOCXQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a third grade classmate gets her picture in the paper for winning a spelling bee, Judy is determined to find a way to become famous herself.",2003,4.03,144,8080
9780763620875,0763620874,Judy Moody Saves the World!,,Megan McDonald,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xDIRB5yF6jEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project. Reprint.",2004,4.03,160,5883
9780763621643,0763621641,Castle Diary,The Journal of Tobias Burgess,Richard Platt;Chris Riddell,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rFUBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As a page in his uncle's castle in thirteenth-century England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and behave in noble society.",2003,3.84,128,1072
9780763623296,0763623296,Dragonology,The Complete Book of Dragons,Ernest Drake,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=omLhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents an introduction to dragonology that includes spells for catching dragons, their natural history, and descriptions of legendary dragons and dragonslayers.",2003,4.1,32,7506
9780763625290,0763625299,The Kate DiCamillo Collection,,Kate DiCamillo,Animals,,,2010,4.03,267,134961
9780763625894,0763625892,The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,,Kate DiCamillo,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cUbhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories. Jr Lib Guild. Teacher's Guide available. 300,000 first printing.",2006,4.36,200,62334
9780763626150,0763626155,"Judy Moody, M.D.",The Doctor is In!,Megan McDonald,JUVENILE FICTION,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VAf22Z22GD0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Judy is excited about becoming a doctor, especially when Class 3T starts a new unit on the human body, but she learns more about being a patient when she catches tonsillitis from her little brother, Stink. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.",2006,4.08,151,4436
9780763628000,076362800X,Judy Moody Declares Independence,,Megan McDonald,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hPmBZ-eIS2oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After learning about the American Revolution on a family trip to Boston, Massachusetts, Judy Moody makes her own Declaration of Independence and tries to prove that she is responsible enough to have more freedoms, such as a higher allowance and her own bathroom. Reprint.",2007,4.08,160,3774
9780763628109,0763628107,The Dragon's Eye,,Dugald Steer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kasIop1plB4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When twelve-year-old Daniel Cook and his sister, Beatrice, spend the summer at a special school run by their parents' eccentric former tutor, they are introduced to the secret study of dragonology and find themselves caught up in an evil plot.",2006,3.82,221,2139
9780763628277,0763628271,Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen,,Dyan Sheldon,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MU4mublsf0IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her first year at a New Jersey high school, Mary Elizabeth Cep, who now calls herself ""Lola,"" sets her sights on the lead in the annual drama production, and finds herself in conflict with the most popular girl in school.",2005,3.34,272,3259
9780763628284,076362828X,My Perfect Life,,Dyan Sheldon,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8x8PvhY-f-IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ella has no interest in running for class president at her suburban New Jersy high school, but her offbeat friend Lola tricks her into challenging the rich and overbearing Carla Santini in a less-than-friendly race.",2005,3.32,208,455
9780763628321,0763628328,Judy Moody,Around the World in 8 1/2 Days,Megan McDonald,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4AHNngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Judy Moody's new friendship with Amy Namey causes problems with her old friends and the school project they are working on together.,2006,4.15,157,3349
9780763630140,0763630144,Mercy Watson,Princess in Disguise,Kate DiCamillo;Chris Van Dusen,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XIvXqUuR9zIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Persuaded by the word ""treating"" to dress up as a princess for Halloween, Mercy the pig's trick-or-treat outing has some very unexpected results.",2007,4.16,70,2756
9780763631208,0763631205,A Christmas Carol,,Charles Dickens,Juvenile Fiction,,A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.,2006,4.04,160,4201
9780763631604,0763631604,Beauty and the Beast,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_GPhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Exquisite paintings and a lush retelling bring a treasured classic to new life. Includes blank gift card and envelope. Full color. Consumable.,2006,4.36,64,3609
9780763632168,0763632163,Deep and Meaningful Diaries from Planet Janet,,Dyan Sheldon,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K-bw3NTnJWsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents two previously-published tales of sixteen-year-old Janet, who keeps a diary of her efforts to find herself during and beyond her ""Dark Phase,"" as she copes with annoying family members, a quirky best friend, school, and romance.",2007,3.49,438,39
9780763632953,0763632953,Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America,,Dyan Sheldon,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BTZb4K876QgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While spending the summer in Brooklyn with her mother's former schoolmate, Sophie, a sheltered English teenager, makes new and unlikely friends and finds a new side to her formerly ""dull and passive"" personality. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2007,3.22,192,134
9780763726713,0763726710,Varney's Pocket Midwife,,Jan M. Kriebs;Carolyn L. Gegor,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gZEszGKH-T0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The only concise and comprehensive pocket guide covering all stages of pregnancy that places essential information at the midwife's fingertips.,2005,4.06,616,4
9780764119729,0764119729,Algebra the Easy Way,,Douglas Downing,Mathematics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RiX-TJLiQv0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Covers the fundamentals of algebra, including explanations of equations, negative numbers, exponents, roots, functions, graphs, and logarithms.",2003,4.06,392,21
9780764122781,0764122789,Aquatic Turtles,"Sliders, Cooters, Painted, and Map Turtles",Richard D. Bartlett;Patricia Bartlett,Pets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ket2brEYGIwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Titles in this series present basic information on reptiles plus specific instructions for their care. Each book opens with a description of the animal as it exists in its natural habitat, then continues with information on its life cycle and distribution in nature. Readers then get advice on selecting a good specimen, determining sex, and providing proper housing, feeding, and health care. Books are heavily illustrated with instructive color photos.",2003,3.8,46,20
9780764127311,0764127314,The Seasons: Summer,,Núria Roca,,,,2004,4.1,36,6
9780764134289,0764134280,American Sign Language The Easy Way,,David A. Stewart;Elizabeth Stewart;Jessalyn Little,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QrR4_JF8PGoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"(back cover) ALL THE ESSENTIALS IN ONE CLEAR VOLUME by David A. Stewart, Ed. D., Elizabeth Stewart, and Jessalyn Little, M. Ed. A clear and easy approach to learning American Sign Language Updated to cover vocabulary related to new technological developments More than 800 illustrative line drawings How to use facial grammar to supplement manual signing How to combine words to express complete statements",2006,3.72,480,33
9780764136313,0764136313,The Night at the Museum,,Milan Trenc,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q13aAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hector gets a job as a night warden at the Museum of Natural History and, after dozing off, he wakes to find all the dinosaur skeletons are missing, sending him off on a trail of scattered bones.",2006,3.89,32,795
9780764222375,0764222376,Heathersleigh Homecoming,,Michael R. Phillips,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vC3LMAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With war raging around her, Amanda escapes across Europe and finds refuge at Sisters' Chalet in Switzerland, where she is helped to see her life in a new light",1999,4.32,429,190
9780764225215,0764225219,Chosen But Free,,Norman L. Geisler,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ATcHAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers a balanced, moderating position to the endless theological debate over man's free will and God's sovereignty.",2001,3.29,285,344
9780764226465,0764226460,A Higher Justice,,James Scott Bell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j6ENAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A case involving a trolley accident pits Kit against powerful railway men, all of whom have something to hide. The truth may blow the lid off a conspiracy, so will her enemies find a way to keep her silenced forever?",2003,4.23,303,167
9780764525681,0764525689,Ballet For Dummies,,Scott Speck;Evelyn Cisneros,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wuPsAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms of expression ever devised: an exquisite mix of sight and sound, stunning, aesthetics, and awesome technique. Ballet For Dummies is for anyone who wants to enjoy all that the dance forms offers – as an onlooker who wants to get a leg up on the forms you're likely to see or as an exercise enthusiast who understands that the practice of ballet can help you gain More strength Greater flexibility Better body alignment Confidence in movement Comfort through stress reduction Infinite grace – for life From covering the basics of classical ballet to sharing safe and sensible ways to try your hand (and toes) at moving through the actual dance steps, this expert reference shows you how to Build your appreciation for ballet from the ground up. Choose the best practice space and equipment. Warm up to your leap into the movements. Locate musical options for each exercise. Look for certain lifts in a stage performance. Tell a story with gestures. Picture a day in the life of a professional ballet dancer. Identify best-loved classic and contemporary ballets. Speak the language of ballet. Today you can find a ballet company in almost every major city on earth. Many companies have their own ballet schools – some for training future professionals, and others for interested amateurs. As you fine-tune your classical ballet technique – or even if you just like to read about it – you'll become better equipped to fully appreciate the great choreography and many styles of the dance. Ballet For Dummies raises the curtain on a world of beauty, grace, poise, and possibility!",2003,3.99,348,75
9780764537158,0764537156,CliffsNotes On Joyce's Dubliners,,Adam Sexton,Literary Criticism,,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on Dubliners looks into a collection of stories that author James Joyce unites by place, time, and meaning. Following a portrayal of scandalous and ugly human behavior in a series of straightforward stories, this study guide provides summaries and commentaries for each of 15 linked tales, narrative prose centered in Dublin, Ireland. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Focus on the author’s education, literary style, and awards and honors A synopsis of the book’s setting, characterization, dialogue, and point of view Character analyses and critical essays An interactive quiz, plus suggested essay questions and practice projects Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2003,3.5,80,4
9780764538131,0764538136,CliffsNotes on Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov,,James L. Roberts;Gary Carey,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J9j6zAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dostoevsky's last novel is considered his masterpiece and tells the story of a family and the appetites and struggles that lead to patricide. With rich character development and understanding of humanity, Dostoevsky comes across as a force of nature.",2003,3.5,96,4
9780764544576,0764544578,CliffsNotes on Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway,,Gary Carey,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hLbS_oMjsxIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Mrs. Dalloway, you explore one of Virginia Woolf’s greatest works, which is about life, love, friendship, and acceptance. Here, you meet Clarissa Dalloway as she’s preparing for a party she will host that evening; and Septimus Smith, a shell-shocked war veteran struggling with the aftereffects of going to battle. This study guide carefully walks you through every step of a day in the life of Clarissa and Septimus by providing summaries and critical analyses of each chapter of the novel. You'll also explore the life and background of the author, Virginia Woolf, and gain insight into how she came to write Mrs. Dalloway. Other features that help you study include A list of characters Character analyses of Clarissa and Septimus A review section that tests your knowledge A bibliography for more study Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2003,3,72,9
9780764551536,0764551531,Philosophy For Dummies,,Tom Morris,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q2Y8map-3oEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Philosophy at its best is an activity more than a body of knowledge. In an ancient sense, done right, it is a healing art. It’s intellectual self-defense. It’s a form of therapy. But it’s also much more. Philosophy is map-making for the soul, cartography for the human journey. It’s an important navigational tool for life that too many modern people try to do without. Philosophy For Dummies is for anyone who has ever entertained a question about life and this world. In a conversational tone, the book's author – a modern-day scholar and lecturer – brings the greatest wisdom of the past into the challenges that we face now. This refreshingly different guide explains philosophical fundamentals and explores some of the strangest and deepest questions ever posed to human beings, such as How do we know anything? What does the word good mean? Are we ever really free? Do human beings have souls? Is there life after death? Is there a God? Is happiness really possible in our world? This book is chock full of all those questions you may have long wanted to think about and talk with someone about, but have never had the time or opportunity to tackle head on. Philosophy For Dummies invites you to discuss the issues you find in the guide, share perspectives, and compare thoughts and feelings with someone you respect. You'll find lots of material to mull over with your friends or spouse, including thoughts on When to doubt, and when to doubt our doubts The universal demand for evidence and proof The four dimensions of human experience Arguments for materialism Fear of the process of dying Prayers and small miracles Moral justification for allowing evil The ancient philosopher Socrates (fifth century, B.C.) thought that, when it comes to the Ultimate Questions, we all start off as dummies. But if we are humbly aware of how little we actually know, then we can really begin to learn. Philosophy For Dummies will put you on the path to wising up as you steer through the experience called life.",1999,3.65,361,510
9780764553028,076455302X,Sex For Dummies,,Sabine Walter,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iDHcCCZ4ehcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Does Viagra work for women? What are the side effects from using Uprema? And what the heck is Zonagen? If you thought sex hasn't changed much over the years you have a lot to learn, and Dr. Ruth is the one to tell you all about it! Dr. Ruth is back with a new edition that tackles the hottest, most current sexual issues. Updated material includes expanded coverage of medical concerns, from prostate cancer and Viagra to birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, expert advice cuts through the medical jargon and presents the latest and most comprehensive information on AIDS – with new statistics and research to current treatments. New and updated illustrations supplement no-nonsense advice on everything from puberty to procreation, and expanded coverage of cybersex resources offers tips for exploring sex on the Internet to enhance understanding and increase enjoyment while protecting kids from inappropriate web sites. Sex For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides you with the information you need to make smart choices about your sexuality.",2000,3.62,432,9
9780764553134,0764553135,Turtles and Tortoises For Dummies,,Liz Palika,Pets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2s-1FoswjkgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Coexisting with a turtle or tortoise may not be a warm and fuzzy experience, but it definitely has its rewards. And with more than 250 species to choose from, you’re bound to find one that’s right for you. Looks-wise, they can range from very plain and unadorned to a brightly colored and embellished with every manner of crest, crown, spike, and dewlap. As for personality, you’d be amazed at how very different they can be, ranging from shy and withdrawn, to outgoing and friendly, to outright aggressive. And when it comes to longevity, well, let’s just say that when you commit to a turtle or tortoise, you’re in it for the long haul. For example, the standard American box turtle can live more than 125 years, a leopard tortoise has a life span of up to 100 years, and an aldabran tortoise can live to be more than 200 years old! This fun guide will help you choose the perfect turtle or tortoise for your lifestyle and give it the care it needs to thrive. Turtle and tortoise expert Liz Palika provides cl ear, step-by-step instructions on how to: Select the appropriate turtle or tortoise Provide a suitable environment for your new pal Care for a variety of chelonian (turtle and tortoise) species Supply you pet with a satisfying and healthy diet Create an indoor or outdoor home Understand your turtle’s or tortoise’s special needs Generously illustrated with line drawings and high-quality photographs, Turtles & Tortoises For Dummies covers all the bases. Topics covered include: Deciding whether a turtle or tortoise is right for you Choosing between a turtle and tortoise Who’s Who of turtles and tortoises—a complete guide to dozens of species, where they’re from, what they’re like, and how they are as pets Creating a safe and healthy environment for your pet Recognizing and treating common health problems and finding a good veterinarian to help you care for your chelonian Turtles & Tortoises For Dummies is your fun guide to selecting, caring for, and sharing your life with a chelonian.",2001,3.57,328,51
9780764555893,0764555898,PHP and MySQL For Dummies,,Janet Valade,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mN2spJn3HcEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Shows Web developers how to use two popular open source technologies, the PHP scripting language and MySQL database, to build Web database applications This updated edition covers changes in PHP 5 and the latest version of MySQL, including programming techniques for the new PHP default setting, methods for handling MySQL security problems, and extended information about Apache Web Server and Mac OS X versions of PHP and MySQL Explains how to install Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X versions of PHP and MySQL Includes two complete sample applications: an online catalog and a members-only Web site Features a companion Web site with code examples from the book and links to the author's successful site Kevin Beaver has more than fifteen years of experience in security and information technology, specializing in security assessments and incident response Features a companion Web site with links to various utilities discussed throughout the book and practical security checklists",2004,3.54,456,11
9780764584657,0764584650,Astronomy For Dummies,,Stephen P. Maran,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iH4FnwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A beginner's guide to astronomy features information about the solar system as well as star maps and a monthly guide on locating the planets in the sky.,2005,3.83,318,271
9780764585685,0764585681,CliffsComplete Hamlet,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CHTDf_lTUSwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature. CliffsComplete Hamlet covers details of the most widely produced and critiqued Shakespearean play. Written in poignant language, Hamlet contains all the elements necessary for a good tragedy, including a brave and daring hero who suffers a fatal flaw. Discover what happens to the complicated cast of characters — and save valuable studying time — all at once. Enhance your reading of Hamlet with these additional features: A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare A look at Early Modern England historical, intellectual, religious, and social context Insight into the play's classical elements and language A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Web sites Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!",2000,4.04,240,98
9780764585968,0764585967,CliffsNotes on Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath,,Kelly McGrath Vlcek,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-MbtCFNpIZIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the familiar format. CliffsNotes on The Grapes of Wrath explores John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning --and controversial – novel, a work based on the what the author saw for himself as a reporter covering migrant worker camps. Following the story of the Joad family as they travel from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California in search of farming opportunities and wealth, this study guide provides summaries and critical commentaries for each part within the novel. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Personal background on the author, including career highlights Introduction to and synopsis of the book In-depth character analyses Critical essays to take you into the author's personal philosophy Review section that features interactive questions and suggested essay topics and practice projects Resource Center with books, films, and Web sites that can help round out your knowledge Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2000,3.74,112,29
9780764585975,0764585975,CliffsNotes on Golding's Lord of the Flies,,Maureen Kelly,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PY0FxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on Lord of the Flies takes you on an exploration of William Golding's novel to the dark side of humanity, the savagery that underlies even the most civilized human beings. Follow Golding's group of young boys from hope to disaster and watch as they attempt to survive their uncivilized, unsupervised, and isolated environment. You can rely on CliffsNotes on Lord of the Flies for character analyses, insightful essays, and chapter-by-chapter commentaries to ensure your safe passage through the rich symbolism of this novel. Other features that help you study include A brief synopsis of the novel A character map to help you see relationships among the characters A glossary that helps you get the most out of your reading An interactive quiz to test your knowledge Essay topics and review questions Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure -- you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2000,3.92,112,66
9780764586019,0764586017,CliffsNotes on Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby,,Kate Maurer,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gu5aWm1m260C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the familiar format. CliffsNotes on The Great Gatsby explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of triumph, tragedy, and a classic love triangle in the 1920s. Following the story of a young Midwesterner who's fascinated by the mysterious past and opulent lifestyle of his landlord, this study guide provides summaries and critical commentaries for each chapter within the novel. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Personal background on the author Introduction to and synopsis of the book In-depth character analyses Critical essays on topics of interest Review section that features interactive questions and suggested essay topics and practice projects Resource Center with books, videos, and Web sites that can help round out your knowledge Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2000,3.73,96,72
9780764586026,0764586025,CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Macbeth,,Alex Went,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8oY7iK4_Ef8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Packed with action and vivid portrayal of human relationships, Shakespeare's Macbeth traces the bloody climb to power and tragic ruin of a fate-plagued king. Count on CliffNotes on Macbeth to carry you through the rise and fall of a cast of characters that includes a cruel and ambitious warrior, his wicked wife, and a trio of witches who have wormed their way into audiences' hearts since William Shakespeare first presented their prophecies about 300 years ago. Show your classmates – and your grade-granting teacher – that you're in the know with English literature. You can't miss with scene summaries, plot explorations, language simplification, and insights into the author's life and times. Other features that help you study include A brief synopsis of the play A character map to help you see relationships among the characters Critical essays on major themes and stage productions An interactive quiz to test your knowledge Essay topics and practice projects Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure – you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2000,3.55,112,25
9780764586033,0764586033,CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Hamlet,,Carla Lynn Stockton,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l5XPTQhr488C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Something may be rotten in the state of Denmark, but your grades will be sweet when you rely on CliffsNotes on Hamlet as you digest Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece. In this play, Hamlet explores the meaning of life, death, eternity, relationships, hypocrisy, truth, the existence of God, and almost anything else that concerns mankind. Character studies shed new light on Prince Hamlet, his father King Hamlet, the malevolent Claudius, the troubled Ophelia — and the rest of the cast. You'll also explore the life and times of William Shakespeare, and unlock the play's themes and literary devices. Count on CliffsNotes on Hamlet for detailed summaries and commentaries on every scene to help you appreciate the complexity of the play. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of major players A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays A review section that tests your knowledge Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2000,3.68,129,65
9780764586064,0764586068,CliffsNotes on Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities,,Marie Kalil,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JyGxxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on A Tale of Two Cities, you experience one of Charles Dickens's most important works as he recounts the horrors of the French Revolution in what amounts to a cautionary tale warning of the possibility of revolution in 18th-century England. From its first line (""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"") to its last (""It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known""), Dickens's novel of revolution, sacrifice, and redemption continues to captivate modern imaginations. Chapter summaries and commentaries lead you through Dickens's ""Tale,"" and critical essays give you insight into the women of A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of the main characters A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters A section on the life and background of Charles Dickens A review section that tests your knowledge A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2000,3.49,128,35
9780764586552,0764586556,CliffsNotes on Dstoevsky's Crime and Punishment,,James L. Roberts,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lWeD6EpnlWYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on Crime and Punishment takes you into a masterpiece of Russian literature, a work published during the time the western world was moving away from romanticism and into a new realistic approach to writing. Following the story of an impoverished young man who expects to enrich humanity by rising to a level above the law, this study guide provides a character list, character map, and character analyses to explore the personalities within Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpiece. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Life and background of the author Introduction to and brief synopsis of the novel Summaries and expert commentaries for each chapter within the book Essays that explore aspects of the author's characters and theories A review section that tests your knowledge and suggests essay topics and practice projects A Resource Center full of books, publications, films, and Internet resources Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2000,3.76,128,28
9780764586620,0764586629,CliffsNotes on Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,,Bruce Edward Walker,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lwTTx84QQR0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, you explore Ken Kesey's best-known work, one that challenges the preconceived ideas of what constitutes sanity and insanity. A mistakenly undertaken power struggle in an insane asylum results in a suicide, a murder, and a liberation, and leaves the reader with a paradoxical feeling that both disturbs and pleases. This study guide carefully walks you through the novel by providing summaries and critical analyses of each section. You'll also explore the life and background of the author, Ken Kesey, and gain insight into how he came to write One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of major players A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays on topics like the role of women and the comparison between the film and novel A review section that tests your knowledge A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2000,4.17,112,21
9780764586712,0764586718,CliffsNotes on Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front,,Susan Van Kirk,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AUTeK_J7ygIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque takes you inside the gruesome realities of World War I through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a sensitive teenager and typical infantryman in the German army. This study guide will help you begin to consider how Remarque's views on war might relate to modern-day conflicts. You'll also gain insight into the life and cultural background of the author. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of major players A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays A review section that tests your knowledge A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",2001,4.24,112,12
9780764587245,0764587242,CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter,,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3cKGmek7HiUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature. CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter is a novel of betrayal and trials. Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery and must wear a scarlet ""A"" wherever she goes. Her story is filled with the slow process of redemption and eventual love. Discover what happens to Hester — and save valuable studying time — all at once. Enhance your reading of The Scarlet Letter with these additional features: A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter Bibliography and historical background on the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne A look at the historical context and structure of the novel Discussions on the novel's symbols and themes A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!",2001,3.39,240,8
9780764587276,0764587277,CliffsComplete The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,,Mark Twain,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d7DG3fAX7sAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature. CliffsComplete Adventures of Huckleberry Finn offers insight and information into a work that's rich both dramatically and thematically. Every generation since its publication has been able to identify with some of the novel's themes, including freedom, society versus conscience, and greed. Follow the Mississippi River adventures of this mischief-making Huck Finn and the runaway slave Jim — and save valuable studying time — all at once. Enhance your reading of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with these additional features: A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter Bibliography and historical background on the author, Mark Twain A look at 18th-century life and society Coverage of Twain's writing and the reaction to the novel A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Web sites Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!",2001,3.81,264,11
9780764596865,0764596861,The Bon Appetit Cookbook,,Barbara Fairchild,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7VE-AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""You can always tell a Bon App?tit recipe: It's a sophisticated twist on a beloved classic, and it's easy to make...our goal is to give you the cumulative expertise of Bon App?tit, with more than 1,200 recipes that will be delicious, first time out.""?Barbara Fairchild First launched in 1956, Bon App?tit is America?s favorite and most widely read food and entertaining magazine, with a circulation of 1.3 million. Now, for the first time, The Bon App?tit Cookbook brings together more than 1,200 of the magazine?s all-time best-loved recipes for every meal and occasion. The book is accessible and user-friendly -- just like the magazine -- and includes clear explanations and exclusive tips from the Bon App?tit test kitchen, along with 59 detailed illustrations of ingredients and techniques. The recipes have been skillfully selected to represent the very best of the magazine?s sophisticated, foolproof style: easy-to-make dishes that incorporate a variety of regional and international influences -- recipes that are delicious the first time out. From Cajun-Grilled Shrimp to Artichoke and Mushroom Lasagna to Hot and Sticky Apricot-Glazed Chicken to Molasses Chewies with Brown Sugar Glaze, there are dishes that will tempt every palate. Complete with a gorgeous 32-page color insert and a simple yet elegant design throughout, The Bon App?tit Cookbook is a must for those who truly love to make and enjoy great food.",2006,4.06,816,1770
9780764937101,0764937103,The Twelve Terrors of Christmas,,John Updike,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i8_MMQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Edward Gorey's off-kilter depictions of Yuletide mayhem and John Updike's wryly jaundiced text examine a dozen Christmas traditions with a decidedly wheezy ho-ho-ho. This long out-of-print classic is the perfect stocking-stuffer for any bah humbug.,2006,4.24,32,2423
9780765300355,0765300354,Legends,Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy,Robert Silverberg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pr6RnMSODZIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of original short novels by such acclaimed authors as Stephen King, Robert Jordan, Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K. Le Guin, Orson Scott Card, and Terry Goodkind returns each to his own special fantasy world for a new and illuminating story.",2001,3.92,717,333
9780765304094,0765304090,Stork Naked,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cbns5vc1gHQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Expectant mother Surprise Golem loses her brand-new baby when the stork assigned to deliver the child refuses to surrender it and escapes with the baby through a hole in the fabric of reality, and leads an ill-assorted group of companions on a desperate quest through dozens of different Xanths to find her missing child. 30,000 first printing.",2006,3.87,304,1795
9780765304742,0765304740,Children of the Mind,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wmAw-Km_B6YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the conclusion of the Ender saga, Ender Wiggin confronts his ultimate challenge when his adopted world, Lusitania, is threatened by his old planet-destroying weapon, and his computer intelligence ally, Jane, is about to be killed off by the Starways Congress. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2002,3.75,370,82264
9780765305114,0765305119,The Dragon Reborn,Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time',Robert Jordan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TayX0FYrK1kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Able to touch the One Power but unable to control its great destructive power, a great messiah named Rand al'Thor flees from his destiny.",2002,4.25,624,171922
9780765308375,0765308371,7 Steps to Midnight,,Richard Matheson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EgI7aR2Tw_8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After his identity and life is stolen by a mysterious imposter, mathematician Chris Barton must elude killers as he follows a series of cryptic messages that lead him around the world to a rendezvous with an enigmatic woman. By the author of Somewhere in Time. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2003,3.48,320,415
9780765308702,0765308703,What Dreams May Come,A Novel,Richard Matheson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3psmmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The New York Times bestseller A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELL What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death. But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and when tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair. Richard Matheson's powerful tale of life---and love---after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams.",2004,3.95,288,8985
9780765309044,0765309041,Treason,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L_HwmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a ""rad"" -- radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh... and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet without hard metals -- or the means of escape -- iron is power in the race to build a spacecraft. Iron is the promise of freedom -- which may never be fulfilled as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination. Now charged with a mission of conquest -- and exile -- Lanik devises a bold and dangerous plan... a quest that may finally break the vicious chain of rivalry and bloodshed that enslaves the people of Treason as the Offworld never could.",2006,3.9,288,6095
9780765309532,076530953X,Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom,,Cory Doctorow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3giJ0KPyyxUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Realizing his boyhood dream of moving to the twentieth-century artistic creation of Disney World, Jules becomes incensed by a new group that would change the Hall of Presidents by replacing the audioanimatronics with brain interfaces.",2003,3.56,208,10517
9780765309969,0765309963,Blade of Fortriu,Book Two of The Bridei Chronicles,Juliet Marillier,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jY4mnbdktrgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As King Bridei prepares to expel the Gaelic invaders for all time, he sends the princess, Ana, a hostage of Fortriu since childhood, to make a strategic marriage to a chieftain she has never met, accompanied on her journey by Faolan, Bridei's enigmatic as",2006,4.08,496,5048
9780765309983,076530998X,The Dark Mirror,Book One of the Bridei Chronicles,Juliet Marillier,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8TvHYU-81KEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fostered by one of the land's most powerful druids, young nobleman Bridei undertakes a series of mysterious tasks designed to teach him about the world and his destiny, but when he discovers a child seemingly abandoned by the fairie folk, he meets resistance in his determination to save her. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2006,3.97,512,61
9780765310453,0765310457,Eastern Standard Tribe,,Cory Doctorow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=00Bw99ZcauoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Art, a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe--a secret society bound together by their sleep schedule and communicating via encrypted instant messaging--is incarcerated thanks to his friends and family, masquerading as consultants.",2005,3.49,223,3156
9780765311801,0765311801,Glass Soup,,Jonathan Carroll,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yiaQqojdjNgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Pregnant with Vincent Ettrich's child, who is destined to restore order to the mercurial worlds of the living and dead, Isabelle Neukor is targeted by the agents of Chaos who would trap her in the land of the dead, where bizarre everyday occurrences are based on mortal nightmares. By the author of White Apples. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2006,3.87,320,1135
9780765311856,0765311852,Outside the Dog Museum,,Jonathan Carroll,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pxvc3ufQddIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recently divorced after an inexplicable nervous breakdown, award-winning architect and womanizing opportunist Harry Radcliffe is unexpectedly enlisted by the wealthy Sultan of Saru to design a billion-dollar dog museum, an assignment that introduces him to a magical culture beyond anything he has ever imagined. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2005,3.97,267,1386
9780765311863,0765311860,Sleeping in Flame,,Jonathan Carroll,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-4v6sdwLliAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Falling in love with a beautiful artist who creates cities, Vienna screenwriter Walker Easterling discovers that he has developed the ability to see into the near future and is referred to a shaman who helps him tour his numerous interconnected past lives. By the author of The Land of the Laughs and The Wooden Sea. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2004,4.05,304,1513
9780765312808,0765312808,"Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town",,Cory Doctorow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tTamUiYMmlsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Having recently moved to a bohemian Toronto neighborhood, middle-aged entrepreneur Alan learns his next-door neighbor's struggle to conceal her wings and hides his own secrets about his unusual family, which includes Russian nesting doll brothers, one of whom is bent on revenge. By the author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2006,3.51,315,2912
9780765312921,0765312921,Hunters of Dune,,Brian Herbert;Kevin J. Anderson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gGlnvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades. At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune--Frank Herbert's final novel--a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. As designed by the creative genius of Frank Herbert, the primary story of Hunters and Sandworms is the exotic odyssey of Duncan's no-ship as it is forced to elude the diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy. To strengthen their forces, the fugitives have used genetic technology from Scytale, the last Tleilaxu Master, to revive key figures from Dune's past--including Paul Muad'Dib and his beloved Chani, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat, and even Dr. Wellington Yueh. Each of these characters will use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them. Failure is unthinkable--not only is their survival at stake, but they hold the fate of the entire human race in their hands.",2006,3.65,524,10459
9780765312938,076531293X,Sandworms of Dune,,Brian Herbert;Kevin J. Anderson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tCv5jwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's past--including Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica--to use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them. Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade, Sandworms of Dune will answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades: the origin of the Honored Matres, the tantalizing future of the planet Arrakis, the final revelation of the Kwisatz Haderach, and the resolution to the war between Man and Machine. This breathtaking new novel in Frank Herbert's Dune series has enough surprises and plot twists to please even the most demanding reader.",2007,3.64,494,8180
9780765313188,0765313189,Children of the Night,A Diana Tregarde Investigation,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rmQtKaeJkQYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the rock band Wanderlust attracts the attention of Master Jeffries, a psychic vampire who preys on the musicians and their fans, band protector and witch Diana Tregarde prepares for a confrontation with Jeffries with the help of an attractive vampire. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2005,3.94,320,4291
9780765313195,0765313197,Jinx High,A Diana Tregarde Investigation,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GE3ligfOGg8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While enjoying a visit with an old friend in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Diana Tregarde discovers that a malevolent combination of sex and blood magic is behind relatively normal teenage jealousies and infatuations at the local high school, one ruled by Fay Harper, a powerful sorceress hundreds of years old who takes over the bodies of her own daughters to remain eternally young. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2006,3.82,335,3473
9780765316110,0765316110,Empire,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f-lFHQQxqz4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a near future world, the American Empire is shattering into a civil war between the Right and the Left, devastating the country, while the peaceful majority uses all of its wits and technological ingenuity to hold the people and government together.",2006,3.43,352,8417
9780765316646,0765316641,Soldier of Sidon,,Gene Wolfe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Baj59zn5ByMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A man who forgets everything while he sleeps and is dependent on his journal entries to keep his life together, Latro finds himself in Egypt, where he searches for a way to rid himself of the curse that causes him to lose his memory.",2006,4,320,1021
9780765316929,0765316927,Voices From the Street,,Philip K. Dick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZZjDxhPuDT4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1950s Oakland, California, Stuart Hadley, a young radio electronics salesman, puts his perfect life at risk as his growing anger, anxiety, and fear results in a quest to fill the void with drinking, sex, and religious fanaticism.",2007,3.28,301,679
9780765340214,0765340216,Conan: Sword of Skelos,,Andrew Offutt,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sIZ21Ll6-9AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Carrying a precious and valuable amulet called the Eye of Erlik through a fierce desert, Conan and the lovely Isparana are met not with rewards, but threats at the hands of the tyrant Akter Khan. Reprint.",2002,3.94,224,1326
9780765340740,0765340747,The Pillars of Creation,,Terry Goodkind,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Cr4tHm6k_cUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seeking to silence the inhuman voices in her head, young Lauren triggers a series of events that forces her to participate in a vengeful quest, pitting Richard Rahl and his wife Kahlan against a relentless demonic force. Reprint.",2002,3.68,725,46789
9780765341136,0765341131,Wasteland of Flint,,Thomas Harlan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dJt30tCjMHAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a distant future where humans have journeyed throughout space and formed a ruling body called the Empire, Dr. Gretchen Andersen is called upon to discover the whereabouts of a missing survey team that had been searching for artifacts of long-gone interstellar civilizations. Reprint.",2004,3.79,512,280
9780765341174,0765341174,Sarah,Women of Genesis,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=INQBM-pDKxAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sarai was a child of ten years, wise for her age but not yet a woman, when she first met Abram. He appeared before her in her father's house, filthy from the desert, tired and thirsty. But as the dirt of travel was washed from his body, the sight of him filled her heart. And when Abram promises Sarai to return in ten years to take her for his wife, her fate was sealed. Abram kept his promise, and Sarai kept hers they were wed, and so joined the royal house of Ur with the high priesthood of the Hebrews. So began a lifetime of great joy together, and greater peril: and with the blessing of their God, a great nation would be built around the core of their love. Bestselling author Orson Scott Card uses his fertile imagination, and uncanny insight into human nature, to tell the story of a unique woman--one who is beautiful, tough, smart, and resourceful in an era when women had little power, and are scarce in the historical record. Sarah, child of the desert, wife of Abraham, takes on vivid reality as a woman desirable to kings, a devoted wife, and a faithful follower of the God of Abraham, chosen to experience an incomparable miracle.",2001,3.88,341,9669
9780765341280,076534128X,Rebekah,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=24HHsLy5kbUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides a fictional retelling of the story of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.",2002,3.84,416,7394
9780765341297,0765341298,Rachel & Leah,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wim5oxowi0UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two sisters, hard-working Leah and beautiful Rachel, both fall in love with and vie for the attention of Jacob, the heir to the spiritual legacy of Abraham and Isaac.",2005,3.85,368,5545
9780765341426,0765341425,To Light a Candle,"The Obsidian Trilogy, Book Two",Mercedes Lackey;James Mallory,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PtpZ6ZMEZi8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a second installment of the series that began with The Outstretched Shadow, Knight-Mage Kellen becomes a member of the Elves' war councils and fears for the safety of his Wild Magic-wielding sister, while proud Elf Knight Jermayan continues his efforts to become the first Elven Mage. Reprint.",2005,4.11,856,8495
9780765342515,0765342510,The Santaroga Barrier,,Frank Herbert,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0DI_kdswaP8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Strange things are happening in the seemingly peaceful and prosperous farm community of Santaroga, a place where no one ever moves out of town, there is no juvenile delinquency or crime, and no cheese, wine, beer, or produce from the outside can be sold. Reprint.",2002,3.65,256,1561
9780765342522,0765342529,The Eyes of Heisenberg,,Frank Herbert,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z4fh3Jou9XwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dr. Potter disobeys the decree of the Optimen when he fails to rearrange the unusual genetic structure of an embryo developing in the state's special vat, a decision that could have profound repercussions for the entire human race. Reprint.",2002,3.43,192,1437
9780765342539,0765342537,The Dosadi Experiment,,Frank Herbert,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sbm7mYKknf4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sent to the planet Dosadi to investigate the vicious, fearsome human and Gowachin societies there, prior to their destruction, Jorj X. McKie is captured by a ruthless woman whose plan to escape Dosadi involves her changing bodies with McKie. Reprint.",2002,3.81,320,6022
9780765343116,0765343118,Pet Peeve,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LQxvpqXWS3oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Unlikely Goblin hero Goody is instructed by the Good Magician Humfrey to find a suitable home for a foul-tempered bird, a quest that inadvertently triggers an invasion by an army of seemingly indestructible killer robots and forces Goody to enlist the aid of a host of supernatural denizens. Reprint.",2006,3.86,384,2236
9780765344304,0765344300,Naked Empire,,Terry Goodkind,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4XXMP6Wo2fQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A poisoned Richard Rahl faces a difficult choice when he is promised an antidote and the salvation of an endangered empire if he will surrender his beloved wife, Kahlan Amnell, to his enemy, in a new adventure in the Sword of Truth series. Reprint.",2004,3.82,736,42801
9780765344311,0765344319,Chainfire,,Terry Goodkind,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=doUPJbm8MRkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Richard struggles to find his missing wife Kahlan in spite of the bizarre fact that no one else seems to believe she actually exists or that he is married to her.,2005,3.96,756,41750
9780765344328,0765344327,Phantom,,Terry Goodkind,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IHTFatp9Cz8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Richard desperately searches for his long-lost, amnesiac beloved, Kahlan Amnell, racing to find her before she can uncover the secrets of her lost identity, thereby making her vulnerable to evil.",2007,3.99,673,1235
9780765344724,0765344726,Hawkes Harbor,,S. E. Hinton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rCYqkxt7G34C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Haunted by the past he endured for his illegitimacy, Jamie Sommers, believing himself destined to a life of crime, works as a smuggler and murderer on the high seas before encountering a dark force that pushes him to the brink of insanity.",2005,3.13,289,2084
9780765344977,0765344971,Terraforming Earth,,Jack Williamson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IrdqmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"First Paperback, Contains the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning The Ultimate Earth When a giant meteor crashes into the earth and destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet and establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, men and woman are able to observe the devastated planet and wait for a time when return will become possible. Generations pass. Cloned children have had children of their own, and their eyes are raised toward the giant planet in the sky which long ago was the cradle of humanity. Finally, after millennia of waiting, the descendants of the original refugees travel back to a planet they've never known, to try and rebuild a civilization of which they've never been a part. The fate of the earth lies in the success of their return, but after so much time, the question is not whether they can rebuild an old destroyed home, but whether they can learn to inhabit an alien new world--Earth.",2003,3.47,352,16
9780765345516,076534551X,A Cavern of Black Ice,,J. V. Jones,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8R0OxBb9gfMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young man and woman from different clans, Raif Sevrance, a member of the Clan Blackhail, and Ash March, a girl who is plagued by sinister dreams, are drawn together by prophecy and plunged into a realm of magic, war, and danger that could determine the fate of their world. Reprint.",2005,3.87,769,7759
9780765345707,0765345706,In the Land of the Lawn Weenies,And Other Warped and Creepy Tales,David Lubar,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XFVtWs3w8dQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of humorous stories involves some monstrous students, a levitation trick gone wrong, and a boring neighborhood.",2003,3.96,256,697
9780765345905,0765345900,Wolfskin,,Juliet Marillier,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ChyHmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"All young Eyvind ever wanted was to become a great Viking warrior--a Wolfskin--and carry honor out in the name of his fathergod Thor. He can think of no future more glorious. The chance to make it happen is his when his chieftain Ulf is brought the tale of a magical land across the sea, a place where men with courage could go to conquer a land and bring glory to themselves. They set out to find this fabled land, and discover a windswept and barren place, but one filled with unexpected beauty and hidden treasures... and a people who are willing to share their bounty. Ulf's new settlement begins in harmony with the natives of the isles led by the gentle king Engus. And Eyvind finds a treasure of his own in the young Nessa, niece of the King, seer and princess. His life will change forever as she claims his heart for her own. But someone has come along to this new land who is not what he seems. Somerled, a strange and lonely boy that Eyvind befriended long ago has a secret--and his own plans for the future. The blood oath that they swore in childhood binds them in lifelong loyalty, and Somerled is calling in the debt of honor. What he asks of Eyvind might just doom him to kill the only thing that Evyind has ever truly loved. Will the price of honor create the destruction of all that Eyvind holds dear?",2004,4,544,5531
9780765346520,0765346524,Wizard's First Rule,,Terry Goodkind,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fdpKPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The masterpiece that started The New York Times bestselling epic Sword of Truth In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them--for reasons Richard can't imagine and Kahlan dare not say. In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword--to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out. This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend.",2003,4.14,836,197049
9780765347985,0765347989,First Meetings,In Ender's Universe,Orson Scott Card,Young Adult Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g2NqmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Welcome to the Enderverse. When ""Ender's Game"" was first published as a novella twenty-five years ago few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. Expanded into a novel in 1985, Ender's Game won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Never out of print and translated into dozens of languages, it is the rare work of fiction that can truly be said to have transcended a genre. Ender's Game and its sequels have won dozens of prestigious awards and are as popular today among teens and young readers as adults. First Meetings is a collection of three novellas-plus the original ""Ender's Game""-that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. ""The Polish Boy"" begins in the wake between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin-the future father of Ender -they believe they may have found their man. Or boy. In ""Teacher's Pest""-a novella written especially for this collection-a brilliant but insufferably arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now an American university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student named Theresa Brown. It is many years since the end of the Bugger Wars in ""The Investment Counselor."" Ender's reputation as a hero and savior has suffered a horrible reversal. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive. Until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide. Also reprinted here is the original landmark novella, ""Ender's Game,"" which first appeared in 1977. Fully illustrated, First Meetings is Orson Scott Card writing at the height of his considerable power about his most compelling character. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender’s Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile / Children of the Fleet Ender’s Shadow series Ender’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm / The Hive Ender novellas A War of Gifts / First Meetings",2004,3.83,212,10140
9780765348210,0765348217,The Family Trade,,Charles Stross,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VuTCidNT2G4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Believing she has found a career-making story when she stumbles upon a money-laundering scheme, reporter Miriam Beckstein is shocked when she is fired and threatened with death, a situation that turns increasingly bizarre when she learns the fate of her murdered mother and is transported to a parallel earth where her family rules a powerful kingdom. Reprint.",2005,3.52,308,4561
9780765348449,0765348446,New Threads in the Pattern,The Great Hunt,Robert Jordan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tSuNpN0SXFoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rand a'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, continues his unlikely quest in these next chapters of Jordan's incredibly popular, award-winning Wheel of Time series. Reissue.",2004,4.27,464,292
9780765350503,0765350505,The Wizard,Book Two of The Wizard Knight,Gene Wolfe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=96qdmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sir Able returns to Mythgathr on his steed Cloud, a great mare the color of her name. Able is filled with new knowledge of the ways of the seven-fold world and possessed of great magical secrets. His knighthood now beyond question, Able works to fulfill his vows to his king, his lover, his friends, his gods, and even his enemies. Able must set his world right, restoring the proper order among the denizens of all the seven worlds. The Wizard is a charming, riveting, emotionally charged tale of wonders, written with all the beauty one would expect from a writer whom Damon Knight called ""a national treasure.""",2006,3.86,587,2529
9780765350985,076535098X,Godslayer,Volume II of The Sundering,Jacqueline Carey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=98LaKp4-alcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One thousand years after pledging himself to the dark god Satoris, Lord Tanaros works to defend the citadel of Darkhaven from a human uprising, a situation that is complicated by Satoris's capture of the beautiful Elvish princess, Cerelinde. By the author of Banewreaker. Reprint.",2006,3.69,416,2823
9780765351548,0765351544,Debt of Bones,,Terry Goodkind,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4V0NmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby's struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive. Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby's request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child...but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal. With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same. Discover why millions of readers the world over have elevated Terry Goodkind to the ranks of legend.",2004,3.86,160,25701
9780765352392,0765352397,Among the Dolls,,William Sleator,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TyT9MRYXLQwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Vicky's disappointment in the antique dollhouse she receives for her birthday gives way to curiosity as she is literally drawn into the lives of its unusual inhabitants.,2006,3.66,96,527
9780765354952,0765354950,Reliquary,,Douglas Preston;Preston Douglas;Lincoln Child,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1OrPN8ApC6wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lieutenant D'Agosta of the New York police and anthropologist Margo Green team up with the Navy's special forces to destroy monsters roaming New York's subterranean world--sewers, tunnels--killing the homeless to eat their brains, the monsters' staple food. By the author of Relic.",2005,4.02,464,30514
9780765356154,0765356155,Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,A Novel,Susanna Clarke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uGHWsBJx6KQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"All is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr Norrell's pupil, in a witty fantasy set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century England. Reprint.",2006,3.82,1006,151294
9780765356178,0765356171,The Prestige,,Christopher Priest,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yQX2sAWAPOEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in a darkened salon during the course of a fraudulent seance, and from this moment they try to expose and outwit each other at every turn.",2006,3.88,368,434
9780765357663,0765357666,Hidden Talents,,David Lubar,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wgEFPL4KYtUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When thirteen-year-old Martin Anderson arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.",2007,3.93,240,2333
9780766144736,0766144739,Arthur Edward Waite's Quest of the Golden Stairs,,Arthur Edward Waite,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W_k2Nnc9pwQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A mystery of kinghood in Faerie. Contents: court of stars; book of the voices of Faerie; magic ring; beloved kinsman; paradise of birds; opening of the eyes in Faerie; daughter of the stars; woodland chapel in Faerie; history of Prince Melnor and of Beryl, a queen of spells; day of passing in Faerie; day of betrothal in Faerie; mission from the evening star; obscure night of Faerie; hand and crown in Faerie; way of a crown in Faerie; priest of stars; beginning of travels in Faerie; quest of a soul in Faerie; dream tower; bells of Faerie; festival of kinghood; enthronement.",2003,4.1,184,8
9780767900317,0767900316,The Corner,A Year in the Life of an Inner-city Neighborhood,David Simon;Edward Burns,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EzLBmu4m20EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Chronicles the experiences of a broken family over the course of a year to illustrate life in Baltimore's drug-racked inner-city,1998,4.42,576,4256
9780767901574,0767901576,Awakening the Buddha Within,,Surya Das;Lama Surya Das,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9ypPEQQzKqsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawing on three decades of learning from the spiritual masters of Asia, an American lama illuminates the sacred wisdom and practices of Buddhism and shows readers how to integrate them into their lives, relationships, and careers. Reprint. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.",1998,4.2,432,11465
9780767902526,0767902521,A Walk in the Woods,Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail,Bill Bryson,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FIfKuwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the author's adventurous trek along the Appalachian Trail past its natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts",1999,4.06,284,4143
9780767903820,076790382X,I'm a Stranger Here Myself,Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away,Bill Bryson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xb4wSmJLnhAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his disconcerting reunion with his homeland as he discusses motels, tax-return instructions, and hardware stores.",1999,3.9,304,47490
9780767903868,0767903862,In a Sunburned Country,,Bill Bryson,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7ZELqUsksIwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author takes readers on a tour of the land Down Under that goes far beyond packaged-tour routes.,2001,4.07,335,68213
9780767905107,0767905105,Q,The Autobiography of Quincy Jones,Quincy Jones,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zs1ixtkcJU8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The legendary musician, producer, and arranger chronicles his rise to the heights of the entertainment world, detailing his painful youth, his musical and business accomplishments, and his turbulent personal life.",2002,4.08,432,610
9780767905206,0767905202,Mr. Maybe,,Jane Green,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZOfHhPokg5cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Libby Mason, who dreams of marrying a wealthy man, finds herself torn between Nick, a struggling writer who makes up for his lack of funds with his passion in bed, and Ed, Britain's wealthiest but stodgiest bachelor.",2002,3.44,368,85775
9780767906289,0767906284,The Hunt for Zero Point,Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology,Nick Cook,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TuaMDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An investigation into classified government projects to build gravity-defying aircraft, sometimes responsible for UFO reports, documents 1940s research into anti-gravity technology and traces its origins in the Third Reich through developments in Europe and the U.S. Reprint.",2003,4.1,320,305
9780767906890,0767906896,For the Sins of My Father,"A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life",Albert DeMeo;Mary Jane Ross,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=40ca88BVtDcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The son of Roy DeMeo, the head of the Gambino crime family's squad of killers and thieves, describes coming of age in the world of organized crime, the murder of his father when he was seventeen, his love for his father despite his criminal career, and his determination to escape his father's doomed and dangerous life. Reprint.",2003,4.05,288,932
9780767907811,0767907817,Bookends,A Novel,Jane Green,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h528EAIYcmEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The world of four lifelong friends--best friends Catherine and Simon, both unlucky in love, and Josh and Lucy, happily married to each other--is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of Portia, a beautiful college friend with a reputation for breaking hearts.",2003,3.71,368,36227
9780767908184,076790818X,A Short History of Nearly Everything,,Bill Bryson,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YjAnfhsAQ8wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of A Walk in the Woods traces the Big Bang through the rise of civilization, documenting his work with a host of the world's most advanced scientists and mathematicians to explain why things are the way they are. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.",2004,4.2,544,228522
9780767908207,0767908201,Inconceivable,A Woman's Triumph Over Despair and Statistics,Julia Indichova,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cpWFPQ2g-cIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A memoir of hope for the thousands of women struggling with infertility, from one who beat the odds by simply tuning in to her body and tapping her well of sheer determination. At a time when more and more women are trying to get pregnant at increasingly advanced ages, fertility specialists and homeopathic researchers boast endless treatment options. But when Julia Indichova made the rounds of medical doctors and nontraditional healers, she was still unable to conceive a child. It was only when she forsook their financially and emotionally draining advice, turning inward instead, that she finally met with reproductive success.Inconceivablerecounts this journey from hopeless diagnoses to elated motherhood. Anyone who has faced infertility will relate to Julia’s desperate measures: acupuncture, unidentifiable black-and-white pellets, herb soup, foul-smelling fruit, even making love on red sheets. Five reproductive endocrinologists told her that there was no documented case of anyone in her hormonal condition getting pregnant, forcing her to finally embark on her own intuitive regimen. After eight caffeine-free, nutrient-rich, yoga-laden months, complemented by visualization exercises, Julia received amazing news; incredibly, she was pregnant. Nine months later she gave birth to a healthy girl. Unlike the many infertility books that take a clinical “how to” approach,Inconceivablesimply professes the wisdom of giving expert status back to the patient. Julia’s self-discovery, and her ability to see her body as an ally once again, yield a beautiful message about the importance of honoring the body’s innate powers, and the power of life itself.",2001,3.82,224,163
9780767909266,0767909267,The Minimalist Cooks at Home,Recipes That Give You More Flavor from Fewer Ingredients in Less Time,Mark Bittman,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F0Z6PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a revised cookbook, the author of the award-winning How to Cook Everything presents dozens of delectable and accessible recipes, all of which utilize a few choice ingredients and simple preparation, for a wide range of tasty but sophisticated dishes, including 10-Minute Stir-Fried Chicken with Nuts, The Minimalist's Choucroute, and Paella, Fast and Easy.",2002,3.91,240,261
9780767910439,0767910435,Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words,,Bill Bryson,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nRduHUeIzvAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A revised and updated edition of a humorous primer on the English language, expanded for an American audience, contains entries on correct and questionable usage, a glossary, and a pronunciation guide. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2004,3.88,256,2020
9780767911795,0767911792,Conspiracy of Fools,A True Story,Kurt Eichenwald,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yGqAPG0YC0YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A study of the Enron scandal goes behind the scenes to profile the players and expose business practices involved in the financial and political debacle that had a profound impact on both Washington and Wall Street.,2005,4.22,784,4293
9780767912242,0767912241,Babyville,A Novel,Jane Green,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iSSLbF1DU2IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three friends cope with the diverse challenges of maternity as Julia struggles to conceive with her uninterested boyfriend, career woman Maeve deals with unexpected pregnancy, and happily married Samantha finds marital strife after a new baby.",2004,3.62,464,30307
9780767912273,0767912276,To Have and to Hold,,Jane Green,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VSGub7hcqI8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Setting aside her dreams of living a grass-roots life in the English countryside, Alice accepts the proposal of wealthy man-about-town Joe, who shatters Alice's romantic ideals by criticizing her looks and cheating on her before an indiscretion forces them to move to a country house in America. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.",2004,3.63,352,22462
9780767914222,0767914228,La Cucina Di Lidia,Recipes and Memories from Italy's Adriatic Coast,Lidia Bastianich;Jay Jacobs,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=As4AAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Percy is incredibly accident-prone, and holds the dubious record of the most accidents. Percy has had a small rivalary with Harold, however, they are always willing to help each other when in trouble.",2003,4.1,288,45
9780767915069,0767915062,Bill Bryson's African Diary,,Bill Bryson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3QiTmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A travel writer with little background knowledge of Africa recounts his journey to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, where he visited slums, historic sites, natural wonders, refugee camps, and relief projects.",2002,3.43,55,6993
9780767915304,0767915305,The Sex Lives of Cannibals,Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific,J. Maarten Troost,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tfC0AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author discusses his two-year stay on a remote South Pacific island, a place where he anticipated a romantic paradise but instead experienced humorous misadventures and a host of environmental challenges.",2004,3.87,272,18795
9780767915748,0767915747,Holy Cow,An Indian Adventure,Sarah MacDonald,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LnyJDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A popular Australian radio correspondent humorously recounts her reluctant relocation to New Delhi, India, where a dangerous illness propelled her to explore the region's culture and spirituality in order to discover its virtues as well as a greater understanding about life and death. Original.",2003,3.53,304,14943
9780767916912,0767916913,Love @ First Site,A Novel,Jane Moore,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WTaxiWXAArgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her girlfriends, who disapprove of her happy single life, secretly place a personal ad on a hot singles Web site on her behalf, thirty-four-year-old Jessica Monroe is thrown headlong into the bizarre world of online dating, embarking on a series of disastrous dating misadventures in search of Mr. Right. By the author of Fourplay. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.",2006,3.4,368,895
9780767920094,0767920090,The Female Brain,,Louann Brizendine,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-tpoFcql0kgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The founder of the first clinic in the country to study and treat women's brain functions provides a truly comprehensive look at the way women's minds work, combining two decades of research, real-life stories, and all of the latest information from the scientific community at large. 35,000 first printing.",2006,3.82,304,8305
9780767920742,0767920740,The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit,"An A to Z Lexicon of Empty, Enraging, and Just Plain Stupid Office Talk",Lois Beckwith,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NMYwmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A caustic collection of workplace jargon and and corporate terminology offers an alphabetically organized lexicon of terms and phrases, each of which is accompanied by a straight definition, as well as a series of alternate meanings. Original. 50,000 first printing.",2006,4.08,192,78
9780767921961,0767921968,It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken,The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy,Greg Behrendt;Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7TJzvxfoKZkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A humorous but helpful handbook offers survival strategies for women who are getting over Mr. Wrong and struggling to rebuild their lives, covering everything from ending a relationship permanently to finding a brighter romantic future.",2006,4.01,276,8388
9780767922081,0767922085,Life on Planet Rock,"From Guns N' Roses to Nirvana, a Backstage Journey Through Rock's Most Debauched Decade",Lonn Friend,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hqHJmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A music journalist chronicles the heyday of heavy metal and grunge rock music, furnishing portraits of such artists as Kurt Cobain, Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, and Elvis Costello and capturing some of the watershed moments of the musical era.",2006,3.58,320,238
9780767923064,0767923065,Leonardo's Swans,,Karen Essex,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4N8mfyt515IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Born into wealth amid the political and artistic foment of the Italian Renaissance, worldly and ambitious Isabella and naïve Beatrice Este, sisters and rivals, compete for the attentions of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan--even though he marries Beatrice--and must choose between family loyalty and survival amid the treachery of a dangerous era. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.",2007,3.71,351,5388
9780768423488,0768423481,Experiencing Father's Embrace,,Jack Frost,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FV8vWWvmfCgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Experiencing Father's Embrace is an excellent resource for anyone interested in growing or ministering in the Father's love message. The author's style of writing makes this book easy to read, yet it is one of the most thorough and profoundly impacting books available on knowing God as a Father.",2006,4.34,256,498
9780770517120,0770517129,Who do you think you are?,stories,Alice Munro,Canada,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gUMnJA-vRg8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Who Do You Think You Are? . ""All ten of the stories in the book follow the career of Rose, whom we first meet as a child growing up in the small town of Hanratty. Rose is a clever, shyly ambitious girl who is fascinated yet appalled by the rude energy of the people around her. After surviving the tensions and embarrassments of home and high school (and a bizarre sexual initiation on a train) she leaves the world of Hanratty and enters university. There, to the surprise of both families, she meets and marries Patrick, heir to a large West Coast fortune. Their married life in Vancouver is not a success, and produces a series of crises, guilty and unsuccessful affairs, and one child. In due course Rose leaves with her child and begins a successful career as an actress and interviewer. When finally she moves back east, we see her making a wary return to her home territory, a small-town girl who can never lose the small-town sense of involvement, of responsibility....""",1978,3.93,206,302
9780771008740,0771008740,The Handmaid's Tale,,Margaret Atwood,Dystopias,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9orUvwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules. Like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant.",2006,4.09,368,1179
9780771014178,0771014171,The Jane Austen Cookbook,,Maggie Black;Deirdre Le Faye,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vtgBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jane Austen wrote her novels in the midst of a large and sociable family. Brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, friends and acquaintances were always coming and going, which offered numerous occasions for convivial eating and drinking. One of Jane’s dearest friends, Martha Lloyd, lived with the family for many years and recorded in her “Household Book” over 100 recipes enjoyed by the Austens. A selection of this family fare, now thoroughly tested and modernized for today’s cooks, is recreated here, together with some of the more sophisticated dishes which Jane and her characters would have enjoyed at balls, picnics, and supper parties. A fascinating introduction describes Jane’s own interest in food, drawing upon both the novels and her letters, and explains the social conventions of shopping, eating, and entertaining in late Georgian and Regency England. The book is illustrated throughout with delightful contemporary line drawings, prints, and watercolours. Authentic recipes, modernized for today’s cooks, include: • Buttered Prawns • Wine-Roasted Gammon and Pigeon Pie • Broil’d Eggs • White Soup and Salmagundy • Pyramid Creams • Martha’s Almond Cheesecakes",2002,3.91,128,265
9780771065262,0771065264,The View from Castle Rock,Stories,Alice Munro,Families,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KzIRqhYjuo4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fictitious stories about members of the Laidlaw family, from their days in Scotland in the eighteenth century through the lives of some of them in Ontario, following their arrival in Canada in the early nineteenth century.",2006,3.69,368,53
9780778321583,0778321584,Led Astray,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xzOXKcV-m9cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When her cause-driven fianc leaves for Central America, Jenny Fletcher must fight her temptation to be led astray by his black-sheep brother--the one man she knows she should not give her heart to.",2005,3.75,240,2561
9780778321712,0778321711,Black Ice,,Anne Stuart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bBeGXi8y2esC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, American book translator Chloe Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion.",2005,3.71,377,8152
9780778322849,077832284X,A Secret Splendor,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ACZviVoW2WkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Grieving over the death of her son, Arden Gentry hopes to ease her heart by finding her second child, the product of a scandalous affair, despite the fact that she would also have to encounter her ex-lover. Originally in paperback. 100,000 first printing.",1983,3.66,280,1281
9780778322948,0778322947,The Beach House,,Mary Alice Monroe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wnhkewAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2006,4.2,496,9733
9780778322993,0778322998,Thriller,,James Patterson,Fiction,,"A collection of thirty tales of suspense features contributions from Heather Graham, Lincoln Child, Denise Hamilton, Michael Palmer, Douglas Preston, Alex Kava, Michael Palmer, and John Lescroart.",2006,3.5,568,2363
9780778323563,0778323560,Cold as Ice,,Anne Stuart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NhR7b6_3MEgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Peter Jensen, an undercover operative posing as billionaire philanthropist Harry Van Dorn's personal assistant, must choose between endangering his mission or saving the life of a beautiful lawyer who has become trapped in Van Dorn's sick game called the Rule of Seven. Original.",2006,3.81,360,3268
9780778324317,0778324311,Two Alone,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jEo-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Stranded in the remote mountains of the north after a plane crash, two strangers--strong-willed businesswoman Rusty Carlson and Vietnam vet Cooper Landry--must find a way to trust each other in order to survive the danger that surrounds them. Originally in paperback.",2007,3.7,282,2055
9780778324782,0778324788,Ice Blue,,Anne Stuart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sAGcpmdBG0wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When an attempt is made on her life, museum curator Summer Hawthorne discovers that her ice-blue ceramic bowl is a priceless relic that ignites a global power struggle, trapping her in a war between the Japanese mafia and the neo-imperialists.",2007,3.94,378,3149
9780781731836,0781731836,Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry,Behavioral Sciences/clinical Psychiatry,Benjamin J. Sadock;Virginia A. Sadock,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YX5mQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The best-selling general psychiatry text since 1972, Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry is now in its thoroughly updated Ninth Edition. This complete, concise overview of the entire field of psychiatry is a staple board review text for psychiatry residents and is popular with a broad range of students in medicine, clinical psychology, social work, and occupational therapy. This edition includes new chapters on health care delivery systems and end-of-life care and palliative medicine. Coverage of psychotropic drugs and neuropsychiatric foundations of biological psychiatry has been significantly updated. The book is DSM-IV-TR compatible and replete with case studies and tables, including ICD-10 diagnostic coding tables.",2003,4.2,1500,236
9780783502007,0783502001,Pies & Tarts,,John Phillip Carroll,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_S5_wyMY0iMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses pie making techniques and equipment and gathers pie and tart recipes that feature fruit, chocolate, pumpkin, and coconut",1992,3.76,108,17
9780783502502,0783502508,Soups,,Norman Kolpas,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=65dG-7BCymkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers a variety of recipes for both hot and cold soups featuring vegetables, fruit, poultry, meat, or seafood, and includes tips on kitchen equipment, making basic stocks, and adding flavorful garnishes",1993,3.93,108,15
9780783548814,0783548818,Insects & Spiders,,David Burnie,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FVjGCv2lXdsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and habitats of different types of insects and spiders.",1997,4.33,64,3
9780783554563,0783554567,In the Realm of Elizabeth,England AD 1533-1603,Denise ed Dersin,,,,1998,3.69,144,57
9780785108115,0785108114,New X-Men - Volume 1,E is for Extinction,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KrRgQQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,What's it like to live in a world where Spider-Man swings overhead?,2006,4.06,144,7371
9780785113447,0785113444,The Punisher,Confederacy of Dunces,Garth Ennis;Jeff Youngquist;John McCrea,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XD2wPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The most deadly man in the Marvel Universe--The Punisher--might finally meet his match as the Man Without Fear, Daredevil, the Amazing Spider-Man, and the X-Men's Wolverine join forces to finally bring Frank Castle's killing spree to an end.",2004,4.03,144,276
9780785113799,0785113797,Runaways,Teenage wasteland,Brian K. Vaughan,Good and evil,,"Still on the run from their super-villain parents, this motley crew of super-powered kids finds a kindred spirit in a daring young stranger and welcomes him into their fold. But will he help the teenagers defeat their villainous parents, or tear them apart?",2009,3.97,144,23932
9780785114154,0785114157,New Mutants,Back to school. Vol. 1,Nunzio DeFilippis,Heroes,,"Professor Xavier invites the New Mutants, mutants he gathered and trained as teenagers years ago when he thought the X-Men had died in deep space, to Xavier Mansion to help train the next generation of X-Men.",2005,4.03,144,6331
9780785114932,0785114939,Homecoming,,Richard K. Morgan;Bill Sienkiewicz;Goran Parlov,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2wDmAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The deadliest agent in the Marvel Universe has finally gotten out of the spy game, and she's not asking for much, just a life of her own. When a sudden assassination attempt provides a harsh reality check, the former Soviet agent tracks a string of international killings that will lead her back to a Russia she can barely recognize. Collects Black Widow #1-6.",2005,3.81,144,578
9780785115311,0785115315,Astonishing X-Men - Volume 1,Gifted,Joss Whedon,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IVdiDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Cyclops and Emma Frost want to reunite the X-Men in order to astonish the world, but as the demand for a ""mutant cure"" escalates, they find some unexpected allies and adversaries.",2004,4.17,152,23613
9780785116349,0785116346,The Monster of Frankenstein,,Gary Friedrich;Doug Moench;Mike Ploog;John Buscema;Val Mayerik,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Mbe_PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2004,3.61,496,67
9780785116776,078511677X,Astonishing X-Men - Volume 2,Dangerous,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fc87QQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cyclops and Emma Frost want to reunite the X-Men in order to astonish the world, but as the demand for a ""mutant cure"" escalates, they find some unexpected allies and adversaries.",2007,4.19,152,10490
9780785117599,0785117598,Astonishing X-Men - Volume 3,Torn,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RYoCQQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cyclops and Emma Frost want to reunite the X-Men in order to astonish the world, but as the demand for a ""mutant cure"" escalates, they find some unexpected allies and adversaries.",2007,4.24,152,8622
9780785117681,0785117687,Black Widow,The Things They Say About Her,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZdvBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""... The survivors of Natasha's last tirade start coming back to haunt her .. and they're beginning to join forces. Also featuring a guest appearance by Daredevil!""--P. [4] of cover.",2006,3.52,144,278
9780785117759,078511775X,Fantastic Four,,Mark Waid,Heroes,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l9IEzQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2005,3.96,264,94
9780785118954,0785118950,Supreme Power,Hyperion,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lnCtAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now that the world knows his dark secret, Hyperion suddenly finds himself both alone and hunted. Four new super-powered individuals - each based on a character from the original Squadron Supreme - are after his hide, and they've got the will and means to take him down! Collects Supreme Power: Hyperion #1-5.",2006,3.42,120,223
9780785119272,0785119272,Ultimate Spider-Man - Volume 16,Deadpool,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9NDnxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Spider-Man teams up with his new girlfriend, Kitty Pryde of the X-Men.",2006,3.7,184,1406
9780785120193,078512019X,Ultimate X-Men - Volume 14,Phoenix?,,Comics & Graphic Novels,,"Follows the adventures of the X-Men, who band together to fight enemies, form tentative alliances with members of Magneto's gang, and protect the carefully controlled world of Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.",2006,3.7,144,1359
9780785121480,078512148X,Ultimate Spider-Man -,,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B92lSwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This deluxe hardcover collects Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 13: Hobgoblin and Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 14: Warriors, plus extras. In Hobgoblin, it's the terrifying debut of the Ultimate Hobgoblin as Harry Osborn returns to Midtown High harboring a dark secret that will affect the lives of all those around him - especially his best friend, Peter Parker. And where does Harry's father - Norman Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin - fit into all this? And in Warriors, the Gang War to end all Gang Wars begins! The Kingpin is in retreat, and that kind of a power vacuum won't last long. It's about to be filled by a figure of unabashed dread in the underworld: Hammerhead! Plus: the Ultimate debuts of several Marvel characters, including Moon Knight! And Spidey thinks he's had trouble before... but nothing has ever made him declare, ""Peter Parker no more!"" Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #72-85.",2006,4.08,344,259
9780785123118,0785123113,Marvel 1602,,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-dbBAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2006,3.93,248,47817
9780785123262,0785123261,New X-Men Omnibus,,Grant Morrison;Frank Quitely,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7yJ3wgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sixteen million mutants dead... and that was just the beginning! In one bold stroke, writer Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, JLA, Fantastic Four: 1234) propelled the X-Men into the 21st century - masterminding a challenging new direction for Marvel's mutant heroes that began with the destruction of Genosha and never let up. Regarded as the most innovative thinker of the current comic-book renaissance, Morrison proceeded to turn the mutant-hero genre on its ear. Gone were the gaudy spandex costumes - replaced by slick, black leather and an attitude to match. Now, his entire Eisner Award-nominated run on New X-Men is collected in one deluxe hardcover! Collects New X-Men #114-154 and Annual 2001",2006,4.22,1096,2861
9780785123712,0785123717,Ultimate Annuals -,,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6AkeAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual #2, something strange has happened at Nursery Two, the Baxter Building's Think Tank counterpart in Oregon. It's disappeared, seemingly swallowed up by the earth itself! And if you think that heralds the return of the macabre Mole Man, go to the head of the class! In Ultimate X-Men Annual #2, Dazzler has awakened from her coma only to discover her life is in deadly peril! And even her former fellow X-Men may be powerless to save her as a betrayal within the ranks has left them shellshocked. In Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #2, Punisher and Daredevil return! While Foggy Nelson offers Spidey some legal advice, Police Captain Jean DeWolfe gives him some other advice - on how to take down the Ultimate Kangaroo! And in The Ultimates Annual #2, as the Ultimates clear the wreckage from the recent attack on the United States, a monstrous evil from the past rises from the ashes to launch an attack when America is at her weakest. And with the ranks of the Ultimates severely depleted, all that stands in the path of the long-thought-dead bio-fanatic Arnim Zola is the indomitable Sentinel of Liberty, Captain America, and Sam Wilson, the high-flying Falcon! Collects The Ultimates Annual #2, Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual #2, Ultimate X-Men Annual #2 and Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #2.",2007,3.2,160,103
9780785124979,0785124977,Saga of the Sandman,,Tom DeFalco,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WoUsswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the adventures of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and the Hulk as they battle Sandman.",2007,3.41,176,44
9780785127239,0785127232,"Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter",Guilty Pleasures -,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m9srxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Graphic novel adaptation of Laurell K. Hamilton's popular vampire hunter novels.,2007,4.17,168,7207
9780785260059,0785260056,The Power of One,"One Person, One Rule, One Month",John C. Maxwell;Thomas G. Addington,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L_FGsSyk2PkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this 30-day companion workbook to There's No Such Thing as ""Business"" Ethics, bestselling author John C. Maxwell demonstrates how we can live with integrity by using the Golden Rule as our standard-in business and in life. In fact, Maxwell suggests the higher standard of exceeding the Golden Rule-by treating people better than they treat us, helping those who cannot help us, doing right when it is natural to do wrong, and keeping promises, even when it hurts. An ethics guide for any situation, each ""day"" of The Power of One offers a Drilling Down section which features a case study or story that illustrates the day's topic, Summarizing Principles on the subject, penetrating questions for Making Evaluation, and points of application for Taking Action. Maxwell reveals the factors that can ""tarnish"" the Golden Rule and teaches how to develop the Midas touch in personal integrity.",2004,4.28,256,16
9780785263715,0785263713,Searching for God Knows What,,Donald Miller,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hw4gWVAoz8kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Miller reveals how the inability to find redemption leads to chaotic relationships, self-hatred, the accumulation of meaningless material possessions, and a lack of inner peace.",2004,3.92,246,22864
9780785263784,0785263780,Only the River Runs Free,A Novel,Bodie Thoene;Brock Thoene,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ElG9KiBi4EEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It was four o'clock on the afternoon of December twenty-fourth, 1841, in the village of Ballynockanor, County of Galway, Province of Connaught, Ireland. It was after mass on the first day of Advent that the old woman, Mad Molly Fahey, had told Father O'Bannon (as well as every farmer, farmer's wife and child) that a great miracle was coming to visit the poor of Ballynockanor. The village is in sore need of a miracle. Struggling under grinding poverty and a greedy landlord, Ballynockanor is the story of a thousand Irish villages where an English usurper is despied by his Irish tenants.",2003,4.09,271,1355
9780785265436,0785265430,The Blood of the Moon,Understanding the Historic Struggle Between Islam and Western Civilization,George Grant,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S6wsAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Allah has bought from the Umma-the true believers of Islam-their selves and their substance in return for Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah, killing and being killed. Their promise is written in the blood of the moon."" -From the Koran, chap. 9, v. 112 The conflict between Islam and the West existed long before the destruction of the World Trade Center and the other events that recently touched America. It goes back hundreds, even thousands, of years. Yet the struggle is upon us now as never before. In this well-reasoned, accessible book, Middle East expert George Grant answers the troubling questions on many believers' minds. Who are the followers of Islam, and what do they believe? What could have motivated those who carried out the acts of terror on September 11? Why has there been tension between Islam and the West for centuries? What are the true meanings of terms such as Ji'had, Intifada, and Dhimma? And is there any hope for peace? The call upon believers now-as always-is to prepare and equip ourselves so that we may stand fast. The Blood of the Moon will help readers better understand the history of Islam and its struggle with the Western world, as well as how Christians can share the message of salvation through Jesus Christ with the followers of Allah.",2001,3.69,224,70
9780785282099,0785282092,The Guardian,,Jane Hamilton,Fiction,,"An exciting, thought-provoking novel of love as steadfast as an angel's, as deep as God's--a passionate story of mercy and forgiveness as great as heaven itself. How is it that Tabris, a special guardian in God's eyes, has come to commit the one unforgiveable crime for guardian angels? And more alarming to the entire celestial world, why did he get away with it?",1994,3.75,239,80
9780785812142,0785812148,The Complete Dream Dictionary,A Practical Guide to Interpreting Dreams,Pamela Ball,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wPz1PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A practical guide to interpreting dreams.,2000,3.72,390,33
9780785814535,0785814531,Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems,,Edgar Allan Poe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uY4NAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide, filmmaker D.W. Griffith and modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg. Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, and rarely missed transporting the reader to his own supernatural realm. He has also been hailed posthumously as one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century. In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia and Ms. In a Bottle. His complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are here also, including The Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, Tamerlane, as well as select reviews and narratives.",2009,4.38,864,1824
9780786000234,0786000236,Dazzling Brightness,,Roberta Gellis,Fiction,,"Emerging from the world of ancient Greece, Hades, Lord of the Underworld, and the mystical Persephone defy the gods of Olympus to defend an eternal love that they share between the sun and the shadows. Original.",1994,3.82,446,195
9780786011896,0786011890,Dead of Winter,,P. J. Parrish,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8SroDH4RS98C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A vicious psychopathic killer stalks the streets of the quiet tourist town of Loon Lake, Michigan, leaving a series of victims and mysteriously coded death cards in his wake, and Detective Louis Kincaid must make a terrifying journey through the town's dark secrets into the mind of madman in order to stop the murders. Original.",2001,3.94,416,752
9780786014200,0786014202,Thicker Than Water,,P. J. Parrish,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d03__C_qPLoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Louis Kincaid races to find the truth surrounding a series of vicious killings that bear resemblance to a twenty-year-old rape and murder case, for which the man responsible was just released from prison.",2003,4.09,380,406
9780786015412,0786015411,Samantha,,Tamara Thorne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8gYt9plyFUcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Going undercover as a new Gamma Eta Pi sorority pledge to expose the truth surrounding the disappearance of Merilynn Morris and the supposed suicide of Eve Camlan, Samantha Penrose finds more than she bargained for when she is plunged into a sinister realm of witchcraft and the supernatural. Original.",2003,3.79,288,175
9780786016051,0786016051,Island of Bones,,P. J. Parrish,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3fQOLhS09scC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the bullet-ridden body of a woman, identified only by a strange ring on her finger, and a tiny skull wash up on shore, Detective Louis Kincaid makes a connection that takes him to a remote island rife with evil and betrayal.",2003,4.01,384,573
9780786016068,078601606X,A Killing Rain,,P. J. Parrish,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c_276CjPmcUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While working on a seemingly routine case, Detective Louis Kincaid is drawn into the twisted world of a serial killer who keeps trophies of his victims deep within the Florida Everglades. Original.",2005,4.04,383,440
9780786016075,0786016078,An Unquiet Grave,,P. J. Parrish,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QfblSohw51gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As bulldozers raze the ruins of one of the country's most notorious sanitariums and its cemetary, a grisly discovery is made, and Louis Kincaid must go head-to-head with a sadistic killer who is using the dark tunnels underneath this asylum as his own personal playground of death. Original.",2006,4.12,384,595
9780786249589,0786249587,Night Lives,Nine Stories of the Dark Fantastic,Phyllis Eisenstein;Alex Eisenstein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VOgBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a collection of nine short works of speculative fiction.,2003,4.5,307,4
9780786282258,0786282258,The Lightning Thief,,Rick Riordan,JUVENILE FICTION,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9DU2AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.",2006,4.24,483,138
9780786282821,0786282827,Ready Or Not,,Meg Cabot,Large print books,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=28geAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now a high school junior, Samantha tries to decide whether she is ready to have sex with her boyfriend, who happens to be the President's son.",2006,3.4,238,87
9780786500734,0786500735,Something Borrowed,,Rebecca Hagan Lee,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Pzl0qo0Mg_QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Honoring a deathbed promise to become guardian to his best friend's daughter and find a wife, Lee arranges his marriage to Mary, a part-Cherokee schoolteacher who cannot deny her attraction to her husband of convenience. Original.",1995,4.17,282,36
9780786647972,0786647973,Deluxe Encyclopedia of Mandolin Chords,,John Baxter,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9TAe6DVyjZgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This encyclopedia is designed to provide mandolin players with a wide variety of chords in different voicings. This book is intended as both a starting point of learning chord voicings and patterns, as well as a dictionary of common mandolin chords. Each key section includes the first position scale for that key, as well as the chord formula and notes for each chord. If you want to learn to be a bluegrass rhythm player it helps to have a guide or 'map' to take you through the initial learning stage. This book provides a small but powerful set of starter chords used in this style of music. Once these chords are learned, you'll be able to jam with other musicians in no time. These are the same chords used by greats like Bill Monroe, Doyle Lawson, David Grisman and hundreds of other bluegrass players in this genre. While there are only a few chords presented in the ""map"" section, they form the foundation of bluegrass mandolin and with them you can play literally thousands of songs in every key. Chords are presented by key.",2000,3.83,72,6
9780786702275,0786702273,Bad Dreams,,Kim Newman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LTtBch9U8CkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Anne Nielson, an American journalist, comes to London to investigate the strange death of her sister. Soon, she becomes sucked into a netherworld of corruption and perversion and is hurtled toward a final confrontation where she has only the dead as allies. From the author of Anno-Dracula.",1995,3.15,280,143
9780786707980,0786707984,The White Rhino Hotel,,Bartle Bull,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TgRVHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Records the mad rush to settle East Africa after the First World War in a novel that depicts the paradoxes of colonialism through a group portrait of the guests staying at the White Rhino Hotel.,2000,3.94,416,227
9780786711642,0786711647,A Kiss Before Dying,,Ira Levin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bihue3zEwx0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get where he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she loves him, and she’s pregnant. The solution may demand desperate measures. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder. Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. Nor does he foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own extreme deed.",2003,3.94,242,6184
9780786712342,0786712341,The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,,John Dickson Carr,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QrU5PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A profile based on the subject's personal archives describes such topics as Doyle's education at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh University, his Southsea medical practice, his two marriages, his forays into politics and spiritualism, his friendships with such figures as H. G. Wells and King Edward VII, and his literary ambitions. Reprint.",2003,4.02,320,146
9780786712946,0786712945,Rape,A Love Story,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DO6ETCsZxbcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The victim of a Fourth of July gang rape, single mother Teena Maguire and her daughter become the target of harassment and violence on the part of the assailants after Teena identifies the perpetrators for the Niagara Falls Police Department. 75,000 first printing.",2003,3.56,128,103
9780786714827,0786714824,Rape,A Love Story,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AaTSYoJufZcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The victim of a Fourth of July gang rape, single mother Teena Maguire and her daughter become the target of harassment and violence on the part of the assailants after Teena identifies the perpetrators for the Niagara Falls Police Department. Reprint.",2004,3.56,154,3459
9780786714957,0786714956,The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures,,Mike Ashley;Eric Brown;Jules Verne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KuHtlgLyb3wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Written in homage to the master of science fiction, this anthology of stories--by Ian Watson and Adam Roberts, among others--inspired by Verne's vision presents stories that recall characters and plots from the author's fictional milieu. Original.",2005,3.68,498,29
9780786715794,0786715790,The Boys of Everest,Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation,Clint Willis,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8IBRPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the mountaineering achievements of Chris Bonington's team over the course of four decades, citing the contributions of some of the group's most famous members while recounting how numerous climbers lost their lives, in an account based on journal entries, expedition accounts, letters, and interviews with team survivors.",2006,3.86,535,431
9780786716234,0786716231,Divine Invasions,A Life of Philip K. Dick,Lawrence Sutin,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tL89TqisTVwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An official portrait of the influential novelist's life and career explores how Dick's writings expanded the scope of the science fiction genre, served as the inspirations for blockbuster movies, and influenced the written works of such contemporaries as Thomas Pynchon, Don Delillo, and David Foster Wallace. Original.",2005,4.09,352,1084
9780786717675,078671767X,Writing with Intent,"Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005",Margaret Atwood,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZBQXBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first collection of nonfiction work by the author in more than two decades features fifty-seven essays and reviews on a wide range of topics, including John Updike, Toni Morrison, grunge, September 11th, and Gabriel Garca Mrquez, among others. Reprint.",2006,4.08,448,33
9780786719051,0786719052,The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction,,Isaac Asimov;Charles G. Waugh;Martin Harry Greenberg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ihn4AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing, including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke. Their writing helped science fiction gain wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon society. The same writers formed the mold for the next three decades of science fiction, and much of their writing remains as fresh today as it was then.",2007,3.91,512,122
9780786808069,0786808063,Baby Einstein: Neighborhood Animals,,Marilyn Singer;Julie Aigner-Clark,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X9a4PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Children will discover the exciting world of their own backyard in this introduction to familiar animals from cats and dogs to bugs and frogs. The combination of photographs, illustrations, and fun facts make this an accessible and delightful learning experience.",2001,3.89,16,180
9780786808373,0786808373,Baby Einstein: Birds,,Julie Aigner-Clark,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0jxHPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introducing your baby to birds, cats, dogs, and babies through fine art, illsutration and photographs. These books are a rare opportunity to expose little ones to a range of images on a single subject, from simple child's drawings and abstract art to playful photos. A brief text accompanies each image, introducing baby to some basic -- and sometimes playful -- information on the subjects.",2002,3.78,20,9
9780786808380,0786808381,Baby Einstein: Babies,,Julie Aigner-Clark,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jv4NAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introduce your babies to birds, cats, dogs, and babies through fine art, illustration, and photographs. These books are a rare opportunity to expose little ones to a range of images on a single subject, from simple child's drawings and abstract art to playful photos. A brief text accompanies each image, introducing the baby to some basic -- and sometimes playful -- information about the subjects.",2002,4.03,20,29
9780786808397,078680839X,Baby Einstein: Dogs,,Julie Aigner-Clark,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qut8tQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Introduce your baby to birds, cats, dogs, and babies through fine art, illustration, and photographs. These books are a rare opportunity to exopse little ones to a range of images on a single subject, from simple child's drawings and abstract art to playful photos. A brief text accompanies each image, introducing baby to some basic -- and sometimes playful -- information about the subjects.",2002,3.81,20,26
9780786808717,0786808713,Baby Einstein: What Does Violet See? Raindrops and Puddles,,Julie Aigner-Clark,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=95IIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A very special puddle sets Violet the mouse off on her latest nature discovery. It is through this puddle that Violet observes the effect rain has on the world around her. A Mylar puddle on the last page offers children a chance to see their reflection in a puddle, just like Violet!",2002,3.25,18,16
9780786809196,0786809191,Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nTVxh9uxGUEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Vince heads out to sunny L.A. to go to college, he feels like he is finally going to be able to leave his shady family and their illegal antics behind. Once he arrives at school, he is paired up with the son of a prominent congressman as a roommate-finally some respectability! Not to mention that the girls in college are something else. With his girlfriend, Kendra, giving him such a hard time, Vince is beginning to wonder if single life is the way to go.",2006,3.64,268,1597
9780786809288,0786809280,The Tales from the Odyssey #1: One-Eyed Giant,,Mary Pope Osborne,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=osALAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Odysseus must leave his home to fight the Trojan War, he never imagines that he’ll be away from his family for so many years. Now, at long last, he is leading his men home across the seas. But many dangers await them – and none is more terrifying than Polyphemus, the one-eyed giant.",2003,3.88,112,761
9780786809295,0786809299,Tales from the Odyssey: The Land of the Dead - Book #2,,Mary Pope Osborne,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OwYQ82s5VzIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Odysseus and his men have defeated the one-eyed giant, but its curse follows them at every turn. Cast out to the open seas by the wind god, Odysseus and his fleet continue the difficult journey home. But they cannot return to Ithaca yet. First they must take on giant cannibals and outwit a beautiful witch, who reveals Odysseus’ next challenge – a journey to the mysterious and feared land of the dead.",2003,3.99,112,389
9780786809301,0786809302,Sirens and Sea Monsters,,Mary Pope Osborne,Juvenile Fiction,,"Odysseus and his men have done what no other mortals have done: returned alive from the terrifying Land of the Dead. Armed with warnings and advice from the ghosts of the prophet Tiresias, Odysseus is determined to finally sail home to Ithaca. But the enchantress Circe tells him that the Greeks will face even more horrors on their journey, including an encounter with Scylla, the six-headed monster, and Charybdis, the deadly whirlpool. Who will survive these terrors-and how? In this third of six books based on episodes from Homer's Odyssey, Mary Pope Osborne continues the exciting adventures of one of the greatest heroes of all time.",2003,4.05,112,359
9780786809608,0786809604,"If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?",,Melissa Kantor,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cS5XGgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mrs. McBloom, clean up your room!""For nearly fifty years, that's been the refrain of janitors, principals, and students who enter the chaos of Room Five. Now the beloved Mrs. McBloom-who has taught nearly everyone in the town of Up Yonder, even Principal Pumpernickel-is about to retire. Finally, she must clean up her classroom.But where to begin? Years of science experiments have left all kinds of critters hoppin' and cluckin' and flyin' around. Giant sunflowers droop over desks; vines with fat green beans climb the walls; and a full-grown apple tree grows smack-dab in the middle of the floor. There are more books stacked in Room Five than in the Up Yonder Library. And who knows what else lurks in the piles of papers or the lost-and-found box?",2005,3.66,283,4337
9780786809943,0786809949,The Final Battle,,Mary Pope Osborne,Juvenile Fiction,,"After struggling against the gods and his fate for more than twenty years, Odysseus has returned to Ithaca at last. But things have changed: what used to be his island has been overrun by suitors who clamor for his wife's hand in marriage and plague his son, Telemachus. With the help of the gray-eyed goddess, Athena, Odysseus and Telemachus set out to regain control of Ithaca. In the last book of the series based on episodes from Homer's Odyssey, Mary Pope Osborne brings one of the greatest adventures of all time to a dramatic climax.",2005,4.08,112,254
9780786809967,0786809965,Be More Chill,,Ned Vizzini,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yqk9ezeiGvoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the ""squip."" A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how to talk and walk, the squip transforms Jeremy from Supergeek to superchic.",2005,3.68,287,8686
9780786811052,0786811056,Sparrow Hawk Red,,Ben Mikaelsen,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x0g_6zX5q9AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Thirteen-year-old Ricky, the Mexican American son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers.",1995,3.77,185,1
9780786812912,0786812915,The Big Box,,Toni Morrison;Slade Morrison,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LyYKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her first illustrated book for children, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Toni Morrison introduces three feisty children who show grown-ups what it really means to be a kid.",2002,3.95,48,375
9780786813858,0786813857,Cheetah Girls #2: Shop in the Name of Love,,Deborah Gregory;Paul Mantell,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FbXp9AcayKAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chanel's passion for fashion gets the best of her when she goes on a clothes shopping spree with her mother's credit card, until the credit trail catches up with her and she is forced to pay up. Original. 50,000 first printing.",1999,3.64,132,54
9780786815937,0786815930,Son of the Mob,,Gordon Korman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=myUpnUDJOhkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seventeen-year-old Vince Luca's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. Reprint.",2004,3.72,262,5873
9780786816156,0786816155,Summerland,A Novel,Michael Chabon,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t8vDQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A BookSense 76 pick, and best-seller from coast to coast-Summerland is part fantasy, part adventure, part baseball, but most of all it's the story of a young boy, Ethan Feld-a lousy, but lovable little-leaguer who finds himself playing in the most important baseball game ever. Not only the game, but the fate of the world rests on his shoulders.",2004,3.55,500,618
9780786818723,0786818727,Baby Einstein: Violet's House,A Giant Touch-and-Feel Book,Julie Aigner-Clark,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bC4HAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Violet, a very curious young mouse, invites babies and toddlers into her home to explore, room by room, her favorite things. Delightfully written rhythmic verse and engaging illustrations lead children to discover the feel of objects that surround them in their everyday world. From touching Violet's fluffy poodle to joining her as she puts sticky toothpaste on her brush, children will want to visit Violet's House time and time again.",2003,3.98,10,39
9780786819119,0786819111,"Baby Einstein: Water, Water Everywhere",,"Disney Book Group,",Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tuAdAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Charming illustrations and playful rhythmic verse make real-life learning fun by taking babies and toddlers on an adventurous discovery of water and its many sources. Squeezable and floatable, Water, Water, Everywhere can be enjoyed in and out of the tub.",2003,3.7,10,77
9780786838943,0786838949,The King in the Window,,Adam Gopnik,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2FryvaWSDHwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eleven-year-old Oliver, an American boy residing in Paris, discovers, much to his astonishment, that phantoms live within the windowpanes and have selected Oliver to lead a war against the ""soul-stealers"" that inhabit mirrors.",2006,3.62,410,782
9780786849710,0786849711,Disney's Little Einsteins: Birthday Machine,,Susan Ring,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jUDJAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Little Einsteins must find the four parts for a special birthday machine for Rocket, which are hidden throughout Italy.",2006,4.29,12,21
9780786849734,0786849738,Disney's Little Einsteins: Galactic Goodnight,,Susan Ring,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nm3N395c09AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Little Einsteins, equipped with their camera, go on a journey through space, exploring each of the planets, landing on Mars, and looking at the Earth from their spaceship, with a slideviewer for young readers to view pictures of what they saw.",2006,4.5,20,10
9780786851157,0786851155,"Baby Einstein: Sweet Dreams, Mimi",,Julie Aigner-Clark,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9PYFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Children will delight in hearing and imagining all the wonderful sleepytime images Mimi's mama recites while tucking Mimi in for a night filled with the sweetest of dreams.,2004,3.13,16,37
9780786851966,0786851961,It's Kind of a Funny Story,A Novel,Ned Vizzini,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3VLhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.,2006,4.13,444,638
9780786852970,0786852976,The Meanest Doll in the World,,Laura Godwin;Ann M. M. Martin,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2gsvPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft are two dolls who have been best friends since they met in Kate Palmer's house at 26 Wetherby Lane. In this sequel to The Doll People, they hitch a ride in Kate's backpack and find themselves in the biggest adventure of their lives, a day at school! But when an attempt to return home lands them in the wrong house, they're in far deeper trouble than they imagined. Along with a host of new doll friends, they also encounter Mean Mimi, the wickedest doll of all. Mean Mimi is mean-really mean-and she's determined to rule all of Dollkind or else destroy it. Will the world ever be safe for dolls again? In this masterfully plotted sequel, Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, with the help of Brian Selznick's ingenious black-and-white illustrations, take the reader on another nonstop adventure from a doll's eye view! /DIVDIV",2005,3.96,304,5582
9780786855377,0786855371,Disney's Little Einsteins: Music of the Meadow,,Susan Ring,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mOWZDk_51BcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Little Einsteins visit a meadow and explore the insects, animals, and plant life within it.",2006,3.72,28,26
9780786855384,078685538X,Disney's Little Einsteins: Butterfly Suits,,Disney Book Group;Marcy Kelman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8IGJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Annie's new caterpillar friend misses his ride to the ""Tree of Many Colors,"" it is up to Leo, Quincy, Annie, and June to get him there, and they are thrilled to discover that the new outfit he receives turns him into a monarch butterfly.",2006,3.68,32,26
9780786855391,0786855398,Disney's Little Einstein,Mission: Where's June?,Susan Ring,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0BNTtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Leo, Quincy, Annie, and Rocket travel the world to find where June is hiding.",2006,4.55,24,11
9780786856862,0786856866,"The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: Sea of Monsters",,Rick Riordan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GqJZvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: Sea of Monsters, The",2006,4.24,279,594249
9780786863341,078686334X,The Art of Hunchback of Notre Dame,,Stephen Rebello,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=35ACOwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A dazzling collection of spectacular animation from one of Disney's landmark creations now available in a highly attractive and popular miniature gift-book format.,1997,4.46,192,5
9780786868698,0786868694,Nigella Bites,"From Family Meals to Elegant Dinners -- Easy, Delectable Recipes For Any Occasion",Nigella Lawson,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_BpZPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With her charming style, delicious recipes, bestselling cookbooks, and popular cooking show, Nigella Lawson has become a household name -- symbolizing all that is sumptuous and pleasurable about food. In Nigella Bites, Nigella shares her favorite recipes that are easy to make after a busy day at the office, perfect to linger over during a lazy weekend, or fun to make with kids on a rainy afternoon. All the recipes are delectable to read, dreamy to look at, and, of course, delicious to eat. Whether cooking Pasta E Fagioli or baking Orange Breakfast Muffins, Nigella knows just how to achieve maximum flavor with minimum effort.",2002,3.99,254,6449
9780786881482,0786881488,Love,Ten Poems,Pablo Neruda,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QmjJIqF-YhgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Poems from the Film Il Postino. The poems collected in this book are at the heart of the film Il Postino, a cinematic fantasy spun from an apocryphal incident in the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda. Together they show why many consider Neruda to be the finest love poet of the century. Few writers of any age have described the pleasures and torments of erotic love with such un-sentimental directness and sensual precision. Here, too, we find Neruda at his most accessible, the language of his odes and lyrics refined to the point at which it achieves, in critic Jean Franco's words, ""the naturalness of song"". This short selection draws on work from throughout his writing life, from the famous early collection Twenty Love Songs & a Song of Despair (1924) to the key works of his maturity, Residence on Earth (1935), Elemental Odes (1954) and the autobiographical Memorial de Isla Negra (1964). It offers an enticing glimpse of one of modern poetry's greatest masters.",1995,4.46,43,1305
9780786884407,0786884401,Betrayal of Trust,The Collapse of Global Public Health,Laurie Garrett,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6h234jR6npEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines the coming crisis in global public health, demonstrating how a series of potentially devastating medical catastrophes could provide a global threat to all human life.",2000,4.11,768,1097
9780786885596,0786885599,Dirty Jokes and Beer,Stories of the Unrefined,Drew Carey,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bD_zwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,".Drew Carey scripted and starred in his own cable special for years before hooking up with Bruce Helford and creating The Drew Carey Show. He is also the host of his own show Whos Line Is It Anyway? We all know Drew Carey from his award-winning stand-up career and his hit television show, but do we really know Drew Carey, the person Now, meet the true Drew, in his book, the bawdy, irreverent, and hilarious Dirty Jokes and Beer, and find out about all the many sides of the misunderstood Hollywood star.",2000,3.54,256,1896
9780786886326,0786886323,Carter Beats the Devil,,Glen David Gold,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ArWAQBeA5BUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A powerful and richly textured novel set in 1920 follows Charles Carter, a.k.a. Carter the Great, who has become a master illusionist borne out of loneliness and desperation, as he creates the most outrageous stunt of all involving President Harding--one that could cause his downfall. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.",2002,4.09,483,10792
9780786890910,0786890916,Lost: Secret Identity - Novelization #2,Secret Identity,Cathy Hapka,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=54cjAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"LOST, the television series, takes place on a remote South Pacific island, where a plane crash has left 48 survivors stranded. This novel focuses on Bernard, a college student with a closely-guarded secret - he-s not really a rich kid but a poor poseur who has been faking it to impress his wealthy girlfriend. Through his encounters with Jack and other major characters as they battle the island wilderness, Bernard starts to realize he-s not alone in keeping up a false front. But as his secret identity is exposed, Bernard finds an inner strength and the courage to face what he may lose - and gain -- by being stranded",2006,2.92,176,189
9780786891078,0786891076,Shopgirl,A Novella,Steve Martin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OMRXqLJTl-oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of our country's most acclaimed and beloved entertainers, Steve Martin has written a novella that is unexpectedly perceptive about relationships and life. Martin is profoundly wise when it comes to the inner workings of the human heart. Mirabelle is the ""shopgirl"" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus ""selling things that nobody buys anymore..."" Slightly lost, slightly off-kilter, very shy, Mirabelle charms because of all that she is not: not glamorous, not aggressive, not self-aggrandizing. Still there is something about her that is irresistible. Mirabelle captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost twice her age. As they tentatively embark on a relationship, they both struggle to decipher the language of love -- with consequences that are both comic and heartbreaking. Filled with the kind of witty, discerning observations that have brought Steve Martin critical success, Shopgirl is a work of disarming tenderness.",2006,3.42,130,29566
9780786913145,0786913142,The Soulforge,,Margaret Weis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tUV-QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Fantasy roman.,1999,4.15,408,8857
9780786918140,0786918144,Downfall,,Jean Rabe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VX_UzAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A one-time Hero of the Heart, Dhamon Grimwulf has descended into a life of crime, bitterness, and squalor, but as the dragon overlords of the Fifth Age plot to destroy their enemies, he, with the help of his former comrades, must redeem himself from his self-destructive life. Reprint.",2001,3.68,397,840
9780786927005,0786927003,The Best of Tales,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AJSjHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Edited by bestselling authors and frequent collaborators Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, this collection contains some of the most well-known and popular stories published in Dragonlance anthologies over the past 15 years.",2002,3.81,416,103
9780786928576,0786928573,The Day of the Tempest,,Jean Rabe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hihCPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As the evil dragon overlords lay waste to once fertile lands, temperate islands, and cool forests, and Dark Knights, draconians, and other foul creatures flock to join the armies of darkness, a small band of heroes struggles to protect all humankind from slavery and cruel death. Reprint.",2002,3.65,352,1337
9780786929207,0786929200,The Players of Gilean,Tales from the World of Krynn,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=58ZtAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first anthology based on characters from the novella ""The Traveling Players of Gilean"" by Margaret Weis and Aron Eisenberg also contains novellas by popular Dragonlance authors Douglas Niles, Richard A. Knaak, Paul B. Thompson, and a new collaboration by Jean Rabe and Aron Eisenberg. Original.",2003,3.64,320,142
9780786929504,0786929502,Dragons of a Vanished Moon,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mDQ_GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A courageous band of heroes joins forces to battle an extraordinary villainess and her powerful army of the dead.,2003,3.9,610,7358
9780786931378,078693137X,The Legend of Huma,,Richard A. Knaak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7UloHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new edition of the first novel in the Heroes series traces the origins of Huma, the Hero of the Lance, and recounts the final conflict between the Queen of Darkness and the forces of Paladine. Reprint.",2004,4.03,379,17008
9780786931934,0786931930,The Search for Power,Dragons of the War of Souls,Margaret Weis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zdriHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An anthology of short fiction captures the world of the diverse dragons of Krynn, along with the dragon-slayers and magic users who study the powerful creatures.",2004,3.97,335,287
9780786931965,0786931965,Night of Blood,,Richard A. Knaak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IS_7HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the adventures and exploits of the minotaurs as they become caught up in the chaos, fallout, and changing destinies that resulted from the War of Souls.",2004,3.9,372,1261
9780786937424,0786937424,Amber and Ashes,,Margaret Weis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s_w7PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A continuation of the saga of the War of Souls follows Mina as she makes her way through the dangerous chaos of postwar Krynn.,2005,3.86,336,2560
9780786937707,078693770X,Love and War,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nFlxGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This anthology collects tales of love and war as they affect the characters of Krynn, including the story ""Raistlin's Daughter"" by Margaret Weis and Dezra Despain, as well as works by Richard A. Knaak, Nick O'Donohoe, Nancy Varian Berberick, Paul B. Thompson and Tonya C. Cook, Kevin Randle, and others. Reprint.",2005,3.88,368,43
9780786937790,0786937793,The Reign of Istar,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qrnQHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of short stories featuring the strange and divergent races of Krynn depicts the rise and fall of life on Krynn during the years before the Cataclysm. Reissue.,2005,3.71,352,26
9780786939183,0786939184,Player's Handbook II,,David Noonan,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RwJ6KAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This follow-up to the ""Player's Handbook"" is designed to aid players and provide more character options.",2006,3.75,221,783
9780786942701,0786942703,Night of the Long Shadows,,Paul Crilley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cITjAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When one of the most famed Inquisitives is hired to investigate a murder, his brilliance might be his damnation when he uncovers a trail leading from a seedy neighborhood to the City of Towers.",2007,3.64,306,143
9780786943333,0786943335,Dragons of the Highlord Skies,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman,Dragons,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xz3wPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seeking a dragon orb rescued from the Tower of High Sorcery in Planathus by an elven wizard before its fall to the forces of the Kingpriest, the Dragon Highlord Ariakas assigns the task of retrieving it to Kitiara Uth-Matar.",2007,4.05,456,3422
9780787960759,0787960756,The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,A Leadership Fable,Patrick M. Lencioni,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dsN3CgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams. Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.",2002,4.02,227,57971
9780787967413,0787967416,Cults in Our Midst,The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace,Margaret Thaler Singer,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lfnFQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cults today are bigger than ever, with broad ramifications for national and international terrorism. In this newly revised edition of her definitive work on cults, Singer reveals what cults really are and how they work, focusing specifically on the coercive persuasion techniques of charismatic leaders seeking money and power. The book contains fascinating updates on Heaven's Gate, Falun Gong, Aum Shinrikyo, Hare Krishna, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and the connection between cults and terrorism in Al Queda and the PLO.",2003,3.92,432,181
9780787968335,0787968331,The Leadership Challenge,,James M. Kouzes;Barry Z. Posner,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a7BztgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When it was initially written in 1987, few could have predicted that The Leadership Challenge would become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, faced with the new challenges of our unpredictable global business environment, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner--two of the country's premier leadership experts--have completely revised and updated their classic book. Building on the knowledge base of their previous books, the third edition of The Leadership Challenge is grounded in extensive research and based on interviews with all kinds of leaders at all levels in public and private organizations from around the world. In this edition, the authors emphasize that the fundamentals of leadership are the same today as they were in the 1980s, and as they've probably been for centuries. In that sense, nothing's new. Leadership is not a fad. While the content of leadership has not changed, the context has-and in some cases, changed dramatically.",2003,4.04,458,865
9780787976286,0787976288,Becoming a Goddess of Inner Poise,Spirituality for the Bridget Jones in All of Us,Donna Freitas,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wPxcoTocoSAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Today’s young women are smart, educated, career-oriented, and maybe a little bit fashion-obsessed. So where does the spiritual life fit in? With InStyle magazine on one nightstand, and Julian of Norwich on the other, author Donna Freitas has her finger on the pulse of a new generation of women and understands the spiritual issues that most concern them. Drawing on the stories of popular heroines such as Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw, Becoming a Goddess of Inner Poise illustrates how our life choices can have a profoundly spiritual dimension—in the bedroom, the boardroom, the beach, and at Barney’s. Freitas combines wisdom from a variety of spiritual traditions and with a generous dash of humor, giving modern women a new model for the spiritual journey.",2004,3.59,239,34
9780787976385,0787976385,"Silos, Politics and Turf Wars",A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors,Patrick M. Lencioni,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P17HAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In yet another page-turner, New York Times best-selling author and acclaimed management expert Patrick Lencioni addresses the costly and maddening issue of silos, the barriers that create organizational politics. Silos devastate organizations, kill productivity, push good people out the door, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals. As with his other books, Lencioni writes Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars as a fictional—but eerily realistic—story. The story is about Jude Cousins, an eager young management consultant struggling to launch his practice by solving one of the more universal and frustrating problems faced by his clients. Through trial and error, he develops a simple yet ground-breaking approach for helping them transform confusion and infighting into clarity and alignment.",2006,4.04,224,2419
9780787981297,078798129X,Organic Church,Growing Faith Where Life Happens,Neil Cole,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YIFSl1GH5gAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier sermons, bigger and better auditoriums. But there are still so many people who aren't being reached, who don't want to come to church. And the truth is that attendance at church on Sundays does not necessarily transform lives; God's presence in our hearts is what changes us. Leaders and laypeople everywhere are realizing that they need new and more powerful ways to help them spread God's Word. According to international church starter and pastor Neil Cole, if we want to connect with young people and those who are not coming to church, we must go where people congregate. Cole shows readers how to plant the seeds of the Kingdom of God in the places where life happens and where culture is formed - restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, parks, locker rooms,and neighborhoods. Organic Church offers a hands-on guide for demystifying this new model of church and shows the practical aspects of implementing it.",2005,3.88,237,813
9780787982379,0787982377,Killing the Imposter God,Philip Pullman's Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials,Donna Freitas;Jason E. King,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C0soRas3gCUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Argues that the popular trilogy by one of England's most outspoken atheists attains the status of a religious classic as it attempts to put an end to an antiquated and unimaginative understanding of God.,2007,3.72,224,36
9780789308849,0789308843,This is New York,,Miroslav Sasek,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5wlwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A pictorial tour of Manhattan's neighborhoods, transportation and traffic, buildings, and the city's activities, from the local shoeshine stall to Wall Street.",2003,4.3,64,364
9780789313508,0789313502,Moonage Daydream,The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust,David Bowie,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fZwgtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"David Bowie and Mick Rock collaborate on a vast album of images of onstage performances and backstage antics during the life and times of Bowie's stage persona Ziggy Stardust. 12,500 first printing.",2005,4.3,320,444
9780789410245,0789410249,Stephen Biesty's Incredible Explosions,,Stephen Biesty;Richard Platt,Design,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8A8FAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Text and cross-section illustrations present inside views of a variety of subjects including a space station, airport, and windmill.",1996,4.43,32,27
9780789420343,0789420341,Disaster!,,Richard Platt,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Py85mwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Documents some of the most devastating events in world history, including natural disasters, accidents, and plagues.",1997,4.11,63,17
9780789422132,0789422131,Flowers,,David Burnie,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1DsEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the physical characteristics and life cycles of flowers and examines kinds of garden flowers, woodland flowers, desert flowers, and others.",1997,4,64,8
9780789430748,0789430746,A Young Person's Guide to Philosophy,"""I Think, Therefore I Am""",,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_tcWAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Introduces over twenty-five of the world's greatest philosophers and presents a simple version of the tenets of philosophy.,1998,3.9,64,56
9780789444554,0789444550,Story of Philosophy,The Essential Guide to the History of Western Philosphy,Bryan Magee,Philosophy,,,1998,4.28,240,88
9780789458209,0789458209,Tree,,David Burnie,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qwsqj2INT1QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Photographs and text explore the anatomy and life cycle of trees, examining the different kinds of bark, seeds, and leaves, the commercial processing of trees to make lumber, the creatures that live in trees, and other aspects.",2000,4.07,64,5
9780789460974,0789460971,The Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories,,Barbara Newman;Gill Tomblin;Darcey Bussell,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZJubLwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Text and pictures show scenes and steps from ""Sleeping Beauty,"" ""Giselle,"" ""Coppelia,"" ""Swan Lake,"" and ""The Nutcracker.""",2000,4.09,64,62
9780789493934,0789493934,Reptiles and Amphibians,,Mark O'Shea;Tim Halliday,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YdnZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects annotated photographs and descriptions of over 400 species of reptiles and amphibians, such as turtles, lizards, snakes, newts, and frogs.",2002,3.99,256,51
9780791042755,0791042758,Serial Murder,,Robert W. Dolan,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TIg2PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Examines the psychology of the serial killer and the challenges such criminals present to law enforcement personnel.,1997,3.89,80,9
9780791056646,0791056643,J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye,,Harold Bloom,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oZ6SMgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Critical essays discuss the language, symbolism, and psychological structure of the classic novel of Holden Caulfield's search for identity.",2000,3.58,176,17
9780791059296,0791059294,Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451,,Harold Bloom,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uhenQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of critical essays on Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451.",2001,4.18,147,938
9780791070482,0791070484,Bram Stoker's Dracula,,Harold Bloom,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vQ6SQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of critical essays on Bram Stoker's classic novel ""Dracula,"" and includes a chronology of the author's life and works along with bibliography and notes.",2003,3.83,243,6
9780791081266,0791081265,Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence,,Harold Bloom,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MNuFkQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of Edith Wharton's most critically acclaimed books, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of love in the high society of 1870s New York.",2005,3.71,205,11
9780792241737,0792241738,Freedom Riders,John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement,Ann Bausum,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JIlhQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Offers the true account of two young men who took the risk to venture into the segregated South at the peak of the Civil Rights era to take part as Freedom Riders and fight for equality for all--making their mark and doing their part to change history forever along the way.,2006,3.97,80,247
9780792253143,0792253140,National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America,,Jon Lloyd Dunn;Jonathan K. Alderfer,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gA-rfkTZi1YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A completely revised and updated fifth edition of the popular birding handbook provides identification tips, full-color artwork, new locator and range maps, information on behavior and nesting, new plumage and species classification data, and other valuable facts about more than eight hundred North American birds. Original. 75,000 first printing.",2006,4.36,503,746
9780792269847,0792269845,Everest,Mountain Without Mercy,Broughton Coburn;Tim Cahill;David Breashears,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tmSJOwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Photographs and firsthand accounts chronicle the 1996 Everest expedition that claimed eight lives.,2003,4.01,256,32
9780792273639,079227363X,In Focus,National Geographic Greatest Portraits,National Geographic Society (U.S.),Photography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PACcQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of nearly three hundred photographs from ""National Geographic,"" representing the work of more than one hundred fifty acclaimed photographers, captures portrait images of people from around the world.",2004,4.25,504,753
9780794503291,0794503292,Gulliver's Travels,,,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JPlliDi0nbUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This new edition of Swift's satiric classic is based on the 1726 text-the edition textual scholars now consider the most authoritative.,2003,3.34,64,13
9780800614287,0800614283,Liturgies of the Western Church,,Bard Thompson,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s8nfEy1H8QcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The liturgies of the Word and the Lord's Supper that are included in this volume range from those of the church fathers Justin Martyr and Hippolytus through the Roman Mass (in both Latin and English), to the great Reformation liturgies of Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Knox, Baxter, and Wesley, as well as the Middleburg Liturgy of the English Puritans and the Westminster Directory. In addition to his translations, Thompson draws upon copies of many original documents to insure accuracy. An introduction, which places the liturgy within its tradition, accompanies each text.",1980,3.96,434,47
9780800637149,0800637143,Introduction to World Religions,,Christopher Hugh Partridge,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7lEFyGiP5r8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Objective, authoritative and lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 full-colour photographs, maps and diagrams, Introduction to World Religions will be widely welcomed by all those seeking to understand the complexity and diversity of the world's religious landscape.",2005,3.68,495,42
9780800638184,0800638182,How to Think Theologically,,Howard W. Stone;James O. Duke,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yjnCwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A second edition of a 1996 volume has been fully updated and expanded with new resources, examples, vignettes, diagnostic exercises and case studies; addresses the how and why of theological sources, moves and methods; and guides readers into the authors' own theological roots and then into major theological topics through real-life case studies. Original.",2006,3.65,142,222
9780800730307,0800730305,Letters of Saint Augustine,,Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.);John Leinenweber,Christian saints,,"The selections gathered in this volume are social and business letters written during the period of St. Augustine's monastic retirement, and reflect his multifaceted obligations and concerns as bishop, counselor, preacher, and judge. Of timeless interest, his ideas have had a lasting impact on theology, philosophy, and Western religion.",1992,4.42,255,19
9780800783365,0800783360,The Screwtape Letters/Book & Study Guide,,C. S. Lewis,,,,1978,4.22,172,90
9780800793616,0800793617,Always Enough,God's Miraculous Provision Among the Poorest Children on Earth,Rolland Baker;Heidi Baker,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oPYCNFCUbGwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discover God's modern miracles on the mission field in Mozambique--and how you, too, can experience his limitless love and power!",2003,4.45,192,822
9780800809638,0800809637,The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion,10 Stories by the Author of Dracula,Bram Stoker,Fiction,,,1973,3.44,224,21
9780800871864,0800871863,Silence,,Shūsaku Endō,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tQ-CAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sustained by dreams of glorious martyrdom, a seventeenth-century Purtuguese missionary in Japan administers to the outlawed Christians until Japanese authorities capture him and force him to watch the torture of his followers, promising to stop if he will renounce Christ.",1980,4.08,201,16188
9780801435300,0801435307,"""Gorgias"" and ""Phaedrus""","Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Politics",Plato,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vBmKQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato's Greek prose, James H. Nichols Jr., offers precise yet unusually readable translations of two great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric. The Gorgias presents an intransigent argument that justice is superior to injustice: To the extent that suffering an injustice is preferable to committing an unjust act. The dialogue contains some of Plato's most significant and famous discussions of major political themes, and focuses dramatically and with unrivaled intensity on Socrates as a political thinker and actor. Featuring some of Plato's most soaringly lyrical passages, the Phaedrus investigates the soul's erotic longing and its relationship to the whole cosmos, as well as inquiring into the nature of rhetoric and the problem of writing. Nichols's attention to dramatic detail brings the dialogues to life. Plato's striking variety in conversational address (names and various terms of relative warmth and coolness) is carefully reproduced, as is alteration in tone and implication even in the short responses. The translations render references to the gods accurately and non-monotheistically for the first time, and include a fascinating variety of oaths and invocations. A general introduction on rhetoric from the Greeks to the present shows the problematic relation of rhetoric to philosophy and politics, states the themes that unite the two dialogues, and outlines interpretive suggestions that are then developed more fully for each dialogue. The twin dialogues reveal both the private and the political rhetoric emphatic in Plato's philosophy, yet often ignored in commentaries on it. Nichols believes that Plato's thought on rhetoric has been largely misunderstood, and he uses his translations as an opportunity to reconstruct the classical position on right relations between thought and public activity.",1998,4.41,233,15
9780801489785,0801489784,The River Runs Black,The Environmental Challenge to China's Future,Elizabeth Economy,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5FEraqsGy6gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced greatly increasing rates of pollution. Elizabeth Economy examines the growing environmental crisis and its implications for future development.,2004,3.81,337,133
9780801868221,080186822X,ADHD in Adulthood,"A Guide to Current Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment",Margaret Weiss;Lily Trokenberg Hechtman;Gabrielle Weiss,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KuYvJBoB6vQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""An excellent resource... [it] provides comprehensive, accessible information both for clinicians and for informed lay persons."" -- Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic",2001,3.4,376,5
9780801870569,0801870569,Berlin Diary,"The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941",William L. Shirer,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ExOVUEzmCo8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day, eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is now available in a new paperback edition. CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s—specifically those sections dealing with the collapse of the European democracies and the rise of Nazi Germany. Berlin Diary first appeared in 1941, and the timing was perfect. The energy, the passion, the electricity in it were palpable. The book was an instant success, and it became the frame of reference against which thoughtful Americans judged the rush of events in Europe. It exactly matched journalist to event: the right reporter at the right place at the right time. It stood, and still stands, as so few books have ever done—a pure act of journalistic witness.",2002,4.29,627,3494
9780801882678,0801882672,The Odyssey,,Homer,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4tvnoOz-41sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.,2005,3.75,472,54
9780801883941,0801883946,"Right Stuff, Wrong Sex",America's First Women in Space Program,Margaret A. Weitekamp,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bT8HU-BpiwkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,space program and the rise of the women's movement in America.,2005,3.8,256,32
9780801959318,0801959314,Infinite Jests,The Lighter Side of Science Fiction,Robert Silverberg,"Science fiction, American",,,1974,4.12,231,8
9780802130167,080213016X,Quiet Days in Clichy,,Henry Miller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pzSgm88YFCYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Describes the experiences of two American writers living in Paris and their encounters with French prostitutes,1987,3.69,154,3237
9780802130365,0802130364,The Malady of Death,,Marguerite Duras,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZDHywAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a ""she,"" a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn love. It isn't a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he wants to learn to try . . .This beautifully wrought erotic novel is an extended haiku on the meaning of love, ""perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe,"" and of its absence, ""the malady of death."" ""The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in this work, thanks to Duras' unparalleled art of reinventing the most familiar words, of weighing their meaning."" - Le Monde; ""Deceptively simple and Racinian in its purity, condensed to the essential."" - Translation Review.",1988,3.86,60,1280
9780802130792,0802130798,"The Bald Soprano, and Other Plays",,Eugène Ionesco,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WvvCJY7UPE8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Four original plays by French author Eugène Ionesco.,1982,4.04,160,5459
9780802131355,0802131352,India Song,,Marguerite Duras,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2m160YyDxx4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Lahore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism.",1988,3.61,146,277
9780802131805,0802131808,The Blind Owl,,Sadegh Hedayat;Ṣādiq Hidāyat,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CuHwwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A young man drifts into despair and madness after losing a mysterious lover.,1989,3.98,148,6200
9780802133113,0802133118,Practicalities,,Marguerite Duras,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xWgc9M7DCp8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""It's the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they talk only about the practicalities of life"", declares Duras in this collection of her transcribed conversations with friend Jerome Beaujour. Some of her free-ranging meditations are short and deceptively simple, while many are autobiographical and reveal her most intimate thoughts about motherhood, her struggle with alcohol, her love for a young man, and more.",1993,3.99,143,210
9780802133304,0802133304,Nova Express,,William S. Burroughs,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yRxBxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Nova Express takes William S. Burroughs's nightmarish future one step beyond The Soft Machine. The diabolical Nova criminals have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. It's up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word-and-imagery machine of these control addicts” before it's too late.,1992,3.68,192,2480
9780802134103,0802134106,Edie,American Girl,Jean Stein,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nSk4pPeDsukC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the short life of Edie Sedgwick and her rise to become one of the Warhol superstars, as viewed by her family and such personalities as Capote, Vidal, and Warhol.",1994,4.13,564,4518
9780802134905,0802134904,"The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989",,Samuel Beckett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iUwStqNL3CUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Gathers the Nobel Prize winning poet and dramatist's short prose into one volume that affords the reader a view of Beckett's development as an artist,1995,4.29,336,1764
9780802135223,0802135226,The Passion,,Jeanette Winterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Dl6gOz07zmsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Passion consumes Henri, a chef with Napoleon's army, and Villanelle, who has lost her heart to a married noblewoman, until the two meet at the gates of Moscow and form a bond based on bitter loss",1987,4.11,176,14948
9780802135780,0802135781,Sexing the Cherry,,Jeanette Winterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P4hcA18236YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Interweaving elements of fantasy and history, this novel chronicles the adventures of Jordan, who lives with his mother by the Thames during the reign of Charles II, as he follows his dreams to the end of the world, and beyond",1989,3.83,167,11567
9780802136688,0802136680,This boy's life,,Tobias Wolff,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JCl2p6rnB9IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author chronicles the tumultuous events of his early life, discussing his parents' divorce, the nomadic wanderings with his mother that followed, and the strange and eventful process of growing up.",1999,3.98,304,22157
9780802136831,0802136834,The Six Wives of Henry VIII,,Alison Weir,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9zYYi1v8tnIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Profiles the oft-married English monarch and the women that came to define him through marriage, detailing their little-known histories and personalities. Reprint.",2000,4.11,643,53977
9780802137784,0802137784,Last Words,The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs,William S. Burroughs,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gRxjTBcjRm8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Documenting the final months of this literary and countercultural icon, these extremely personal reflections confront U.S. drug policy, the state of the human race, and a host of political and social ills, while meditating on his own approaching death. Reprint.",2001,3.98,273,479
9780802138255,080213825X,Four Blondes,,Candace Bushnell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9GbH3006EvQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Four very different women endure romantic intrigues, betrayals, liaisons, and victories as they seek love amid the playgrounds of the rich and powerful.",2001,2.82,256,23143
9780802138293,0802138292,The House of Morgan,An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance,Ron Chernow,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MBqrkKYOQnQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A startling portrait of big money, big politics, and big ambitions follows the checkered fortunes of the Morgan empire from Victorian England to the shores of America, where it has continued to exert influence for 150 years. winner of the National Book Award. reprint.",2001,4.07,812,4669
9780802138880,0802138888,The Eternal Frontier,An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples,Tim Flannery,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R9HMO7b74IkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A paleontologist offers an ecological tour of North America, from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago to the present.",2002,4.05,432,554
9780802139702,0802139701,Parliament of Whores,A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government,P. J. O'Rourke,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=59jumAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Called ""an everyman's guide to Washington"" (The New York Times), P. J. O'Rourke's savagely funny and national best-seller Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by the renowned political writer Andrew Ferguson -- showing us that although the names and the players have changed, the game is still the same. Parliament of Whores is an exuberant, broken-field run through the ethical foibles, pork-barrel flimflam, and bureaucratic bullrorfle inside the Beltway that leaves no sacred cow unskewered and no politically correct sensitivities unscorched. ""Highly pungent and wickedly accurate observations ... [from a] boisterous, pedal-to-the-floor humorist."" -- The New York Times Book Review ""Outrageous ... It is insulting, inflammatory, profane, and absolutely great reading."" -- The Washington Post Book World ""A gonzo civics book ... O'Rourke is like a trophy hunter let loose in an unguarded zoo."" -- Chicago Tribune",2003,4.01,240,2714
9780802141248,0802141242,Charlie Wilson's War,,George Crile,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BYBFUTUSX-EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Describes how, after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson persuaded his colleagues to fund the CIA's efforts to arm the mujahideen and recounts the repercussions of that covert operation.",2003,4,560,5803
9780802141446,0802141447,Monster,The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member,Sanyika Shakur,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RXSKvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of L.A.'s most notorious gang leaders takes readers inside the world of gang wars, recounting his ascension through the gang hierarchy, surviving attacks by rival gangs, and life in prison.",1993,3.96,400,4064
9780802141682,0802141684,Layer Cake,Life and Thought in Mexico,J. J. Connolly,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=moH7-dVMlLcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Planning to retire on his thirtieth birthday, a drug dealer is given by his boss the opportunity of getting out of the business if he will track down the runaway daughter of his boss's old friend, but his search is complicated by the theft of a fortune in Ecstasy tablets, an angry mob of neo-Nazis, and by a series of betrayals. A first novel. Original. 20,000 first printing. (A Sony Pictures film, releasing Fall 2004, starring Daniel Craig, Michael Gambon, & Colm Meaney) (Suspense)",2004,3.99,344,965
9780802141903,0802141900,Reservation Blues,,Sherman Alexie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zDVLPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Robert Johnson passes his enchanted guitar to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire, an epic journey of redemption begins that will take the storyteller and musician from the reservation, to Seattle, to Manhattan, and all points in between. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.",2005,3.98,306,10879
9780802142719,0802142710,Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon,,Tom Stoppard,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m4xFQCXVYlMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mr. Moon attempts to make a grand statement by setting off a bomb, but the bomb explodes with the force of a small balloon, and he dies later when the husband of a woman killed earlier by Moon's carriage throws a bomb into his lap.",2006,3.4,200,185
9780802142849,0802142842,Cold Mountain,A Novel,Charles Frazier;George Vithoulkas,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yKjwmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Inman, an injured and disillusioned Confederate soldier, embarks on a harrowing journey home to his sweetheart, Ada, who herself is struggling to run the farm left her at her father's sudden death.",2006,3.85,356,201921
9780802150424,080215042X,The Labyrinth of Solitude,And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre,Octavio Paz,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ei5m7_T2G80C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Examines Mexican character and culture, pre-Columbian societies, and relations between Mexico and the United States",1985,4.15,398,5013
9780802150455,0802150454,Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul,,Tom Stoppard,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kyd5JkJAnn4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Stoppard's latest plays deal with the contrasting circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, and with assorted moral problems",1978,3.9,188,186
9780802151100,0802151108,"Exit the King, The Killer, and Macbett",Three Plays,Eugène Ionesco,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XoeGOqalOCkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents three plays by twentieth-century dramatist Eugene Ionesco, including ""Exit the King,"" which traces the final hours of the once-great King Berenger the First; ""The Killer,"" a study of pure evil; and ""Macbett,"" a spoof of the Shakespearean tragedy.",1985,4.11,105,174
9780802151544,080215154X,"Destroy, She Said",,Marguerite Duras,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HmklOjlIU3EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance among the four serves to obscure an underlying violence, which, when the curtain of civilization is drawn aside, reveals in her fellow guests a very contemporary, perhaps even new, form of insanity. Like many of Duras's novels, Destroy, She Said owes much to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and description. There are recurring moods and motifs from the Duras repertoire: eroticism, lassitude, stifled desire, a beautiful woman, a mysterious forest, a desolate provincial hotel. Included in this volume is an in-depth interview with Duras by Jacques Rivette and Jean Narboni.",1986,3.68,133,532
9780802151803,0802151809,Sexus,The Rosy Crucifixion I,Henry Miller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jzjwvQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first novel of Miller's frank, autobiographical trilogy uses dream, fantasy, and burlesque to portray the life of a struggling writer in preWorld War I New York",1987,4.04,506,7024
9780802151827,0802151825,Tropic of Capricorn,,Henry Miller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oK7U5DbFA3gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborhoods and Miller’s outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.",1961,3.82,348,13549
9780802431486,0802431488,The 10 Commandments of Parenting,The Do's and Don'ts for Raising Great Kids,H. Edwin Young,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q1HxjgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawn from years of counseling and the author's own parenting experiences, this valuable resource, filled with Scripture passages and accompanying practical applications, provides principles for raising and nurturing children in these uncertain and rapidly changing times. Original.",2005,4,224,25
9780802449245,0802449247,Little Pilgrim's Progress,From John Bunyan's Classic,Helen L. Taylor,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lxBomAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents an allegorical account of the Christian journey through life.,2006,4.25,336,1945
9780802713520,0802713521,E=mc2,A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation,David Bodanis,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y5FwQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Generations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today—governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television's cathode ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings. In this book, David Bodanis writes the ""biography"" of one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history—that the realms of energy and matter are inescapably linked—and, through his skill as a writer and teacher, he turns a seemingly impenetrable theory into a dramatic human achievement and an uncommonly good story.",2000,4.09,352,157
9780802714626,0802714625,Longitude,The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time,Dava Sobel;Neil Armstrong,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0v6DBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes.",2005,3.96,192,43661
9780802715401,0802715400,The -Alchemist's Kitchen,Extraordinary Potions & Curious Notions,Guy Ogilvy,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3U3B7XPxU2sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Initiates the reader into some of the key concepts and practices of this extraordinary field of study.,2006,4.02,58,131
9780802715524,0802715524,A History of the World in 6 Glasses,,Tom Standage,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sSugAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An offbeat history of the world traces the story of humankind from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century from the perspective of six different drinks--beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola--describing their pervasive influence during pivotal eras of world history, from humankind's adoption of agriculture to the advent of globalization. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.",2006,3.76,336,13105
9780802775931,0802775934,The Illustrated Longitude,The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time,Dava Sobel;William J.H. Andrewes,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eKofHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a captain could pinpoint his ship's location at sea. All too often throughout the ages of exploration, voyages ended in disaster when crew and cargo were either lost at sea or destroyed upon the rocks of an unexpected landfall. Thousands of lives and the fortunes of nations hung on a resolution to the longitude problem. To encourage a solution, governments established prizes for anyone whose method or device proved successful. The largest reward of £20,000 - truly a king's ransom - was offered by Britain's Parliament in 1714. The scientific establishment - from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton - had been certain that a celestial answer would be found and invested untold effort in this pursuit. By contrast, John Harrison imagined and built the unimaginable: a clock that told perfect time at sea, known today as the chronometer. Harrison's trials and tribulations during his forty-year quest to win the prize are the culmination of this remarkable story. The Illustrated Longitude brings a new and important dimension to Dava Sobel's celebrated story. It contains the entire original narrative of Longitude, redesigned to accompany 183 images chosen by William Andrewes - from portraints of every important figure in the story to maps and diagrams, scientifc instruments, and John Harrison's remarkable sea clocks themselves. Andrewes's elegant captions and sidebars on scientific and historical events tell their own story of longitude.",2003,4.09,224,166
9780802789471,0802789471,Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude,,Kevin O'Malley,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9-fBHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Once upon a time there was ... a princess who loved all her beautiful ponies, a cool muscle dude who rode an awesome motorcycle. But a giant came and started stealing them! The dude came to fight the ugly, smelly giant with his mighty sword. She turned gold into thread while she cried for Buttercup, her favorite pony. And he took the princess's gold thread for payment The end! Wait a minute! That's not how it ends! Oh no? Once upon a time there was a boy and a girl who had to tell a fairy tale to the class, but they couldn't agree on the story. Will everyone live happily ever after?",2005,4.08,32,1730
9780802806413,0802806414,The Pilgrim's Regress,,C. S. Lewis,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3ZWvQLtNgtgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion, The Pilgrim's Regress is, in a sense, the record of Lewis's own search for meaning and spiritual satisfaction -- a search that eventually led him to Christianity. Here is the story of the pilgrim John and his odyssey to an enchanting island which has created in him an intense longing 7mdash; a mysterious, sweet desire. John's pursuit of this desire takes him through adventures with such people as Mr. Enlightenment, Media Halfways, Mr. Mammon, Mother Kirk, Mr. Sensible, and Mr. Humanist and through such cities as Thrill and Eschropolis as well as the Valley of Humiliation. Though the dragons and giants here are different from those in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Lewis's allegory performs the same function of enabling the author to say simply and through fantasy what would otherwise have demanded a full-length philosophy of religion.",1981,3.86,219,5870
9780802829665,080282966X,A Time to Embrace,"Same-Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics",William Stacy Johnson,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i9AQWs7dco0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"As rhetoric continues to heat up on both sides of the debate over same-gender unions, clear, reasoned statements are in short supply. Johnson presents a comprehensive case for acknowledging the legitimacy of same-gender unions in law, politics, and especially religion.",2006,4.2,330,44
9780802831620,0802831621,Jesus and the Eyewitnesses,The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony,Richard Bauckham,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IU37uAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This momentous book argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the accounts of Jesus circulated as anonymous community traditions, asserting instead that they were transmitted in the names of the original eyewitness. To drive home this controversial point, Bauckham draws on internal literary evidence, the use of personal names in first-century Jewish Palestine, and recent developments in the understanding of oral tradition. ""Jesus and the Eyewitnesses"" also taps into the rich resources of modern study of memory, especially in cognitive psychology, refuting the conclusions of the form critics and calling New Testament scholarship to make a clean break with this long-dominant tradition. Finally, Bauckham challenges readers to end the classic division between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith, proposing instead the Jesus of testimony as presented by the Gospels. Sure to ignite heated debate on the precise character of the testimony about Jesus, ""Jesus and the Eyewitnesses"" is a groundbreaking work that will be valued by scholars, students, and all who seek to understand the origins of the Gospels.",2006,4.3,538,632
9780802839725,080283972X,The Early History of God,Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel,Mark S. Smith,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1yM3AuBh4AsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Foreword by Patrick D. Miller In this remarkable, acclaimed history of the development of monotheism, Mark S. Smith explains how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined monotheistic faith with Yahweh as sole god. Repudiating the traditional view that Israel was fundamentally different in culture and religion from its Canaanite neighbors, this provocative book argues that Israelite religion developed, at least in part, from the religion of Canaan. Drawing on epigraphic and archaeological sources, Smith cogently demonstrates that Israelite religion was not an outright rejection of foreign, pagan gods but, rather, was the result of the progressive establishment of a distinctly separate Israelite identity. This thoroughly revised second edition ofThe Early History of God includes a substantial new preface by the author and a foreword by Patrick D. Miller.",2002,4.06,243,217
9780803261839,0803261837,Pirates of Venus,,Edgar Rice Burroughs,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PrnrGJ1F0AMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Astronaut Carson Napier crashes on Venus.,1934,3.69,179,1203
9780803266551,0803266553,The Coming of the Fairies,,Arthur Conan Doyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hxh824guoDcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Based on the Cottingley photographs, which showed two girls playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies, Doyle argues for the authenticity of fairies and discusses the implications of their existence.",2006,3.39,189,197
9780803273320,0803273320,The Lost Continent,The Story of Atlantis,C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i6nntCYCpsAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A fictionalized account of the last days of the doomed island of Atlantis.,2002,3.78,260,19
9780803283855,0803283857,Black Elk Speaks,Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux,Black Elk;John Gneisenau Neihardt;Alexis N. Petri;Lori Utecht,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LHXWwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Black Elk Speaks is the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk’s experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind. When Black Elk received his great vision, white settlers were invading the Lakotas’ homeland, decimating buffalo herds, and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas’ way of life. The Lakotas fought fiercely to retain their freedom and way of life, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee. Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time, however. As related by Neihardt, Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and the earth have made this book a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, a history of a Native nation, or an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable. This new edition features two additional essays by John G. Neihardt that further illuminate his experience with Black Elk; an essay by Alexis Petri, great-granddaughter of John G. Neihardt, that celebrates Neihardt’s remarkable accomplishments; and a look at the legacy of the special relationship between Neihardt and Black Elk, written by Lori Utecht, editor of Knowledge and Opinion: Essays and Literary Criticism of John G. Neihardt. For more information on John G. Neihardt, visit www.neihardt.com",2004,4.14,270,9916
9780803292451,0803292457,A Lie and a Libel,The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,Binjamin W. Segel,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_Jc4n1s0_ugC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A strange and repugnant mystery of the twentieth century is the durability of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a clumsy forgery purporting to be evidence of the supposed Jewish plot to rule the world. Though it has been exposed as a forgery, some apprentice brownshirt is always rediscovering it, the latest in a line of gullibility that includes, most famously, Henry Ford. Recently it has been translated into Japanese and circulates once again with renewed virulence in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In 1924 in Germany the Jewish author and journalist Binjamin Segel wrote a major historical exposé of the fraud and later edited his work into a shorter form, published as Welt-Krieg, Welt-Revolution, Welf-Verschwörung, Welt-Oberregierung (Berlin 1926). Translator Richard S. Levy, a specialist on the history of anti-semitism, provides an extensive introduction on the circumstances of Segel's work and the story of the Protocols up to the 1990s, including an explanation of its continuing psychological appeal and political function.",1996,3.56,148,7
9780803723184,0803723180,William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,,Bruce Coville;Tim Raglin,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0FMIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Retells, in simplified prose, William Shakespeare's play about the misadventures which result from trickery and deceit.",2003,4.11,48,138
9780803724624,0803724624,William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,,,Juvenile Fiction,,A simplified prose retelling of Shakespeare's play about two young people who defy their warring families' prejudices and dare to fall in love.,1999,3.97,40,175
9780803729780,0803729782,Time for Ballet,,Adèle Geras;Shelagh McNicholas,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tVoFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tilly, who loves ballet, plays the part of a cat in her class's dance recital.",2004,3.71,32,68
9780804001489,0804001480,House of Incest,,Anaïs Nin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G5kDYAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A prose poem celebrating femininity, exploring the frustrated ambitions of the writer, and describing incest.",1989,3.8,72,1774
9780804006941,0804006946,A Woman Speaks,"The Lectures, Seminars, and Interviews of Anais Nin",Anaïs Nin;Evelyn J. Hinz,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-d5sPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this book Anais Nin speaks with warmth and urgency on those themes which have always been closest to her: relationship, creativity, the struggle for wholeness, the unveiling of a woman, the artist as magician, women reconstructing the world, moving from the dream outward, and experiencing our lives to the fullest possible extent.",1975,4.16,288,184
9780804104555,0804104557,The 13th directorate,,Barry Chubin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JlUKN_dbwNsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nick Delan, a U.S. secret agent, is ordered to assassinate the man likely to be elected U.S. president, and a top operative planted by the KGB",1989,2.62,0,8
9780804111645,0804111642,The Killer Department,Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History,Robert Cullen,"Insane, Criminal and dangerous",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UuoNAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Describes the murder spree of the Soviet Union's most brutal serial killer and recounts how Rostov detective Viktor Burakov hurdled the obstacles put in his way by an archaic Soviet system in order to bring the killer to justice. Reprint.,1993,4.03,258,92
9780804114608,0804114609,Patty Jane's House of Curl,,Lorna Landvik,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q6NKKeV9s5YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Centering around a Minneapolis beauty parlor that also functions as a women's support group, this novel explores the loves, losses, hopes, and victories experienced by Patty Jane and Harriet, two eccentric sisters.",1999,3.86,304,8741
9780804118217,0804118213,Tending Lives,Nurses on the Medical Front,Echo Heron,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mQTd5KS2sq4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recounts the dramatic experiences of nurses across the country, from the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building to a movie set",1998,4.27,416,381
9780804119184,080411918X,A Patchwork Planet,,Anne Tyler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1niOf6PUf1wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Follows a loveable loser and occasional thief as he tries to reform under the influence of a decent young woman.,2001,3.79,320,11090
9780804119436,0804119430,Horse Heaven,,Jane Smiley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WyHQMVx77MMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in the exciting world of thoroughbred racing, this lavishly detailed novel by the author of A Thousand Acres follows a group of trainers, jockeys, and ""track brats"" on a two-year journey through the racing cycle. Reprint.",2003,3.88,640,4504
9780804717113,0804717117,The Epic of Gilgamesh,,Maureen Gallery Kovacs,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YYxEd9c0EUYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia, following him through adventures and encounters with men and gods alike. Yet the central concerns of the Epic lie deeper than the lively and exotic story line: they revolve around a man’s eternal struggle with the limitations of human nature, and encompass the basic human feelings of lonliness, friendship, love, loss, revenge, and the fear of oblivion of death. These themes are developed in a distinctly Mesopotamian idiom, to be sure, but with a sensitivity and intensity that touch the modern reader across the chasm of three thousand years. This translation presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative.",1989,3.67,122,302
9780804718912,0804718911,The Consequences of Modernity,,Anthony Giddens,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C46N9wtBI0gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Based on the Raymond Fred West memorial lectures which the author delivered at Stanford University in April 1988.,1990,3.79,188,559
9780804721288,0804721289,Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back in,An Essay in Corporeal Semiotics,Brian Rotman,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BQujRAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,See:,1993,4.06,224,17
9780804741712,0804741719,"Human, All Too Human, I",,Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche;Gary Handwerk,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=etq_ab9t9qoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is the second volume to appear in an edition that will be the first complete, critical, and annotated English translation of all of Nietzsche’s work. Volume 2: Unfashionable Observations, translated by Richard T. Gray, was published in 1995. The edition is a new English translation, by various hands, of the celebrated Colli-Montinari edition, which has been acclaimed as one of the most important works of scholarship in the humanities in the last quarter century. The original Italian edition was simultaneously published in French, German, and Japanese. This volume of Human, All Too Human, the first of two parts, is the earliest of Nietzsche’s works in which his philosophical concerns and methodologies can be glimpsed. In this work Nietzsche began to establish the intellectual difference from his own cultural milieu and time that makes him our contemporary. Published in 1878, it marks both a stylistic and an intellectual shift away from Nietzsche’s own youthful affiliation with Romantic excesses of German thought and culture typified by Wagnerian opera.",2000,4.22,396,62
9780804833370,0804833370,The Golden Country,A Play About Christian Martyrs in Japan,Shusaku Endo;Shūsaku Endō,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rXrWNsPIPEAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The events described in this exciting and provocative three-act play, a companion piece to Endo’s highly acclaimed novel Silence, take place in 1633, nearly a hundred years after Christianity was introduced into Japan. By this time, Japanese Christians were being cruelly persecuted by the government; every Christian searched out was made to apostatize or suffer a slow, agonizing death. The central character of 'The Golden Country' is Father Christopher Ferreira, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary. Given shelter by a Christian farming community, everyone looks to him for help, including one of his chief persecutors. When, after cruel torture, Father Ferriera apostatizes to the disbelief of his Japanese converts, the play reaches a climax that is later capped only by the courage, nobility and love of the martyrs. Father Francis Mathy’s detailed Introduction to this tightly constructed drama, which poses basic questions about the meaning of faith, love and fate, provides valuable historical background.",2003,3.74,128,44
9780805016048,080501604X,The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness,,Erich Fromm,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YjR5Ve-zTcYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A study of man's destructive nature that utilizes evidence from psychoanalysis, neurophysiology, animal psychology, paleontology, and anthropology and is documented with clinical examples",1992,4.2,576,2104
9780805031492,0805031499,Escape from Freedom,,Erich Fromm,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d2g8L1sLykwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author analyzes what he considers to be contemporary man's fear of positive freedom and willingness to submit to totalitarianism.,1994,4.24,301,6825
9780805059335,0805059334,Clown,,Quentin Blake,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8m6mB0S8LmYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After being discarded, Clown makes his way through town having a series of adventures as he tries to find a home for himself and his other toy friends.",1998,3.97,32,369
9780805060164,0805060162,Crime and Punishment in America,,Elliott Currie,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RQF0yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Argues that a policy of mass incarceration is ineffective and that prison expenditures could have greater impact on criminal violence if spent on prevention and rehabilitation programs,1998,3.82,240,65
9780805063394,0805063390,The Magic Journey,A Novel,John Nichols,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1yFJcnH19CgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During the forty years in which a rural southwestern backwater is transformed into a boomtown and industrial mecca, the townspeople try to adjust to their loss of land and heritage.",2000,3.91,528,433
9780805063417,0805063412,Robert Frost,A Life,Jay Parini,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1MryAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Based on interviews with the poet's friends and drawing from Frost's personal archives, a definitive account of Robert Frost's life examines his varied literary career, tracing his rise to world fame and offering close readings of his works. Reprint.",2000,4.13,514,249
9780805063745,0805063749,The Milagro Beanfield War,A Novel,John Nichols,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wf_wiwuNuOQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Violence erupts in the poor town of Milagro when one poor dirt farmer impulsively taps the main irrigation channel. Reprint.,2000,4.09,456,8841
9780805063899,0805063897,Nickel and Dimed,On (Not) Getting By in America,Barbara Ehrenreich,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s642sbWvLNgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The sharp social critic and author of Blood Rites looks underneath the illusion of American prosperity at poverty and hopelessness in America. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.",2002,3.62,240,163279
9780805065374,0805065377,Eight Men Out,The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series,Eliot Asinof,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kQZYiLOJ8KYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as ""the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!"" First published in 1963, Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic. Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the Series in Cincinnati. Mr. Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the conniving, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. Moving behind the scenes, he perceptively examines the motives and backgrounds of the players and the conditions that made the improbable fix all too possible. Here, too, is a graphic picture of the American underworld that managed the fix, the deeply shocked newspapermen who uncovered the story, and the war-exhausted nation that turned with relief and pride to the Series, only to be rocked by the scandal. Far more than a superbly told baseball story, this is a compelling slice of American history in the aftermath of World War I and at the cusp of the Roaring Twenties.",2000,4.02,336,8287
9780805069372,0805069372,John Adams,"The American Presidents Series: The 2nd President, 1797-1801",John P. Diggins,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sa_-58fpwpkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Profiles John Adams as an ideal successor to Washington, citing the qualities of his character and Federalist policies that enabled him to address the challenges that took place during his presidency, and crediting him with such achievements as the creation of the Department of the Navy and the establishment of a solvent treasury. 25,000 first printing.",2003,3.88,224,341
9780805069495,0805069496,Ulysses S. Grant,"The American Presidents Series: The 18th President, 1869-1877",Josiah Bunting,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZAGreVhVQPgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Traces the life and presidency of Ulyssses S. Grant and discusses why he was undervalued as a president.,2004,3.85,208,391
9780805069853,0805069852,You Come Too,Favorite Poems for Readers of All Ages,Robert Frost,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gZWM6m8n9K0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An introduction to Robert Frost features an abundance of poems, selected by the poet himself, to be read and enjoyed by readers and poets of all ages. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2002,4.16,92,77
9780805069860,0805069860,The Poetry of Robert Frost,"The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged",Robert Frost,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UQX4zAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From ""The Road Not Taken"" to ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,"" he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him ""the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living,"" and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers. The only comprehensive volume of Frost's verse available, comprising all eleven volumes of his poems, this collection has been the standard Frost compendium since its first publication in 1969.",2002,4.31,607,1361
9780805071061,0805071067,Rosa,,Nikki Giovanni,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3pulAL0EgQIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides the story of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama set in motion all the events of the civil rights movements that resulted in the end of the segregated South.,2005,4.35,40,5942
9780805072839,0805072837,Media Unlimited,How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives,Todd Gitlin,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TTXgno7gX-QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines our media-dominated world through the vast array of manufactured images and sounds that define our civilization, from video games to elevator music, action movies to reality shows, and punditry to Internet exhibitionists.",2003,3.55,256,112
9780805073669,0805073663,In Harm's Way,The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors,Doug Stanton,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oBaI6MnPHxcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the worst disaster in U.S. naval history, describing heroism in the face of persistant shark attacks and hypothermia after the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in the South Pacific in the final days of World War II.",2003,4.28,384,15946
9780805073874,0805073876,Shakespeare's Secret,,Elise Broach,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XQ2TorgnK_UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school. Jr Lib Guild.",2005,3.87,256,7234
9780805076233,0805076239,The Second World War,A Complete History,Martin Gilbert,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V4vPG5Zi6AsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came to an end on V-J Day--August 14, 1945--it had involved every major power and become global in its reach. In the final accounting, it would turn out to be, in both human terms and material resources, the costliest war, taking the lives of forty million people.",2004,4.19,928,853
9780805077810,0805077812,The Nubian Prince,A Novel,Juan Bonilla,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TS3oZr1VxekC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A comic odyssey of a hapless hero ensnared by globalization, humanitarian aid, and the international sex trade, this story takes place in a pitiless world where the have-nots will do anything to become haves, while the privileged don't know what to live f",2006,3.56,258,61
9780805078428,0805078428,"The Historical Atlas of New York City, Second Edition",A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History,Eric Homberger,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q8EgsHmSEAsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A richly illustrated reference chronicles the history of New York City, from early Native American culture to the present day, capturing the events, inhabitants, neighborhoods, ethnic diversity, and more in a collection of full-color maps, period photographs, drawings, charts, and concise essays. Original. 25,000 first printing.",2005,4.05,192,290
9780805078985,0805078983,Messenger of Truth,A Maisie Dobbs Novel,Jacqueline Winspear,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8AAHTpnyvdoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1931 London, when artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death before the opening of an exhibition of his work and police refuse to investigate, his journalist sister Georgina enlists the aid of psychologist Maisie Dobbs to uncover the truth.",2006,3.99,322,15111
9780805079135,0805079130,Saint-Exupery,A Biography,Stacy Schiff,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h-gk5R0OmI0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the life of the French author and pilot, depicts his complex personality, and looks at his contributions to the war effort.",2006,4.05,560,195
9780805080490,080508049X,The Black Cauldron,,Lloyd Alexander,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tbwsTtuHmX4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The land of Prydain is threatened by the evil Arawn and his band of invincible warriors.,2006,4.14,182,51994
9780805080513,0805080511,Taran Wanderer,,Lloyd Alexander,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=19a89tylSp8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The fourth book of the Prydain cycle tells of the adventures that befell Taran when he went in search of his birthright and the truth about himself.,2006,4.14,222,33286
9780805080520,080508052X,The High King,,Lloyd Alexander,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zIvzT2k1mvkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this final part of the chronicle of Prydain, the forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero.",2006,4.24,253,47268
9780805080537,0805080538,The Foundling,And Other Tales of Prydain,Lloyd Alexander,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2YaReDdT0csC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents six short stories dealing with events that preceded the birth of Taran, a key figure in the author's five works on the Kingdom of Prydain.",2006,3.93,98,3563
9780805081459,0805081453,Travels in the Scriptorium,A Novel,Paul Auster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6MzR9BfSXhMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An elderly man awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar room, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and as he waits, visited by a series of people who give him frustrating hints about his identity and his past, he peruses the relics on the desk, including a mysterious manuscript about another prisoner in an alternate world. 100,000 first printing.",2007,3.23,145,6492
9780805204247,0805204245,The diaries of Franz Kafka,,Franz Kafka;Max Brod,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QymFw7e8oRYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1965,4.23,345,8
9780805209068,0805209069,The diaries,1910-1923,Franz Kafka,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j6WIHMphOD4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Journal entries share Kafka's thoughts and observations during the ten years before his death,1988,4.23,521,2028
9780805210538,0805210539,"The Trial of God (as it was Held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)",A Play,Elie Wiesel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8bH2Qt4QdaIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A drama set in a medieval village where three itinerant Jewish actors put God on trial to answer for his silence during a pogrom considers post-Holocaust issues,1995,4.13,208,915
9780805210552,0805210555,The Complete Stories,,Franz Kafka,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ATl4i59stCMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects the entire body of Kafka's short stories and parables, reflecting his concern for modern man's search for identity, place, and purpose",1995,4.35,486,19625
9780805210774,0805210776,"The Magic Orange Tree, and Other Haitian Folktales",,Diane Wolkstein;Elsa Henriquez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T_gDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of folktales gathered by the author in Haiti with comments on Haitian folklore.,1978,4.16,224,120
9780805211160,0805211160,How to Be a Jewish Parent,A Practical Handbook for Family Life,Anita Diamant;Karen Kushner,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=esGb1piokh0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"How can I make the holidays interesting and meaningful to my child? Should I send my child to a Jewish day school? A Jewish summer camp? What kind of synagogue is best for my family? How do I plan a family trip to Israel or add Jewish heritage sites when traveling around the country or around the world? If you are, or hope to be, a Jewish parent in more than name, you have a lot of decisions to make. So many choices! But you can have no better guide to this wealth of opportunity than Anita Diamant. The author of popular books on Jewish weddings and baby rituals, Diamant now joins with family therapist Karen Kushner to help you through the next steps. They give creative, practical answers to these and many other questions, provide guidance on how to foster Jewish decision making for children of all ages, describe how to make your home a ""Jewish space,"" and explain the importance of synagogue membership, holiday celebrations, community service, and other family activities. Diamant and Kushner draw from many sources to describe the practices, customs, and values that go into creating a Jewish home. They combine insights from Jewish tradition with contemporary developmental thinking about how children learn and grow. They provide addresses (including Web sites) where you can find specific information and other resources. And since experience may be the best of all teachers, they share their own and other parents' stories and observations. For Diamant and Kushner, the number-one goal ofHow to Be a Jewish Parentis to give parents (and grandparents) guideposts to raising joyful children within the rich tradition of the Jewish faith and culture. No Jewish family should be without it.",2000,3.95,352,50
9780805212075,0805212078,The Zürau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka,,Franz Kafka,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pk-zAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso. Illness set him free to write a series of philosophical fragments: some narratives, some single images, some parables. These “aphorisms” appeared, sometimes with a few words changed, in other writings–some of them as posthumous fragments published only after Kafka’s death in 1924. While working onK., his major book on Kafka, in the Bodleian Library, Roberto Calasso realized that the Zürau aphorisms, each written on a separate slip of very thin paper, numbered but unbound, represented something unique in Kafka’s opus–a work whose form he had created simultaneously with its content. The notebooks, freshly translated and laid out as Kafka had intended, are a distillation of Kafka at his most powerful and enigmatic. This lost jewel provides the reader with a fresh perspective on the collective work of a genius.",2006,3.76,160,615
9780805242164,0805242163,Emma Lazarus,,Esther H. Schor,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UqzfkGd0sMwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A definitive portrait of the iconoclastic poet and activist whose words are are set on the Statue of Liberty follows the complex life and times of Emma Lazarus, from her early literary success, to her roles as a feminist, Zionist, and renowned Jewish-American writer, based on previously undiscovered personal correspondence. 20,000 first printing.",2006,3.9,368,27
9780805242256,0805242252,The Origins of Totalitarianism,,Hannah Arendt,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W16oQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A political analysis of totalitarian societies, originally published in 1951, traces the nineteenth-century rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe and considers the institutions and operations of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, examining such phenomena as the transformation of classes into masses, the applications of propaganda, and the use of terror.",1951,4.27,674,74
9780805350869,0805350861,The Anatomy Coloring Book,,Wynn Kapit;Lawrence M. Elson,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gt0jRUTABWQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Includes bibliographical references and index,2002,4.25,400,1620
9780805359091,0805359095,Human Anatomy & Physiology,,Elaine Nicpon Marieb;Katja Hoehn,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RZ-7jgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,": With each edition of her top-selling Human Anatomy & Physiology text, Elaine N. Marieb draws on her own, unique experience as a full-time A&P professor and part-time nursing student to explain concepts and processes in a meaningful and memorable way. With the Seventh Edition, Dr. Marieb has teamed up with co-author Katja Hoehn to produce the most exciting edition yet, with beautifully-enhanced muscle illustrations, updated coverage of factual material and topic boxes, new coverage of high-interest topics such as Botox, designer drugs, and cancer treatment, and a comprehensive instructor and student media package. The Human Body: An Orientation, Chemistry Comes Alive, Cells: The Living Units, Tissue: The Living Fabric, The Integumentary System, Bones and Skeletal Tissues, The Skeleton, Joints, Muscles and Muscle Tissue, The Muscular System, Fundamentals of the Nervous System and Nervous Tissue, The Central Nervous System, The Peripheral Nervous System and Reflex Activity, The Autonomic Nervous System, The Special Senses, The Endocrine System, Blood, The Cardiovascular System: The Heart, The Cardiovascular System: Blood Vessels, The Lymphatic System, The Immune System: Innate and Adaptive Body Defensives, The Respiratory System, The Digestive System, Nutrition, Metabolism, and Body Temperature Regulation, The Urinary System, Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance, The Reproductive System, Pregnancy and Human Development, Heredity For all readers interested in human anatomy & physiology.",2007,4,1296,410
9780805372762,0805372768,Anatomy & Physiology Coloring Workbook,A Complete Study Guide,Elaine N. Marieb,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CWUMAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""This workbook is an excellent tool for use by itself or with any human anatomy & physiology text. Along with its review of the human body from microscopic to macroscopic levels, the workbook also includes clinically oriented activities. Practice makes perfect with a wide variety of exercises - ""At the clinic"" questions help you apply what you learn to real-life clinical settings; ""Incredible journey"" visualization exercises in each chapter summarize chapter content; the many written exercises include completion from a selection of key choices, matching terms or descriptions, labeling diagrams, true/false, and definition questions. Elimination questions require you to discover the similarities or dissimilarities among a number of structures or objects; more than 100 coloring exercises reinforce concepts through active learning."" - back cover.",2004,3.94,368,6
9780805390452,0805390456,The Feynman Lectures on Physics,,Richard Phillips Feynman;Robert B. Leighton;Matthew Linzee Sands,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FuhJAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This revised edition of Feynman's legendary lectures includes extensive corrections Feynman and his colleagues received and Caltech approved. This boxed set provides Volumes 1-3 together with Feynman's Tips on Physics making this the complete and definitive set of The Feynman Lectures on Physics.,2006,4.6,1552,6120
9780805390476,0805390472,The Feynman Lectures on Physics,,Richard Phillips Feynman;Robert B. Leighton;Matthew Linzee Sands,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AbruAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This revised edition of Feynman’s legendary lectures includes extensive corrections Feynman and his colleagues received and Caltech approved, making this the definitive edition ofThe Feynman Lectures on Physics.For all readers interested in physics.",1963,4.61,512,17
9780805390490,0805390499,The Feynman Lectures on Physics,,Richard Phillips Feynman;Robert B. Leighton;Matthew Linzee Sands,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_6XvAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This revised edition of Feynman’s legendary lectures includes extensive corrections Feynman and his colleagues received and Caltech approved, making this the definitive edition ofThe Feynman Lectures on Physics. For all readers interested in physics.",1963,4.62,384,686
9780805413991,0805413995,Watchmen on the Walls,An Eyewitness Account of Israel's Fight for Independence from the Journal of Hannah Hurnard,Hannah Hurnard,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5IIhPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1998,4,184,38
9780805420432,0805420436,Letters to Children,,Clive Staples Lewis,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jfRfxAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of letters from the English author of the Narnia books to a variety of children.,1985,4.18,128,1581
9780805427318,0805427317,Things Pondered,From the Heart of a Lesser Woman,Beth Moore,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rsvxqaqVNLQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Just as Mary treasured her memories as the mother of Jesus and pondered them in her heart, this book celebrates treasured moments in the life of every woman, wife, and mother. Told from a fresh, personal perspective, these stories and poems form a warm, inspiring collection of remembrances of children, Christmas, marriage, trials, friendship, the seasons, grace, and above all, God’s love for us. Things Pondered proves Beth Moore not only to be an effective speaker and author of popular Bible studies, but also show her to be a gifted, sensitive writer and poet.",2004,4.09,160,282
9780805427776,0805427775,Once Upon a Gulf Coast Summer,,Susan Oliver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ChW9611Q6FcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Susan Oliver says, ""It takes very little for a mother and daughter to turn on each other. So much lies below the surface—hurts held for decades in clinched fists, extravagant expectations never met, and ties that bind."" Once Upon a Gulf Coast Summer is about the complex relationship between Josephine Green and her grown daughter, Katy. Issues bear down from Josephine’s troubled and rigid childhood and the enigmatic mother who was preoccupied with her own secret disappointments. Jo and Katy continue to war with each other, especially after Jo is diagnosed with lung cancer. Jo struggles to communicate her faith with her daughter and receives help from her housekeeper, Adele, who is a devout lady of faith. Jo and Katy work to find their redemption, both together and individually, even as flood waters threaten their home one Gulf Coast summer.",2004,3.45,368,35
9780805431575,0805431578,Monkey Business,The True Story of the Scopes Trial,Marvin N. Olasky;John Perry,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oIoMlTqoxscC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Describes the famous 1925 courtroom showdown of William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow over the teaching of evolution in public schools, and points out details and discrepancies that have not come to light until recently.",2005,3.16,368,25
9780805832891,0805832890,Writing the Qualitative Dissertation,Understanding by Doing,Judith M. Meloy,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h5tbvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The purpose of this book is to share, in rich detail, an understanding of how it feels and what it means to do qualitative research, and to provide support for doctoral students who choose this form of inquiry for their dissertation research.",2002,3.71,242,8
9780806114569,0806114568,Ovid's Metamorphoses,Books 6-10,Ovid,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0RUhlNVR758C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Ovid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Anderson’s skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use. In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relations among human beings. Subjects of the stories include Arachne and Niobe; Tereus, Procne, and Philomela; Medea and Jason; Orpheus and Eurydice; and many others, familiar and unfamiliar. For students of Latin-and teachers, too-they provide an interesting experience. In his introduction the editor discusses Ovid’s career, the reputation of the Metamorphoses during Ovid’s time and after, and the various manuscripts that exist or have been known to exist. He describes the general plan of the poem, its main theme, and the problem of its tone. Technical matters, such as style and meter, are also considered. In notes the editor summarizes the story being told before proceeding to the line-by-line textual comments.",1972,4.3,560,31
9780806115603,0806115602,Tibullus,,Michael C. J. Putnam,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IpQRKCKEsz0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The work of the Latin elegiac poet Tibullus (c. 55-19 b.c.) is characterized by an artful, witty ""simplicity,"" and it relies on repetition, ambiguity, irony, and paradox for its effect. His poetry appealed to his countrymen in his own time, as it still does to students today, and this textbook is designed to explain and enhance that appeal. The commentary presented here is limited to the sixteen poems which comprise the first two books of the corpus Tibullianum, that is, to poems authentically by Tibullus. The notes focus on the needs of students approaching Latin elegy for the first time, but they will also prove useful to the more experienced student of Latin or to scholars in other languages. The editor has tried to balance matters of fact with occasional fresh interpretations. One introduction records what is known of the poet's life and discusses the rise of Latin elegy. The meter of the poems is explained, and Tibullus' style is examined.",1979,3.67,222,6
9780806127941,0806127945,Warfare in the Classical World,"An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome",John Gibson Warry,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TFTIQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 BC and AD 800.,1995,4.13,224,371
9780806128948,0806128941,Ovid's Metamorphoses,,Ovid,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9CUGvAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ovid's Metamorphosesis a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English of these books.",1997,4.25,584,220
9780806132297,0806132299,Regeneration Through Violence,"The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860",Richard Slotkin,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=552NfCm3-WwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Originally published: Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.",2000,4.28,670,157
9780806132792,0806132795,So Far from God,"The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848",John S. D. Eisenhower,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=srvXgPuHIvEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In this highly readable account, John S.D. Eisenhower provides a comprehensive survey of this frequently overlooked war.",2000,3.93,464,253
9780806133638,0806133635,Selections from Homer's Iliad,"With an Introduction, Notes, a Short Homeric Grammar, and a Vocabulary",Homer,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nY-5r76h7SwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"First published in 1903, Selections from Homer's Iliad has become a classic Greek textbook. Allen Rogers Benner presents selections from twelve books of the Iliad in both Greek and English and short summaries that help students understand the Iliad as a work of literature and art.",2001,4.39,522,64
9780806501901,0806501901,The Broken Wings,,Kahlil Gibran,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5zfsxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1989,3.92,132,6175
9780806509020,0806509023,Existentialism and Human Emotions,,Jean-Paul Sartre,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qrYbImDqa_IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1985,3.84,96,4090
9780806519609,0806519606,Wizard,The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius,Marc J. Seifer,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_EKV1A22x0sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Original material and recently acquired documents form the foundation of a biography of the man who served as an inspiration for modern electrical inventions,1998,3.77,542,2613
9780806520155,0806520159,The Parrot Head Companion,An Insider's Guide to Jimmy Buffett,Thomas Ryan,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O2IGAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A complete study of Jimmy Buffett delves into the life of the well-known musician and author, while examining the subculture created by his devoted fans and followers. Original. 30,000 first printing.",1998,2.83,176,6
9780806521688,0806521686,The Minority Report,,Philip K. Dick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qHmIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a future world, scientists predict criminal behavior before it happens and pre-criminals are arrested before they break any laws. Precedes the 2000 motion picture release directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise.",1999,4.19,396,20
9780806523491,0806523492,Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park Cookbook,,Ruby Ann Boxcar,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bVf9SQKUumgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Showcases the eccentric residents of the fictional High Chaparral Trailer Park of Pangburn, Arkansas, a community filled with sex, murder, topless dancing, secrets, and adultery, as they dish the dirt on their neighbors and provide such cost-effective recipes as Spam Rolls, Mayonnaises Cake, All Day Crock Pot Delight, and Honky Tonkin' Husband's Bread. Original.",2002,4.09,240,47
9780806523705,0806523700,Vicars of Christ,A History of the Popes,Charles A. Coulombe,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4tbYF51StSQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tracing the history of the papacy from ancient times to the present day, this illuminating study features detailed profiles of each pope, describing the events of their reign, their role in relation to Catholic doctrine, their accomplishments and failures, and other aspects of each man who ruled the Vatican.",2003,3.97,492,30
9780806523798,0806523794,The Minority Report,And Other Classic Stories,Philip K. Dick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R7rALwfN6pYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of eighteen science fiction short stories features ""The Minority Report,"" in which Commissioner John Anderton's clever use of ""precogs,"" people who can identify criminals before they can do any harm, turns against him when they identify him as the next criminal.",2002,4.19,380,448
9780806524276,0806524278,The Complete Films of Alfred Hitchcock,,Robert A. Harris;Michael S. Lasky,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iWYk2j78ELwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A tribute to the undisputed master of terror and suspense and the visionary who revolutionised the art of filmmaking, this book covers everything from his 1922 silent film The Pleasure Garden to his final 1976 film, Family Plot, including such masterpieces as Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window and The Birds, and the years of his popular television show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Complete with 450 b/w stills from his many films and a text that examines the background of each production, this is the ultimate portrait of the movie genius in all his cinematic glory.",2002,4.16,256,17
9780806930770,0806930772,Edward Lear,,Edward Lear,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OOWdcHG1oXwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,An illustrated collection of rhyming poems by Edward Lear.,2001,3.9,48,64
9780807014264,0807014265,Man's Search for Meaning,An Introduction to Logotherapy,Viktor Emil Frankl,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dnJmBMv2jUUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new gift edition of a modern classic, with supplemental photographs, speeches, letters, and essays Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir of life in Nazi death camps has riveted generations of readers. Based on Frankl's own experience and the stories of his patients, the book argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward. Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books of our times, selling over twelve million copies worldwide. With a foreword by Harold S. Kushner, Frankl's classic is presented here in an elegant new edition with endpapers, supplementary photographs, and several of Frankl's previously unpublished letters, speeches, and essays.",1992,4.36,165,367
9780807014271,0807014273,Man's Search for Meaning,,Viktor Emil Frankl,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F-Q_xGjWBi8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry.",2006,4.36,165,2624
9780807062135,0807062138,Lorca & Jiménez,,Federico Garcia Lorca,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GWmpEcL4jxwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, both in the original Spanish and in powerful English translations by Robert Bly. ""The two finest Spanish poets of this centurytwo of the greatest in any countrytheir verses fashioned into English by a third brilliant poet; could one who loves poetry ask for more?""Long Beach INDEPENDENT.",1997,4.35,208,112
9780807064733,0807064734,The Poetics of Space,,Gaston Bachelard,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BxNIdGr_FOwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Shows how our perceptions of home shape our thoughts, memories, and dreams, and discusses each space from cellar to attic",1994,4.19,282,6625
9780807066812,0807066818,Art and Culture,Critical Essays,Clement Greenberg,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lFMkAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Culture - Art in Paris - Abstract, Representational art - New Sculpture - Modernist Sculpture - Byzantine parallels - Modernist painting - Art in the United States - Literature.",1961,3.92,288,442
9780807071274,0807071277,You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train,A Personal History of Our Times,Howard Zinn,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BShAI0hXbAcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"“An inspiring autobiography . . . in the tradition of Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail.’ ” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, National Public Radio Beacon Press is proud to publish a new edition of the classic memoir by one of our most lively, influential, and engaged teachers and activists. Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in WWII, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. Although he’s a fierce critic, he gives us reason to hope that by learning from history and engaging politically, we can make a difference in the world. “A teacher who committed his politically engaged life to the belief that love is a command to action.” —Colman McCarthy, The Washington Post “A powerful, politically electric book from one of the most engaging social critics in the nation.” —Jonathan Kozol “Zinn explains his involvement in the struggles for civil rights, against war and in support of organized labor. . . . These are lively tales.” —The New York Times Book Review Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States and Three Strikes, lives near Boston.",2002,4.3,214,2430
9780807085738,0807085731,When the Rivers Run Dry,"Water, the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century",Fred Pearce,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C0_q-90H1aAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traveling to more than thirty countries to define the scientific, economic, and historical dimensions of the water crisis, offers a solution based on managing the water cycle for the maximum social good, rather than pure self-interest.",2006,3.95,336,642
9780807123331,0807123331,The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren,,Robert Penn Warren;John Burt,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tBMN6gmiA6EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,?,1998,4.37,838,170
9780807555385,080755538X,The Midnight Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #95),,Gertrude Chandler Warner,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fNTJrHKXrWEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Alden children are investigating a mysterious tapping sound at midnight in the home of a famous inventor known for her one-of-a-kind clocks.,2003,3.94,128,296
9780807588970,0807588970,When I Feel Angry,,Cornelia Maude Spelman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tE31J75ZfmcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A little rabbit describes what makes her angry and the different ways she can control her anger.,2000,3.99,24,108
9780807612743,080761274X,A Persian requiem,a novel,Sīmīn Dānishvar,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yTYmAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the life of Zari, the wife of a feudal landlord, as she attempts to preserve her family amidst the turbulence of the British occupation of southern Persia during World War II",1992,3.89,279,48
9780807615324,0807615323,Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity,,Albert Einstein,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1KxYwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The influence of Einstein's contributions on so many branches of physics is such that if one wanted to describe its full extent, it would be hard to know where to begin. His work and discoveries are so fundamental that each achievement alone would have gu",2003,4.41,174,17
9780807831090,0807831093,Jasmine and Stars,Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran,Fatemeh Keshavarz,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-9PsdDIKEPoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy. Her fresh perspective on present day Iran provides",2007,3.63,174,252
9780807840894,0807840890,Allusions in Ulysses,An Annotated List,Weldon Thornton,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Dof6ABIIfwkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List,1982,4.04,563,22
9780807842591,0807842591,The Scotch-Irish,A Social History,James G. Leyburn,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r9TX6swm_5kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they settled especially in the back-country of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.",1989,3.97,377,198
9780807847237,0807847232,"The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787",,Gordon S. Wood,Political science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9xURxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Illuminates the concepts of the Constitution by studying the cultural situation of the colonists.,1998,4.12,675,1722
9780809015450,0809015455,The Transcendence of the Ego,An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness,Jean-Paul Sartre,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=17150PDhLu4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Transcendence of the Ego may be regarded as a turning-point in the philosophical development of Jean-Paul Sartre. Prior to the writing of this essay, published in France in 1937, Sartre had been intimately acquainted with the phenomenological movement which originated in Germany with Edmund Husserl. It is a fundamental tenet of Husserl, the notion of a transcendent ego, which is here attacked by Sartre. This disagreement with Husserl has great importance for Sartre and facilitated the transition from phenomenology to the doctrine of Being and Nothingness.",1957,3.82,120,594
9780809015566,0809015560,The Weimar Republic,,Detlev J. K. Peukert,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eqg4Egom2jYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers a political, social, and economic analysis of the Weimar Republic and explores how a politically liberal and culturally progressive advanced society could slide into fascism.",1993,3.82,360,190
9780809166589,0809166585,Love You Until...,,Lisa McCourt,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ftwAEH5r7WIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mama and Mike take turns saying that they will love each other until a fish rides a bike, the mountains go flat, and marshmallows grow on a tree.",1999,4.67,32,3
9780809230419,0809230410,Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court,,John Wooden,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4XXymAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"NATIONAL BESTSELLER ""I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.""--John Wooden Evoking days gone by when coaches were respected as much for their off-court performances as for their success on the court, Wooden presents the timeless wisdom of legendary basketball coach John Wooden. In honest and telling passages about virtually every aspect of life, Coach shares his personal philosophy on family, achievement, success, and excellence. Raised on a small farm in south-central Indiana, he offers lessons and wisdom learned throughout his career at UCLA, and life as a dedicated husband, father, and teacher. These lessons, along with personal letters from Bill Walton, Denny Crum, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Bob Costas, among others, have made Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court an inspirational classic.",1997,4.45,201,3216
9780809493784,0809493780,"What Life Was Like on the Banks of the Nile: Egypt, 3050-30 B.C.",,Time-Life,Egypt,,,1996,4.01,192,190
9780809530953,0809530953,Manna from Heaven,,Roger Zelazny;Steven Brust;Scott Zrubeck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GhIRPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This new collection includes all five previously uncollected ""Amber"" stories, plus the prologue from the rare limited edition of Trumps of Doom, and sixteen other fantasy and science fiction stories (including a collaboration with Harlan Ellison).",2003,3.95,255,334
9780809556038,0809556030,Toast,,Charles Stross,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LZznAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Short story collection containing such gems as ""Antibodies,"" ""Bear Trap,"" ""Extracts from the Club Diary,"" ""A Colder War,"" ""TOAST: A con report,"" ""A Boy and His God,"" ""Ship of Fools,"" ""Dechlorinating the Moderator,"" ""Yellow Snow"", ""Big Brother Iron"", ""Lobsters"".",2005,3.8,247,922
9780809596812,0809596814,Anna Karenina,,Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy;Leo Tolstoy;Constance Garnett,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FJKFPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Anna Karenina may be the greatest single novel ever written; it may also be just plainly and sublimely good. Regardless, there is no doubt that Anna Karenina (generally considered Tolstoy's finest novel) is a sublime achievement. Anna, miserable in a loveless marriage, succumbs to the desire for the dashing Vronsky. That sort of thing didn't stand one in good stead in 19th-century Russia; bad goes to worse, and the end Anna comes to is the stuff of legend. Tolstoy seamlessly captures a weaves a tapestry of Russian society -- as Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life. One of the greatest love stories in world literature. -- Vladimir Nabokov",2004,4.04,740,28
9780810111134,0810111136,"Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings","Billy Budd, Sailor, Weeds and Wildings, Parthenope, Uncollected Prose, Uncollected Poetry",Herman Melville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MZMGwwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The new reading text of Billy Budd, Sailor in this volume is based on a corrected version (also printed here) of the ""Genetic Text"" that was prepared by Harrison Hayford and originally published in 1962 by the University of Chicago Press in a volume edited by Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. This new reading text employs different editorial principles from those followed in the 1962 volume. Portions of the introduction and notes to that volume have also been used here in an extensively revised form.""",2017,3.11,1016,9
9780810117303,0810117304,The Chain of Chance,,Stanisław Lem,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oY9hKQ-YLl0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Written in the style of a detective novel, The Chain of Chance is classic Lem: a combination of action, hard science, and philosophical investigation. An ex-astronaut is hired to look into the death of a wealthy businessman, one of several men to meet a gruesome end after visiting Naples. The authorities suspect a pattern, but neither the police nor a sophisticated computer enlisted for the investigation can crack the case. On a trail leading from Naples to Rome to Paris, the ex-astronaut barely escapes numerous threats on his life. Having set himself up as a potential victim, he realizes that he may now be the target of a deadly conspiracy - and that the conspiracy is not the work of a criminal mind but a manifestation of the laws of nature. The population has numerically exceeded its critical mass; certain patterns have begun to emerge from the chaotic workings of society. As the ex-astronaut unravels the puzzle, he begins to see that some of those patterns can be fatal.",2000,3.71,179,487
9780810117310,0810117312,His Master's Voice,,Stanisław Lem,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I5gYWtcfMioC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Twenty-five hundred scientists have been herded into an isolated site in the Nevada desert. A neutrino message of extraterrestrial origin has been received, and, under the surveillance of the Pentagon, the scientists labor on His Master's Voice, the secret program set up to decipher the transmission.""--BOOK JACKET. ""Among them is Peter Hogarth, an eminent mathematician whose posthumous diary makes up the novel. Hogarth joins His Master's Voice after all efforts to decode the message prove futile and, after an early success, gives up on the project to pursue clandestine research into the so-called TX effect. Hogarth comes to realize that the TX effect could lead to the construction of the ultimate weapon - a fission bomb - and that such knowledge must not be allowed into the hands of the military.""--BOOK JACKET. ""Originally published in 1968, His Master's Voice takes to task the military takeover of scientific research, Cold War - era politics, and humanity's perpetual capacity for (self-)destruction. It remains a mordant satire on scientific microworlds and the monstrous political and military systems bankrolling them.""--BOOK JACKET.",1999,4.11,199,2191
9780810117334,0810117339,A Perfect Vacuum,,Stanisław Lem,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jMvpf5K1qD0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In a perfect vacuum, Stanislaw Lem presents a collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature - works that, in many cases, could not possibly be written. Embracing postmodernism's ""games for games' sake"" ethos, Lem joins the contest with hilarious and grotesque results. Most of the ""reviews"" target the postmodern infatuation with antinarratives by lampooning their self-indulgence and exploiting their mannerisms. Lem exposes the limits of postmodern fiction, showing how its studious self-consciousness frequently conceals intellectual paucity. Beginning with a review of his own book, Lem moves on to tackle (or create pastiches of) the French new novel, James Joyce, pornography, authorless writing, and Dostoevsky, while at the same time ranging across scientific topics, from cosmology to the pervasiveness of computers.",1999,4.17,229,739
9780810117495,0810117495,The Phenomenon of Life,Toward a Philosophical Biology,Hans Jonas;Eleonore Jonas,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F2seCz7wmfQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"One of the most prominent thinkers of his generation, Hans Jonas wrote on topics as diverse as the philosophy of biology, ethics and cosmology. This work sets forth a systematic philosophy of biological facts, laid out in support of his claim that mind is prefigured throughout organic existence.",2001,4.23,304,89
9780810935204,0810935201,Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky,A Book of Brillig Dioramas,Graeme Base,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tyMFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lewis Carroll's classic and inventive verse comes to life in a series of ingenious dioramas, colorful three-dimensional renderings of the rhyme by the best-selling author-illustrator of Animalia and The Eleventh Hour.",1996,4.14,14,31
9780810954809,081095480X,The Lighthouse Land,,Adrian McKinty,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dhRJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Thirteen-year-old Jamie is overjoyed when a bequest sends him and his mother to live on an Irish island, where he and his newfound friend Ramsay travel back in time to help a young girl save her people from certain death.",2006,3.6,372,839
9780810957800,0810957809,Babar's World Tour,,Laurent de Brunhoff,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RnNaAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Babar and his family take a trip around the world.,2005,3.84,48,65
9780810958623,0810958627,Ruby Gloom's Guide to Friendship,,Mighty Fine Inc.,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FYrcurhzrk8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"If Ruby Gloom's friends seem somewhat unusual, ""well then, welcome to Gloomsville, where being different IS normal.""",2005,4.34,72,37
9780810959118,0810959119,The Beatles,365 Days,Simon Wells,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f_IkwwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More than four hundred rarely seen black-and-white and color photographs chronicle the career of the Beatles, from their 1963 emergence as part of the British pop music scene to their public breakup in 1970.",2005,4.16,744,97
9780810959361,0810959364,Creating the Worlds of Star Wars,365 Days,John Knoll;J. W. Rinzler,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H-oaAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A visual effects supervisor for the Star Wars movies Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith presents a comprehensive selection of one thousand behind-the-scenes images, including panoramic shots of sets and models, as well as concept art, props, film stills, and memorabilia from all six films, as well as a CD-ROM containing nearly three hundred navigable panoramas of the sets.",2005,4.13,744,86
9780810980631,0810980630,The Art of Maurice Sendak,,Selma G. Lanes,Biography & Autobiography,,,1998,4.44,258,773
9780810982192,0810982196,National Geographic Society,100 Years of Adventure and Discovery,C. D.B. Bryan,Photography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S61TPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this celebratory volume, award-winning author Bryan brings the Society's legacy to life with stunning photos and dramatic accounts. 444 illustrations.",2001,4.12,528,10
9780810987906,0810987902,The Boy Who Couldn't Die,,William Sleator,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=72pRXx4LCb0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ken, the only child of rich, indulgent parents, finds a woman who makes him invulnerable to pain and death, but the curse makes him kill while he is dreaming. Reprint.",2005,3.68,161,1649
9780810992597,0810992590,Pink Box,Inside Japan's Sex Clubs,Joan Sinclair,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GujtAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Pink Box, photographer Joan Sinclair gives us a privileged view into Japan's most elaborate sex clubs. Unrivalled in their creativity and the sheer number of choices, these clubs offer their clientele every fantasy imaginable. Subway groping, video and comic book character encounters and visits to the nurse are just the beginning of the immense list of possibilities that are played out in colourful playrooms for adults where no detail is overlooked. Sinclair's photographs are colourful, fun and absolutely absorbing, and they capture the unique sensibility of Japanese culture that has given rise to Hello Kitty (who, by the way, is available for $800 an hour).",2006,4.12,192,256
9780811200073,0811200078,"Paris Spleen, 1869",,Charles Baudelaire;Charles Pierre Baudelaire,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=15craP5h4O4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Baudelaire composed the series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen between 1855 and his death in 1867. He attached great importance to his work in this then unusual form, asking, ""Which one of us, in his moments of ambition, has not dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical, without rhythm and without rhyme, supple enough and rugged enough to adapt itself to the lyrical impulses of the soul, the undulations of reverie, the jibes of conscience?""",1970,4.3,118,7549
9780811200707,0811200701,The Berlin Stories,,Christopher Isherwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TL882wBAzjsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Sally Bowles character was the subject of a play, I am a camera; and a musical, Cabaret.",1963,4.03,401,8749
9780811201063,0811201066,The Air-conditioned Nightmare,,Henry Miller,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jAEY3Kbnj3oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents the contemporary writer's vision of American life, gleaned from his travels throughout the country during the early 1940's",1970,3.83,292,2627
9780811201087,0811201082,"Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents",,Henry Miller,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N-xUV8_ic5QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Some writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking - but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have brought to a keenly curious and questioning mind. Some of Miller's favorite writers are the giants whom most of us revere - authors such as Dostoeyvsky, Boccaccio, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Lao-Tse. To them he brings fresh and penetrating insights. But many are lesser-known figures: Krishnamurti, the prophet-sage; the French contemporaries Blaise Cendrars and Jean Giono; Richard Jeffries, who wrote The Story of My Heart ; the Welshman John Cowper Powys; and scores of others. The Books in My Life contains some fine autobiographical chapters, too. Miller describes his boyhood in Brooklyn, when he devoured the historical stories of G. A. Henty and the romances of Rider Haggard. He tells of the men and women whom he regards as living books"": Lou Jacobs, W. E. B. DuBois, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and others. He offers his reminiscences of the New York Theatre in the early 1900's - including plays such as Alias Jimmy Valentine and Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model . And finally, in Miller's best vein of humor, he provides a satiric chapter on bathroom reading. In an appendix, Miller lists the hundred books that have influenced him most. """,1969,3.81,327,687
9780811201124,0811201120,Henry Miller on Writing,,Henry Miller,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tNB6wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and how he learned to draw on his own experience.",1964,4.23,217,937
9780811201322,0811201325,The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen,,Wilfred Owen,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d80bBFrpZPoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Introduced by a discussion of Owen's poetry and early life, this edition includes youthful and minor verses and the war poems based on manuscripts in the British Museum",1965,4.33,192,2996
9780811201353,081120135X,Safe Conduct,"An Autobiography, and Other Writings",Boris Leonidovich Pasternak,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GW_mawWxyvwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Safe Conduct is Boris Pasternak's first autobiography written when he was forty and after the great success of Dr. Zhivago. Experimental in its category, its isolated sharp impressions and juxtapositions seem to deny a normal chronology.",1958,3.79,256,80
9780811204835,0811204839,The Flight of Icarus,,Raymond Queneau,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ds-3QmK565sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Flight of Icarus is Raymond Queneau's only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short scenes, complete with stage directions. Consciously parodying Pirandello and Robbe-Grillet, it begins with a novelist's discovery that his principal character, Icarus by name, has vanished. This in turn, sets off a rash of other such disappearances.",1973,4.01,191,319
9780811205467,0811205460,Turtle Island,,Gary Snyder,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xilff6LAWAcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"These Pulitzer Prize-winning poems and essays by the author of No Nature range from the lucid, lyrical, and mystical to the political. All, however, share a common vision: a rediscovery of North America and the ways by which we might become true natives of the land for the first time.",1974,4.09,112,3717
9780811208994,0811208990,Selected Poems,,Octavio Paz;G. Aroul,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b_EgaARVgNYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Poems deal with death, nature, the past, art, perception, love, travel, communication, and truth",1984,4.21,160,359
9780811209052,0811209059,Seven Nights,,Jorge Luis Borges,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ty8LLZ_U93MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Lectures discuss The Divine Comedy, nightmares, The Thousand and One Nights, Buddhism, poetry, the Kabbalah, and blindness",1984,4.33,121,988
9780811209458,0811209458,The Blue Flowers,,Raymond Queneau,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=34EOzomSYOoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Duke d'Auge, a thirteenth century nobleman, and Cidrolin, a modern Frenchman living on a barge in the Seine, appear to exist only in each other's dreams",1985,4.04,232,974
9780811211734,0811211738,"The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987",,Octavio Paz,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q9FIe1MmGVoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This landmarked bilingual edition gathers all the poetry the 1990 Nobel Laureate has published in book form since 1957, the year his long poem ""Sunstone""--her translated anew--made its first appearance. Included are the complete texts of ""Days and Occasions"", ""Solo for Two Voices"", ""A Drift of Shadows"", ""East Slope"", ""Toward the Beginning"", and more; plus Paz's most recent collection, A Tree Within.",1991,4.3,669,2863
9780811212472,0811212475,The Crack-up,,Francis Scott Fitzgerald,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B8saLwl-2TEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,(Autobiographical).,1993,3.92,347,2410
9780811213202,081121320X,Deep River,,Shūsaku Endō,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c4eg2MhmszAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Offers a religious vision combining Christian faith with Buddhist acceptance in the story of a group of Japanese tourists who converge at the Ganges River in India,1996,3.92,216,1478
9780811213462,0811213463,The Samurai,A Novel,Shūsaku Endō,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bb1fXVWzkt8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"One of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics.",1997,3.95,272,1580
9780811213653,081121365X,"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories",,William Saroyan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OjZLNgfDKHwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A timeless selection of brilliant short stories that won William Saroyan a position among the foremost, most widely popular writers of America when it first appeared in 1934.With the greatest of ease William Saroyan flew across the literary skies in 1934 with the publication of The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories. One of the first American writers to describe the immigrant experience in the U.S., Saroyan created characters who were Armenians, Jews, Chinese, Poles, Africans, and the Irish. The title story touchingly portrays the thoughts of a very young writer, dying of starvation. All of the tales were written during the great depression and reflect, through pathos and humor, the mood of the nation in one of its greatest times of want.",1997,4.21,272,654
9780811213769,0811213765,In Search of Duende,,Federico García Lorca;Norman Thomas Di Giovanni,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Tdw_76l_DnMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Federico Garcia Lorca was born in Spain in 1898 and executed in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War. The notion of ""duende""--a demonic earth spirit--became a fixation of Lorca's poetics over the course of his career. This book gathers Lorca's writings about the duende, and a full bilingual sampling of his poetry also is included, with special attention to poems arising from traditional Spanish verse forms.",1998,4.3,99,599
9780811214001,0811214001,Everything and Nothing,,Jorge Luis Borges,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8EMSAEfXzk0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."" The New Yorker""",1999,4.37,108,554
9780811214988,0811214982,The Red Notebook,True Stories,Paul Auster,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Re7WYDC4URQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Contains: The red notebook -- Why write? -- Accident report -- It don't mean a thing.,2002,3.77,104,2306
9780811215923,081121592X,Borges and the Eternal Orangutans,,Luís Fernando Veríssimo;Margaret Jull Costa,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G5cn9BrD6d0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Luis Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the center of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kaballah, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee's theory of the Eternal Orangutan, which, given all the time in the world, would end up writing all the known books in the cosmos. Verissimo's small masterpiece is at once a literary tour de force and a brilliant mystery novel.",2005,3.79,135,538
9780811216227,0811216225,The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca,,Federico García Lorca,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XKcd-MOPnR4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A reissue of a landmark poetry volume with a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner W. S. Merwin. Bilingual.,2005,4.31,186,6163
9780811216371,0811216373,October Light,,John Gardner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wSDZU4cx-PMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Living in her older brother's Vermont farmhouse, penniless widow Sally Abbot finds their clashing values escalating to the point that her brother banishes her to her room with a mainstream novel she has been reading, a book that becomes reflective of their turbulent family history. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reprint.",2005,3.88,399,823
9780811216746,0811216748,Laughter in the Dark,,Vladimir Nabokov;Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov;John Banville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4uj1Dy_P_YQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Tragedy of a rich and respectable Berlin art dealer and his passion for his young mistress.,1960,3.96,292,8233
9780811821841,0811821846,Wookiee Cookies,A Star Wars Cookbook,Robin Davis,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xmKf7BnQiqMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A cookbook with a Star Wars theme includes such recipes as crazy cantina chili, Boba Fett-uccine, and C-3PO pancakes.",1998,3.92,132,916
9780811824545,0811824543,The Campfire Collection,Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark,Eric Martin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r0N2xgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of tales designed to be told around a campfire.,2000,3.25,176,48
9780811828031,0811828034,The Star Wars Cookbook II,Darth Malt and More Galactic Recipes,Frankie Frankeny;Wesley Martin,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xQqg3pbc2O8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides step-by-step instructions for creating healthy snacks, main courses, and deserts including Darth double dogs, Bubble City Salad, Boss Nass Broccoli, and Opee's sea crunch.",2000,3.85,60,198
9780811833462,0811833461,Stylepedia,"A Guide to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks, and Conceits",Steven Heller;Louise Fili,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GjlEeuNIuVMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A chunky, distinctive object of brilliant design in and of itself, Stylepedia is the first handy, cross-referenced desk guide to the kaleidoscope that is modern design. In hundreds of illustrated entries, Heller and Fili, the award-winning authors of Euro Deco and numerous other popular design titles, survey the designers, schools, and movements that comprise the practice today as well as take a fascinating glimpse back at some of the seminal early leaders. From the first Santa Claus to appear on a Coca-Cola bottle to the increasingly ubiquitous camouflage tee shirt, iconic everyday items of yesterday and today provide valuable inspiration to designers and design aficionados. As quirky as it is useful and positively packed with lavish color illustrations, this designer's design compendium is the only one of its kind.",2006,4.07,336,167
9780811839747,0811839745,Chicago Stories,Tales of the City,John Miller;Genevieve Morgan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SeGcZgcmFUYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A selection of stories, articles, poems, and excerpts from longer works about Chicago by Saul Bellow, Eliot Ness, Edna Ferber, Langston Hughes, and others.",2003,3.56,224,44
9780811848831,0811848833,The Star Wars Poster Book,,Stephen Sansweet;Peter Vilmur,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wdtOAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the very first Star Wars posters had no images at alljust enormous block letters that announced, ""Coming to Your Galaxy This Summer: Star Wars."" The rest is history. Now, 28 years later, the 350 most amazing Star Wars movie posters are collected for the first time. This compilation spans the surreal to ultra realistic, the campy to darkly serious: Darth Vader's head exploding in a shower of camera parts; Anakin Skywalker casting an ominous Sith shadow; C-3PO and R2-D2 selling Star Wars shoes; Luke and Vader in mortal battle aboard the Death Star. Classic posters are joined with text by the world's foremost Star Wars collector, Stephen Sansweet, and poster collector Peter Vilmur, behind-the-scenes stories from artists and designers, a scarcity guide to over 2,000 posters, and a bootleg identification guide. Exploding with color, The Star Wars Poster Book illuminates an unexplored corner of Star Wars history. 2005 by Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.",2005,4.48,320,60
9780811850995,0811850994,Vincent's Colors,,"Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)",Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fnvzBjc_TTMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Combines van Gogh's paintings with his own words, describing each work of art and introducing young readers to the concept of color.",2005,4.16,48,305
9780811853194,0811853195,I Am 8-bit,Art Inspired by Classic Videogames of the '80s,Jon M. Gibson,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dO-sDl1ySHoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Showcases the work of seventy artists, including painters, designers, cartoonists, sculptors, and illustrators, whose works feature their favorite video games from the 1980s.",2006,4.09,156,117
9780811855266,0811855260,Edie,Girl on Fire,Melissa Painter;David Weisman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YNEigmpVX5kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Drawn from firsthand accounts and featuring hundreds of never-before-published portraits, ad shoots, and candid snapshots, this revealing look at the life of Edie Sedgwick, the ""it"" girl of the Andy Warhol Factory scene, details her many roles as a model, film star, socialite, friend, lover, and drug addict.",2006,4.22,192,716
9780812000399,0812000390,Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected),An Interlinear Translation,Geoffrey Chaucer;Vincent F. Hopper,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u71rxf02d8IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Each line of the original Middle English is followed by a line of modern English ""translation."" Includes biography of Chaucer, interpretive introduction.",1977,3.75,530,69
9780812036046,0812036042,"Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will",Modern English Version Side-by-side with Full Original Text,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vWsY_MiozFMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.",1985,3.98,256,147
9780812211122,081221112X,Forms of Talk,,Erving Goffman,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z3bvx_T4Zu8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This book brings together five of Goffman's seminal essays: ""Replies and Responses,"" ""Response Cries,"" ""Footing,"" ""The Lecture,"" and ""Radio Talk.""",1981,3.81,344,77
9780812216271,081221627X,"Aeschylus, 1","The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)",Aeschylus,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z22kI-IKUXoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"From the Penn Greek Drama Series, this volume offers translations by David Slavitt of the great trilogy of the House of Atreus, telling of Agamemnon's murder at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus, and of Electra's rebelliousness and Orestes's ultimate revenge.",1998,4.01,178,12
9780812216509,0812216504,"Euripides, 3","Alcestis, Daughters of Troy, The Phoenician Women, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus",Euripides,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sFifVDQAJOUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"What man would murder his daughter to help a fleet get out to sea, or give his wife over to death in his stead? The tragedies in this Penn Greek Drama Series volume are filled with such dramatic conflicts.",1998,3.88,392,7
9780812216714,0812216717,"Aeschylus, 2","The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, Prometheus Bound",Aeschylus,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zVpENNx_3kwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""A boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible,' and consummately American in tone and feeling. For the classicist, these versions constitute an ambitious reinterpretation of traditional masterpieces; after 2,500 years, the poetry of Euripides and Aeschylus has found a new voice—in fact, ten of them.""—The Boston Book Review",1998,4.1,232,12
9780812217759,0812217756,The Negro,,W. E. B. Du Bois,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h1RRPJSaThsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A classic rediscovered.,2001,4.31,284,29
9780812234565,0812234561,Aristophanes: The Acharnians,,Smith Palmer Bovie;David R. Slavitt,Greek drama (Comedy),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AaWiwwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1901,3.83,322,4
9780812416114,0812416112,Lord of the Flies,,William Golding,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2DAZmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Story of the return to the wild of a group of British schoolboys marooned on an island.,1959,3.67,208,310
9780812501940,0812501942,The Last Castle,,Jack Vance;Robert Silverberg,Fiction,,Features Jack Vance's novel of humanity's final stand and Robert Silverberg's tale of the watcher's journey after invaders from outer space gain control of the Earth,1989,3.71,182,42
9780812504675,0812504674,The Invisible Man,,H. G. Wells,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2bLt-sGupm0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The English village of Bramblehurst is intimidated by a mysterious stranger whose face is completely wrapped in bandages,1992,3.63,178,293
9780812505771,0812505778,The Last Book of Swords: Shieldbreaker's Story,,Fred Saberhagen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_fvzjK3FsXkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Created by gods, the forged Twelve Swords can kill the gods themselves if they fall into human hands, and when Vilkata the Dark King returns from exile determined to get the swords, only an untested boy, with Shieldbreaker in hand, stands in the man's way. Reissue.",1995,3.88,255,1204
9780812508642,0812508645,Pastwatch,The Redemption of Christopher Columbus,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PH7QmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.",1997,3.97,402,12695
9780812509663,0812509668,The Medusa in the Shield,,David G. Hartwell,Fiction,,"Includes an essay on the fiction of horror and tales of terror by such authors as Clive Barker, William Faulkner, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Joanna Russ, and Flannery O'Connor",1991,3.98,498,48
9780812509670,0812509676,A Fabulous Formless Darkness,,David G. Hartwell,Fiction,,"Originally published as part of The Dark Descent, this splendid collection of horror fiction deals with humanity's most powerful emotions--fear, love, and hope. Writers include Robert Aickman, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Edith Wharton, and others.",1992,4.21,608,33
9780812511185,0812511182,The Sixth Book of Lost Swords,Mindsword's Story,Fred Saberhagen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iamepaEpC4oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the long-lost Mindsword--which gives mindless devotion to the one who wields it--falls into the hands of Prince Murat, Kristen, the beautiful wife of Prince Mark, falls under its spell, and it is up to Mark and his companions to save his wife and his kingdom",1991,3.81,250,1221
9780812513738,0812513738,The Shadow Rising,Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time',Robert Jordan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7-JfDlNcvhEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Perrin Aybara must return to Emond's Field to face the occupying Whitecloaks, while Rand enters the Aiel Waste and the forbidden city of Rhuidean",1993,4.23,1007,137790
9780812513752,0812513754,Lord of Chaos,Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time',Robert Jordan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UcfrSLHYDgIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Wheel of Time ® is a PBS Great American Read Selection! Now in development for TV! Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, the Myrddraal swords are forged, and the sky is not the sky of this world; In Salidar the White Tower in exile prepares an embassy to Caemlyn, where Rand Al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, holds the throne--and where an unexpected visitor may change the world.... In Emond's Field, Perrin Goldeneyes, Lord of the Two Rivers, feels the pull of ta'veren to ta'veren and prepares to march... Morgase of Caemlyn finds a most unexpected, and quite unwelcome, ally....And south lies Illian, where Sammael holds sway... TV series update: ""Sony will produce along with Red Eagle Entertainment and Radar Pictures. Rafe Judkins is attached to write and executive produce. Judkins previously worked on shows such as ABC’s “Agents of SHIELD,” the Netflix series “Hemlock Grove,” and the NBC series “Chuck.” Red Eagle partners Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon will executive produce along with Radar’s Ted Field and Mike Weber. Darren Lemke will also executive produce, with Jordan’s widow Harriet McDougal serving as consulting producer."" —Variety The Wheel of Time® New Spring: The Novel #1 The Eye of the World #2 The Great Hunt #3 The Dragon Reborn #4 The Shadow Rising #5 The Fires of Heaven #6 Lord of Chaos #7 A Crown of Swords #8 The Path of Daggers #9 Winter's Heart #10 Crossroads of Twilight #11 Knife of Dreams By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson #12 The Gathering Storm #13 Towers of Midnight #14 A Memory of Light By Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time By Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons The Wheel of Time Companion By Robert Jordan and Amy Romanczuk Patterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time",1995,4.12,1011,102983
9780812521351,0812521358,Hart's Hope,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rchTPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Palicroval the Fair spares the life of Asineth after killing her father and taking her kingdom from her, but Asineth is determined to seek revenge in spite of Palicroval's show of mercy",1988,3.47,261,32
9780812522839,0812522834,An Armory of Swords,,Fred Saberhagen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EaRCHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Saberhagen has brought together some of the best fantasy writers in the field to create their own stories within the universe of his Lost Swords series. This book features works by Walter Jon Williams, Sage Walker, and a new tale by the master himself--Fred Saberhagen's ""Blind Man's Blade""--reveals how the Swords were originally thrust into the human realm.",1996,3.79,317,174
9780812524260,0812524268,Red Prophet,The Tales of Alvin Maker,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s5q4wQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Alvin Maker is drawn into the political manueverings of his visionary brother and a French colonel exiled to Fort Detroit named Napoleon Bonapart, in this tale set in the frontier of a magical alternate America",1988,3.79,311,17817
9780812531145,0812531140,Anthonology,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,,A retrospective anthology of tales is highlighted by autobiographical accounts of the experiences that have shaped his fantasy and science fiction work,1986,3.64,384,699
9780812532470,0812532473,Orion,A Novel,Ben Bova,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bxxx7tFkhRYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Eternal warrior John O'Ryan challenges the Dark Lord's dominion over the earth in a battle for control of the future. Reissue.,1992,3.71,432,1357
9780812532616,0812532619,The Call of Earth,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oisnmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plain. Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons are not strong enough to stop a army. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh take the city and all who are in it?",1994,3.58,352,10051
9780812532630,0812532635,The Ships of Earth,Homecoming:,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5Vo-mgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight again. But of these sixteen people, only a few have chosen their exile. The others, Rasa's spiteful daughters and their husbands; Wetchik's oldest son, Elemak, have been forced against their will. Their anger and hatreds will make the difficult journey harder.",1995,3.54,351,9143
9780812533620,0812533623,A Meeting with Medusa,,Kim Stanley Robinson;Arthur Charles Clarke,Fiction,,This two-in-one package features a story of a space disaster victim's meeting with the actual Medusa and an evocation of mountain climbing on Mars,1988,3.66,180,119
9780812534832,0812534832,Demons Don't Dream,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qLLp-VOR-1YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two young adventurers are drawn into the world of Xanth through a computer game and find themselves in a desperate race against time when treachery, danger, and deceit place Xanth itself in peril, as they learn that some things are more important than winning. Reissue.",1994,3.8,352,7594
9780812534863,0812534867,Roc and a Hard Place,A Xanth Novel,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8eKZvEWEY98C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the land of Xanth, Roxanne Roc, a bird, must stand trial before Demoness Metria and Magician Humfrey",1996,3.75,344,5737
9780812538830,0812538838,Seminole Song,,Vella Munn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ehYFHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As the U.S. Army surrounds their reservation in the Florida Everglades, a Seminole warrior chief clings to the slave girl who once saved his life after fleeing from her master, a wife-murderer who is out for blood. Reprint.",1998,3.72,320,43
9780812550283,0812550285,A Crown of Swords,Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time',Robert Jordan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d0lWqpVm9YkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Elayne, Aviendha, and Mat work to restore the world's natural weather, while Egwene gathers a group of female channelers and Rand confronts the dread Forsaken Sammael, in the seventh volume in the Wheel of Time series. Reprint.",1997,4.03,880,100910
9780812551235,0812551230,Drum Calls,,Jo Clayton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tm9IGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Once every generation, the two worlds of Clandair and Iomard magically move together, allowing people with special talents to walk between the worlds, but when young Cymel sees a strange wizard hovering in the air, she realizes the danger that threatens. Reprint.",1998,3.68,341,28
9780812551471,0812551478,Blood of the Fold,,Terry Goodkind,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7n8ssJ0JdXYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell must protect the New World from a savage armageddon of war, monsters, and treachery as they battle ancient forces of evil from the Old World. Reprint.",1997,3.99,623,65522
9780812552843,0812552849,The Fourth Book of Lost Swords,Farslayer's Story,Fred Saberhagen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B_hiWr4ykIEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Black Pearl, a mermaid, Cosmos, her treacherous lover, Prince Zoltan and Prince Mark, the evil macrowizard Wood, and a griffin-riding beauty all compete for possession of the sword, Farslayer",1990,3.83,252,1736
9780812555103,0812555104,Yon Ill Wind,A Xanth Novel,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GW_lBljFBlgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a tempestuous hurricane blows in Xanth, the Demon X(A/N)th joins forces with a vixen named Chlorine and a human family to save the land frOM the storms winds of mischief and madness. Reprint.",1997,3.75,340,3743
9780812555240,0812555244,A Quantum Murder,,Peter F. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qoWe3SFoeX0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Professor Edward Kitchener's savage murder thrusts Psi-boosted veteran Greg Mandel into an urgent investigation that ends in a confrontation with a past that, according to Kitchener's theories, may never actually have happened. Reprint.",1998,3.97,375,3868
9780812565959,0812565959,Shadow of the Hegemon,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t7cEmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more. But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heroes; they are potential weapons that can bring power to the countries that control them. One by one, all of Ender's Dragon Army are kidnapped. Only Bean escapes; and he turns for help to Ender's brother Peter. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes. With Bean's help, he will eventually rule the world. Shadow of the Hegemon is the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Shadow Series.",2001,3.94,451,63691
9780812574739,0812574737,The Dastard,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=exL0mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Many malevolent menaces have imperiled the magical land of Xanth in its long and storied history. But none has been as despicably dangerous as the Dastard-a craven miscreant who sold his soul to a detestable demon for the power to erase events. Now the entire future of Xanth is at the mercy of his every whim. Only a young dragon-girl named Becka has the power to stop his devious deeds! Becka is a crossbreed-the daughter of Draco Dragon and a lovely human woman who met, by chance, at a Love Spring. Now fourteen, Becka is beginning to wonder where in Xanth she belongs-on the ground with her mother's people, or flying the skies with her father's kind. So she journeys to the Good Magician Humfrey to discover her True Purpose in life. Much to her astonishment and surprise, the Magician tells her that that a great Destiny awaits her-one that will affect the future of all of Xanth.",2001,3.81,384,2960
9780812574746,0812574745,Swell Foop,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p899yqJFhvQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the twenty-fifth novel in the popular Xanth fantasies, six courageous adventurers--Cynthia Centaur, her mate Che, Breanna of the Black Wave and her human fiancT Justin Tree, Sim the immortal bird, and Jaylin, a human girl from Hawaii--embark on a dangerous quest to find the mystical Swell Foop, the only weapon that can prevail against a powerful Demon. Reprint.",2002,3.78,384,2822
9780812574968,0812574966,Vale of the Vole,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=os1f2xruiK8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Young Eskan ogrenymphhumanfinds himself teamed up with a winged centaur and a burrower named Volney on a mission of mercy to save the ""Vale of the Vole"" from destruction. Reprint.",2000,3.6,304,9074
9780812574999,0812574990,Up In a Heaval,,Piers Anthony,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=irEKXAf229sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the Demon Jupiter is provoked into hurling his dreaded Red Spot at the magical land of Xanth, it falls to Umlaut, a young man with a mysterious past and unknown future, and his companions to defend the enchanted realm from certain catastrophe, in the twenty-sixth novel in the popular Xanth series. Reprint.",2003,3.82,342,2318
9780812575231,0812575237,Legends,Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy,George R. R. Martin;Anne McCaffrey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kxNFAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The second of three volumes, which were originally published in one volume as: Legends.",1999,3.88,379,619
9780812575583,081257558X,Winter's Heart,Book Nine of 'The Wheel of Time',Robert Jordan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4W5RQY_MiMEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the continuing Wheel of Time saga, Rand and Min are on the run, while Black Tower leader Mazrim Taim is exposed, a Seanchan princess arrives in Ebou Dar and the schemers of the White Tower are beset by rebels.",2002,3.94,780,82029
9780812575606,0812575601,The Sword of Truth,Wizard's First Rule / Stone of Tears / Blood of the Fold,Terry Goodkind,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=helnNwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As an unearthly adversary descends on an idyllic fantasy world, corrupting magic against good and slaughtering innocents, Richard Rahl stands against the forces that threaten to destroy the world.",1998,4.29,2480,4110
9780812577563,0812577566,Knife of Dreams,,Robert Jordan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SZ5xDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An eleventh installment in the best-selling series finds Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, preparing for a confrontation with the Dark One in order to save humanity, a feat that is challenged by the murderous Forsaken and Rand's need to acquire the remaining seals on the Dark One's prison. 1,000,000 first printing. $750,000 ad/promo.",2006,4.14,860,80208
9780812590104,0812590104,The Gate of Fire,,Thomas Harlan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rsgcHVre3bgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A sequel to The Shadow of Ararat finds Prince Maxian, having raised both Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great from the dead, considering how to use them to free Rome from the curse of the Oath; while the new Palmyra queen Zoe vows revenge. Reprint.",2001,3.58,721,143
9780812590463,0812590465,Ariadne's Web,,Fred Saberhagen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wqcJDrwgRj0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, conspires to rescue the man she loves from the gods' sacrificial altar, but this is only the beginning of their troubles as Dionysus intervenes to cause trouble. Reprint.",2001,3.68,432,169
9780812590562,0812590562,Mindstar Rising,,Peter F. Hamilton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0UikyhzrKSsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A veteran of Gulf War II, telepath Greg Mandel enters the high-tech world of computer crime, zero-gravity smuggling, and artificial intelligence when an elusive saboteur threatens a powerful organization and the very future of humankind. Reprint.",1997,3.92,432,5979
9780812694338,0812694333,The Simpsons and Philosophy,The D'oh! of Homer,William Irwin;Mark T. Conard;Aeon J. Skoble,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sDshYghbZJwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author plumbs the depths of America's favorite animated family for insights into philosophy and society, discussing Aristotle, Marx, Camus, Sartre, and many others.",2001,3.47,256,1983
9780812694536,0812694538,Woody Allen and Philosophy,You Mean My Whole Fallacy is Wrong?,Mark T. Conard;Aeon J. Skoble,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BKIW7EeJg6AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In fifteen witty essays, fifteen philosophers answer the questions of what writer, director, actor, comedian, musician, and deep thinker Woody Allen is trying to say and why anyone should care. Original.",2004,3.77,250,282
9780812694550,0812694554,Harry Potter and Philosophy,If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts,David Baggett;Shawn Klein;William Irwin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gz8t2MttEQUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Urging readers of the Harry Potter series to dig deeper than wizards, boggarts, and dementors, the authors of this unique guide collect the musings of seventeen philosophers on the series, who cover a wide range of Potter-related philosophical issues, including the difference between good and evil, the ethics of sorcery, and Aristotle's own school for wizards. Original.",2004,4.48,243,11068
9780812695311,0812695313,Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy,Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale,James B. South,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dx_n2IDCJqUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Uses philosophical concepts in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy to analyze the television series ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer.""",2003,4.06,335,2475
9780812695458,0812695453,The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy,One Book to Rule Them All,Gregory Bassham;Eric Bronson,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4g4BAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Culls dozens of life lessons from the pages of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic tale, examining the author's treatment of such issues as happiness, morality, and the search for ultimate truth.",2003,4.28,240,4828
9780812695731,0812695739,Superheroes and Philosophy,"Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way",Thomas V. Morris;Matt Morris;William Irwin,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EaWMBwS83l8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A collection of essays by various authors that explore how superheroes deal with a variety of philosophical issues.,2005,3.87,300,732
9780812695830,0812695836,Star Wars and Philosophy,More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine,Kevin S. Decker;William Irwin;Jason T. Eberl,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YL4Fm_5wbHUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A collection of essays that address the philosophical questions associated with the ""Star Wars"" films.",2005,4.06,227,1737
9780812696011,0812696018,The Undead and Philosophy,Chicken Soup for the Soulless,Richard Greene;K. Silem Mohammad,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qICHQAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""A collection of philosophical essays about the undead: beings such as vampires and zombies who are physically or mentally dead yet not at rest. Topics addressed include the metaphysics and ethics of undeath""--Provided by publisher.",2006,3.71,288,193
9780812696066,0812696069,The Beatles and Philosophy,Nothing You Can Think that Can't be Thunk,Michael Baur;Steven Baur,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3YAIAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""A collection of essays explores philosophical aspects of the Beatles' music, lyrics, and political acitivities. Topics addressed include: skepticism and epistemology, the philosophy of love, altered consciousness and drug culture, and Marxism and socialphilosophy""--Provided by publisher.",2006,3.63,288,152
9780812696110,0812696115,Bullshit and Philosophy,Guaranteed to Get Perfect Results Every Time,Gary L. Hardcastle;George A. Reisch,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A4CBZu_5rKoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Bullshit is booming, both in the popular media and in the cloisters of academia. Bullshit studies received a tremendous boost from the pioneering work of Harry G. Frankfurt, and yet Frankfurt's seminal theses opened up more questions than they answered.",2006,3.59,288,67
9780812927313,0812927311,The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer,,Jimmy Carter,Friendship,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lxtYSpk_oVAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Teased by his friends because of his inability to walk, young Jeremy is abandoned at the seashore when everyone flees the approach of a terrible sea monster, but Jeremy soon discovers a kindred soul--and a secret friend--in the monster, little baby Snoogle-Fleejer. 50,000 first printing.",1995,3.19,24,42
9780812927634,081292763X,Random House Crossword Megaomnibus,,United Feature Syndication,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CD8MAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"his new series contains crosswords slightly less taxing than those in The New York Times. Originally published by United Feature Syndicate, these crosswords have appeared in many of America's highest-circulation newspapers.",1997,0,336,0
9780812930344,0812930347,Living Faith,,Jimmy Carter,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zJSS7gIyUhwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The former president traces the role of his strong religious faith in his life past and present, in the paperback version of a national best-seller, which features a new foreword by the author. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.",1998,3.79,288,456
9780812966008,0812966007,Theodore Rex,,Edmund Morris,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E1qNDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes Theodore Roosevelt's presidency as he faced the challenges of a new century in which the United States would become a world power, and discusses his accomplishments and failures, the enemies he made, and his family life. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.",2002,4.18,555,35943
9780812966183,081296618X,Islam,A Short History,Karen Armstrong,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HIJG0bB5yNQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the history of Islam, from the flight of Muhammad and the founding of the first mosques to the development of the modern Muslim state, and examines its present beliefs and practices.",2002,4.02,230,7372
9780812966299,0812966295,King Solomon's Mines,,Henry Rider Haggard;James Danly,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z_9vDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Allan Quatermain and his companions struggle across the remote African continent in seach of hidden gold.,2002,3.8,264,33836
9780812967944,0812967941,A Working Stiff's Manifesto,"A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine that Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember",Iain Levison,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oyYDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Over the course of ten years Levison worked 42 odd jobs across six states. A vivid and striking tour of wage labor in America, this book is perfect reading for anyone who has raced against the tick of a time clock.",2003,3.81,164,497
9780812968378,0812968379,Funny in Farsi,A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America,Firoozeh Dumas,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PNh9-d69MJ4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An autobiography of growing up as an Iranian-American describes the author's family's 1971 move from Iran to Southern California, the members of her diverse family, and their struggle with culture shock.",2004,3.79,240,12072
9780812968972,0812968972,The Birth of Venus,A Novel,Sarah Dunant,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uTLuAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo, a situation that is complicated by her unwanted arranged marriage to an older man and a battle between the Medici family and the fundamentalist followers of Savonarola. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.",2004,3.8,427,85882
9780812969634,0812969634,The Knight Of Maison-Rouge,A Novel of Marie Antoinette,Alexandre Dumas,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vCNJvqEh4dsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Paris, 1793. The onset of the Terror. A brave Republican named Maurice rescues a mysterious and beautiful woman from an angry mob and is unknowingly dragged into a secret Royalist plot involving the imprisoned Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and her enigmatic, fearless champion, the Knight of Maison-Rouge."" -- cover.",2004,3.89,448,1131
9780812969702,0812969707,A War Like No Other,How the Athenians And Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War,Victor Davis Hanson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v7q94Nxje8MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A colorful history of the Peloponnesian War and its dramatic repercussions on the history of ancient Greece brings to life the events of the conflict, its impact on the great city-states of Athens and Sparta, and the personalities involved, including Pericles, Alcibiades, Sophocles, Thucydides, and others. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2006,4.11,397,1601
9780812970753,0812970756,Selected Stories of H.G. Wells,,Herbert George Wells,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yz7PhVqHNPgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2004,3.98,432,77
9780812971064,081297106X,Reading Lolita in Tehran,A Memoir in Books,Azar Nafisi,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xOOgRlo5SgQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the group of young women who came together at her home in secret every Thursday to read and discuss great books of Western literature, explaining the influence of Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and other works on their lives and goals. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2004,3.6,356,102707
9780812971347,0812971345,Kim,,Rudyard Kipling,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Sv17gAK1DhoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as ""The modern Library of the world's Best Books"". Its paperback series feature treasured classics, major translations of great works, and rediscoveries of keen literary and historical merit. Featuring introduc",2004,3.72,306,111
9780812971422,0812971426,Color,A Natural History of the Palette,Victoria Finlay,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dnvTmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examining the physical materials that color the world, a freelance journalist explores the social, political, and cultural implications of color throughout history. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2004,3.78,464,59145
9780812971453,0812971450,Rendezvous in Black,,Cornell Woolrich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lU2vAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as ""The modern Library of the world's Best Books"". Its paperback series feature treasured classics, major translations of great works, and rediscoveries of keen literary and historical merit. Featuring introduc",2004,3.96,211,1052
9780812971897,0812971892,No God But God,"The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam",Reza Aslan,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ERvuBmZem5oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An authoritative study of the Islamic faith in relation to the other world religions sheds new light on its origins and history, from the social reformation role of Muhammad to the impact of fundamentalism and terrorism on Islam. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2006,4.13,310,16907
9780812972122,0812972120,The Mysterious Island,,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Na-i5B63IPYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Five Union prisoners of war escape from a Confederate prison camp in a hot-air balloon, only to crash land on an unknown island where they must learn to survive on their own, in a bold new translation of Verne's classic adventure story, featuring a new introduction by Caleb Carr. Reprint.",2004,4.1,723,28969
9780812972580,0812972589,The Ox-Bow Incident,,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3G6hyf0f4CoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The murder of a cowboy sends a vigilante group on a frenzied hunt to track down the killer and leads to the lynching of three innocent men, in a wrenching, powerful re-creation of life, death, justice, and mob violence on the Western frontier. Reprint.",2004,3.82,247,4116
9780812973013,0812973011,Mountains Beyond Mountains,,Tracy Kidder,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XifdzgU9ilsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A portrait of infectious disease expert Dr. Paul Farmer follows the efforts of this unconventional Harvard genius to understand the world's great health, economic, and social problems and to bring healing to humankind.",2004,4.22,333,59877
9780812974928,0812974921,Caribbean,,James Albert Michener,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-ymJDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The turbulent history of the Caribbean islands is chronicled, from tribal conflicts on Dominica and the age of exploration, to the Cuban revolution and the tempestuous present, through the colorful lives of characters, fictional and real-life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2005,3.91,672,4527
9780812975048,0812975049,The Cossacks,,Leo Tolstoy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X2ri3AcAkKEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as ""The modern Library of the world's Best Books"". Its paperback series feature treasured classics, major translations of great works, and rediscoveries of keen literary and historical merit. Featuring introduct",2006,3.79,161,4160
9780812975215,0812975219,Fooled By Randomness,The Hidden Role Of Chance In Life And In The Markets,Nassim Taleb,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4eLKm33WneEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Contends that randomness and probability have a large impact on life, claims that people regularly fail to recognize that role, and tells how to differentiate between randomness in general and the financial markets in particular.",2005,4.05,368,37122
9780812975932,0812975936,Summer Crossing,,Truman Capote;Alan U. Schwartz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bdsfUfZeqBYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seventeen-year-old Manhattan society girl Grady McNeil is free to pursue her illicit romance with Clyde Manzer, a Jewish parking lot attendant from Brooklyn, when her parents decide to leave her alone for the summer. Reprint.",2006,3.44,142,5028
9780812976144,0812976142,The Alienist,,Caleb Carr,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9mWMDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a madman begins stalking victims on the streets of 1896 New York, a team of investigators is forced to apply radical and untested techniques that include fingerprinting and the controversial science of psychology. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2006,4.06,498,119839
9780812976151,0812976150,The March,A Novel,E. L. Doctorow,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bKC5iVZwk5cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War has a profound impact on the outcome of the war, in a richly textured, evocative historical novel that captures the full experience of the diverse characters caught up in the struggle. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 350,000 first printing.",2006,3.8,363,8041
9780812976557,081297655X,Wonderland,,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UV5ULSUrAHsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A traumatized Jesse Vogel's search for the key to his shattered identity takes him through endless mazes in his youth and manhood, from rural Lockport, New York, to his successful career as a Chicago neurosurgeon, to his battle to save his own daughter from the ravages of the drug-laden counter-culture. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2006,3.79,528,873
9780812976564,0812976568,The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster,,Bobby Henderson,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UvqKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An introduction to the religious beliefs of Pastafarianism argues that the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the real creator of the universe, in a hilarious compilation of FSM scripture, rits, observances, and answers to the Big Questions of life. Original. 50,000 first printing.",2006,3.92,169,3108
9780813025933,0813025931,Holding on to the Air,An Autobiography,Suzanne Farrell;Toni Bentley,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fGKlQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The life and accomplishments of one of America's most famous ballerinas is highlighted in this monumental portrait of Suzanne Farrell, the celebrated muse to George Balanchine. (Performing Arts)",2002,4.07,352,511
9780813027050,0813027055,Winter Season,A Dancer's Journal,Toni Bentley,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0Vk5HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the journal of Toni Bentley's life as a dancer for the New York City Ballet, her day-to-day activities, and the emotional struggles that members of George Balanchine's troupe faced.",2003,3.91,168,406
9780813191553,0813191556,The Cave,,Robert Penn Warren,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D1Z5Ks95UlIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In his sixth novel, The Cave (1959), Robert Penn Warren tells the story of a young man trapped in a cave in fictional Johntown, Tennessee. His predicament becomes the center of national attention as television cameras, promoters, and newscasters converge on the small town to exploit the rescue attempts and the thousands of spectators gathered at the mouth of the cave.",1959,3.73,424,94
9780813510996,0813510996,The Story of Avis,,Elizabeth Stuart Phelps;Carol Farley Kessler,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i_WQSl9He3kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,.,1985,3.55,250,168
9780813515243,0813515246,Echoes of the Marseillaise,Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution,Eric J. Hobsbawm,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3-XRo-PSwsQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""The French Revolution,"" writes Hobsbawm, ""gave peoples the sense that history could be changed by their action ... [and] demonstrated the power of the common people in a manner which no subsequent government has ever allowed itself to forget."" We can learn a great deal from studying the French Revolution itself, but we can also learn from studying the ways in which scholars have interpreted the French Revolution, and from the ways their views have changed. For over a century following the Revolution, commentators and scholars spoke of it in glowing terms. But in the past three decades, revisionist historians have become skeptical. Eric Hobsbawm reiterates the centrality of the Revolution for history on a global basis. He argues that those who wrote about the Revolution in the nineteenth century were convinced it had changed their lives dramatically, improving the economy and the lot of peasants. They saw the Revolution as a prototype of of the bourgeois revolution, enabling the middle class to gain power from the ruling class of aristocrats. Many believed proletarian revolutions would inevitably follow. In the years between 1917 and the 1960s, Marxists continued to use the French Revolution as a point of reference, paying increasing attention to the social and economic factors in the Revolution, not only to the political factors. In the 1970s and 1980s, many historians began to argue that the Revolution achieved modest results at disproportionate costs. Hobsbawm argues that this massive historiographical reaction against the centrality of the Revolution reflects the personal politics of those contemporary historians for whom Marxism and communism are now out of favor. They are, he maintains, wrong. The Revolution transformed the world permanently and introduced forces that continue to transform it.",1990,3.51,168,54
9780813516707,0813516706,Moods,,Louisa May Alcott,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ifLDQhRKGyMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,.,1991,3.4,538,300
9780813520186,0813520185,Daughters of Decadence,Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle,Elaine Showalter,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VOWhXVuuzWQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"At the turn of the century, short stories by -- and often about -- ""New Women"" flooded the pages English and American magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Yellow Book. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form and courageous in its candid representations of female sexuality, marital discontent, and feminist protest, shocked Victorian critics, who denounced the authors as ""literary degenerates"" or ""erotomaniacs."" This collection brings together twenty of the most original and important stories from this period. The writers included in this highly readable volume are Kate Chopin, Victoria Cross, George Egerton, Julia Constance Fletcher, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Grand, Vernon Lee, Ada Leverson, Charlotte Mew, Olive Schreiner, Edith Wharton, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Mabel E. Wotton. As Elaine Showalter shows in her introduction, the short fiction of the Fin-de-Siecle is the missing link between the Golden Age of Victorian women writers and the new era of feminist modernism. Elaine Showalter is a professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of A Literature of Their Own, The Female Malady, and other books, and editor of Alternative Alcott, a volume in the American Women Writers Series",1993,3.84,352,233
9780813530659,0813530652,Girls who Wore Black,Women Writing the Beat Generation,Ronna Johnson;Nancy McCampbell Grace,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4AfkN_6r3WoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"What do we know about the women who played an important role in creating the literature of the Beat Generation? Until recently, very little. Studies of the movement have effaced or excluded women writers, such as Elise Cowen, Joyce Johnson, Joanne Kyger, Hettie Jones, and Diane Di Prima, each one a significant figure of the postwar Beat communities. Equally free-thinking and innovative as the founding generation of men, women writers, fluent in Beat, hippie, and women's movement idioms, partook of and bridged two important countercultures of the American mid-century. Persistently foregrounding female experiences in the cold war 1950s and in the counterculture 1960s and in every decade up to the millennium, women writing Beat have brought nonconformity, skepticism, and gender dissent to postmodern culture and literary production in the United States and beyond.",2002,3.66,318,54
9780814317327,0814317324,Latin Via Ovid,A First Course,Norma Goldman;Jacob E. Nyenhuis,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fORWW12AoTAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Using an introduction to mythology by the master storyteller Ovid himself, the authors have prepared a unique teaching tool designed to achieve proficiency at Latin in one year at the college level, two years at the high school or intermediate level. The volume provides students with imaginative, connected reading, beginning with introductory prose versions of Ovid's simple myth tales and progressing to the rich poetry of Ovidian Latin (with appropriate teaching aids) within forty lessons. The grammatical approach is traditional, but the central emphasis is on reading. In each chapter the reading appears first, followed by the vocabulary, the grammar, exercises, and etymology relating to the vocabulary. The exercises begin with a group of questions in Latin (based on the reading), to be answered in Latin. Each tale is preceded by a brief discussion in English of the story and its mythological significance. The myths retold by Ovid and the attractive format are conceived to impel the student into acquiring the skill to read the author in the original language. For additional complimentary materials on this topic, please see Latin Via Ovid Audio materials (available via downloadable flash drive and cassette tapes) by Norma Goldman and Jacob E. Nyenhuis and the accompanying text Practice, Practice: A Latin Via Ovid Workbook by Norma Goldman and Michael Rossi.",1982,4.38,524,76
9780814326114,0814326110,Practice! Practice!,A Latin Via Ovid Workbook,Norma Goldman;Michael Rossi,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-34_qtcxorsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Exhibiting the same clarity as Latin via Ovid, this student workbook parallels the text's forty lessons and is the ideal supplement to classroom recitation and exercises. Drills in grammar and vocabulary, combined with innovative directions for practice, facilitate the student's acquisition of Latin. Teachers: When ordering Latin via Ovid and the audio material, be sure to order the free Teacher's Manual (not sent to students) that contains all of the translations of the Latin stories, plus each chapter's Exercise V, which requires the translation from English into Latin. Games and songs are included. Please request this guide by calling us at 313-577-6126. The VCR video of the puppet show ""Ulysses"" for Chapter XXXV can be ordered directly from Norma W. Goldman at College of Lifelong Learning; 5700 Cass Avenue, Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 phone number: 313-577-6582 fax number: 313-577-8585 Price: $25.00 (includes shipping & handling).",1995,4.08,152,12
9780814727010,0814727018,The Gramsci Reader,"Selected Writings, 1916-1935",Antonio Gramsci,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nl_bJyeYdpwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"with a new introduction by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM ""Very usefully pulls the key passages from Gramsci's writings into one volume, which allows English-language readers an overall view of his work. Particularly valuable are the connections it draws across his work and the insights which the introduction and glossary provide into the origin and development of some key Gramscian concepts."" --Stuart Hall, Professor of Sociology, Open University The most complete one-volume collection of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of Marxism, The Antonio Gramsci Reader fills the need for a broad and general introduction to this major figure. Antonio Gramsci was one of the most important theorists of class, culture, and the state since Karl Marx. In the U.S., where his writings were long unavailable, his stature has lately so increased that every serious student of Marxism, political theory, or modern Italian history must now read him. Imprisoned by the Fascists for much of his adult life, Gramsci wrote brilliantly on a broad range of subjects: from folklore to philosophy, popular culture to political strategy. Still the most comprehensive collection of Gramsci's writings available in English, it now features a new introduction by leading Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, in addition to its biographical introduction, informative introductions to each section, and glossary of key terms.",2000,4.28,447,499
9780815319665,0815319665,Cold Counsel,Women in Old Norse Literature and Mythology : a Collection of Essays,Sarah M. Anderson;Karen Swenson,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FBYAYvQv774C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.",2002,3.61,320,18
9780815411215,0815411219,George Eliot,The Last Victorian,Kathryn Hughes,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6s8CR_lzCfUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This intensely engaging biography examines the extraordinary life of George Eliot from her childhood, through her scandalous liaison and social exile, to her hard-won status as one of Victorian England's literary elite.",2001,4.03,416,159
9780815411833,0815411839,Marilyn Monroe,The Biography,Donald Spoto,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r2W9SGUyRmgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A biography of the screen legend employs thirty-five thousand formerly sealed documents--letters, diaries, and other papers--to examine virtually every aspect of Monroe's life and death.",1993,4.03,752,1347
9780815412182,0815412185,Temptations,,Otis Williams;Patricia Romanowski;Patricia Romanowski Bashe,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KMJo37QXc7gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Temptations were the most commercially successful and critically lauded male vocal group of the 60s and early 70s. This is the frank, revealing story of the legendary supergroup, told by its founder. 57 photos.",2002,4.13,304,90
9780816041619,081604161X,"Edgar Allan Poe, A to Z",The Essential Reference to His Life and Work,Dawn B. Sova;Branko·Sou閏ek,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VUdqb7HPTPAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More than 3,400 entries chart the life and work of Poe. Entries arearranged alphabetically and cover works (including essays and reviews as well as poems and tales) and characters. Entries for works contain publishing and dramatization history, a list of characters, and a synopsis of the plot. There is also coverage of people, places, and publications that played a role in Poe's life or helped shape his literary development. Coverage extends into the twentieth century with entries (Corman, Roger; Price, Vincent) related to film and musical adaptations. Terms in boldface type serve as cross-references. Following the entries are four appendixes: a chronology of Poe's life, a chronology of his works, a list of Poe research collections, and a bibliography.",2001,4.33,320,8
9780816611355,0816611351,Blindness and Insight,,Paul de DeMan,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XmNAxQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1995,4.09,342,172
9780816638635,0816638632,Christopher and His Kind,,Christopher Isherwood,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EV86HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life - from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America."" ""What most impressed the first readers of this memoir was the candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains one of Isherwood's greatest achievements.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved",2001,4.12,352,2182
9780816639823,0816639825,The Condor and the Cows,A South American Travel Diary,Christopher Isherwood,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jxdoPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the few classic works of South American travel, now available in paperback with a new foreword by Jeffrey Meyers and additional photographs by Isherwood's lover, Bill Caskey. Isherwood frankly depicts the squalor and discomforts of his journey--as he wrote he was very skeptical about the book but later came to regard it as one of his best.",2003,3.82,248,42
9780816643004,0816643008,Filth,"Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life",William A. Cohen,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b4RrtwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Focusing on 'filth' in literary & cultural materials from London, Paris & their colonial outposts in the 19th & early 20th centuries, the essays in this volume range over topics from the building of sewers to the fictional representation of labouring women as polluting.",2005,4.17,360,11
9780816730308,081673030X,The Man who Tricked a Ghost,,Laurence Yep,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qA8CAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sung, a brave man who is not afraid of ghosts, meets one on a dark road and tricks it into revealing its secret weakness.",1993,3.83,32,39
9780816736911,081673691X,You Can Never Go Home Again,,Dyan Sheldon,Divorce,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b9fDUyzHRtoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Angel and her mother move into a cottage on a cliff on Long Island, they find a ghost named BJ, who died during the '50s, already lives there. Part one of two.",1995,4.26,166,21
9780816845132,0816845131,Crackup,,Len Morgan,Aircraft accidents,,"""Crackup! 101 ways to convert an airplane to scrap metal! See details inside!""--Page 4 of cover.",1969,2,60,1
9780819564528,0819564524,Notebook of a Return to the Native Land,,Aimé Césaire;Clayton Eshleman;Annette Smith,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JzFt9S2RBakC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Césaire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.,2001,4.08,66,867
9780820320977,0820320978,Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men,Three Stage Versions,Robert Penn Warren,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=au5XzVpSb_cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men is one of the undisputed classics of American literature. Fifty years after the novel's publication, Warren's characters still stand as powerful representations of the moral dilemmas faced by individuals in positions of power. All the King's Men had its genesis in Warren's stage play Proud Flesh, unpublished in his lifetime. He also wrote a subsequent unpublished play titled Willie Stark: His Rise and Fall and a later dramatic version of the novel that shared the title All the King's Men. This volume is the first to collect all three dramatic texts and to publish Proud Flesh and Willie Stark. Proud Flesh is particularly fascinating for what it reveals about the development of All the King's Men and Warren's changing perceptions of its characters and themes. The other plays, as post-novel writings, provide a forum for Warren to clarify his intentions in the novel. The editors' introduction to this collection reviews the composition history of the works and their relationship to the novel and to each other. The new perspectives on Warren's writing presented in Robert Penn Warren's ""All the King's Men"": Three Stage Versions provide a glimpse into a creative mind struggling with a compelling story and offer readers another way of looking at this American classic. This book is an essential reference in Warren studies that will give students of All the King's Men another context from which to consider Warren's novel.",2000,4,264,3
9780821220801,0821220802,Odes to Common Things,,Pablo Neruda,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FrunQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A bilingual collection of 25 newly translated odes by the century's greatest Spanish-language poet, each accompanied by a pair of exquisite pencil drawings. From bread and soap to a bed and a box of tea, the ""odes to common things"" collected here conjure up the essence of their subjects clearly and wondrously. 50 b&w illustrations.",1994,4.38,152,1819
9780821221846,0821221841,The Camera,,Ansel Adams,Photography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aZYCuwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ansel Adams (1902-1984) produced some of the 20th century's most iconic photographic images and helped nurture the art of photography through his creative innovations and peerless technical mastery. The Camera--the first volume in Adams' celebrated series of books on photographic techniques--has taught generations of photographers how to harness the camera's artistic potential. This time-honored handbook distills the knowledge gained through a lifetime in photography and remains as vital today as when it was first published. Along with visualization, image management, Adams' famous Zone System, and other keys to photographic artistry, The Camera covers 35mm, medium-format, and large-format view cameras, while offering detailed advice on camera components such as lenses, shutters, and light meters. Beautifully illustrated with photographs as well as instructive line drawings, this classic manual belongs on every serious photographer's bookshelf. ""Adams is a clear-thinking writer whose concepts cannot but help the serious photographer."" - New York Times ""A master-class kind of guide from an undisputed master."" - Publishers Weekly Over 1 million copies sold.",1995,4.19,195,3748
9780821221860,0821221868,The Negative,,Ansel Adams,Photography,,"Ansel Adams (1902-1984) produced some of the 20th century's most iconic photographic images and helped nurture the art of photography through his creative innovations and peerless technical mastery. The Negative--the second volume in Adams' celebrated series of books on photographic techniques--has taught generations of photographers how to use film and the film development process creatively. Examples of Adams' own work clarify the principles discussed. This classic handbook distills the knowledge gained through a lifetime in photography and remains as vital today as when it was first published. Anchored by a detailed discussion of Adams' Zone System and his seminal concept of visualization, The Negative covers artificial and natural light, film and exposure, and darkroom equipment and techniques. Beautifully illustrated with photographs as well as instructive line drawings, this classic manual can dramatically improve your photography. ""Adams is a clear-thinking writer whose concepts cannot but help the serious photographer."" - New York Times ""A master-class kind of guide from an undisputed master."" - Publishers Weekly Over 1 million copies sold.",1995,4.4,265,1211
9780821221877,0821221876,The Print,,Ansel Adams,Photography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BGFWGPFQg7oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ansel Adams (1902-1984) produced some of the 20th century's most iconic photographic images and helped nurture the art of photography through his creative innovations and peerless technical mastery. The Print--the third volume in Adams' celebrated series of books on photographic techniques--has taught generations of photographers how to explore the artistic possibilities of printmaking. Examples of Adams' own work clarify the principles discussed. This classic handbook distills the knowledge gained through a lifetime in photography and remains as vital today as when it was first published. The Print takes you step-by-step--from designing and furnishing a darkroom to mounting and displaying your photographs, from making your first print to mastering advanced techniques, such as developer modifications, toning and bleaching, and burning and dodging. Filled with indispensable darkroom techniques and tips, this amply illustrated guide shows how printmaking--the culmination of photography's creative process--can be used expressively to enhance an image. ""Adams is a clear-thinking writer whose concepts cannot but help the serious photographer."" - New York Times ""A master-class kind of guide from an undisputed master."" - Publishers Weekly Over 1 million copies sold.",1995,4.37,203,947
9780821726846,0821726846,Final Rain,,Jerry Ahern,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ylbM15ITv-QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent, leads international forces against the invading Russians, who have developed a new particle beam weapon",1989,3.69,220,90
9780821746219,0821746219,Bright Star's Promise,,Karen A. Bale,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TSAE92zWv5UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the sequel to Love's Bright Star, beautiful Sandrine Renard is forced by tragedy to leave her beloved husband, Wade, a separation that becomes even more terrible after an accident leaves Wade without any memory of their love. Original.",1994,2.77,444,13
9780821758267,0821758268,A Devilish Dilemma,,Judith Lansdowne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MgYDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Miss Minerva Potts called off her engagement to the self-absorbed Lord Whithall, she vowed not to marry at all. Then, she met Chadwick Brumfield, Earl of Rossland. Known as the Devil's Delight, the charming earl had a reputation so scandalous, Minerva was certain she would never lose her heart to him--but she was wrong.",1998,4.02,288,52
9780821760536,082176053X,Prince of Magic,,Anne Stuart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tmgreaMc6r0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Exiled to Yorkshire after shaming her minister father by dancing barefoot in the moonlight, Elizabeth Penshurst meets mysterious Gabriel Durham, and as they become drawn to each other, a secretive Druid cult plans to use her as a sacrifice, and Gabriel will stop at nothing to save her. Original.",1998,3.63,348,256
9780821775509,0821775502,My Lord Eternity,,Debbie Raleigh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aF-ORh9QRRkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This is the second title in a new trilogy about three noble vampires entrusted with the protection of their kind who discover that human desire is far from lost to them and that love may be the only thing they long for more than life everlasting.,2003,3.74,256,399
9780821776056,0821776053,See how She Dies,,Lisa Jackson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pl6JmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"First published in 1994 as ""Treasures,"" the first novel of romantic suspense by the ""New York Times"" bestselling author of ""Whispers"" is now retitled, repackaged, and rewritten to include more suspense, intrigue, and atmosphere. Original.",2004,3.92,510,2797
9780821778067,0821778064,This Christmas,,Jane Green;Jennifer Coburn;Liz Ireland,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l4aNflr03_IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A trio of holiday romances features Jane Green's Vacation, in which surburban housewife Sarah, dissatisfied with her marriage, gets a break from her husband when his job sends him to Chicago indefinitely and learns that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Original.",2005,3.2,480,1087
9780821780572,0821780573,My Wicked Pirate,,Rona Sharon,Fiction,,"Using Alanis, a beautiful heiress, as a pawn in his game of revenge against those who had betrayed him, the Viper, a legendary pirate, finds himself falling in love with his spirited captive as they embark on a perilous high-seas adventure. Original.",2006,3.9,432,495
9780822000235,0822000237,CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's King Henry IV,,James K. Lowers,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1r0_xgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This popular play entertains and inspires in alternating comic scenes and serious ones and is the birthplace of one of the theater's greatest characters, Sir John Falstaff. Young Prince Hal rebels against his father the king until he must go to the king's aid to stamp out the rebellion of nobles.",1971,3.88,80,17
9780822000945,0822000946,CliffsNotes on Shakeapeare's Twelfth Night,,J. L. Roberts,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1jUsP-7JfqwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Twelfth Night, you follow several separate groups of characters whose stories are flawlessly woven together to produce one of Shakespeare's lightest, most popular, and most musical comedies — full of intricate plots and subplots and witty banter that only Shakespeare could write. Summaries and commentaries take you through Shakespeare's masterpiece, and character analyses of such memorable characters as Viola, Olivia, and Duke Orsino clue you in on their motivations. You also get these additional features: A section on the life and background of William Shakespeare A review section that tests your knowledge A selected bibliography Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1960,4.21,64,12
9780822001461,0822001462,All the King's Men,Notes,L. David Allen;Robert H. Lynn,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=leuWkABpDDIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Review note and study guide to Warren's ""All the king's men.""",1963,3.4,80,3
9780822001836,0822001837,CliffsNotes on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina,,Marianne Sturman,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aPMFyQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. CliffsNotes on Anna Karenina delves into the complex web of relationships in Tolstoy’s epic novel. As the characters unfold, this novel draws you into the lives of Karenin, Anna, and others as they struggle through the seemingly hopeless marriage patterns of urban society. Do romantic relationships make us stronger or weaker as individuals? With insights into the characters of Anna Karenina, as well as information about Tolstoy’s own life and background, this study guide will help you get the most out of this classic novel. Other features that help you study include A character list that reveals names, traits, and key relationships Summaries and commentaries on each chapter Critical essays In-depth character analyses Analysis of major themes Review questions and suggested writing topics Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1965,3.89,80,15
9780822002109,0822002108,Cliffs notes on Faulkner's As I lay dying,,James L. Roberts,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l0VRu6X7hkYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a guide to understanding William Faulkner's ""As I Lay Dying,"" examining the life of the author, discussing the structure and narrative technique employed in the novel, featuring analysis and commentary on individual sections, and including character notes, and other study aids.",1969,3.85,72,8
9780822002420,0822002426,CliffsNotes on Wright's Black Boy,,Carl Senna,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7TRLcrdf9ZIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. CliffsNotes on Black Boy chronicles the alienation of the author – not only from white society, but from his own people. Richard Wright’s novel is a cry of anguish in the face of the human condition and the tragedy that comes when an individual struggles to overcome it. With this study guide, you’ll experience the events and the unique tone of the novel. Background about the life of the author will help shed light on the novel’s themes. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of major players Chapter summaries and commentaries Critical essays Character genealogy chart Helpful maps Review questions and suggested essay topics Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1971,3.75,56,3
9780822002833,0822002833,CliffsNotes on Voltaire's Candide,,Francois Marie Arouet;James K. Lowers,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wCTjzAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. CliffsNotes on Candide explores the best known philosophic tale from Voltaire. The tale is a vehicle for his profoundest views on politics, religion, and philosophy. At the same time, it is an adventure tale about a young hero who travels far and wide and experiences great dangers. With this study guide, you’ll see why Voltaire is considered among the greatest satirists in literature. Along with detailed explanations of the plot, your understanding will increase with insight into the life and times of the author. Other features that help you study include Background on Voltaire’s contemporaries and influences Character analyses of major players A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays Review questions Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1965,3.4,80,9
9780822002963,0822002965,CliffsNotes on Heller's Catch-22,,C. A. Peek,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sP4E_2e2Ij4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. CliffsNotes on Catch-22 takes you into this unforgettable novel that is full of satire, exaggeration, grotesque and comic caricatures, and telling allusions. Heller’s main characters are two Jewish boys from Brooklyn at the end of World War II – one from an orthodox family, one from a secular background. The growing friendship between the boys reflects the tensions within American society. With this study guide, you’ll be able to follow the unique structure of the novel and supplement your reading with insights into the life and background of author Joseph Heller. Other features that help you study include Life and background of the author Character analyses of major players A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays Review questions Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1976,3.56,48,35
9780822004240,0822004240,CliffsNotes on Euripides' Medea & Electra,,Robert J. Milch,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QBxgdwVS20UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background — all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure. In CliffsNotes on Euripides' Electra & Medea, you explore two classic Greek tragedies by Euripides and discover how the playwright introduced many innovations into the drama of his time. Electra and Medea present enlightening psychological examinations of characters under extreme stress — namely the title characters: Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon who seeks revenge on her mother and uncle for murdering her father and forcing her to live in poverty; and Media, who seeks revenge against her husband Jason for betraying her and marrying another woman. In this study guide, you'll find Life of the Playwright, as well as character lists and Summaries and Commentaries of each play. You'll also find critical essays on the following topics: The background of the Greek tragedy Aristotle on tragedy Other works by Euripides Notes on the main characters of each play Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1965,4.2,69,5
9780822005339,0822005336,CliffsNotes on Williams' The Glass Menagerie & Streetcar Named Desire,,James L. Roberts,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eahFfhm1jjIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on Glass Menagerie & Streetcar Named Desire explores two popular plays, both of which take place in the South and borrow heavily from author Tennessee Williams’s own life experiences. Following stories marked by struggle among loved ones, this study guide provides summaries and critical commentaries for each scene within the works. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Personal background on the playwright Introduction to and synopsis of the plays In-depth analyses of the cast of characters Review section that features interactive quizzes and suggested essay topics Selected bibliographies for both plays Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1965,3.78,88,9
9780822007807,0822007800,CliffsNotes on Flaubert's Madame Bovary,,James L. Roberts,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aXHg3gr2CSEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. With CliffsNotes on Madame Flaubert, you'll gain insight into Gustave Flaubert's novel that was so scandalous, he was brought to trial for immorality. Written in 1857, Madame Bovary is a pointed telling of the protagonist's immoral behavior as she ignores her duties as wife and mother to pursue her superficial romantic ideals. However, many now claim the novel as an integral part of modern European and American fiction and the forerunner and model of the realistic novel. Show your classmates – and your grade-granting teacher – that you're in the know with literature. You can't miss with chapter summaries, plot explorations, and author insights. Other features that help you study include A brief synopsis of the novel Insightful chapter commentaries Critical essays on major themes, symbolism, style, and more In-depth character analyses An interactive quiz to test your knowledge Essay topics and review questions Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure – you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1964,3.23,80,13
9780822008255,0822008254,Middlemarch,Notes,Brian Johnston;Mary Ellen Snodgrass,Study Aids,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NxB87ahPOfEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Includes George Eliot's life and career, a general snyopsis, a list of characters, chapter summaries and commentaries, and analysis of main characters, and more.",1967,4.14,109,7
9780822008934,0822008939,CliffsNotes on Wiesel's Night,,Maryam Riess,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sMetBfNx6kMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. In CliffsNotes on Night, you follow the humanistic first-person account of a teenage boy's incarceration by the Nazi Secret Service in World War II; his experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps; and his struggle to find meaning among the horror. Covering little more than a year of the young narrator's life, this study guide shares a story about endurance, loyalty, and faith — all nurtured by the strength of love. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Life and background of the author, Dr. Elie Wiesel A list of characters A historical timeline of Nazi Germany A review section that tests your knowledge and suggests essay topics A selected bibliography that leads you to more great resources Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1996,3.4,80,5
9780822011088,0822011085,CliffsNotes on Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun,,Rosetta James,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MJYodwuvvXYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. A Raisin in the Sun debuted in the spring of 1959 and has since been translated into more than 30 languages. It is the story of a poor black family struggling to become part of the middle class. Family hardships test the faith of all involved and the result is unexpected and filled with heartbreak. CliffsNotes on A Raisin in the Sun helps you explore this play by providing you with summaries and commentaries, chapter by chapter. You’ll also gain insight into the author Lorraine Vivian Hansberry. Other features that help you study include A list of characters and their descriptions A genealogy chart to illustrate the relationships between the characters Glossaries to help you fully understand the novel Critical essays on thematic structure, language and style, and more Suggested essay topics and related research projects for more study Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1992,3.9,80,10
9780822012191,0822012197,CliffsNotes on Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury,,James L. Roberts,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fv0xxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on The Sound and the Fury, you explore what is considered to be one of William Faulkner's greatest novels. The Sound and the Fury tells the story of the decline of the once-aristocratic Compson family of Yoknapatawpha County, in northern Mississippi, as told in stream of consciousness by three brothers – Benjamin, Quentin, and Jason. Summaries and commentaries guide you through each section of the novel, and critical essays help you understand the origin of the book's title, the structure of the book, and Faulkner's stream of consciousness style of writing. Other features that help you study include A section on the life and background of William Faulkner A special guide to the Benjy section – the most difficult section of the novel Analyses of the major characters An additional critical essay on meaning through motif in the novel Review questions and essay topics Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.",1963,3.83,72,29
9780822012375,0822012375,CliffsNotes on Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises,,Gary Carey,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6TBr9lMlh-QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is the book that chronicled the lives and times of ""the Lost Generation,"" American expatriates that filled Europe between the world wars. Hemingway's expatriates are there for two different reasons: one is there solely for entertainment, the other, to heal from the horrors of war and create something worth living for. Wounded Jake Barnes narrates a great, difficult love story.",1968,3.54,80,13
9780822013549,0822013541,"Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Endgame, & Other Plays",Notes,Jeffrey Fisher;James L. Roberts,Study Aids,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TKcBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A true innovation for the stage, Waiting for Godot is one of the greatest successes of the Theater of the Absurd. Although the subject and play is bleak in appearance, a semblance of nobility emerges as the two characters maintain hope. This volume also covers Endgame, All That Fall, Act Without Words I, and Krapp's Last Tape.",1980,3.67,72,3
9780822205104,0822205106,The Heidi Chronicles,,Wendy Wasserstein,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z1XLUAwU1sIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"THE STORY: Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world. Gradually distancing herself from her friends, s",1990,3.73,81,1348
9780822210344,0822210347,Four Baboons Adoring the Sun,,John Guare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FXvPPkPD_5AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"THE STORY: Inspired by a true story, the play follows the trail of a young black con man, Paul, who insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York couple, Ouisa and Flan Kittredge, claiming he knows their son at college. Paul tells them he",1995,4,74,234
9780822210894,0822210894,A Streetcar Named Desire,Play in Three Acts,Tennessee Williams,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=44qi9P-COd4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.,1953,3.98,107,229601
9780822215028,0822215020,Having Our Say,The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years : a Play,Emily Mann;Sarah Louise Delany,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nV6C8u9xmdcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"THE STORY: HAVING OUR SAY opens as 103-year-old Sadie Delany and 101-year-old Bessie Delany welcome us into their Mount Vernon, New York, home. As they prepare a celebratory dinner in remembrance of their father's birthday, they take us on a remark",1996,4.06,262,77
9780822216315,0822216310,"The Santaland Diaries ; And, Season's Greetings",,David Sedaris,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ggifn6UPKj0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"THE STORIES: THE SANTALAND DIARIES is a brilliant evocation of what a slacker's Christmas must feel like. Out of work, our slacker decides to become a Macy's elf during the holiday crunch. At first the job is simply humiliating, but once the thousa",1998,4.18,54,547
9780822217183,082221718X,The Diary of Anne Frank,,Frances Goodrich;Albert Hackett;Wendy Ann Kesselman,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=04puC_RnWdwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"THE STORY: In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonis",2000,4.04,70,1291
9780822218630,0822218631,Wonder of the World,,David Lindsay-Abaire,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t1eMMBLXGd0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,THE STORY: Nothing will prepare you for the dirty little secret Cass discovers in her husband's sweater drawer. It is so shocking that our heroine has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she,2003,3.94,72,43
9780822218739,0822218739,An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein,,Shel Silverstein,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gUnMD1VT714C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"THE STORIES: Welcome to the darkly comic world of Shel Silverstein, a world where nothing is as it seems and where the most innocent conversation can turn menacing in an instant. The ten imaginative plays in this collection range widely in content,",2003,4.02,72,195
9780822219002,082221900X,Franz Kafka's The Castle,,David Fishelson;Aaron Leichter,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5V797rJcqXUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"THE STORY: Cited as one of the 100 greatest works of fiction of all time by a panel of international writers in 2002, THE CASTLE remains Kafka's most magical novel (New York Times). By turns sexy, comic and horrifying, this new stage version of T",2001,4.07,59,26629
9780822309321,0822309327,Gunslinger,,Edward Dorn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QjA1iPqs8G8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Dorn’s high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of American literature. Dorn is one of the few political poets in America; this fantasy about a demigod cowboy, a saloon madam, and a talking horse named Claude Levi-Strauss, who travel the Southwest in search of Howard Hughes, as become a minor classic.",1989,4.11,224,238
9780822318644,0822318644,Immigrant Acts,On Asian American Cultural Politics,Lisa Lowe,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CZXtZ8lFepsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S. nation-state, yet, through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been distanced from the terrain of national culture. Lowe argues that a national memory haunts the conception of Asian American, persisting beyond the repeal of individual laws and sustained by U.S. wars in Asia, in which the Asian is seen as the perpetual immigrant, as the “foreigner-within.” In Immigrant Acts, she argues that rather than attesting to the absorption of cultural difference into the universality of the national political sphere, the Asian immigrant—at odds with the cultural, racial, and linguistic forms of the nation—displaces the temporality of assimilation. Distance from the American national culture constitutes Asian American culture as an alternative site that produces cultural forms materially and aesthetically in contradiction with the institutions of citizenship and national identity. Rather than a sign of a “failed” integration of Asians into the American cultural sphere, this critique preserves and opens up different possibilities for political practice and coalition across racial and national borders. In this uniquely interdisciplinary study, Lowe examines the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings of immigration in relation to Asian Americans. Extending the range of Asian American critique, Immigrant Acts will interest readers concerned with race and ethnicity in the United States, American cultures, immigration, and transnationalism.",1996,4,272,197
9780822331131,0822331136,Photography's Other Histories,,Christopher Pinney;Nicolas Peterson;Nicholas Thomas,Photography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZYPdHJaE6yMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Richly illustrated with over 100 images, this volume explores the role of photography in raising historical consciousness from a variety of geographic, cultural, and historical perspectives. 128 photos.",2003,3.73,296,22
9780822549208,0822549204,Nikola Tesla,A Spark of Genius,Carol Dommermuth-Costa,Technology & Engineering,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kFFWipanqsoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Recounts the life and accomplishments of the Croatian-born engineer who developed alternating-current technology and invented the radio,1994,3.95,144,102
9780822550006,0822550008,Oprah Winfrey,,Katherine E. Krohn,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DmCBxKvBRAgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the childhood, young adulthood, career, and parenthood of an entertainer known as the Queen of Nice.",2002,3.82,128,35
9780822560562,0822560569,Barack Obama,Working to Make a Difference,Marlene Targ Brill,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FIhyPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the life and career of the community organizer, Harvard Law School graduate, legislator, and civil rights lawyer who is known for his work on voting rights and employment discrimination cases, and was selected to give the keynote address at the",2006,3.96,48,19
9780823006571,0823006573,The Classical Drawing Atelier,A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice,Juliette Aristides,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dDRQAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The works of Old Masters and today's most respected realist artists are used to demonstrate and teach the principles of realist drawing and painting in this comprehensive art course for serious art students.,2006,4.11,160,3553
9780823016624,0823016625,Freaks!,How to Draw Fantastic Fantasy Creatures,Steve Miller,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f6Rc27ZOD_8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a how-to drawing guide that offers in-depth instructions for creating unique and bizarre anthropomorphic fantasy creatures.,2004,4.06,144,31
9780823078943,0823078949,The Munsters,A Trip Down Mockingbird Lane,Stephen Cox,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LtU2rfMrhAIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Take a Trip Down Mockingbird Lane with The Munsters, one of the most beloved families ever to haunt the small screen. For the first time, the complete story of this 1960s sitcom is unmasked, as prolific TV and film historian Stephen Cox ushers you into the house of Munster.",2006,4.44,208,54
9780823408818,0823408817,A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson,,,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2RmhWFOzLxkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the life and achievements of the architect, bibliophile, president, and author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson.",1991,3.72,32,14
9780823410774,0823410773,Patrick,Patron Saint of Ireland,Tomie DePaola,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y729VpYkkIwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Relates the life and legends of Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.",1992,4.06,30,82
9780823410781,0823410781,A Picture Book of Anne Frank,,,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CSNxWmR9xR8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Traces the life of the young Jewish girl whose diary chronicles the years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic.,1993,4.17,32,208
9780824512590,0824512596,In the Name of Jesus,Reflections on Christian Leadership,Henri J. M. Nouwen,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T9ZZOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ruminates on the problems, and possible solutions, in today's Christian leadership, offering a rethinking of how to lead, one based more firmly on divine guidance",1992,4.35,120,7501
9780824519865,0824519868,Life of the Beloved,Spiritual Living in a Secular World,Henri J. M. Nouwen,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j-wJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Nouwen was asked by a secular Jewish friend to explain his faith in simple language, he responded with ""Life of the Beloved, "" which shows that all people, believers and nonbelievers, are beloved by God unconditionally.",2002,4.29,160,6893
9780824521233,0824521234,Save the Date,"A Spirituality of Dating, Love, Dinner, and the Divine",Jason King;Donna Freitas,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QUMPAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this funny and lighthearted book by twentysomethings Freitas and King, the authors present a positive view of dating, showing young people how dating can be a spiritual path that promotes maturity and growth.",2003,3.75,191,4
9780824522520,0824522524,Huxley and God,Essays on Religious Experience,Aldous Huxley,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jv2PAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This volume of essays, written with the authors trademark elegance and wit, tackles subjects such as Action and Contemplation, Religion and Time, Reflections on the Lord's Prayer, and Notes on Zen.",2003,4.31,320,96
9780825429828,082542982X,Reinventing Jesus,How Contemporary Skeptics Miss the Real Jesus and Mislead Popular Culture,J. Ed Komoszewski;M. James Sawyer;Daniel B. Wallace,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D7ecngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reinventing Jesus cuts through the rhetoric of extreme doubt to reveal the profound credibility of historic Christianity. Meticulously researched yet eminently readable, this book invites a wide audience to take a firsthand look at the primary evidence for Christianity's origins.",2006,4.19,347,213
9780826323576,082632357X,Quito 1599,City and Colony in Transition,Kris E. Lane,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=otABiA17lNUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Quito has always been one of the most enigmatic of colonial Spanish American cities. The history of its enormous hinterland, only a fraction of which forms the modern Republic of Ecuador, is even less known. This engaging book takes the watershed year 1599 as a starting point for a provocative reinterpretation of the history of Quito, city and colony. The result is a lively narrative that is also an original inquiry into the driving forces behind sixteenth-century Spanish colonialism. In six overlapping topical narratives Lane brings to life a place wracked by civil disturbances, shipwrecks, indigenous uprisings, pirate attacks, maroon intransigence, urban decadence, failed missionary endeavors, sharp economic reorientations, and wily and unpredictable subaltern adaptation and resistance. Drawing from a wealth of recent research on the colonial north Andes and on more than seven years of study in the archives of Ecuador, Colombia, and Spain, Lane presents rich discoveries of interest to economic historians, including a previously unknown gold boom; however, his primary interest is people. He explores the ways both individuals and groups--shipwreck victims, slaves, laborers, merchants, traders--faced obstacles and seized (or missed) opportunities, showing readers not only the basic facts and major themes of colonial life but also the influence and outcome of individual hopes and fears among people from a multitude of races and ethnicities.",2002,3.59,312,21
9780826406736,0826406734,Art of Being,,Erich Fromm,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pvQHAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fromm examines the true paths--as opposed to false directions--that will lead us to self-knowledge and enlightenment and offers another way to self-awareness and well-being, one based on psychoanalysis and self-awareness through meditation.",1994,4.1,144,2320
9780826407078,0826407072,"Nathan the Wise, Minna von Barnhelm, and Other Plays and Writings: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing",,Peter Demetz,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AsmnSZaZfsYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lessing was a playwright, scholar, poet, archeologist, philosopher, and critic. His genius is evident in the works collected in this volume, which includes the comedy Minna von Barnhelm, the tragedy Emilia, Galotti, Nathan the Wise, The Jews (and related correspondence), Ernst and Falk: Conversations for the Freemasons, and selections from philosophical and theological writings",1991,3.72,370,84
9780826411327,0826411320,The Art of Listening,,Erich Fromm,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Gi1-PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Although Erich Fromm intended to publish his work as a practicing psychotherapist, these plans were never realized in his lifetime. This volume fulfills his wish. Not intended as a textbook about psychoanalytic therapy, these reflections provide welcome new information about Fromm the therapist and the way he dealt with the psychological suffering of his patients. As Fromm envisioned, each chapter is structured to capture the informality and intimacy of his psychoanalytic work so that readers get a new and different sense of Fromm's humanism, honesty and insight. These talks and seminars, given by Fromm between 1964 and his death in 1980, deal with the issues between analyst and analysand that go to the heart of the psychoanalytic process. For Fromm, the analyst is his or her own next patient, as the patient becomes his or her analyst.",1998,4.09,204,252
9780826414533,0826414532,Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint,,Chris Jones,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YshOYecAD0oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Central to The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint are flow charts: crystal-clear diagrams detailing every single thing, no matter how small, that needs to be done to make your film. This visual approach to the filmmaking process ensures that new (and established!) filmmakers get an instant overview of each and every discipline. Backing up the diagrams are copious notes - humorous in tone, yet broad and deep in content. Wherever possible, the text is broken apart into box outs, hot tips and sub-diagrams. This book is entertaining, irreverent, and never less than painfully practical. The Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint will have its own dedicated website where readers can download the tools, forms, software, and artwork detailed in the book. Jones's latest endeavor is packed with over a decade's worth of experience, know-how, and insider tips. A must-read for every budding filmmaker.",2003,4.2,608,50
9780826414748,0826414745,Don DeLillo's White Noise,A Reader's Guide,Leonard Orr,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jTSzxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A critical examination of ""White Noise"" by Don Delillo, this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to give a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.The books in the series all follow the same five-part structure: a short biography of the novelist; a full-length study of the novel, drawing out the most important themes and ideas; a summary of how the novel was received when it was first published; a summary of the novel's standing today, including any film or television adaptations; and a helpful list of discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and useful websites.",2003,3.91,96,75
9780826414755,0826414753,Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera,,Tom Fahy,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ayjUAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A brilliant idea--short, perceptive books which tell you what you need to know about some of the most vibrant and challenging writing around today--a bit like having a reading group in your pocket. IAN RANKIN",2003,4.23,188,1729
9780826414779,082641477X,David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest,,Stephen Burn,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xJ6U1VK3SRcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.",2003,3.8,96,853
9780826415745,0826415741,Anita Diamant's The Red Tent,A Reader's Guide,Ann Finding,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pSGfoDNjvzEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Continuum Contemporaries give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a through and readable analysis of each of the novels in question. The books in the series all follow the same structure: a biography of the novelist, including other works, influences, and, in some cases, an interview; a full-length study of the novel, drawing out the most important themes and ideas; a summary of how the novel was received upon publication; a summary of how the novel has performed since publication, including film or television adaptations, literary prizes, and so forth; a wide range of suggestions for further reading, including web sites and discussion forums; and a list of questions for reading groups to discuss.",2004,4.13,88,439
9780826418975,082641897X,Beyond the Chains of Illusion,My Encounter with Marx and Freud,Erich Fromm;Rainer Funk,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fS7UAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"First published in 1962 and long unavailable, BEYOND THE CHAINS OF ILLUSION is, only at first glance, a book about Marx and Freud--those two intellectual giants of the 20th century. Fromm here shows himself an outstanding interpreter of Marx. In all, Fromm's re-creation of the Freudian and Marxist way of thinking is, essentially, a look at the individual and society. BEYOND THE CHAINS OF ILLUSION will introduce many of today's readers to unknown aspects of Marx and Freud, as it also serves as a unique introduction to the life and mind of Erich Fromm as well. A new foreword by Fromm Literary Executor Rainer Funk puts this book into historic context and high relief.",2006,4.09,152,266
9780826452320,0826452329,JK Rowling's Harry Potter Novels,A Reader's Guide,Philip Nel,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qQYfoV62d30C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explores the themes found in the novels, provides information about reviews of the novels, and includes information about the life of J.K. Rowling.",2001,3.57,96,74
9780826453273,0826453279,Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things,,Julie Mullaney,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XMuhv1IPgooC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.",2002,4,96,304
9780826468956,0826468950,History of Philosophy Volume 1,Greece and Rome,Frederick Copleston,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y08L-MC36JUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,No Marketing Blurb,2003,4.08,544,18
9780826493958,0826493955,Culture of Fear Revisited,,Frank Furedi,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j_Gri3lTXEUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,representing a more constructive side of humanity.,2006,3.53,236,60
9780826514707,0826514707,Cervantes in Algiers,A Captive's Tale,María Antonia Garcés,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h97ivaPeOx8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to Algiers. The five years he spent in the Algerian bagnios or prison-houses (1575-1580) made an indelible impression on his works. From the first plays and narratives written after his release to his posthumous novel, the story of Cervantes's traumatic experience continuously speaks through his writings. Cervantes in Algiers offers a comprehensive view of his life as a slave and, particularly, of the lingering effects this traumatic experience had on his literary production. No work has documented in such vivid and illuminating detail the socio-political world of sixteenth-century Algiers, Cervantes's life in the prison-house, his four escape attempts, and the conditions of his final ransom. Garces's portrait of a sophisticated multi-ethnic culture in Algiers, moreover, is likely to open up new discussions about early modern encounters between Christians and Muslims. By bringing together evidence from many different sources, historical and literary, Garces reconstructs the relations between Christians, Muslims, and renegades in a number of Cervantes's writings. The idea that survivors of captivity need to repeat their story in order to survive (an insight invoked from Coleridge to Primo Levi to Dori Laub) explains not only Cervantes's storytelling but also the book that theorizes it so compellingly. As a former captive herself (a hostage of Colombian guerrillas), the author reads and listens to Cervantes with another ear.",2005,3.14,368,7
9780829421224,082942122X,Helena,,Evelyn Waugh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H927wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"“In Helena, the play of words and the fireworks, the exquisite descriptions of landscapes, and even the finished portraits of the heroine, her husband, and her son, are always subordinate to the author's broad vision of the mixed anguish and hope with which the world of Constantine's time was filled.” —New York Herald Tribune “[Helena] may be read on two levels of appreciation: As bright entertainment, or as deceptively profound commentary. On both levels it's a superlatively well done book.” —Chicago Tribune Evelyn Waugh, author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Brideshead Revisited and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, considered Helena to be perhaps his finest novel. Based on the life of St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine and finder of the true cross, this spiritual adventure brings to life the political intrigues of ancient Rome and the early years of Christianity.",2005,3.59,264,711
9780830819713,0830819711,Too Busy Not to Pray,Slowing Down to Be with God,Bill Hybels;LaVonne Neff,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xYJ1bl1c3gwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Most of us have trouble finding time to pray. And then the crises hit! Time for prayer seems impossible to find. The ideas in this practical book can help us to learn to slow down to be with God as well. Also included is a helpful guide for personal and group prayer.,1998,4.16,191,9313
9780830825707,0830825703,The Nature of the Atonement,Four Views,James K. Beilby;Paul R. Eddy,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ctikDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy edit a collection of essays on four views of atonement: the healing view, the Christus victor view, the kaleidoscopic view and the penal substitutionary view. This is a book that will help Christians understand the issues, grasp the differences and proceed toward a clearer articulation of their understanding of the atonement.",2006,3.76,208,189
9780830826056,083082605X,Original Sin,Illuminating the Riddle,Henri Blocher,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4Kf5hy8g9ckC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Henri Blocher offers a philosophically sophisticated treatment of the biblical evidence for original sin, interacting with the best theological thinking on the subject and showing that while the nature of original sin is a mystery only belief in it makes sense of evil and wrongdoing.",2000,3.67,158,61
9780830826193,083082619X,The Cross from a Distance,Atonement in Mark's Gospel,Peter G. Bolt,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cfIjrV1A6xwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this New Studies in Biblical Theology exploration of Mark's Gospel, Peter G. Bolt looks at why the cross is so prominent in the narrative, asks what contribution Mark's teaching can make to our understanding of the atonement and shows how this teaching can inform, correct and enrich our own preaching of the gospel in the contemporary world.",2004,3.87,213,46
9780830832941,0830832947,Courageous Faith Through the Year,,Bill Hybels,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T-lM23fB5m8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Focusing on the key aspects of Christian life--prayer, character, and wisdom--this one-year devotional shows believers how to know God more deeply and discover how he works in them.",2004,3.5,327,0
9780835608305,0835608301,Beyond the Postmodern Mind,The Place of Meaning in a Global Civilization,Huston Smith,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lKnLBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This new edition of critically acclaimed essays explores possible breakthroughs in the direction of reaching a liberated and enlightened consciousness. With a new preface and new final chapter. An invaluable collection of essays by the foremost religious writer in America today.,2003,4.21,295,67
9780835608473,0835608476,Mandala,Luminous Symbols for Healing,Judith Cornell,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ez4BScCzwBgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mandala will guide readers of all levels through simple mandala exercises and easy-to-follow drawing techniques, incorporating meditation and guided visualization with lavish illustrations. By exploring the tradition of the sacred circle, readers will learn how to create their own unique and powerful works of sacred art and use the mandala symbol as a self-transformative tool that manifests and enhances their own spiritual consciousness. The new edition also includes a CD with meditations set to music and guided exercises.",2006,4.14,176,73
9780836204384,0836204387,The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book,,Bill Watterson,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xtiMQXCLdJEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The creator of ""Calvin and Hobbes"" discusses the art of cartooning, explains how he creates his popular comic strip, and presents his favorite moments from the series' ten years",1995,4.63,208,48868
9780836217353,0836217357,The Days Are Just Packed,,Bill Watterson,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_7jI4ZPuztUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The irrepressible Calvin, aided by his mischievous tiger sidekick, Hobbes, sets out to save the world with his alter egos, Spaceman Spiff and Stupendous Man, while coping with Miss Wormwood, Santa, Susie, and the monsters under his bed. Simultaneous.",1993,4.69,176,20021
9780836217698,0836217691,Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat,A Calvin and Hobbes Collection,Bill Watterson,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-aOTQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reprising the wide-open landscape format of, The Days Are Just Packed, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat chronicles another segment of the multifarious adventures of this wild child and his faithful, but skeptical, friend. If the best cartoons compel readers to identify themselves within the funny frames, then all who enjoy Calvin and Hobbes are creative, imaginative, and ... bad, bad, bad! Calvin, the irascible little boy with the stuffed tiger who comes to life are a pair bound for trouble. Boring school lessons become occasions for death-defying alien air battles, speeding snow sled descents elicit philosophical discussions on the meaning of life, and Hobbe's natural inclination to pounce on his little friend wreaks havoc on Calvin's sense of security. Calvin's the kid we all wish we'd been. Sassy, imaginative, far more verbal than his parents can manage, Calvin is the quintessential bad boy -- and the boy we love to see. He terrorizes little Susie, offers ""Candid Opinions"" from a neighborhood stand, and questions his parents' authority. ""What assurance do I have that your parenting isn't screwing me up?"" he demands. Calvin and Hobbes manages to say what needs to be said about childhood and life: ""Eww, mud,"" says Calvin. ""Look at this gooshy, dirty, slimy, thick, wet mud ... Bleecch ... Talk about a kid magnet!""",1994,4.72,176,14952
9780836218053,0836218051,The Essential Calvin And Hobbes,,Bill Watterson,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JuDInK3YtyMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The Essential Calvin and Hobbes is an over-size anthology-type book including an original 16-page story and color Sunday cartoons.,1988,4.64,256,102955
9780836218527,0836218523,The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book,,Bill Watterson,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=swD1CiZj3BkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The magical friendship shared by Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes endeared them to millions of fans. In The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book their friendship endures in a full-color collection of Sunday cartoons and original art done for the book, all fit for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Whether visiting other planets as Spaceman Spiff, transmogrifying into a dangerous dinosaur, or just hanging around with Hobbes, Calvin's adventures are a showcase for the masterful art of Bill Watterson. The enlarged format of full-color Sunday illustrations provides more room for all the action and imagination inherent in each Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Readers will delight in pages enlivened with the bright color images of this precocious pair embroiled in all kinds of predicaments. Watterson engaged readers of all ages with the seemingly endless imagination of Calvin, tempered by the more thoughtful Hobbes. The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book provides many lazy Sunday afternoons of smiles and laughter. Online: gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/",1989,4.67,128,19364
9780836221367,0836221362,It's a Magical World,,Bill Watterson,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y1NVNqOB5OIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The final collection of comic strips from the popular syndicated series follows the adventures of Calvin and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes",1996,4.76,176,23336
9780836246216,0836246217,Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion,,Mary Engelbreit,Crafts & Hobbies,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VzIGAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide to decorating with style covers kitchens, windows, walls, children's rooms, and workspaces",1994,4.18,128,56
9780836254273,0836254279,Stephen King,AmericaÂ’s Best-Loved Boogeyman,George Beahm,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Uc7F0YWEcrAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A companion guide to the life and work of the horror writer, Steven King.",1998,3.79,304,49
9780836269147,0836269144,Stephen King from A to Z,An Encyclopedia of His Life and Work,George Beahm,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2BcECkYB7uoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the life and work of popular novelist Stephen King.,1998,3.83,251,53
9780838526958,0838526950,Foundations of Clinical Research,Applications to Practice,Leslie Gross Portney;Mary P. Watkins,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zzhrAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book serves as a comprehensive reference for a variety of research situations. This edition reflects the popular approaches to analysis and design, and addresses the focus of health-care related research through the 1990s and into the 21st century. Expanded or added topics include outcomes research and the disablement model, validity and diagnostic screening, meta-analysis, scales used in survey and outcomes research, logistic regression, measures of reliability, and data management to prepare for computer analysis. For those in the health professions, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, nursing, and exercise physiology.",2000,4.04,742,17
9780842313353,0842313354,Chosen by God,,R. C. Sproul,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PUvgxgm3ZaYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author presents an analysis of the subject of predestination and the sovereignty of God and offers scriptural references to support his opinion.,1994,4.33,208,6623
9780842331913,0842331913,Four Mothers at Chautauqua,,Isabella Alden,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DkbhZB3J7sIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Isabella Alden, Grace Livingston Hill's aunt and mentor, tells a story of wayward children whose mothers pray that a summer at Chatauqua will help them discover the love of God in they same way they did long before.",1997,4.01,265,27
9780842332293,0842332294,Desecration,Antichrist Takes the Throne,Tim F. LaHaye;Jerry B. Jenkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j-9j_26aJOYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Tribulation Force gathers its courage as the newly-resurrected Carpathia demonstrates a fondness for gruesome killings against those who remain disloyal to him and commits the ultimate act of desecration against the Judeo-Christian community.,2002,4.01,432,21074
9780842332361,0842332367,Armageddon,The Cosmic Battle of the Ages,Tim F. LaHaye;Jerry B. Jenkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=snxYKQRZ688C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"All armies of the world, including the Tribulation Force, head for the Middle East to engage in one massive battle, as the world becomes even more dangerous to live in with death, mistrust, and treachery all around.",2003,4.03,395,15438
9780842342704,0842342702,Left behind,a novel of the earth's last days,Tim Lahaye;Tim F. LaHaye;Jerry B. Jenkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xsfMpULeNOgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first book in the author's successful ""last days"" series follows a 747 pilot as he tries to recover from the effects of ""The Rapture."" Reprint.",1998,3.83,342,181922
9780842356220,0842356223,Redemption,,Gary Smalley;Karen Kingsbury,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EakLmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Laura Baxter Jacobs finds out that her husband is involved in an adulterous relationship and wants a divorce, she decides she will love him and remain faithful to her marriage at all costs. This book shows how God can redeem seemingly hopeless relationships, while illustrating one of Gary Smalley's key messages: love is a decision.",2002,4.37,384,24407
9780842356299,0842356290,Remember,,Karen Kingsbury;Gary Smalley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OCW3xQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ashley Baxter keeps her family and God at a distance trying to prove she can survive on her own, until the tragedy of September 11 changes her life forever.",2003,4.42,432,17714
9780842358934,0842358935,"Sit, Walk, Stand",,Watchman Nee,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a2oGS75anKkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An inspiring look at Ephesians and the believer's asociation with Christ, the world, and Satan. Written by the saintly Chinese pastor, Watchman Nee.",1977,4.41,80,2554
9780842360616,0842360611,Kingdom Come,The Final Victory,Tim F. LaHaye;Jerry B. Jenkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dTKgAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the final chapter of the Left Behind saga, the horrors of the Tribulation are over and Jesus Christ has set up his perfect kingdom on earth, but as believers all around the world enjoy a newly perfected relationship with their Lord, evil still lurks in the hearts of the unbelieving. 500,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo.",2007,3.99,356,3967
9780842361934,0842361936,The Rising,Antichrist is Born Before They Were Left Behind,Tim LaHaye;Tim F. LaHaye;Jerry B. Jenkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cZAlP8bJVI0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The countdown to Rapture begins as Marilena Carpathia unknowingly gives birth to the Antichrist, and half a world away, God's plans begin to take form in young Ray Steele.",2005,4.19,400,14261
9780842383677,0842383670,The Origin of the Bible,,Philip Wesley Comfort,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fIEPccxGaxgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Many books have been written about the Bible, but few explain its origins. This volume provides a fascinating overview of how the Bible was first inspired, canonized, read as sacred literature, copied in ancient Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, and eventually translated into the languages of the world. No other one-volume work can match this wealth of information about the historical development of the Bible.",2003,3.84,352,74
9780842384117,0842384111,Silenced,The Wrath of God Descends,Jerry B. Jenkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gr3SLkOL4PcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Double agent Paul Stepola continues to work to protect his fellow believers from the government that is trying to eliminate Christians, and struggles how to tell his family about his newfound faith without raising his father-in-law's suspicions.",2004,4.24,368,1493
9780842386876,0842386874,Rejoice,,Karen Kingsbury;Gary Smalley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pcpUvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the fourth volume in the continuing saga of the Baxter family, Brooke Baxter, a woman who has accomplished everything in life--a successful career, beautiful home, and two wonderful children--finds her newfound faith and her shaky marriage challenged by overwhelming loss. Original.",2004,4.46,344,12187
9780842386883,0842386882,Reunion,,Karen Kingsbury;Gary Smalley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FtZ6mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A story of God's grace and redemption, his victory even in the most difficult times.",2004,4.5,400,12171
9780842387446,0842387447,Forgiven,,Karen Kingsbury,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pkvZ8GmuKCYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Famed Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews struggles to deal with the shocking discoveries he has made about his past and to find the strength to forgive.,2005,4.41,358,9530
9780843121315,0843121319,Little Miss Birthday,,Roger Hargreaves,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FdcN0Drotd0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Although Little Miss Birthday has a perfect record for giving people the best birthday presents, she is stumped when she must find a gift for Mr. Wrong.",2007,4,32,188
9780843124927,084312492X,Mr. Jelly and the Pirates,,Roger Hargreaves,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bM_jAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Mr. Jelly, who is scared of everything, is kidnapped by pirates, the pirates quickly learn about his fears.",2007,3.82,32,86
9780843943993,0843943998,Mountain Madness,,David Thompson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Dt4DAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Frontiersman Nate King risks his life to save two tenderfoot trappers from New York from a Piegan war party, only to find his life and his family's survival hanging in the balance when the two men repay his kindness with deadly betrayal. Original.",1998,4.48,170,21
9780843944396,0843944390,The Halloween Man,,Douglas Clegg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oYs2iDmnTUoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Halloween Man walks when the screaming begins, and only Stony Crawford holds the key to the power of the chilling mystery of Stonehaven, and to the power of the unspeakable creature trapped within a summer mansion.",1998,3.36,360,554
9780843945195,0843945192,Gold Rage,,David Thompson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JwQDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When destitute trapper Ben Frazier is led to a bevy of gold by a sympathetic Arapaho warrior, he becomes a target for a group of greedy renegade trappers, and mountain man Zach King is the only one who can save him. Original.",1999,4.29,170,14
9780843945805,084394580X,The Nightmare Chronicles,,Douglas Clegg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8eOSRnFGwuQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These short stories from a master storyteller of horror ""can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby, "" says author Dean Koontz. It all begins when a young boy is held captive in an old tenement, and from there 13 nightmares unfold.",1999,3.74,360,400
9780843946802,0843946806,Sweet Revenge,,Lynsay Sands,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vDK9pJQZ054C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On the way to her wedding, Kyla is kidnapped and forced to marry Galen, leader of the MacDonald clan. But what begins as an act of revenge ends in true love.",2000,3.98,400,1699
9780843947250,084394725X,"Something Borrowed, Something Blue",,Constance O'Banyon;Evelyn Rogers;Bobbi Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KsM-8iHo1bEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Four spellbinding novellas by Barbieri, Constance O'Banyon, Evelyn Rogers, and Bobbi Smith bring to life the matrimonial mantra of ""Something old, something new"".",2000,4,394,16
9780843947465,0843947462,The House That Jack Built,,Graham Masterton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E6-3sHCMsiIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Craig Bellman is determined to live at Valhalla, a home in which every inhabitant has met with tragedy, and out of loyalty, his wife Effie agrees to move to the house, ignoring her intuitions, but as death returns to Valhalla, Craig becomes obsessed with the house. Original.",2000,3.87,385,1523
9780843947663,0843947667,Mischief,,Douglas Clegg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FiTnPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jim Hook confronts an ancient evil power when he arrives at a prestigious prep school built on the grounds of a once-prosperous, old estate in the Hudson Valley of New York. Original.",2000,3.49,359,368
9780843948103,0843948108,The Deed,,Lynsay Sands,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MVyzor_UGHYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A naïve new bride learns that there is more to a wedding night than just a sound sleep, and more to true love than she’s ever imagined.",2004,3.93,313,2937
9780843949094,0843949090,Bliss,,Lynsay Sands,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iFoKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Determined to stop their bickering, King Henry decides to force bitter enemies Lady Tiernay and Lord Holden into marriage, an unlikely union that has unexpected results and leads to newfound passion and love. Original.",2001,3.97,394,1643
9780843949742,0843949740,The Reluctant Reformer,,Lynsay Sands,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FFYJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Lord James discovers that the notorious courtesan known as Lady X is Margaret Wentworth, his best friend's sister, he follows her to a house of ill repute and forcefully rescues her from her own folly, and as she tries to convince him that she was never Lady X, he sets out to reform the lucious hoyden, only to find himself falling in love with her. Original.",2002,3.93,371,1204
9780843951424,0843951427,The Hour Before Dark,,Douglas Clegg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H44iYRp13AEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The brutal slaughter of his father brings a young man back to the family home he thought he’d left forever, to confront an unspeakable evil from his past.",2003,3.75,370,1003
9780843951776,084395177X,Nightmare House,,Douglas Clegg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nhxHPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After the tales of horror that took place in Harrow House in The Infinite and Mischief, this book takes a look back to tell the story of how the sinister house was built.",2004,3.36,340,931
9780843953244,0843953241,The Chase,,Lynsay Sands,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xHwJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A handsome British knight travels to Scotland eager to fulfill a marriage contract, but finds the feisty temper of his stinning bride to be more than he bargained for.",2004,4.05,374,2011
9780843954104,0843954108,The Abandoned,,Douglas Clegg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gVs8AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This original novel continues the popular haunted Harrow House series.,2005,3.42,370,222
9780843954111,0843954116,The Attraction,,Douglas Clegg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n6PFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The shriveled mummy in a desert roadside display looks harmless enough to the teenagers who have stopped to see it--until it comes to life. Original.,2006,3.63,324,376
9780843954524,0843954523,Blood Moon Over Bengal,,Morag McKendrick Pippin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bIMdDLnNSxsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When headstrong Elizabeth Mainwaring flies to Bengal, India, to reunite with her estranged father, a British colonel, she finds one of his soldiers irresistible—and also a suspect in a series of brutal murders!",2004,3.45,337,20
9780843955002,0843955007,Love Is Blind,,Lynsay Sands,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7s_DAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Clumsy Clarissa Crambray has a problem--she can't see without her glasses. But when she stumbles onto a scarred yet honorable nobleman, it may be a match made in heaven. Original.",2006,4,342,3333
9780843955828,0843955821,Blood Moon Over Britain,,Morag McKendrick Pippin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EswzeFhvF9UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Cicely Winterborne's best friend is murdered, she is caught up in a web of intrigue and espionage with only one man she CA trust: the dashing Inspector Fielding of Scotland Yard.",2005,3.44,323,17
9780844257471,0844257478,The Shakespeare Plays: Romeo & Juliet,,McGraw-Hill Education,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UgIvCbMZvEIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Shakespeare's classic love story is accompanied by explanatory notes and background information,1994,3.74,242,92
9780844667508,0844667501,Child of God,,Cormac McCarthy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HYGXPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.",1994,3.86,197,57
9780844670126,084467012X,The Buried Mirror,Reflections on Spain and the New World,Carlos Fuentes,Fiction,,,1999,4.01,399,6
9780849911880,0849911885,The Grace Awakening,Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living It Is Another,Charles R. Swindoll,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GZ0aPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Swindoll calls all Christians to wake up and reject living in legalistic, performance-oriented bondage. He urges readers not to miss living a grace-filled life since freedom and joy--not lists, demands, and duties--await all who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.",2006,4.33,306,1987
9780849918728,0849918723,Lead Like Jesus,,Ken Blanchard;Phil Hodges,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nEAquAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of One Minute Manager, one of the world's most popular management methods, introduces principles for effective leadership that focus on Jesus as a role model, aligning four internal and external domains--the heart, the head, the hands, and the habits.",2007,4.03,239,759
9780849945113,0849945119,Blink,,Ted Dekker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ppIGVtoUkAgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Saudi Arabian princess flees a painful forced marriage for the promise of America, and teams up with graduate student Seth, who possesses the ability to see multiple possible futures, in a dangerous struggle for power.",2004,4.17,400,12968
9780851115191,0851115195,Salvation to the Ends of the Earth,A Biblical Theology of Mission,Andreas J. Köstenberger;Peter Thomas O'Brien,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R3fEQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"(NSBT) Andreas Kstenberger and Peter O'Brien offer a comprehensive biblical theology of missions, covering the Old Testament, Second Temple Period and the New Testament. Part of the New Studies in Biblical Theology series.",2001,3.92,351,92
9780851512280,0851512283,The Valley of Vision,A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions,Arthur Bennett,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RJ54MKLeQ3YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The strength of Puritan character and life lay in prayer and meditation. In this practice the spirit of prayer was regarded as of first importance and the best form of prayer, for living prayer is the characteristic of genuine spirituality. Yet prayer is also vocal and may therefore on occasions be written. Consequently in the Puritan tradition there are many written prayers and meditations which constitute an important corpus of inspiring devotional literature. From this source, Arthur Bennett has distilled the essence of many prayers and set out in modern form what he calls ""aspiration units, the several parts of which could become springboards for the individual's own prayer subjects."" - Back cover.",1975,4.53,223,8939
9780851513348,0851513344,Discovering God's Will,,Sinclair B. Ferguson,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m0MPAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discovering God's Will draws out fundamental principles by which God guides us. It shows that the guidance God gives comes primarily through knowing, loving and obeying him.",1981,4.24,126,91
9780851621814,0851621813,The Complete Theory Fun Factory,,Katie Elliott;Ian Martin,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RoX8AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). Contains the material from books 1, 2 and 3",1996,5,96,1
9780851708706,0851708706,Trainspotting,,Murray Smith,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=na1ZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this book, Murray Smith unpicks the processes that led to the enormous success of Trainspotting. He isolates the various factors that make Trainspotting such a vivid document of its time.",2002,4,96,68
9780851709680,0851709680,The Shawshank redemption,,Mark Kermode,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hYBZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An account of one of the most popular films of all time- a true and unexpected audience favourite,2003,4.42,96,640
9780856684982,0856684988,Exemplary Novels,,Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,,,,1992,4.2,167,4
9780859533300,0859533301,"The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear",,Audrey Wood,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DTolngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take his freshly picked, ripe, red strawberry for himself.",1996,4.31,32,60
9780859537285,0859537285,"Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes ...",,,Juvenile Nonfiction,,An illustrated version of the song which identifies parts of the body. On board pages.,2002,4.06,12,1083
9780859653237,0859653234,Blink-182,Tales from Beneath Your Mom,Anne Hoppus,Rock groups,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r658PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2001,4.41,112,61
9780859653725,0859653722,Dissecting Marilyn Manson,,Gavin Baddeley,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7_FrAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Marilyn Manson in more than a mere rock star - he is a cultural phenomenon. He has created a phantasmal world of freaks irresistible to a generation of disaffected youth, while generating unprecedented controversy and protests from conservative and Christian organisations. In Dissecting Marilyn Manson author Gavin Baddeley performs a cultural autopsy, examining the seminal influences and psychotic sources that have created this fascinating Frankenstein's monster. With its heavily visual approach, the text and pictures form a pathological scrapbook that explore the Manson mythos in an irreverent but deeply authoritative manner. Book jacket.",2005,3.86,192,504
9780860916284,0860916286,For the Sake of Argument,Essays and Minority Reports,Christopher Hitchens,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pFmwvQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Essays discuss international politics, modern conservatism, politicians, and literature",1994,4.17,368,217
9780861366583,0861366581,"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea",,Jules Verne,Sea stories,,"A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.",1987,3.88,288,18
9780861661411,0861661419,From Hell,Being a Melodrama in Sixteen Parts,Alan Moore;Eddie Campbell;Pete Mullins,"Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Op3iQAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Following the huge success of From Hell, Knockabout presents a stunning volume comprising a new story by Alan Moore, Snakes and Ladders, based on a performance given on Red Lion Square in Holborn. The other story, originally a performance piece by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins, was adapted as a comic by Eddie Campbell. It is a shamanism of childhood, a journey from the present to the past, back into the womb and beyond. The last part of this volume is an extensive interview of Alan Moore he gave Eddie Campbell for his self-published magazine, Egomania.",2006,4.16,576,26681
9780861711765,0861711769,Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness,Walking the Buddha's Path,Henepola Gunaratana,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O7zazYDh02wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author plumbs the ""Eightfold Path"" of Buddhism for advice on how to live life with the proper attention to understanding, thinking, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.",2001,4.3,288,1051
9780863567186,0863567185,Assassinating Shakespeare,The True Confessions of a Bard in the Bush,Thomas Goltz,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RGQgAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The startling adventures of a young Shakespearean street performer in 1970s Africa.,2006,3.36,256,22
9780864424655,0864424655,Full Circle,A South American Journey,Luis Sepúlveda;Chris Andrews,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xtZlQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author shares his experiences traveling in South America and tells the stories of memorable people he met in his travels,1996,3.77,192,53
9780865165465,0865165467,The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic,,Jeffrey H. Tigay,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cxjuHTH6I2sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Special Features- Aims to show how The Gilgamesh Epic developed from its earliest to its latest form- Systematic, step-by-step tracking of the stylistic, thematic, structural, and theological changes in The Gilgamesh Epic- Relation of changes to factors (geographical, political, religious, literary) that may have prompted them- Attempts to identify the sources (biographical, historical, literary, folkloric) of the epic's themes, and to suggest what may have been intended by use of these themes- Extensive bibliography- Indices",2002,3.82,384,11
9780865165847,086516584X,Vergil's Aeneid,"selections from books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12",Barbara Weiden Boyd,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mfGycd-8lx0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,,2004,4.34,161,65
9780865344921,0865344922,Corroborating Evidence,The Black Dahlia Murder,William T. Rasmussen,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0LReHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rasmussen presents evidence to show, with reasonable certainty, that someone else committed the murders that have kept William Heirens--the longest-serving living inmate in the Illinois penal system--in prison for 58 years .",2005,3.3,234,10
9780865471184,0865471185,West with the Night,,Beryl Markham,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k5aXb2_Hn1EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes growing up in an Africa that no longer exists, training and breeding race horses, flying mail to Sudan, and being the first woman to fly the Atlantic, east to west",1942,4.19,294,23110
9780865471863,086547186X,Moon in a Dewdrop,Writings of Zen Master Dogen,Dōgen;Zen Master Dogen,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=af-BZb7n9P8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder of the important Soto School, was not only a profoundly influential and provocative Zen philosopher but also one of the most stimulating figures in Japanese letters. Kazuaki Tanahashi, collaborating with several other Zen authorities, has produced sensitive and accurate translations of Dogen's most important texts. Moon in a Dewdrop contains the key essays of the great master, as well as extensive background materials that will help Western readers to approach this significant work. There is also a selection of Dogen's poetry, most of which has not appeared in English translation before. Dogen's thought runs counter to conventional logic, employing paradoxical language and startling imagery. It illuminates such fundamental concerns as the nature of time, existence, life, death, the self, and what is beyond self.",1985,4.29,368,946
9780865476066,0865476063,Suburban Nation,The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream,Andres Duany;Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk;Jeff Speck,Architecture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UZ0-0X4aiwQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Three members of the Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism give voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to traditional planning principles. Reprint.,2001,4.08,320,1898
9780867196207,0867196203,Rent Girl,,Michelle Tea,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xI_9wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The story of a young lesbian's advetures in and out of the sex industry on both the East and West Coasts of America.,2004,3.79,239,2401
9780870610639,0870610635,Summa Theologica,Complete 5-Volume Set,Thomas Aquinas,"Theology, Doctrinal",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l9R4xQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Creating a summary of all human knowledge may not be the sort of undertaking we begin in the twenty-first century, but there is still room on our bookshelves for a classic--Summa Theologica, one of the world's oldest and greatest masterpieces. St. Thomas Aquinas has much to teach us--most especially how to confront the classic questions that are still with us after centuries of thought.",2000,4.1,3020,2673
9780870678813,0870678817,Crime Partners,,Donald Goines,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y2h3qz-tuogC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""A ghetto chieftain fights drugs, organized crime, white cops and cons.""--Cover.",2000,4.22,159,467
9780870679940,0870679945,Whoreson,The Story of a Ghetto Pimp,Donald Goines,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D__PpFsJLvoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The gripping story of Whoreson James, the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown john. Corrupted by the violent Ghetto world, at the age of sixteen he is a fully fledged pimp: cold blooded and ruthless. A startling insight into the mean streets of the tough inner city by America's number one author of the genre.",1972,4.33,320,1449
9780870710933,0870710931,The Grail,A Year Ambling & Shambling Through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World,Brian Doyle;Mary Miller Doyle,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o0NmAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Follows the year the author spent at Don and Jesse Lange's winery in Oregon.,2006,3.97,208,144
9780871136794,0871136791,Cold Mountain,,Charles Frazier,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6hkExFYAvMEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Inman, a wounded soldier, walks away from the front during the Civil War to return to his prewar sweetheart, Ada, who desperately works to revive a struggling farm",1997,3.85,356,1048
9780871139474,0871139472,Sherlock Holmes,The Unauthorized Biography,Nick Rennison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_yxb9u0lVMoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the character's influence on the political events of late-nineteenth-century England, his connections to the British criminal underworld, and his investigations into some of his era's most infamous crimes.",2006,4.26,304,27
9780871139481,0871139480,Halsey's Typhoon,"The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue",Bob Drury;Thomas Clavin,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SQC38ny29jAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An epic account of the previously classified 1944 naval disaster describes how naval admiral William Halsey's Pacific Fleet was advancing on Tokyo under General MacArthur's orders only to be swept up by a category-four typhoon that capsized three destroyers and ended the lives of nearly 800 young soldiers. 100,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo.",2007,4.09,322,970
9780871139603,087113960X,Suffer the Little Children,,Donna Leon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k1SqwpOolFMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A brutal attack on a pediatrician by a Carabiniere captain and two privates, who also take away the doctor's eighteen-month-old son, draws Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Inspector Vianello, into a dangerous case involving a ring of baby traffickers and an illegal money-making scheme between pharmacists and doctors. 50,000 first printing.",2007,3.78,264,3270
9780871202864,0871202867,Mapping the Big Picture,"Integrating Curriculum and Assessment, K-12",Heidi Hayes Jacobs,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3Mx4QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes a seven-step process for creating and working with curriculum maps, from data collection to ongoing curriculum review.",1997,3.7,72,71
9780871209993,0871209993,Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping,,Heidi Hayes Jacobs,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FWNuQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Teachers and administrators offer concrete advice on how to get the most out of curriculum mapping in districts and schools.,2004,3.28,192,53
9780871235961,087123596X,The Tutor's First Love,,George MacDonald,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rAq9vJ_UMxIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Another classic love story retold for today's reader. Deep spiritual insights are artfully woven into the intriguing plot.,1984,4.07,238,359
9780871401526,0871401525,"Complete Poems, 1904-1962",,Edward Estlin Cummings,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nVi0ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of the modern poet's work shows his use of satire and sentiment in unconventional verse styles,1994,4.35,1136,19244
9780871401540,0871401541,Selected Poems,,E. E. Cummings,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9brwAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"One hundred and fifty-six poems, grouped by theme, are accompanied by drawings, oils, and watercolors by the poet",1994,4.22,208,12139
9780871401656,0871401657,Tulips and Chimneys,,E. E. Cummings,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hbzwAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.",1996,4.38,208,1184
9780872200470,0872200477,Basic Political Writings,,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l6WQhs1BJMcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'The publication of these excellent translations is a happy occasion for teachers of courses in political philosophy and the history of political theory...' - Raymon M Lemos, ""Teaching Philosophy"".",1987,3.87,227,4653
9780872200562,0872200566,Introduction to The Philosophy of History,With Selections from The Philosophy of Right,G. W. F. Hegel;Leo Rauch,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zQY7i7DmcYUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""An elegant and intelligent translation. The text provides a perfect solution to the problem of how to introduce students to Hegel in a survey course in the history of Western philosophy."" -- Graham Parkes, University of Hawaii",1988,3.73,106,1023
9780872201682,0872201686,"On Justice, Power, and Human Nature",The Essence of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War,Thucydides,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j2VgQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides' political theory--famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists. Newly translated into spare, vigorous English, and situated within a connective narrative framework, Woodruff's selections will be of special interest to instructors in political theory and Greek civilization. Includes maps, notes, glossary.",1993,3.72,172,567
9780872201774,0872201775,Leviathan,With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668,Thomas Hobbes;Edwin M. Curley,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AMnB469I8bYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This new edition of Hobbe's masterpiece is uniquely suited to meet the needs of both student and scholar. It offers a brilliant introduction by Edwin Curley, modernised spelling and punctuation of the text, and a key annotative feature found in no other edition: the inclusion, along with historical and interpretive notes, of the most significant variants between the English version of 1651 and the Latin version of 1668. A glossary of seventeenth century English terms and indexes of persons, subjects, and scriptural passages help make this the most thoughtfully conceived edition of Leviathan available.",1994,3.69,627,485
9780872201934,0872201937,The Grand Inquisitor,With Related Chapters from The Brothers Karamazov,Fyodor Dostoyevsky;Charles B. Guignon,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l27NSK53qsEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This new edition presents The Grand Inquisitor together with the preceding chapter, Rebellion, and the extended reply offered by Dostoevsky in the following sections, entitled The Russian Monk. By showing how Dostoevsky frames the Grand Inquisitor story in the wider context of the novel, this edition captures the subtlety and power of Dostoevsky's critique of modernity as well as his alternative vision of human fulfillment.",1993,4.35,160,196
9780872203495,0872203492,Complete Works,,Plato,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eSKTvJDrr5kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Gathers translations of Plato's works and includes guidance on approaching their reading and study,1997,4.34,1838,9079
9780872203600,0872203603,Aristophanes 1,"Clouds, Wasps, Birds",Aristophanes;Peter Meineck,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bCK_PER_2RsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents translations of three satirical plays along with information on staging, history, religious practice, myths, and issues raised by each play.",1998,3.76,480,98
9780872203617,0872203611,Aristophanes 1,"Clouds, Wasps, Birds",Aristophanes,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EUd0SQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents translations of three satirical plays along with information on staging, history, religious practice, myths, and issues raised by each play.",1998,3.76,480,1
9780872203945,0872203948,The Peloponnesian War,,Thucydides;Steven Lattimore,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GP2Z7fIYJTwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents an English translation of the Greek text which provides an account of the people and events involved in the long, fifth-century conflict between Athens and Sparta, and includes notes, a glossary, and other resources.",1998,3.89,530,151
9780872204201,0872204200,Discourse on Method ; and,Meditations on First Philosophy,René Descartes,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4_zXwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Contains English translations of Descartes' 1637 treatise Discourse on the Method for Conducting One's Reason Well and for Searching for Truth in the Sciences and a subsequent development of the ideas contained in it, Meditations on First Philosophy, first published in 1641. Includes a selected bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.",1998,3.7,103,23456
9780872204621,0872204626,Statesman,,Plato,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wCopKxb7pv0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An annotated and modified version of the translation published by Aris and Phillips Ltd. A model of accuracy and fluency, Christopher Rowe's translation of Statesman--as modified for publication in Plato, Complete Works (Hackett Publishing Co., 1997)--is now available in a student edition, with a brief introduction, notes, and a select bibliography.",1999,3.84,128,25
9780872205543,0872205541,The Trial and Death of Socrates (Third Edition),"Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Death Scene from Phaedo",Plato;George Maximilian Anthony Grube;John Madison Cooper,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m2tHXoS3bx0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This third edition of 'The Trial and Death of Socrates' presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato, Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with a Select Bibliography. John M. Cooper is Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University.",2000,4.07,58,24698
9780872206038,0872206033,Lysistrata,,Aristophanes;Sarah Ruden,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ocDfwicPJMwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Aristophanes helped shape comedy.... despite their often fantasical premises, were fairly consistently concerned with contemporary politics and social institutions. ... mildly aristocratic... patriotic ... suspicious of social innovation.... sympathetic to the struggles of the common people.... unrestrained in insult...exuberantly bawdy.",2003,3.85,132,29881
9780872206335,0872206335,Five Dialogues,,Plato;George Maximilian Anthony Grube,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rsITnwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents translations of five dialogues from Plato, as well as additional notes on history and mythology.",2002,4.12,156,14860
9780872206359,0872206351,Confucius Analects,With Selections from Traditional Commentaries,Confucius;Edward Gilman Slingerland,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bwl6mwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Af indeholdet: Kung Fu-tses Analects ; Glossary; Disciples of Confucius; Historical personages; Traditional chinese commentators cited; Traditional chinese texts,2003,3.84,312,108
9780872206786,0872206785,Complete Poems and Major Prose,,John Milton;Merritt Yerkes Hughes,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Kc28ocJWCSMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.",1957,4.18,1088,898
9780872207318,0872207315,Aeneid,,Virgil,Aeneas (Legendary character),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y4rZxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A classicist best known for his translations of Homer, Sappho, Hesiod, and Callimachus returns to Roman poetry, offering a resonant new Aeneid.",2005,3.83,340,296
9780872207363,0872207366,Republic,,Plato,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T8X5wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Taking full extent of S.R. Slings' new Greek text of the Republic, Reeve has given us a translation at once both accurate and limpid. Loving attention to detail and deep familiarity with Plato's thought are evident on every page.",2004,3.93,358,470
9780872207806,0872207803,Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (Second Edition),,Philip J. Ivanhoe;Bryan W. Van Norden,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5PL9hSUiVEoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This new edition offers expanded selections from the works of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), and Xunzi (Hsun Tzu); two new works, the dialogues 'Robber Zhi' and 'White Horse'; a concise general introduction; brief introductions to, and selective bibliographies for, each work; and four appendices that shed light on important figures, periods, texts, and terms in Chinese thought.",2005,3.97,416,307
9780872207882,0872207889,Plato on Love,"Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, with Selections from Republic, Laws",Plato;C. D. C. Reeve,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ToP5nQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Plato's works on love—Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis, and Alciabiades in their entirety, with relevant selections from Republic and Laws—with an introductory essay by C. D. C. Reeve.",2006,4.05,272,146
9780872860025,0872860027,A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard,,Paul Bowles,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b7Okk4SkWB0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of...",1981,3.98,90,304
9780872860193,0872860191,Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960,Pocket Poets Number 14,Allen Ginsberg,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IczYnQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, ""in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . ."" In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. I took it to be supernatural an gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my self my own mother and my very nation trapped desolate our worlds of consciousness homeless and at war except for the original trembling of bliss in breast and belly of every body that nakedness rejected in suits of fear that familiar defenseless living hurt self which is myself same as all others abandoned scared to own unchanging desire for each other. These poems almost unconscious to confess the beatific human fact, the language intuitively chosen as in trance & dream, the rhythms rising on breath from belly thru breast, the hymn completed in tears, the movement of the physical poetry demanding and receiving decades of life while chanting Kaddish the names of Death in many worlds the self seeking the Key to life found at last in our self.",1961,4.19,99,8305
9780872861909,0872861902,Erotism,,Georges Bataille,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2qdUZZLcnLYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Reprint. Originally published: Death and sensuality. New York: Walker, 1962.",1962,4.1,288,1749
9780872862913,0872862917,The Scripture of the Golden Eternity,Pocket Poets Number 51,Jack Kerouac,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hqLO7pi93iUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These classic Kerouac meditations, zen koans, and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.",1960,3.95,72,748
9780872863101,0872863107,Howl and Other Poems,Pocket Poets Number 4,Allen Ginsberg,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QIWjPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: ""Unscrew the locks from the doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!"" Announcing his intentions with this ringing motto, Allen Ginsberg published a volume of poetry which broke so many social...",1996,4.13,56,81285
9780872864757,0872864758,A Power Governments Cannot Suppress,,Howard Zinn,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FiGX0LEy4jMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A Power Governments Cannot Suppress is Howard Zinn’s major new collection of essays on American history, class, immigration, justice, and ordinary citizens who have made a difference.",2007,4.27,293,854
9780873387804,0873387805,Chekhov's Doctors,A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov;Jack Coulehan;John L. Coulehan,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mSvsP3m78Q4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In his brief life, Chekhov was a doctor, essayist, dramatist and a humanitarian. He saw no conflict between art and science or art and medicine. This collection of stories presents powerful portraits of doctors in their everyday lives, struggling with their own personal problems.",2003,4.06,228,48
9780873512695,0873512693,Early Candlelight,,Maud Hart Lovelace,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XH_EwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Young Deedee DuGay knew everyone at Fort Snelling in the 1830s ... On an island in the Mississippi, near yet remote, lived Jasper Page, the leading fur trader in the territory ... And although he was far above her in social class, Deedee dared to love him. Their story is a rich and romantic re-creation of an important time in Minnesota history ... A new introduction compares the fictional Jasper Page to Henry H. Sibley, fur trader and first governor of Minnesota, upon whom the character was based""--Back cover.",1992,3.66,342,173
9780873515122,0873515129,The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,,Francis Scott Fitzgerald;Patricia Hampl,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZATywAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Fitzgerald's sensitivity about wealth and position--later made evident in such classics as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night--was bred of his St. Paul family and associations.,2004,3.97,328,93
9780873527361,0873527364,Approaches to Teaching Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Other Works,,Sharon Rose Wilson;Thomas B. Friedman;Shannon Eileen Hengen,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GOVzQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.",1996,3.75,215,8
9780874518252,0874518253,"Julie, Or, The New Heloise",Letters of Two Lovers who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps,Jean-Jacques Rousseau;Roger D. Masters;Christopher Kelly,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H4PGHmtJoOkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A novel in which Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm,1997,3.46,728,991
9780874778717,0874778719,The Search for the Beloved,Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology,Jean Houston,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qg3jQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The pioneering creator of transformative workshops and books, Dr. Jean Houston here explores the nature of spiritual yearning and demonstrates to readers how to facilitate a personal quest for fulfillment by focusing on the aspects of Sacred Psychology. Houston provides a passport to the wondrous and tragic dimensions of the human psyche.",1997,4,272,18
9780874808001,0874808006,A Gateway to Sindarin,A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings,David Salo,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4dsSn0QAmi0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A serious linguistic analysis of Tolkien's Sindarin language. Includes the grammar, morphology, and history of the language.",2004,3.73,438,7
9780875168166,0875168167,The Guide to Dan Brown's The Solomon Key,,Greg Taylor,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5mtwPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The massive success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has readers eagerly awaiting his next novel, The Solomon Key. Using clues left by Brown in interviews, on his website, and on the cover of The Da Vinci Code, Greg Taylor takes you on an unprecedented tour of the new book before it is even released. The Guide to Dan Brown's The Solomon Key explores the topics likely to be included in Brown's next novel - including the hidden history of Washington, D.C., Freemasonry, and even the Ku Klux Klan - to give you a better understanding of the concepts behind the book. With no spoilers, this is the essential primer for The Solomon Key. Book jacket.",2005,2.98,183,31
9780875428321,0875428320,Three Books of Occult Philosophy,,Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5YjXnoAaYowC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Now you can learn from the original, most important source for magic in the Western world that has ever been published, when you get Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. This massive volume was originally published in 1531, and occultists have been drawing on it ever since. Now, Llewellyn is proud to produce the first complete reprint of the original English translation in the last 500 years. Donald Tyson edited this work and removed the hundreds of errors that appeared in the original translation. He also fully annotated the work, to make it understandable--and usable--by people today. ·Discover what the Renaissance scholar knew about astrology, medicine, history, herbs, geography, animals, angels, devils, Witches, charms, the weather, and a host of other subjects ·Gain immediate reference to a vast amount of arcane, but completely annotated, magical material ·Find corrected drawings of seals, sigils, and magic squares, and correctly represented geomantic figures ·Explore the practical Kabbalah, geomancy, the magic squares, the elements, the humors, and the Soul of the World ·Consult the new Biographical dictionary for background on each of the hundreds of writers and historical figures referred to by Agrippa ·Consult the new Geographical Dictionary for data on referenced rivers, mountains, nations, cities--many of which now carry different names. The Three Books of Occult Philosophyis the most complete repository of pagan and Neoplatonic magic ever compiled. This book is packed with material you will not find elsewhere, including copious extracts on magic from obscure or lost works by Pythagoras, Ptolemy, Plato, Aristotle, and many others. Tyson's detailed annotations clarify difficult references and provide origins of quotations, even expanding upon them in many cases, in order to make Agrippa's work more accessible to the modern reader. The Three Books of Occult Philosophy is the ultimate ""how-to"" for magical workings. It describes how to work all manner of divinations and natural and ceremonial magic in such clear and useful detail that it is still the guidefor modern techniques. The extensive new supplementary material makes this wisdom practical for use today. The Three Books of Occult Philosophyis an essential reference tool for all students of the occult. Get your copy today.",1993,4.1,1024,1212
9780875526027,0875526020,Blame It on the Brain?,"Distinguishing Chemical Imbalances, Brain Disorders, and Disobedience",Edward T. Welch,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=278ex4-8PtcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses Alzheimer's disease and dementia, head injury, depression, attention deficit disorder, homosexuality, and alcoholism.",1998,4.05,204,502
9780876851388,0876851383,Mockingbird Wish Me Luck,,Charles Bukowski,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RFHGlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life through his poignant poetry: the pain, the hate, the love, and the beauty. He writes of lechery and pain while finding still being able to find its beauty.",2002,4.13,160,1769
9780876856833,0876856830,You Get So Alone at Times,,Charles Bukowski,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6t3SlgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.",2002,4.25,320,11737
9780877002383,087700238X,Herman N. Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund,A Phenomenological Study,Kathleen E. Digan,,,,1976,4.29,85,1371
9780877477853,087747785X,The Loftier Way,Tales from the Ancient American Frontier,Blaine M. Yorgason;Brenton G. Yorgason,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2g5GO7mjmEwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1985,3.78,131,9
9780877880202,0877880204,A Full House,An Austin Family Christmas,Madeleine L'Engle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dBmYPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Austins have a full house on Christmas Eve when fate brings them a new mother and a young woman who is expecting.,1999,3.99,48,228
9780877887263,0877887268,The Rock that is Higher,Story as Truth,Madeleine L'Engle,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q-8EAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes… –Madeleine L’Engle, from The Rock That Is Higher Story captures our hearts and feeds our imaginations. It reminds us who we are and where we came from. Story gives meaning and direction to our lives as we learn to see it as an affirmation of God’s love and truth–an acknowledgment of our longing for a rock in the midst of life’s wilderness. Drawing upon her own experiences, well-known tales in literature, and selected narratives from Scripture, Madeleine L’Engle gently leads the way into the glorious world of story in The Rock That Is Higher. Here she acknowledges universal human longings and considers how literature, Scripture, personal stories, and life experiences all point us toward our true home.",1993,4.13,320,457
9780878052738,0878052739,Conversations with Ernest Hemingway,,Ernest Hemingway;Matthew Joseph Bruccoli,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AYQdKWlNE28C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Collections of interviews with notable modern writers,1986,4.17,204,61
9780878056262,0878056262,Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski,,Jerzy Kosinski,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GYCLY-KyPGUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Collections of interviews with notable modern writers,1993,3.75,242,25
9780878057009,0878057005,Conversations with John Updike,,John Updike;James Plath,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eXsddzer-FQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Collects thirty-two interviews with the writer between 1959 and 1993,1994,3.58,302,12
9780878510375,0878510370,The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook,,Zoe Coulson,Cookbooks,,"Over 900 dishes, plus illustrated step-by-step recipes.",1980,4.36,512,1114
9780878937202,087893720X,Essentials of Conservation Biology,,Richard B. Primack,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=spaGQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Essentials of Conservation Biology (Fourth Edition) combines theory and basic research to explain the connections between conservation biology and environmental economics, education, ethics, law and the social sciences. It is beautifully illustrated and is written in clear, non-technical language. The book's broad, up-to-date coverage and its extensive bibliography with over 1,000 references also make it invaluable to graduate students and researchers. This new edition now comes with a Glossary.",2006,3.89,585,36
9780879074494,0879074493,Exercitia Spiritualia,,Saint Gertrude (the Great),Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aehfQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The most scholarly of the remarkable nuns of Helfta composed these meditations, rituals, prayers, instructions on how to pray, chants, hymns, and litanies in the late thirteenth century. Her mastery of poetic prose attests to the level of women's education in the highly cultured abbey she entered as a child of five and never, so far as we know, left even once.",1989,3.2,165,5
9780879100360,0879100362,Harpo Speaks!,,Harpo Marx;Rowland Barber,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vdky6OK4z4gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Depicts the personal life of Harpo Marx and traces his career as a member of the Marx Brothers comedy team,1985,4.4,482,1934
9780879102784,0879102780,Jean Arthur,The Actress Nobody Knew,John Oller,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gdDl4Y38jD4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The luminous star of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Shane, and other classic films was, as the subtitle aptly puts it, ""the actress nobody knew."" Jean Arthur (1900-91) kept her personal life private, disdained the Hollywood publicity machine, and was called ""difficult"" because of her perfectionism and remoteness from costars on the movie set. John Oller, a lawyer, tracked down kinsfolk and friends never before interviewed to capture the elusive personality of a free spirit best embodied in her favorite role, Peter Pan. Arthur herself might have appreciated his warm, respectful portrait. ""...[An] insightful, painstakingly researched analysis of Arthur's life and career raises the curtain on the complex, conflicted person behind the screen persona...Captures the special shine of a unique star who turned out to be a genuine eccentric."" -Chicago Tribune",1999,3.89,358,272
9780879232153,0879232153,Hamlet's Mill,An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time,Giorgio De Santillana;Hertha von Dechend,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ql7ATHGee50C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power and accuracy were suppressed and then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view. This fascinating book throws into doubt the self-congratulatory assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development and transmission of knowledge. This is a truly seminal and original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two.",1977,4.27,450,458
9780879237516,0879237511,"Life, a User's Manual",,Georges Perec,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mOu_ZfwIRJkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Represents an exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality as seen through the eyes of the dying Serge Valene, an inhabitant of a large Parisian apartment block.",1987,4.22,581,4221
9780879239480,0879239484,Broken Vessels,,Andre Dubus,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7G4r5T_rINoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Written between 1977 and 1990, universally acclaimed when they appeared in Godine hardcover, and exploring subjects close to home and close to the bone, these twenty-two diverse essays reveal the spiritual strength and shrewdly lyrical prose for which Andre Dubus has been recognized worldwide.Personal but never indulgent, sensitive but never maudlin, these forays into Dubus's past and present conjure up small worlds: a Catholic boyhood in Cajun Louisiana, the transcendental quality of baseball, the luck and slipperiness of life, the precarious business of making a living by writing. These worlds are presented in a voice that is as powerful as it is poignant, that never flinches from the stark realities that have so colored Dubus's recent past and personal life. Especially moving are his descriptions of his children, his wrenching account of the 1986 automobile accident that cost him his leg, and of the ensuing struggle for his spiritual and physical survival.Broken Vessels is a book that, in its scope and sympathy, its grace and courage, never fails to startle with the sudden impact of quiet truths, passionately felt and powerfully expressed.",1992,4.32,195,348
9780879387556,0879387556,John Deere Farm Tractors,A History of the John Deere Tractor,Randy Leffingwell,Technology & Engineering,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Tp1xPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes how the plow company got into the tractor business, and recounts the history of successive tractor models.",1992,4.22,192,22
9780879697129,0879697121,Bioinformatics,Sequence and Genome Analysis,David W. Mount,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bvY21DGa1OwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"As more species' genomes are sequenced, computational analysis of these data has become increasingly important. The second, entirely updated edition of this widely praised textbook provides a comprehensive and critical examination of the computational methods needed for analyzing DNA, RNA, and protein data, as well as genomes. The book has been rewritten to make it more accessible to a wider audience, including advanced undergraduate and graduate students. New features include chapter guides and explanatory information panels and glossary terms. New chapters in this second edition cover statistical analysis of sequence alignments, computer programming for bioinformatics, and data management and mining. Practically oriented problems at the ends of chapters enhance the value of the book as a teaching resource. The book also serves as an essential reference for professionals in molecular biology, pharmaceutical, and genome laboratories.",2004,3.87,692,58
9780879975319,0879975318,The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph,,Jack Vance,"Science fiction, American",,,1980,3.92,174,271
9780880014403,0880014407,The Assignation,,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fokfOwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt. In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in The Assignation are infused with a ""radiant intensity,"" wrote James Atlas in the New York Times Book Review, and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. The Assignation is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers.",1996,3.81,208,332
9780880015080,088001508X,First Love,,Joyce Carol Oates,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wp2vIgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A thirteen-year-old girl moves with her mother to her aunt's house, where she becomes involved in an affair with her aloof, twenty-five-year-old cousin, a seminary student, a liaison that leaves her victimized and confused. Reprint.",1997,3.19,86,557
9780880071314,0880071311,Follow Your Heart's Vegetarian Soup Cookbook,,Janice Cook Migliaccio;Janice Cook Knight,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oLD8JwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1983,3.47,127,15
9780880291231,0880291230,The Roald Dahl Omnibus,,Roald Dahl,England,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q3pCFbvW0fUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From cover: ""Perfect bedtime stories for sleepless nights.""",1987,4.35,681,2245
9780880292511,0880292512,Understanding Physics,,Isaac Asimov,Physics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pSKvaLV6zkcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Motion, Sound, and Heat.",1988,4.13,833,818
9780881507195,0881507199,King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking,Delicious Recipes Using Nutritious Whole Grains,,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nXLcPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide to whole grain baking explains how to use a variety of whole grains to create flavorful, sweet, and savory breads, cakes, cookies, pastries, and other baked goods, and features more than four hundred foolproof recipes.",2006,4.13,544,4704
9780881792065,0881792063,The elements of typographic style,,Robert Bringhurst,Design,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uKkQAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Completely updated, this book features the definitive rules of engagement forpracticing the art of typography. Illustrations throughout.",2004,4.24,352,7296
9780881842678,0881842672,The Secret of Santa Vittoria,,Robert Crichton,Fiction,,The clownish Bombolini becomes a man of significance when he devises a plan to prevent the Germans from taking Santa Vittoria's liquor supply,1986,4.13,416,553
9780881927696,0881927694,A Book of Blue Flowers,,R. L. Geneve,Gardening,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EsbHMAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Perhaps the most uncommon hue in the plant kingdom, the color blue strikes a distinctive note in any garden. In this fascinating book, Robert Geneve provides a wide selection of blue flowers that will help readers expand the range of colors in their gardening palettes.",2006,3.83,327,0
9780883657270,0883657279,Alfred Hitchcock,Portraits of Murder,Alfred Hitchcock,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lJ_SwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"47 tales of murder for profit, revenge, accident, or assassination are related with twists and turns, if necessary",2005,3.87,512,76
9780883689448,0883689448,God's Generals,Why They Succeeded and why Some Failed,Roberts Liardon,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jzUDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recapture God's glory with twelve compelling spiritual biographies of some of the most powerful ministers to ever ignite the fires of revival! Revealing photographs help chronicle the lives of Aimee Sempte McPherson Smith Wigglesworth, Kathryn Kuhlman, William Seymour, and eight others. Draw crucial life applications for yourself from the lives of these mighty warriors.",2003,4.45,416,1396
9780884196488,0884196488,The Bible Cure for Diabetes,,Don Colbert,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EGdyyerhYe8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"New Hope for Diabetics! Diabetes is not a hopeless life sentence to deteorating health! The Good News is that you can battle it-and win, for a long, productive life! Are you suffering from diabetes? In this concise, easy-to-read booklet you'll discover a wealth of usable information to help you win the fight over diabetes. Learn biblical secrets on health and the latest medical research on how to break free from the grip of diabetes. This book contains findings that your own doctor may never have told you! warning symptoms you must not ignore how to fight back-and win over diabetes a weight-loss diet you can live with gain important information about the use of natural supplements You want to be healthy. God wants you to be healthy. Now at last here's a source of information that will help you get healthy-body, mind and spirit. About the author: Dr. Don Colbert is a board-certified family practice medical doctor who specializes in nutritional medicine, treating over 17,000 patients. Since 1984, Dr. Colbert has helped thousands of patients regain good health and live pain free after years of suffering. A graduate of Oral Roberts School of Medicine, he has received extensive training in nutritional medicine. As a result, he has founded and developed his own nutritional supplement line, Divine Health Nutritional Products. Dr. Colbert also co-hosts Golden Eagle Network's ""Your Health Matters"" with his wife, Mary. They frequently lead health seminars at home and abroad, the address health and nutrition issues as guests on national talk shows and news broadcasts. Don and Mary make their home in Central Florida.",1999,3.84,96,20
9780886771287,0886771285,To Battle the Gods,,Sharon Green,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6qJn232OXX8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Jalav tries to combine her female warriors with the male army to battle a strange enemy from outer space,1986,4.09,446,85
9780886771386,0886771382,Quester's endgame,,Patricia Josephine Clayton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iG8GnGynjioC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1986,3.97,372,153
9780886773489,0886773482,Phantoms,,Martin Harry Greenberg;Rosalind M. Greenberg,Fiction,,"A collection of tales featuring the Phantom of the Opera, from backstage appearances at the Paris Opera to a rock tour arranged from beyond the grave",1989,3.38,270,13
9780886773526,0886773520,Magic's Pawn,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eOLDjwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Magic's Pawn, an ancient age in the history of Valdemar comes to life--an age when the kingdom was ravaged by the ungoverned fury of bandit warlords, ferocious ice dragons, and the wild magic of wizards. A new addition to Lackey's Valdemar kingdom--and her most powerful series to date!",1989,4.21,349,21834
9780886773786,0886773784,Arrows of the Queen,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7s98mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Eventyrroman.,1987,4.16,320,29552
9780886774004,0886774004,Arrow's Fall,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-AWnjwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Talia, Herald to the Queen of Valdemar, travels to a neighboring realm to investigate a prince's proposal to marry the Queen's heir, but discovers an evil plot to destroy Valdemar",1988,4.19,319,18945
9780886774264,0886774268,Magic's Price,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NUMkN-aEShEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Vanyel, the powerful Herald-Mage, stands alone in the battle against the evil forces threatening the once-peaceful kingdom of Valdemar, accompanied only by his companion, Yfandes",1990,4.27,351,18397
9780886774448,0886774446,The Madness Season,,C. S. Friedman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eFajDAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Daetrin finds he must resist the Tyr, an alien race with a unified gestalt mind that has subjugated humankind, and fight the alien force within himself",1990,4.05,495,2428
9780886774639,0886774632,By the Sword,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O5N3jwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Granddaughter of a sorceress and daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death. Now all of her hopes and plans to return to training horses and hunting have been shattered by an attack on her ancestral home, the death of her father, the wounding of her brother and the kidnapping of his fiance.",1991,4.25,492,18245
9780886774677,0886774675,Shadowkill,,Jo Clayton,Fiction,,,1991,3.98,400,64
9780886775162,0886775167,Winds of Fate,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LMC5vgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the kingdom of Valdemar once more threatened by dark sorcery, Princess Elspeth sets out to find a mentor who can awaken her own magical talents, accompanied by Darkwind, a Tayledras scout with his own extraordinary powers. Reissue.",1992,4.03,458,14300
9780886776060,0886776066,To Green Angel Tower,,Tad Williams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZYG-3gU2QXMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Miriaamele and Simon embark on a perilous quest through war- and magic-torn lands as they and the valiant followers of Josua Lackhand struggle to make a stand against the Storm King's seemingly unstoppable evil forces. Reprint.,1994,4.2,815,19667
9780886776176,0886776171,Dance Down the Stars,,Jo Clayton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aAKJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Awakening from a centuries-long sleep, Serroi discovers that she has developed powers of healing, but that her world has become haunted by an evil force that can alter life and death, and must marshal an attack or witness civilization's destruction. Original.",1994,3.73,368,33
9780886776503,0886776503,Fire in the Sky,,Jo Clayton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UV_5R7K4fewC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Emerging from her centuries-long imprisonment inside an alien artifact, Shadith learns that she has developed an empathic musical skill, and is called upon to delegate a mission with a musically communicating alien race. Original.",1995,3.87,352,61
9780886776619,0886776619,Storm Warning,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bGQejwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Worried about the growing magical power of the Eastern Empire, which for years has been shrouded in mystery, Queen Selenay of Valdemar struggles to bring about an alliance with enemy Karse in order to defeat the evil schemes of Ancar of Hardorn. Reprint.",1995,4.02,428,10958
9780886777203,0886777208,Sword of Ice and Other Tales of Valdemar,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IfzPAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mickey Zucker Reichert, Tanya Huff, Michelle Sagara, and others present seventeen original tales set in the popular fantasy universe of Valdemar, home of the Heralds and their mysterious horse-like Companions. Original.",1997,3.84,350,3740
9780886777739,0886777739,Oathblood,,Mercedes Lackey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xPG6jwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of ten short stories and a novella which looks at the relationship of Tarma and Kethry, two ex-mercenary swordsisters who run the schools in Haven",1998,4.05,394,9575
9780886777999,0886777992,This Alien Shore,,C. S. Friedman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t-R1NQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Raised in a laboratory with no memory of her origins, Jamisia journeys from a corporate satellite in Earth's outer orbit to escape an invasion of corporate raiders, while a rogue computer virus wreaks havoc on the interstellar ""Net."" Reprint. NYT. PW.",1999,4.04,564,3068
9780886778446,0886778441,River of Blue Fire,,Tad Williams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VNQDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A group of unlikely heroes goes up against the ruthless Grail Brotherhood, who are exploiting Earth's children",1999,4.01,675,12996
9780886778873,0886778875,New Amazons,,Margaret Weis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0WDqnB8ZuasC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers a collection of fantastical and suspenseful tales about heroic women by such notable authors as Jo Clayton, Nancy Springer, Gary Braunbeck, Jane Lindskold, and Kevin T. Stein. Original.",2000,3.55,336,47
9780886875534,0886875536,Good Grief,The Story of Charles M. Schulz,Rheta Grimsley Johnson,Biography & Autobiography,,"A biography of the creator of ""Peanuts"" with sidelights on his character from people who have worked with him in the past.",1989,3.72,256,18
9780887061998,0887061990,Experimental Phenomenology,An Introduction,Don Ihde,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5AYQEphi6DsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Experimental Phenomenology has already been lauded for the ease with which its author explains and demonstrates the kinds of consciousness by which we come to know the structure of objects and the structure of consciousness itself. The format of the book follows the progression of a number of thought experiments which mark out the procedures and directions of phenomenological inquiry. Making use of examples of familiar optical illusions and multi-stable drawings, Professor Ihde illustrates by way of careful and disciplined step-by-step analyses, how some of the main methodological procedures and epistemological concepts of phenomenology assume concrete relevance. Such formidable fare as epoche, noetic and noematic analysis, apodicticity, adequacy, sedimentation, imaginative variation, field, and fringe are rendered into the currency of familiar examples from the everyday world.",1986,3.73,155,40
9780887082436,0887082432,Alberic the Wise,,Norton Juster,European fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=onwHAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the days of the Renaissance, Alberic leads the reader among the folds of a rich tapestry in his search for wisdom.",1992,3.71,24,102
9780887306297,0887306292,Hard Drive,Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire,James Wallace;Jim Erickson,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XdYOGBhp0SAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the career of ""Chairman Bill"" Gates, the computer whiz kid who commands the powerful Microsoft computer software empire.",1993,4.08,426,1138
9780887309427,0887309429,Die Broke,A Radical Four-Part Financial Plan,Stephen Pollan;Mark Levine,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kPkklwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From America's most trusted financial advisor comes a comprehensive guide to a new and utterly sane financial choice. In Die Broke, you'll learn that life is a game where the loser gives his money to Uncle Sam at the end. There are four steps to the process: Quit Today No, don't tell your boss to shove it...at least not out loud. But in your head accept that from this day on you're a free agent whose number one workplace priority is your personal bottom line. Pay Cash You should be as conscious of spending as you are of saving. Credit should be a rarely used tool for those few times (buying homes and cars) when paying cash is impossible. Don't Retire Your work life should be a journey up and down hills, rather than a climb up a sheer cliff that ends with a jump into the abyss. Die Broke It sounds terrifying, the one intolerable outcome to your financial life. And yet, in truth, dying broke might be your best option for a life without fear: fear of failure and privation now, fear of impoverishment in the long run.",1998,3.62,320,254
9780887511127,0887511120,Teaching the World's Children,ESL for Ages Three to Seven,Mary Ashworth;Patricia Wakefield,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mp4FhKqKN7MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The language young children use is the language they learn. In clear, practical terms, this primer explains how early childhood educators and primary teachers can support the efforts of non-English speaking children in nursery schools, day care centres and classrooms to use -- and learn -- English as a second language. Loaded with ideas and down-to-earth advice from two highly experienced and internationally renowned ESL experts, it's an essential guide to developing a sensitive, welcoming program for all of the world's children.",2004,3.5,101,4
9780887847448,0887847447,Feeding the Future,"From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises",Andrew Heintzman;Evan Solomon,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sJsI8-wxDf0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Outlines practical solutions to global food supply problems in the twenty-first century, suggesting relevant ways to address key issues related to food safety, conservation, global trade, and more. Original.",2006,3.5,336,2
9780888822406,0888822405,The Fish Kisser,,James Hawkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nxIqYmk-SLAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A megalomaniac becomes determined to exact revenge on the Western world through a devious plot of global cyber-warfare.,2001,3.44,360,8
9780891906797,0891906797,The Great Gatsby,,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MXuJwwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tells the story of a young man, newly rich, who tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married",1925,3.91,182,151
9780892812929,0892812923,The Stress-Free Habit,"Powerful Techniques for Health and Longevity from the Andes, Yucatan, and the Far East",John Perkins,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2x1vYLGJ6dMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This simple, effective program for stress management is based on methods used by native cultures around the world.",1989,3.88,104,15
9780892817580,0892817585,Moksha,Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience,Aldous Huxley,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kGtvNQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. • Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere. In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to ""remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices."" Much of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations. Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning ""liberation,"" is a collection of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from his acclaimed novels Brave New World and Island, both of which envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, his famous works on consciousness expansion.",1999,4.17,304,382
9780892818006,089281800X,Psychonavigation,Techniques for Travel Beyond Time,John Perkins,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1I1SvwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After 'Hit Man' The New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man documents John Perkins’ extraordinary career as a globe-trotting economic hit man. Perkins’ insider’s view leads him to crisis of conscience--to the realization that he must devote himself to work which will foster a world-wide awareness of the sanctity of indigenous peoples, their cultures, and their environments. Perkins’ books demonstrate how the age-old shamanic techniques of some of the world’s most primitive peoples have sparked a revolution in modern concepts about healing, the subconscious, and the powers each of us has to alter individual and communal reality. This groundbreaking book is John Perkins’s firsthand account of his experiences with the shamanic technique of psychonavigation--a method of traveling outside the body by means of visions and dream wanderings--and his encounters with the Shuar of the Amazon, the Quechua of the Andes, and the Bugis of Indonesia. Shuar shamans psychonavigate for the purposes of hunting and healing, while the Bugis, among the most renowned sailors of the world, use these techniques to navigate without the aid of charts and compasses. Perkins explains how these techniques work and how the people of these indigenous cultures psychonavigate to both distant physical destinations and sources of inner wisdom. Throughout history, psychonavigation has been practiced by highly creative minds such as Beethoven, Jung, and Einstein. Perkins’s riveting narrative takes us on a journey of personal discovery as he learns the great value of these techniques and their relevance not only to individual well-being, but to the health of the environment and of the world at large. He reveals how by attuning to the positive forces in nature and communicating with our inner guides we all can become psychonavigators, finding our way to wise decisions and developing innovative approaches to the challenges we face as individuals and a world community.",1999,4.19,144,59
9780892967896,0892967897,Death of a Dreamer,Book 22,M. C. Beaton,Artists,,"Hamish Macbeth is on the trail of a killer with a penchant for poison in this novel of murder in the Scottish Highlands. When Effie Garrand is found poisoned by hemlock, it's up to Macbeth to find her killer before more nightmares unfold.",2006,3.83,247,68
9780895260475,0895260476,The Politically Incorrect Guide To American History,,"Thomas E. Woods, Jr.",History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ltSIOnW6XLsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Looks at American history with an irreverant and hard-hitting look at the nation's important people and events, concluding that the American Revolution was fought by conservatives and the First Amendment accepted state-sponsored churches.",2004,4.02,270,1547
9780895260789,0895260786,America Alone,The End of the World As We Know It,Mark Steyn,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=thP_UKhPbP0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Arguing that the anti-Americanism of Europe may force America to stand alone in the world against global terrorism and other threats, the author paints a chilling portrait of a nation surrounded by enemies and less-than-loyal allies.",2006,4.14,224,3038
9780895260901,0895260905,The Real Jimmy Carter,"How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry",Steven F. Hayward,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FJTmAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A fellow at the American Enterprise Institute attacks former President Jimmy Carter's reputation as a ""good"" man in this myth-deflating biography of the Novel Prize-winning politician, diplomat, and advocate, focusing particular attention on his ""disastrous"" presidency.",2004,3.42,272,30
9780895591326,0895591324,Billy Budd,,Herman Melville,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eTa2-uMQHwcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1978,3.11,106,64
9780895873316,0895873311,Topsail Island,Mayberry by the Sea,Ray McAllister,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2fp6ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After a week-long family vacation on Topsail Island, McAllister went home and wrote a newspaper column about the place where everyone goes 10 miles per hour under the speed limit. This column brought a deluge of responses from his readers who shared his appreciation for this barrier island off the coast of North Carolina. As if caught in a time warp, Topsail resembles the resorts of decades past. It has the small-town feel of a family beach, a place with few commercial trappings whose devotees return generation after generation. McAllister blends interviews with the people who know the island with stories of early pirates, devastating hurricanes, a 1940s dig in search of a 1630 Spanish galleon's treasure, the U.S. government's secret rocket program, a modern-day sea-turtle preservation project, and a black bear that came to stroll the beach. In this book, McAllister tells the many stories of Topsail with the help of those who love the island best. - Publisher.",2006,3.92,228,38
9780895941411,0895941414,Sister Outsider,Essays and Speeches,Professor Audre Lorde;Audre Lorde,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8obb_SHZwyQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fourteen essays and speeches collected in this work, several of them published for the first time, span almost a decade of this Black lesbian feminnist's work. Lorde is unflinching in her observations and is lucid and clarifying in her coverage of a range of essential topics.",1984,4.48,190,11007
9780896087279,0896087271,An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire,,Arundhati Roy,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1OYghwiKjP0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Discusses global politics, democracy, media empires, and the situation in Iraq.",2004,3.99,200,1662
9780896087644,0896087646,Outsiders Within,Writing on Transracial Adoption,Jane Jeong Trenka;Julia Chinyere Oparah;Sun Yung Shin,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O5hlQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Explores transracial adoption from adopted adults' perspectives using memoir, reflective/analytical essays, poetry, artwork, film critique, psychology, sociology, critical race, reproductive justice, more. Discusses reasons children become available forinternational adoption (war, poverty, structural inequities), ramifications of the colorblind ideal for adoptees (dealing with racism, cultural alienation, emotional isolation)""--Provided by publisher.",2006,4.16,300,187
9780896214408,0896214400,Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,A Story from Different Seasons,Stephen King,Fiction,,"Andy Dufresne was no ordinary ""lifer."" He was in Shankshaw State Prison for two murders he didn't commit. His posters kept him sane by giving him hope.",1982,4.52,181,15409
9780896583214,089658321X,Walking the Rez Road,,Jim Northrup,House & Home,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t7oimAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Walking the Rez Road contains forty short stories and poems featuring Luke Warmwater as a central character. Luke is a Vietnam veteran who has survived the war but is having ""trouble/surviving the peace"" on a reservation where everyone is broke and where the tribal government seems to work against the interests of the reservation folk. Throughout Walking the Rez Road, it is humor that holds the people and their community together. Winner, Midwest Book Achievement Award, Minnesota Book Award, Northeastern Minnesota Book Award.",1995,4.15,176,148
9780896892026,0896892026,200 Quilt Blocks to Mix & Match,,Davina Thomas,Crafts & Hobbies,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jnRQuQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Discover the beauty and ease of mixing and matching in this easy-to-follow guide that contains 200 simple quilt blocks that open the door to a variety of contemporary and traditional designs. 200 photos.,2005,4.09,128,5
9780896892934,089689293X,Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson,,Jim Supica;Richard Nahas,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fvdouQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Smith & Wesson outfitted some of the biggest and boldest gunfighters, both actual and fictional, including Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill and Dirty Harry, whose exploits are still legendary. Today a renewed Smith & Wesson corporation is back in the front of the pack. Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson, 3rd Edition combines full color photos with details collectors need to identify and better appreciate all Smith & Wesson firearms. For fans of Smith & Wesson firearms, this book is a must-have. This work provides easy-to-locate listings organized by model ad year of manufacture to quickly and accurately identify firearms. With more than 775 models of Smith & Wesson guns and variations, including many models not found in other firearm-pricing guides, this is the book for any Smith & Wesson gun-toting fan.",2007,4.37,432,36
9780898599596,0898599598,The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception,,James Jerome Gibson,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DrhCCWmJpWUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is a book about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures); where we are in the environment; whether or not we are moving and, if we are, where we are going; what things are good for; how to do things (to thread a needle or drive an automobile); or why things look as they do. The basic assumption is that vision depends on the eye which is connected to the brain. The author suggests that natural vision depends on the eyes in the head on a body supported by the ground, the brain being only the central organ of a complete visual system. When no constraints are put on the visual system, people look around, walk up to something interesting and move around it so as to see it from all sides, and go from one vista to another. That is natural vision -- and what this book is about.",1986,4.28,348,122
9780898702620,0898702623,Three Philosophies of Life,"Ecclesiastes, Job, Song of Songs",Peter Kreeft,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iQ1kGnHQNw4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""I've been a philosopher for all my adult life and the three most profound books of philosophy that I have ever read are Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs."" These are the opening lines of Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life. He reflects that there are ultimately only three philosophies of life and each one is represented by one of these books of the Bible-life is vanity; life is suffering; life is love. In these three books Kreeft shows how we have Dante's great epic The Divine Comedy played out, from Hell to Purgatory to Heaven. But it is an epic played out in our hearts and lives, here and now. Just as there is movement in Dante's epic, so there is movement in these books, from Ecclesiates to Job, from Job to Song of Songs. Love is the final answer to Ecclesiastes' quest, the alternative to vanity, and the true meaning of life. Finally, Kreeft sees in these books the epitome of theological virtues of faith, hope and love and ""an essential summary of the spiritual history of the world.""",1989,4.3,140,406
9780898704525,0898704529,Christianity for Modern Pagans,"Pascal's Pensées Edited, Outlined, and Explained",Peter Kreeft,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ueroynbTaRkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Peter Kreeft believes that Baise Pascal is the first post-medieval apologist. No writer in history, claims Kreeft, is a more effective Christian apologist and evangelist to today's uprooted, confused, secularized pagans (inside and outside the Church) than Pascal. He was a brilliant man--a great scientist who did major work in physics and mathematics, as well as an inventor--whom Kreeft thinks was three centuries ahead of his time. His apologetics found in his Pensees are ideal for the modern, sophisticated skeptic.",1993,4.38,341,399
9780898706833,0898706831,Saint Ignatius Loyola,"The Pilgrim Years, 1491-1538",James Brodrick,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q4p2tkQ4JBgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It is generally agreed among his foes no less than among his friends that Ignatius of Loyola was a maker of history. A hundred books could be cited in proof of this statement, but the aim of this classic work is rather to show history and the grace of God forming the person of St. Ignatius. In this definitive biographical work, Fr. Brodrick combines scholarly research with a readable, enjoyable style in a book that endeavors to show the stages by which God led the wounded cavalier out of his dream-world of romantic battles in the service of fair ladies into the noontide of divine reality. ""The Pilgrimage,"" as he liked to call the difficult period of his spiritual apprenticeship, began when he was thirty and lasted for seventeen years of endless and often very moving trials. Out of it emerged a man completely transformed in Christ, one of the great saints in the history of the Church. Includes maps and index.",1998,4.1,350,10
9780898708257,0898708257,Tolkien,Man and Myth,Joseph Pearce,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OG7MIryt0nkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1998,4.06,256,440
9780898709193,0898709199,No Price Too High,"A Pentecostal Preacher Becomes Catholic : the Inspirational Story of Alex Jones as Told to Diane Marie Morey Hanson ; and with a Special Section, the Conversion Story of Donna Jones",Alex Jones,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jRMNOAXkzJ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Alex Jones was an on-fire Penecostal minister in Detroit Who was a completely dedicated shepherd of his flock. He greatly loved his people and they loved him. In seeking to give his flock the most genuine experience of the early Church prayer and worship services, he carefully read Scripture, the Fathers of the Church and writings of the early saints. The more he read, the more Alex came to the startling conclusion that the present day Catholic Church - and the Holy Mass - is the same exact worship service from the very early Church. Alex began to share his findings with his parish, and eventually Alex, and most of his parish, joined the Catholic Church. This is his incredible story of a black Penecostal minister's challenging and dramatic spiritual jounrey, and the flock that followed him. Today he preaches with his usual passion about Christ - as a Catholic deacon! This book tells the story of Alex's life from his chidhood all the way to his conversion to Catholicism in 2001. It simultaneously tells the story of his wife, Donna, and her spiritual journey as well, which shows how they were not always on the same path during Alex's preparation for entering the Catholic Church. Each had to be personally, deeply convinced that this momentous, life-changing and career-changing spiritual decision was God's will for them.",2006,4.26,259,48
9780898709797,0898709792,C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church,,Joseph Pearce,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sastgl2e7w0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"There are many Protestants and Catholics who have been deeply affected and spiritually changed by the writings of C.S. Lewis. There are many converts to Catholicism, some very well known, who credit C.S. Lewis for playing a significant role in their conversion. This includes famous converts and writers like Peter Kreeft, Sheldon Vanauken, Thomas Howard, and Joseph Pearce. But the ironic and perplexing fact is that Lewis himself, while ""Catholic"" in many aspects of his faith and devotion, never became a Roman Catholic. Many have wondered why. Joseph Pearce, highly regarded literary biographer and great admirer of Lewis, is the ideal writer to try to answer that question. The relationship of Lewis to the Roman Catholic Church is an important and intriguing topic of interest to both Catholics and Protestants. Pearce delves into all the issues, questions, and factors regarding this puzzling question. He gives a broad and detailed analysis of the historical, biographical, theological, and literary pieces of this puzzle. His findings set forth the objective shape of Lewis's theological and spiritual works in their relation to the Catholic Church. This well-written book brings new insights into a great Christian writer, and it should spark lively discussion among Lewis readers and bring about a better understanding of the spiritual beliefs of C.S. Lewis. Book jacket.",2003,3.88,175,156
9780898792089,0898792088,Writing the Novel from Plot to Print,,Lawrence Block,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y9suepLKnekC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Block covers every step of the novel writing and selling process to help writers deliver a salable manuscript to the right editor's desk.,1985,3.94,197,335
9780898868098,0898868092,The Avalanche Handbook,,David McClung;Peter A. Schaerer,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0Bpscs7Gqb8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Technical yet accessible, The Avalanche Handbook, 3rd Edition, covers the formation, character, effects, and control of avalanches; rescue techniques; and research on understanding and surviving avalanches. Illustrated with nearly 200 updated illustrations, photos and examples, the revised edition offers exhaustive information on contributing weather and climate factors, snowpack analysis, the newest transceiver search techniques, and preventative and protective measures, including avalanche zoning and control. It contains new information on the unique characteristics of alpine snow, snow slab instability, terrain variables, skier triggering of avalanches, and the nature of avalanche motion. Plus brand-new chapters on the elements of backcountry avalanche forecasting and the decision-making process.",2006,4.02,342,41
9780899421698,0899421695,The Confessions of St. Augustine,Revision of the Translation of Rev. J.M. Lelen,Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.);Saint Augustine of Hippo;Joseph Mary Leleu,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jRkLAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For the first time, Wills's translation of the entire Confessions work by Saint Augustine has been compiled into one edition. Removed by time and place but not spiritual relevance, this text continues to influence contemporary religion, language and thought.",1997,3.91,448,11
9780905712017,0905712013,"Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter, Stamboul Train, A Burnt-",,Graham Greene,,,,1986,4.15,856,53
9780905712604,0905712609,The Shining,'Salem's Lot ; Night Shift ; Carrie,Stephen King,Fiction,,"Four stories by Stephen King, The Shining, Salems Lot, Night Shift and Carrie.",1987,4.67,991,1838
9780910457385,0910457387,The Alienist,,Machado de Assis,Mental illness,,,1998,4.05,58,10
9780911589030,0911589031,Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics,,Aristotle;Hippocrates George Apostle,Philosophy,,"Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is perhaps one of the most influential treatise on moral philosophy. It is a central text in Greek ethics, a primary source of medieval ethics, and a stimulus to thought about morality. Questions discussed include: human happiness and welfare; the nature of a good person; the psychology of action and character; the virtues of character and intellect; praise, blame, and moral resposibility; practical reason; weakness of will; self-interest and the interests of others; the role of friendship in the good life; and the relation between pleasure and goodness.",1984,3.93,372,12
9780913668061,0913668060,What Color is Your Parachute?,A Practical Manual for Job-hunters & Career Changers,Richard Nelson Bolles,Applications for positions,,,1977,3.69,233,5
9780915145690,0915145693,The Handbook (The Encheiridion),,Epictetus;Nicholas P. White,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9WRzxtTBkPgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"From the Introduction: ""Stoic philosophy, of which Epictetus (c. a.d. 50-130) is a representative, began as a recognizable movement around 300 b.c. Its founder was Zeno of Cytium (not to be confused with Zeno of Elea, who discovered the famous paradoxes). He was born in Cyprus about 336 b.c., but all of his philosophical activity took place in Athens. For more than 500 years Stoicism was one of the most influential and fruitful philosophical movements in the Graeco-Roman world. The works of the earlier Stoics survive only in fragmentary quotations from other authors, but from the Renaissance until well into the nineteenth century, Stoic ethical thought was one of the most important ancient influences on European ethics, particularly because of the descriptions of it by Cicero, through surviving works by the Stoics Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and also Epictetus--and also because of the effect that it had had in antiquity, and continued to have into the nineteenth century, on Christian ethical views. Nowadays an undergraduate or graduate student learning about ancient philosophy in a university course may well hear only about Plato and Aristotle, along perhaps with the presocratics; but in the history of Western thought and education this situation is somewhat atypical, and in most periods a comparable student would have learned as much or more about Stoicism, as well as two other major ancient philosophical movements, Epicureanism and Scepticism. In spite of this lack of explicit acquaintance with Stoic philosophers and their works, however, most students will recognize in Epictetus various ideas that are familiar through their effects on other thinkers, notably Spinoza, in our intellectual tradition.""",1983,4.22,35,650
9780915368600,0915368609,His Share of Glory,The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth,Cyril M. Kornbluth;Timothy Szczesuil;New England Science Fiction Association,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c1EDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1940,4.14,670,124
9780915811236,0915811235,Secret of the Peaceful Warrior,,Dan Millman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QulFqHcTmBsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An old man named Socrates shows Danny that the best way of dealing with a bully is the way of the peaceful warrior, through courage and love.",1991,4.18,32,152
9780916856595,0916856593,Alcoholics Anonymous,,Alcoholics Anonymous,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lHVEwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1976,4.44,250,22
9780918273826,091827382X,Through the Arc of the Rain Forest,A Novel,Karen Tei Yamashita,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Pf92tcixPqMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A wealthy Japanese man, a Brazilian healer, a couple who raise homing pigeons, a pilgrim, and an American businessman find their lives altered by their encounter with the rain forest",1990,3.91,212,119
9780919123700,0919123708,Melville's Moby-Dick,An American Nekyia,Edward F. Edinger,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zZNTxaIVRiQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The great American novel Moby-Dick is a psychological document which, like a dream, needs interpretation and elaboration of its images for its meaning to emerge fully. The subtitle of this work underscores the correspondence between Melville's deep internal struggle and the hidden complexities within us all.",1995,3.84,156,21
9780922729364,0922729360,Access the Power of Your Higher Self,Your Source of Inner Guidance and Spiritual Transformation,Elizabeth Clare Prophet,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DzSqEbEs2isC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Your source of inner guidance and spiritual transformation""--Cover.",1998,4.12,100,50
9780922729487,0922729484,Soul Mates and Twin Flames,The Spiritual Dimension of Love and Relationships,Elizabeth Clare Prophet,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b8LcngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What is the difference between a soul mate, a karmic relationship and the one-and-only divine partner called a twin flame? Learn why all these relationships are so very important in our pursuit of the highest form of love.",1999,3.82,155,127
9780922915613,092291561X,The Covert War Against Rock,"What You Don't Know about the Deaths of Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Michael Hutchence, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, John Lennon, The Notorious B.I.G.",Alex Constantine,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V4xyjIB0Ky4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What You Don't Know About the Deaths of Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Michael Hutchence, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, John Lennon, and The Notorious B.I.G. Many rock musicians have been outspoken and powerful proponents for social change, making them a threat to those eager to maintain the status quo. In this comprehensive look at suspect rock star deaths, conspiracy researcher Constantine unearths the secrets that the music industry and organised crime would prefer kept under wraps.",2000,3.59,280,83
9780922915996,0922915997,Big Dead Place,Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica,Nicholas Johnson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kRsHlPD3bcgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In the desolate continent of Antarctica, the United States Government has set up three bases operated by the Raytheon corporation. These alleged ports of high science have seen little if any technical endeavours this century; nevertheless, the charade continues and many dozens of workers are cooped up together in high-tech communes. Harassed by a tic-tac bureaucracy that makes the Soviet Union look free and easy, these bases are filled with highly neurotic individuals who use their free time playing mind games with one another.",2005,3.73,260,410
9780929524351,0929524357,History -,,Thucydides,,,,1989,4.5,34,2
9780930462093,0930462092,The Days of Vengeance,An Exposition of the Book of Revelation,David Chilton,Bible,,,1987,4.2,754,115
9780930588793,0930588797,Life Amongst the Modocs,Unwritten History,Joaquin Miller,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6_JEy6Q-u5AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Miller's masterful book, based on his years during the 1850s among the mining towns and Indian camps of northern California, is an account of epic sweep, with a grandeur and tone never before heard in the literature of the West.",1996,4.32,456,19
9780932440556,093244055X,Five Tʻang poets,,David Young,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2xmCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The selections from these five poets constitute some of the greatest lyric poetry ever written. Each poet is introduced by the translator, David Young, and represented by a selection that spans the poet's development and career.",1990,4.31,184,151
9780932813862,0932813860,The Tesla Papers,,Nikola Tesla,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rwekkS3oD0EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Nikola Tesla on free energy & wireless transmission of power""--Cover.",2000,4.12,100,100
9780933121188,0933121180,100 Years of Lynchings,,Ralph Ginzburg,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0km_frJZALIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Ginzburg compiles vivid newspaper accounts from 1886 to 1960 to provide insight and understanding of the history of racial violence.,1962,4.63,270,81
9780933121263,0933121261,Black Man of the Nile and His Family,,Yosef Ben-Jochannan,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6EK3Bs1h1FUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose ""Europeanized"" African history. Order Black Man of the Nile here.",1989,4.56,442,175
9780933121294,0933121296,"African Origins of the Major ""Western Religions""",,Yosef Ben-Jochannan,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6zDWi-srH6EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"African Origins of the Major ""Western Religions"" first published in 1970, continues to be one of Dr. Ben's most thought-provoking works. This critical examination of the history, beliefs and myths, remains instructive and fresh. By highlighting the African influences and roots of these religions, Dr. Ben reveals an untold history that many would prefer to froget.",1991,4.56,363,119
9780934380232,0934380236,The Crowd: Extradordinary Popular Delusions: Twin Classics of Crowd Pyschology,,Gustave Le Bon;Charles Mackay,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3OXIPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"There are two classic texts that deal with crowd psychology and the irrational behavior that characterizes large groups of people acting en masse. They are The Crowd, and Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness Crowds. Both books provide lucid and witty insights into the madness of crowd psychology, such as the tulipmania in Holland, when the price of tulip bulbs was up to astronomical heights. Both of these books are combined into a single volume for the price of one!",1993,3.94,288,379
9780935607093,0935607099,Discovering Great Artists,Hands-on Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters,MaryAnn F. Kohl;Kim Solga;Rebecca Van Slyke,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FnRCxIoBdVYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Featuring more than 150 activities, this guide teaches the styles, works, and techniques of the great masters—Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and more.",1996,4.24,144,387
9780936197449,0936197447,"Yes, Your Teen Is Crazy!",Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind,Michael J. Bradley,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=51wMAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A survival guide for parents helps beleagured adults navigate their childrens' teen years, with advice on how to turn adolescents into strong, confident, productive adults.",2002,4.3,332,759
9780938045557,0938045555,The Naked Warrior,"Master the Secrets of the Super-strong, Using Bodyweight Exercises Only",Pavel Tsatsouline,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WzI6NQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Have you noticed-the greater a man's skill, the more he achieves with less? And the skill of strength is no exception. From the ancient days of Greek wrestling, to the jealously guarded secrets of Chinese Kung Fu masters, to the hard men of modern spec ops, warriors and allied strongmen have developed an amazing array of skills for generating inhuman strength.But these skills have been scattered far and wide, held closely secret, or communicated in a piecemeal fashion that has left most of us frustrated and far from reaching our true strength potential.Now, for the first time, Russian strength expert and former Spetsnaz instructor Pavel has gathered many of these devastating techniques into one highly teachable skill set. In The Naked Warrior Pavel reveals exactly what it takes to be super-strong in minimum time-when your body is your only tool.",2004,3.99,218,860
9780938497158,0938497154,The Atlantis Dialogue,,Plato,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8MRa9mVuPMgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Atlantis was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Plato in two ""dialogues"" he wrote in the fourth century B.C. His tale of a great empire that sank beneath the waves has sparked thousands of years of debate over whether Atlantis really existed. But did Plato mean his tale as history, or just as a parable to help illustrate his philosophy? In ""The Atlantis Dialogue,"" you'll find everything Plato said about Atlantis, in the context he intended. Now you can read and judge for yourself //////////////////////////////////////// ""An easy read . . . Provides a good starting point for anyone wanting to learn more about the Atlantis myth."" -- Judy Justice, Midwest Book Review, Mar. 2002 (Reviewer s Choice) //////////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE CRITIAS: Consider then, Socrates, if this narrative is suited to the purpose, or whether we should seek for some other instead. SOCRATES: And what other, Critias, can we find that will be better than this, which is natural and suitable to the festival of the goddess, and has the very great advantage of being a fact and not a fiction? How or where shall we find another if we abandon this? We cannot, and therefore you must tell the tale, and good luck to you; and I in return for my yesterday's discourse will now rest and be a listener. CRITIAS: Let me begin by observing first of all, that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between those who dwelt outside the pillars of Heracles and all who dwelt within them; this war I am going to describe. Of the combatants on the one side, the city of Athens was reported to have been the leader and to have fought out the war; the combatants on the other side were commanded by the kings of Atlantis, which, as I was saying, was an island greater in extent than Libya and Asia, and when afterwards sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to any part of the ocean. The progress of the history will unfold the various nations of barbarians and families of Hellenes which then existed, as they successively appear on the scene; but I must describe first of all Athenians of that day, and their enemies who fought with them, and then the respective powers and governments of the two kingdoms. """,2001,3.77,46,34
9780938497196,0938497197,Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths,"Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, and Satyagraha in the Real World (Plus Why It's Gandhi, Not Ghandi )",Mark Shepard,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_Y7kwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mahatma Gandhi is one of the least understood figures of all time -- even among his admirers. In this Annual Gandhi Lecture for the International Association of Gandhian Studies, Mark Shepard tackles some persistently wrong-headed views of Gandhi, offering us a more accurate picture of the man and his nonviolence. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Mark Shepard is the author of ""Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths,"" ""The Community of the Ark,"" and ""Gandhi Today,"" called by the American Library Association's Booklist ""a masterpiece of committed reporting."" His writings on social alternatives have appeared in over 30 publications in the United States, Canada, England, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, and India. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// ""A model of Gandhian journalism. . . . [Shepard] has put his finger on seemingly all of the popular (and some less common) misconceptions of both Gandhi and his philosophy, including some particularly important ones. . . . This book takes little space to cover its topic concisely and well. It would be [some] of the most valuable pages many people could read about Gandhi."" -- Global Conscience, July-Sept. 1990 ///////////////////////////////////////////////// SAMPLE I suspect that most of the myths and misconceptions surrounding Gandhi have to do with nonviolence. For instance, it's surprising how many people still have the idea that nonviolent action is passive. It's important for us to be clear about this: There is nothing passive about Gandhian nonviolent action. I'm afraid Gandhi himself helped create this confusion by referring to his method at first as ""passive resistance,"" because it was in some ways like techniques bearing that label. But he soon changed his mind and rejected the term. Gandhi's nonviolent action was not an evasive strategy nor a defensive one. Gandhi was always on the offensive. He believed in confronting his opponents aggressively, in such a way that they could not avoid dealing with him. But wasn't Gandhi's nonviolent action designed to avoid violence? Yes and no. Gandhi steadfastly avoided violence toward his opponents. He did not avoid violence toward himself or his followers. Gandhi said that the nonviolent activist, like any soldier, had to be ready to die for the cause. And in fact, during India's struggle for independence, hundreds of Indians were killed by the British. The difference was that the nonviolent activist, while willing to die, was never willing to kill. Gandhi pointed out three possible responses to oppression and injustice. One he described as the coward's way: to accept the wrong or run away from it. The second option was to stand and fight by force of arms. Gandhi said this was better than acceptance or running away. But the third way, he said, was best of all and required the most courage: to stand and fight solely by nonviolent means.",2002,3.64,46,55
9780939666508,0939666502,Yosemite,"Its Discovery, Its Wonders and Its People",Margaret Sanborn,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8zwJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recounts the history of Yosemite, covering the Awahneeches, its first inhabitants, the explorers who introduced it to the outside world, and the naturalists who struggled to protect it",1989,3.96,289,23
9780939682041,0939682044,Situationist International Anthology,,Ken Knabb,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ts_dAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The essential source book for anyone wanting to pursue the SI. A vast compendium of writings from all their major works, books, journals, leaflets etc. All the stars are here, and much more. Much of this has been translated into English for the first time.",2006,4.25,532,662
9780940244566,094024456X,Isle of Darksmoke,,Larry DiTillio,,,,1984,2,55,1
9780940322714,0940322714,"Letters, Summer 1926","Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, Rainer Maria Rilke",Boris Leonidovich Pasternak;Marina T︠S︡vetaeva;Rainer Maria Rilke;Margaret Wettlin;Walter W. Arndt;Jamey Gambrell,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zLJ6QibiHg0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovsky The summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the three poets whose correspondence is collected in this moving volume. Marina Tsvetayeva was living in exile in France and struggling to get by. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Rainer Maria Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Though hardly known to each other, they began to correspond, exchanging a series of searching letters in which every aspect of life and work is discussed with extraordinary intensity and passion. Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three of the twentieth century's greatest poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure.",2001,4.27,380,172
9780940322783,0940322781,Seduction and Betrayal,Women and Literature,Elizabeth Hardwick,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rH6QReDflQIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits--of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle--as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life.",2001,4.06,224,246
9780940450004,0940450003,Typee,,Herman Melville,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yDvuEjhAw-gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,,1982,3.61,1333,646
9780940450080,0940450089,Novels,"Franshawe The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun",Nathaniel Hawthorne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vk0IpTIFV9gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Five novels explore the relationship between two rival families, the consequences of adultery, tragic romances, and life in a utopian community",1983,4.15,1272,493
9780940450097,0940450097,"Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick",,Herman Melville,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XnPvxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Redburn: His first voyage; White-Jacket: or The world in a man-of-war; Moby-Dick: or, The Whale.",1983,4.2,1436,1014
9780940450202,0940450208,"The Leatherstocking Tales: The pioneers, or The sources of the Susquehanna. The last of the Mohicans. The prairie",The Pioneers; the Last of the Mohicans; the Prairie,James Fenimore Cooper,"Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=clUU8L3hhAsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Natty Bumpo and Chingachgook, bring alive the early 1700's when Americans, French, and Huron were fighting for the vast, uncharted wilderness.",1985,3.87,1347,344
9780940450219,0940450216,"The Leatherstocking Tales: The pathfinder, or The inland sea. The deerslayer, or The first war-path","The pioneers, or the sources of the Susquehanna : a descriptive tale ; The last of the Mohicans : a narrative of 1757 ; The prairie : a tale. Vol. 1",James Fenimore Cooper,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sY4oxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Natty Bumpo and Chingachgook, bring alive the early 1700's when Americans, French, and Huron were fighting for the vast, uncharted wilderness.",1985,3.95,1051,128
9780940450240,0940450240,"Pierre, Or, The Ambiguities","Israel Potter : His Fifty Years of Exile ; The Piazza Tales ; The Confidence-man : His Masquerade ; Uncollected Prose ; Billy Budd, Sailor : (an Inside Narrative)",Herman Melville,"Adventure stories, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AdS-MgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2007,4.19,1478,332
9780940450387,0940450380,"Writings, 1902-1910",,William James,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rQquNBaUJ-YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Examines the role of religion in human lives, the nature of the universe, truth, pragmatism, war, politics, and metaphysics",1987,4.2,1379,364
9780940450431,0940450437,Speeches and Writings 1832-1858,"Speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings : the Lincoln-Douglas Debates",Abraham Lincoln,Illinois,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2o561jt4Ct4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Spine title: Lincoln : speeches and writings, 1832-1858. On t.p.: Speeches, letters, and miscellaneous writings; the LincolnDouglas debates.",1989,4.37,898,1124
9780940450486,0940450488,Complete Plays: 1932-1943,,Eugene O'Neill,,,,1988,4.12,1107,84
9780940450554,0940450550,"Novels, 1936-1940",,William Faulkner,Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xsk5RvynABgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,#48.,1990,4.49,1148,326
9780940450660,0940450666,Richard Wright,Early Works Lawd Today! Uncle Toms Children Native Son,Richard Wright,Literary Collections,,"Includes Native Son, now an HBO original movie by Rashid Johnson, with a screenplay by Suzan-Lori Parks and starring Ashton Sanders. Native Son exploded on the American literary scene in 1940. The story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living in the raw, noisy, crowded slums of Chicago's South Side, captured the hopes and yearnings, the pain and rage of black Americans with an unprecedented intensity and vividness. The text printed in this volume restores the changes and cuts--including the replacement of an entire scene--that Wright was forced to make by book club editors who feared offending their readers. The unexpurgated version of Wright's electrifying novel shows his determination to write honestly about his controversial protagonist. As he wrote in the essay ""How 'Bigger' Was Born,"" which accompanies the novel: ""I became convinced that if I did not write Bigger as I saw and felt him, I'd be acting out of fear."" This volume also contains Wright's first novel, Lawd Today!, published posthumously in 1963, and his collection of stories, Uncle Tom's Children, which appeared in 1938. Lawd Today! interweaves news bulletins, songs, exuberant wordplay, and scenes of confrontation and celebration into a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the events of one day--February 12--in the life of a black Chicago postal worker. The text for this edition reinstates Wright's stylistic experiments, and the novel emerges as a far livelier work of the imagination. Uncle Tom's Children first brought Wright to national attention when it received the Story Prize for the best work submitted to the Federal Writers' Project. The characters in these tales struggle to survive the cruelty of racism in the South, as Wright asks ""what quality of will must a Negro possess to live and die with dignity in a country that denied his humanity."" All five stories Wright included in the 1940 second edition are published in this volume, along with his sardonic autobiographical essay ""The Ethics of Living Jim Crow."" Richard Wright was ""forged in injustice as a sword is forged,"" wrote Ernest Hemingway. With passionate honesty and courage, he confronted the terrible effects of prejudice and intolerance and created works that explore the deepest conflicts of the human heart. This Library of America edition presents for the first time Wright's works in the form in which he intended them to be read. The authoritative new texts, based on Wright's original typescripts and proofs, reveal the full range and power of his achievement as an experimental stylist and as a fiery prophet of the tragic consequences of racism in American society. The volume includes notes on significant changes in Wright's text and a detailed chronology of his life. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.",1991,4.21,936,73
9780940450721,0940450720,"Writings, 1878-1899",,William James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rr6kPc52tI4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"William James, a member of America's most illustrious intellectual family, is widely acclaimed as the country's foremost philosopher, the first of its psychologists, and a champion of religious pluralism. As the apostle of pragmatism, his influence on American thought is as strong now as it has ever been. James's emphasis on the creative power of faith, will, and action, his opening up of philosophy to the fresh air of ordinary experience, his fascination with alternative forms of belief and states of consciousness, and his impatience with dogmas of any kind--all make him a defender of individual experience, and earn him a place beside Emerson and Whitman as an exponent of American democratic culture. In this volume are the brilliant, engagingly written works of James's early and middle years. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy advances the liberating argument that each of us has the right to believe in hypotheses that are not susceptible to proof and that such beliefs might actually change the world. The conversational style of these essays reflects their origin in public lectures, as well as James's conviction that truth can be discovered as much in the course of everyday life as in the activities of science or of philosophical speculation. Talks to Teachers and to Students, also drawn from lectures, helped transform the emerging science of education. Here James applies his new psychology to classroom theory and conduct, especially for the primary grades. This immensely influential book has never gone out of print. It emphasizes the role in learning of instinct, play, and habit, along with the importance of engaging the voluntary interests of students. James's warm and sympathetic nature informs his treatment of children, who can best be taught by those who respect the child's autonomy and who avoid what he calls ""hammering in."" Psychology: Briefer Course is far more than a shortened version of his monumental Principles of Psychology. It significantly revises parts of the earlier work and adds important new materials. (Students liked to call the longer book ""James"" and the shorter one ""Jimmy"".) James's new psychology moved away from discussions of the soul, morality, and logic, and focused instead on instinct, will, and the importance of action and habit. Passages comparing human consciousness to ""a wonderful stream"" inspired the ""stream of consciousness"" in the future work of Joyce, Woolf, and Gertrude Stein, a student of James's at Harvard. ""Human Immortality,"" which defends the possibility of life after death, and eight more of James's most important essays round out this second volume devoted to a writer who was called by John Dewey ""almost a Columbus of the inner world.""",1992,4.22,1212,87
9780940450738,0940450739,"Collected tales, sketches, speeches, and essays 1891-1910",1891-1910,Mark Twain,"Humorous stories, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hhzGwQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This with its companion volume is the most comprehensive collection ever published of Mark Twain's short writings: the incomparable stories, sketches and maxims of American's greatest humorist.",1992,4.39,1050,199
9780940450776,0940450771,Collected Travel Writings,The Continent,Henry James,Europe,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=apzHjGKEKccC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Collects James's travel writings, describing France, Italy, Switzerland, and Holland.",1993,3.7,868,27
9780940450820,0940450828,Historical Romances,"The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc",Mark Twain;Samuel Langhorne Clemens;Victor and Lin Salamo editors Fischer;Susan K. Harris;Susan R. Harris,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yH13sFcsjYUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An anthology encompassing The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee, and Joan of Arc features Twain's imaginative studies of the Middle Ages, in a children's classic, a unique comic-violent fantasy, and a respectful fictional biography.",1994,4.37,1050,280
9780940895485,094089548X,Christian Mythmakers,"C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard",Rolland Hein,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rojQNAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines literature of such great writers as CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle, Charles Williams, GK Chesterton, John Buyan, and Dante.",2002,3.93,303,433
9780941807555,094180755X,The Little Big Book for God's Children,,Lena Tabori;Alice Wong,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s2PfTIZ2IDEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"THE LITTLE BIG BOOK FOR GOD'S CHILDREN is a wonderful resource for parents looking to introduce their children to the wisdom and beauty of Christian faith. Illustrated with early twentieth-century art from artists such as Jessie Wilcox Smith, Ellen H. Clapsaddle, and Maud and Miska Petersham, this Little Big Book presents selected bible stories, parables, and verses; poems and prayers; excerpts and fables; songs and hymns; and activities - all collected in one delightful volume. A celebration of God's enduring message of love, GOD'S CHILDREN is sure to provide an endless wellspring of inspiration and hope.",2001,4.88,352,8
9780943015538,0943015537,זן ואומנות האושר,,Chris Prentiss,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d-MELwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The gentle wisdom of this resource explains how to invite magnificent experiences into one's life and create a philosophy that is sustainable through anything.,2006,4.04,145,2746
9780943219226,0943219221,This bridge called my back,writings by radical women of color,Cherríe Moraga;Gloria Anzaldúa,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0JAnAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2002,4.47,370,61
9780946061150,0946061157,Leaving the 20th Century,The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International,Christopher Gray,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S5Cc0TY15cEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"First published in 1974, 'Leaving..' was the first collection of Situationist writing in English. Chris Gray, its editor, was himself a member of the SI. Long out of print, it has gained an enormous reputation. This new, lavish, oversize edition, keeps the original provocative, and free and easy translations, along with the cut and paste graphics, poster-art and cartoons. It stands as a remarkable, and eminently accessible, introduction to a remarkable (and oft-times superficially at least, inaccessible) revolutionary project. Now as we stand at the gates of the 21st century, it is time for a new generation of readers to take up this remarkable book.",1998,4.14,136,29
9780946487509,0946487502,On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots,,J. Keith Cheetham,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w6ogOYZvE2wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Traces the tumultuous life of Mary Stuart, who became queen at the age of one week and was eventually beheaded for plotting against her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I",1999,3.27,192,11
9780960989867,0960989862,The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous,,"Overeaters Anonymous, Inc. (U.S.)",Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pGeWAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explains the twelve steps of Overeaters Anonymous, its program of recovery for food addiction, and the twelve traditions, the principles that guide its groups and services.",1993,4.37,221,200
9780961392147,0961392142,The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,,Edward R. Tufte,Mathematics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GTd5oQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Graphical practice. Theory of data graphics.,2001,4.41,197,6296
9780961392161,0961392169,The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint,Pitching Out Corrupts Within,Edward R. Tufte,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vXFoQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Describes how to improve PowerPoint presentations.,2006,4.07,31,897
9780961392178,0961392177,Beautiful Evidence,,Edward R. Tufte,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v302PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how empirical observations turn into explanations and evidence presentations. The book identifies excellent and effective methods for presenting information, suggests new designs, and provides tools for assessing the credibility of evidence presentations.Here we will see many close readings of serious evidence presentations-ranging through evolutionary trees and rocket science to economics, art history, and sculpture. Insistent application of the principles of analytical thinking helps both insiders and outsiders assess the credibility of evidence.",2006,4.14,213,1979
9780961462093,0961462094,Common Herbs for Natural Health,,Juliette De Bairacli-Levy;Heather Wood,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f5awAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Common Herbs for Natural Health is an essential herbal for the newcomer to the expert. Juliette de Bairacli utilizes her Gypsy wisdom and decades of studying herbs and healing to create a book filled with natural remedies and recipes. What a treasure! Her respect and love for the plants, the earth, and the medicinal knowledge garnered from people of all ethnic origins is powerful, practical, and sensible. My gardens and personal health are already benefiting from this intelligent and tender book.",1996,4.42,223,106
9780961472825,0961472820,Graphic Storytelling,,Will Eisner,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FVzYtOiA8WwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Examines the fundamentals of storytelling in comic book style and offers advice on story construction and visual narratives.,1996,4.09,164,1730
9780962247729,0962247723,PS I Love You Baby Collection,,Lynda Milligan;Nancy Smith,Crafts & Hobbies,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C3D8PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1990,4.33,79,6
9780963188922,0963188925,Pyramids of Montauk,Explorations in Consciousness,Preston B. Nichols;Peter Moon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SE8eAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During WWII there was an attempt to achieve invisibility called the Philadelphia Experiment. Afterward occurred the now famous time travel experiments named after the underground base at Montauk Point on Long Island. Now this third book in the Montauk series summarises the events of the first two books and then takes the reader on an even more spectacular journey. The discovery of ancient pyramids at Montauk leads to a connection with Ancient Egypt and its position as a gateway to other dimensions. Like a psychic detective story beyond the occult, venture into an unprecedented investigation of the mystery schools of the earth and their connection to Egypt, Atlantis, Mars and the star Sirius. Chapters on new psychotronic weapons, the history of Mars, the strange death of Ian Fleming in connection with the Philadelphia Experiment, underground at the Montauk Base.",1995,3.91,256,70
9780964326194,0964326191,The Eye of the I,,David R. Hawkins,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uKgXAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""This is the second volume of a trilogy which began with ""Power vs. force"" and will be completed by the publications of the third volume simply entitled ""I""--P. [4] of cover.",2001,4.38,432,707
9780965020466,0965020460,Black Etc.,And Everything Else My Soul Has to Offer,Nannette E. Banks,,,,1999,4.14,275,137
9780965020596,0965020592,Fahrenheit 451,,Ray Bradbury,Book burning,,"A bookburner official in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed.",2001,3.98,190,185
9780965307796,0965307794,The Return of the King,Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,"Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7iNjkPj3OEAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this final book, the courageous hobbit Frodo Baggins completes his heroic quest.",2001,4.52,440,199
9780965307888,0965307883,The QPB companion to The Lord of the rings,,Brandon Geist,"Fantasy fiction, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uzsAlcS9LmEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2001,3.31,104,72
9780965429900,0965429903,Desire and Duty,A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice,Teddy F. Bader;Marilyn Bader,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zn6FAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jane Austen's story of Elizabeth Bennet Darcy ends with Elizabeth's marriage. The Baders continue her story as wife, mother and confidante to her sister in law, Georgiana. Set in the years 1805-1816, the story tells the romantic adventures of beautiful, shy, devout Georgiana. Along the way, issues of duty and desire, in marriage and in one's relationship to God, are presented.",1997,2.85,286,114
9780965470803,0965470806,Reading Lolita in Tehran,A Memoir in Books,Azar Nafisi,American literature,,"This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Nafisi's account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl or protests and demonstrations. Azar Nafisi's tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran.",2003,3.6,347,264
9780965604925,0965604926,The Rape of Nanking,,Iris Chang,"Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China)",,"The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Anaking and within weeks looted and burned the defenseless city but raped, tortured, and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese.",1997,4.12,290,59
9780965738408,096573840X,A Short History of Nearly Everything,7 Steps to Financial Aid: Facilitator's Guide,Bill Bryson,Science,,"In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. How do we know what is in the center of the earth, thousands of miles beneath the surface? How can we know the extent and the composition of the universe, or what a black hole is? How can we know where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through space and time, Bill Bryson encounters a splendid gallery of the most fascinating, eccentric, competitive, and foolish personalities ever to ask a hard question. In their company, he undertakes a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge.",2003,4.2,545,28
9780965762649,0965762645,Reefer madness,"sex, drugs, and cheap labor in the American black market",Eric Schlosser,Black market,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o9JZKVstBJ0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reports on America's ""shadow"" economy of illegal drugs, pornography, and illegal migrant workers, arguing that these underground industries continue to grow with government intervention.",2003,3.77,310,125
9780965796934,0965796930,Storm of the century,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VT0bBhUjHa8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An original screenplay with an introduction by the author.,1999,3.91,376,229
9780966264920,0966264924,The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records,,,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M54JAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The Beatles'Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums"" is the second volume of Bruce Spizer's epic Capitol project. The book opens in 1964 with the release of ""Meet The Beatles!"" and moves forward through 1967's ""Magical Mystery Tour."" Here is the real story behind the Capitol LPs, with explanations of why Capitol reconfigured the Beatles albums for the American market. For each album, the book provides session and chart information and pictures of the front and back covers, all label variations, trade advertisements, promotional posters and displays. The book offers the most comprehensive coverage ever on the infamous butcher cover to the ""Yesterday And Today"" album, which was judged so offensive that it had to be recalled and destroyed. It also provides full details regarding the recording and marketing of ""Sgt, Pepper's Lonely Harts Club Band."" Also included are chapters on the albums issued by Capitol's Canadian and Mexican subsidiaries and a complete breakdown on the stereo, duophonic and mono mixes used by Capitol. Contains over 600 color and original black & white images.",2000,4.68,264,25
9780966410075,0966410076,You are Being Lied to,"The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths",Russell Kick,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KALsz08ijnkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book acts as a battering ram against the distortions, myths and outright lies that have been shoved down our throats by the government, the media, corporations, organized religion, the scientific establishment and others who want to keep the truth from us. A group of researchers - investigative reporters, political dissidents, academics, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics and rogue scholars - paints a picture of a world where crucial stories are ignored or actively suppressed and the official version of events has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. A world where real dangers are downplayed and nonexistent dangers are trumpeted. In short, a world where you are being lied to. You'll discover that a human being has already been cloned; Joseph McCarthy was not paranoid; museums refuse to display artifacts that conflict with the theory of evolution; the CIA has admitted to involvement in the drug trade; parents don't affect who their children become; plus further revelations involving Columbine, WWII, textbooks, Al Gore, George W. Bush, Timothy Leary and much more.",2001,3.87,399,995
9780967469782,0967469783,The Buddha in Your Mirror,Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self,Woody Hochswender;Greg Martin;Ted Morino,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5YVEBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"While the notion that “happiness can found within oneself” has recently become popular, Buddhism has taught for thousands of years that every person is a Buddha, or enlightened being, and has the potential for true and lasting happiness. Through real-life examples, the authors explain how adopting this outlook has positive effects on one’s health, relationships, and career, and gives new insights into world environmental concerns, peace issues, and other major social problems.",2001,4.28,230,704
9780968394731,0968394736,The Wealthy Barber,The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning,David Barr Chilton,"Finance, Personal",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y8vSAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2002,4.02,197,6837
9780969876748,0969876742,A Winter's Tale,The Wreck of the Florizel,Cassie Brown,Shipwrecks,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TUyiAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It was a snowy, stormy night, that February 23, 1918, when the sturdy S.S. Florizel steamed out of St. John's harbour, bound for Halifax and New York. Captain William Martin, a cautious and competent skipper, encountered thick ice and heavy winds as he headed down the treacherous Newfoundland coast. But these circumstances did not account for the ship's slow speed. Just before dawn, over nine hours after leaving port, Captain Martin ran his ship full steam onto the rocks just north of Cape Race. But that was only the beginning of a long and gruelling drama. As the ship slowly disintegrated, the passengers and crew desperately tried to save themselves. Men, women, and children were washed overboard, or killed from exposure, or fatally trapped below deck. From the shore helpless fishermen watched in horror. Twenty-seven hours after striking the reef the daring rescue took place. Of the 138 on board, seventeen passengers and twenty-seven crew members survived. In A Winter's Tale Cassie Brown retells in chilling detail the story of the wreck, the rescue, and the enquiry that followed. And she proposes, for the first time, the real reason for this senseless disaster.",1997,3.93,276,42
9780970312532,0970312539,New York City's Best Dive Bars,Drinking and Diving in the Five Boroughs,Wendy Mitchell,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HrG8nd6NrpYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With New York City overrun by cosms-sipping, crouch-sprawling hipsters, it's high time to explore the places where real people settle in for some real drinking. If you think New York's classic dives were slipping away, have no fear - Wendy Mitchell's seven years of bar crawling have unearthed 90 places where you'd be scared to take your parents.",2002,3.75,160,16
9780970998712,0970998716,Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor,Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz,Dean Koontz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rtvuhQXyfqYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dean Koontz is one of the world's top-selling authors with total worldwide sales of his novels at 225 million copies! He achieves what few writers can: he creates books that consistently jump to the top of the bestseller lists in both hardcover and paper. His newest novel had a half-million copy first printing, and it went straight to the Number One position in its first week on The New York Times and Publishers Weekly Bestseller lists! His many fans will snap up this handsome foil-and-embossed volume, with three of his best works in one book. The perfect impulse buy or gift. The collection includes the complete and unabridged novels Dark Rivers of the Heart, Intensity, and Sole Survivor. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4.",2001,4.41,700,586
9780971316829,0971316821,Maud Hart Lovelace's Deep Valley,A Guidebook of Mankato Places in the Betsy-Tacy Series,Julie A. Schrader,"Authors, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pYuWAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Photography and historical information about the places and faces featured in the Betsy-Tacy Deep Valley books. Includes a removable map containing a walking or driving tour of the locations featured in the books, bibliographies of books by Maud Hart Lovelace, a list of characters and their real-life counterparts, and a membership application for the Betsy-Tacy Society.",2002,4.29,325,58
9780971500747,0971500746,Transcending the Levels of Consciousness,The Stairway of Enlightenment,David R. Hawkins,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kXImmwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explores the ego's expressions and inherent limitations and gives detailed explanations and instructions on how to transcend them. It expands the understanding of the levels of consciousness as presented in the wiedely-acclaimed Map of Consciousness. The book focuses on the individual, and studies the experiential subjective blocks to the advancement of awareness, at each level of consciousness. This leads to progressive spiritual awareness and on to higher levels of consciousness, providing specific steps for transcending each level, preparatory to advanced states such as Enlightenment itself. By analyzing the various obstacles and levels to be transcended, certain principles that support spiritual evolution are self-revealing. This book si therefore a practical manual rather than a comprehensive analysis.",2005,4.53,407,423
9780971500761,0971500762,Discovery of the Presence of God,Devotional Nonduality,David R. Hawkins,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5-UONgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Finalizes and further clarifies the true nature and core of the condition termed ""Enlightenment."" It is primarily an instruction manual for the serious spiritual devotee, and reveals information only known by those who have transcended the ego to reach Divine Realization. This is the inner route from the self to the Self. The subjective states of the mystic are of great interest, but historically never have been clarified to the degree presented in this semi-autobiographical account that also provides the means by which to identify their rare occurrence, and thus describe the core characteristics of Spiritual Truth. Devoid of ecclesiastical doctrine or religious belief systems, the pristine essence of all spiritual Truth is revealed in its purity with unprecedcented clarity.",2006,4.58,296,176
9780972016414,0972016414,The Player's Handbook,The Ultimate Guide on Dating and Relationships,Heidi Fleiss;Libby Keatinge,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=a6NbAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Well-versed in the intricacies of the male psyche, the infamous Hollywood Madam offers time-tested strategies and hard-won wisdom on how to survive the love-go-round and come out on top.",2003,3.82,123,34
9780972018418,0972018417,Eating for Life,,Bill Phillips,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rzqENbD0IUgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The popular fitness author explains how to achieve a healthy lifestyle and avoid dieting by planning balanced, nutritious meals and offers 150 nourishing recipes for breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts.",2003,3.95,405,788
9780972121798,097212179X,Tea with Jane Austen,,Kim Wilson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sqoVPPhhcvYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While to us tea is an everyday commodity, in Austen's time it was relatively expensive, and to be able to offer it to visitors implied some degree of social status. This book examines the social customs of the time, and includes recipes.",2004,3.78,128,1415
9780972167482,097216748X,Dark Birthright,,Jeanne Treat,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Oh3mAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Its 1619 in Scotland, a time of intolerance, when healers are hanged as witches. A child born of mysterious parentage is given to fisher folk to raise as their son. Dughall grows up in a family bound by love and morality, becomes a healer, and displays psychic abilities.His life is torn apart when hes claimed by his real father, a cruel and powerful lord who tries to mold him in his image. Dughall must define himself, in the midst of a struggle between an Earl, a Duke, and the family who wants him back. All the while, hes determined to marry the lass he left behind, a woodland priestess with eyes as green as a peacock's feather.""Dark Birthright"" is a story reflecting the political, religious, and cultural dynamics of 17th century Scotland. It paints a picture of life in the Highlands, as well as the fisher folk and a village of witches worshipping the Goddess.",2006,3.63,429,128
9780972393614,0972393617,Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter,,Galadriel Waters;Astre Mithrandir,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=73QFJ7cN-yoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide to J.K. Rowling's first four Harry Potter novels analyzes mysterious elements, themes, and puzzles hidden throughout the works and speculates about the plots and endings of future volumes.",2003,4.05,412,2725
9780972589819,0972589813,Dashiell Hammett,Lost Stories,Dashiell Hammett,,,,2005,3.98,342,194
9780972851725,0972851720,H.G. Wells' Floor Games,A Father's Account of Play and Its Legacy of Healing,H. G. Wells;Barbara A. Turner,Games & Activities,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4PglfbMD1awC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Suggests some of the games that can be created using toy soldiers and other figurines, blocks, boards and planks, and toy trains arranged in various ways on an appropriate floor. New postscript offers biographical sketches of Wells, Margaret Lowenfeld, and Dora M. Kalff, and describes how Wells' book inspired the development of sandplay therapy.",2004,3.41,110,47
9780974016719,0974016713,The Frequencies,A Poem,Noah Eli Gordon,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t7laAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Poetry. ""Noah Eli Gordon can spin, scratch, sample, and dub to mix a sound all his own. THE FREQUENCIES tunes in desire, poetry, static, and laughter - all the while broadcasting with the intensity and joy of first things""--Peter Gizzi. ""This is the new music - listen to it""--Lisa Jarnot.",2003,4.32,81,69
9780974412184,097441218X,My Sister's Keeper,,Mavis Applewater,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xlm0PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2004,3.86,252,85
9780974514055,0974514055,Programming Ruby,The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide,David Thomas,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wX9jQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A tutorial and reference to the object-oriented programming language for beginning to experienced programmers, updated for version 1.8, describes the language's structure, syntax, and operation, and explains how to build applications. Original. (Intermediate)",2004,4.04,828,1525
9780974559308,097455930X,Creating Contagious Leadership,,John Hersey,Leadership,,,2003,3,128,2
9780974607894,0974607894,First Love,,Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VcNvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changing emotions, from exaltation and jealousy to despair and devotion. This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of masterful writers. Inexpensive and collectible, they are the first single-volume publications of these classic tales, offering a closer look at this under-appreciated literary form and providing a fresh take on the world's most celebrated authors.",2004,3.79,124,5551
9780974811826,0974811823,Brando Unzipped,,Darwin Porter,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ufj7vvPLiIgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,see www.BloodMoonProductions.com,2006,3.55,625,79
9780974935997,0974935999,The Mind Parasites,,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v9F-AaygPYQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Mind parasites are sucking the human mind dry. Humankind must develop paranormal abilities or perish.,2005,3.79,240,888
9780975262207,0975262203,"Open My Eyes, Lord",A Practical Guide to Angelic Visitations and Heavenly Experiences,Gary Oates,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0XY3AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2004,4.27,148,117
9780975323113,0975323113,Plants And Landscapes For Summer-dry Climates Of The San Francisco Bay Region,,East Bay Municipal Utility District (Calif.),Gardening,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Dj2XNgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gardening. Environmental Studies. Photographs by Saxon Holt. Illustrations by Richard Pembroke. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the challenges and opportunities of gardening in Mediterranean climates, with special reference to northern California's San Francisco Bay Region. The core of the book is a catalog of more than 650 plants suited to regions with mild, usually wet winters and dry, often hot summers. These plants thrive with moderate to no summer irrigation when established, require little or no maintenance, and are reasonably available from nurseries, botanic gardens, native plant sales, or specialty seed suppliers. Many of the 542 color photographs show plants in garden settings to suggest attractive and compatible plant combinations. Summary charts provide information on each plant, such as bloom time, needs for water and sun, and preferences for coastal or inland microclimates. Lists suggest plants for special situations, such as hot sites, dryish shade, small gardens, and clay soils. Chapters on landscape design and maintenance inspire readers to make gardens that use little water and no harmful chemicals, with a focus on building healthy soil. Practical steps to successful design are supplemented with ideas for designing with microclimate, attracting wildlife, and fire safety. Sidebars by local experts discuss weather, natural landscapes, design solutions, and gardening with recycled water. ""A valuable resource for climate-compatible gardening in the San Franciso Bay Area that will also be of interest to gardeners in other parts of the world with a similar seasonal pattern of winter rain and dry summers. This book will occupy a prominent place in my library for many years to come.""—Katherine Greenberg, president Mediterranean Garden Society ""This book is beautifully designed with abundant photographs of plants, many in garden settings, and it is packed with the kind of information gardeners need for their own special situations. Simply stunning! Bravo!""—Phyllis M. Faber, editor University of California Press",2004,4.33,336,46
9780976072614,0976072610,Caesar's Commentaries,On the Gallic War and on the Civil War,Julius Caesar;W. A. MacDevitt;James H. Ford,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kr87vgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This complete edition of Caesar's Commentaries contains all eight of Caesar's books on the Gallic War as well as all three of his books on the Civil War masterfully translated into English by W. A. MacDevitt. Caesar's Commentaries are an outstanding account of extraordinary events by one of the most exceptional men in the history of the world. Julius Caesar himself was one of the most eminent writers of the age in which he lived. His commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars are written with a purity, precision, and perspicuity, which command approbation. They are elegant without affectation, and beautiful without ornament. Of the two books which he composed on Analogy, and those under the title of Anti-Cato, scarcely any fragment is preserved; but we may be assured of the justness of the observations on language, which were made by an author so much distinguished by the excellence of his own compositions. His poem entitled The Journey, which was probably an entertaining narrative, is likewise totally lost. All of Caesar's works that remain intact are contained in this edition of his commentaries. It is to the honor of Caesar, that when he had obtained the supreme power, he exercised it with a degree of moderation beyond what was generally expected by those who had fought on the side of the Republic. His time was almost entirely occupied with public affairs, in the management of which, though he employed many agents, he appears to have had none in the character of actual minister. Caesar deprecated a lingering death, and wished that his own might be sudden and speedy. And the day before he died, the conversation at supper, in the house of Marcus Lepidus, turning upon what wasthe most eligible way of dying, he gave his opinion in favor of a death that is sudden and unexpected. He died in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and was ranked amongst the Gods.",2005,4.12,340,398
9780976234968,0976234963,Hoodwinked,,Quentin Carter,Fiction,,Drug-dealing brothers Keith and Kevin Banks find their lives turned upside down when a jealous rival plots their downfall.,2005,4.43,277,961
9780976249870,0976249871,Jesus Freaks,,Andre Duza,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0sChAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For God so loved the world that he gave his only two begotten sons. and a few million zombies Thugs, pushers, gangsters, rapists, murderers; Detective Philip Makane thought he'd seen it all until he awoke on the morning of Easter Sunday 2015, to a world filled with bleeding rain, ravenous zombies, a homicidal ghost, and the sudden arrival of two men with extraordinary powers who both claim to be Jesus Christ in the flesh.",2006,3.67,390,54
9780976401117,0976401118,The Wood Boy,,Raymond E. Feist;Sean J. Jordan;Tad Williams,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gytTAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides two coming of age tales that are adapted from short stories.,2005,3.63,144,359
9780976540601,0976540606,Unauthorized Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows News,Harry Potter Book Seven and Half-Blood Prince Analysis,W. Frederick Zimmerman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LH5C9q83T6wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Through the magic of print-on-demand technology, this ""nimble"" guide to the work of best-selling author J. K. Rowling provides the latest news about the author and her works, updated whenever there are significant developments. Unlike a conventional book, for which editions are printed in quantity every couple of years, this ""living book"" goes through frequent ""mini-editions"" and is printed fresh whenever customers place an order. Purchasers are entitled to free PDF updates! An entirely new section of analysis with more than 75 new pages will be added shortly after the release of ""Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"" on July 16, 2005.",2005,3.69,152,18
9780976631156,0976631156,Clown Girl,A Novel,Monica Drake,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SyIr9jVVsT8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an effort to support herself and her layabout performance-artist boyfriend, Clown Girl finds herself unwittingly transformed into a ""corporate clown,"" trapping herself in a cycle of meaningless, high-paid gigs that veer dangerously close to prostitution. Monica Drake has created a novel that riffs on the high comedy of early film stars — most notably Chaplin and W. C. Fields — to raise questions of class, gender, economics, and prejudice. Resisting easy classification, this debut novel blends the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty with stunning skill.",2007,3.42,297,5305
9780976694007,097669400X,Agile Web Development with Rails,A Pragmatic Guide,David Thomas;David Heinemeier Hansson;Leon Breedt,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qq9nQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rails is a full-stack, open source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications, but with a twist... A full Rails application probably has less total code than the XML you'd need to configure the same application in other frameworks. With this book you'll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic, user-centric web-pages using built-in Javascript and Ajax support. There are extensive chapters on testing, deployment, and scaling. You'll see how easy it is to install Rails using your web server of choice (such as Apache or lighttpd) or using its own included web server. You'll be writing applications that work with your favorite database (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all. You'll create a complete online store application in the extended tutorial section, so you'll see how a full Rails application is developed---iteratively and rapidly. Rails strives to honor the Pragmatic Programmer's ""DRY Principle"" by avoiding the extra work of configuration files and code annotations. You can develop in real-time: make a change, and watch it work immediately. Forget XML. Everything in Rails, from templates to control flow to business logic, is written in Ruby, the language of choice for programmers who like to get the job done well (and leave work on time for a change). Rails is the framework of choice for the new generation of Web 2.0 developers. Agile Web Development with Rails is the book for that generation, written by Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmer and author of Programming Ruby) and David Heinemeier Hansson, who created Rails.",2005,3.89,558,1269
9780976694021,0976694026,Behind Closed Doors,Secrets of Great Management,Johanna Rothman;Esther Derby,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jOg_AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Great management is difficult to see as it occurs. It's possible to see the results of great management, but it's not easy to see how managers achieve those results. You can learn to be a better manager--even a great manager--with this guide. You'll follow along as Sam, a manager just brought on board, learns the ropes and deals with his new team over the course of his first eight weeks on the job. From scheduling and managing resources to helping team members grow and prosper, you'll be there as Sam makes it happen. You'll find powerful tips covering: Delegating effectively, Using feedback and goal-setting, Developing influence, Handling one-on-one meetings, Coaching and mentoring, Deciding what work to do--and what not to do. - Publisher.",2005,3.96,176,776
9780976882305,0976882302,The Giraffe who was Afraid of Heights,,David A. Ufer,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j2IzKQUJB4IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a facinating tale about a young giraffe who suffers from a fear of heights. Along his journey, he meets new animal friends with ironic fears of their own.",2006,3.81,32,34
9780977312795,0977312798,Pictures Showing what Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow,,Zak Smith,Architecture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pjoQBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) has been called a modernFinnegans Wake for its challenging language, wild anachronisms, hallucinatory happenings, and fever-dream imagery. With Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, artist Zak Smith at once eases and expands readers' experience of the twentieth-century classic. Smith has created more than 750 pages of drawings, paintings, and photos--each derived from a page of Pynchon's novel. Extraordinary tableaux of the detritus of war--a burned-out Konigstiger tank, a melted machine gun--coexist alongside such fantasmagoric Pynchon inventions as the ""stumbling bird"" and ""Grigori the octopus."" Smith has said he aimed to be ""as literal as possible"" in interpreting Gravity's Rainbow, but his images are as imaginative and powerful as the prose they honor.",2006,4.1,784,484
9780977616633,0977616630,Agile Web Development with Rails,,David Thomas;David Heinemeier Hansson;Leon Breedt,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ue5SAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Provides information on creating Web-based applications.,2006,3.88,719,162
9780977616657,0977616657,Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion,,Mike Mason,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wKFQAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides information on Subversion 1.3, an open source version control system.",2006,3.57,256,170
9780978605261,0978605268,George Washington's Sacred Fire,,Peter A. Lillback,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I5bMygAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Uses Washington's writings, journals, letters, and manuscripts to examine the religious views of George Washington.",2006,4.2,1200,662
9780978970703,0978970705,Plague of the Dead,,Z. A. Recht;Bowie Ibarra;Travis Adkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=urbcAzrMakAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind as ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in violent behavior, and a one-hundred percent mortality rate? Death. But it doesn't end there. The victims return from death to walk the earth. When a massive military operation fails to contain the plague of the living dead it escalates into a global pandemic. In one fell swoop, the necessities of life become much more basic. Gone are petty everyday concerns. Gone are the amenities of civilized life. Yet a single law of nature remains: Live, or die. Kill, or be killed. On one side of the world, a battle-hardened General surveys the remnants of his command: a young medic, a veteran photographer, a brash Private, and dozens of refugees, all are his responsibility--all thousands of miles from home. Back in the United States, an Army Colonel discovers the darker side of Morningstar virus and begins to collaborate with a well-known journalist to leak the information out to the public... The Morningstar Saga has begun.",2006,3.84,292,6158
9780978984809,0978984803,Brevity & echo,an anthology of short short stories,Kathleen Rooney,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WngsAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This collection of previously published short shorts by Emerson alumni celebrates the short short genre and the important role Emerson College's writing program has played in the history of that genre. The anthology features authors: Derrick Ableman, Joann Avallon, Rusty Barnes, Jane Berentson, Stace Budzko, Leslie Busler, Jennifer Carr, Keith Carter, Chip Cheek, Amy L. Clark, Kirsten Culbertson, Mark DeCarteret, Erin Dionne, Denise Duhamel, Elizabeth Kemper French, Lee Harrington, Jen Heller, Chris Helmuth, Steve Himmer, Brian Hinshaw, Jacqueline Holland, Amanda Holzer, Shannon Huffman, John F. Kersey, Laurel Dile King, Mariette Landry, Molly Lanzarotta, Don Lee, Matt Marinovich, Tara L. Masih, Melissa McCracken, Sheehan McGuirk, LaTanya McQueen, Maryanne O Hara, Janice O Leary, Josh Pahigian, Jennifer Pieroni, Robert Repino, Ashley Rice, Matt Rittenhouse, Joe Robb, Beth Anne Royer, Brian Ruuska, Mary Saliba, Nina R. Scheider, Kimberly Ann Southwick, R. S. Steinberg, Cam Terwilliger, Terry Thuemling, and Laura van den Berg, as well as an introduction by Ron Carlson and an afterword by Pamela Painter.",2006,4.38,168,45
9781101002612,1101002611,Cutting Edge,Power Plays 06,Tom Clancy;Martin H. Greenberg;Jerome Preisler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2wbt71dcas0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"WIRED. Africa becomes the battle ground in 21st-century war. As fiberoptic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is UpLink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The pan-African fiberoptic ring is his most ambitious—and expensive—endeavor to date. His nemesis, Harlan Devane, is penetrating the network. Trading in black market commodities with terrorists and rogue states, the cable offers him unlimited access to a most valuable product: information. To ensure his success, Devane makes his move halfway around the world. He hits Gordian where it hurts—and kidnaps his daughter. Now, Gordian must trust his UpLink team as never before, as they fight on land and sea to turn the tables against Devane…once and for all.",2002,,,
9781101007426,1101007427,Tom Clancy's Net Force: Virtual Vandals,Net Force 01,Tom Clancy;Steve Pieczenik;Diane Duane,Young Adult Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nl98l4qqoasC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Here comes a Clancy first: a new series of novels for young adults starring a team of troubleshooting teens--the Net Force Explorers--who know more about cutting edge technology than their teachers!,1999,,,
9781101098394,1101098392,The Hound of the Baskervilles,,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rtBSjETDvjcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson face a mystery on the moors in this classic caper from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale—the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted the lonely moors around the Baskervilles’ ancestral home. The tale warned the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor. But Sir Charles Baskerville was now dead—and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Would the new heir of the Baskervilles meet the same dreadful fate? Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr. Watson, are faced with their most terrifying case in this wonderful classic of masterful detection and bone-chilling suspense. Includes an Afterword by Anne Perry",2001,,,
9781101177273,1101177276,"Kristin Lavransdatter, II: The Wife",,Sigrid Undset,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5JWDGqSIRLQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life—her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her experiences as a daughter, wife, and mother, and her deep religious faith—profoundly influenced her writing. Her grasp of the connections between past and present and of human nature itself, combined with the extraordinary quality of her writing, sets her works far above the genre of ""historical novels."" This new translation by Tina Nunnally—the first English version since Charles Archer's translation in the 1920s—captures Undset's strengths as a stylist. Nunnally, an award-winning translator, retains the natural dialog and lyrical flow of the original Norwegian, with its echoes of Old Norse legends, while deftly avoiding the stilted language and false archaisms of Archer's translation. In addition, she restores key passages left out of that edition. Undset's ability to present a meticulously accurate historical portrait without sacrificing the poetry and narrative drive of masterful storytelling was particularly significant in her homeland. Granted independence in 1905 after five hundred years of foreign domination, Norway was eager to reclaim its national history and culture. Kristin Lavransdatter became a touchstone for Undset's contemporaries, and continues to be widely read by Norwegians today. In the more than 75 years since it was first published, it has also become a favorite throughout the world. 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.",1999,,,
9781101177358,1101177357,"Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)",,Herman Melville,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3ZsPpkYZ_TgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"While best known for such novels as his monumental Moby-Dick, Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most complete anthology of Melville’s poetry ever published in a single volume. It features a large selection from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, along with Melville’s own notes and prose supplement; cantos from all four books of Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land; selections from Melville’s later books, Timoleon, John Marr and Other Sailors, and Weeds and Wildings, Chiefly, with a Rose or Two; as well as a number of his powerful and lesserknown uncollected poems. This volume will usher in a new appreciation for Melville’s poetic gifts. Includes a new introduction to Melville's life and later career as a poet during the Civil War and Gilded Age, as well as notes and suggestions for further reading. 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.",2006,,,
9781101487556,1101487550,Crime and Punishment,,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ROi0n7azQwUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, commits a random murder without remorse or regret, imagining himself to be a great man far above moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with a suspicious police investigator, his own conscience begins to torment him and he seeks sympathy and redemption from Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David McDuff",2002,,,
9781322676159,1322676151,Dance of the Gods,,Nora Roberts,Vampires,,,2006,,,
9781400016082,1400016088,Fodor's Amsterdam,,"Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff",Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Msl1U6pNo7YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a two-color interior design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.",2006,3.5,288,7
9781400030064,1400030064,The Crack in Space,,Philip K. Dick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TNplAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"All kinds of problems erupt when a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world, with Jim Briskin, campaigning to be America's first black president, determined to use the new world as a solution to Earth's overpopulation problem, and billionaire mutant George Walt hoping to seize control of it, but the other Earth turns out to be inhabited. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",1966,3.46,188,1791
9781400030088,1400030080,"Lies, Inc",,Philip K. Dick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-NTlwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the final, expanded version of the novella The Unteleported Man, Rachmael ben Applebaum becomes suspicious of the plan to reduce Earth's overpopulation by teleporting people to a colony on a distant planet and embarks on an eighteen-year voyage to that planet to see if anyone wants to return. Original. 10,000 first printing.",2004,3.17,202,2183
9781400030125,1400030129,Vulcan's Hammer,,Philip K. Dick,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yH9aAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Confronted by a dangerous movement of religious fanatics and challenges to its authorities, the Vulcan 3, an objective, unbiased, and hyperrational computer that dictates policy for all citizens--an omnipotent technological wonder that evolved out of chaos and war--could prove to be human civilization's worst nightmare. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",1960,3.51,165,1502
9781400030651,140003065X,A Fine Balance,A Novel,Rohinton Mistry,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ct6E1SONSGEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In India during the mid-1970s, after a ""state of internal emergency"" is declared, four very different people--a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew who have fled their village's caste violence--find their lives becoming inextricably intertwined",1997,4.36,603,108208
9781400030774,1400030773,Killings,,Andre Dubus,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KXFcYgUxzzIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1999,4.16,148,849
9781400031047,1400031044,My Name Is Asher Lev,,Chaim Potok,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1jgbhghk5QUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The novelist records the anguish and triumphs of a young painter as he emerges into the great world of art and rejects all else.,2003,4.2,369,31846
9781400031313,1400031311,The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003,,Laura Furman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rELdvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a collection of short stories judged to be the best in America for 2002.,2003,3.8,384,137
9781400031368,1400031362,Morality for Beautiful Girls,,Alexander McCall Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JTV3COlWawMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Precious Ramotswe investigates two very different cases--the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important government official, and the moral character of the finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest.",2002,3.98,227,32047
9781400031658,1400031656,Before You Know Kindness,,Chris Bohjalian,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dkjTj3D8HqUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After a decade of spending a delightful summer week at their country house in New Hampshire, the members of the extended Seton family are confronted by a terrible accident, testing the values and relationships that hold them together.",2005,3.46,429,9582
9781400031771,140003177X,Eating Stone,Imagination and the Loss of the Wild,Ellen Meloy,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jbTcxOq7oLsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A close-up portrait of a year in the life of a herd of rare desert bighorn sheep follows these enigmatic animals and their behavior, life cycles, and habitat, and offers an evocative celebration of the desolate splendor of their rugged high desert environment. Reprint.",2006,4.1,352,414
9781400032051,1400032059,1491,New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,Charles C. Mann,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XhAqcIq_pGcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes how recent archaeological research has transformed long-held myths about the Americas, revealing far older and more advanced cultures with a greater population than were previously thought to have existed.",2006,4.02,541,51593
9781400032143,1400032148,The Crazed,A Novel,Ha Jin,Cerebrovascular disease,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sJ9RPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Een professor krijgt een beroerte, waarna zijn student en aanstaande schoonzoon plichtsgetrouw de verzorging op zich neemt.",2003,3.49,336,1698
9781400032389,1400032385,Letters to a Young Artist,,Anna Deavere Smith,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c3t-AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides advice to young artists on how they can integrate artistic integrity with professional savvy, discussing such topics as the importance of networking, the role of the artist in social change, and how to pursue one's art without compromise.",2006,4.01,240,522
9781400032464,1400032466,Miami Blues,,Charles Ray Willeford,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yLLjosjPG58C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Losing his gun, his badge, and his dentures after a brutal beating by an unknown assailant in his own home, an indignant Hoke Moseley, a veteran Miami homicide detective, finally realizes who is responsible for the assault and determines to bring them down. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2004,3.94,191,2739
9781400032532,1400032539,His Excellency,George Washington,Joseph J. Ellis,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2Y9Rko9sT3kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Draws on the Washington papers from archives at the University of Virginia to chronicle George Washington's military career and presidential years, discussing his struggle to keep an emerging America united and other accomplishments.",2005,3.92,320,31485
9781400032716,1400032717,The curious incident of the dog in the night-time,a novel,Mark Haddon,Fiction,,"Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.",2003,3.87,226,991627
9781400032808,1400032806,Under the Banner of Heaven,A Story of Violent Faith,Jon Krakauer,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kw2e73ysxR8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the events that surrounded the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons Ron and Dan Lafferty, exploring the belief systems and traditions, including polygamy, that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 300,000 first printing.",2004,3.99,399,7271
9781400032815,1400032814,Diary,A Novel,Chuck Palahniuk,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JohRKwRQ4SEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Working as a hotel maid despite her dreams of being an artist, Misty keeps a diary as she sits by the side of her husband, comatose after a suicide attempt, which unlocks Misty's creative energies and causes her to paint compulsively.",2004,3.61,262,63149
9781400032822,1400032822,Haunted,,Chuck Palahniuk,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bzk7X0hXRXcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty-three stories chronicle the experiences of people who have answered an ad for an artist's retreat, believing that they will find a peaceful refuge, only to find themselves isolated and trapped in a cavernous old theater.",2006,3.59,419,75255
9781400032921,140003292X,The Complete Short Novels,,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8PYXDDec5vQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new translation of the nineteenth-century Russian master's short classics includes The Steppe, The Duel, The Story of an Unknown Man, Three Years, and My Life. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2005,4.47,548,10275
9781400032952,1400032954,Isaac Newton,,James Gleick,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aJNnuToKNOwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this original, sweeping, and intimate biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks to illuminate the real importance of his work.",2004,3.83,288,5132
9781400033171,1400033179,A Year at the Races,"Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck",Jane Smiley,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oghg1IQLeZMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author explores the high-stakes world of horse racing, drawing on her knowledge of equine behavior, trainers, veterinarians, and jockeys as she relates the story of two of her own horses as they begin their careers.",2005,3.89,304,680
9781400033416,1400033411,Beloved,A Novel,Toni Morrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ann5ugJilcMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed, in a new edition of the Nobel Laureate's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.",2004,3.81,324,263625
9781400033423,140003342X,Song of Solomon,,Toni Morrison,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=03tee7J8wBwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Macon Dead, Jr., called ""Milkman,"" the son of the wealthiest African American in town, moves from childhood into early manhood, searching, among the disparate, mysterious members of his family, for his life and reality. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2004,4.04,337,69036
9781400033546,1400033543,You Shall Know Our Velocity!,,Dave Eggers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ucF8nY4gdAUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After acquiring $32,000, Will and Hand, devastated over the death of their closest friend, travel around the world giving away the money, in a rowdy debut novel from the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.",2003,3.63,401,25360
9781400033720,1400033721,Parallel Worlds,"A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos",Michio Kaku,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=21NGAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sheds new light on discoveries that have revolutionized the field of cosmology and transformed understanding of the universe, offering an explanation of the multiverse M-theory and its implications in terms of the fate of our own universe.",2006,4.18,361,14613
9781400033829,1400033829,Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?,A Novel,Lorrie Moore,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wuymEj8Mjq8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Realizing during a trip to Paris that she no longer loves her husband, Berie Carr remembers her childhood in upstate New York, where she shared a deep friendship with a captivating older girl named Sils. Reprint.",2004,3.79,160,6067
9781400033836,1400033837,A Thousand Acres,A Novel,Jane Smiley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y5YMzpFJlo4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On a prosperous Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's ""King Lear."" Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.",2003,3.8,371,51670
9781400033850,1400033853,Providence of a Sparrow,Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds,Chris Chester,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z7RDDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the influence of a foundling baby sparrow that he rescued on the author's life, his relationship with the bird, his transformation of their home into an indoor aviary, and what his birds have taught him about life, joy, the wonder of all living beings, and the natural world. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2004,4.32,304,218
9781400033881,1400033888,Istanbul,,Orhan Pamuk,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m-qJDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A portrait of one of the world's most complex and diverse cities interweaves the history of Istanbul with observations and reflections on the city's landmarks, art, people, institutions, and great spaces.",2006,3.78,356,11391
9781400034208,1400034205,The Razor's Edge,,W. Somerset Maugham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6sSU11MyO8gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.",2003,4.19,314,28339
9781400034291,1400034299,The Dew Breaker,,Edwidge Danticat,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JnCKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A scarred Brooklyn resident remembers his past life as a Haitian torturer in the 1960s, a period during which he waged personal and political battles before moving to New York, where his past continued to haunt him throughout his marriage and parenthood. By the award-winning author of The Farming of Bones. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2005,3.79,244,5664
9781400034413,1400034418,Under the Glacier,,Halldór Laxness,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ouyzAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young Icelandic priest is sent to investigate the pastor at remote Snaefells Glacier and uncovers a mysterious and wild community full of phantasmagoria and eccentricity, in a provocative novel by the late Nobel laureate. Original. 10,000 first printing.",2005,3.59,240,1495
9781400034628,1400034620,Case Closed,Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK,Gerald Posner,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Er9LPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides new evidence from computerized film enhancements and other sources, including an explanation of Kennedy's assassination renouncing conspiracy theories.",2003,3.96,640,1139
9781400034680,140003468X,Love in the Time of Cholera,,Gabriel García Márquez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z6uePwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years, on the day of her husband's funeral. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2003,3.9,348,310177
9781400034697,1400034698,Strange Pilgrims,Twelve Stories,Gabriel García Márquez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Kj6FDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera presents a collection of twelve stories that feature an aging streetwalker and her gravesite-mourning dog, a bereaved father's journey to Rome, a paranoid husband, and more. Reprint.",2006,4.03,208,6648
9781400034710,140003471X,Chronicle of a Death Foretold,A Novel,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c7g6i1DvUUgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Nobel laureate weaves a story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents, her brothers' resolve to murder her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine.",2003,3.96,120,65713
9781400034772,1400034779,The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,,Alexander McCall Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BVPY5Q4hXF8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Working in Gaborone, Botswana, Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week.",2002,3.77,235,200338
9781400040308,1400040302,A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines,,Janna Levin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EwQi6BFWX6QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a saga of genius, madness, and seminal scientific accomplishment, a physicist obsessed with logician Kurt Gdel and mathematician Alan Turing chronicles the lives of both men in parallel narratives that reveal each man's great achievements and sorry deaths. 40,000 first printing.",2006,3.68,230,1098
9781400040353,1400040353,Lidia's Family Table,,Lidia Matticchio Bastianich;David Nussbaum,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZQNwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide to family cookery features more than two hundred master recipes for everyday dining and special family occasions, along with imaginative ideas for variations and improvisations, including seasonal salads, vegetables, soups, pastas, sauces, main courses, and desserts.",2004,4.22,448,521
9781400040360,1400040361,Lidia's Italy,140 Simple and Delicious Recipes from the Ten Places in Italy Lidia Loves Most,Tanya Bastianich Manuali,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YwNwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The popular TV chef offers a gastronomic tour of her native Italy, exploring the regional culinary traditions that have shaped her cooking, in a collection of 140 tempting recipes based on the cuisine of Rome, Sicily, Tuscany, and beyond.",2007,4.21,384,619
9781400040612,1400040612,Ten Days in the Hills,,Jane Smiley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JxVh4I6RXn0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A group of friends and family gathers in the Hollywood hills for ten days of memories and gossip, including Max, a writer/director whose career is waning; his lover Elena; his ex-wife, film star Zoe Cunningham; and their daughter Isabel.",2007,2.51,450,1476
9781400041275,1400041279,The Origin of Species,"And, The Voyage of the Beagle",Charles Darwin,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=arm7fmLePg8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A dual publication of two of the author's influential works includes his nineteenth-century discussion of his revolutionary theory of evolution by means of natural selection and his 1839 account of his journeys to South America and the Pacific Islands.,2003,4.13,1024,494
9781400041985,1400041988,Pnin,,Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A171LVf0WSoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The National Book Award-nominated classic finds hapless Russian migr Timofey Pnin precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s, where he falls victim to subtle academic conspiracies and the manipulations of the narrator. 10,000 first printing.",2004,3.89,143,13190
9781400042555,1400042550,The Plague,"The Fall ; Exile and the Kingdom ; And, Selected Essays",Albert Camus,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bY1rswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Brings together a collection of the writer's novels, short stories, and essays, including ""The Plague,"" a tale of survival and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic, and ""The Fall,"" in which a French lawyer makes an astonishing confession.",2004,4.34,656,813
9781400043194,1400043190,Dead Souls,,Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TQrXV-kwBuMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an amusing and often confused schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit.",2004,3.99,445,365
9781400043330,1400043336,The General in His Labyrinth,A Novel,Gabriel García Márquez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CFUJpkcwN70C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Old and ill, General Simon Bolivar reexamines his life--reliving his campaigns, recalling his romances, and revealing himself as a lover, libertine, and fighter--during a seven-month voyage down the Magdalena River.",2004,3.68,248,11460
9781400043460,1400043468,My Life in France,,Julia Child;Alex Prud'homme,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KmuMDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A memoir begun just months before Child's death describes the legendary food expert's years in Paris, Marseille, and Provence and her journey from a young woman from Pasadena who cannot cook or speak any French to the publication of her legendary Mastering cookbooks and her winning the hearts of America as ""The French Chef."" 150,000 first printing.",2006,4.17,302,67593
9781400044160,1400044162,Half of a Yellow Sun,,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ubfggYDjbiEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war.",2006,4.31,433,63910
9781400044733,1400044731,Suite Francaise,,Irene Nemirovsky,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hGRlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A story of life in France under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--""Storm in June,"" set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris, and ""Dolce,"" set in a German-occupied village rife with resentment, resistance, and collaboration.",2006,3.83,395,994
9781400044740,140004474X,Confessions of a French Baker,"Breadmaking Secrets, Tips, and Recipes",Peter Mayle;Gerard Auzet,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rp4wfvuZ3QoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A behind-the-scenes look at the art of French breadmaking includes sixteen recipes from the award-winning Provencal baker, Gerard Auzet, and includes tips for adapting recipes to the American kitchen.",2005,3.64,91,389
9781400044870,1400044871,Imperial Life in the Emerald City,Inside Iraq's Green Zone,Rajiv Chandrasekaran,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z270UDYkfeQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a revealing look at life in Baghdad's Green Zone, the headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq, criticizing the follies and foibles of L. Paul Bremer in the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq.",2006,4.02,320,4455
9781400046843,140004684X,See No Evil,The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the Cia's War on Terrorism,,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7da3ii3Hp8QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author discusses his twenty-year career as a CIA operative in the Middle East and examines how the agency's abandonment of its original mission resulted in a failure to acknowledge the growing threat of militant Islamic terrorist groups.,2002,3.93,320,3936
9781400047338,1400047331,Gale Gand's Short + Sweet,Quick Desserts with Eight Ingredients Or Less,Gale Gand;Julia Moskin,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BloJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of dessert recipes that can be created with a minimum of ingredients and preparation time includes a variety of classic favorites, restaurant fare, and kid-friendly options, from Carrot Cake and Banana Bisque to Cookieburgers and Peanut Butter Worms. 30,000 first printing.",2004,3.74,160,23
9781400047833,1400047838,Fugitives and Refugees,"A Walk in Portland, Oregon",Chuck Palahniuk,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vvyLDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An insider takes readers on a walking tour of Portland, Oregon, revealing the city's quirky, cheap, and wild side as he visits unusual museums, offbeat annual festivals and events, scenes of ghostly hauntings, strange local customs, and more. 25,000 first printing.",2003,3.51,176,8326
9781400047864,1400047862,"Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle",The First of the Tristan and Isolde Novels,Rosalind Miles,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DPzVBAQDoHwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the first volume of a trilogy chronicling the lives of star-crossed Celtic lovers Tristan and Isolde, Isolde, a gifted healer and princess destined to inherit the Irish throne from her mother, falls in love with Tristan, nephew of the King of Cornwall, who is embroiled in a war with the Irish queen. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2003,3.65,360,2218
9781400049479,1400049474,Last Train to Paradise,Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean,Les Standiford,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S0uJUvlgHywC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the remarkable and challenging efforts of ambitious entrepreneur Henry Flagler to construct a railway that would connect Key West to the mainland, following the design and engineering of the project, the thousands of workers who brought Flagler's vision to life, and the 1935 hurricane that destroyed the railway. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.",2003,4.02,288,1644
9781400051533,1400051533,"The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox",Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities,Stephen Jay Gould,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4f8v9WDf0ZIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Draws on the philosophy of seventh century B.C. Greek soldier and poet Archilochus to challenge assumptions about an inescapable conflict between science and the humanities, rebut ideas from Edward O. Wilson's Consilience, and explain why the pursuit of knowledge must always operate in tandem with nature. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2003,3.64,288,387
9781400051571,1400051576,The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight,The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late,Thom Hartmann,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7d4VDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A revised edition of a landmark study offers a passionate, visionary call to enlightened consciousness that combines spiritual thought and ecological principles to promote a positive future for the planet and its inhabitants. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2004,4.22,400,1341
9781400051731,1400051738,The Ruby Ring,A Novel,Diane Haeger,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uupUDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seeking refuge in a convent following the untimely death of her lover, master painter Raphael, a penniless Margherita Luti is forced to surrender her ruby engagement ring, a gift from the artist, to a representative of the Pope, in a sensuous historical novel, set during the Italian Renaissance, that chronicles the passionate love affair between the artist and his muse. Reader's Guide included. Original. 25,000 first printing.",2005,3.69,371,1050
9781400052370,1400052378,Eat This Book,Cooking with Global Fresh Flavors,Tyler Florence,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nF2PcyCJb0UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects more than 150 recipes, ranging from appetizers to desserts, that emphasize bold, flavorful, and colorful foods that do not require a lot of time or effort to create.",2005,3.92,287,270
9781400052387,1400052386,Tyler's Ultimate,Brilliant Simple Food to Make Any Time,Tyler Florence,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cGxOHgpsgX8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The popular Food Network chef presents a selection of more than 125 sophisticated but accessible dishes, with recipes that range from Crisp Chicken Wings with Chile-Lime Butter to Grilled Eggplant with Lemon, Yogurt, Pomegranate, and Mint, along with taste-tempting new twists on familiar favorites. 75,000 first printing.",2006,4.1,256,3586
9781400052585,1400052580,Everyday Italian,125 Simple and Delicious Recipes,Giada De Laurentiis,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OVscTbz-Bq4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents techniques of Italian home cookery, including more than one hundred recipes and advice on creating dishes for everyday meals and special occasions.",2005,3.95,256,38550
9781400052929,1400052920,The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,,Douglas Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YOr4SQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A facsimile anniversary edition of the best-seller chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent.",2004,4.22,215,4416
9781400052936,1400052939,The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,,Douglas Adams,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D7REPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the journeys, notions, and acquaintances of reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent, accompanied by never-before-published material from the late author's archives as well as commentary by famous fans.",1979,4.22,271,210
9781400054206,1400054206,Godless,The Church of Liberalism,Ann H. Coulter,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wP_dwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Argues that in spite of declarations from liberals that they are not religious, liberalism has its own set of beliefs that display many attributes commonly found in religion.",2006,3.31,310,2681
9781400054879,1400054877,Angry Black White Boy,,Adam Mansbach,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g9xlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A suburban white boy obsessed by the subcultures of black art and life, Macon Detornay turns his love of black culture into violence against the white passengers of the cab he drives, an anger that he channels into the creation of the Race Traitor Project, a movement of self-loathing white people, aimed at organizing a National Day of Apology. Original. 20,000 first printing.",2005,3.55,352,607
9781400062454,1400062454,The Family that Couldn't Sleep,A Medical Mystery,Daniel T. Max,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oKjqwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explores prions, enigmatic brain proteins, and their influence on human life, examining the case of an Italian family victimized for two centuries by a fatal familial insomnia, and the links between prions and various brain maladies.",2006,3.9,299,4386
9781400062645,1400062640,The Secret Society of Demolition Writers,Stories,Aimee Bender;Marc Parent,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yK1lAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Short stories capture the lives of such offbeat characters as a delusional schizophrenic, an egg donor with second thoughts, and a young girl who discovers a portal to another, ghostly world.",2005,3.12,244,126
9781400064663,140006466X,Peony in Love,A Novel,Lisa See,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UXKKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In seventeenth-century China, three women become emotionally involved with The Peony Pavilion, a famed opera rumored to cause lovesickness and even death, including Peony, the cloistered daughter of a wealthy scholar, who succumbs to its spell only to return after her death as a ""hungry ghost"" to haunt her former fianc, who has married another. 175,000 first printing.",2007,3.6,273,36508
9781400064892,1400064899,The Wild Trees,A Story of Passion and Daring,Richard Preston,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IWlU7yaIHwcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The best-selling author of The Hot Zone takes a close-up look at the world's tallest trees, the coast redwoods that grow only in the coastal regions of California, and at the previously unknown ecosystem that the trees form high in the air in the forest canopy, profiling the scientists and researchers that study this unique, labyrinthine ecological niche. 150,000 first printing.",2007,4.08,294,5255
9781400065011,1400065011,There's a (slight) Chance I Might be Going to Hell,"A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble",Laurie Notaro,Cities and towns,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Or9pkgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The first novel from the ""New York Times"" bestselling author of ""The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club,"" this is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity, dark secrets, and one extraordinary beauty pageant.",2007,3.55,320,36
9781400065554,1400065550,American Gospel,"God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation",Jon Meacham,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-v2xMy1jkvYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Author Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, this book draws on the past to offer a new perspective. Meacham re-creates the history of a nation grappling with religion and politics--from John Winthrop's ""city on a hill"" sermon to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence; from a proposed nineteenth-century Christian Amendment to the Constitution to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call for civil rights; from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. At the heart of the American experiment lies what Benjamin Franklin called ""public religion,"" a God who invests all human beings with inalienable rights while protecting private religion from government interference. It is a great American balancing act, and it has served us well.--From publisher description.",2006,3.79,399,1788
9781400071579,1400071577,Scoop,,Rene Gutteridge,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rbxWojccV6gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As Channel 7 new producer Hugo Talley schemes to boost ratings, his team inadvertently lands a huge story, but an untimely Botox disaster for aging anchorwoman Gilda Braun and the personal convictions of a new assistant, Hayden Hazard, threaten to crush Hugo's dreams of news stardom. Original.",2006,3.62,352,450
9781400075485,1400075483,Port Mungo,,Patrick McGrath,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MGpnLJJl20gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Pained to see her beloved brother, Jack, fall under the spell of a flamboyant painter, Gin tracks their journeys throughout the world and eventually shares her home in Greenwich Village with them when their waywardness results in the neglect of their two daughters. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2005,3.32,242,395
9781400075706,140007570X,In the Company of Cheerful Ladies,,Alexander McCall Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0e7IwAGT79kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Precious Ramotswe is challenged by a strange intruder at her home, the appearance in her yard of a mysterious pumpkin, troubles at her husband's motorworks, and a vistor who forces her to confront a painful secret from her past.",2006,4.07,256,1023
9781400075713,1400075718,Blue Shoes and Happiness,,Alexander McCall Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j3WkjIRphXEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Precious Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, investigate local advice columnist Aunty Emang, who may be linked to trouble at a local medical clinic and the cobra that somehow ended up in Precious's office.",2007,4.06,256,21814
9781400076192,1400076196,Saturday,A Novel,Ian McEwan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=D70DmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident on the way to his regular squash game, an encounter that has savage consequences when Baxter, believing that the doctor has humiliated him, visits the Perowne home that evening during a family reunion. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 300,000 first printing.",2006,3.63,289,50926
9781400076581,1400076587,Collected Poems,,Chinua Achebe,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A2BVoA4ky_YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of poetry spanning the full range of the African-born author's acclaimed career has been updated to include seven never-before-published works, as well as much of his early poetry that explores such themes as the African consciousness, the tragedy of Biafra, and the mysteries of human relationships. Original. 20,000 first printing.",2004,3.79,84,200
9781400076819,1400076811,The Disappointment Artist,And Other Essays,Jonathan Lethem,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fzPCLnirSOEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Blending elements of reminiscence and cultural commentary, the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn presents a series of imaginative essays that address a wide range of cultural obsessions, in such works as ""Defending The Searchers,"" ""Identifying with Your Parents,"" and ""13/1977/21,"" about the summer he saw Star Wars twenty-one times. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.",2006,3.63,149,1594
9781400076857,1400076854,Created In Darkness By Troubled Americans,The Best Of Mcsweeney's Humor Category,Dave Eggers,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7xk1qkWXV_AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A selection of top humorous pieces culled from the popular literary magazine includes ""Circumstance Under Which I Would Have Sex with Some of My Fellow Jurors,"" ""Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates,"" and ""The Ten Worst Films of All Time, as Reviewed by Ezra Pound over Italian Radio."" Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2005,3.76,249,1755
9781400077090,1400077095,The Sunday Philosophy Club,,Alexander McCall Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0huwAO0v41MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The editor of The Review of Applied Ethics and an irrepressibly curious lover of puzzles, Isabel Dalhousie decides to investigate when she witnesses the fatal fall of a young man and discovers that he had been probing misdeeds at his brokerage firm, in the first in a new series by the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 300,000 first printing.",2005,3.36,272,15787
9781400077274,1400077273,Yellow Dog,,Martin Amis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n6YWT8inJEEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explores the complex lives of five very different men, including Xan Meo, a one-time familial paragon who suffers a personality change following a brutal assault, and King Henry IX of England, whose life is complicated by his incapacitated wife, his Chinese mistress, and his fifteen-year-old daughter, the victim of a filmed ""intrusion"" because of her future role as Queen of England. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.",2005,2.78,352,1427
9781400077304,1400077303,Titan,"The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr",Ron Chernow,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fn9X6JonsgwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author draws on Rockefeller's own papers to provide a biography of the legendary oilman, capitalist, and philanthropist",2004,4.19,832,13312
9781400077809,140007780X,Einstein's Dreams,,Alan P. Lightman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1oSGmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Young Albert Einstein's dreams are imagined in a book that joins science and art to ponder such questions as the viscosity and flexibility of time. Reissue.,1993,4.07,144,24345
9781400078004,1400078008,For Her Own Good,Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women,Barbara Ehrenreich;Deirdre English,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Swq2AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An updated history of the experts, largely men, who have given professional advice to women makes the point that this advice has been unscientific, arrogant, biased, and generally self-serving and exposes the myths told to women in the name of science. Original.",2005,3.97,410,2056
9781400078394,1400078393,Learned Optimism,How to Change Your Mind and Your Life,Martin E. P. Seligman,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JYxIDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An authority on cognitive psychology and motivation documents the positive effects of optimism on the quality of life and provides a program of specific exercises designed to break the pessimism habit while developing an optimistic outlook. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.",2006,4,319,13231
9781400078479,1400078474,Love,A Novel,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5awnXj68yHwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The epitome of a group of women's ideals about love, fatherhood, and friendship, wealthy hotel owner Bill Cosey finds his life compromised by his troubled past and his feelings about a spellbinding woman named Celestial. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.",2005,3.73,224,7095
9781400078677,1400078679,The Island At The Center Of The World,The Epic Story Of Dutch Manhattan And The Forgotten Colony That Shaped America,Russell Shorto,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2oSJDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A history of the Dutch role in the establishment of Manhattan discusses the rivalry between England and the Dutch Republic, focusing on the power struggle between Holland governor Peter Stuyvesant and politician Adriaen van der Donck that shaped New York's culture and social freedoms. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2005,4.13,384,6593
9781400078745,1400078741,McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories,,Michael Chabon;Michael Mignola,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F61lAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents an anthology of short fiction from the pages of ""McSweeney's,"" with contributions by Roddy Doyle, Stephen King, Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Amy Tan, and other distinguished authors.",2004,3.53,328,939
9781400079094,1400079098,Operating Instructions,A Journal Of My Son's First Year,Anne Lamott,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MiKz2RreyecC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A single mother and writer grappling alone with the problems of a newborn baby presents a vivid account of the confusion, joys, sorrows, and struggles of the first year in her son's life. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.",2005,4.19,251,20993
9781400079179,1400079179,The Da Vinci Code,,Dan Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bWdEKNsaMQEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.",2006,3.82,489,13789
9781400079278,1400079276,Kafka on the Shore,,Haruki Murakami,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-99yJVAsA5gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An unlikely alliance forms between Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old runaway, and the aging Nakata, a man who has never recovered from a wartime affliction, as they embark on a surreal odyssey through a strange, fantastical world.",2006,4.13,467,206089
9781400079377,1400079373,Company,,Max Barry,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UwRwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On his first day of training, Stephen Jones, a young recruit, reports to the Zephyr Holding Building, where he finds a company defined by its lack of clarity, a building numbered in reverse, an invisible CEO, and a crisis over the theft of a donut, in a zany satire of corporate life. By the author of Jennifer Government. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2007,3.73,338,4844
9781400079490,1400079497,The Plot Against America,,Philip Roth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P-Cd6B0BG8IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating an accord with Adolf Hitler and accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic policies.",2005,3.75,391,31270
9781400079612,1400079616,Mulliner Nights,,Pelham Grenville Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nm2y0O1jUCIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An amiable gentleman, Mr. Mulliner entertains the evening crowd at the Anglers' Rest, a rural English pub, with tales of the preposterous, romantic, and thrilling escapades and misadventures of his near and distant relatives. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",1961,4.11,240,1144
9781400079858,1400079853,Checkpoint,,Nicholson Baker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O2KJ8VcssMIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author ofVoxand the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet.",2005,2.89,128,641
9781400083114,1400083117,Blood Done Sign My Name,A True Story,Timothy B. Tyson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V3SKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author returns to his hometown of Oxford, North Carolina, to make sense of the thirty-year-old murder of a black man by a Klansman, and the Klansman's subsequent acquittal by an all-white jury.",2004,4.15,368,2470
9781400095087,1400095085,The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs,,Alexander McCall Smith,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RJplAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of The Institute of Romance Philology is mistaken for a veterinarian, he ends up practicing veterinary medicine without a license, operating on a friend's dachshund with unfortunate results; transports relics for a Coptic prelate; and is pursued by lovesick widows on a Mediterranean cruise ship. Original. 40,000 first printing.",2003,3.69,128,4724
9781400095285,140009528X,Blood on the Moon,,James Ellroy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X7RDDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of the LAPD, fueled by a desire to protect innocence, confronts a murderer who is driven by the same forces when he investigates a series of murders of young women in the Los Angeles area. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2005,3.45,272,1555
9781400095414,1400095417,The Promise,,Chaïm Potok,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n316xM_Jnk4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two young men--student rabbi Reuven Malter and his old friend, Danny Saunders, who has abandoned his Hasidic traditions to become a psychologist--question the ""orthodoxy"" of values and religion in a world cut off from their Hasidic traditions. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2005,4.15,368,10953
9781400095469,1400095468,The Greenlanders,,Jane Smiley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fzgDt_cQ7lMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In fourteenth-century Greenland, a small Norse settlement struggles for survival through increasingly harsh winters, famine, witchcraft, and a tragic feud between the family of Asgeir Gunnarsson and one of his neighbors. Reprint.",2005,3.89,608,1921
9781400095810,1400095816,Before the Frost,,Henning Mankell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eBH9SB-VmioC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Taking a position with the Ystad police force shortly after graduating, Linda Wallander, the daughter of veteran inspector Kurt Wallender, struggles with their contentious relationship before becoming embroiled in the case of a childhood friend, who has inexplicably disappeared. By the author of The Return of the Dancing Master. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.",2006,3.85,375,8140
9781400095957,1400095956,The Brief History of the Dead,,Kevin Brockmeier,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z-BYqGe5gDAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed who remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd fall in love again, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station.",2007,3.67,252,9235
9781400096084,1400096081,"Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman",,Haruki Murakami,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xfWMDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the surreal to the mundane, an anthology of short fiction captures a full range of human experience, emotion, and relationship in works that chronicle a chance reunion in Italy, a holiday in Hawaii, and a romantic exile in Greece.",2007,3.84,362,1120
9781400096220,1400096227,Beowulf,A Dual-language Edition,Howell D. Chickering,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yh_UwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A bilingual edition of the Old English epic poem features the Old English and modern translation of facing pages and chronicles the exploits of the great hero Beowulf in his battles with supernatural monsters. Reprint.,2006,3.43,464,233
9781400096916,140009691X,The Complete Stories of Truman Capote,,Truman Capote,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6bn4wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A compendium of all the short fiction of Truman Capote includes such pieces as ""Children on Their Birthdays"" and ""A Christmas Memory,"" as well as such lesser-known tales as ""Master Misery"" and ""Jug of Silver.""",2005,4.2,320,3842
9781400097029,1400097029,The Sea,,John Banville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1ohQ3OkWiWMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Following the death of his wife, Max Morden retreats to the seaside town of his childhood summers, where his own life becomes inextricably entwined with the members of the vacationing Grace family.",2006,3.51,195,18513
9781400097036,1400097037,Arthur and George,,Julian Barnes,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X5HRox1lZCAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Chronicles the lives of two boys--the son of a Midlands vicar and the creator of the world's most famous detective--as they pursue separate destinies until meeting and forming a remarkable alliance.,2007,3.7,445,11227
9781400098026,1400098025,The Eiger Sanction,A Novel,Trevanian,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2oyxcO7kbfAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"College professor, art collector, mountaineer, and freelance assassin Jonathan Hemlock takes on an assignment that means a perilous climb up the Eiger Mountain with a climbing party that includes his quarry. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.",2005,4.06,336,10094
9781400098033,1400098033,Shibumi,A Novel,Trevanian,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CQK24flPB1IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nicolai Hel uses his nearly superhuman mental and physical prowess to destroy political terrorists and decides to take on The Mother Company itself, a supermonolith of espionage and economic monopoly, in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic thriller. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.",2005,4.22,480,9001
9781400307845,1400307848,Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder on Wisdom and Virtues,,Laura Ingalls Wilder;Stephen W. Hines,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e5gSDAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Using selections from her works and memoirs of people who knew her, presents the thoughts of Laura Ingalls Wilder on the proper conduct of young women.",2006,3.95,113,100
9781401200190,1401200192,"The Invisibles, the Invisible Kingdom",,Grant Morrison,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x5r4PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Imagine if every paranoid fantasy, every conspiracy theory, every alleged cover-up and government deception, every tabloid story you've ever heard ...were true. Discover a world where paranoia is a survival skill and the only hope for mankind is a group of unconventional occultist freedom fighters-The Invisibles.",2002,4.19,288,3238
9781401200688,1401200680,On the Road to Perdition,Oasis,Max Allan Collins;Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VqrUX4kZZE8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Renegade mob hitman Michael O'Sullivan--the ""Angel of Death""--and his older son Michael Jr. rob rural banks to strike back at the Capone gang in hopes of forcing them to surrender Connor Looney, the man responsible for killing the rest of the family.",2003,3.54,96,74
9781401202170,1401202179,Transmetropolitan: Back on the street,,Warren Ellis,Antiheroes,,"An exuberant trip into a frenetic future, where outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem battles hypocrisy, corruption, and sobriety.",1998,4.51,144,10070
9781401202453,1401202454,"John Constantine, Hellblazer: Setting sun",,Warren Ellis,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yM5LJwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"John Constantine, a razor-tongued, chain-smoking, trench-coat-wearing mystic with a penchant for being in the wrong place at the right time, has become one of the most recognizable and enduring characters in modern comics. Featuring bone-chilling tales of horror, magic, loss and regret, JOHN CONSTANTINE, HELLBLAZER: SETTING SUN follows John Constantine as he faces the London underworld.",2004,4.19,96,2505
9781401202521,1401202527,Superman,Birthright,Mark Waid;Leinil Francis Yu,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L8Z6QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reweaves the Superman legend incorporating his established history, from escape as an infant from the doomed planet Krypton to arrival as reporter Clark Kent at the Daily Planet.",2004,4.13,287,9912
9781401204105,1401204104,The Sgt. Rock Archives,,Robert Kanigher;Bob Haney,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MnWYKwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An intense portrait of combat and conflict, this volume reprints the classic World War II adventures of Sgt. Rock and his colorful band of fighting soldiers. Originally published in the early 1960s, these memorable tales showcase the heroic and extraordinary missions of the tough, grizzled leader and the combat-happy Joes of Easy Company. Introduction by Mark Chiarello.",2005,4.56,224,18
9781401204259,1401204252,Arkham Asylum,A Serious House on Serious Earth,Grant Morrison;Dave McKean,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WlAgngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Led by the Joker, the patients of Arkham Asylum take over the building and threaten to murder the staff unless Batman agrees to meet with them, a situation that results in Batman being pushed to the brink of madness himself.",2004,4.1,216,50214
9781401209339,1401209335,Kid Eternity,,Grant Morrison;Duncan Fegredo,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2uFDPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Suggested for mature readers"" -- p. [4] of cover.",2006,3.4,144,659
9781401209414,1401209416,Challengers of the Unknown,"Stolen Moments, Borrowed Time",Howard Chaykin;Michelle Madsen,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6pCIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Five extraordinary people with seemingly nothing in common share the bond of surviving a cataclysmic event. In a world devoid of super-heroes, they will come together and discover that all they know has been a lie--that the world we live in is not the one we believe it to be. To survive they must unite and face the true masters of our universe. It's a world where literally anything can happen, and probably will--as if living on borrowed time wasn't enough!",2006,2.86,144,43
9781401210014,1401210015,Fables: Wolves,,Bill Willingham,"Comic books, strips, etc",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YhtPwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Exiled from their homelands by an evil adversary, various fairy tale and folklore characters, referred to as ""Fables"", are forced to live in a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Those unable to blend in with human society (such as monsters and anthropomorphic animals) live at ""The Farm"" in upstate New York.",2002,4.28,160,17506
9781401210076,1401210074,Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere,,Mike Carey;Glenn Fabry;Tony Luke,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fQLkAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The comics adaptation of Neil Gaiman's acclaimed novel follows the adventures of an ordinary Londoner who stops to help an enigmatic girl and is drawn into a battle to save a strange underworld kingdom--London Below--from destruction.,2007,4.23,224,31958
9781401210618,1401210619,A Kin of Homecoming,,Brian Azzarello;Marcelo Frusin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bRvgAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wes Cutter, a former Confederate soldier, is appointed sheriff of Blackwater, his hometown, by Union soldiers and must find the killer behind a series of brutal murders that may reveal the town's dark past.",2006,3.32,128,501
9781401210823,1401210821,The Absolute Sandman,,Neil Gaiman;Sam Kieth,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K_AitQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects every volume of the ""Sandman"" comic book along with miscellaneous information about the creation and production of individual titles and the contributing artists and previously unpublished graphic stories by Neil Gaiman.",2006,4.65,612,14849
9781401211349,1401211348,How to Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk,,Adele Faber,Communication in families,,"Presents a practical guide that addresses many of the tough issues teens and parents face, and offers advice to maintaining a positive dialogue that fostered mutual respect.",2006,4.11,187,1522
9781401211509,140121150X,Desolation Jones,Made in England,Warren Ellis;J. H. Williams;José Villarrubia,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x2ogAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A former field agent for M16, Michael Jones was the first surviving victim of the Desolation Test, a radically dangerous procedure cooked up by the British government. Jones was intravenously kept alive while being force-fed a steady diet of horrific data and images non-stop as stimulants were continuously pumped into his body--keeping him conscious and alert for a solid year. Now retired from the agency, Jones lives in Los Angeles, acting as a private investigator to the secret underground community of ex-spooks who have come in from the cold, and who have no one else to turn to.",2006,3.94,144,1729
9781401212223,1401212220,Jack of Fables,The (nearly) Great Escape,Bill Willingham;Matthew Sturges;Tony Akins;Andrew Pepoy,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OI-JAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After earning a fortune by cashing in on his own legend, Little Jack Horner--a.k.a. Jack B. Nimble, a.k.a. Jack the Giant Killer--is stripped of his wealth, banished from Fabletown, and tossed into a gulag filled with other renegade fables.",2007,3.58,128,4288
9781401212483,1401212484,Sgt. Rock,The Prophecy,Joe Kubert,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=g7_mPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Rock and Easy Company parachute into Nazi-occupied Lithuania to rescue a young rabbi so they can bring him to America and make the horrors of the Holocaust known to the world.,2007,3.48,144,75
9781401212636,1401212638,Superman,Back in Action,Kurt Busiek;Fabian Nicieza;Pete Woods;Len Wein;Gerry Conway;José Luis García-López,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0Z7BAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A story featuring the Man of Steel being pursued by an alien race collecting Earth's most unique specimens is accompanied by additional stories with such characters as Nightwing, Firestorm, Deadman, Aquaman, and the Metal Men.",2007,3.18,144,136
9781401300463,1401300464,Pledged,The Secret Life of Sororities,Alexandra Robbins,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1WHEwNOApAsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An provocative look inside the world of sorority life offers an eye-opening view of the drugs, psychological abuse, promiscuity, racism, violence, and other problems that are rampant among young women in a typical sorority and analyzes why intelligent young women put up with these abuses in order to become part of a sorority sisterhood. 25,000 first printing.",2004,3.17,384,245
9781401301880,1401301886,There's No Place Like Here,,Cecelia Ahern,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=toYSuQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tracking down missing persons as a way of purging lingering demons about a childhood friend who went missing, Sandy Shortt finds herself increasingly consumed by a growing obsession with understanding how and why people disappear. By the author of PS, I Love You.",2007,3.67,340,1851
9781401301941,1401301940,Jamie's Dinners,The Essential Family Cookbook,Jamie Oliver,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gMDlAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cooking sensation Jamie Oliver returns with a cookbook designed to delight the entire family! estselling cookbook author Jamie Oliver takes his signature fresh, fun cooking style into new territory by putting his focus on the family. Designed to encourage us to eat healthier meals at home and enjoy our time spent in the kitchen, Jamie's Dinners features over 100 new and simple recipes for easy-to-afford, easy-to-prepare gourmet dinners that will get even the busiest of families back into the kitchen. Jamie's pared-down style and inventive use of fresh, uncomplicated ingredients will ensure that even novice chefs can cook up delicious dinners with confidence and ease using accessible, stylish recipes that the whole family will love, such as Farfalle with Carbonara and Spring Peas and Japanese-Style Saturday Night Steak.",2004,4.07,336,4248
9781401301958,1401301959,Jamie's Italy,,Jamie Oliver,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e1sYAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bestselling author Jamie Oliver finally devotes an entire book to America's favorite cuisine -- Italian! Italy and its wonderful flavors have always had a major influence on Jamie Oliver's food and cooking. In Jamie's Italy, he travels this famously gastronomic country paying homage to the classic dishes of each region and searching for new ideas to bring home. The result is a sensational collection of Italian recipes, old and new, that will ensure that Italy's influence reaches us all. Italy has inspired Jamie Oliver throughout his career. His ambition has always been to travel across the country on a quest to capture the very essence of Italian cooking -- and to produce the best and simplest Italian cookbook for everybody anywhere to enjoy. Jamie's Italy is the result of that journey -- and it's a land of plenty. As well as providing more than 120 brand-new recipes for everything from risotto to roasts and spaghetti to stews, structured as traditional trattoria menus, Jamie takes you all over Italy to cook with and learn from the real masters of Italian cuisine: the locals. Far from the standard ""lemons and olives"" version of Italian cooking, Jamie's Italy is a cookbook by the people for the people. From Sicily to Tuscany, it's about the local fishermen, family bakers, and, of course, the ""Mamas,"" sharing their recipes and the tips that have gone into their cooking for generations. But it's not only mouthwatering food that Jamie brings back home: it's also the spirit that makes cooking and eating absolutely central to family life, whichever part of Italy youre in. Bursting with the warmth and hospitality of real family life, this is both a superbly accessible cookbook and a unique travelogue and diary, in which youll find the authentic flavor of Italy and the people who live there. If you love quality food prepared with genuine passion -- youll never want to leave Jamie's Italy.",2006,4,320,7463
9781401302467,1401302467,I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!,And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny,Bob Newhart,Biography & Autobiography,,"The legendary comedian shares a collection of anecdotes from throughout his life and entertainment career, as well as hilarious observations on life, television, golf, family holidays, drinking, his beginnings as an accountant, and other topics.",2006,3.74,239,2184
9781401359294,1401359299,Leadership through the ages,a collection of favorite quotations,Rudolph W. Giuliani,Biography & Autobiography,,,2003,3.95,115,14
9781401359348,1401359345,Being dead is no excuse,the official southern ladies guide to hosting the perfect funeral,Gayden Metcalfe;Charlotte Hays,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B6cqAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Southern hostess shares the secrets of throwing the proper Southern funeral in a hilarious compilation of recipes and humor that answers such essential questions as: Can you be properly buried without tomato aspic? and Who prepares better funeral fare, the Episcopal ladies or the Methodist ladies? 35,000 first printing.",2005,3.86,243,1681
9781401850685,1401850685,Illustrated Guide to the National Electrical Code,,Charles R. Miller,Technology & Engineering,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hoKRpBF-5TEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This updated edition utilizes visualization to present a complete, concise, and easy-to-understand explanation of the ""2005 Edition of the National Electrical Code."" From beginners to master electricians, the illustrated guide provides something for everyone practicing a trade in the electrical industry.",2005,4.06,452,2
9781401903091,1401903096,Mother God,The Feminine Principle to Our Creator,Sylvia Browne,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0ZFDmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author discusses the history of the Mother God in religions and cultures from around the world, stories to reveal her power, and how to petition her for help.",2004,4.04,128,458
9781401917173,1401917178,The Power of Infinite Love & Gratitude,An Evolutionary Journey to Awakening Your Spirit,Darren R. Weissman,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=P6y0mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Would you like to discover your infinite potential for healing and moving through life's challenges? If so, The Power of Infinite Love & Gratitude by Dr. Darren R. Weissman will help you view your life from a new and heightened perspective. You'll learn to unleash your mind and body's extraordinary capacity for healing; and you'll begin to understand the complex language of physical symptoms, dis-ease, and stress. This work reveals the journey of your spirit and sheds a new light on one of the greatest mysteries humankind has attempted to unravel—the subconscious mind. As you read, you'll find that you're learning how to transform and master your life based on these key lessons: The universe is infinite; you have free will—a choice with every experience; everything is interconnected; judgment is prohibited; the greatest power is self-love; you need to embrace life with the attitude of gratitude; you must take responsibility for your life; life has meaning; and much more.",2007,4.11,298,59
9781402200458,1402200455,60 Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong,,Jean-Benoît Nadeau;Julie Barlow,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7h8HkOpytiwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why."" --Wall Street Journal",2003,3.74,351,2107
9781402580352,1402580355,The Wizard's Apprentice,,Jackie French Koller,Audiobooks,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6NeoAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Princess Arnelle ""Nell"" wants to be the next Imperial Wizard of Eldearth. This is going to be tough because no girl has ever been a wizard.",2003,3.78,4,1
9781402713187,1402713185,Treasure Island,,Chris Tait;Robert Louis Stevenson;Lucy Corvino,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NTGDz-HBRBYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.",2005,4.12,160,665
9781402713194,1402713193,The Secret Garden,,Martha Hailey Dubose;Frances Hodgson Burnett;Martha Hailey,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6c9SbUMpQ-8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents an abridged version of the tale of ten-year-old Mary who, after the death of her parents, comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.",2005,4.3,160,1346
9781402714528,1402714521,Black Beauty,,Anna Sewell,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y9gQgJ_YJzIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.,2004,3.95,208,721
9781402714542,1402714548,A Little Princess,,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uQJRYS6oN7YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.",2004,4.19,208,491
9781402714573,1402714572,Treasure Island,,Robert Louis Stevenson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UUl7Zyj841QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.",2004,3.83,213,393
9781402714597,1402714599,The Secret Garden,,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f_9CD4Ox2AEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.,2004,4.13,248,553
9781402714603,1402714602,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,,Mark Twain,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t5yFTpIJYhcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.,2004,3.91,224,1481
9781402718618,1402718616,The Easy Way to Stop Smoking,,Allen Carr,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cN_xAuodABgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the Easyway method for quitting smoking, based on a factual understanding of the harm of cigarette addiction and practical advice on how to successfully break the habit.",2004,4.29,224,3067
9781402720222,140272022X,Making and Mastering Wood Planes,,David Finck;James Krenov,Crafts & Hobbies,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jlgtNgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The classic guide by master woodworker David Finck is back and better than ever, with all-new color photography. It's the best book ever on this popular tool-and it features a foreword by the celebrated woodworker James Krenov. ""Serves as an elegant framework for teaching many of the fundamentals of fine woodworking.""--Woodshop News Small and extremely comfortable to use, wooden hand planes bring machined surfaces to an alluring, silky smoothness-but they can't be bought anywhere. Fortunately, this meticulously complete, photo-packed guide is like two volumes in one, teaching you how to make a classic plane yourself (it takes only a day or so) and how to use it in a refined manner. One of the most respected woodworkers around digs deeply into the art of crafting and working with this personalized tool, helping even the most uninitiated with dozens of detailed boxed sidebars on the basics. Every step in the construction process receives extremely close attention: preparing the plane blank, bandsaw pointers, drift angle, tension, tuning and using hand tools, sharpening with ease speed, and reliability, cross pin location, and gluing up. Handle the plane well to get a good stroke going; and take a look at invaluable planning aids and special techniques. There's no other manual on the market to match this woodworking masterpiece.",2005,4.1,192,24
9781402726002,1402726007,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,,Mark Twain,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pi1gC_BNWtcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.",2006,3.81,305,350
9781402726620,1402726627,Gulliver's Travels,,Martin Woodside;Jonathan Swift;Jamel Akib,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qk8ps8dtZgIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An abridged version of the voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.",2006,3.93,160,724
9781402728112,1402728115,The Book of the Dragon,,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lCaRUdo-rtcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Illustrations of dragons along with information about the fantasy creatures, such as culture and customs, legends, and types of dragons.",2005,4.18,144,357
9781402732980,1402732988,Off to Sea,,Robert Louis Stevenson;Catherine Nichols,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vSY8fGIsJTsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in ""Treasure Island"" during which Jim Hawkins and his friends set sail in search of a pirate's treasure, and Jim meets Long John Silver, who he soon learns is not a friend at all.",2006,4.17,32,6
9781403356208,1403356203,Lila's Child,An Inquiry Into Quality,Dan Glover,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JcBh4L-fj5EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Secular Faith revolves around the friendship of two men, one Christian and the other atheist. The difference in their perspectives, where faith and reason seem to diverge, forms the underlying tension that propels the storyline. When an unlikely sequence of fortune and misfortune seems divinely influenced and leads them to interpret events differently, it produces conflicting judgments on how to react, and their friendship is put to the test. Counteracting the wedge that pushes them apart is the human drive to grasp the spiritual meaning of existence. Because it is not enough to agree to disagree, each is driven to bring the other to his view in order to affirm that it represents truth. Their actions are influenced not by a God who intervenes in the matters of mankind, but by belief of whether or not He does. Ultimately they discover that a man is defined by his actions and not by what he believes to be true. Morality exists to guide actions, not thoughts. The story of Tom Dagney and Christopher Pierce represents the struggle between belief and non-belief within men who, by their very nature, doubt that which they profess to believe, and struggle to understand this dichotomy. How belief translates into behavior proves far more intriguing than scholarly debate about philosophical perspectives. Caring about what people think pales compared to the passions aroused by how they live. This story of friendship, love, envy, tragedy, and redemption gives breath to philosophy and life to the struggle to identify human purpose. Above all Secular Faith exemplifies that, without a doubt, a man who puts aside his faith to serve his friends will always be a better man than one who puts aside his friends to serve his faith.",2003,3.6,600,52
9781403904560,1403904561,"V.S. Naipaul, Second Edition",,Bruce King,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uVZzQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This revised and updated introduction to the novels and non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul will be of interest to students, specialists and general readers. Chronological chapters examine the structure, significance and development of Naipaul's writing, setting the texts in their autobiographical, philosophical, social and political, colonial and post-colonial contexts. New chapters in the second edition include an expanded biographical introduction, and discussion of the recent novels A Way in the World and Half a Life, Naipaul's writings on Islam, and the criticism of Naipaul by writers and post-colonial theorists.",2003,2,240,0
9781403967213,1403967210,EntreMundos/AmongWorlds,New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldua,AnaLouise Keating,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XYXgPjlnYqwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"EntreMundos offers a multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts, impact, and writings of contemporary cultural theorist and creative writer, Gloria Anzaldua. Her work, which is frequently anthologized and often cited, as well as widely taught at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate level, has challenged and expanded previous views in American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, composition studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, feminism, literary studies, critical pedagogy, and queer theory. Here scholars from a number of disciplines gather to reflect critically and anecdotally on Anzaldua's writing, her ideas, and the wider significance of her work. Highlighting some of Anzaldúa's lesser explored theories, EntreMundos challenges readers to re-examine Anzaldúa's writings and theorizing from additional perspectives. The goal is to broaden Anzaldúan scholarship, shifting the conversation in new directions while underscoring the visionary yet pragmatic social-justice dimensions of her work.",2005,4.47,304,15
9781403967923,140396792X,Strawberry Days,How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community,David A. Neiwert,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iO3zwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Strawberry Days tells the vivid and moving tale of the creation and destruction of a Japanese immigrant community. Before World War II, Bellevue, the now-booming ""edge city"" on the outskirts of Seattle, was a prosperous farm town renowned for its strawberries. Many of its farmers were recent Japanese immigrants who, despite being rejected by white society, were able to make a living cultivating the rich soil. Yet the lives they created for themselves through years of hard work vanished almost instantly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. David Neiwert combines compelling story-telling with first-hand interviews and newly uncovered documents to weave together the history of this community and the racist schemes that prevented the immigrants from reclaiming their land after the war. Ultimately, Strawberry Days represents more than one community's story, reminding us that bigotry's roots are deeply entwined in the very fiber of American society.",2005,3.97,288,55
9781403969736,1403969736,Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages,,J. Chance;A. Siewers,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3r_9wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to create a critique of the modern world in his fantasy, yet did so in a form of modernist literature with postmodern implications and huge commercial success. These essays examine that paradox and its significance in understanding the intersection between traditionalist and counter-culture criticisms of the modern. The approach helps to explain the popularity of his works, the way in which they continue to be brought into dialogue with Twenty-First century issues, and their contested literary significance in the academy.",2008,3.59,264,14
9781405151412,1405151412,How to Read a Poem,,Terry Eagleton,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mU7FZ7W-TkoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis. Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and many more. Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.",2006,3.75,182,424
9781405153607,1405153601,Christian Theology,An Introduction,Alister E. McGrath,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tHlY94UWi3UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Alister McGrath’s internationally-acclaimed Christian Theology: An Introduction is one of the most widely used textbooks in Christian theology. Fully revised and featuring lots of new material, this fourth edition provides an unparalleled introduction to 2,000 years of Christian thought. A fully revised new edition of the bestselling introductory textbook in Christian theology Features new sections on monastic schools of theology, the English Reformation, and Radical Orthodoxy Includes increased discussion of women in the early Church, feminist theology, Eastern Orthodox theology and history, and Catholic teachings on the Doctrine of the Church Incorporates user-friendly key terms sections, and study questions Supported by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/mcgrath, containing additional lecturer resources.",2006,4.04,534,1147
9781405161602,1405161604,South Park and Philosophy,"You Know, I Learned Something Today",Robert Arp,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BJq0Z8gtO2kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"If you think Saddam and Satan make a kinky couple, wait till you get a load of South Park and Philosophy. Get your Big Wheels ready, because we’re going for a ride, as 22 philosophers take us down the road to understanding the big-picture issues in this small mountain town. A smart and candid look at one of television’s most subversive and controversial shows, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year Draws close parallels between the irreverent nature of South Park and the inquiring and skeptical approach of philosophy Addresses the perennial questions of the show, and the contemporary social and political issues that inspire each episode Uses familiar characters and episodes to illustrate topics such as moral relativism, freedom of expression, gay marriage, blasphemy, democracy, feminism, animal ethics, existential questions and much more makes you laugh out loud",2006,3.41,273,1067
9781405201711,1405201711,The Faraway Tree Stories,,Enid Blyton,"Children's stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2d93OAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jo, Bessie and Fanny move to the country and find an Enchanted Wood right on their doorstep And in the wood stands the magic Faraway Tree, and in that tree live the magical characters that soon become their new friends - Moon-Face, Silky the fairy, and Saucepan Man. Together they climb through the clouds to the top of the tree and discover the Land of Spells, The Land of Secrets and the Land of Do-As-You-like. There are lots of magical adventures to read about in this bumper 3-in-1 edition.",1987,4.29,583,12286
9781405203944,1405203943,The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat,,Enid Blyton,Cats,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V6aEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fantastic children’s crime story from the world’s best-loved children’s author, Enid Blyton. Lady Candling's best Siamese cat has gone missing. It's another mystery for the Find-Outers! The gardener, Luke, always seems so friendly. He couldn't possibly be the thief... Or could he? All will be revealed in The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat. The Mystery series follows the adventures of ‘The Five Find Outers’ - Pip, Bets, Larry, Daisy and Fatty, as they solve the most unusual crime cases with the help of their dog Buster. Enid Blyton is arguably the most famous children’s author of all time. Thanks to series such as The Wishing-Chair, The Faraway Tree­, The Mysteries, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven, she has sold over 400 million books in more than 40 languages worldwide. Her Mysteries stories have charmed generations of children – and they are as popular today as they have ever been.",1944,3.94,232,1638
9781405203951,1405203951,The Mystery of the Secret Room,,Enid Blyton,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=msjbAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A fantastic children’s crime story from the world’s best-loved children’s author, Enid Blyton. Fatty has discovered an amazing talent for disguise. He fools everyone with his French student act - even Mr Goon! But when Pip discovers a secret room in Milton House, the children decide to investigate . . . What will they discover in The Mystery of the Secret Room? The Mystery series follows the adventures of ‘The Five Find Outers’ - Pip, Bets, Larry, Daisy and Fatty, as they solve the most unusual crime cases with the help of their dog Buster. Enid Blyton is arguably the most famous children’s author of all time. Thanks to series such as The Wishing-Chair, The Faraway Tree­, The Mysteries, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven, she has sold over 400 million books in more than 40 languages worldwide. Her Mysteries stories have charmed generations of children – and they are as popular today as they have ever been.",2009,4.04,217,2258
9781405204668,1405204664,Babar the King,,Jean de Brunhoff,Cities and towns,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t0FUAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,King Babar overseas the building of the elephant town of Celestville and the organization of his community of subjects.,2004,4.18,52,15216
9781405228183,1405228180,Den of Thieves,,Julia Golding,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-Sd0AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The third volume from the heroine Cat Royal, in which the French Royal family flee as Cat takes her first steps as a dancing spy and witnesses the power of the people.",2007,4.21,416,1404
9781405823517,1405823518,The Pursuit of History,"Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History",John Tosh;Sean Lang,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=L9x8ZuQBIR0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Theessential introduction to the practice of history - revised with new features to ensure it is even more popular with students. Tosh is consistently the best-selling Longman History textbook The last 3 editions have achieved total sales of over 83,000 copies The use of photos of significant people and events help make the text more lively New layout and design enables readers to understand themes more quickly",2006,3.45,357,354
9781405835640,1405835648,Spire,Notes,William Golding,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gbpftAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The nation's favourite and best-selling study guides,2006,3.59,135,592
9781406503432,1406503436,Flatland,A Romance of Many Dimensions,Edwin Abbott Abbott,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fI46PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2006,3.82,100,10
9781406506587,1406506583,Lost Illusions,,Honoré de Balzac,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zCOhPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.",2006,4.16,656,6215
9781406904833,140690483X,Nöddebo Parsonage,A Story of Country Life in Denmark,Bentley,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OFJyyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!",2019,4.32,224,8206
9781406914832,1406914835,A Doll's House,,Henrik Ibsen,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6Z6hyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2007,3.71,122,80050
9781406917895,1406917893,"Israel's Shepherd; Or, Thoughts on the Love of God, Manifested in Christ Jesus. in a Series of Letters",,Hardpress,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1q9_yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!",2019,3.72,46,605
9781406922905,1406922900,"The Pronouncing Reading Book for Children, With an Intr., by W.L. Robinson",,William L Robinson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gyiJyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!",2019,3.66,92,2477
9781406934854,1406934852,A Commentary Upon the Gospel According to S. Luke,,Saint Cyril (patriarch of Alexandria),History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MclsyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!",2019,3.59,362,669
9781406942354,1406942359,Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Soceity,,Hardpress,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mB3JrQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!",2019,4.13,192,2
9781406957242,1406957240,The Story of the Life of Lafayette,As Told by a Father to His Children,Mrs John Farrar,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oVd-yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!",2019,3.93,368,29
9781410103277,1410103277,The End of Nana Sahib,The Steam House,Jules Verne,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aBYMAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This story is dated a few years after the Indian Mutiny. A party of men travel many miles in a wonderful moving house, drawn by a marvelous steam elephant. Their many adventures, and the doings of Nana Sahib, the fiend of the Mutiny and his final overthrow, are very exciting.",2003,3.62,276,186
9781411401006,141140100X,The Taming of the Shrew,,William Shakespeare,,,"Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.",2003,3.8,248,454
9781411404366,141140436X,Sparknotes Henry IV,,John Crowther,Study Aids,,"Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.",2005,3.88,552,233
9781411665309,1411665309,Existential Meditation,,Simon Cleveland,Existentialism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8-2zkuSOPWsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this three-part discourse, Simon Cleveland offers a perspective on life derived partly from the latest scientific theories in cosmology and quantum mechanics and partly from analysis on the works of some of the greatest writers and philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book explores topics such as the meaning of time, consciousness and the development of the essence. The author also examines the genesis of the concept of immortality.",2005,4.91,100,11
9781411677319,1411677315,A Million Little Pieces of Feces,The Fake Memoir That's So Much More Fun Than James Frey's,Python Bonkers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gkdqQv-aFnAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"(Selected excerpts and outside reviews can be found by clicking on the blue Python Bonkers hyperlink.) This book may share an alphabetical lineage with the Frey book, but there is no melodramatic redemption here -- it is not a parody of that book but its own entity. As one of the characters from the book says, We're still involved in the commission of the acts that will require redemption -- and those stories are always so much more fun. Bonkers and his bizarre team embarks on a gonzo tear through the streets of Los Angeles and across the pop cultural landscape as well. In his satirical quest for truth in journalism, and life, he must navigate through the many odd tiers of social class, in both the Southern California culture and in his Machiavellian office life and its absurd red and blue political divisions. This is no heart-wrenching tale of excess, its destination is hilarity, so it presses the pedal to the metal and takes no prisoners.",2006,3.55,256,42
9781411683051,1411683056,The Master and Margarita,,Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Xw_WwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Moscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town with a bizarre entourage that includes a giant talking cat and a fanged assassin, all hell breaks loose. Among those caught up in the strange and inexplicable events that transpire in the capital are the Master, a writer whose life has been destroyed by Soviet repression, and his beloved Margarita. Their adventures reveal a story that began two thousand years ago in ancient Jerusalem -- and its resolution will decide their fate. Translated by Michael Karpelson.",2006,4.31,332,489
9781412040556,1412040558,The Radical Right and the Murder of John F. Kennedy,Stunning Evidence in the Assassination of the President,Harrison E. Livingstone,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LD8TUAGSuMoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Radical Right and the Murder of John F. Kennedy: Stunning Evidence in the Assassination of the President Harrison E. Livingstone's major new book, the fifth of his works on the death of JFK, brings together for the first time all of the central evidence demonstrating a domestic Right Wing conspiracy rooted in Texas which assassinated the President on November 22, 1963. The book represents forty years of work. The book discusses in great detail the actual medical evidence and the forgery of the autopsy photographs and X-rays, which Mr. Livingstone first exposed, the alteration of the autopsy report, the framing of the designated patsy, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the substitution and fabrication of every single piece of evidence. It discusses the role played in the murder by some of the most powerful men in the country: Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, and Richard Nixon, as well as the rich oil men and companies who backed them. It then describes the cover-ups by the media, the major investigations over the years, the FBI, and the mind-control cooperation at work in the case to misdirect researchers and the public. The book describes in great detail the people and companies in Texas who planned and carried out the assassination. It names names. One recent investigation in the 90s followed Mr. Livingstone's preceeding work and reinvestigated with the witnesses both he and the official investigations had talked to, but this time took into consideration their documentation and what they had actually said, and in a chapter this is his stunning new evidence from the U.S. government under President Clinton that is blowing the lid off the case. Mr. Livingstone first revealed to the Washington press corps in 1998 that there has been such a secret investigation, and spoke for fifty minutes when the Assassination Records Review Board gave their final press conference. As a result, Mr. Livingstone was on all major TV networks and on the ""Today"" show (NBC) with Katie Couric the next morning. The book also contains the story of Dallas doctor Charles Crenshaw's law suit and the depositions of the editor and writer of the Journal of American Medical Association who libeled him in articles in 1992. Dr. Crenshaw's book about trying to save Kennedy at Parkland Hospital shortly after the shooting came out on the same day as Mr. Livingstone's major work on the medical evidence, High Treason 2, were JAMA's targets, and the depositions contain much discussion of Mr. Livingstone's major impact on the JFK case. This new book is to be followed closely by a sixth book entirely about the Zapruder film, called The Hoax of the Century: Decoding the Forgery of the Zapruder Film.",2004,3.22,615,9
9781413480948,1413480942,A Dracula Handbook,,Elizabeth Miller,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uyp0g5Jz318C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A DRACULA HANDBOOK A Dracula Handbook provides succinct and accurate information about Dracula. Written for a general readership, the book should appeal to aficionados, students and the just-plain-curious. Using question/answer format, the book covers a range of topics: the origins of the vampire myth; the life of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula (1897); the novel, its genesis and sources; the historical figure (Vlad the Impaler) whose nickname Stoker borrowed for his Count; an examination of the connection between Vlad and Count Dracula; the phenomenal impact the novel has had since its publication; and an overview of interpretations of the book. Also included is a comprehensive reading list. Here are some of the many questions that are directly answered in the book: What are the roots of vampire lore? How did vampires move from folklore to literature? What do we know about the actual writing of Dracula? Where did Bram Stoker find his information about vampires? Are there any autobiographical elements in Dracula? Did Dracula originate in a nightmare? What do we know of the relationship between Stoker and his wife? Did Stoker die of syphilis? How did Count Dracula become a vampire? Does Count Dracula have any redeeming qualities? How was the novel Dracula received when published in 1897? What did Stoker himself say about the novel? Why did Stoker name his vampire ""Dracula""? Why did he select Transylvania as the vampire's homeland? How much did Stoker really know about Vlad the Impaler? Was Vlad ever associated with vampire legends? What are our main sources of information about Vlad? Why do many Romanians consider Vlad to be a national hero? Which of the Dracula movies is the best adaptation of Stoker's novel? What impact has Dracula had on subsequent vampire fiction? Why does Count Dracula have such enduring appeal? How do Romanians feel about Dracula tourism in their country? Is there a real Castle Dracula? What are some of the interpretations of Dracula? Is Dracula a classic? And many, many more! Depending on the complexity of the questions, the answers range from 5-6 lines to several pages. At the end of each chapter there is a shortlist for further reading. At the end of the book there is a comprehensive Bibliography.",2005,4.23,200,10
9781413900200,1413900208,Gunslinger Girl,,Yu Aida,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1PgUyf2ebqIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Henrietta barely survives a brutal attack that killed her family, she is ""rescued"" by the Social Welfare Agency who repairs her body with robotic components and brainwashes her to forget her past and become a lethal cyborg assassin.",2003,3.86,175,886
9781413901474,1413901476,Pretear,,Kaori Naruse;Junichi Satou,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RuR4lHrRzjwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Himeno's troublesome life changes dramatically when she meets a young boy who transports her to a fantasy world desperately in need of help from a girl called ""Pretear.""",2005,3.96,180,286
9781414302683,1414302681,Shaken,,Jerry B. Jenkins;Tim F. LaHaye;Chris Fabry,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mEXkmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The members of the Young Trib Force continue their struggle against the forces of evil in the aftermath of a worldwide earthquake.,2005,4.3,384,208
9781414305776,141430577X,The Regime,Evil Advances : Before They Were Left Behind,Tim F. LaHaye;Jerry B. Jenkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mIW6HAbUDLMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The second prequel traces the rise of the Antichrist and the journey of the main characters--including Rayford, Chloe, and Buck--toward the Rapture where the seven-year Tribulation awaits them.",2005,4.11,391,3546
9781414305813,1414305818,The Rapture,In the Twinkling of an Eye : Countdown to the Earth's Last Days,Tim F. LaHaye;Jerry B. Jenkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mjNZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Nicolae Carpathia, the ruthless newly appointed president of Romania, speaks before the U.N., millions of people disappear and are welcomed into the presence of God, but for those who are left behind, only the darkest days lie ahead.",2007,4.15,351,2771
9781414306346,1414306342,Looking for God in Harry Potter,,John Granger,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2GZlm91NNEgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides a Christian interpretation of the first six books, arguing that the series supports biblical teaching as opposed to the practice of the occult, and offers insights into character names, imagery, and themes.",2006,4.13,234,1321
9781416500186,1416500189,The Good Earth,,Pearl S. Buck;Stephanie Reents,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YshbngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.,2005,3.98,418,195372
9781416500339,1416500332,Oedipus the King,,Sophocles;Frederic Will;Bernard Knox,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jn1bNT1eRbMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Each volume in a collection of affordable, readable editions of some of the world's greatest works of literature features a chronology of the author's life and career, a concise introduction containing valuable background information, a timeline of significant events, an outline of key plot points and themes, detailed explanatory notes, critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of recommended books and films.",2005,3.69,144,706
9781416500391,1416500391,Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal,,Jonathan Swift;Jesse Gale,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WWBccP5LebcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Each volume in a collection of affordable, readable editions of some of the world's greatest works of literature features a chronology of the author's life and career, a concise introduction containing valuable background information, a timeline of significant events, an outline of key plot points and themes, detailed explanatory notes, critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of recommended books and films.",2005,3.79,416,2001
9781416501626,1416501622,Dirty Little Secrets,,Julie Leto,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cLOax2a40x8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"USA Today bestselling author Julie Leto launches a caliente new series featuring a sexy, Latina bounty hunter with an appetite for danger and an insatiable thirst for the man she's hunting down: her ex. When Marisela Morales sets out to stop her ex-boyfriend Francisco Vega from skipping out on bail, she has a secret agenda: revenge. She hasn't seen Frankie in ten years, and back then, he broke her heart, choosing his gang over his girl. So when she tracks him down in their old haunt, a hot dance club in Tampa, she sets about seducing him into her trap. Frankie has a secret agenda, too, and Marisela soon faces a tough choice: continue drifting through her twentysomething life -- hitting the same town with the same girlfriends every weekend while struggling to find a job and pay the rent -- or dive headfirst into danger with her ex. Frankie operates in a treacherous underworld full of arms dealers, assassins, and sinister agendas -- a world overrun with people keeping dirty little secrets -- and only Marisela has the cojones to fight her way to the truth. Sexy, sultry, and action-packed, Dirty Little Secrets is a thrilling adventure in manhunting of the most dangerous kind.",2005,3.58,352,440
9781416502043,1416502041,The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Trilogy,,Terry Brooks,Fantasy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jqVsAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the body of a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, an expedition in search of a legendary, ancient magic set out. But none who went ever returned. Until now. For the rescued elf carries a map covered with mysterious symbols only one man can decipher. That man is Walker Boh, the last of the Druids. But one other person understands the map's significance - the Ilse Witch, a beautiful but twisted young woman, who wields a magic as potent as Walker's own. She will stop at nothing to possess the map - and the magic it leads to. To stop her, Walker must find the magic first. And thus begins the voyage of the sleek, swift airship Jerle Shannara. The company chosen by Walker must fly into the face of unknown terrors while the Ilse Witch and her dark allies follow, waiting to strike…",2004,4.26,1260,84
9781416503590,1416503595,If You Dare,,Kresley Cole,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8EIlLgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With If You Dare, Cole introduces a thrilling new romance trilogy featuring fierce Scottish brothers with dangerous lives, dark desires, and a deadly curse. Can he exact revenge? High in the Pyrenees, a band of mercenaries led by Courtland MacCarrick wages war for General Reynaldo Pascal. When Court turns on the evil general, Pascal orders him killed but Court narrowly escapes and exacts revenge by kidnapping Pascal's exquisite Castilian fiancée. Can she deny her passions? Lady Annalía Tristán Llorente despises her towering, barbaric captor almost as much as she does Pascal. Her inexplicable attraction to the Highlander only fuels her fury. But nothing will stop her from returning to Pascal -- for if she doesn't wed him, she signs her brother's death warrant, as well as her own. Can there be love between them? From the moment Court discovers that Anna's prim façade masks a fiery, brave lass, his heart's ensnared, and he dares to defy the curse that has shadowed his life -- to walk with death or walk alone. But Pascal vows that he'll hunt the two, never stopping until he's destroyed them both.",2005,4,349,10409
9781416505495,1416505490,"Have Space Suit, Will Travel",,Robert A. Heinlein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BG3SjVi5AvAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Teenager Clifford ""Kip"" Russell wins second prize in a soap jingle contest, a used worn spacesuit, and, while trying on his prize in his backyard, suddenly finds himself on a space odyssey as a prisoner aboard the ship of a space pirate, headed toward the Moon and a series of encounters with many bizarre creatures and situations. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2005,3.89,276,22399
9781416505518,1416505512,Tunnel in the Sky,,Robert A. Heinlein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NPSP1e8xCNQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A group of students goes through the gate to an unknown planet for a two-to-ten-day final exam in Advanced Survival only to realize, after a period of fighting the elements and wildlife, that something has gone wrong with the gate and what was a brief survival exam has become an endless struggle for life. Reprint. 10,000 first prinitng.",2005,3.93,262,9996
9781416505525,1416505520,Citizen of the Galaxy,,Robert A. Heinlein,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wksN1qnkooAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A youth who has known only the primitive life of a galaxy slave is purchased by a beggar who turns out to be a man with many extracurricular activities.,2005,3.98,288,11269
9781416507772,1416507779,Where Are the Children?,,Mary Higgins Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cWA5PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal -- until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again....",2005,4.02,304,38583
9781416507819,1416507817,Star Trek: Voyager: String Theory #3,Evolution,Heather Jarman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CnaYmzPI1gwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With Captain Janeway dying, Chakotay assumes command of the Voyager, only to be confronted by the disappearance of Paris, Kim, and the Doctor, while the Federation's old nemesis, the cosmic meddler Q, sends two of the missing crewmembers on a voyage into the past, and the conflict ranging in the Monorhan system threatens to engulf the entire universe. Original.",2006,3.8,416,313
9781416508953,1416508953,Wind Rider's Oath,,David Weber,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DjVIPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bahzell of the Hradani is Back! Exciting Fantasy Adventure by the New York Times Best-Selling Author of the Honor Harrington Series. First Time in Paperback. In The War God's Own, Bahzell had managed to stop a war by convincing Baron Tellian, leader of the Sothoii, to ""surrender"" to him, the War God's champion. Now, he has journeyed to the Sothoii Wind Plain to oversee the parole he granted to Tellian and his men, to represent the Order of Tomanak, the War God, and to be an ambassador for the hradani. What's more, the flying coursers of the Sothoii have accepted Bahzell as a wind rider-the first hradani wind rider in history. And since the wind riders are the elite of the elite among the Sothoii, Bahzell's ascension is as likely to stir resentment as respect. That combination of duties would have been enough to keep anyone busy-even a warrior prince like Bahzell-but additional complications are bubbling under the surface. The goddess Shigu, the Queen of Hell, is sowing dissension among the war maids of the Sothoii. The supporters of the deposed Sothoii noble who started the war are plotting to murder their new leige lord and frame Bahzell for the deed. Of course, those problems are all in a day's work for a champion of the War God. But what is Bahzell going to do about the fact that Baron Tellian's daughter, and heir to the realm, seems to be thinking that he is the only man-or hradani-for her?",2005,4.02,570,2714
9781416509370,1416509372,On Basilisk Station,,David Weber,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wfAcswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Instead of remaining out of sight during her assignment to a forlorn outpost, spaceship commander Honor Harrington, along with her vessel, the Fearless, performs incredible flying maneuvers to stop a foreign takeover of a major space station.",2005,4.13,458,32510
9781416509387,1416509380,1635: Cannon Law,,Eric Flint;Andrew Dennis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dpVYaFSYmYEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In Rome in 1635, Grantville's diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, has come to a standstill in their negotiations with Pope Urban VIII, whle an ambitious Cardinal Borja launches his sinister schemes, mysterious agitators are stirring up trouble, Spain's armies prepare for an attack on the Kingdom of Naples, and Frank Stone finds himself in the middle of the trouble.",2006,3.75,420,1299
9781416509646,141650964X,The Farthest Shore,Book Three,Ursula K. Le Guin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DhjM7kxbrLAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When the prince of Enlad declares the wizards have forgotten their spells, Ged sets out to test the ancient prophecies of Earthsea.",2004,4.13,259,76746
9781416509875,1416509879,A Hunger Like No Other,,Kresley Cole,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5GXVvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Kresley Cole’s sizzling series, a fierce werewolf and a bewitching vampire become unlikely soul mates whose passion will test the boundaries of life and death. After enduring years of torture from the vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is enraged to find the predestined mate he’s waited millennia for is a vampire. Or partly one. Emmaline Troy is a small, ethereal half Valkyrie/half vampire, who somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within him. Sheltered Emmaline finally sets out to uncover the truth about her deceased parents—until a powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottish castle. There, her fear of the Lykae—and their notorious dark desires—ebbs as he begins a slow, wicked seduction to sate her own dark cravings. Yet when an ancient evil from her past resurfaces, will their desire deepen into a love that can bring a proud warrior to his knees and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter she was born to be?",2006,4.2,356,54596
9781416509882,1416509887,No Rest for the Wicked,,Kresley Cole,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LRAXxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Kresley Cole delivers a scorching tale about a foreboding vampire who lives in the shadows—and the beautiful assassin determined to hunt him down—in the “sensational” (RT Book Reviews) second novel of the Immortals After Dark series. Centuries ago, Sebastian Wroth was turned into a vampire against his will. Burdened with hatred and alone for ages, he sees little reason to live. Until an exquisite, fey creature comes to kill him, inadvertently saving him instead. When Kaderin the Cold Hearted lost her two beloved sisters to a vampire attack long ago, a benevolent force deadened her sorrow—accidentally extinguishing all of her emotions. Yet whenever Kaderin encounters Sebastian, her feelings—particularly lust—emerge multiplied. For the first time, she’s unable to complete a kill. And when the prize of a legendary month-long contest is powerful enough to change history, Kaderin will do anything to win it for her sisters. Wanting only to win her, forever, Sebastian competes as well, taking every opportunity—as they travel to ancient tombs and through catacombs, seeking relics around the world—to use her new feelings to seduce her. But when Kaderin is forced to choose between the vampire she’s falling for and reuniting her family, how can she live without either?",2006,4.3,356,44804
9781416510871,1416510877,Playing Easy to Get,,Kresley Cole;Sherrilyn Kenyon;Jaid Black,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-shysdG-bA4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three novellas feature a law enforcement officer who endeavors to serve his passions, a ruthless vampire warrior who desires a vengeful valkyrie, and a neo-Viking warrior who spirits his unwilling bride to an underground realm.",2006,4.14,352,12407
9781416513414,1416513418,Sahara,,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_vYfC_A113AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team, equipped with an extraordinary, state-of-the-art yacht, run a gauntlet between a billionaire industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert, Pitt finds a gold mine manned by slaves and uncovers the truth behind two enduring mysteries -- the fate of a Civil War ironclad and its secret connection with Lincoln's assassination, and the last flight of a long-lost female pilot....Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, DIRK PITT will make a desperate stand -- in a battle the world cannot afford to lose!",2005,3.96,576,45
9781416516859,1416516859,Deep Six,,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h96BlUS_vnUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A dangerous Soviet plot looming behind the evil plans of a great Asian shipping family, challenges Dirk Pitt to action",2005,3.89,535,14167
9781416520382,1416520384,Happy Hour at Casa Dracula,,Marta Acosta,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SauUlAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2006,3.58,314,1971
9781416520399,1416520392,Midnight Brunch,,Marta Acosta,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e07VyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What's a girl to do when she discovers she's the main course on the menu? Hip, funny Milagro de los Santos thinks she's finally found love and a home at the California ranch of fabulous Oswald Grant and his urbane relatives, who have a rare genetic disorder that some call vampirism. But Milagro is bewildered when she's excluded from an ancient and mysterious midnight ceremony whose participants include Oswald's unfriendly parents, a creepy family elder, and Milagro's ex-lover, the powerful and decadent Ian Ducharme. What skeletons are the vampires keeping in their designer closets? When Milagro's life is threatened by a rogue family member, she flees to the desert to hide. Instead of solitude, she encounters an egomaniacal actor, a partying heiress, a sly tabloid reporter, and a lavish spa full of dark secrets -- all of which might help her find a way home.",2007,3.8,336,912
9781416520863,1416520864,Oath of Swords,,David Weber,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uw51JLvXZ6gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Bahzell Bahnakson, one of the Hradani, a race that is despised for their rages, thirst for blood, and generally uncivilized behavior, runs afoul of the War God and ends up in trouble involving sorcery, demons, and a great deal more. Reprint.",2006,4.01,576,5453
9781416521075,1416521070,By Slanderous Tongues,,Mercedes Lackey;Roberta Gellis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MRqVdBYNPJIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In the epic sequel to Ill Met by Moonlight, in the wake of Henry VIII's death, a young Princess Elizabeth is confronted by enemies--both human and supernatural--who will do anything to keep her from the throne of England.",2007,3.89,544,691
9781416521105,1416521100,Bedlam's Edge,,Mercedes Lackey;Rosemary Edghill,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RjsiAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill are the biggest names in the urban fantasy subgenre¿where elves, banshees, trolls, and even stranger creatures walk modern city streets, their presence, and even their existence unsuspected by the human inhabitants. Now these two present a volume of all new urban fantasy, with a stellar lineup of the best new fantasy writers, such as Roberta Gellis, Dave Freer and Eric Flint, Diana Paxton, and more¿including two new stories and an afterword by Mercedes Lackey herself, as well as a story by Rosemary Edghill. This is an indispensable volume for fans of urban fantasy in general, and the thousands of fans of Mercedes Lackey in particular.",2007,3.92,384,914
9781416524519,1416524517,Cell,A Novel,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lWIsDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Mayhem and violence are unleashed around the world when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into savage, unthinking, homicidal maniacs, and only a small band of ""normies"" who somehow avoided the technological attack can stop the rampage. Reprint.",2006,3.65,449,163786
9781416524793,1416524797,Angels & Demons,,Dan Brown,Fiction,,"The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno—now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones. Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war. This is the book that started it all: we meet Robert Langdon for the first time, caught up in a race against time to find an apocalyptic time-bomb, planted by an ancient secret society that has surfaced to carry out its ultimate threat: to destroy the Vatican.",2006,3.88,736,2279854
9781416524809,1416524800,Deception Point,,Dan Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BjFZ0UQOUCgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"On the eve of a presidential race in which NASA's budget is a pivotal issue, the space agency announces the discovery of an ancient meteorite filled with fossils deep in the Arctic ice.",2006,3.7,736,4864
9781416527299,141652729X,Controversy Creates Cash,,Eric Bischoff;Jeremy Roberts,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eUxrpGfkew4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The creator of World Championship Wrestling tells the story of the rise and fall of his organization in its head-to-head, no-holds-barred ratings war with WWE (""Nitro"" vs. ""Raw""), and how he helped shape the sports entertainment industry into the billiond",2006,3.6,389,1119
9781416532354,1416532358,Ricochet,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WJtGXnJMoTsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When detective Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the stately home of Judge Cato Laird to investigate a killing, he realises that discretion is key if he wants to keep his job. Elise, the judge's trophy wife, claims to have shot and killed a burglar in self-defence, but Duncan is almost certain she's lying.",2007,3.97,400,14764
9781416532811,1416532811,Sixteen Thirty-two,,Eric Flint,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Cl9pPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE 1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religious war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED.... When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot. At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years' War.",2006,4.04,597,8118
9781416532828,141653282X,Bedlam's Bard,,Mercedes Lackey;Ellen Guon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xVPfAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eric Banyon, a Renaissance Faire musician, must help Korendil, a young elven noble, prevent an evil elven lord from conquering California. Reprint.",2006,3.95,617,2989
9781416535201,1416535209,The Guy Not Taken,Stories,Jennifer Weiner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DJVsRAQRkawC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the bestselling author of ""Good in Bed"" comes a new collection of stories.",2006,3.48,292,21371
9781416535522,1416535527,Santa Cruise,A Holiday Mystery at Sea,Mary Higgins Clark;Carol Higgins Clark,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QsbYE1Ks2BQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Embarking on a Mystery Seminar luxury cruise during the holiday season, amateur sleuth Alvirah, private detective Regan, and their family members find their voyage overshadowed by reports of a ghost spotting, the disappearance of a fan, and an unexpected storm. 550,000 first printing.",2006,3.41,261,4631
9781416537809,1416537805,Dragon,,Clive Cussler,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xT2Um8qAJGAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Adventurer Dirk Pitt matches wits with a group of Japanese nationalist extremists out to establish a new empire as he races against time to recover an atomic bomb lost in the Pacific aboard a B-29 during World War II.,2006,3.92,602,11144
9781416541189,1416541187,More Twisted,Collected Stories,Jeffery Deaver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wXN8vwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A collection of sixteen short works includes a new tale featuring Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs.,2006,3.84,433,1630
9781416903437,1416903437,Wild Magic,,Tamora Pierce,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lV1OPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Thirteen-year-old DaIne has always had a knack with animals, but it's not until she's forced to leave home that she realizes it's more than a knack -- it's magic. With this wild magic, not only can Daine speak to animals, but also she can make them obey her. Daine takes a job handling horses for the Queen's Riders, where she meets the master mage Numair and becomes his student. Under Numair's guidance, Daine explores the scope of her magic. But she begins to sense other beings too: immortals. These bloodthirsty monsters have been imprisoned in the Divine Realms for the past four hundred years, but now someone has broken the barrier. It's up to Daine and her friends to defend their world from an immortal attack.",2005,4.33,362,58923
9781416908166,1416908161,Godless,,Pete Hautman,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gYypDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.",2005,3.6,208,4097
9781416908173,141690817X,The Realms of the Gods,,Tamora Pierce,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=38knAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"During a dire battle against the fearsome Skinners, Daine and her mage teacher Numair are swept into the Divine Realms. Though happy to be alive, they are not where they want to be. They are desperately needed back home, where their old enemy, Ozorne, and his army of strange creatures are waging war against Tortall. Trapped in the mystical realms Daine discovers her mysterious parentage. And as these secrets of her past are revealed so is the treacherous way back to Tortall. So they embark on an extraordinary journey home, where the fate of all Tortall rests with Daine and her wild magic.",2006,4.32,347,45112
9781416909057,1416909052,Amelia's Notebook,,Marissa Moss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=szoDbs92tP4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, also includes reflections on keeping her old best friend and making a new one.",2006,4,40,5200
9781416914631,1416914633,Go Ask Alice,,Anonymous,Young Adult Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2OzLwQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs.... It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful -- and as timely -- today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction.",2006,3.76,213,209572
9781416916321,1416916326,Same Sex in the City,(So Your Prince Charming Is Really a Cinderella),Lauren Levin;Lauren Blitzer,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mDlmAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At last, a relationship book for lesbians that tells it like it is . . . The journey from sexual curiosity to finally coming out can be confusing without proper guidance and empowering role models. In Same Sex in the City, Lauren Levin and Lauren Blitzer provide women -- gay, straight, and bi-curious alike -- with firsthand insight into the advantages and challenges of being a lesbian. In prose that is at once honest and uplifting, the Laurens relate their own experiences and those of the women they interview, as well as offer serious advice, titillating anecdotes, and a positive attitude for girls who know they're gay -- and for those who are wondering about their sexuality but are not yet sure whether their Prince Charming is really a Cinderella. Part confessional, part informational, Same Sex in the City covers the gamut of lesbian life -- from dating to heartbreak, and from hooking up with straight chicks to raising a family. It's the book that millions of women have been searching for -- a relationship guide that will help every woman come to terms with and celebrate her sexuality, whatever it may be.",2006,3.58,250,385
9781416935148,1416935142,Ghost Ship,,Mary Higgins Clark,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AQPUAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"While visiting his grandmother on Cape Cod, nine-year-old Thomas encounters a ship's cabin boy from centuries past.",2007,3.73,32,347
9781416939214,1416939210,Z for Zachariah,,Robert C. O'Brien,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w5Gse7Me1c0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Believing herself to be the only survivor of a nuclear war, Ann Burden greets a wandering stranger with excitement and suspicion. An ALA Notable Book & ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.",2007,3.65,250,1005
9781416939610,141693961X,Crazy Hot,,Melissa de la Cruz,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4oLf1WnMxGMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Eliza, Jacqui, and Mara are just beginning their new careers, but find themselves all together in the Hamptons once again since Eliza's new stepmother needs a nanny.",2007,3.94,271,2478
9781416947400,141694740X,He's Just Not That Into You (The Newly Expanded Edition),The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys,Greg Behrendt;Liz Tuccillo,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-nIvvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"He’s Just Not That Into You—based on a popular episode of Sex and the City—is tough love advice for otherwise smart women on how to tell when a guy just doesn’t like them enough, so they can stop wasting time making excuses for a dead-end relationship. It’s the best relationship advice you’ll ever receive. For ages, women have come together over coffee, cocktails, or late-night phone chats to analyze the puzzling behavior of men. He’s afraid to get hurt again. Maybe he doesn’t want to ruin the friendship. Maybe he’s intimidated by me. He just got out of a relationship. Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo are here to say that—despite good intentions—you’re wasting your time. Men are not complicated, although they’d like you to think they are. And there are no mixed messages. The truth may be, He’s just not that into you. Unfortunately, guys are too terrified to ever directly tell a woman, “You're not the one.” But their actions absolutely show how they feel. Reexamining familiar scenarios and classic mindsets that keep us in unsatisfying relationships, Behrendt and Tuccillo’s wise and wry understanding of the sexes spares women hours of waiting by the phone, obsessing over the details with sympathetic girlfriends, and hoping his mixed messages really mean, “I’m in love with you and want to be with you.” He’s Just Not That Into You is provocative, hilarious, and, above all, intoxicatingly liberating. It deserves a place on every woman’s night table. It knows you’re a beautiful, smart, funny woman who deserves better. The next time you feel the need to start “figuring him out,” consider the glorious thought that maybe, He’s just not that into you. And then set yourself loose to go find the one who is. This NEWLY EXPANDED EDITION includes: a new foreword from Greg Behrendt; a new chapter—providing an honest look at the stages of life after He's Just Not That Into You, according to Liz, including exaltation, loneliness, temptation, and balance; and Greg and Liz address the most frequently asked reader questions.",2006,3.66,208,51316
9781417699674,1417699671,Kristy's Great Idea,,Ann M. Martin;Raina Telgemeier,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UedePwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A graphic novel edition of the very first Baby-sitters Club book capturing the drama of the original in warm, spunky illustrations.",2006,4.17,186,17654
9781419154072,1419154079,The Birth Of Tragedy,,Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t8NWyUHPwc0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Indeed, what is the Dionysian? This book offers an answer to that question: a ""knowledgeable person"" speaks there, the initiate and disciple of his own god. Perhaps I would now speak with more care and less eloquently about such a difficult psychological question as the origin of tragedy among the Greeks. A basic issue is the relationship of the Greeks to pain, the degree of their sensitivity. Did this relationship remain constant? Or did it turn itself around? That question whether their constantly strong desire for beauty, feasts, festivities, and new cults arose out of some lack, deprivation, melancholy, or pain.",2004,3.98,84,32
9781419317262,1419317261,The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,A Novel,Mark Haddon,Autism,,"Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.",2003,3.87,6,589
9781419542206,1419542206,The Scarlet Letter,A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Study Aids,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JgwYvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Scarlet Letter: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic features: *The complete tale of the classic novel, The Scarlet Letter *More than 800 vocabulary words frequently tested on the SAT highlighted throughout the text *Definitions for each highlighted word on the facing page *A pronunciation guide *An index for easy reference",2006,3.39,553,22
9781419950582,1419950584,Harm's Way,,Elizabeth Stewart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rX2NswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Elgin Collier, AKA Gillian Shelby, is the world's most popular women's erotica author. She has wealth, success and now apparently a stalker who may already have committed murder. Sheila Forbes, Elgin's publisher and best friend hires Campbell Harm, head of Harm's Way Security to protect her and find the stalker. It's hate at first sight for these strong-willed, independent people. He thinks she's a """"pornographer"""" and she thinks he's a """"knuckle-dragging Neanderthal."""" Sparks fly from their first meeting.""",2005,3.36,261,13
9781419953965,1419953966,Wicked Sacrifice,,Lora Leigh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dQ7sPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bound Hearts - Wicked Intent By Lora Leigh Control has meant everything to Tally Raines. Control of the office she ran as Jesse Wyman's secretary, and now control of Lucian Conover's office as well. But Lucian isn't content to be controlled by his fiery secretary. As a matter of fact, Lucian thinks she needs to loosen up and let the sexy, sensual woman hiding beneath her cool exterior free. And he will dare her to do just that...With a little help. Bound Hearts - Sacrifice By Lora Leigh Book five of the Bound Hearts series. Kimberly has run from Jared for a year now, sensing the weakness he could be to her future. But she never expected the sacrifice he would make for her. One that will rock her soul, and destroy the very foundations of all her beliefs. Her sexuality, her heart, and all she's fought for in the last six years will be tested when an assignment takes her to Jared's farm, and into his bed. There she will learn the true meaning of hunger, of love¿as well as the deception and the lies that have governed her life for so long. Anything worth having is worth sacrificing for. Kimberly is about to find out if she can pay the price, and risk not only the inheritance that should be hers, but also her heart to the one man who can still the fires that rage in her soul.",2006,4.22,290,2117
9781419954481,1419954482,Ellora's Cavemen,Dreams of the Oasis,Elisa Adams;Sylvia Day;Anna J. Evans;Denise A. Agnew;B. J. McCall,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dudGtAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Allergic to Love By Anna J. Evans Marcus Ashton is a werewolf searching for his one true mate. He's had his share of fantasies about the perfect woman, but none of them involved severe canine allergies or a colleague out to get him fired. Ella Bradley has had enough of controlling men and no amount of chemistry is going to change her mind, especially when she suspects the dangerously handsome Marcus of slipping libido-enhancing drugs into her cocoa. These two would-be lovers have less than twelve hours to clear up a major biological roadblock and a little human misunderstanding, or they may find themselves permanently allergic to love. Blind Date By Elisa Adams Ruthie Ryan has been unlucky in love. Her recent dates have all been complete disasters. There's only one man she's ever met who really gets her - but he's out of the question. He's her best friend. Mike wants more than friendship with Ruthie, but she doesn't believe him. Sick of waiting for her to take him seriously, he sets up a night of pure romantic fantasy in the guise of a blind date. He knows what she wants and he plans to use the knowledge to his advantage. They belong together and he has one night touse every sensual weapon in his arsenal to prove it. Eclipse By Denise A Agnew New Orleans.Halloween. A blood red eclipse will cover this night. . . Dawn went to the Den of Wolves, certain she could save her wayward sister from immortality. She knew only one man could help her-Niall Machaire. The man her sister had loved and left ten years ago. Something isn't quite right about Niall, but she isn't certain what it is. . . What is he? Dawn feared the primal, unstoppable craving she experienced for the gorgeous man. When he saves her life, and she awakens naked in his bed, she discovers his help may cost an immortal price. Genesis By B.J. McCall The deadly Purge has passed. Dr. Tria Anara and four young women are all that is left of the Zyrai people. Without compatible male seed, the Zyrai race is doomed to",2005,3.64,272,129
9781420927320,1420927329,The Trojan Women,,Euripides;Gilbert Murray,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9x4jmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As bleak and agonizing a portrait of war as ever to appear on the stage, The Trojan Women is a masterpiece of pathos as well as a timeless and chilling indictment of war's brutality. Plays for Performance Series.",2006,3.87,80,4220
9781421500492,1421500493,The Art of Howl's Moving Castle,,Hayao Miyazaki,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vF-PPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An in-depth look at the concept and artwork of the movie features a collection of concept sketches, fully rendered character and background drawing, paintings and cell images, along with interviews and comments from the production staff and director.",2005,4.51,256,2762
9781421500904,1421500906,Howls Moving Castle Picture Book,,Hayao Miyazaki,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5FauPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.,2005,4.4,184,1614
9781421500911,1421500914,Howl's Moving Castle Film Comic,,Hayao Miyazaki,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zjHXPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sophie thinks of herself as plain and boring, especially compared to her vivacious younger sister Lettie. Sophie expects to spend the rest of her life quietly making hats in the back room of her family's shop, but as her country prepares for war, she is forced to set out on an extraordinary adventure! After a escaping the unwanted attentions of some bored soldiers with the help of a handsome stranger, Sophie returns home only to be accosted by the infamous Witch of the Waste! The Witch lays a curse on her, turning Sophie into a creaky old woman. Sophie knows she has to leave town, and soon finds herself taking shelter in the moving castle of the dread wizard Howl...who is rumoured to eat women's hearts!",2005,4.4,176,818
9781421501758,1421501759,"Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 5",Hana Yori Dango,Hiromu Arakawa,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7TEsWgcTrbkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When an alchemical ritual goes awry, causing Edward Elric to lose limbs and his brother to become trapped in a suit of armor, Edward begins a quest to recover the one thing that can restore them, the legendary Philosopher's Stone.",2006,4.56,200,12344
9781421502229,1421502224,Fullmetal Alchemist: The Abducted Alchemist (Novel),,Hiromu Arakawa,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HaTxNwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the Elric brothers travel to an old mining town and encounter powerful alchemists, sparks fly in this paradise they have discovered.",2006,4.57,240,2777
9781421502793,1421502798,Maison Ikkoku,,Rumiko Takahashi,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-CpgQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the creator of RANMA 1/2 and INUYASHA comes one of Rumiko Takahashi's most beloved series, the romantic (sort of) comedy MAISON IKKOKU, re-presented in a second edition in its original episodic order, with a ""missing"" episode! Take a trip down memory lane back into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku, the exam-addled college student; Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip; Kentaro, her bratty son; Akemi, the boozy bar hostess who runs around the house in flimsy lingerie; and the mooching and peeping Mr. Yotsuya.",2006,4.35,208,251
9781421503547,1421503549,Beauty is the Beast,,Tomo Matsumoto,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G2-BAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When bubbly eleventh-grader Eimi Yamashita finds out that her parents are relocating for work, she decides to strike out on her own and move into a dormitory for girls. Little does Eimi suspect the exciting romantic adventures that await her there! As winter sets in at the dforms and the boys hog all the electricity, Shimonuki continues his quest to win Eimi's heart. She agrees to a date but they both end up confessing to Wanibuchi. Despite Wanibuchi's commitment to another woman, Eimi can't stop loving him. What will she do if Wanibuchi moves back to Mexico?!",2006,3.79,208,329
9781421504032,1421504030,Bleach,,Tite Kubo,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kzKLxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ichigo Kurosaki never asked for the ability to see ghosts - he was born with the gift. When his family is attacked by a Hollow, a malevolent lost soul, Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper, dedicating his life to protecting the innocent and helping the tortured spirits themselves find peace. Find out why Tite Kubo's Bleach has become an international manga smash-hit! The race to save Rukia from the Soul Society is officially on, and Ichigo and company have come to their first roadblock, a very, very big roadblock. Jindanbô, the monstrous, fez-sporting gatekeeper hasn't let a single soul enter the Western Gate he guards in over 300 years, and he isn't about to change his mind about it just because Ichigo's crew wants to go through either. But, in a where-the-rubber-meets-the-road kind of way, Ichigo wasn't expecting his assault on the Soul Society to be a piece of cake either. After all, that'd just be boring.",2006,4.36,208,7914
9781421504339,1421504332,Battle Angel Alita: Last Order,,Yukito Kishiro,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZGnKPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Beautiful battle angel Alita's adventures continue as she awakens in a new cyborg body and encounters a world filled with bizarre and tormented characters.,2006,4.12,208,313
9781421504605,142150460X,Fullmetal Alchemist,,Hiromu Arakawa,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=syuslnDB9OMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical ""auto-mail"" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his brother and himself...the legendary Philosopher's Stone.",2006,4.57,192,8568
9781421504612,1421504618,Fullmetal Alchemist,,Hiromu Arakawa,Comics & Graphic Novels,,"Barry the Chopper, the psychopathic killer whose soul is encased in a suit of armor, has been captured by Colonel Mustang's troops. Fearing he will reveal the Philosopher's Stone conspiracy, Gluttony and Lust decide to kill him, using Barry's own original soulless body to track him down! Though Colonel Mustang has anticipated their moves and set up an ambush, Gluttony and Lust prove too powerful and easily fight their way through to Barry, who is being protected by Al and Lieutenant Hawkeye. In a terrible battle, a badly injured Colonel Mustang sacrifices all in a last-ditch attempt to stop Lust!",2006,4.6,200,8273
9781421505053,1421505053,Ranma 1/2,,Rumiko Takahashi,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uboVagoLxbwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the adventures of half-boy, half-girl martial artist Ranma, whose transforming gender problems began at the Accursed Springs in China when he became cursed to turn into a girl when splashed with cold water, and back into a boy with hot water.",2006,4.08,182,772
9781421505411,142150541X,From Far Away,,Kyoko Hikawa,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9zyolwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The End is here! The darkness that has pursued Noriko and her tortured warrior Izark descends full force as their corrupt enemies in the government stage a last coup. With Noriko bedridden, Izark must fight alone, but help may come from an unexpected source. Still, even if they survive, the prophecy can no longer be avoided. The time of the Sky Demon has come--and no one is ready for the final revelation. Will Noriko truly be the death of her first and only love? Find out all the answers and much more in the incredible conclusion to this epic manga.",2007,4.5,208,965
9781421506296,1421506297,Death Note,,Tsugumi Ohba;Takeshi Obata,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-opLtgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Target: Light--working as Kira, the newest member of the NPA intelligence bureau, and L--has nearly succeeded in creating his ideal world. But the years of uncontested victory have made him complacent, and he is unprepared for a new attack close to home. With his younger sister Sayu kidnapped and the NPA's Death Note demanded as ransom, Light must travel across the world and confront two new adversaries, each with a very different agenda. Will Light's quick wits be a match for this new challenge, or will he be forced to choose between Kira's ambitions and his own family's lives?",2006,4.26,201,16310
9781421506425,1421506424,Hikaru no Go,,Yumi Hotta,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uDnAnas3BBgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Pro Test Preliminaries: Day Four: Hikaru faces the preliminary rounds of the pro test, during which he must eliminate not only his classmates at the insei school but also any outsiders who want to take the test. One of them in particular appears to know how to exploit Hikaru's weaknesses, and poor Hikaru seems powerless to stop him.",2006,4.22,205,949
9781421506548,1421506548,JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 3--Stardust Crusaders,,Hirohiko Araki,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BT7DugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Violent, strange saga spanning four continents and four generations. Araki's ideas are stretched increasingly thin, but there is still plenty of action and new concepts to sustain the interest of demanding Shounen Jump readers. Each part of Jojo can be read more or less independently, and has its own atmosphere and storytelling/art style.",2006,4.42,208,310
9781421507217,1421507218,Yakitate!! Japan,,Takashi Hashiguchi,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U0fiPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kazuma Azuma is a 16-year-old boy determined to make Ja-pan, the national bread of Japan. Blessed with magical ""Hands of the Sun,"" which allow dough to ferment faster, he goes to Tokyo to further his knowledge and skills at Pantasia, a giant bakery chain.",2007,3.96,208,292
9781421508382,1421508389,Fullmetal Alchemist,,Hiromu Arakawa,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ndMZyQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical ""auto-mail"" limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his brother and himself...the legendary Philosopher's Stone.",2007,4.59,192,7335
9781421508658,1421508656,Angel's Vision,,Yukito Kishiro,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rFHRPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Beautiful battle angel Alita's adventures continue as she awakens in a new cyborg body and encounters a world filled with bizarre and tormented characters.,2006,4.1,208,309
9781421509594,1421509598,The Drifting Classroom,,Kazuo Umezu,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6ME-PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A flash flood turns the desert into a drowned world, and the students struggle to protect the school--and their precious vegetable garden--from the deluge. But just as the first vegetables are ready to harvest, the crop is infested with a strange fungus. Was all their work for nothing? Lonely for home and their parents, the students make a surrogate mother out of a statue...only to find it replaced one day by a new, terrifying idol...",2007,3.94,192,311
9781421510439,142151043X,Bleach,,Tite Kubo,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OGAebm56uGMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cleaning up the afterlife – one spirit at a time! R to L (Japanese Style). Cleaning up the afterlife – one spirit at a time! Ichigo Kurosaki never asked for the ability to see ghosts, he was born with the gift. When his family is attacked by a Hollow (a malevolent lost soul) Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper, dedicating his life to protecting the innocent and helping the tortured spirits themselves find peace. Find out why Tite Kubo's Bleach has become an international manga smash-hit! The rebellion within the Soul Society grows as doubts spread about the death sentence of ex-Soul Reaper Rukia Kuchiki. Determined to save her, Rukia's childhood friend Renji vows to cut down the captain of his own squad, unaware of the terrifying fate that awaits him.",2007,4.36,216,5777
9781421513799,142151379X,Fullmetal Alchemist,,Hiromu Arakawa,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eIQHwDHpjdYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ed and Al come face to face with the ""father"" of the homunculi, who just so happens to be a dead ringer for their own father, Van Hohenheim--a resemblance too uncanny for coincidence. And later, when the allure of immortality proves to be too much for Prince Lin of Xin, he lets Greed take over...literally!",2007,4.59,192,8313
9781421513942,1421513943,Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Novel - Paperback),After The Long Goodbye,Masaki Yamada,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9XMwPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Part man, but mostly machine, Batou is the toughest son of a bitch employed by a mysterious agency known as Section 9. When terrorists come to town, Batou straps on a battery of high-tech weaponry and goes to work. But even a hulking cyborg like Batou has a sensitive side. After all these years, he still mourns the loss of his partner, Maj. Motoko Kusanagi. And now his beloved basset hound Gabriel has mysteriously disappeared. To complicate matters even further, he’s having reoccurring dreams about a son he never had. Combating violent insurgents is one thing; getting in touch with your feelings is totally different. Suddenly, Batou must grapple with the thing he understands the least: his own humanity! Expanding on the concepts explored in the movie, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Masaki Yamada’s novel also stands as a wholly original piece of work not tethered directly to any Ghost in the Shell continuity. Say hello to After The Long Goodbye—highly recommended for readers looking for science fiction with a soul.",2007,3.99,196,23
9781423100188,1423100182,Pirates of the Caribbean: The Coming Storm - Jack Sparrow Book #1,Junior Novel,Rob Kidd,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UkvjAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Teenage stowaway Jack Sparrow and his band of ragtag hoodlums are on a mission to find the legendary Sword of Corts which will grant them unimaginable power, but first they have to survive the power of the sea, vicious pirates, and ancient curses. Original.",2006,3.83,135,1364
9781423100195,1423100190,Pirates of the Caribbean: The Siren Song - Jack Sparrow Book #2,Junior Novel,Rob Kidd,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_7OzAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Still on a mission to find the legendary Sword of Cortâes, the crew of the Barnacle becomes entranced by an ethereal song that pulls them away from their mission, leaving Captain Jack Sparrow to have to find the source behind the dark spell.",2006,3.86,123,832
9781423100201,1423100204,Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow #3 - the Pirate Chase,Junior Novel,Rob Kidd,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vOQguQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jack and company are hot on the trail of the notorious pirate Left Foot Louis, who they believe is currently in possession of the Sword of Cort‚s, but the newly appointed first mate Arabella has a personal score to settle with Louis that could jeopardize the entire mission. Original.",2006,3.89,119,713
9781423100614,1423100611,Pirates of the Caribbean: The Sword of Cortes - Jack Sparrow #4,,Rob Kidd,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AiezGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is it! Jack and his crew have found the Sword of Cortes, but along with it, they’ve also found Cortes himself. And he’s not the kind ruler they thought he’d be. Jack and his crew have defeated a storm king, escaped sirens, defeated the notorious pirate Left Foot Louis, but can they possibly conquer a conquistador with god-like powers?",2006,3.97,122,630
9781423101451,1423101456,"The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: Titan's Curse",,Rick Riordan,Juvenile Fiction,,"When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped.And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared -- a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever.",2007,4.35,312,5432
9781423101680,1423101685,Pirates of the Caribbean: Age of Bronze - Jack Sparrow #5,,Rob Kidd,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iHKINwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The beginning of a new story arc! Jack and company are regrouping after their Sword of Cortes ordeal. They want to forget about magical power and turn their attention towards treasure. But they are about to learn that in the Caribbean magic and treasure often go hand in hand when they encounter a young sailor who can turn things to solid… bronze?,2006,4.05,144,532
9781423103349,1423103343,The Sea of Monsters,,Rick Riordan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y39JAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Camp Half-Blood, the only safe haven for demigods, comes close to being overrun by mythological monsters, Percy must find his best friend Grover, who is prisoner on an island in the Bermuda Triangle, and then set out to save the Camp.",2007,4.24,280,10165
9781423600763,1423600762,Surfer's Code,12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life,Shaun Tomson;Patrick J. Moser,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DgSl4_tFfR8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Surfing has been described as a sport, religion, obsession and way of life. For Shaun Tomson, world-champion surfer and successful entrepreneur, surfing is all of that and more. In Surfer's Code, Tomson shares the life lessons he's gathered from many years of surfing-from his boyhood in apartheid South Africa to the world tour in the '70s and '80s.",2006,3.81,192,109
9781423601746,1423601742,Kokopelli,"The Magic, Mirth, and Mischief of an Ancient Symbol",Dennis Slifer,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lGLAK2CW0WIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A guide to the ancient symbols and sites of the Southewest's most iconic image,2007,3.56,240,17
9781425052935,1425052932,Metamorphoses,,Ovid,,,The brilliant historical epic “Metamorphoses” is Ovid's magnum opus.,2006,,,
9781425910396,1425910394,The Trouble with the Pears,An Intimate Portrait of Erzsebet Bathory,Gia Bathory Al Babel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PlJPmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Picture a Navy biplane swooping low over the Grand Concourse in the Bronx and a father and son being so scared that the former dropped the auto battery he carried. The pilot was Al Williams, the Navy's first test pilot flying over New York. He had met General Billy Mitchell, who had proved that planes could sink battleships with bombs. Williams developed inverted flight and diving from great heights to gain speed in air races a tactic later pilots developed into dive bombing. Williams fought for air power rather than for battleships, a trait that did not endear him to F.D.R. He encouraged thousands to become air-minded and to serve in WWII. He wrote with conviction for air power.",2006,2.55,272,33
9781426423703,1426423705,The Adventures of Sally,,P. G. Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Tu_yc69FKcAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sally looked contentedly down the long table. She felt happy at last. Everybody was talking and laughing now, and her party, rallying after an uncertain start, was plainly the success she had hoped it would be.",2007,3.78,232,10
9781439116982,1439116989,As You Like It,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=31-VznNmDQAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to live homeless in the forest with his courtiers, including the cynical Jaques. Orlando, whose older brother Oliver plotted his death, has fled there, too. Recent scholars have also grounded the play in the issues of its time. These include primogeniture, passing property from a father to his oldest son. As You Like It depicts intense conflict between brothers, exposing the human suffering that primogeniture entails. Another perspective concerns crossdressing. Most of Orlando’s courtship of Rosalind takes place while Rosalind is disguised as a man, “Ganymede.” At her urging, Orlando pretends that Ganymede is his beloved Rosalind. But as the epilogue reveals, the sixteenth-century actor playing Rosalind was male, following the practice of the time. In other words, a boy played a girl playing a boy pretending to be a girl. The authoritative edition of As You Like It from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features include: · The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference · Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation · Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play · Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play · Scene-by-scene plot summaries · A key to famous lines and phrases · An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language · Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play",2011,,,
9781439117019,1439117012,Henry V,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7wxke2Ib4DEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Henry V is Shakespeare's most famous ""war play""; it includes the storied English victory over the French at Agincourt. Some of it glorifies war, especially the choruses and Henry's speeches urging his troops into battle. But we also hear bishops conniving for war to postpone a bill that would tax the church, and soldiers expecting to reap profits from the conflict. Even in the speeches of Henry and his nobles, there are many chilling references to the human cost of war. The authoritative edition of Henry V from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features include: · The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference · Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation · Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play · Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play · Scene-by-scene plot summaries · A key to famous lines and phrases · An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language · Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play",2011,,,
9781439117057,1439117055,Henry IV,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZUyfff17ytsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Family relationships are at the center of Henry IV, Part 1. King Henry IV and Prince Hal form one major father-son pair, with Henry in despair because Hal lives a dissolute life. The father-son pair of Hotspur (Lord Henry Percy) and his father, the Earl of Northumberland, is in seeming contrast; the king envies Northumberland “his Harry,” wishing he could claim the gallant Hotspur as his own. Meanwhile, Hal has entered into a quasi-father-son relationship with a disreputable but amusing knight, Sir John Falstaff. Another strand of action centers on still more family relationships. Hotspur’s stand against Henry focuses on Hotspur’s brother-in-law, Mortimer. Mortimer, who fought against the Welsh magician Owen Glendower, was defeated and captured and has married Glendower’s daughter. King Henry pronounces Mortimer a traitor whom he will not ransom. Hotspur, in declaring war on Henry, sees himself as fighting for Mortimer, his wife’s brother. The authoritative edition of Henry IV, Part 1 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading Essay by Alexander Leggatt The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.",2011,,,
9781439117088,143911708X,Shakespeare's Sonnets,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T_HlKWP8AKMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A bestselling, beautifully designed edition of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, complete with valuable tools for educators. The authoritative edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on the facing page of each sonnet -A brief introduction to each sonnet, providing insight into its possible meaning -An index of first lines -Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the sonnets The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.",2011,,,
9781440650222,1440650225,Henry VIII,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A0lCcyE9dXMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts",2001,,,
9781451640175,145164017X,Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man,Coping with Hidden Aggression--from the Bedroom to,Scott Wetzler,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JIyyid3xRyEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With more than 100,000 copies in print, Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man draws on case histories from clinical psychologist Scott Wetzler’s practice to help you identify the destructive behavior, the root causes and motivations, and solutions. Do you know one of these men? The catch-me-if-you-can lover... Phil’s romantic and passionate one minute, distant and cold the next. The deviously manipulative coworker or boss... Jack denies resenting Nora’s rapid rise in the company, but when they’re assigned to work together on a project, he undermines her. The obstructionist, procrastinating husband... Bob keeps telling his wife he’ll finish the painting job he began years ago, but he never seems to get around to it. These are all classic examples of the passive-aggressive man. This personality syndrome—in which hostility wears a mask of passivity—is currently the number one source of men’s problems in relationships and on the job. In Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man, Scott Wetzler draws upon numerous case histories from his own practice to explain how and why the passive-aggressive man thinks, feels, and acts the way he does. Dr. Wetzler also offers advice on: • How to avoid playing victim, manager, or rescuer to the “P-A” • How to get his anger and fear into the open • How to help the “P-A” become a better lover, husband, and father • How to survive passive-aggressive game playing on the job Living with a man’s passive aggression can be an emotional seesaw ride. But armed with this book, you can avoid the bumpy landings.",2011,,,
9781480105690,1480105694,Metamorphoses,,Publius Naso,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GfuWoAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,CONTENTSBOOK THE FIRSTBOOK THE SECONDBOOK THE THIRDBOOK THE FOURTHBOOK THE FIFTHBOOK THE SIXTHBOOK THE SEVENTHBOOK THE EIGHTHBOOK THE NINTHBOOK THE TENTHBOOK THE ELEVENTHBOOK THE TWELFTHBOOK THE THIRTEENTHBOOK THE FOURTEENTHBOOK THE FIFTEENTH,2012,,,
9781550023923,1550023926,No Cherubs for Melanie,An Inspector Bliss Mystery,James Hawkins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hss8hg6xUYUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Melanie Gordonstone, a cherubic six-year-old, was Daddy's favourite in every way, but her life ended tragically when she drowned in a backyard pond. Inexperience led young English detective David Bliss to attribute the girl's death to an accident, but since that time he has been haunted by doubts about his original conclusion. Now, more than twenty years later, Melanie's father has died, and toxicology reports indicate that he was murdered. Bliss begins to suspect Melanie's sister, Margaret, who lives in a remote community in northern Ontario. But could Margaret have killed her father from half a world away? Bliss's unauthorized investigation brings him overseas to Canada in search of Margaret - and answers. As he gets closer to the truth, he uncovers the disturbing secrets that have destroyed the Gordonstone family.",2002,4,394,8
9781550225402,1550225405,Bite Me!,An Unofficial Guide to the World of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,Nikki Stafford,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h3ENAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Revised and updated to include information about all six seasons of Buffy, this ultimate guide to one of televisions hottest shows also includes capsule reviews of the full first three seasons of the spin-off Angel, with more emphasis put on the crossover episodes between the two shows. With full cast bios, plus bios for all of the new cast members who have become major characters in the latest season, this best-seller is bound to keep selling!",2002,4.13,450,326
9781550373967,155037396X,From Far Away,,Robert N. Munsch;Saoussan Askar;Michael Martchenko,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PCdTKwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Escaping with her family from war-torn Lebanon, Saoussan attends a Canadian school where the language and customs are unfamiliar and sometimes scary.",1995,4.02,33,203
9781550821086,1550821083,Magic Carpet Ride,The Autobiography of John Kay and Steppenwolf,John Kay;John Einarson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n08FAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Autobiography and stories of John Kay and Steppenwolf, the band that made the rock 'n' roll anthem- ""Born To Be Wild"".",1994,4.1,372,10
9781551052700,1551052709,Ecuador Nature Guide,Southwest Forests : Sozoranga Forest Project,Christopher D. Jiggins,Botanique,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1JjbGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The guide provides information on 76 species of birds, plants, mammals and insects of Ecuador. Each species description is accompanied by an illustration as well as information on ecology, local names and uses. Profits from the sale of this guide will go",2000,5,96,1
9781551111728,1551111721,Lord Jim,,Joseph Conrad,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=23H0nIJtLEkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"One of Joseph Conrad’s greatest novels, Lord Jim brilliantly combines adventure and analysis. Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In the wake of his disgrace he travels to the exotic region of Patusan, and as the agent at this remote trading post comes to be revered as ‘Tuan Jim.’ Here he finds a measure of serenity and respect within himself. However, when a gang of thieves arrives on the island, the memory of his earlier disgrace comes again to the fore, and his relationship with the people of the island is jeopardized. This new Broadview edition is based on the first British edition of 1900, which provides the historical basis for the accompanying critical and contextual discussions. The appendices include a wide variety of Conrad’s source material, documents concerning the scandal of the Jeddah, along with other materials such as a substantial selection of early critical comments.",2000,3.62,455,21233
9781551112237,155111223X,Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,,Lewis Carroll,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HJ8Wg0u7CUgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"First published in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July of 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a surreal world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside-down with their mind-boggling logic and word play, and their fantastic parodies. Carroll's fable illustrates his masterful ability to weave logic with nonsense in a tale that continues to delight all ages. While this great classic is widely available, the Broadview edition is unique. Richard Kelly combines Alice's Adventures in Wonderland not with the later (and largely distinct) work Through the Looking Glass but rather with Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Lewis Carroll's first version of the story. Readers are thus able to trace the literary revisions, and to compare Caroll's own illustrations in the original with the famous John Tenniel illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Among the many other materials included in the Broadview Literary Texts edition are a substantial selection of early reviews, selections from Carroll's diaries and correspondence, Carroll's early nonsense poems, and the originals of the poems parodied in his text.",2000,4.01,356,72
9781551114125,1551114127,The Governess,"The Governess ; or, The Little Female Academy",Sarah Fielding,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zHAx97IJgKEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Published in 1749, the story of Mrs. Teachum and the nine pupils who make up her “little female academy” is widely recognized as the first full-length novel for children, and the first to be aimed specifically at girls. The daily experiences of Mrs. Teachum’s charges are interwoven with fables and fairy tales illustrating the book’s underlying principles, which draw on contemporary theories of education and virtue. As central to the history of the novel as it is to the development of children’s literature, The Governess is a pioneering work by one of the eighteenth century’s most respected women writers. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that places The Governess in its cultural and literary context; appendices include examples of eighteenth-century educational literature and selections from Fielding’s correspondence.",2005,2.62,242,119
9781551116440,1551116448,The Woman in White,,Wilkie Collins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VcVgyYHd3OMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"As the inscription on his tombstone reveals, Wilkie Collins wanted to be remembered as the “author of The Woman in White,” for it was this novel that secured his reputation during his lifetime. The novel begins with a drawing teacher’s eerie late-night encounter with a mysterious woman in white, and then follows his love for Laura Fairlie, a young woman who is falsely incarcerated in an asylum by her husband, Sir Percival Glyde, and his sinister accomplice, Count Fosco. This edition returns to the original text that galvanized England when it was published in serial form in All the Year Round magazine in 1860. Three different prefaces Collins wrote for the novel, as well as two of his essays on the book’s composition, are reprinted, along with nine illustrations. The appendices include contemporary reviews, along with essays on lunacy, asylums, mesmerism, and the rights of women.",2006,3.99,696,118
9781551117225,1551117223,The Hound of the Baskervilles,"Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, with ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band""",Arthur Conan Doyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zxw4XAdXGRIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901–02) is Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated Sherlock Holmes adventure. At the end of the yew tree path of his ancestral home, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead. Close by are the footprints of a gigantic hound. Called to investigate, Holmes seems to face a supernatural foe. In the tense narration of the detective’s efforts to solve the crime, Conan Doyle meditates on late Victorian and early twentieth-century ideas of ancestry and atavism, the possible biological determination of criminals, the stability of the British landed classes, and the place of the supernatural. Historical documents included with this fully-annotated Broadview edition help contextualize the novel’s debates and reveal its cultural and literary significance as a supreme instance of early detective fiction. Also included is the Conan Doyle short story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band.”",2006,4.1,300,1347
9781551665313,155166531X,Tiger Prince,,Erin St. Claire;Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p0TC9xrmtIAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tiger Prince by Sandra Brown released on Sep 24, 1999 is available now for purchase.",1999,3.78,304,2235
9781551665719,1551665719,Shadows at Sunset,,Anne Stuart,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nkRCvWAooAcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The house on Sunset Blvd. has witnessed everything from the infamous murder-sucide of a 50s starlet and her lover, to the drug-fueled commune in the 60s, to the anguish of its present owner.",2000,3.63,384,755
9781551666723,1551666723,The Thrill of Victory,,Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C2xVHuhz6TQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Finding everything she has worked for in jeopardy and her entire life hanging in the balance of a decision that she has only two weeks to make, Stevie Corbett puts her fate into the hands of journalist Judd Mackie, who is determined to expose her secrets to the world until he discovers the truth. Originally in paperback. 200,000 first printing.",2003,3.6,240,1051
9781551667430,1551667436,Strange Bedpersons,,Jennifer Crusie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Sq6qd12BjP4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When she agrees to accompany her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson, a conservative Republican lawyer who is desperate to make partner, on a weekend business trip as his fiance, Tess Newhart, an outspoken woman of the world, discovers that opposites really do attact. Reprint.",1994,3.5,256,7696
9781551668512,1551668513,The Wedding Night,,Jayne Ann Krentz,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bDZVXImZNg8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After her marriage to Owen Sutherland, a union she hopes will end the rivalry between their families, Angie Townsend finds her honeymoon shattered by a mysterious caller who informs her that her marriage is nothing more than a clever corporate raid devised by her new husband.",2001,3.46,256,775
9781551669045,1551669048,Warrior,,Elizabeth Lowell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nYaKPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When ex-CIA agent Nevada Blackthorn, haunted by his painful past, is rescued by gorgeous wildlife biologist Eden Summers, he finds his life forever changed by this spirited woman who helps him open his heart to the possibilities of love. Reissue.",2002,3.92,256,845
9781551669519,155166951X,What the Lady Wants,,Jennifer Crusie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wRhEmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A hilarious modern romance follows disillusioned private investigator Mitch Peabody as he finds himself falling head over heels in love with his sexy new employer, Mae Sullivan, who has hired him to find the men who murdered her uncle. Reprint.",2002,3.63,256,5626
9781553100669,1553100662,Dancing on Air,,Frances Oliver,Fiction,,,2004,4.12,157,8
9781553377528,1553377524,Suki's Kimono,,Chieri Uegaki;Stephane Jorisch,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EorigOkjLdoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"On her first day of first grade, despite the objections of her older sisters, Suki chooses to wear her beloved Japanese kimono to school because it holds special memories of her grandmother's visit last summer.",2003,4.18,32,601
9781553651529,1553651529,Terry,Terry Fox and His Marathon of Hope,Douglas Coupland,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZYO7AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The loving portrait of a Canadian cancer victim who ran across Canada to raise money for cancer treatment recalls his loss of a leg to the disease and his subsequent run, with a prothesis, which ultimately raised $24 million. Original.",2005,4.34,176,254
9781555533076,1555533078,"Louisa May Alcott on Race, Sex, and Slavery",,Louisa May Alcott,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6g6kwxBDzxoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Louisa May Alcott championed women's causes in gothic tales of interracial romance and in newspaper articles published during the Civil War. Drawn from her service as a nurse in a Union hospital as well as from her radical abolitionist activities, these writings allow Alcott to comment boldly on unstable racial identities, interracial sex and marriage, armed slave rebellion, war, and the links between the bondage of slaves and the conditions of white womanhood. A comprehensive introduction situates Alcott and her family within the network of antebellum reformers and unmasks her personal and literary struggles with the boundaries of race, sex, and class.",1997,3.94,160,18
9781555603137,1555603130,The Blood Wood,,Rob Cruz;Roger Gaudreau;Jennifer Hartshorn;Ian Lemke;Diane Piron-Gelman;Louis J. Prosperi;Sharon Turner Mulvihill,Games & Activities,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rJFrwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1997,3.69,152,32
9781555837235,1555837239,Stir-fry,A Novel,Emma Donoghue,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-wpAPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Exhilerating...irreverent, and extremely funny, - Ms, Seventeen and sure of nothing, Maria has left her parents' small-town grocery for university life in Dublin. An ad in the Student Union-2 FEMALE SYMBOL] seek flatmate. No bigots.-leads Maria to a home with warm Ruth and wickedly funny Jael, students who are older and more fascinating than she'd expected. A poignant, funny, and sharply insightful coming-of-age story, Stir-fry is a lesbian novel that explores the conundrum of desire arising in the midst of friendship and probes feminist ideas of sisterhood and nonpossessiveness. Emma Donoghue is the author of the forthcoming Slammerkin, Hood and Kissing the Witch . Born in Dublin, she now lives in Ontario, Canada. Stir-fry was her first novel. Also Available by Emma Donoghue Hood TP 11.95, 1-55583-453-1 CUSA",1994,3.58,240,1521
9781555916220,1555916228,The Gonzo Way,,Anita Thompson,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8MvUl2GH0KcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The writer Tom Wolfe once described Hunter S. Thompson as the finest comic writer of the 20th century. Thompson was this and more, an apt observer of the American scene for almost four decades, the founding father of Gonzo journalism, and an inspiration to many. Through his writings, Thompson examined the loss of American innocence in the latter part of the 20th century, all the while holding up those deserving of contempt for closer examination and espousing (and exemplifying) what it meant to be a citizen at the end of the American Century. With his death, a vacuum was created that remains to be filled. Anita Thompson explores the legacy of her late husband as a writer and as a citizen, through her own words and through interviews with those who knew him best including Johnny Depp, Ed Bradley, Doug Brinkley, Jack Nicholson, Bill Murray, Senator George McGovern, and others.",2007,3.95,112,1017
9781555973032,1555973035,Some Ether,Poems,Nick Flynn,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1JxaAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Winner of a ""Discovery""/The Nation Award Winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry Some Ether is one of the more remarkable debut collections of poetry to appear in America in recent memory. As Mark Doty has noted, ""these poems are more than testimony; in lyrics of ringing clarity and strange precision, Flynn conjures a will to survive, the buoyant motion toward love which is sometimes all that saves us. Some Ether resonates in the imagination long after the final poem; this is a startling, moving debut.""",2000,4.16,85,1648
9781556432460,1556432461,Your Inner Physician and You,Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release,John E. Upledger,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sOZAMsCiz44C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The ""inner physician"" is that part of the psyche that can heal--when one becomes aware of the psycho-emotional issues that come with pain. Dr. Upledger describes his methods through personal accounts such as that from Mary Ellen Clark, the Olympic diver, whom he cured of dizziness.",1997,4.09,240,234
9781556434242,1556434243,A Saucer of Loneliness,,Theodore Sturgeon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=amWBa48lb6AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Kurt Vonnegut cites Theodore Sturgeon as the inspiration for his character Kilgore Trout. This volume includes 12 stories from 1953, considered Sturgeon's golden era. Among them are such favorites as the title story, ""The Silken-Swift,"" ""A Way of Thinking,"" ""The Dark Room,"" ""The Clinic,"" and ""The World Well Lost,"" a story known for being very ahead of its time in advocating gay rights.",2002,4.41,400,137
9781556434303,1556434308,Healing with Whole Foods,Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition,Paul Pitchford,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GddLDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A guide to health, diet, alternative medicine, and natural food presentation teaches readers how to apply Chinese medicine and the five-element theory to a contemporary diet and treat illness and nervous disorders through food choices.",2002,4.4,784,2870
9781556434952,1556434952,Empire 2.0,A Modest Proposal for a United States of the West,Régis Debray,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9Lzerx2k-G4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"As citizens of newly-admitted states in the larger US of W, hitherto politically impotent Europeans will be able to vote in the only elections that really matter.""--Jacket.",2004,4.75,144,4
9781556523984,155652398X,James Dean,The Mutant King : a Biography,David Dalton,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CfiE4x4V_PAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the style of rock 'n' roll's politics of delinquency. The only book to fully show how deliberately and carefully Dean crafted his own image and performances, and the product of still unequalled research, vivid writing, intimate photographs, and profound meditation, James Dean: The Mutant King has become almost as legendary as its subject.",2001,4.07,384,476
9781556525131,1556525133,Women & Cats,The History of a Love Affair,Michelle Lovric,Pets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wszOPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""This anthology of quotations, letters, poems, stories, and essay excerpts—delicately and elegantly illustrated with small silhouettes and old tinted photographs in sepia and pink—celebrates the love affair between women and cats. Insightful gems include “Of course, every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room”; “Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea”; and “Flirting, falling, and yawning anywhere, / Like women who want no contract.” Included are selections from Colette, Mark Twain, Eleanor Glyn, Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Amy Lowell, Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rosa Luxemburg, and Hedda Hopper.""",2003,4.23,66,13
9781556526183,1556526180,Nine Coaches Waiting,,Mary Stewart;Sandra Brown,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nntDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Charmed in spite of herself, English governess Linda Martin is baffled by the increasingly strange behavior of the de Valmys.",2006,4.02,342,10282
9781556526442,155652644X,The Winthrop Woman,,Anya Seton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2KOKPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A biographical novel of Elizabeth Winthrop, a courageous woman who defied Puritan conventions and beliefs.",2006,4.08,588,4133
9781556615429,1556615426,Angel of the Outback,,Patricia Hickman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EzkFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rachel Langley and Betsy Brady have fulfilled a seven-year transportation sentence in Australia. Weakened through years of servitude, they soon realize that freedom is a constant battle for survival. When Betsy is mysteriously murdered, Rachel flees for her own safety and finds refuge with Reverend Whitley. Her intent is to find Betsy's murderer but her own life is in grave danger.",1995,3.27,319,48
9781557046765,155704676X,The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,The Filming of the Douglas Adams Classic,Robbie Stamp;Paul Simpson,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gPlab4GsdLAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the movie made from the cult science fiction novel and provides still photographs, production design sketches, costume designs, and commentaries by the cast and crew.",2005,3.9,184,147
9781557046864,1557046867,The Sideways Guide to Wine and Life,,Alexander Payne;Jim Taylor,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3MktAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A lighthearted companion to the best-reviewed film of the year—a pocket-sized illustrated guide to the locations and wines featured in Sideways including maps, winery listings, tips for drinking wine, and Oscar®-winning dialogue. Yesterday, you didn't know Pinot Noir from film noir. Now, after seeing the marvelous movie Sideways, you are living the life uncorked, and this is the perfect little book to celebrate your own sideways journey. Inside you will find: Wine recommendations, tips for tasting wine, and a list of bottles featured in the film Places and wineries to visit in the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County that were featured in the movie Excerpts from the Oscar®-winning screenplay Web sites and information for planning your own trip. This hilarious and useful guide is fully illustrated in color with movie stills, location stills, and delightful drawings by artist Robert Neubecker, who created the film's poster. Originally created as a specialty item for wineries and tourist sites, The Sideways Guide to Wine and Life has been featured widely in articles (USA Today, The New York Times, and Wine Spectator) about the Sideways phenomenon and the surge in Pinot Noir's popularity across the country. Now available in an expanded trade edition for the first time, this is a terrific gift and countertop book year round.",2005,4.43,64,7
9781557047410,1557047413,The Namesake,A Portrait of the Film,Jhumpa Lahiri;Mira Nair,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nClcAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Original essays and glorious photography, stunningly designed in this unique moviebook from the director of Monsoon Wedding and Vanity Fair—a Fox Searchlight release. In her essay ""Writing and Film,"" the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri writes about the experience of seeing her novel ""transposed"" from paper to film. ""Its essence remains, but it inhabits a different realm and must, like a transposed piece of music, conform to a different set of rules. . . . To have someone as devoted and as gifted as Mira reinvent my novel . . . has been a humbling and thrilling passage."" Mira Nair's essay, ""Photographs as Inspiration,"" begins with the provocative comment: ""If it weren't for photography, I wouldn't be a filmmaker."" She explains how photographs help her crystallize the visual style of her films and which particular photos influenced her vision for The Namesake. These two essays, written exclusively for this Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook, introduce an amazing panoply of images of people and places shot mainly in New York and Calcutta during the making of the movie, accented by excerpts from Lahiri's bestselling novel. Six Indian and American photographers' works are represented. Brilliantly illuminating the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations, The Namesake tells the story of the Ganguli family, whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to adapt to a new world while remembering the old. The couple's firstborn, Gogol, and sister Sonia grow up amid these divided loyalties, struggling to find their own identity without losing their heritage. Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Superman Returns) stars as Gogol.",2006,4.05,144,621
9781557091031,155709103X,George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour,,George Washington,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2_UIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Copied out by hand as a young man aspiring to the status of Gentleman, the 110 precepts which make up this work were based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595. The first English edition of these rules was available in Francis Hawkins' Youths Behavior, or Decency in Conversation Amongst Men, which appeared in 1640, and it is from this work that George Washington seems to have copied. However much he may have simplified them, these precepts had a strong influence on Washington, who aimed to always live by them. The rules focus on self-respect and respect for others through details of etiquette and offer pointers on such issues as how to dress, walk, eat in public, and address one's superiors.",1989,4.1,30,758
9781557092632,155709263X,The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk,,Carolyn Keene,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XHoBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A trunk that Nancy receives from her father for a trip to Buenos Aires becomes the center of a mystery.,2001,3.89,228,4125
9781557092649,1557092648,The Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion,,Carolyn Keene,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dvQLAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This eighteenth book in the Nancy Drew series was originally published in 1941.,2003,3.88,215,4787
9781557280244,155728024X,The Apple that Astonished Paris,Poems,Billy Collins,American poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6mwhkMv4K9kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Billy Collins strikes at the deepest concerns of the human heart and mind. His metaphysical wit and cosmic puzzlement, expressed always in a clean, direct, unpretentious idiom, will touch every reader who is fascinated by the play of a truly original imagination and a disarming way of seeing the world.",1988,4.2,61,530
9781557283306,1557283303,Keeping Faith,Memoirs of a President,Jimmy Carter,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iVYYdZ6pVjwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Keeping Faith is Jimmy Carter's account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Office. Mr. Carter writes candidly about the crises that confronted him during his tenure as President of the United States and Leader of the free world, from 1977 to 1981. ""The President who cared"" details his anguish over the hostage crisis in Iran, his triumph against all odds at Camp David, his secret communications with China's Deng Xiaoping, and his dramatic and revealing encounters with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and other world leaders. Mr. Carter also shares glimpses of his private world - his feelings of being an outsider in Washington, his relationship with Rosalynn, his pain about the attacks on his friends and his brother Billy. Captivatingly written, this rich historical document delineates a morally responsible president who has continued to earn respect and admiration as a world statesman and advocate for the poor and repressed of all nations.",1995,3.77,640,231
9781557344038,1557344035,A Guide for Using a Wrinkle in Time in the Classroom,,John Carratello;Patty Carratello,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JDsr2Oxn-3YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Literature units with sample lesson plans, vocabulary lists, quizzes, hands-on projects, cooperative learning activities, cross-curriculum connections, and book report ideas.",1991,3.94,48,17
9781557424297,1557424292,The Picture of Dorian Gray,,Oscar Wilde,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8_d2vgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A young man of rare beauty, Dorian Gray is the very picture of the ideal British gentleman. When he is drawn into a life of decadence and lustful indulgence, he discovers a painting begins to bear new marks for each of his sins, leaving him as youthful and attractive as ever. And so begins Dorian's descent into a personal hell of lies, murder, and depravity.",2005,4.07,187,329
9781557830418,155783041X,"The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, the Screenplay",,Charles McKeown;Terry Gilliam,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6_ln59XY5VYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The complete screenplay and credits with dozens of photos from the 1998 film. ""A carnival! A wonderland! A weekend with nine Friday nights! Terry Gilliam's lavish dreams are beyond those of mere mortals."" - Harlan Ellison",1989,3.48,238,10
9781557831576,1557831572,The Reduced Shakespeare Company's the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged),,Jess Borgeson;Adam Long;Daniel Singer,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j9yF5S7lkzMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"(Applause Books). The complete script to the critically acclaimed play. ""Shakespeare as written by Reader's Digest , acted by Monty Python, and performed at the speed of the minute waltz."" L.A. Herald",1994,4.46,137,7970
9781557832450,1557832455,Spring's Awakening,Tragedy of Childhood,Frank Wedekind,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0fuhI9YwsdIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"(Applause Books). Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is killed by abortion pills. The young Moritz, terrorized by the world around him, and especially by his teachers, shoots himself. The ending seems likely to be the suicide of Moritz's friend, Melchior, but in a confrontation with a mysterious stranger (the famous Masked Man) he finally manages to shed his illusions and face the consequences.",1995,3.81,126,3235
9781558321250,155832125X,Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue Sauces,"175 Make-Your-Own Sauces, Marinades, Dry Rubs, Wet Rubs, Mops and Salsas",Paul Kirk,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5bri6MkeZuYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The author offers up 175 recipes that impart bold zesty flavor to every cut of meat!,1997,3.9,272,52
9781558321823,1558321829,Smart Love,The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person,Martha Heineman Pieper;William Joseph Pieper,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9hc5NgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Challenging traditional child-care methods, two professionals offer a revolutionary approach to dealing with the most difficult discipline problems.",2001,3.86,272,98
9781558322455,1558322450,Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook,,Beth Hensperger;Julie Kaufmann,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cDNRHs_f5P8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Not Your Mother's guide to 350 recipes for getting the most out of today's slow cooker.,2004,3.78,520,5651
9781558492769,1558492763,Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique,"The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism",Daniel Horowitz,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=szJCHwWNwp8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This biography of Betty Friedan traces the development of her feminist outlook from her childhood in Illinois to her marriage. Horowitz offers a reading of The Feminine Mystique and argues that the roots of Friedan's feminism run deeper than she has led us to believe.,2000,3.59,384,58
9781558749603,1558749608,The Complete ACOA Sourcebook,"Adult Children of Alcoholics at Home, at Work and in Love",Janet G. Woititz,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7o-jAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A one-volume collection of Dr. Woititz's three previous works: 'Adult Children of Alcoholics', 'Struggle for Intimacy', and 'The Self-Sabotage Syndrome'.",2002,4.06,500,137
9781559210409,1559210400,Three Daughters of Madame Liang,,Pearl Sydenstricker Buck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Az1YPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Restaurant owner Madam Liang, having sent her three daughters to America to be educated and to escape the coming Communist revolution in China, refuses herself to flee to safety even though her decision could end her life.",1969,3.88,315,1233
9781559210867,1559210869,"East Wind, West Wind",,Pearl Sydenstricker Buck,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VPkAjwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pearl Buck said, ""The mind of my own country and of China, my foster country, are alike in many ways, but above all, in our common love of freedom."" ""East Wind: West Wind"" embodies this love of, and struggle for, freedom.",1930,4,288,3102
9781559343565,1559343567,A guided tour of five works by Plato,"with complete translations of Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (death scene), and ""Allegory of the Cave""",Christopher Biffle;Plato,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dNuMwZeVhAYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1995,4.33,125,9
9781559362108,1559362103,A Tempest,"Based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, Adaptation for a Black Theatre",Aimé Césaire;Richard Miller,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=80GjQAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2002,3.55,69,1309
9781559362153,1559362154,Dogeaters,A Play about the Philippines,Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0xZaAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Hagedorn's remarkable play based on her best-selling novel.,2003,3.58,96,89
9781559501774,1559501774,The Birth of Heroin and the Demonization of the Dope Fiend,,Th Metzger,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=l9TxAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1998,3.88,222,17
9781559636629,1559636629,Marine Conservation Biology,The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity,Michael E. Soulé;Michael E. Marine Conservation Biology Institute,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bK9LmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Humans are terrestrial animals, and our capacity to see and understand the importance and vulnerability of life in the sea has trailed our growing ability to harm it. While conservation biologists are working to address environmental problems humans have created on land, loss of marine biodiversity, including extinctions and habitat degradation, has received much less attention. At the same time, marine sciences such as oceanography and fisheries biology have largely ignored issues of conservation. Marine Conservation Biology brings together for the first time in a single volume leading experts from around the world to apply the lessons and thinking of conservation biology to marine issues. Contributors including James M. Acheson, Louis W. Botsford, James T. Carlton, Kristina Gjerde, Selina S. Heppell, Ransom A. Myers, Julia K. Parrish, Stephen R. Palumbi, and Daniel Pauly offer penetrating insights on the nature of marine biodiversity, what threatens it, and what humans can and must do to recover the biological integrity of the world's estuaries, coastal seas, and oceans. Sections examine: distinctive aspects of marine populations and ecosystems; threats to marine biological diversity, singly and in combination; place-based management of marine ecosystems; the often-neglected human dimensions of marine conservation. Marine Conservation Biology breaks new ground by creating the conceptual framework for the new field of marine conservation biology -- the science of protecting, recovering, and sustainably using the living sea. It synthesizes the latest knowledge and ideas from leading thinkers in disciplines ranging from larval biology to sociology, making it a must-read for research and teaching faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and advanced undergraduate students (who share an interest in bringing conservation biology to marine issues). Likewise, its lucid scientific examinations illuminate key issues facing environmental managers, policymakers, advocates, and funders concerned with the health of our oceans.",2005,4.67,496,14
9781560067849,1560067845,Flowers for Algernon,,Patrice Cassedy,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=x_CUfWcfrzoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the young adult book ""Flowers for Algernon"" by Daniel Keyes, including the author's life, the science fiction genre, and the book's plot, characters, and themes.",2000,3,96,1
9781560251149,156025114X,On the Bus,The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture,Paul Perry;Ken Babbs,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E_lCNQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fabled 1964 cross-country bus trip of Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters-on a psychedelically painted school bus crammed with amplifiers, cameras, costumes, & assorted contraband as cargo & Beat legend Neal Cassady at the wheel-marked the irreversible end of the ""Eisenhower Era,"" & set an American cultural revolution in motion. On the Bus, by Paul Perry, is a celebration of the unforgettable exploits of the Merry Pranksters, immortalized in Tom Wolfe's bestselling book. In this engrossing popular history, the spirit of the era is captured in a remarkable living chronicle, combining analysis & history with colorful additional narrative by Kesey-sidekick Ken Babbs. It features over 100 never-before-seen photos by Prankster photographer Ron Bevirt, Allen Ginsberg, & others, alongside candid & insightful interviews with participants & leading countercultural figures. In addition to forewords by Hunter S. Thompson, Jerry Garcia, & Ken Kesey, On the Bus features commentary by Ron ""Hassler"" Bevirt, William S. Burroughs, Malcolm Cowley, Ram Dass, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jerry Garcia, Allen Ginsberg, Wavy Gravy, Denise ""Mary Microgram"" Kaufmann, Ken Kesey, Steve ""Zonker"" Lambrecht, Timothy Leary, Gordon Lish, Ed McClanahan, Gurney Norman, Lee Quarnstrom, Robert Stone, & Hunter S. Thompson.",1996,3.86,205,193
9781560252481,1560252480,Requiem for a Dream,A Novel,Hubert Selby,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nSrOm1Yf1qIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The acclaimed novel that inspired the Darren Aronofsky film--the story of three friends whose pursuit of wealth ends in addiction and tragedy. ""To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America"" (New York Times Book Review). Over twenty years after its first publication in 1978, Requiem for a Dream makes it to the big screen in a major motion picture starring Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Jared Leto, and Christopher McDonald. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the highly acclaimed director of Pi, the movie was released in November 2000. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams.",1999,4.11,279,45545
9781560252757,1560252758,The Gangs of New York,An Informal History of the Underworld,,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gPcsq2qHvkUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Examines New York's gangs of the nineteenth century and charts their influence on the underworld in the twentieth century.,1990,3.59,384,2742
9781560254416,1560254416,Expelled from Eden,A William T. Vollmann Reader,Perseus,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Q_XQswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"No stranger to living and writing on the edge, the author shares the fruits of his productive career as ""the most prodigiously talented and historically important novelist under 35,"" including autobiographical writing, interviews, critical essays, correspondence, and poems.",2004,4.05,512,156
9781560257011,1560257016,"Pink Flamingos, and Other Filth",Three Screenplays,John Waters,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nNlBZApxhx8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Here are three of the filthiest-and yet, in their own way, sweetest—screenplays ever written: Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, and Flamingos Forever. Intermixed with the scripts are dozens of classic stills from the films. In Pink Flamingos, Waters's muse and leading lady, Divine, a 300-pound cross-dresser who could turn your stomach in one scene and break your heart in the next, competes with her family for the title of ""filthiest people alive""—as readers will see, it's really anyone's game. Desperate Living is a perverse fairy tale featuring gun-toting lesbians, leather-clad castle guards, and a repulsive queen who has her own daughter gang-raped among other atrocities. Flamingos Forever is the unproduced sequel to Pink Flamingos, set fifteen years after the original, when the rivalry for ""filthiest people alive"" is revived; it was never filmed, Waters tells us, because by the time it was written, too many of the original cast had died—this book is the only chance for Water's fans to read it.",2005,4.22,258,49
9781560258247,1560258241,The Big Empty,"Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America",Norman Mailer;John Buffalo Mailer,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9oBpswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Questions are posed, writes Norman Mailer, ""in the hope they will open into richer insights, which in turn will bring forth sharper questions."" In this series of conversations, John Buffalo Mailer, 27, poses a series of questions to his father, challenging the reflections and insights of the man who has dominated and defined much of American letters for the past sixty years. Their wide-ranging discussions take place over the course of a year, beginning in July 2004. Set against the backdrop of George W. Bush's re-election campaign and the war in Iraq, each considers what it means to live in America today. John asks his father to look back to World War II, and explore the parallels that can—and cannot—be drawn between that time and our current post-9/11 consciousness. As their conversations develop, the topics shift from the political to the personal to the political again, as they duck and weave around one another. They explore their shared admiration of boxing and poker, the nature of marriage and love, television, movies, writing, and what it means to be a part of this extraordinary family.",2006,3.31,218,67
9781560258506,1560258500,Monster Island,A Zombie Novel,David Wellington,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BpsmiilnN-4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It's one month after a global disaster. Manhattan has become Monster Island after a plague has turned all its denizens into shambling, rotting animated corpses, except for a couple who have kept their intelligence and also acquired psychic powers. When a",2006,3.6,282,9635
9781560761549,1560761547,Into the Void,,Nigel Findley,Fiction,,,1991,3.54,311,247
9781561381487,1561381489,The Zen Gardening Kit,,Running Press,Gardening,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jSzoTA69sMgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The illustrated Zen Rock Gardening Book, an introduction to the art, and a creative guide to cultivation; and the Zen Garden, including a 10 1/4"" x 6"" wood tray, white sand, a wooden rake, and five rocks.",1992,3.21,96,30
9781561583768,1561583766,The Not So Big House,A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live,Sarah Susanka;Kira Obolensky,House & Home,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_Zy_hEzQYYcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.,1998,4.07,208,1291
9781561633425,1561633429,"Remembrance of Things Past, Part 2",Within a Budding Grove,Stéphane Heuet;Marcel Proust;Stanislas Brézet,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h2gTD6fbL9cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An adaptation of the seven books of Proust's masterpiece in graphic novel format, which explores themes of love, art, sexuality, memory, and time in late nineteenth-century France.",2002,4.03,48,13
9781561706600,1561706604,Wokini,A Lakota Journey to Happiness and Self-understanding,Billy Mills;Nicholas Sparks,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NikOAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Wokini, "" translated from Lakota, means ""seeking a new beginning."" On that theme, the famous athlete joins the bestselling author to blend modern therapeutic principles and Native American tradition.",1990,3.56,175,245
9781561709335,1561709336,Power Vs. Force,The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior,David R. Hawkins,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mBjdVXnduRMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this groundbreaking book you will learn how to get demonstrably true answers to your questions, and know what true success is and how to create it.",2002,4.22,341,6696
9781561796779,1561796778,"Boomers, Xers, and Other Strangers",Understanding the Generational Differences that Divide Us,Rick Hicks;Kathy Hicks,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IogMAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The authors maintain that children's core values are greatly shaped by what is going on in their culture when they are ten years old--and they show parents how to achieve reconciliation and improve communication between generations.,1999,3.36,384,28
9781562549428,1562549421,The Three Musketeers,,Alexandre Dumas,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WNBQsrljxwkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In seventeenth-century France, young D'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.",2010,3.56,61,9
9781562802349,1562802348,The Other Woman,,Ann O'Leary,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6JsFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tall, athletic Joanna Kingston has a roguish way about her that draws women like a magnet. Yet, as too many lovers have discovered too late, though Joanna's bedroom door is always open, she keeps her wounded heart under lock and key.",1999,3.64,213,73
9781562920586,1562920588,Don't Wait for Your Ship to Come In,Swim Out to Get It!,John Mason,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6JL1hPQ9HN4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Don't Wait for Your Ship To Come In...Swim Out to Meet It!will challenge you to take an active role in your life, and stop watching from the sidelines. Compiled by John Mason, author of the best-selling books: An Enemy Called Average and You were Born an Original, Don't Die a Copy. This inspiring and entertaining book offers readers a quick and ready source of powerful nuggets of truth to help you achieve all that God has planned for you.",1994,3.22,160,9
9781562924881,1562924885,The Heart of a Leader,,Kenneth H. Blanchard,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZnlExgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Ken Blanchard offers instant motivation and insight designed to help people develop the courageous heart of a true leader.,1999,3.96,162,492
9781562926168,1562926160,The Quiet Little Woman,Tilly's Christmas ; Rosa's Tale : Three Enchanting Christmas Stories,Louisa May Alcott,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dO0DAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three Christmas stories tell of an orphan who finds a new home, a little girl who rescues a bird, and a horse who shares her life story at midnight on Christmas Eve",1999,3.66,122,1064
9781563050756,1563050757,The Boomer Bible,,R. F. Laird;Robert F. Laird,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E-IT-INLWzkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A satirical interpretation of the bible features an interpretation of world history from Creation to the modern era, as well as commentary on religion, art, film, literature, television, and other cultural matters",1991,4.25,880,202
9781563054426,1563054426,Barnyard Dance!,,Sandra Boynton,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wLdRCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A bespectacled fiddle-playing cow and a pig twirling a sheep are featured in a barnyard dance. On board pages with a die-cut cover.,1993,4.25,24,20885
9781563410901,1563410907,Read my lips,sexual subversion and the end of gender,Riki Anne Wilchins,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rBDaAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Riki Anne Wilchins has written the book that may take the discussion of gender over the top. In a voice that is by turns outraged, outrageous, sad, and hilarious, Wilchins - cofounder of the Transexual Menace and Executive Director of GenderPAC - weaves theory and personal experience into a story of self-discovery. Lesbians, feminists, queer academics, activists, transpeople, the ""queer-on-the-street,"" and mainstream readers hungry for writing that pushes the absolute edge of the gender envelope - Read My Lips will change the way you think about bodies, sex, and gender.",1997,3.95,288,249
9781563890284,1563890283,Batman Gothic,,Grant Morrison;Klaus Janson,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NvQKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Souls are played with in this story of Faustian bargaining.,1992,3.79,128,4168
9781563890352,1563890356,Season of Mists,,Neil Gaiman;Kelley Jones,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=saIbAgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of short works offers stories that range in setting from a ghost-ridden cellar to a hotel convention of serial kilers, and includs works by Gene Wolfe, Clive Barker, Tad Williams, and Barbara Hambly.",1992,4.54,217,49151
9781563890826,1563890828,The Books of Magic,,Neil Gaiman,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hXh2UDke-B8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Timothy Hunter is taken on a tour of the magical realms by a quartet of fallen mystics.,1993,4.08,200,13358
9781563891892,1563891891,Mystery Play,,Grant Morrison;Jon J. Muth,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uqy6JAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The psychological thriller 'The mystery play' illustrates the devastating power of fear and accusations as a small-town community is ripped apart from within. When the actor portraying Satan is accused of brutally murdering the actor playing God in a Renaissance festival, a rural English village teeters on the edge of self-destruction. Looking to save the town from itself, a mysterious detective arrives and begins to piece together the clues of the slaying. But even if the enigmatic stranger can solve the disturbing mystery, the revelation of his true identity and past may still lead to the fiery end of the village.",1995,3.44,80,664
9781563892028,1563892022,"John Constantine, Hellblazer",Fear and Loathing,Garth Ennis;Steve Dillon,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ws5LJwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"/Garth Ennis /Steven Dillon and Glenn Fabry From the writer and artist of PREACHER, John Constantine is a cynical, hard drinking chain smoking Brit who's been around the block a few times and occasionally saved the world with his magical savvy. In this volume, Constantine must prevent his young niece from following in his mystic footsteps, cope with his own 40th birthday, attended by Swamp Thing and other mystical guests, and engineer the fall from heaven",1997,4.17,160,3375
9781563892264,156389226X,Dream Country,,Neil Gaiman;Kelley Jones;Charles Vess,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TuBwSQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of stories, comics, and plays that deal with never ending dreams.",1995,4.24,111,80439
9781563892271,1563892278,Preludes and Nocturnes,,Neil Gaiman;Sam Kieth;Mike Dringenberg;Todd Klein;Danny Vozzo,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VwOkQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of eight comics that introduce the series' lead character, the Sandman, Lord of Dreams.",1991,4.25,233,158629
9781563892462,1563892464,The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch,A Romance,Neil Gaiman,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S-o1PyEs_fgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"/Dave McKean, illustrator In his grandfather's seaside arcade, a young boy encounters a mysterious Punch & Judy man with a dark past and a woman who makes her living playing a mermaid. As their stories unfold, the boy must confront family secrets, strange puppets and a nightmarish world of violence and betrayal. Second printing. Graphic novel format",1995,3.77,96,6265
9781563892875,1563892871,The Wake,,Neil Gaiman,"Comic books, strips, etc",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WBu_wgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Graphic novel. Concluding story of this extraordinary multi-award winning saga. Others in series I/S.,1991,4.52,191,35864
9781563893308,1563893304,Kingdom Come,,Mark Waid;Alex Ross;Todd Klein,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nN2wSqn0014C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Kingdom Come-the critically acclaimed Elseworlds saga by Mark Waid and Alex Ross- has been collected into a single-volume hardcover, produced by DC Comics and Graphitti Designs. With the addition of 12 new pages of story and art, previously available only in the deluxe slipcase edition, the hardcover edition offers reader's the complete version of the DC Universe's ultimate battle. An extensive 18 page design section includes some of Ross's exhaustive preliminary character illustrations, cover legends, a key to cameo appearances, trading-card art and art originally designed for promotional use.",1997,4.25,231,45332
9781563893339,1563893339,Death,The Time of Your Life,Neil Gaiman;Chris Bachalo;Mark Buckingham;Mike Dringenberg,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VIdbPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A tale of music, mortality, friendship and death is told in a graphic novel designed for mature readers by author Neil Gaiman. Spinning off from the popular Sandman Library, this is the story of Foxglove, a rising star of the music world who must wrestle with revealing her true sexual orientation as her companion, Hazel, is lured into the realm of Death.",1997,4.22,95,12206
9781563893698,156389369X,JLA,New World Order,Grant Morrison,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FGKUSSKgO4QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When the Justice League of America sets up headquarters on the moon to protect the Earth, they are surprised to discover the first threat is from another planet.",1997,3.97,93,3601
9781563895166,1563895161,Michael Moorcock's Multiverse,,Michael Moorcock;Walter Simonson;Mark Reeve;John Ridgway,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iHZ5PQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book is a sword and sorcery tale that expands upon the universe of the Eternal Champion made famous through novels and short stories. In a world of alternate universes and realities in which time and space often converge, the Eternal Champion is cursed to live multiple lives of eternal reincarnation. Caught in the war between the forces of Law and Chaos, his allegiance often changes as he fights for the preservation of balance. In three separate but intertwining tales of heroic fantasy, the Eternal Champion takes on the form of an enigmatic woman, a time-traveling detective, and an albino sorcerer as he searches for the elusive Silverskin and the secret which could end his cosmic battle forever.",1999,3.95,288,166
9781563895951,1563895951,Son of Superman,,Howard V. Chaykin;David Tischman,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0rAxNgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With Superman being assumed dead for fifteen years, Superman's son, Jon Kent, suddenly awakens to his extraordinary powers and his real identity, and goes in search of his mother, Lois Lane, and the secret behind his father's disappearance.",1999,3.36,95,11
9781563896002,1563896001,The Invisibles,Kissing Mister Quimper,Grant Morrison;Chris Weston;Ivan Reis;Ray Kryssing,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RE3BQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Imagine if every paranoid fantasy, every conspiracy theory, every alleged cover-up and government deception, every tabloid story you've ever heard ...were true. Discover a world where paranoia is a survival skill and the only hope for mankind is a group of unconventional occultist freedom fighters-The Invisibles.",2000,4.24,224,3811
9781563896231,1563896230,The Flash,Dead Heat,Mark Waid;Humberto Ramos,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bDSnAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Continues the adventures of the Flash as he battles evil foes and helps justice to prevail.,2000,3.93,144,214
9781563897023,1563897024,"The Invisibles, Apocalipstick",,Grant Morrison;Jill Thompson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RFzdvQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,No Marketing Blurb,2001,4.22,208,5791
9781563897566,1563897563,The Authority,Under New Management,Warren Ellis;Bryan Hitch;Mark Millar;Frank Quitely,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=da9_QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Authority under Jenny Sparks, the Spirit of the 20th century, comes to a close as she battles a godlike alien invader. Following in her footsteps, Jenny Quantum, the Spirit of the 21st century, evades a diabolical super-genius and his army.",2000,4.16,200,4100
9781563898945,1563898942,Transmetropolitan: Spider's thrash,,Warren Ellis,Antiheroes,,"Chronicles the battles of Spider Jerusalem, infamous renegade journalist of the future. Spider dedicates himself to fighting the corruption and abuse of power of two successive United States presidents; he and his assistants strive to keep their world from becoming worse than it already is while dealing with the struggles of fame and power, brought about due to the popularity of Spider via his articles.",2004,4.32,144,12298
9781563899881,1563899884,The Cure,,Warren Ellis,"Comic books, strips, etc",,"Written by Warren Ellis; Art by Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos; Cover by Robertson The forces of darkness are closing in on outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem and his merry, filthy band - but now they've got their own rope around the neck of corrupt President Callahan, and it's time to start tightening the noose. TRANSMETROPOLITAN: THE CURE, the ninth volume of the complete collection of the acclaimed series written by Warren Ellis (ORBITER, GLOBAL FREQUENCY) with art by Darick Robertson (Wolverine) and Rodney Ramos (GREEN LANTERN), reprints TRANSMETROPOLITAN #49-54 and features a striking new cover by Robertson. Jerusalem and his cohorts step up their investigation into Callahan's misdeeds and turn up some startling evidence... not to mention a sole surviving witness to the President's depravity. The problem, as always, will be getting the word out before the massive forces of the Executive Branch black out everything - and everyone - involved.",2003,4.43,144,10076
9781564147912,1564147916,Exploring the Northern Tradition,"A Guide to the Gods, Lore, Rites, and Celebrations from the Norse, German, and Anglo-Saxon Traditions",Galina Krasskova,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ndpEDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Provides an overview of Heathenry, a modern polytheistic religious movement based on the ancient religion of the Germanic and Scandinavian peoples.",2005,3.83,224,434
9781564741578,1564741575,"Laguna, I Love You","The Best of ""Our Town""",John Weld,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U8mdAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1996,0,285,0
9781564775009,1564775003,Happy Endings,Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt,Mimi Dietrich,Crafts & Hobbies,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nrQAAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A must for every quilter's library, this is the classic book on finishing--back by popular demand! First published in 1987, this popular resource has sold more than 275,000 copies and is still the one quilters want. Well-known author and quiltmaking expert Mimi Dietrich shows you all you need to know about finishing quilts with style. Discover dozens of creative ways to finish your quilts, from easy to advanced Find terrific ideas for quilt backings, battings, bindings, and hanging sleeves Get creative with a great section on quilt borders Learn from Mimi Dietrich's ""Happy Ending Hints,"" sprinkled throughout the book Happy Endings: Finishing the Edges of Your Quilt teaches how to finish a quilt and is a recommendation for beginners and experienced quilters alike. New ideas cover quilt backings, battings, bindings and more, offering a new section on quilt borders and new creative ideas for finishing edges. Patterns, step-by-step color illustrations, and fun finishing techniques make for a fine collection of ideas perfect for any quilter who wants to produce polished borders and finishing touches. --Midwest Book Review, August 2013",2003,4.22,80,23
9781564780614,1564780619,Letters,A Novel,John Barth,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m0MZch4xxRIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Basically, [Barth] takes several people from his early novels and has them all starting to write to each other, and to him, their letters and experiences directing the plot. And what starts out as what could be a too-cute literary trick winds up being extremely revealing, as the characters pour themselves into the letters, regardless of whom they're writing to, as the plot skips and slips through time. On one level it acts as a sequel to those early novels, continuing their stories and although it's not really required to read those books, I'm not going to pretend it doesn't help. The best thing to do would be to read those old novels in one block and then move onto this ... I read them some years ago so I was a little fuzzy on the finer points. But I picked it up. But Barth captures the voices of his old characters well and even if you didn't know who was writing what letter, you could tell. And thus they tell the recepient, and us, about their hopes and fears, they mingle together, they lie, they come unglued, and by the end you sort of get a tapestry of their thoughts. There's a plot weaving through here but sometimes it becomes hard to connect it with six different people discussing different angles of it with you, but I just went with it and enjoyed the writing for what it was. --Michael Battaglia at Amazon.com.",1994,3.82,772,202
9781564781314,1564781313,Point Counter Point,,Aldous Huxley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i48OyQk9o7AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of ""the disease of modern man"" in the manner of a composer - themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic. First published in 1928, Huxley's satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s is populated with characters based on such celebrities of the time as D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray, as well as Huxley himself. A major work of the 20th century and a monument of literary modernism, this edition includes an introduction by acclaimed novelist Nicholas Mosley (author of Hopeful Monsters and the son of Sir Oswald Mosley). Along with Brave New World (written a few years later), Point Counter Point is Huxley's most concentrated attack on the scientific attitude and its effect on modern culture.",2001,3.85,432,9227
9781564781406,1564781402,The Last Days,,Raymond Queneau;Barbara Wright;Vivian Kogan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G8uW0BlvvtcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Last Days is Raymond Queneau's autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920s: Vincent Tuquedenne tries to reconcile his love for reading with the sterility of studying as he hopes to study his way out of the petite bourgeoisie to which he belongs. Vincent and his generation are contrasted with an older generation of retired teachers and petty crooks, and both generations come under the bemused gaze of the waiter Alfred, whose infallible method of predicting the future mocks prevailing scientific models. Similarly, Queneau's literary universe operates under its own laws, joining rigorous artistry with a warm evocation of the last days of a bygone world.",1996,3.8,250,184
9781564782991,1564782999,Heartsnatcher,,Boris Vian,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T-wj9t353TAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Boris Vian s early death robbed French literature of a novelist who was coherent while still modern. Heartsnatcher is an esoteric, surrealistic comedy about guilt, set in a deceptively familiar, almost ordinary locale. New Statesman",2003,3.98,245,2368
9781564783950,1564783952,The Review of Comtemporary Fiction - Future of Fiction,,John O'Brien;David Foster Wallace,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iEDYPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Review's aesthetic focus has been called many things--postmodern, experimental, avant-garde, metafictional, subversive--but in bringing this aesthetic to a wider audience it also seeks to expose the artificial barriers that exist between and within cultures. To this end, The Review has a special affinity for the works of foreign writers who may otherwise go unread in the United States, as well as American writers whose work has gone unchampioned in their own country. An extensive book review section also covers recent works of innovative writing. Above all, The Review of Contemporary Fiction attempts to expand readers' notions of what fiction is and what it can do.",1996,3.82,200,11
9781565041912,1565041917,The Eternal Champion,,Michael Moorcock;Tom Canty,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fo8RPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Young and old, familiar fans and newcomers, will be captivated by Michael Moorcock's legendary Eternal Champion collection. Timeless, classic and beyond a doubt one of the foundations of modern Fantasy, the Eternal Champion is a series of stories that no Fantasy aficionado should pass up. Includes The Eternal Champion, Phoenix in Obsidian, To Rescue Tanelorn and The Sundered Worlds.",1996,3.94,484,2457
9781565044043,1565044045,Tales of Magick,Dark Adventure,Phil Brucato;Aaron Rosenberg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gJbGPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Kick Ass! And Live to Tell About It! Some people think the Awakened sit around dreaming about Ascension. Wrong. Dead wrong. When reality itself is on the brink of destruction, you don't contemplate your navel. You fight -- and sometimes die -- for the sake of the future. Tales of Magick takes Mage from the realm of abstraction and kicks it screaming into high gear. If you ever wondered how to run an epic, exciting modern sorcery chronicle, Dark Adventure is for you. Indeed, Tales of Magick is an ongoing series of books dedicated to playing Mage in a variety of genres and settings. Now your Mage game can go anywhere, anywhen"".",1998,3.5,96,38
9781565047082,1565047087,Changeling Storytellers Guide,,Mark Hunter;Nancy Schultz-Yetter;Steve Kenson;Ian Lemke;Nicky Rea,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3sMLAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The gates to Arcadia, the original paradise, are closed. Only the world of humanity remains. Without any awareness of our true nature, humankind crushes us beneath its banal heel. Joy and laughter are gone; only the Dreaming remains. We are changelings, the forgotten ones, neither fully fae nor wholly mortal. The last of our kind on Earth, we have built ourselves an invisible kingdom. We are everywhere, yet you have never seen us. We hide, not behind some fragile Masquerade, but in plain sight with the power of our Glamour. We exist within a real world of make-believe where ""imaginary"" things can kill and"" ""pretend"" monsters are real. The Changeling Storytellers Guide picks up where the Changeling rulebook leaves off and offers a plethora of new information, from rules clarifications to new and advanced systems for handling fae magic -- and puts it all in the Storyteller's hands. Included are new settings and new rules for expanding the boundaries of your Changeling chronicle.",1998,3.37,139,27
9781565078321,1565078322,Stormie,A Story of Forgiveness and Healing,Stormie Omartian,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3K7EjGtQ4aEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When Catechism of the Catholic Church broke onto the N.Y. Times bestseller list, its astonishing success confirmed the overwhelming interest of Catholics and Protestants in understanding modern Catholicism. Has the recent openness among denominations affected Catholic teachings? In the new spirit of cooperation, is there any reason why Catholics and Protestants should remain divided? This powerful and insightful examination of the Catholic Church provides: a side-by-side comparison of Scripture with the first new worldwide Catholic catechism in 400 years a summary of how modern Catholicism views grace, works, and heaven 24 ways the Catholic plan of salvation still stands in contrast to biblical truth a balanced overview of how the authority structure of the Roman Catholic Church compares with that of the New Testament church an explanation of how participation in the Mass and other sacraments is inconsistent with faith in Christ as Savior Clear, accurate, significant information to know and share--The Gospel According to Rome",1997,4.39,192,423
9781565121829,1565121821,The Sharpshooter Blues,,Lewis Nordan,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aPuE315HqaUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The identity of the Sharpshooter becomes a central theme in a story that introduces such prospective characters as the owner of the local funeral parlor, an avid comic-book reader, a man who shoots refrigerators, and a boy who never grew up",1997,4.15,398,371
9781565124509,1565124502,Enslaved by Ducks,,Bob Tarte,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=liM-5JBqVyAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The book that Entertainment Weekly called ""hilarious,"" Publishers Weekly declared ""a true pleasure,"" Booklist called ""heartwarming,"" and the Dallas Morning News praised as ""rich and funny"" is now available in paperback. When Bob Tarte bought a house in rural Michigan, he was counting on a tranquil haven. Then Bob married Linda. She wanted a rabbit, which seemed innocuous enough until the bunny chewed through their electrical wiring. And that was just the beginning. Before long, Bob found himself constructing cages, buying feed, clearing duck waste, and spoon-feeding a menagerie of furry and feathery residents. His life of quiet serenity vanished, and he unwittingly became a servant to a relentlessly demanding family. ""They dumbfounded him, controlled and teased him, took their share of his flesh, stole his heart"" (Kirkus Reviews). Whether commiserating with Bob over the fate of those who are slaves to their animals or regarding his story as a cautionary tale about the rigors of animal ownership, readers on both sides of the fence have found Tarte's story of his chaotic squawking household irresistible--and irresistibly funny.",2004,3.44,308,2214
9781565124820,1565124820,Hemingway and Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers,,Mark Bailey,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xLpMD-3PqmAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An original guide to cocktails and the literary life brings together classic cocktail recipes, literary history, and entertaining anecdotes about famous American literati, with excerpts from each writer's work alongside a drink recipe, biographical sketch, and stories about life, literature, and drinking.",2006,3.89,100,128
9781565125605,1565125606,Water for Elephants,A Novel,Sara Gruen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=M8xNxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.",2007,4.08,335,1198632
9781565482012,1565482018,On Genesis,Two Books on Genesis: Against the Manichees and On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis: An Unfinished Book,Saint Augustine (of Hippo),Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZAhExQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1990, New City Press, in conjunction with the Augustinian Heritage Institute, began the project knows as: The Works of Saint Augustine, A Translation for the 21st Century. The plan is to translate and publish all 132 works of Saint Augustine, his entire corpus into modern English. This represents the first time in which The Works of Saint Augustine will all be translated into English. Many existing translations were often archaic or faulty, and the scholarship was outdated. New City Press is proud to offer the best modern translations available. The Works of Saint Augustine, A Translation for the 21st Century will be translated into 49 published books. To date, 41 books have been published by NCP containing 93 of The Works of Saint Augustine, A Translation for the 21st Century. Augustine's writings are useful to anyone interested in patristics, church history, theology and Western civilization. -- Publisher.",2004,3.94,540,26
9781565482340,1565482344,On Christian Belief,,Saint Augustine,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bWsIsGYTkREC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Contains the seven works of Saint Augustine, dealing with the problem of faith in God.",2005,4.09,372,11
9781565840089,1565840089,The Truth about Columbus,A Subversively True Poster Book for a Dubiously Celebratory Occasion,James W. Loewen,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8ZDWHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An historian sets the record straight on Columbus's ""discovery"" of the Americas, using art and text to sum up recent revisionist thought and to debunk common myths about the European invader responsible for the deaths of thousands. Original.",1992,4.01,48,221
9781565840393,1565840399,Japan at War,An Oral History,Haruko Taya Cook;Theodore F. Cook,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rbqEQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recounts the conflict and documents the huge range of experiences by Japanese soldiers, laborers, journalists, artists, musicians, and women who lived through World War II",1992,4.32,493,677
9781565841000,156584100X,Lies My Teacher Told Me,Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong,James W. Loewen,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dW6noU_dumQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.",1995,3.96,384,398
9781565842212,1565842219,The War,A Memoir,Marguerite Duras,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1h1uPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The extraordinary pages of The War, written in 1944 but finished in 1985, form a totally new image of the heroine of The Lover and, through her, of Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation. Married and living in Paris, part of a resistance network headed by Francois Mitterand, Duras is swept up in the turmoil of the period. She tells of nursing her starving husband back to life on his return from Bergen-Belsen, interrogating a suspected collaborator, and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who is attracted to her. The result is a book as moving as it is harrowing--perhaps Duras's finest.",1994,3.85,192,918
9781565844759,1565844750,On Language,Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume,Noam Chomsky;Mitsou Ronat,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eDwaBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An attractive new edition of two of Chomsky's most popular books on language - an ideal introduction to his pioneering work in modern linguistics. In Part I, Language and Responsibility, the legend discusses his political, moral and linguistic thinking via a series of interviews with French linguist Mitsou Ronat. In Part II, Reflections on Language, he explores the more general implications of his linguistic theories and the controversies among social scientists over fundamental questions of language.",1998,3.91,481,635
9781565845619,1565845617,Industry and Empire,From 1750 to the Present Day,Eric J. Hobsbawm;Chris Wrigley,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WPRaJIK5LNoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Updates the classic study of the industrial revolution, while exploring Britain's rise and subsequent decline from industrial power",1999,3.9,411,246
9781565846715,1565846710,On the Edge of the New Century,,Eric J. Hobsbawm;Antonio Polito,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MnROHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""On the Edge of the New Century"" is the sequel to Eric Hobsbawm's ""The Age of Extremes"", a serious and challenging historical analysis that became a bestseller. Hobsbawm's book continues his ""magisterial"" (""The New York Times Book Review"") analysis of the 20th century, and asks crucial questions about our inheritance from a century of conflict and its meaning for our future.",2001,3.72,192,80
9781565847040,1565847040,Dr. Seuss Goes to War,The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel,Richard H. Minear;Dr. Seuss,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2p2qDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World War II, for the New York daily newspaper PM. In these extraordinarily trenchant cartoons, Geisel presents ""a provocative history of wartime politics"" (Entertainment Weekly). Dr. Seuss Goes to War features handsome, large-format reproductions of more than two hundred of Geisel’s cartoons, alongside ""insightful"" (Booklist) commentary by the historian Richard H. Minear that places them in the context of the national climate they reflect. Pulitzer Prize–winner Art Spiegelman’s introduction places Seuss firmly in the pantheon of the leading political cartoonists of our time.",2001,4.18,272,1225
9781565848269,1565848268,A People's History of the United States,,Howard Zinn;Kathy Emery;Ellen Reeves,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pU1npVMCSsYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.,2003,4.08,619,38
9781565849426,1565849426,The Assassination of Julius Caesar,A People's History of Ancient Rome,Michael Parenti,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xApsWf5QAmoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Parenti presents a story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. As he carefully weighs the evidence in the murder of Caesar, he sketches in the background to the crime with fascinating detail about Roman society.",2004,4.14,276,628
9781565849655,1565849655,Interesting Times,A Twentieth-century Life,Eric J. Hobsbawm,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EgEMvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians. Called ""a lyrical, pungent, and provocative memoir” by Publishers Weekly, Interesting Times offers a personal tour through what Hobsbawm terms ""the most extraordinary and terrible century in human history.” The book takes us from his birth in Alexandria, Egypt, and early schooling in Weimar Berlin to his student days as a Cambridge Red and Apostle at King’s College. Hobsbawm took E.M. Forster to hear Lenny Bruce, demonstrated with Bertrand Russell against nuclear arms, translated for Che Guevara in Havana, and inaugurated the modern history of banditry. With Interesting Times, we see the making of one of the Left’s most important intellectuals, and the history of the twentieth century through the unforgiving eye of one of its most intensely engaged participants.",2005,4.06,448,359
9781566630184,1566630185,After Many a Summer Dies the Swan,,Aldous Huxley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7V2IreCUUF0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jo Stoyte, an unscrupulous and self-indulgent Hollywood tycoon, launches a search for the man who has discovered immortality",1993,3.75,368,1975
9781566631327,1566631327,Wittgenstein's Vienna,,Allan Janik;Stephen Toulmin,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qJQIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de siecle gaiety and corrosive melancholy). The central figure in this study of a crumbling society that gave birth to the modern world is Wittgenstein, the brilliant and gifted young thinker. With others, including Freud, Viktor Adler, and Arnold Schoenberg, he forged his ideas in a classical revolt against the stuffy, doomed, and moralistic lives of the old regime. As a portrait of Wittgenstein, the book is superbly realized; it is even better as a portrait of the age, with dazzling and unusual parallels to our own confused society. Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin have acted on a striking premise: an understanding of prewar Vienna, Wittgenstein s native city, will make it easier to comprehend both his work and our own problems .This is an independent work containing much that is challenging, new, and useful. New York Times Book Review.""",1996,4.05,315,264
9781566633949,156663394X,Complete Essays,,Aldous Huxley,English essays,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=t1EfzQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fourth of six volumes collects essays that British social critic Huxley (1894-1963) wrote during a period that witnessed Germany's Anschluss with Austria, the Sudeten crisis, intensifying violence in the Spanish Civil War, Stalin's purges, Japan's invasion of China, and Mussolini's Ethiopian war. The collection includes all his published essays, in their latest version, and a selection of shorter reviews and brief occasional pieces.",2001,4.33,416,6
9781566915908,1566915902,Foghorn Outdoors Pacific Northwest Hiking,"The Complete Guide to More Than 1,000 of the Best Hikes in Washington and Oregon",Scott Leonard;Megan McMorris,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C7V1GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This complete guide explores more than 1,000 of the best hikes in Washington and Oregon, with details on treks through Mount Rainier National Park, the Columbia River Gorge, the Olympic Peninsula, and a wealth of hikes within easy reach of Seattle and Portland. Trail maps, photos, & illustrations.",2005,4.29,912,12
9781566917667,1566917662,Road Trip USA,Cross-country Adventures on America's Two-lane Highways,Jamie Jensen,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SyvSM5Ft5_YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the cities and towns, attractions, and historic sites found along the two-lane highways of the United States.",2006,3.96,964,433
9781566993234,1566993237,From Nomads to Pilgrims,Stories from Practicing Congregations,Diana Butler Bass;Joseph Stewart-Sicking,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e0XPPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In The Practicing Congregation (Alban, 2004), Diana Butler Bass explored the phenomenon of ""intentional congregations,"" an emerging style of congregational vitality in which churches creatively and intentionally re-appropriate traditional Christian practices such as hospitality, discernment, contemplative prayer, and testimony. Against the steady flow of stories highlighting ""mainline decline,"" The Practicing Congregation suggested that there is a new and often overlooked renaissance occurring in mainline Protestant churches. The success of The Practicing Congregation made it clear that the next step was to provide examples that would illustrate the concepts laid out in that initial work. In From Nomads to Pilgrims, the editors continue to build this narrative, gathering specific stories of congregational vitality and transformation from participants in their research at the Project on Congregations of Intentional Practice, a Lilly Endowment Inc. funded study at Virginia Theological Seminary. Including stories from a variety of faith traditions across the U.S., From Nomads to Pilgrims explores: how intentional congregations develop; how they negotiate the demands of interpreting traditional Christian practices in a postmodern culture; how these practices lead to congregational and personal transformation. Each chapter is an instructive case study, illustrating a unique expression of the vitality experienced by a congregation that intentionally reclaims a traditional Christian practice. The pastors who have been involved in these congregations stories share their practical wisdom gained through the experience of leading these churches. - how intentional congregations develop - how they negotiate the demands of interpreting traditional Christian practices in a postmodern culture - how these practices lead to congregational and personal transformation.""",2005,4,179,13
9781567313987,1567313981,The Life You Were Born to Live,,Dan Millman,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X_VgkQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2000,4.1,464,17
9781567430288,1567430287,Zora neale Hurston,Critical Perspectives Past And Present,Henry L. Gates,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BfhnQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Zora Neale Hurston(1891 -- 1960) Of the various signs that the study of literature in America has been transformed, none is more salient than is the resurrection and canonization of Zora Neale Hurston. Twenty years ago, Hurston's work was largely out-of-print, her literary legacy alive only to a tiny, devoted band of readers who were often forced to photocopy her works if they were to be taught ... Today her works are central to the canon of African-American, American, and Women's literatures ... The author of four novels, Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937),Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), and Seraph on the Suwanee (1948); two books of folklore -- Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938); an autobiography, Dust Tracks On a Road (1942); and over 50 short stories, essays, and plays, Hurston was one of the most widely acclaimed Black authors for the two decades between 1925 and 1945. -- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.",2000,4.2,238,24
9781567921571,1567921574,Things,A Story of the Sixties,Georges Perec;David Bellos,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ia9-dneCWcwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Two trailblazing novels by Georges Perec, Things: Jerome and Sylvie, the young upwardly mobile couple, lust for the good life. They wanted life's enjoyment, but this equated to ownership. A Man Asleep: A nameless student attempts to purify himself entirely of material desires and ambitions.",1990,3.98,221,1023
9781567921588,1567921582,"W, Or, The Memory of Childhood",,Georges Perec,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vuN10GmOHD0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Guaranteed to send shock waves through the literary community, Perec's W tells two parallel stories. The first is autobiographical, describing the author's wartime boyhood. The second tale, denser, more disturbing, more horrifying, is the allegorical story of W, a mythical island off Tierra del Fuego, governed by the thrall of the Olympic ""ideal,"" where losers are tortured and winners held in temporary idolatry. As the reader soon discovers, W is a place where ""it is more important to be lucky than to be deserving,"" and ""you have to fight to live ... Ãwith¨ no recourse, no mercy, no salvation, not even any hope that time will sort things out."" Here, sport is glorified and victors honored, but athletes are vilified, losers executed, stealing encouraged, rape common, and violence a fact of life. Perec's interpretive vision of the Holocaust forces us to ask the question central to our time: How did this happen before our eyes? How did we look at those ""shells of skin and bone, ashen faced, with their backs permanently bent, their eyes full of panic and their suppurating sores?"" How did all of this happen, not on W, but before millions of spectators, some horrified, some cheering, some in-different, but all present at the games watching the events of that grisly arena?",2003,3.88,176,1395
9781567921892,1567921892,The Woman in Black,A Ghost Story,Susan Hill,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Io65k_1MmQ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"1986 Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated cause-way, the story stars an up-and-coming young solicitor who sets out to settle the estate of Mrs. Drablow. Routine affairs quickly give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister than any nightmare. This first-class thriller - lately reincarnated on the stage - is a brilliant exercise in controlled horror. A real spine-tingler by a real master.",2002,3.7,138,29228
9781567922691,1567922694,Selected Poems of Herman Melville,,Herman Melville,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2rhlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""First published in 1970, Warren's edition remains the most comprehensive selection of Melville's poetry ever presented. It brings together the best of the Civil War poems from Battle-Pieces (1866), the portraits of sailors from John Marr (1888), and the autumnal lyrics from Timoleon (1891), as well as poems uncollected during Melville's lifetime. Central to the selection are several self-contained passages from Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (1876), a book-length work that Warren calls ""an important document of our modernity ... in fact, a precursor to The Waste Land, with the same central image, the same flickering contrasts of the past and the present, the same charade of belief and unbelief."""" ""Warren introduces his selection with a valuable interpretive essay, and also provides copious textual and critical notes.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved",2004,3.82,512,11
9781567922967,1567922961,A Void,,Georges Perec,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=I6cEBUW1pgYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2005,3.8,284,1676
9781567923223,1567923224,How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen,,Russell Hoban;Quentin Blake,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JIZLFGjjxZ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In order to teach Tom a lesson for always playing, his aunt calls in Captain Najork to teach him a lesson, who with a team of four hired sportsmen challenges Tom to rounds of womble, muck, and sneedball.",2006,4.27,32,296
9781567923230,1567923232,A Near Thing for Captain Najork,,Russell Hoban,Inventions,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XCNQ0jRHtKIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Tom finds that he can beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen at more than games.,2006,4.2,32,73
9781567996036,1567996035,Angels,Celestial Spirits in Art & Legend,Jacqueline Carey,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ClwEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A pictorial examination of the use of angels in art, legends and lore.",1997,4,128,41
9781568363561,1568363567,The Last Shogun,The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu,Ryotaro Shiba,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b_7ZdfGzHFsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Yoshinobu, a seventeen-year-old boy emperor, was brought back from the secluded Imperial Palace in Kyoto, and ""during a year of frenetic activity, he overhauled the military systems, reorganized the civil administration, promoted industrial development, and expanded foreign intercourse,"" and then capitulated to assure a peaceful transfer of sovereignty when the shogunal armies were defeated.--Jacket.",2004,3.74,256,287
9781568520803,1568520808,Johnny Reb and Billy Yank,,Alexander Hunter,United States,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z4LeIK16FGwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1904,4.11,635,13
9781568659510,1568659512,The Tough Guide to Fantasyland,,Diana Wynne Jones,"Fantasy fiction, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7uzyro47GgIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Satirical observations on the characters, settings, and narratives found in fantasy literature presented as a guidebook in dictionary format.",1996,3.94,302,31
9781568820408,1568820402,The Azathoth Cycle,Tales of the Blind Idiot God,Edward Derby;Peter Cannon;Lin Carter;Ramsey Campbell;Henry Kuttner;Stephen Rainey;Thomas Ligotti;Gary Myers;Richard Tierney,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AXRlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1995,3.75,260,122
9781568821177,1568821174,Song of Cthulhu,Tales of the Spheres Beyond Sound,Stephen Mark Rainey,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uXhlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the heart of the universe, the court of the blind idiot god Azathoth dances to the insane piping of demonic flute-players. The sinister music resounds across space and time, blasting the minds and ripping the souls of those who hear it. It is the melody of chaos, the sound of madness, the song of Cthulhu. This book includes nineteen stories and one essay, linked together by the alien and terrible music of the spheres.",2001,3.67,211,45
9781568821405,1568821409,Miskatonic University,A Handbook to the Pride of Arkham,Sam Johnson,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kySWAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A sourcebook detailing the campus, courses, students and personnel of one of the world's most prestigious institutions of deeper learning. Filled with data on various University departments and professors, this book weaves the details drawn from Lovecraft's Mythos tales with the Call of Cthulhu game background to create an indispensible sourcebook.",2005,4.15,242,36
9781568821443,1568821441,The Keeper's Companion,"Blasphemous Knowledge, Forbidden Secrets, and Handy Information; A Cor Book for Keeper",Keith Herber,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=659r23-K96sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"[CALL OF CTHULHU ROLEPLAYING] ""The Keeper's Companion"" is an invaluable resource for gamemasters. The material includes advice for new keepers, a lengthy study of Mythos artifacts, a learned discussion of many occult books, an up-to-the-moment description of every facet of forensic medicine, a thorough revision and expansion of the game skills (including nearly two dozen new ones), and the entire text of ""The Keeper's Compendium,"" somewhat updated -- forbidden books, secret cults, alien races, and mysterious places. Additional short essays and features round out this book -- more than 100,000 words!",2000,3.97,208,63
9781568821481,1568821484,Call of Cthulhu RPG,Horror Roleplaying,Sandy Petersen;Lynn Willis,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Db4GAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ordinary people are confronted by the terrifying beings and forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. Players portray investigators of things unknown and unspeakable. Except for dice, everything needed for play is included in this book. Call of Cthulhu includes extensive background about H. P. Lovecraft, one-stop investigator creation, dozens of skills, three eras of play (1890s, 1920s, and present-day), over 200 Mythos creatures and spells, ready-to-play investigators, expanded weapons data from all three eras, four complete scenarios, and essays on the Necronomicon, Forensic Pathology, and the Dreamlands.",2000,4.45,288,30
9781568821740,1568821743,Shadows of Yog-Sothoth,A Global Campaign to Save Mankind,Sandy Petersen,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1aIDAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Campaign for Call of CthulhuThe Silver Twilight is a secretive, international order dedicated to the destruction of the human race. As brave investigators, you must piece together passages from esoteric books, shards of strange artifacts and puzzling letters to discover the Silver Twilight's loathsome goals.Shadows of Yog-Sothoth is a modestly-sized campaign of seven scenarios. During the course of play the investigators penetrate the outer layers of a secret sinister occult organization led by the lords of the Silver Twilight. Beginning in Boston they investigate an organization in New York, run afoul of a coven in Scotland, roam the desert of the American southwest, vacation off the coast of Maine, and explore the mysteries of the South Pacific.In addition to the campaign, this book includes two bonus scenarios. The People of the Monolith introduces the mysteries of the Cthulhu Mythos, and no harm can come to the investigators except through insanity. As such, is perfect for introducing new players to the wonders of Call of Cthulhu.The other bonus scenario, The Warren, presents and unsettling challenge for even experienced players.Originally published in 1982, this new edition includes modified episode scene changes, player-handouts guide for the keeper, and new illustrations and diagrams. It is 144 pages, perfect-bound, illustrated with an index.CHAPTERSThe Hermetic Order of the Silver TwilightLook to the FutureThe Coven of CannichDevil's CanyonThe Worm that WalksThe Watchers of Easter IslandThe Rise of R'lyehBONUS ADVENTURESThe People of the MonolithThe WarrenDELUXE HANDOUTS",2004,3.9,180,62
9781568821788,1568821786,Spawn of Azathoth,Herald of the End of Time,Keith Herber,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O9e5AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Astronomers have theorized that our sun is not alone in its journey areound the galaxy, but is accompanied by an unknown second star of dim radiance. This second star, while perhaps invisible from Earth even with the finest optics, would periodically pass close enough to our solar system to have far-reaching effects upon the evolution of this planet.",2005,3.81,197,19
9781568821801,1568821808,Secrets of New York,A Mythos Guide to the City That Never Sleeps,Jerry Jones;William Jones,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xUNYAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It is the City that Never Sleeps. During the day ships, barges, tugs, and pleasure boats ply New York's bay and rivers, dashing beneath bridges and disgorging thousands of people upon the city's shores. Each brings hope and dreams of a new life. At night the city blazes with myriad lights, diamonds dazzling in buildings that scrape the sky. Music, food, dance, dark rituals, and clandestine cults flourish beneath the mantle of New York City.",2005,3.62,180,26
9781568821863,1568821867,"The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 2","Prohibition, Firearms, Tomes and Creatures",Lynn Willis;Adam Gauntlett,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5PfnPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,New to Call of Cthulhu? A battle-scarred veteran of many campaigns? Here are essential background articles useful to most keepers.,2002,3.73,170,40
9781568821870,1568821875,Secrets of San Francisco,A 1920s Sourcebook for the City by the Bay,Cody Goodfellow,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RUT9PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This resource guide provides background for a campaign setting in the San Francisco Bay area of the 1920s, including urban geography, civic history, and research venueswhere San Franciscans go when they break the law, go insane, or dieand sights, sounds, and secrets of a city that make it unique. It is more than a metropolis, it is a living entity whose unique character and changeable nature shape its atmosphere, its institutions, and its leading citizens. It is an excellent location from which to launch campaigns focusing on the Orient, and it possesses abundant research resources and outr locales for scenarios within its extensive boundaries, including the largest, oldest American enclave of Chinese settlers, the worlds most famous haunted house, and two of the most infamous prisons ever erected. Here is a complete a portrait of San Francisco in the 1920s, with careful attention to the vast body of local folklore and unique opportunities for Mythos investigation.",2006,4,189,16
9781568984957,1568984952,"Yours in Food, John Baldessari",,John Baldessari;Paul Auster,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FtnNdQaQtI4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In John Baldessari's new book, Yours in Food, the founding member of the conceptual art movement explores America at the table, savoring the nuances of breaking bread in carefully composed vignettes culled appropriated video and film. Reflections on food and eating specially commissioned from a smorgasbord of contemporary writers on culture and the arts, from novelist David Eggers to musician David Byrne, offer up the perfect accompaniment to Baldessari's work. Paired with his images, these humorous, insightful, and, in some cases, bizarre meditations investigate one of the most fundamental and telling of all human experiences. A visual and intellectual feast, Yours in Food is sure to entertain and delight readers of fiction, art history, and cultural criticism and all lovers of food. A Blind Spot Book published by Princeton Architectural Press.",2004,4,144,19
9781569246665,1569246661,"Notebooks, 1935-1951",,Albert Camus;Philip Malcolm Waller Thody;Justin O'Brien,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=98ouHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Camus' diary and random notes which provided material for his later fiction,1998,4.28,496,536
9781569246818,1569246815,The Great Good Place,"Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community",Ray Oldenburg,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-fvvchfSB5wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The landmark survey that celebrates all the places where people hang out--and is helping to spawn their revival A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice ""Third places,"" or ""great good places,"" are the many public places where people can gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (their first and second places), and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation. They are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of a democracy. Author Ray Oldenburg portrays, probes, and promotes th4ese great good places--coffee houses, cafes, bookstores, hair salons, bars, bistros, and many others both past and present--and offers a vision for their revitalization. Eloquent and visionary, this is a compelling argument for these settings of informal public life as essential for the health both of our communities and ourselves. And its message is being heard: Today, entrepreneurs from Seattle to Florida are heeding the call of The Great Good Place--opening coffee houses, bookstores, community centers, bars, and other establishments and proudly acknowledging their indebtedness to this book.",1999,3.84,384,583
9781569310199,156931019X,Lum Urusei Yatsura,Perfect Collection,Rumiko Takahashi,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jbcCAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1997,3.99,400,132
9781569319499,1569319499,"X/1999, Vol. 1",Prelude,CLAMP,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LVUFcAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Holding the Earth's destiny in his hands, Kamui Shiro dances between light and dark--friends and enemies--as he finds himself sought by opposing sets of occult forces.",2003,3.95,200,3083
9781569319505,1569319502,"X/1999, Volume 2",Overture,CLAMP,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AcdMSAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2003,4.02,192,1065
9781569471036,1569471037,The Rattle-Rat,,Janwillem Van de Wetering,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wP63YMug7TEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Investigating a murder in his parents' remote homeland of Friesland, Detective Adjutant Grijpstra gets nowhere working within established police guidelines--yet his assistant de Gier uncovers vital clues while learning about Friesian culture",1997,3.97,293,168
9781569471241,156947124X,Robert Van Gulik,"His Life, His Work",Janwillem Van de Wetering,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0ZIrAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Born in Holland in 1910 but raised in Java, Robert Hans van Gulik explored esoteric Buddhism and translated ancient texts, including an authentic Chinese 16th century detective novel, around which he created a fictional series. Based on extensive research, renowned author Janwillem van de Wetering, whose life and career parallels that of his subject, examines van Gulik's life and work.",1987,3.56,149,38
9781569473337,1569473331,"White Sky, Black Ice",,Stan Jones,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zl9qofe2FjQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a death on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and a fire at the Chukchi Recreation Center that killed eight people, including the town's basketball star. The case turns out to involve a lucrative polar bear poaching operation and the intense bond between a brother and sister from the village of Cape Goodwin. The heart of the matter, he discovers, is a dead woman whose killer remembers her as having a mouth so sweet 'it was like kissing a Hershey bar'.",2003,3.77,284,611
9781569473641,1569473641,Murder in the Bastille,,Cara Black,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tIDiV2rV9ikC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a woman wearing an identical jacket to Aimée Leduc's leaves her cell phone on a restaurant table, Aimee follows her to return it, only to be attacked and left blind, discovering that the other woman had been murdered. Reprint",2004,3.73,276,1148
9781569550342,1569550344,Restless Till We Rest in You,60 Reflections from the Writings of St. Augustine,"Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo;Thomas Paul Thigpen",Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nREGAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Restless Till We Rest in You"" features spiritual pearls from the works of St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.), including his ""Confessions"" and ""The City of God"", as well as rich insights from his homilies, especially those based on John's Gospel and epistles. As part of the ""Saints Speak Today Series"", this title features 60 daily readings, along with scripture passages and hymns.",1998,4.67,158,6
9781569708842,1569708843,The Ring Finger Falls Silent,,Satoru Kannagi,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QiIZAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The growing romance between high school students Yuichi and Wataru is endangered by scholastic stress and well-meant deceptions.,2006,4.02,250,353
9781569708859,1569708851,The Left Hand Dreams of Him,,Satoru Kannagi,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UBd0AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The growing romance between high school students Yuichi and Wataru is endangered by scholastic stress and well-meant deceptions.,2006,3.95,242,528
9781569709078,1569709076,Little Butterfly,,Hinako Takanaga;Sachiko Sato,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SzzyPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Despite being as different as boys can be, outgoing Yuki Kojima and mature misfit Atsushi Nakahara find themselves attracted to each other and begin a journey of sexual exploration together.",2006,4.07,184,1522
9781569709085,1569709084,The Art of Loving,,Eiki Eiki;Yukine Honami,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wEs_AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""What's the greatest happiness one can know in love? For Yutaka, there is only one answer: sex. To him, happiness and lust are the same thing. The likeable and respectable heir to the wealthy Fujiwara family is being torn inside-out by repressed physical desires. Then one day, Tohno, a transfer student, shows up at school. Yutaka sees Tohno as the 'toy' that will make real all his desires and debauched fantasies. A life-long friendship based on trust and gratitude--will it all be shattered when Tohno learns the truth about Yutaka's obsession?""--P. [4] of cover.",2006,3.48,184,163
9781569709801,1569709807,Only the Ring Finger Knows,,Satoru Kannagi;Hotaru Odagiri,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=odAEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When high school students Wataru Fujii and Yuichi Kazuki accidentally switch rings, they find that their rings pair up, and they try to sort out their feelings for each other to decide if they are enemies or soulmates.",2004,4.1,208,3254
9781569714881,1569714886,Dominion,,Masamune Shirow;Dana Lewis;Frederik L. Schodt;Toren Smith;Tom Orzechowski,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fq5VQwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Dominion 3rd Edition,2000,3.73,225,289
9781569715147,1569715149,Outlander,,Timothy Truman;Tom Raney,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9NZoNAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In order to complete his first assignment given to him by the Jedi council to find Jedi Sharad Hett and bring him home, Ki must first face the evil krayt dragon and the bounty hunter Aurra Sing. Original.",2001,3.46,144,119
9781569716199,1569716196,Star Wars Tales Volume 1,,Various;Tsuneo Sanda,Comics & Graphic Novels,,"Collecting the first four issues of the quarterly anthology smash sensation, Star Wars Tales contains thrilling stories featuring Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, Emperor Palpatine, C-3PO, R2-D2, Lando Calrissian and a cast of thousands! Tales explores every corner of the Star Wars galaxy and keeps readers coming back for more! Star Wars Tales Volume I is sure to delight fans both young and old!",2002,3.89,220,894
9781569719367,1569719365,Creatures of the Night,,Neil Gaiman;Michael Zulli;Todd Klein,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=REcJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman comes this collection, featuring two magical and disturbing stories lushly adapted to comics by veteran painter Michael Zulli (The Last Temptation). Rewritten by Gaiman for this graphic novel, these two ominous stories from the author’s award-winning prose work Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions feature animals and people not being quite what they seem. In ""The Price,"" a black cat like a small panther arrives at a country home and is soon beset by mysterious and vicious wounds. What is he fighting every night that could do this, and why does he persist? ""The Daughter of Owls"" recounts an eerie old tale of a foundling girl who was left with an owl pellet as a newborn on the steps of the Dymton Church. She was soon cloistered away in a local convent, but by her fourteenth year word of her beauty had spread—and those who would prey upon her faced unforeseen consequences.",2004,3.84,46,1627
9781569719602,1569719608,The Will Eisner Sketchbook,,Will Eisner,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aEMKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For most of the 20th century, the work of cartoonist and graphic novelist Will Eisner defined the art of comic book storytelling in the U.S. and throughout the world. Still prolific today at the age of 86, Eisner is the embodiment of ""living legend"" in the world of comic books, continuing to produce some of the most innovative and influential work in the medium. This all-new hardcover collection of Eisner's gorgeous pencil sketches and groundbreaking designs is a must-have for pop-culture enthusiasts and fans of comic books. Culled from many decades' worth of work, the Sketchbook presents the world as seen through Will Eisner's eyes, with introductory notes for each of the eleven different sections. From his observations of his friends and loved ones hustling through their busy daily lives to witnessing those quiet moments when no one is supposed to be watching, Eisner's keen perception and steadfast hand capture the essence of what it means to be alive.",2003,4.26,200,35
9781569719626,1569719624,Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 1 - The Defense of Kamino,,Haden Blackman;John Ostrander;Scott Allie; Jan Duursema; Stephen Thompson; Tomas Giorello; Dan Parsons; Ray Krissing,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zf4Vj0nALEMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Clone Wars have begun! Ever since they were mentioned in the very first Star Wars film, fans have been dying to know more. Attack of the Clones offered a glimpse, but ""The Defense of Kamino"" brings the galaxy-wide conflict into full view! Two undercover Jedi discover a Separatist plan to destroy the cloning facility on the watery world of Kamino, thus crippling the Republic's ability to maintain their clone army. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are part of a Jedi fighter squadron sent to protect the installation, but they learn that there are heroes fighting for the Separatist cause as well as for the Republic, and that Jango Fett, though dead, still has something to say about how this war is fought! Meanwhile, Mace Windu, the leader of the Jedi Council, must deal with a rift in the Jedi ranks--a matter that reveals a Jedi traitor and a new Dark Jedi working in league with Dooku. Mace is considered one of the best swordsmen in the galaxy, but can he stand up to the swordmaster who taught him everything he knows--including the mysterious techinque known as ""Vaapad""? New characters and new worlds are revealed as the Clone Wars spreads throughout the galaxy! This volume collects Star Wars: Republic #49-50 and Star Wars: Jedi -- Mace Windu",2003,3.85,128,868
9781569755662,1569755663,Dirty Italian,"Everyday Slang from ""What's Up?"" to ""F*%# Off!""",Gabrielle Euvino,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tSfmBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"GET D!RTY Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in Italian with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: *Cool slang *Funny insults *Explicit sex terms *Raw swear words Dirty Italian teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Italy: What's up? Come va? He's a real hottie. Lui è proprio un figo. This pizza's awesome! Questa pizza è buonissima! I'm totally wasted. Soo sbronzo. I gotta piss. Devo pisciare. Hey ref, you're an asshole! Arbitro cornuto! Wanna do it doggy-style? Lo facciamo alla pecorina?",2006,4.04,163,44
9781569800362,1569800367,"Gunslinger, and Nine Other Action-packed Stories of the Wild West",,Edward Gorman,Frontier and pioneer life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3QLf8gUx1WwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1995,4.25,131,4
9781570031465,1570031460,F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship,,Francis Scott Fitzgerald;Judith Baughman,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1livY71iv-cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,A collection of 46 works by Fitzgerald on writing,1996,3.57,203,7
9781570614590,1570614598,One Hundred Demons,,Lynda Barry,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BLgMQAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of twenty comic strips celebrates the Buddhist challenge to overcome one hundred demons in a lifetime with such offerings as ""Dancing,"" ""Dogs,"" and ""Magic,"" which follow the author's misadventures with adolescence, family, and relationships. Teen.",2005,4.16,224,7405
9781570623950,1570623953,Lao Tzu,,Lao-tzu;Ursula K. Le Guin;Jerome P. Seaton,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c4X6xAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new translation of the classic ""Book of the Way"" provides a manual on the art of living",1998,4.32,125,754
9781570625190,1570625190,The Tao of Physics,An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism,Fritjof Capra,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tLpTAzc9GtQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Studies similarities between the concept of a harmonious universe that emerges from the theories of modern physics and the vision of a continuously interactive world conceived by Eastern mystics,2000,3.97,366,13688
9781570671043,1570671044,Spiritual Midwifery,,Ina May Gaskin,Medical,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Aet5BgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Shares the birthing stories of women who chose to have their babies at home with the help of a midwife, provides information about the safety of techniques used in the hospital before and after birth,discusses postpartum depression and maternal death, and includes resources for doulas, birth centers, and other organizations.",2002,4.38,482,4965
9781570671814,1570671818,Monday Night Class,,Stephen Gaskin,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1PkcPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Monday night class, held in San Francisco, was a popular venue ""taught"" by Stephen Gaskin with 2,000 people attending weekly by 1970. During these historic meetings the laws that governed the spiritual plane were explored--interpreted through the visions of the 60s generatoin with humor and affection. This new edition is a collection of the original transcripts with new commentary by Stephen from today's perspective.",2005,3.9,191,57
9781570715839,1570715831,Steppenwolf,"Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Twenty-five Years of an Actor's Theater",Victor Skrebneski;Richard Christiansen,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AOWDkQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"To celebrate 25 years of extraordinary achievement by the legendary Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago, acclaimed photographer Victor Skrebneski has created an impressive photography book featuring historical production highlights and exclusive portraits of America's most gifted ensemble of artists. Steppenwolf at 25 also contains personal essays penned by several notable American authors and playwrights, including Kurt Vonnegut, Sam Shepard, Don DeLillo, Richard Christiansen, Terry Johnson and Charles L Mee.",2000,4.14,144,7
9781570754364,1570754365,Mother Maria Skobtsova,Essential Writings,Mariia,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2vLYAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A collection of writings that reflect the deep commitment to the gospel mandate that unites love of God and love of neighbor comes from the modern saint and Orthodox nun (1891-1945) who made her home in Paris a haven for Jews during Nazi occupation, a cause for which she gave her life in a concentration camp. Original.",2003,4.31,192,59
9781571741028,157174102X,The Ultimate Time Machine,"A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium",Joseph McMoneagle,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Jr0LmAz0gVQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Joseph McMoneagle is an extraordinary remote viewer, a ""psychic spy,"" whose experiences have given him a special insight into the nature of time and human perception. For more than seventeen years, he was a researcher and remote viewer for the top-secret Army project STARGATE. For years after that, he journeyed through time while working in a consciousness-development lab with out-of-body experience pioneer Robert A. Monroe. McMoneagle explores the questions that philosophers have for centuries debated: Does time really exist? Do our actions today really affect our future? Can we change the past? Do we slip between alternate realities? In The Ultimate Time Machine, McMoneagle delivers new insights into these mysteries, including: First-hand information--including transcripts from lab sessions--on the origins of humanity, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and the building of the Egyptian pyramids. Provocative suggestions about the nature of time, creation, and a constantly changing past. A detailed picture of our immediate future through the year 2075. More than 150 very explicit predictions on world population, aging, religious fragmentation, lifestyle changes, technological developments, and dozens of major changes to laws, customs and practices--all within a positive and constructive framework. A vision of the year 3000, comprising a test of what the author calls the ""Verne Effect""--our ability to create and manipulate our future.",1998,3.49,275,56
9781572244252,1572244259,Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life,The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy,Steven C. Hayes;Spencer Xavier Smith,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=myvCAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Features step-by step mindfulness and acceptance exercises for effective relief from emotional pain. This book develops acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a revolutionary direction in psychotherapy, into step-by-step exercises that readers can use to get relief from emotional pain.",2005,4.05,224,1357
9781572307025,1572307021,Persuasive Communication,,James Brian Stiff;Paul A. Mongeau,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YnXk9Txuov0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of persuasive messages and their effects. Concepts and methods from communication and social psychology are seamlessly integrated to give students a solid grasp of foundational issues in persuasion research, the core features of persuasive transactions, and major models of persuasive communication. Distinguished by its clear organization and wealth of concrete examples, this is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses for students with a basic understanding of quantitative research methods.",2002,3.27,351,4
9781572308688,1572308680,"Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition",A Geographical Interpretation,Robert F. Stock;Robert Stock,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TY4KTgbYnl0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This authoritative text provides a broad introduction to the geography of Africa south of the Sahara. Exploring contemporary issues without losing sight of their historical roots, the volume analyzes the sociocultural, political, economic, and environmental processes that shape resource use and development in this rapidly changing region. Students gain a balanced view of the continent’s trials and triumphs—from postcolonial political strife and the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS to progress toward democratization and sustainable growth.",2004,3.43,479,7
9781573221115,1573221112,The Art of Happiness,A Handbook for Living,Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho;Howard C. Cutler,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LwDEYUP6X-YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawing on more that 2,500 years of Buddhist tradition and teaching, the spiritual leader demonstrates how to confront the negative emotions, stresses, and obstacles of everyday life in order to find the source of inner peace.",1998,4.16,336,75417
9781573223560,1573223565,Songbook,,Nick Hornby,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2oVzXVatzBcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Celebrates thirty-one of the author's favorite songs in a collection of essays about such musical renditions as Bruce Springsteen's ""Thunder Road,"" Led Zeppelin's ""Heartbreaker,"" and Van Morrison's ""Caravan.""",2003,3.56,207,9836
9781573225052,1573225053,Desolation Angels,,Jack Kerouac,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=30H_OYtIpdoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After spending months as a fire lookout on a remote mountain, Jack Duluoz returns to his life in San Francisco and discovers how his isolation has affected his life. As he hitches, walks, and talks his way across the world, Duluoz perceives the angel that is in everything. It is life as he sees it.",1995,3.92,432,9450
9781573225786,1573225789,The Color of Water,A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother,James McBride,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YmCnDSbMVdUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An African American man describes life as the son of a white mother and Black father, reflecting on his mother's contributions to his life and his confusion over his own identity",1997,4.08,291,89841
9781573226325,1573226327,Awakening at Midlife,"A Guide to Reviving Your Spirit, Recreating Your Life, and Returning to Your Truest Self",Kathleen A. Brehony,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4H8SfpY__OQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""A Jungian-oriented psychotherapist, Kathleen Brehony illuminates a new path for people on their midlife journey.""--Jacket.",1997,3.99,384,62
9781573226882,1573226882,Fever Pitch,,Nick Hornby,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v5TO8486rSIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An autobiographical memoir by a humorous British author and obsessed soccer fan captures the intensity of a sports fan who measures his life in seasons rather than years,1998,3.73,247,27781
9781573227162,1573227161,Caucasia,,Danzy Senna,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QxVzAvWnd8IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A debut novel explores the complications of race through the story of two daughters--one light-skinned and the other dark-skinned--of a black father and a white mother, who become torn apart by racial allegiances. Reprint.",1998,4.02,413,5991
9781573228213,1573228214,High Fidelity,,Nick Hornby,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cq7xxO33LPsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows the love affairs and belated growing up of a ""Generation X"" pop music fanatic and record store owner",2000,3.94,323,802
9781573228718,1573228710,Still Here,"Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying",Ram Dass,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kfJvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The noted spiritualist offers humorous and insightful guidance for exploring the joy, pain, and opportunities of the later phases of life.",2001,4.12,224,786
9781573229623,1573229628,Prozac Nation,Young and Depressed in America,Elizabeth Wurtzel,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=441XvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A memoir of sex, drugs, and depression indicts an overmedicated America as it chronicles the fortunes of a Harvard educated child of divorce who lived in the fast lane as a music critic, always fighting her chronic depression.",2002,3.59,384,875
9781573229869,1573229865,The Dream of Scipio,,Iain Pears,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=upJr12VyQuUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An ancient manuscript called ""The Dream of Scipio"" links three separate centuries--the fifth, the end of the Roman Empire; the fourteenth, the time of the Black Death; and the twentieth during World War II--and three stories of love, all set in Provence.",2002,3.73,416,3253
9781573440790,1573440795,The Survivor's Guide to Sex,How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Child Sexual Abuse,Staci Haines,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Y2ytVr2b9voC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An encouraging, sex-positive guide for women who have survived sexual assault. Bibliography & index. Illustrations.",1999,4.31,200,188
9781573442213,1573442216,The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women,,Tristan Taormino,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hLv1ohTIiicC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Many women are intrigued by the idea of exploring anal eroticism, but may be uncertain how to proceed. This user-friendly, sexy, honest, and fun guide offers comprehensive information on all aspects of anal eroticism for all women--heterosexual, bisexual, or lesbian. Illustrations.",2006,4.11,180,367
9781573456630,1573456632,Stone Tables,,Orson Scott Card,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WX_FNwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this imaginative and vivid interpretation of the story of Moses, Orson Scott Card portrays the conflicts, the relationships, and the trials that drove one man from greatness to despair and back to greatness of a very different sort. The epic tale also traces the journey of a people destined to find their way out of slavery and sin to the light of Jehovah. A moving story of faith and uncertainty, political intrigue and personal jealousy, rebellion and submission. Stone Tables is both a gripping adventure and a brilliant study of human nature.",2000,3.87,448,1705
9781574231007,1574231006,Thus Spake the Corpse,"An Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1988-1998",Andrei Codrescu;Laura Rosenthal,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ahrE0Prmge0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Andrei Codrescu's infamous anti-literary magazine Exquisite Corpse became a prime site of engaged dialogue in the stormy decade of its existence. Taking its name from Surrealism, the Corpse became the home of rebellion, passion, polemic, black humour, sedition, and all points between the front lines and back alleys of contemporary culture. In this text, Codrescu and Rosenthal resurrect the best essays and poems from Carl Rakosi, James Purdy, Joel Oppenheimer, Robert Creeley, Tom Clark and other members of America's vibrant and eclectic avant-garde.",1999,3.83,417,18
9781574671322,1574671324,The John Adams Reader,Essential Writings on an American Composer,Thomas Robert May,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Hsdtrp6psBkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This collection of 59 essays--comprising the first full-length book in English on the music of American composer John Adams--contains mostly reprints by critics and musicologists. Also compiled are new interviews with Adams, his colleagues, collaborators, and performers of his music; program and liner notes on his works from 1978 to 2005; and secti",2006,3.5,455,20
9781574881721,1574881728,Insurgency & Terrorism,From Revolution to Apocalypse,Bard E. O'Neill,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i-qCQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Revised edition,2005,3.92,240,128
9781574889239,1574889230,Shattered Sword,The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway,Jonathan B. Parshall;Anthony P. Tully,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=krvlaQ5PQOQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Told from the Japanese perspective, using largely Japanese sources, this volume represents the first substantive contribution to the West's understanding of Midway in more than a generation.",2005,4.4,612,1696
9781575667218,1575667215,Strawberry Shortcake Murder,,Joanne Fluke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tn31krk_iugC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bakery owner and occasional sleuth Hannah Swenson serves as the head judge for Hartland Flour's annual Dessert Bake-Off, but when another judge is murdered, she must sift through a wealth of suspects to find a killer.",2002,3.84,320,13878
9781575667645,1575667649,Bound in Blood,,David Thomas Lord,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7PYZZjvU23QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As a vampire, art critic Jean-Luc ""Jack"" Courbet kills each man he meets after their sexual encounter, but when an enemy arrives, he confronts his past and those who want him destroyed with the help of his new love, actor Claude Halloran.",2001,3.32,352,69
9781576753514,1576753514,Managers Not MBAs,A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development,Henry Mintzberg,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VAzkSUmzGswC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A professor of management studies at McGill University discusses the role of MBA programs in shaping, or failing to shape, good managers, offering advice on how to improve academic business education.",2005,3.85,464,144
9781576839508,1576839508,Bright Purple,Color Me Confused,Melody Carlson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hInMPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Ramona learns that her best friend since grade school is a lesbian, she struggles to decide how to respond, knowing that people of her community, and even her church, have trouble discussing homosexuality civilly.",2006,3.47,213,802
9781576839546,1576839540,Parenting with Love and Logic,Teaching Children Responsibility,Foster Cline;Jim Fay,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TpCtPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Cline and Fay offer advice to help parents raise kids who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the world by teaching them responsibility and the logic of life, thereby giving them the opportunity to solve their own problems from the earliest possible age.",2006,4.07,271,9486
9781577310761,1577310764,Echoes of the Soul,"The Soul's Journey Beyond the Light — Through Life, Death, and Life After Death",Echo Bodine,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XW96AAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"One Palm Sunday, Echo Bodine prayed to be granted a better understanding of worlds beyond this one, and three days later she found herself on an amazing voyage. Leaving her body behind, she traveled through life, death, and then beyond in a breath-taking vision of what awaits us all after this life. Echoes of the Soul is heartwarming and enlightening. In simple prose, Echo Bodine gently leads readers through realms of existence we all have yet to experience. Her inspiring images leave us with a hopeful vision of life after death — or, as Echo calls it, graduation, when we go to our real home. This inspiring and positive vision of the afterlife leaves the reader filled with hope, and even awe. Endorsements ""Echo is the clearest psychic I've ever read. Her vision of our souls and the journey they take is awesome and wonderful — and fills all who read it with an understanding that brings a deep sense of peace, a serenity at the core of our being. Echo's vision puts our lives into a vast perspective — the soul's perspective — infinitely broader than our usual perspective."" — Marc Allen, author of A Visionary Life",1999,4.28,224,337
9781577312055,1577312058,The Gift,Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities,Echo L. Bodine,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zSl9AAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A renowned psychic argues that being psychic is a gift of the spirit we all have, and dispels the fears many people carry about psychics, answering such questions as ""Can I be Christian and a psychic?"" and ""Is there any danger in opening yourself up to psychic information?"" Original.",2003,4.12,160,232
9781577312093,1577312090,The Inner Reaches of Outer Space,Metaphor as Myth and as Religion,Joseph Campbell,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5VOGAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Created from a powerful set of lectures delivered by the ""father of modern mythology,"" this exciting book--the second in the series Collected Works of Joseph Campbell--suggests that laws of physics that govern the universe are also at play within the human consciousness.",2002,4.22,160,943
9781577314035,1577314034,Myths of Light,Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal,Joseph Campbell,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OWdqt29UDGYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This previously unpublished title shows Campbell's remarkable mind engaged with a favorite topic, the myths and metaphors of Asian religions. The book collects seven lectures and articles ranging from the ancient Hindu Vedas to Zen koans, Tantric yoga, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Campbell conveys complex insights through warm, accessible storytelling, revealing the intricacies and secrets of his subjects with his typical enthusiasm.--From publisher description.",2003,4.42,224,330
9781577314806,1577314808,The Power of Now,A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment,Eckhart Tolle,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NFQ7DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The author shares the secret of his own self-realization and the philosophy for living in the present he has developed.,2004,4.13,229,140443
9781577660095,1577660099,Myth and Reality,,Mircea Eliade,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8eEGAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This classic study deals primarily with societies around the world in which myth supplies models for human behavior, & by that very fact, gives meaning & value to life.",1998,4.07,204,501
9781577780724,1577780728,Jesus Freaks,Stories of Those who Stood for Jesus : the Ultimate Jesus Freaks,DC Talk (Musical group),Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qfwJvdqZ02gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Remember the Lord's people who are in jail and be concerned for them. Don't forget those who are suffering but imagine that you are there with them.,1999,4.2,383,18779
9781577782087,1577782089,Live Like a Jesus Freak,Spend Today as if it Were Your Last,DC Talk,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GKpbkU6DHE0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Spend Today As If It Were Your Last For those who've read Jesus Freaks, this book is the next step. Focusing on life application, the book features practical ideas for putting faith to work, challenging questions for deepening your life, and readings that will help you sustain your passion. Live Like a Jesus Freak defines what it means to believe, pray, worship, study, love, stand, forgive, rejoice, serve, and witness like a true Jesus Freak!",2001,4.05,184,580
9781578067046,1578067049,Conversations with Don DeLillo,,Don DeLillo,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nIOdBrl1keUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In a collection of profiles and conversations from 1982 to 2001, renowned novelist Don DeLillo, the author of White Noise and Libra, shares his thoughts on the distinction between historical fact and the creative imagination, his work habits, our media-saturated culture, baseball, Lee Harvey Oswald, the novelist's role in the world, and other topics. Simultaneous.",2005,4.06,183,107
9781578067596,1578067596,Tim Burton,Interviews,Tim Burton,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PXWbtU-85RYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Starting his career as an animator for Disney, Tim Burton made his feature film directorial debut with the visually dazzling, low-budget Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. When it became a surprise blockbuster, studios began to trust him with larger budgets and the whims of his expansive imagination. Mixing gothic horror, black comedy, and oddball whimsy, Burton's movies veer from childlike enchantment to morbid melancholy, often with the same frame. His beautifully designed and highly stylized films-including Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Sleepy Hollow, and Ed Wood-are idiosyncratic, personal visions that have found commercial success. In Tim Burton: Interviews, the director discusses how animation and art design affect his work, how old horror films have deeply influenced his psyche, why so many of his protagonists are outcasts, and how he's managed to make personal films within the Hollywood system. He gives tribute to writers he's worked with, his favorite actors-including Johnny Depp and Vincent Price-and talks enthusiastically about pulp horror fiction and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. These interviews show his progression from an inarticulate young director to a contemplative and dry-witted artist over the course of twenty years. In later interviews, he opens up about being in therapy and how his childhood fantasies still affect his art. Tim Burton: Interviews reveals a man who has managed to thrive inside Hollywood while maintaining the distinctive quirks of an independent filmmaker. Kristian Fraga, New York City, wrote and directed the award-winning PBS documentary The Inside Reel: Digital Filmmaking. He is a founding partner of Sirk Productions, LLC, a Manhattan-based film and television production company.",2005,4.28,192,100
9781578068012,1578068010,Daisy Bates,Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas,Grif Stockley,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rsd_mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Daisy Bates (1914-1999) is renowned as the mentor of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. For guiding the Nine through one of the most tumultuous civil rights crises of the 1950s, she was selected as Woman of the Year in Education by the Associated Press in 1957 and was the only woman invited to speak at the Lincoln Memorial ceremony in the March on Washington in 1963. But her importance as a historical figure has been overlooked by scholars of the civil rights movement. Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas chronicles her life and political advocacy before, during, and well after the Central High School crisis. An orphan from the Arkansas mill town of Huttig, she eventually rose to the zenith of civil rights action. In 1952, she was elected president of the NAACP in Arkansas and traveled the country speaking on political issues. During the 1960s, she worked as a field organizer for presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to get out the black vote. Even after a series of strokes, she continued to orchestrate self-help and economic initiatives in Arkansas. Using interviews, archival records, contemporary news-paper accounts, and other materials, author Grif Stockley reconstructs Bates's life and career, revealing her to be a complex, contrary leader of the civil rights movement. Ultimately, Daisy Bates paints a vivid portrait of an ardent, overlooked advocate of social justice.",2005,3.55,340,11
9781578562589,1578562589,Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World,Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness of Life,Joanna Weaver,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IBkmI6dd-ZQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide for women who struggle between a longing for a deeper spiritual life and the demands of their daily responsibilities offers practical advice on how to balance work and worship, offers guilt-reducing reassurance, and explains how readers can experience less stress and greater joy while strengthening their service. Reissue.",2000,4.17,256,14170
9781578569052,1578569052,Dinner With A Perfect Stranger,An Invitation Worth Considering,David Gregory,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c_852hpb5-sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Thinking the guys at work are playing an absurd joke on him, Nick Cominsky accepts a dinner invitation with Jesus Christ, and soon finds himself deep in conversation about family, religion, and faith, and confronting his doubts.",2005,3.98,100,2921
9781578569540,1578569540,Dark Water,,Linda Hall,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=klKyQna8YYQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a jewelry designer hires private investigator Jake Rikker to find her stalker, Jake becomes entangled in a mystery that threatens to destroy them both.",2006,3.66,354,182
9781579120580,157912058X,The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics,,Alan Aldridge;Beatles,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=--hSPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a collection of illustrated Beatle lyrics along with candid commentary on the songs and their origins,1969,4.25,272,1348
9781579124588,1579124585,The Right Stuff,,Tom Wolfe,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h10V8jGmgn8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Enhanced by hundreds of period photographs, presents an illustrated edition of the classic portrait of America's early space program and its first astronauts.",2004,4.25,304,207
9781579126216,1579126219,Macbeth,,William Shakespeare,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e4qgOQK0C8oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents Shakespeare's tragedy of prophecy and royal murder in medieval Scotland in graphic novel format.,2006,3.99,96,8
9781579126230,1579126235,Murder on the Orient Express,A Hercule Poirot Mystery,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yv-_9AgO5PwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant Belgian inspector Hercule Poirot is also on board, having booked the last available berth.",1934,4.16,266,1475
9781579126247,1579126243,The A.B.C. Murders,A Hercule Poirot Novel,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rkc0_G_ULg4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A is for Ascher, cudgeled in Andover. B is for Barnard, strangled in Bexhill. C is for Clarke, struck down in Churston. Beside each body is an A.B.C. Railway guide; before each murder Hercule Poirot is notified. In one of Christie's most twisted tales, the meticulous Belgian sleuth must navigate the eerie maze of a serial killer's mind. D is for Doncaster, where the next victim dies... E is for evidence, ingeniously analyzed.",1936,4,252,63488
9781579126254,1579126251,Murder at the Vicarage,A Miss Marple Mystery,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gXWnYlqSrnAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Colonel Protheroe is found dead from a single gun shot wound to the head, none of his neighbors in the village of St. Mary Mead is much surprised. So many people wished this local official would say farewell, if not quite so permanently. With suspects abound and the local police symied it is up to Miss Jane Marple to root out the killer.",2005,4.05,288,113459
9781579126261,157912626X,The Body in the Library,A Miss Marple Mystery,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hcgeejmsoFkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Miss Marple investigates the death of a stylish blonde who is found murdered in front of a library hearth at Grossington Hall.,2006,3.85,191,43669
9781579126278,1579126278,The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,A Hercule Poirot Mystery,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vipSK5f4hbgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A widow's sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was being blackmailed, and was carrying on a secrey affair with the wealthy Roger Ackroyd. The following evening, Ackroyd is murdered in his locked study, but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow's blackmailer. Kings Abbot is crawling with suspects and it's up to famous detective, Hercule Poirot, to solve the case.",1926,4.23,288,93453
9781579126285,1579126286,Evil Under the Sun,A Hercule Poirot Mystery,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aSK_ARf71S0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a shrewish stage star is found strangled at a posh island resort, detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate.",1940,3.96,220,34030
9781579126292,1579126294,A Murder is Announced,A Miss Marple Mystery,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qWRtfToniGcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Miss Marple confronts a party game ""murder"", though the dead man appears to have killed himself, Miss Marple thinks otherwise.",2005,3.98,288,31050
9781579126896,1579126898,Death on the Nile,,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OHdsuQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three classic Hercule Poirot mysteries by the grand dame of the genre are reissued, repackaged, and revitalized. ""What more can a mystery addict desire?""--""New York Times.""",2007,4.09,351,629
9781579126957,1579126952,The Mystery of the Blue Train,A Hercule Poirot Mystery,Agatha Christie,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SY0puQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now in a digest edition, this classic mystery finds American heiress Ruth Kettering on the luxurious Blue Train, where she's mysteriously murdered. Sleuth Hercule Poirot must now peek into Ruth's secret life.",1928,3.8,317,21431
9781579510022,1579510027,The Illuminati Papers,,Robert Wilson,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=T-ciBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Is history a vast conspiracy? A cosmic joke? Discover the truth - maybe - in the long-awaited new edition of Robert Anton Wilson's classic cult bestseller The Illuminati Papers. Created as a vehicle to amuse and enlighten, the story of the Illuminati has attracted devoted readers world-wide, who have found in it a perfect metaphor for our times. This edition has a new introduction, cover and layout.",1997,3.83,168,699
9781579546465,1579546463,The South Beach Diet,"The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss",Arthur Agatston,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9Wk8AQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A renowned cardiologist discusses the importance of understanding the glycemic index values of foods and presents a weight-loss program that includes meal plans and recipes.,2003,3.44,310,530
9781579652524,1579652522,Mangoes & Curry Leaves,Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent,,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eSQxAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explores the food of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka to provide readers with a taste of the Subcontinent through recipes that include cashew-coconut meatballs, spicy chickpea fritters, and cumin-coriander beef patties.",2005,4.18,416,615
9781579905088,1579905080,1000 Rings,Inspiring Adornments for the Hand,Marthe Le Van,Crafts & Hobbies,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NtXwT05_RU4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An extensive and diverse collection of one thousand magnificent rings from world-renowned artisans and jewelers is presented in a book of inspiring and detailed photographs. Original.,2004,4.22,416,80
9781579907150,1579907156,Artful Paper Dolls,New Ways to Play with a Traditional Form,Terry Taylor,Crafts & Hobbies,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DNj2A8vAS9QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A glimpse into the rich history of paper dolls is accompanied by many charming manufactured and handmade examples.,2006,4.06,144,57
9781580012515,1580012515,International Codes,Vol. 1,International Code Council,Building laws,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f4M-AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage that establishes minimum regulations for building systems using prescriptive and performance-related provisions.",2006,3.5,664,8
9781580012591,1580012590,International Plumbing Code 2006,,International Code Council,Technology & Engineering,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PWGbQAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides comprehensive minimum regulations for plumbing facilities in terms of both performance and prescriptive objectives, and provides for the acceptance of new and innovative products, materials and systems""--Publisher description.",2006,3.5,148,4
9781580051880,158005188X,Homelands,"Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time",Patricia Justine Tumang;Jenesha de Rivera,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=f-EEAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This beautifully complex collection of essays weaves together many different perspectives of ""homeland,"" including belonging, longing, and exile, and features contributions from Etel Adnan, who chose to leave Beirut during wartime, and Agate Nesaule, who left Latvia under Nazi and Soviet threats. Original.",2006,4.43,343,42
9781580070911,1580070914,Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker,,Yefim Gordon;Peter Davison,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3jnhAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recognized as one of the best fighters of the 1990s, the Su-27 Flanker is a single-seat supersonic interceptor that is often declared the finest and most successful fighter of the Cold War era. Designed by Sukhoi OKB, the imposing fighter quickly gained popularity and respect from countries all across the globe. Intended to be a direct competitor to the new generation of American fighters such as the F-15, the Su-27 was designed with outstanding range, heavy armament, and high agility. Excellent performance, handling, and serviceability have made the aircraft popular with its pilots and ground personnel alike. Equipped with an analog fly-by-wire control system, a full avionics suite, and up to 10 air-to-air missiles, the Flanker also features a rearward-facing radar between the engines, allowing it to fire at targets behind the aircraft. Outfitted with two Lyul'ka AL-31F turbofans, each 12,500 kgp (27,557 lb st) with afterburning, the Su-27's high thrust-to-weight ratio and refined aerodynamics allow superb flight characteristics at high angles of attack. Yefim Gordon and Peter Davison are the authors of several books on Soviet aircraft including the Specialty Press titles Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum and Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15 Fagot. Over 300 photos illustrate the story of the Su-27. Topics covered include design, development, structural detail, international production, trials, upgrades and generations, comparisons, overseas sales, and much more. This book is a must have for all warbird enthusiasts!",2006,3,104,6
9781580086813,1580086810,Hungry Planet,What the World Eats,Peter Menzel;Faith D'Aluisio,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-fFqQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""A photographic collection exploring what the world eats featuring portraits of thirty families from twenty-four countries surrounded by a week's worth of food""--Provided by publisher.",2005,4.44,288,1420
9781580174046,1580174043,Maple Syrup Cookbook,,Ken Haedrich,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3fwiA3jsFfwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Maple Syrup Cookbook 8-Copy Display contains:8-Maple Syrup Cookbook ISBN 1580174043,2001,3.82,144,38
9781580175203,1580175201,Cider,"Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider",Annie Proulx;Lew Nichols,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c-Bmu8i-cp0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Pilgrims drank cider as they sailed to America aboard the Mayflower. John Adams had a tankard of cider every morning at breakfast. After a long day on safari, Ernest Hemingway liked to kick back beside the campfire with a glass of cider. And Robert Frost saluted his favorite beverage with a poem titled ?In A Glass of Cider.? Neck and neck with brewing beer at home is the resurgence of making cider. Whether sweet, hard, blended, or sparkling, trend watchers say cider, once the preferred beverage of early America, could very well become the drink of the future. (Hard cider is the fastest growing segment of the beverage industry.) Keeping pace with the commercial cider producers are small-scale and individual cider makers who have discovered how easy it is to make their own. After all, the only ingredient you need is an apple. In this updated edition of Cider, Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols take you step-by-step through the process that renders fruit into a refreshing drink. In addition to learning about the equipment you?ll need to make a glorious cider, Proulx and Nichols also discuss the pros and cons of various types of apple presses ? from traditional heavy grinders to sleek hydraulic presses. You?ll also learn about the glass bottles vs. wooden barrels debate; how to filter, fine, and rack your cider; and where and how to store it. Proulx and Nichols provide detailed recipes for making six types of cider: still, sparkling, champagne, barrel, French, and flavored, with advice on which apples to use to achieve a tart, aromatic, astringent, or neutral quality in your cider. In fact, this book is brimming with expert advice on cidermaking. If you want to plant your own apple orchard, this book has an entire chapter that lists which cultivars of apples thrive in which parts of the United States and Canada, along with each cultivar?s characteristics and when it is ready for harvesting. Another chapter explains how to care for an orchard, from improving the soil to pruning and thinning the trees to fighting off pests and wildlife. Once a cidermaker has learned how to make excellent cider, he or she is likely to look for further fields t o explore. With that in mind, the authors include a chapter on making cider vinegars and brandy and using cider in cooking. Finally, Proulx and Nichols walk you through the latest federal regulations covering the production and sale of homemade cider in the United States and Canada, and they familiarize you with the kind of impact state and provincial laws can make.The clear, simple language, numerous illustrations, and detailed step-by-step directions make it easy for even novices to become skilled cidermakers. This revised edition of the classic handbook is a complete guide for anyone who wants to discover the pleasure of making ? and drinking ? fresh cider.",2003,3.64,224,175
9781580420815,1580420818,Doyle Brunson's Super System,,Doyle Brunson,Games & Activities,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xUB9hJqSxI8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twice-world champion and Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson and five leading experts in their various specialties tell you when to raise, call, bet, and fold at hold 'em (limit and no-limit), 7-stud (high and low), draw poker, and lowball. Collaborators David ""Chip"" Reese, Mike Caro, David Sklansky, Joey Hawthorne, and former world champion Bobby Baldwin. This treatise on professional-level poker is the result of over 10,000 hours of labor by the world's greatest players and theorists and has never been equaled in scope or value. This is the must-have book for serious poker players.",2002,3.94,605,2006
9781580495790,1580495796,A Christmas Carol,,Charles Dickens,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oWYO1uH9mmcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the reader fully appreciate the beauty and humor of Dickens's work.In his ""Ghostly little book,"" Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world's most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, not only as fictional characters, but also as icons of the true meaning of Christmas in a world still plagued with avarice and cynicism.",2005,4.04,112,6415
9781580495868,1580495869,The Red Badge of Courage,,Stephen Crane,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lN1gajMoM7wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"As he faces battle in the Civil War for the first time, a young Union soldier comes to grips with his fear and conflicting emotions about war. This edition includes Crane's short sequel, The veteran.",2004,3.23,170,74477
9781580624596,1580624596,Sun Tzu,The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules,Sun-tzu;Gerald A. Michaelson,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eUNB27RRRuQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Learn the strategic rules of Sun Tzu and how to incorporate them into your management style. In this translation of The Art of War readers will benefit from the interpretations from other translators and strategist, as well as the 50 strategic rules, including: How to look for strategic turns to meet the competition How to attain strategic superiority and crush the competition How to plan surprise and stay ahead of the game And more timeless wisdom that will allow you to compete and win in the dynamic business environment! Business managers around the world have tapped into this ancient wisdom; it is time to master The Art of War for Managers for the existence and growth of your business!",2001,3.8,224,290
9781580628365,1580628362,Please Stop Laughing At Me,One Woman's Inspirational Story,Jodee Blanco,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kAdKZqFgAmYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her poignant work, Jodee Blanco tells how school became a frightening and painful place, where threats, humiliation, and assault were as much a part of her daily experience as bubblegum and lip-gloss were for others. It is an unflinching look at what it means to be an outcast, how even the most loving parents can get it wrong, why schools fail, and how bullying is both misunderstood and mishandled.",2003,3.84,288,9515
9781580631600,1580631606,The Stephen King Universe,The Guide to the Worlds of the King of Horror,Stanley Wiater;Christopher Golden;Hank Wagner,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8c6X4vTL5IMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""I am coming to understand that Roland's world actually contains all the others of my making"" --Stephen King With those words, from The Dark Tower: IV Wizard and Glass, the world's most popular writer confirmed a suspicion long held by readers--that the myriad worlds and universes King has created are, in reality, one world, one universe. Here, for the first time ever is the guide to that universe, a thrilling road map and informative tour for new readers and diehard fans alike. The Stephen King Universe is the very first examination of all of King's fiction and the way in which its plots and characters, conflicts, and themes, intertwine. This definitive reference work examines his novels and short stories, as well as the motion pictures, miniseries, and teleplays that King has written. The authors spent three years discovering and tying together the threads that exist in King's fiction. Their insightful results will entertain and surprise readers new and old. Once you have read The Stephen King Universe, you will never read Stephen King the same way again",2001,4.14,478,6241
9781580931779,1580931774,New York 2000,Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium,Robert A. M. Stern;David Fishman;Jacob Tilove,Architecture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=F2xyQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Featuring insightful discussions on the development of Battery Park City, the rebirth of Harlem and Times Square, the creation of the cultural precinct around the new MoMA, and the reclaiming of the waterfront along the East and Hudson Rivers as recreational parkland, New York 2000 documents ongoing commitments to innovation and renovation and celebrates the achievements of internationally recognized architects, including Sir Norman Foster, Cesar Pelli, Richard Meier, and Renzo Piano."" ""The survey of organized geographically, beginning in Lower Manhattan and moving north through Harlem and to the outer boroughs including the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. Woven throughout is commentary on the repercussions of September 11, 2001, New York 2000 is a thorough study of how a world-class metropolis preserves, showcases, and constructs an architectural heritage that endures over the course of two centuries.""--BOOK JACKET.",2006,4.47,1520,15
9781580931861,1580931863,Glass House,,Toshio Nakamura,Architecture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SWbIPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Glass House, designed by celebrated architect Philip Johnson as a personal retreat, is an icon of modern architecture. A crystalline box set in a serene New England landscape, the house is now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which will open it to visitors in April 2007. Johnson used his property near New Canaan, Connecticut, as an architectural laboratory, adding nine additional structures over a forty-year period. Among them are the Ghost House, a chain-link tribute to Frank Gehry, and the witty, bright red Gate House. Glass House is a unique presentation of the Glass House complex in words and photographs. Compiled by eminent critic Toshio Nakamura under the sponsorship of YKK AP Inc., the volume features a specially commissioned suite of photographs, taken throughout the four seasons, by renowned architectural photographer Michael Moran, including cross-processed images and images taken with infrared film. The deluxe graphic presentation, with distinctive paper stocks and foldout pages reproducing Johnson's original drawings, was conceived by designer Michael Rock of 2x4.",2007,4,256,14
9781581342147,1581342144,This Present Darkness ; Piercing the Darkness,Two Bestselling Novels Complete in One Volume,Frank E. Peretti,,,,1997,4.54,813,2708
9781581342475,1581342470,The Hidden Smile of God,"The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd",John Piper,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kK0Ih-8e8wYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of ""Comforting God"" takes an inspiring look at the words and examples of three early Christians--William Cowper, John Bunyan, and David Brainerd--and how their faith in adversity encourages us to rest in the sovereignty of God amid our own difficulties.",2001,4.33,175,636
9781581344493,158134449X,The Gospel According to Job,,Mike Mason,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=j2YnBpP6Ef0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Arranged as a series of meditations on selected passages from one of the Bible's most beloved books, this book is for Christians who, like Job, are experiencing deep suffering and a sense of separation from God.",2002,4.43,448,133
9781581345261,1581345267,Prophet,,Frank E. Peretti,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A0tppfpAvl4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Anchorman John Barrett knows something is wrong. The story doesn't add up. Prompted by extraordinary spiritual experiences, he begins to uncover a story about abortion that no one wants to hear.",2004,3.94,416,12479
9781581345278,1581345275,Piercing the Darkness,,Frank E. Peretti,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4wTFWMPhNn0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the tiny farming community of Bacon's Corner, an attempted murder, a case of mistaken identity, and a lawsuit against a struggling Christian school all lead Sally Beth Roe to flee for her life",2003,4.31,448,48725
9781581345285,1581345283,This Present Darkness,,Frank E. Peretti,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eFBOvBvKqE4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A prayerful pastor and a skeptical reporter compare notes and find themselves fighting a plot to subjugate the human race. A gripping look into the invisible spiritual warfare around us and the power of prayer.,2003,4.23,376,82841
9781581346084,1581346085,The Passion of Jesus Christ,Fifty Reasons why He Came to Die,John Piper,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5eLRwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die The most important questions anyone can ask are: Why was Jesus Christ crucified? Why did he suffer so much? What has this to do with me? Finally, who sent him to his death? The answer to the last question is that God did. Jesus was God's Son. The suffering was unsurpassed, but the whole message of the Bible leads to this answer. Why did Christ suffer and die? The central issue of Jesus' death is not the cause, but the meaning-God's meaning. That is what this book is about. John Piper has gathered from the New Testament fifty reasons. Not fifty causes, but fifty purposes-in answer to the most important question that each of us must face: What did God achieve for sinners like us in sending his Son to die?",2004,4.23,127,6007
9781581346527,1581346522,When I Don't Desire God,How to Fight for Joy,John Piper,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vtQgLN0Aq8YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For over twenty-five years John Piper has trumpeted the truth that “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.” He calls it Christian Hedonism. The problem is that many people, after being persuaded, find that this truth is both liberating and devastating. It’s liberating because it endorses our inborn desire for joy. And it’s devastating because it reveals that we don’t desire God the way we should. What do you do when you discover the good news that God wants you to be content in him, but then find that you aren’t? If joy in God were merely the icing on the cake of Christian commitment, this book would be insignificant. But Piper argues that joy is so much more. Our being satisfied in God is necessary to show God’s worthiness and to sustain sacrifices of love. Jesus endured the cross for the joy that was set before him. He tasted it. It sustained him through the deepest suffering. His Father was glorified. His people were saved. That is what joy in God does. The absolutely urgent question becomes: What can I do if I don’t have it? With a pastor’s heart and with radical passion for the glory of Christ, John Piper helps you answer that question.",2004,4.18,268,4131
9781581348095,1581348096,Suffering and the Sovereignty of God,,John Piper;Justin Taylor,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cd3IwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"John Piper and other contributors explore the many categories of God's sovereignty as evidenced in his Word, helping readers form a biblical view of suffering.",2006,4.31,254,621
9781581348132,1581348134,The Legacy of Sovereign Joy,"God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin",John Piper,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yxN88pY_ko8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin reveal the glory and grace of a perfect God in the imperfect lives of his faithful servants.",2006,4.26,158,794
9781581348767,1581348762,When the Darkness Will Not Lift,Doing what We Can While We Wait for God and Joy,John Piper,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Xmy_-rGATuYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"John Piper examines depression from a spiritual perspective, guiding and encouraging those for whom joy seems to stay out of reach.",2006,4.12,79,1173
9781581807592,1581807597,Face Off,How to Draw Amazing Caricatures & Comic Portraits,Harry Hamernik,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=B-9-mAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discover the fast, fun art of drawing comic portraits! Face Off shows you how to draw life like never before. Caricaturist Harold Hamernik shares the secrets to capturing the sillier side of friends, family, celebrities, strangers—any face that crosses your path. 40 step-by-step demonstrations show you how to sketch whimsical and expressive likenesses while developing your own quick, loose, improvisational style. You'll get expert instruction on: Drawing eyes, noses, mouths and other features. Creating portraits in front, three-quarter and profile views. Adding color to your caricatures, either by hand or via computer—instruction you won't find in any other book! Tips for making a likeness more masculine (skip the eyelashes), more feminine (lengthen the neck), younger, older, sexier, goofier—all while making a portrait your subject will love. How to draw hair as two simple lines, why drawing the parts of a face in the same order every time can cut minutes off your work, and tons of other handy tricks of the craft! Practice the simple techniques in this book, then start drawing! It's the most fun you can have with paper, pencils and markers!",2006,4.03,127,65
9781581807745,1581807740,Simply Beautiful Beaded Jewelry,,Heidi Boyd,Crafts & Hobbies,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PRvExwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"If gorgeous beaded jewelry always catches your eye, you'll love making (and wearing!) your own necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Simply Beautiful Beaded Jewelry includes 50 projects plus variations in designer Heidi Boyd's simply elegant signature style. Inside you're bound to find plenty of designs to strike your fancy as well as a helpful section that shows you the basic supplies and techniques you'll need to get started. As an added bonus, many of the projects have variations in different colors and styles to help you customize your jewelry to your personal style. &break;&break;Just think how proud you'll feel the first time you can answer, ""I made it myself"" to a compliment on your fabulous new multistrand necklace or your sparkling, swingy crystal earrings. With Simply Beautiful Beaded Jewelry, it truly is easy to get started–in no time at all you'll be showcasing your own original beaded creations and making them as gifts.",2006,3.75,128,61
9781581821369,1581821360,The Southern Haunting of Truman Capote,,Marie Rudisill;James Coleman Simmons,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z-8HAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Like many Southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s, who as a group created the richest, most memorable body of regional literature in the history of American letters. Truman Capote eventually journeyed northward. As the years passed, Capote's moorings to his Southern past grew weaker and weaker and he deliberately cut himself off from the people and places that provided fodder for much of his early fiction. The Southern Haunting of Truman Capote is a thoughtful reflection on the literary origins of four of Capote's important early works - A Christmas Memory, The Grass Harp, Children on Their Birthdays and Other Voices, Other Rooms - in light of the boyhood experiences that inspired those four works. Marie Rudisill, a younger sister of Capote's mother and the only one of her nephew's companions to have known him well his whole life, was in touch with him for more than seventy years As early as the mid-1940s, Marie Rudisill realised that her nephew was destined for literary greatness. She began hoarding his letters, newspaper clippings, articles, personal mementoes - anything that might prove useful later as a record of his life. During their many telephone conversations, whenever Cap",2000,3.96,135,25
9781582293080,1582293082,Shoofly Pie,,Tim Downs,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HjJb3LiXfg8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak (a.k.a. the Bug Man) is hired by 30-year-old Kathryn Guilford, who is terrified of bugs, to solve her friend's death. When Polchak stumbles into the mystery of how Kathryn's husband was killed years earlier, Polchak finds himself on the run with his client from someone who will do anything to keep a secret.",2003,4.18,371,1381
9781582294018,1582294011,Chop Shop,,Tim Downs,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xqEIdLQrZHwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Intern forensic pathologist Dr. Riley McKay has noticed irregularities in autopsies at the Allegheny County Coroner's lab. Suspecting foul play, she seeks help from Dr. Nick Polchak, the ""bug man"" renowned for his ability to solve murders by analyzing the insects on victim's bodies. Nick and Riley uncover a sinister link between the lab's director and PharmaGen, a start-up drug company specializing in genetic research. They also discover that PharmaGen fronts an underground system to procure transplant organs for wealthy clients by finding and murdering matching donors. But PharmaGen learns of their security breach and orders the couple destroyed. While staying a step ahead of PharmaGen assassins, romantic attraction develops between Nick and Riley. But the attraction is complicated by a tragic secret that Riley hides -- a secret closely tied to one member of PharmaGen's operation which propels the novel to its astonishing conclusion.",2004,4.22,352,899
9781582343495,1582343497,Schott's Original Miscellany,,Ben Schott,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m72iQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Impossible to read at one sitting, but utterly unputdownable, Schott's Original Miscellany is a unique collection of fabulous trivia. What other book boasts an index that includes shoelace lengths, sign language, and the seven deadly sins; dueling and dwarves; the hair color of Miss America and the Hampton Court maze? Where else can you find, packed onto one page, the names of golf strokes, a history of the Hat Tax, cricketing dismissals, nouns of assemblage, an unofficial motto of the US Postal Service, and the flag of Guadeloupe? Where else but Schott's Original Miscellany will you stumble across John Lennon's cat, the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen, the labors of Hercules, and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple? A book like no other, Schott's Original Miscellany is entertaining, informative, unpredictable, and utterly addictive.",2003,4.08,158,1349
9781582344720,1582344728,Soldiers of Salamis,A Novel,Javier Cercas;Anne McLean,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pDOgAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Facing a firing squad at the end of the Spanish Civil War, Nationalist Rafael Snchez Mazas escapes his executioners into the nearby forest, where he is discovered by an unknown soldier who refuses to kill him, in a historical novel that sheds light on the events surrounding a real-life incident. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.",2005,3.79,213,398
9781582346106,1582346100,The Line of Beauty,A Novel,Alan Hollinghurst,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jUSgAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Moving into the attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy, politically connected Fedden family in 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest becomes caught up in the rising fortunes of this glamorous family and finds his own life forever altered by his association during the boom years of the 1980s. By the author of The Swimming-Pool Library. Reprint.",2005,3.73,438,364
9781582346175,1582346178,A Year in the Merde,,Stephen Clarke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pkCgAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An entertaining memoir of the author's adventures and experiences as an expatriate living in Paris describes the life and times of a young British man brought to Paris by a French company to open a chain of British tea rooms, detailing his dealings with lazy French employees, a scheming boss, lusty girlfriends, and French culture. Reprint.",2006,3.55,276,11116
9781582404875,1582404879,Safety Behind Bars,,Robert Kirkman;Charlie Adlard;Cliff Rathburn,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u2R_PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rick Grimes attempts to lay down roots in a maximum-security prison, which he anticipates will be an easily defensible base, until he and his partners encounter four zombies, with whom they establish a tenuous truce.",2005,4.31,136,25132
9781582406121,158240612X,The Best Defense,,Robert Kirkman;Charlie Adlard;Cliff Rathburn,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r30qAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rick mounts a mission to rescue a crashed helicopter but discovers that another group has beat him, while back at the prison, the group tries to restore electrical power by siphoning gas for the generator from abandoned cars in the parking lot.",2006,4.29,136,20937
9781582406930,1582406936,Fell,Feral City. Volume 1,Warren Ellis;Ben Templesmith,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IBXZNwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a collapsing urban trashzone. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: everybody's hiding something.",2007,4.16,128,6659
9781582407593,1582407592,The Walking Dead,,Robert Kirkman,"Comic books, strips, etc",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G_EevgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Police officer Rick Grimes and a few human survivors battle hordes of decomposing zombies.,2004,,,
9781582433226,1582433224,A Complicated Kindness,,Miriam Toews,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Vy6CtWqR1aoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity balances grief and hope in this coming-of-age novel. Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, she spends her days piecing together why her mother and sister left.",2005,3.65,253,17112
9781582433417,1582433410,D.H. Lawrence,The Life of an Outsider,John Worthen,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jrEycEbOH3AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A portrait of one of the twentieth century's most radical and misunderstood writers follows Lawrence from his awkward youth in Nottinghamshire, through his turbulent relationship with Frieda and the years of exile abroad, to his premature death at the age of 44.",2005,4.02,560,56
9781582433455,1582433453,The Horizontal World,Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere,Debra K. Marquart,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3QTo2UTFdS0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An evocative memoir of growing up on a family farm in rural North Dakota, on land her family had worked for generations, reflects on her desire to escape the difficult life, her relationship with and admiration for her father, and the influence of place on personal identity.",2006,3.77,270,381
9781582791807,1582791805,Agnes Grey,,Anne Brontë,England,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cdtH2coL4YEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2001,3.68,190,37
9781582972947,158297294X,Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure,,James Scott Bell,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0arFsgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Craft an Engaging Plot How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course? With Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure, you'll discover the answers to these questions and more. Award-winning author James Scott Bell offers clear, concise information that will help you create a believable and memorable plot, including: Techniques for crafting strong beginnings, middles, and ends Easy-to-understand plotting diagrams and charts Brainstorming techniques for original plot ideas Thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter Story structure models and methods for all genres Tips and tools for correcting common plot problems Filled with plot examples from popular novels, comprehensive checklists, and practical hands-on guidance, Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure gives you the skills you need to approach plot and structure like an experienced pro.",2004,4.1,234,4304
9781583224717,1583224718,Lithium for Medea,A Novel,Kate Braverman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aKsC0lkkeXYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Probes the strained relationships between a woman and her abrasive mother, her cancer-stricken father, an ex-husband who is permanently tuned into Star Trek, and Jason, her erotic but higly manipulative lover. Reprint.",2002,3.94,362,331
9781583224892,1583224890,9-11 [neuf-onze],,Noam Chomsky;Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) Noam Chomsky,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E5NoWOUhcpYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents a series of interviews conducted during the first month following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that discuss reactions to the attacks in the U.S. and abroad, U.S. foreign policy, and the new war on terrorism.",2001,3.73,140,2981
9781583332054,1583332057,The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics,A Philosophy for Achieving a Radiant Mind and Fabulous Body,Jessica Porter,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S5-e-YIwRbkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Provides a detailed overview of the health benefits of eating a macrobiotic diet and combines cooking tips and recipes with practical advice on how to strengthen one's body and mind through eating high-quality whole foods.,2004,3.68,289,419
9781583421543,1583421548,Rumble Fish,,Marcus Romer;S. E. Hinton,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vY9oGhdxHTsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A two-act play adapted from S. E. Hinton's classic novel about two brothers who search for identity and acceptance within the gangs.,2003,3.87,135,885
9781584281344,1584281340,Posing for Portrait Photography,A Head-to-toe Guide,Jeff Smith,Photography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CzPBwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jeff Smith teaches surefire techniques for achieving flattering results, detailing the principles of posing the entire body - head, shoulders, arms, hands, bust, waist, hips, thighs and feet. With an emphasis on creating images that will sell themselves, readers will learn to correct common figure problems and design poses that look natural, crafting images that clients are sure to love.",2004,3.38,124,48
9781584794943,1584794941,Healthy Cooking for IBS,100 Delicious Recipes to Keep You Symptom-Free,Sophie Braimbridge;Erica Jankovich,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cWLmAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A noted chef and a dietician join forces to create one hundred delicious recipes specifically tailored to the needs of those suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), featuring an array of dishes for breakfasts, breads, snacks, appetizers, soups, salads, main courses, and desserts, along with information on the syndrome and nutritional and dietary recommendations. Original.",2006,2.62,144,2
9781584850458,1584850450,Homeless,,Laurie Halse Anderson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=S8jrAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sunita and her fellow volunteers at the Wild at Heart veterinary clinic become involved in efforts to save a bunch of feral and abandoned cats with the help of Dr. Mac.,2000,4.07,126,401
9781584850557,1584850558,Teacher's Pet,,Laurie Halse Anderson,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2sjrAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Adjusting to middle school becomes easier for twelve-year-old Maggie when she finds that her biology teacher, who is blind, can learn a few things from her about working with his guide dog.",2001,4.07,128,170
9781585004287,1585004286,"The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, Book One",,"Jaroslav Hašek;Zdeněk ""Zenny"" K. Sadlon",Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ejFyDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"vejk represents one of the most unique and successful survival strategies ever conceived by man. Joseph Heller said that if it weren't for his having read The Good Soldier vejk he would never had written his American novel Catch-22. The only Czech book on most 100 Best Books of the 20th Century lists. This is a new translation by Zdenek K. Sadlon and Emmett M. Joyce. The Good Soldier vejk is a picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and to enjoy life in the face of the endless absurdities imposed on him by the effects of the complex institutions of modern society that magnify the rational and moral shortcomings of individuals in direct proportion to their positions in the hierarchies they are a part of. ""Like Diogenes, vejk lingers at the margins of an unfriendly society against which he is defending his independent existence."" - Peter Steiner ""Those people who wanted the novel banned in the newly independent Czechoslovakia (after World War I) and elsewhere, some of whom succeeded, were quite correct to see it as more than a satire on war and militarism (although it is that, as well, of course) the book is a very funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human enterprise conferring benefits on those who live under its control and, equally important, on the various justifications such bureaucracies offer for their own existence."" - Ian Johnston",2000,4.11,260,21
9781585004843,1585004847,Childhood Shadows,The Hidden Story of the Black Dahlia Murder,Mary Pacios,True Crime,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MsXkwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The people of Scerone gathered in the Ring of Challenge. They had come to witness the passing of their beloved Amulet from one Guardian to the next, as well as the fulfilling of the ancient prophecy that would unite the two great powers of their land. But instead, betrayal and subterfuge plunged their world into chaos. The Amulet, (a powerful talisman that holds most of their world's magic) is sentenced to fifty years of silence, and worse, helplessness. The talisman is secreted away, hidden from the treacherous Queen whose one desire is to claim its powers as her own. For fifty years the power of the Amulet is trapped within the golden walls of its domain, waiting for the time when it can summon the next young woman who will serve as Guardian and wield its power. Jessica Spencer cannot explain the recurring dream that beckons to her. Every morning the message of the dream is lost leaving her with an aching desire to fulfill a fate she cannot even remember. Fifty years later, they gather once again in the Ring of Challenge, hoping to see an end to the reign of terror that began with the silencing of the Amulet half a century ago. The High Queen, who desires nothing more than to weild the power herself, the fair-haired child who is slowly realizing the fate her dreams have only hinted at, their Protector and Champion come together in the Ring of Challenge to once again decide the destiny of the Scerone. Fair-haired child full of grace",1999,3.5,292,46
9781585100378,1585100374,Sophocles: the Theban Plays,,Sophocles,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qCJgAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"English translations of three of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle: King Oidipous, Oidipous at Colonus, and Antigone. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.",2002,3.97,248,54
9781585100873,1585100870,Aristophanes' Acharnians,,Aristophanes;Jeffrey Henderson,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DTyrAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"English translation of Aristophanes' hilarious indictment against war, with an introductory essay and helpful notes. Essay includes biographical information on Aristophanes, the history of the play and its production, a bibliography and suggestions for further reading.",2003,3.42,96,23
9781585360727,1585360724,M is for Mayflower,A Massachusetts Alphabet,Margot Theis Raven;Jeannie Brett,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pzdbPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents information about the state of Massachusetts in an alphabetical arrangement.,2002,4,40,26
9781585361618,1585361615,O Is for Old Dominion,A Virginia Alphabet,Pamela Duncan Edwards;Troy Howell,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TgsEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Explores the heritage and history of Virginia, offering historical facts for each letter of the alphabet.",2005,3.75,40,19
9781585420827,1585420824,The Age of Access,"The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, where All of Life is a Paid-for Experience",Jeremy Rifkin,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uWG6QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Examines the changes in American business, and shows how accessing experiences is the key to power in business.",2001,3.84,320,215
9781585421770,1585421774,In Search of Captain Zero,,Alan C. Weisbecker,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=K7gS-QmvaGYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A surfer, photojournalist, and author describes his two-year odyssey from Mexico to Central America to search for his missing long-time friend and surfing companion, Christopher Conner, and his bizarre adventures along the way.",2002,4.15,352,1625
9781585424337,1585424331,Think and Grow Rich,The Landmark Bestseller--now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century,Napoleon Hill;Arthur R. Pell,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HO-cnF0abjgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An updated edition of the best-selling guide features anecdotes about such modern figures as Bill Gates, Dave Thomas, and Sir John Templeton, explaining how their examples can enable modern readers to pursue wealth and overcome personal stumbling blocks. Original. 30,000 first printing.",2005,4.18,320,88437
9781585424993,1585424994,How to Save Your Own Life,,Erica Jong,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mP60Wr4gZAcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With two marriages and a best-selling novel behind her, Isadora Wing reviews the stages by which her life with Bennett disintegrated and finds genuine love as well as joyous adventure and sex in the never-never land of southern California. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.",2006,3.6,313,1296
9781585425006,1585425001,Parachutes & Kisses,,Erica Jong,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kmgf5jXhASMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Struggling with another divorce, single parenthood, and a string of unlikely suitors, Isadora Wing shares a passionate relationship with a handsome and privileged younger man, Berkeley Sproul III, and wonders about the sincerity of both of their intentions. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.",2006,3.47,405,563
9781585425242,1585425249,Fear of Fifty,A Midlife Memoir,Erica Jong,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s81ihAlWXPgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The well-known author of Fear of Flying comments on some of the immense changes that her generation has faced, in such areas as dating, marriage, monogamy, lust, love, and sexual relations. Reprint.",2006,3.56,329,445
9781585425495,1585425494,Any Woman's Blues,A Novel of Obsession,,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ekKKDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A painter of extraordinary talent and renown, Leila is addicted to a younger man who inspires her passion, yet betrays her. Leila fears that giving up the ecstasy--love, sex, alcohol, and hedonism--will mean losing her creative edge. From the bestselling author of Fear of Flying.",2006,3.51,362,422
9781585425549,1585425540,What Do Women Want?,,,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wPef8Ms7skUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Erica Jong's two rules of writing are ""never cut funny"" and ""keep the pages turning."" And Jong delivers in these twenty-six essays, coupling frank and risqu? stories about her own life with provocative pieces on her passion for politics, literature, Italy, and-yes-sex. Originally published in 1998, this updated edition features four new essays. What Do Women Want? offers a startlingly original look at where women are-and where they need to be in the twenty-first century: Are women better off today than they were twenty-five years ago? Has burning pre-nup agreements become the new peak of romance? Why do our greatest women writers too often get dissed and overlooked? Why do powerful women scare men? And who is the perfect man? How does the mother-daughter relationship influence cycles of feminism and backlash? Will Hillary become president? What is sexy?",1998,3.69,309,160
9781585670987,1585670987,The Book of Leviathan,,Peter Blegvad,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lHZQAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Comics examine the metaphysical aspects of childhood cognition, astronomy, order and chaos, and sibling rivalry, and explore the concept of cats replacing parents.",2001,4.17,160,610
9781585672172,1585672173,The Arabian Nightmare,,Robert Irwin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N45RPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The English pilgrim Balian of Norwich comes to medieval Cairo on a spy mission and becomes caught up in a series of bizarre intrigues and erotic adventures. Reprint.,2002,3.85,282,391
9781585672325,1585672327,Laughing Gas,,Pelham Grenville Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VgmQtwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession. When a bratty Hollywood child star and an English aristocrat exchange souls at the dentist in Laughing Gas, the result is transatlantic mayhem at its funniest.",2001,3.89,286,1672
9781585672752,1585672750,Meet Mr. Mulliner,,Pelham Grenville Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uiVFPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mr. Mulliner entertains the patrons of the bar with stories of his brothers, nephews, and cousins.",2002,4.06,203,1162
9781585672790,1585672793,This Is Berlin,Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany,William L. Shirer;John Keegan,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PbmLPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects two-and-a-half years of the author's daily CBS radio broadcasts that described the menacing steps Germany took toward World War II, presenting them as America and the rest of the world heard them. By the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Reprint.",2002,4.22,478,147
9781585675173,1585675172,The Stones of Summer,,Dow Mossman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-UsyPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Originally published to glowing reviews in 1972, Dow Mossman's extraordinary debut is a sweeping coming-of-age novel that developed a passionate cult following - even as it went out of print for more than twenty years. It recently inspired director Mark Moskowitz's award-winning documentary film Stone Reader, which was embraced by readers across the country and described by Peter Rainer in New York magazine as ""a marvelous literary thriller that gets at the way books can stay with people forever.""",2004,3.14,586,412
9781585675753,158567575X,Spring Fever,,P.G. Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8_ecxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fall brings four more antic novels from comic genius, P. G. Wodehouse. In Picadilly Jim (soon to be a major motion picture), Jimmy Crocker has a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic and must do an about-face to win back the woman of his dreams. Uneasy Money sees the hard-up Lord Dawlish off to America to make a fortune, while in Cocktail Time events turn on the fate of a filmscript. Spring Fever is a light-hearted comedy involving love and various complications.",2004,4.06,276,468
9781585676576,1585676578,Money in the Bank,,P. G. Wodehouse,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zb1wPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When George, sixth Viscount Uffenham, turns the family fortune into diamonds and hides them away, naturally he forgets where he has hidden the loot and is compelled to let the family seat to stay afloat. So it is that Mrs. Cork's Health Colony comes into being.",1942,4.15,290,308
9781585677108,1585677108,Anthony Powell,A Life,Michael Barber,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qetUPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the first full-length biography of Anthony Powell, Michael Barber--publisher, journalist, and man-about-town--takes a close look at the man and the writer. He finds someone whose temperament was often at war with his upbringing. The son of an army officer, educated at Eton and Oxford, Powell chose as his closest friends people like Malcolm Muggeridge and the composer Constant Lambert, who were not out of the top drawer, or the one below it. Although happily married for more than sixty years to Lady Violet Pakenham, the daughter of an earl, he admitted that he had always been attracted by girls who looked as if they'd slept under a bush for a week. Powell believed that creative writing was, like alchemy, a mysterious, indefinable process by which experience became art. Michael Barber focuses on the experience that provided Powell with his raw material. He pays particular attention to the entre-deux-guerres, that sharply divided cultural interlude when the artists and good-timers with whom Powell identified in the twenties were followed, in the thirties, by the politicians and the prigs. Amusing, candid, and highly entertaining, this is a delightfully readable account of the author",2005,3.72,352,39
9781585677283,1585677280,The Warrior Prophet,The Prince of Nothing,R. Scott Bakker,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TvSaOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A sequel to The Darkness That Comes Before continues the story of powerful logician-monk Anasûrimbor Kellhus and his witness to the apocalyptic Holy War that threatens his world. Reprint.,2005,3.95,624,10236
9781585678761,1585678767,The Various Haunts of Men,A Simon Serrailler Mystery,Susan Hill,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AUg1fPViARQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the wake of a series of disappearances on a foggy and tranquil area of a cathedral town known locally as ""the Hill,"" dedicated young policewoman Freya Graffham and enigmatic detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler follow a series of clues in order to decode the mind of a twisted serial killer.",2004,3.81,438,8001
9781586170264,1586170260,The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde,,Joseph Pearce,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=v53UPwpmLhQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Details the life of Oscar Wilde, including his work as an author, his fascination with Catholicism, and his time in prison for a homosexual affair.",2000,4.25,412,105
9781586631987,1586631985,The American Heritage New History of the Civil War,,Bruce Catton,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7SddAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A history of the Civil War that features over 800 contemporary photographs, sketches, paintings, and maps, narrative by author Bruce Catton, and first-person accounts by men and women who witnessed the events.",2001,4.1,630,100
9781586633578,1586633570,Frankenstein,Mary Shelley,Mary Shelley,LITERARY CRITICISM,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1ToTgls77wUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A guide to studying British author Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein, featuring a complete plot summary and analysis, character analyses, explanations of key themes, motifs & symbols, and a review quiz.",2002,3.47,72,16
9781586633790,1586633791,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (SparkNotes Literature Guide),,Ken Kesey,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eR5T4tDrdsMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Get your ""A"" in gear! They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes™ has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'™ motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because: · They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts. · They're easier to understand, because the same people who use them have also written them. · The clear writing style and edited content enables students to read through the material quickly, saving valuable time. And with everything covered--context; plot overview; character lists; themes, motifs, and symbols; summary and analysis, key facts; study questions and essay topics; and reviews and resources--you don't have to go anywhere else!",2002,4.12,72,4
9781586638221,158663822X,The Aristotle's Ethics,Nicomachean Ethics,Aristotle,Study Aids,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NBPbiXwwsGQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Enduringly profound treatise, whose lasting effect on Western philosophy continues to resonate. Aristotle identifies the goal of life as happiness and discusses its attainment through the contemplation of philosophic truth.",2003,3,80,2
9781586638474,1586638475,No Fear : Julius Caesar,,Sparknotes Editors,,,,2003,3.67,256,740
9781586638498,1586638491,The Tempest,,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ua7mxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.",2003,3.81,224,438
9781586638535,158663853X,King Lear,,William Shakespeare,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UDTWyAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.",2003,3.9,320,423
9781586853334,1586853333,The Big Book of Boy Stuff,,Bart King,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=08IlmQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"There's this boy. Let's say he's somewhere between nine and thirteen years old or so. You'd like to see this kid get creative. You'd like to see him get some exercise. You'd like to see him get out from in front of the television. And you'd love for him to be motivated enough to find some stuff to do on his own. This boy NEEDS The Big Book of Boy Stuff! This thick, durable book includes fascinating chapters on gross stuff, magic, emergencies, fireworks, games, experiments, jokes, activities, insults, pets, flying things, and, of course, duct tape. Boys can learn fun experiments such as how to create a ""Monster in a Box"" using a shoebox, a flowerpot, and a potato. Next, they can work on building a pneumatic rocket made out of a lip balm tube and air. The sky is truly the limit when it comes to these fun and entertaining projects. No boyhood is complete without a copy! The Big Book of Boy Stuff has all the important information that boys just have to know: How can I make a rocket? What do I do if I get a bean stuck up my nose? How can I make lightning without killing myself? Where can I find new practical jokes? What is the best way to poop outside? How do I tell a girl I like her? Why would I tell a girl I like her? How many mosquitoes does it take to suck all the blood out of a person? What's that smell? . . . and many, many more! The veteran of many water-balloon wars, Bart King has twice won the prized ""Arrested Development"" award from the New York Society of Amateur Psychologists. He has been a middle-school teacher for the past fifteen years. This is his first book, unless you count that other one he wrote. Bart has interviewed hundreds of the country's wisest guys and smartest alecks for the incredible material in The Big Book of Boy Stuff. Bart invites you to visit this book's website at: www.bartking.net",2004,4.24,292,141
9781586857721,158685772X,It's Easy Being Green,A Handbook for Earth-friendly Living,Crissy Trask,House & Home,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=82_EngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides a comprehensive guide to adopting greener buying habits and identifying earth-friendly products, shopping for green products online, participating in online activism, and learning tips for cultivating a sustainable environment, such as collecting rainwater from your roof to use in the garden, submerging a plastic bottle in your toilet tank to save one quart of water per flush, and more. Original.",2006,3.53,168,326
9781587150791,1587150794,Fifty-One Tales,,Lord Dunsany;Lin Carter;John Betancourt,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QdbDaHpPICQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in 20th century. ""Fifty-One Tales"" (originally published in 1915 and sometimes reprinted under the title ""The Food of Death"") is an ideal introduction to Dunsany.",2002,3.82,108,342
9781587150883,1587150883,The Well at the World's End,,William Morris;Lin Carter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ASCIvgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Well at the Worlds End By William Morris The Well at the World's End was among the very first of its kind--it is an epic romance of duplicity, machination, passion, and wizardry, and is, in short, a vast odyssey into the weird. It is a beautifully rich fantasy, a vibrant fairy tale without fairies. It is the most entrancing of William Morris's late romances--part futuristic fantasy novel, part old-fashioned fairy tale. Morris writes his magic love story with a sense of color and pattern, and the sheer imaginative fervor of one of the most brilliant decorative artists that has ever lived. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.",2000,3.77,332,251
9781587155871,1587155877,The Lure of the Basilisk,,Lawrence Watt-Evans,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n5J-84oiCbQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,The overman named Garth sought immortal fame. The oracle told him to serve the Forgotten King to get that fame. But this King sent Garth after a basilisk whose gaze could turn men to stone. What sane use could anyone have for a monster like that?,2001,3.7,208,478
9781587172489,1587172488,Ivanhoe,,Marianna Mayer;Sir Walter Scott,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wRcMTL0cbAAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1166 the Saxon knight Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to a chaotic England ruled by the enemies of the absent King Richard the Lion-Hearted and finds himself disowned and dishonored, forced to fight for his name and the people he loves.",2004,3.93,56,169
9781587420245,1587420244,On the Lines of Morris' Romances,"Two Books that Inspired J.R.R. Tolkien : The Wood Beyond the World, And, The Well at the World's End",William Morris;Michale W. Perry,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LusAAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"J. R. R. Tolkien said that his writing was inspired by William Morris. This book includes two of William Morris' most popular tales in one inexpensive, wide-format, two-column edition.",2003,4.09,288,11
9781587610912,1587610914,Guide to Stress Reduction,,L. John Mason,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hYM-AAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The increasingly frenetic pace of modern life can take a heavy toll on our physical and mental well-being, and we all have the headaches, backaches, and insomnia to prove it. As a professional stress-reduction therapist, Dr. L. John Mason has made it his life's work to combat the debilitating effects of this all-consuming condition. In the original GUIDE TO STRESS REDUCTION, Dr. Mason presented a comprehensive program of exercises designed to alleviate stress, helping thousands of afflicted readers return to the comforting fold of life's natural rhythms. Newly revised, Dr. Mason's landmark book continues to teach us how to reduce tension and anxiety with techniques such as autogenics, visualization, meditation, biofeedback, and desensitization. ?Ä¢ Previous edition sold 30,000 copies.?Ä¢ Provides tips for controlling specific ailments, including high blood pressure, chronic pain, abdominal disorders, and insomnia.For a list of appearances by this author, check out our Calendar of Events.",2001,4.22,326,9
9781587612213,1587612216,Heart and Hands,A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth,Elizabeth Davis,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=79ZiRZZwzF4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For over two decades, HEART & HANDS has been a beloved guide for both midwives and parents interested in the benefits of midwifery care. This all-new fourth edition has been revised from start to finish, featuring updated material that emphasizes independent midwifery, physiologic (natural) birth, and the art of nonintervention. Midwifery expert Elizabeth Davis includes valuable hints for turning breech and posterior babies, mediating pain in labor, and supporting newborn physiology. Davis also reveals the keys to postpartum recovery, with practical tips on breastfeeding for busy mothers. Comprehensive and compassionate, HEART & HANDS remains a dog-eared classic for parents, midwives, and other birthing helpers.Thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of the classic text for midwives, also useful for expecting parents, nurses, childbirth educators, doulas, and other labor helpers.Features new diagrams and photographs, updated midwifery forms, and an expanded resource list for parents.Expanded sections on GBS, VBAC, gestational diabetes, and water birth address current controversies.Previous editions have sold more than 150,000 copies. ""An impressive and deeply caring book . . . reveals a shrewd and compassionate sensitivity to women'¬?s needs in pregnancy and childbirth."" -Sheila Kitzinger, author of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Birth",2004,4.38,312,861
9781587670138,1587670135,Cast in Dark Waters,,Edward Gorman;Tom Piccirilli,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uc4JAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2002,3.31,100,26
9781587670893,1587670895,Isis,,Douglas Clegg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZSshPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Before she had ever heard the name of Harrow, the legendary house of horrors of the Hudson Valley, she had already been possessed by the spirits of the dead. Her name is Isis Claviger, and when she was nineteen, a highwayman from Hell came for her soul and took her away into a dark realm of psyche and ecstasy. An original novelette by Douglas Clegg, ""Isis"" is the first tale of Isis Claviger, the oracle of Harrow.",2006,3.68,98,21
9781587671401,1587671409,The Secretary of Dreams,,Stephen King,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7EQFAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2006,4.45,281,270
9781587680267,1587680262,Tolkien and C.S. Lewis,The Gift of Friendship,Colin Duriez,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GQMwj9mcE-AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Reveals the complex friendship between the two literary figures, noting their shared academic experiences at Oxford University, Lewis's influence on Tolkien's completion of The Lord of the Rings, and the differences in their temperaments and spiritual beliefs. Original.",2003,4,244,1320
9781588467980,1588467988,Monte Cooks Years Best D20 04,,Monte Cook,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ot17AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2005,4.2,96,5
9781588990846,1588990842,Tomie,,Junji Ito,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2YM9PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After discovering that she is pregnant with his child, Tomie's teacher, Mr. Takagi, kills Tomie and has the class help him divide her body and dispose of it in various locations, never expecting that she might come back.",2001,3.92,248,807
9781588993007,1588993000,Category Freaks,,Sakurako Gokurakuin,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=46Uh-rFKIrsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the creator of Aquarian Age comes a dark and occult adventure. Asagi Nanami is the director of Nanami Paranormal Investigations, where his supernatural assistants Naoki Amano, Tokiko and her helper Mahime Yoshino solve strange phenomena caused by |Freaks|. Masters of bodily possession, freaks are demonic creatures with a morbid purpose...",2005,3.57,184,110
9781589802438,1589802438,The Pirate Dictionary,,Terry Breverton,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c5CongEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"We hear the terms steer clear of, hit the deck, don't rock the boat, and to harbor a grudge and give little thought to their origin. Left together on ships for months, and often for years, pirate crews developed expressions that made their way into common usage. Terms for things related to life at sea became idioms used by land lubbers, a term derived from the holes in the platforms surrounding the mast that allowed sailors to avoid climbing the rigging around the platforms. A lubber was someone who was very clumsy, so a land lubber is someone who knows nothing about sailing and rigging.Centuries ago, men wore wigs of length denoting their wealth and importance. Soon, many naval captains, including Sir Henry Morgan and Captain Chaloner Ogle, who killed Black Bart Roberts, began to adopt the style. A law was passed in England declaring that only nobility, judges, and bishops could wear full-length wigs and so was born the term bigwig .Reading through these words and phrases is an abbreviated trip through history, with lists of major naval mutinies, a summary of the slave trade, and even jokes. This dictionary is written to be entertaining as well as informative, to give a flavor of the interesting times from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries when pirates controlled many sealanes. It also contains a treasure trove of factual information about life aboard the ship, important pirate haunts, and technical terms.",2004,3.69,189,50
9781589802544,1589802543,This Side of Paradise,,Steven L. Layne,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qCVAngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When his father relocates the family to Paradise to work for the mysterious Eden Corporation, Jack Barrett uncovers a sinister plot that threatens everyone he loves.",2004,3.74,224,536
9781589880023,1589880021,Farewell to Salonica,City at the Crossroads,Leon Sciaky,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yBTgVi88GukC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds, Salonica -- now Greece's third largest city Thessaloniki -- was an oasis in a desert of conflicting powers and interests. A Turkish territory until 1912, the city was an economic centre of the Ottoman empire and a cultural centre of Sephardic Judaism. In this memoir, Leon Sciaky, the son of a Sephardic merchant family who immigrated to Turkey during the Spanish Inquisition, tells of growing up in the vibrant community that flourished in Salonica at the turn of the century. He introduces the Turkish sheiks and dervishes, Sephardic rabbis, Hungarian revolutionaries, Bulgarian farmers, Greek priests, Kurdish grocers, Albanian woodcutters, and French headmasters who populated this little Balkan world. Although his early years were idyllic, Sciaky's well-respected merchant family could not escape the violence of Salonica's constant lesions and struggles. Situated amidst peoples of different languages, religions, cultures, and national allegiances, Salonica was like a vividly set stage in a drama where these very diverse peoples lived, in peace and strife, vying for power and prosperity.",2003,4.11,299,62
9781589943070,1589943074,The Art of H. P. Lovecraft's the Cthulhu Mythos,,Howard Phillips Lovecraft;Jeremy McHugh,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=E43GPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This full-color volume collects the best art from Fantasy Flight's acclaimed Call of Cthulhu collectible card game, as well as from 25 years of Chaosium's legendary line of Call of Cthulhu role-playing game products. In these pages are glimpses of the most terrible beings ever to exist, whose very names are spoken of in whispers, if at all: Mighty Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth the Crawling Chaos Nyarlathotep and He Who Shall Not Be Named. Strange and alien races swarm here: the Fungi From Yuggoth, the star-headed Elder Things, the slithering Formless Spawn and awful chthonians. The Art of H.P. Lovecraft's The Cthulhu Mythos contains hundreds of full-color pieces of art, from fan favorites such as Patrick McEnvoy, Michael Komarck, Jean Tay, Thomas Denmark, John Gravato, Aaron Acevedo, James Ryman, Felicia Cano, Linda Bergkvist and dozens more. Once you see these blasphemous visions, you will never forget them.",2006,4.04,191,139
9781589971288,1589971280,Creative Correction,Extraordinary Ideas for Everyday Discipline,Lisa Whelchel,Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=haewmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In addition to advice on topics such as sibling conflict and lying, Whelchel offers this handy reference guide that provides a biblical perspective and down to-earth encouragement to parents who are feeling overwhelmed.",2005,3.93,367,1071
9781590170168,1590170164,De Vita Propria Liber,,Girolamo Cardano;Jean Stoner,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-BQjtJwGoJYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My Life, an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and conduct. Whether discussing his sex life or his diet, the plots of academic rivals or meetings with supernatural beings, or his deep sorrow when his beloved son was executed for murder, Cardano displays the same unbounded curiosity that made him a scientific pioneer. At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae, and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait—a book to set beside Montaigne's Essays and Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography.",2002,3.79,320,63
9781590170311,1590170318,Witch Grass,,Raymond Queneau;Barbara Wright,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sz6A0oZ_KaAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow comes to life, precipitating a series of comic run-ins among a range of disreputable and heartwarming characters living on the sleazy outskirts of the city of lights. Witch Grass (previously titled The Bark Tree) is a philosophical farce, an epic comedy, a mesmerizing book about the daily grind that is an enchantment itself.",2003,3.94,328,320
9781590170700,1590170709,The Tenants of Moonbloom,,Edward Lewis Wallant,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gNIb_NXhIjQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban characters, among them a gay jazz musician with a sideline as a gigolo, a Holocaust survivor, and a brilliant young black writer modeled on James Baldwin. Moonbloom hears their cries of outrage and abuse; he learns about their secret sorrows and desires. And as he grows familiar with their stories, he finds that he is drawn, in spite of his best judgment, into a desperate attempt to improve their lives. Edward Lewis Wallant's astonishing comic tour de force is a neglected masterpiece of 1960s America.",2003,3.89,264,488
9781590170786,1590170784,The Ivory Tower,,Henry James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KelaAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of America’s Gilded Age. After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In The Ivory Tower, his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction—in which American “innocence” is transformed by its encounter with European “experience”—receives a new twist: raised abroad, the hero comes home to America to confront, as James puts it, “the black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.” James died in 1916 with the first three books of The Ivory Tower completed. He also left behind a “treatment,” in which he charted the further progress of his story. This fascinating scenario, one of only two to survive among James’s papers, is also published here together with a striking critical essay by Ezra Pound.",2004,3.33,296,54
9781590171035,1590171039,Mistress Masham's Repose,,T. H. White;Fritz Eichenberg,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J_Sg2c9uwT8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ten-year-old Maria, an orphaned heiress living with her unpleasant guardians on a crumbling English estate called Malplaquet, finds her life changing in unimagined ways when she explores an overgrown island on the estate's lake and discovers the descendants of Gulliver's Lilliputians.",1946,3.94,260,1404
9781590171103,1590171101,Hons and Rebels,,Jessica Mitford,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jjfhAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this ""wonderfully funny and very poignant"" (Philip Toynbee) autobiography, Mitford offers a fascinating study of the unusual upbringing of her famous family.",2004,4.12,284,2889
9781590171240,1590171241,An Episode of Sparrows,A Novel,Rumer Godden,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wLgdpV170wgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In post-World War II London, two street-tough children attempt to build a hidden garden, an act that awakens hidden courage in the children and profoundly disrupts the neighborhood.",2004,4.2,247,851
9781590171493,1590171497,The Man who Watched Trains Go by,,Georges Simenon;Marc Romano;Douglas Thin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-T7faBq7gxUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A man who has lived within the lines of moral conduct and good behavior for most of his life discovers in one fateful evening that his world is unraveling and commits murder--an act that seems to contradict his entire life. Reprint.,2005,3.85,203,1385
9781590171622,1590171624,The New York Stories of Henry James,,Henry James;Colm Tóibín,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LlpBNR7_vpQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Brings together for the first time all the stories that Henry James set in New York City, including ""The Jolly Corner,"" ""An International Episode,"" and ""The Impressions of a Cousin.""",2006,4.04,563,137
9781590171707,1590171705,Dime-store Alchemy,The Art of Joseph Cornell,Charles Simic;Joseph Cornell,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yllRAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic refects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America’s great artists. Simic’s spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned. In a work that is in various degrees biography, criticism, and sheer poetry, Simic tells the story of Cornell’s life and illuminates the hermetic mysteries of his extraordinary boxes–objects in which private obsessions were alchemically transformed into enduring works of art. Simic sees Cornell’s work as exemplifying a distinctively American aesthetic, open to the world, improvisatory, at once homemade and universal, modest and teasing and profound. Full of unexpected riches, Dime-Store Alchemy is both an entrancing meditation on the nature of art and a perfect introduction to a major American artist by one of his peers–a book that can be perused at length or dipped into at leisure again and again.",2006,4.21,116,69
9781590171943,1590171942,The Strangers in the House,,Georges Simenon,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7GIPCVrT4HMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dirty, drunk, unloved, and unloving, Hector Loursat has lived as a near recluse since his wife abandoned him and their infant daughter eighteen years before. Though a member of a prominent local family and at one time a successful lawyer, Loursat now shuns and is shunned by polite society–which suits him fine. He prefers to spend his evenings leafing through the books in his library and drinking Bordeaux. Loursat does his best to ignore the presence of his teenage daughter, paying little attention to the questionable activities that seem to be going on in his vast, old, ever-more dilapidated house. But then, one night, the sound of a gunshot penetrates the padded walls of Loursat’s study. He leaves the security of his wing of the house to investigate. What he stumbles on is a case of murder. Loursat begins to discover something of the secret life of his daughter and her circle of friends, young people from all levels of local society. He finds himself strangely drawn to this group, and when one of them is accused of the murder, he astonishes all by taking up the young man’s defense. Reluctantly Loursat finds himself drawn back into the thick of life. InThe Strangers in the House, Georges Simenon, master chronicler of the dark side of the human heart, gives us a detective story that is also a tale of an improbable redemption.",2006,3.76,194,633
9781590172186,1590172183,A Savage War of Peace,"Algeria, 1954-1962",Alistair Horne,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wuoDDB4Rbz8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Although war was never formally declared, the Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It caused six French governments to fall, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, brought De Gaulle back to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and state torture. The war made headlines around the world, and at the time it seemed like a French affair: Now, this brutal and intractable conflict looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one--a full-dress rehearsal for the sort of amorphous struggle that convulsed the Balkans in the 1990s and that is now ravaging Iraq, and in which religion, nationalism, imperialism, and terrorism assume previously unimagined degrees of intensity.",2006,4.22,608,1811
9781590175866,1590175867,Diary of a Man in Despair,,Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen;Friedrich Reck;Paul Rubens;Richard J. Evans,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dS0CGQRd_44C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Originally published: New York: Macmillan Company, 1970.",2013,4.22,264,30
9781590300060,1590300068,The Wave in the Mind,"Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination",Ursula K. Le Guin,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YAdTofRMkvEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The author presents a collection of nonfiction writings, including essays on such topics as Tolstoy, Tolkien, women's shoes, Mark Twain, family life, and beauty, as well as autobiographical writings and reflections on the arts of reading and writing.",2004,4.28,314,941
9781590300107,1590300106,Healing Emotions,"Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health",Daniel Goleman,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w7xvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A new edition documents encounters between the Dalai Lama and prominent western psychologists, physicians, and meditation teachers to offer insight into the mind's ability to heal the body. Original.",2003,4.05,288,291
9781590300732,1590300734,A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher,,Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang;Ṅag-dbaṅ-dpal-bzaṅ (Mkhan-po),Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TWcmAS2h3YMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This guide provides readers with the theoretical background that is an essential foundation for studying and practicing with Patrol Rinpoche's Words of My Perfect Teacher. The author of the guide examines the role of the teacher in Tibetan Buddhist practice and relates the stages of the path to the Buddha's teachings on the Four Noble Truths, bringing it into perspective with an interesting overview. And, starting with a general introduction on how to approach the teachings, he goes through the original book chapter by chapter, filling in the background and putting each subject into greater perspective. Here are a few examples: - In the original text, Patrul encourages readers to have confidence in the ""Three Jewels""; the guide gives a detailed description of what the Three Jewels are. - Patrul stresses the importance of transcendent wisdom; the guide provides an introduction to Madhyamika philosophy, which is the basis of transcendent wisdom. - Patrul describes the importance of the sincerity of the student's Vajrasattva practice; the guide explains why this practice is so important and it lists the actions and karmic patterns that are addressed by the practice. - Patrul describes the Buddhist cosmology with a startling vision of the universe that encourages the reader to open his or her usual notions",2004,4.61,336,79
9781590301081,1590301080,Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf,Zen Poems of Ryōkan,Ryōkan;John Stevens,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mIxUTxblX6kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Japanese poet-recluse Ryokan (1758–1831) is one of the most beloved figures of Asian literature, renowned for his beautiful verse, exquisite calligraphy, and eccentric character. Deceptively simple, Ryokan's poems transcend artifice, presenting spontaneous expressions of pure Zen spirit. Like his contemporary Thoreau, Ryokan celebrates nature and the natural life, but his poems touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, enlightenment and illusion, love and loneliness. This collection of translations reflects the full spectrum of Ryokan's spiritual and poetic vision, including Japanese haiku, longer folk songs, and Chinese-style verse. Fifteen ink paintings by Koshi no Sengai (1895–1958) complement these translations and beautifully depict the spirit of this famous poet.",2004,4.56,120,169
9781590301876,1590301870,Lovingkindness,The Revolutionary Art of Happiness,Sharon Salzberg;Jon Kabat-Zinn,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=C9kY3vnGh54C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In this inspiring book, Sharon Salzberg, one of America's leading spiritual teachers, shows us how the Buddhist path of metta, or lovingkindness, can help us discover the radiant, joyful heart within each of us. The author draws on simple Buddhist teachings, wisdom stories from various traditions, guided meditation practices, and her own experience of practice and teaching to illustrate how each one of us can cultivate love, compassion, joy, and equanimity'the four ""heavenly abodes"" of traditional Buddhism.",2004,4.26,256,4072
9781590301944,1590301943,The Changeling,A Novel,Kate Horsley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UuALAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A young woman searches for identity and redemption in this darkly magical and provocative coming-of-age story set in 14th-century Ireland. High school & older.,2005,3.56,339,295
9781590302088,1590302087,Making a Change for Good,A Guide to Compassionate Self-discipline,Cheri Huber,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rnt1ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In her new book, Huber takes on the topic of changing ourselves: how do we break ""bad habits"" and start good ones, whether it's in the realm of exercise, eating, shopping, or committing ourselves to a spiritual practice such as meditation? Huber points out that we've all been led to believe that if we were only a little better in some way, we'd find happiness. We're always thinking, ""Life isn't the way it should be - and it's my fault!"" But, Huber explains, no amount of self-punishment will ever make us happy or bring us control over life's problems. The happiness and peace we are looking for is ultimately found only in self-acceptance and kindness. MAKING A CHANGE FOR GOOD encourages us to focus on what is true for us in this moment so that our experience can be authentic, awake, honest, and joyful, with no need to hide out in addictive behaviors or run away from reality by using substances or other habitual escapes. This book includes a guided thirty-day program of daily meditation, contemplation, and journaling.",2007,3.92,128,291
9781590302255,1590302257,The Art of War,,Sun-Tzu;Sunzi,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Kjw1jwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Written around the 6th century BC, The Art of War is one of the oldest books about war and military strategy, and probably the best. For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's ""The Art of War"" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. Above all, it teaches how, when battles commences, to think on your feet and catch your enemy off guard. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success.",2005,3.97,273,214954
9781590303160,1590303164,Writing Down the Bones,Freeing the Writer Within : Expanded with a New Preface and Interview with the Author,Natalie Goldberg,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c2iJPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With insight, humor, and practicality, Goldberg inspires writers and would-be writers alike to take the leap into writing creatively in this revised edition of the guide.",2006,4.18,312,20991
9781590385814,1590385810,Fablehaven,,Brandon Mull,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tbVIPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.",2006,4.09,351,111896
9781590522011,159052201X,The Dream Giver,,Bruce Wilkinson,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z1q3wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A modern-day parable explains how to achieve one's dreams and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of leading the life God intended.,2003,4.25,157,4725
9781590525081,1590525086,The Treasure Principle,,Randy Alcorn,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_PFyysVnTaQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bestselling author Randy Alcorn uncovers the revolutionary key to spiritual transformation: joyful giving! Jesus' life-changing formula guarantees not only kingdom impact, but immediate pleasure and eternal rewards.",2005,4.13,120,3892
9781590525937,1590525930,Dominion,,Randy Alcorn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IwdwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a university professor is found murdered, a brilliant and quick-witted homicide detective, Ollie Chandler, suspects the murderer could be a fellow homicide detective, but as Ollie probes deeper, another detective is murdered.",2006,4.22,603,4075
9781590526859,1590526856,The Blazing Center Study Guide,The Soul-Satisfying Supremacy of God in All Things,John Piper;Desiring God,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LjZ2K0qxNIkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,God is the center of reality. And He lovingly calls you to worship Him because you will find the one thing that will bring you the most pleasure: Himself.,2006,4.28,112,18
9781590526866,1590526864,Reluctant Burglar,,Jill Elizabeth Nelson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mplfA_vAWOYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Desiree's murdered father was an art thief. Can she preserve the family business, please her heavenly Father, avoid death threats, and trust FBI Special Agent Tony Lucano all at the same time?",2006,3.67,345,173
9781590526873,1590526872,Reluctant Runaway,,Jill Elizabeth Nelson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bgFuvSSeXeMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Is it coincidence that Karen Webb disappears just one day before Indian artifacts are stolen? Security consultant Desiree Jacobs and her FBI agent boyfriend scramble to connect the dots - and save Karen's life.,2007,3.7,352,90
9781590528600,1590528603,Sense and Sensuality,Jesus Talks with Oscar Wilde on the Pursuit of Pleasure,Ravi Zacharias,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TwdwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Why is the world so full of pleasures if we aren't allowed to enjoy them? An imaginary Oscar Wilde seeks Jesus Christ's answer in Ravi Zacharias's entertaining dialogue.,2006,3.93,94,501
9781590583425,1590583426,Effigies,A Faye Longchamp Mystery,Mary Anna Evans,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yWDPwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Faye Longchamp and Joe Wolf Mantooth have traveled to Neshoba County, Mississippi, to help excavate a site near Nanih Waiya, the sacred mound where tradition says the Choctaw nation was born.When farmer Carroll Calhoun refuses the archaeologists’ request to investigate an ancient Native American mound, Faye and her colleagues are disappointed. But his next action breaks their hearts: he tries to bulldoze the huge relic to the ground. Faye and Joe rush to protect history with their bodies, if necessary. The situation grows more dangerous as Choctaws arrive to defend the mound and the farmer’s white and black neighbors come to defend his property rights. A popular young sheriff is able to defuse the situation, but tempers are short. That night, Calhoun is found dead, his throat sliced with a handmade stone blade. Was he killed by an archaeologist angered by his wanton destruction of history? Did a Choctaw take up arms to defend an embattled heritage? Did someone decide to even the score with an old rival? The sheriff is well-aware that Faye and Joe were near the spot where Calhoun’s body was found. The whole county saw their confrontation with him over the mound. And their combined knowledge of stone tools is impressive. They had motive, means, and opportunity—but so did almost everyone in Neshoba County.",2011,4.02,301,429
9781590592168,1590592166,Complete Guide to OneNote,,Scott Zimmerman,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=swoszQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"* OneNote has the potential to be the next ""killer-app"" in the Microsoft Office family * Author already has public visibility in the OneNote field as author of a related web site (OneNoteInfoCenter.com) and first OneNote MVP * Advanced content will differentiate the book from numerous beginner’s texts * Early to market will allow this book to establish it as the definitive book on the subject. * OneNote will be part of the Microsoft Office family and Office titles sell well",2003,4.25,412,4
9781590593899,1590593898,Joel on Software,"And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity",Avram Joel Spolsky,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-WguzQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"* Covers three years of the best essays. * Essays range from technical to humorous, but are always tangible. * Beautifully written and extremely timely. * Google lists 183,000 links for ""Joel on Software"". * Spolsky is one of the most popular programmers around today, with legions of followers.",2004,4.1,384,2888
9781590596241,1590596242,The Career Programmer,Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World,Christopher Duncan,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nn9QAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Unrealistic schedules, unstable releases, continual overtime, and skyrocketing stress levels are legendary in the software development industry. Unlike traditional occupations such as accounting or administration, the software business is populated with programmers who are as creative and passionate about their work as musicians and artists. But for most programmers and project managers, it is a complete surprise when they enter the business world and find that internal politics, inept management, and unrealistic marketing drive the process, rather than a structured and orderly approach based on technical issues and quality. This guide, delivered with the wit and aplomb to make a serious topic entertaining and palatable, will help you survive the programming industry. The Career Programmer explains how you can work within the existing system to solve deadline problems and regain control of the development process. Youll master self-defense techniques to shield yourself, your project, and your code from corporate politics, arbitrary management decisions, and marketing-driven deadlines. Author Chris Duncan provides proven, practical, hands-on solutions designed to work even when tested by the political and chaotic realities of the business environment. Issues are addressed from the points of view of both the programmer and project manager, and steps are illustrated from all perspectivesfrom large-scale teams down to projects with a single developer. For you, the end results will mean less overtime and stress, higher-quality software, and a more satisfying career.",2006,3.13,264,36
9781591146919,1591146917,Bull Halsey,,Elmer Belmont Potter,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bVheUPjxImYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Applauded by the public and revered by the men who served under him, Adm. William F. Halsey was one of the leading American personalities of World War II. His reputation as a no-holds-barred fighter and his tough-guy expression earned him the nickname ""Bull,"" yet he was also known for showing genuine compassion toward his men and inspiring them to great feats in the Pacific. Originally disclaiming the praise heaped on him, Halsey eventually came to believe in the swashbuckling legend that surrounded him, and his conduct became increasingly controversial. Naval historian E. B. Potter, who established his reputation with an award-winning biography of Chester W. Nimitz, gets behind the stereotype of this national hero and describes Halsey at his best and worst, including his controversial actions at Leyte Gulf. To write this book Potter had full access to Halsey's family and to the admiral's private papers and provides detail of Halsey's youth and career before the war. First published in 1985, it remains the definitive study.",2003,4.16,440,55
9781591162025,1591162025,Inuyasha Ani-Manga,,Rumiko Takahashi,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mf55sDvRqG4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A teenage girl travels back in time to medieval Japan to help the half demon dog, half man Inu Yasha find an orb of great power.",2004,4.36,206,5787
9781591162865,1591162866,Ranma 1/2,,Rumiko Takahashi,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uWi2bwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2004,4.12,200,1083
9781591163558,1591163552,Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,,Hayao Miyazaki,Comics & Graphic Novels,,"Now, Princess Nausicaä and the God Warrior, a biotechnological abomination of the war known as the Seven Days of Fire, embark on a journey to the Crypt of Shuwa to seal away the terrible weaponry hidden within. But everyone seems to be conspiring to prevent Nausicaä from carrying out her mission, even the guardian of the crypt himself!",2004,4.61,223,1637
9781591165835,1591165830,Vagabond,,Takehiko Inoue,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e1TOxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2005,4.41,224,465
9781591391678,1591391679,Hardball,Are You Playing to Play Or Playing to Win?,George Stalk;Robert Lachenauer;John Butman,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cscGBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Hardball takes leaders deep inside the world of hardball competition - a world where the players are zealously committed to winning and relentlessly driven to strengthen their competitive positions, creating a virtuous cycle that puts them far out of competitors' reach. Based on twenty-five years of experience advising and observing a range of companies, Stalk and Lachenauer reveal how hardball competitors achieve decisive victories - without bending the law and without compromising their obligations to customers and stakeholders. These companies often play rough, and they don't apologize for it. Yet they are also extraordinarily adept at the ""soft"" side of management - rallying talent and building culture through a laserlike focus on the few issues most critical to success. Using detailed and engaging stories from many industries, Hardball outlines seven classic hardball strategies: unleash massive and overwhelming force, exploit anomalies, threaten competitors' profit sanctuaries, take it and make it your own, entice competitors' into retreat, break industry compromises, and hardball M&A. The authors reveal who uses hardball strategies, under what circumstances each strategy is most effective, and how to orchestrate the attack.",2004,3.49,192,82
9781591583660,1591583667,Crash Course in Web Design for Libraries,,Charles P. Rubenstein,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0n6FQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A handbook offers guidance in developing professional-looking library Web sites without the knowledge of HTML and explains the benefits and limitations of commercially available software.,2007,2.67,196,9
9781591821571,1591821576,Demon Diary,,Kara Lim;Lee Yun Hee,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uQPJsD8lod8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In an effort to obtain the services of the noble demon, Eclipse, Demon Lord Krayon challenges Eclipse and his master, Raenef, an unlikely Demon Lord in training, to prove they are worthy of each other.",2003,4.11,192,1156
9781591829539,1591829534,Crescent Moon,,Haruko Iida,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z5-cpux9BaAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this fantastical adventure, Mahiru must battle the powers that are awakened by the dark moon.",2005,4.22,169,270
9781592000678,1592000673,$30 Film School,,Michael Wareham Dean,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MwSM8WrSvPkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Demonstrating how to make a film with the help of a DV camera and computer, this entertaining handbook provides detailed instructions on how to create an innovative film on a budget and offers tips on how to distribute, promote, and sell one's finished production, accompanied by a CD-ROM containing sample movies, lessons, interviews, trailers, and other useful tools. Original. (Beginner)",2003,3.52,528,29
9781592220045,1592220045,Tuf Voyaging,,George R. R. Martin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OoUCAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,undefined,2003,4.09,448,61
9781592241873,1592241875,The Canterville Ghost,,Oscar Wilde,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-EHeUKhJQHUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Oscar Wilde's timeless classic of an American family that buys a British manor -- complete with ghost! Filmed many times, its light tone and gentle chills continue to thrill new generations.",2005,3.89,52,80
9781592283194,1592283195,The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told,Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories,Christopher Caswell,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jwoXvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The best sailing yarns, from Sir Ernest Shackleton and Joshua Slocum to WIlliam F. Buckley.",2004,3.63,286,47
9781592289806,1592289800,"From Baghdad, with Love","A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava",Jay Kopelman;Melinda Roth,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6t7ungEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the story of Marine Jay Kopelman's efforts to have Lava, a dog found in Fallujah, sent to the United States, at the same time focusing on Iraqi political corruption, miltary bureaucracy, and the sufferings of ordinary Iraqis who have become the innocent victims of the war.",2006,4.11,196,6245
9781592402694,1592402690,"Here, There and Everywhere",My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles,Geoff Emerick;Howard Massey,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bpjbmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An engineer who worked with the Beatles during the productions of ""Revolver,"" ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,"" and other albums describes his innovative recording techniques, and shares his insights into the band's creative processes.",2007,4.25,400,4205
9781592441129,1592441122,Natural Theology,"Comprising ""Nature and Grace"" by Professor Dr. Emil Brunner and the reply ""No!"" by Dr. Karl Barth",Emil Brunner;Karl Barth,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J9xKAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This reissue of Emil Brunner's 'Nature and Grace' with Karl Barth's response 'No!' places back into the hands of theological students one of the most important, and well publicized, theological arguments of the 20th century. Here we see the climax of Barth and Brunner's disagreement over the point of contact for the gospel in the consciousness of natural man. Also at stake is the nature of the theological task. Brunner claims that the task of that generation was to find a way back to a legitimate natural theology. Barth responds strongly, arguing that there is no way to knowledge of God by way of human reason. Barth's radical Christocentric redevelopment of Reformation theology left no room for any source of authority aside from the Word of God.",2002,3.73,132,89
9781592530878,1592530877,LogoLounge,"2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers",Bill Gardner;Catharine Fishel,Design,,"Logos -- for everything from food and fashion to conferences and corporations -- are among designerséÆ most prized projects. When LogoLounge debuted in hardcover, it was the first in a series celebrating the work of top logo designers on the innovative Logo Lounge website. Created by Bill Gardner, president of the leading design firm Gardner Design, the LogoLounge website (www.logolounge.com) features the work of handpicked top designers as well as up-and-coming new talent. This book, now in paperback, presents the siteéÆs best designs of the year as judged by an elite group of name-brand designers. LogoLounge offers a wealth of inspiration and insights for graphic designers and their clients. From the work of superstar artists and firms such as Michael Vanderbyl and Sibley Peteet Design -- including both new campaigns and new projects -- to nearly 2,000 additional logos from various sources, this visually compelling volume will become the go-to resource for inspiration from the best in the field.",2004,3.96,191,27
9781592572229,1592572227,The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Religions,,Brandon Toropov;Luke Buckles,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZPokHByS3N0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents an overview of the world's major religions, and answers questions about the history, rituals, celebrations, structure, holy documents, and deities of major and lesser-known religions.",2004,3.66,405,159
9781592851614,1592851614,Drop the Rock,Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven,Bill P.;Todd W.;Sara S.,Self-Help,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vxFEmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A practical guide to letting go of the character defects that get in the way of true and joyful recovery. Resentment. Fear. Self-Pity. Intolerance. Anger. As Bill P. explains, these are the ""rocks"" that can sink recovery- or at the least, block further progress. Based on the principles behind Steps Six and Seven, Drop the Rock combines personal stories, practical advice, and powerful insights to help readers move forward in recovery. The second edition features additional stories and a reference section.",2005,4.45,132,857
9781593070694,1593070691,Angels and Demons,,Craig Thompson,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WZsWAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Craig Thompson was born in 1975 and grew up in a small farming community in Wisconsin. His debut graphic novel Good-Bye, Chunky Rice won the 1999 Harvey Award for ""Best New Talent,""and his sophomore effort, the 500-page Blankets, will be released in summer 2003 by Top Shelf Productions.",2003,3.52,128,46
9781593072599,1593072597,Hellsing,,Kohta Hirano,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Sg6hPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the exploits of the secret Hellsing Organization, formed by the Hellsing family to protect England and the Protestant church from vampires and other monsters, and its top operative, the vampire Alucard.",2004,4.29,200,2518
9781593073527,1593073526,Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 6: On the Fields of Battle,,John Ostrander;Jan Duursema;Dan Parsons; Brad Anderson; Tomas Giorello,Comics & Graphic Novels,,"From the space-station headquarters of the Bounty Hunters' Guild, to untamed worlds on the edge of the galaxy, the Jedi must go where the Clone Wars take them. Mace Windu leads an elite Jedi strike force against an army of trained killers in a demonstration of Jedi power and resolve...Aayla Secura must confront her former Master in an effort to retrieve the plans for a weapon that has already destroyed one world...Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must join forces with a renegade Jedi to prevent a fleet of warships from falling into the hands of the enemy... On whatever field of battle the Jedi find themselves, their greatest challenge is to remain true to their teachings and to the ways of the Force!",2005,4.04,168,463
9781593074661,1593074662,Star Wars: Empire Volume 5,,Various,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hPcFyQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Luke Skywalker fights side-by-side with a shipwrecked veteran from the Clone Wars, Han Solo’s flirtations with an old flame land him in the fire, and BoShek (the galaxy's second-coolest smuggler) attracts a whole lotta blaster fire from Rebels and Imperials alike in this collection featuring some of the most unexpected stories in the era of the Empire! Whether it’s BoShek transporting an innocent-enough looking girl, Han making a supply run for the resource-strapped Alliance, or Luke flying escort for a Rebel Intelligence team on a supposedly deserted planet, these adventures may start as routine missions, but their endings are anything but predictable!",2006,3.51,120,128
9781593074821,1593074824,"Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 8: The Last Siege, The Final Truth",,John Ostrander;Jan Duursema;Dan Parsons; Brad Anderson; Tom√ɬ•s Giorello,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uKSFbwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While both the Republic and the Separatists have suffered staggering losses during the Clone Wars, nothing could have prepared them for the battle they face on the desert world of Saleucami. Beneath the surface of this Outer Rim planet, the Dark Jedi Sora Bulq has begun cloning an army of Morgukai assassins. Unwilling to leave this grave new threat unchecked, the Jedi and their armies soon find themselves entrenched in a five-month siege. Now, time and resources have run out, and it's up to a crack team of Jedi, led by Quinlan Vos and Aayla Secura, to infiltrate the Separatist base. • Collecting stories from Star Wars: Republic #72-77. • A betrayal will be revealed and the ultimate sacrifice made in this volume of Star Wars: Clone Wars, chronicling events that tie directly into Revenge of the Sith!",2006,4.09,144,398
9781593075293,1593075294,Eden,It's an Endless World!.. Vol. 3,Hiroki Endo,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kzBlAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the world reeling from the after effects of a brutal, widespread virus, civilization is torn between the laws and ways of the old world and a new order where cybernetic implants are commonplace and might means right. Elijah and his comrades-in-arms attempt to cross the Andes Mountains, with Propater's gruesome Aeon soldiers and armored troops hot on their heels.",2006,4.2,224,405
9781593075422,1593075421,Museum of Terror,,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9XRQAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dark Horse Comics is very proud to present Museum of Terror, a series of horror stories by Japan's foremost creator of horror manga. Full of compelling and charming characters and relationships, and featuring some of the finest comics art available, Junji Ito has seen his works translated into successful films in Japan. Ito's Uzumaki, the thrilling and grotesque manga and film, has already found success in America, and now we present ""Tomie,"" the first story in this fantastic series. ""Tomie"" is the story of an eternally youthful and beautiful high school girl, whose admirers are obsessed to the point of murdering her. But to their horror, she is reincarnated over and over. ""Tomie"" also became a popular film in Japan, and now it launches Dark Horse's series of Ito's horrific works, Museum of Terror.",2006,4.09,375,1399
9781593075439,159307543X,Conan and the Demons of Khitai,,Akira Yoshida;Paul Lee;Robert Ervin Howard;Pat Lee,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mb_RPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set many years in the future from the award-winning ongoing series, Conan and the Demons and Khitai marks Conan's first appearance as King in Dark Horse's best-selling comics revival of the legendary fantasy hero. When King Conan receives an invitation from the Eastern kingdom of Khitai to open trade in precious jewels and spices, he decides that he will travel into this long-mysterious land. Yet to do so is perilous, as those who have requested his company may have far more devious intentions, and beasts unseen by Western eyes lurk amidst the shadows.",2006,3.3,90,121
9781593075538,1593075537,Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 9: Endgame,,John Ostrander;Welles Hartley;Jan Duursema; Doug Wheatley; Dan Parsons; Brad Anderson; Chris Chuckry; Tomas Giorello,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KL98AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Witness the untold stories of the Jedi who took a last stand against Emperor Palpatine in the moments during, and immediately after, the events in Revenge of the Sith! Watch Darth Vader undertake a Jedi ""purge"" of his own in the hunt for Obi-Wan Kenobi! In the jungles of the Wookiee homeworld Kashyyyk, Quinlan Vos wages a battle of impossible odds against his own troops to protect his loved ones. On the icy Outer Rim world of Toola, Jedi Master Kai Huddora takes a terrified Padawan into his charge after her own master falls to Order 66. Amidst the forests of New Plymto, Dass Jennir finds himself in league with a band of rebels he'd led attacks against only days before. Not all Jedi are scattered across the galaxy however, and soon, a brave few will plot to topple Sith rule-by setting a trap for the newly unveiled Darth Vader! • Collects Star Wars: Republic 79-83 and the one shot Star Wars: Purge • This volume proves that while the Clone Wars have ended, the fight for the fate of the Jedi has just begun!",2006,4.11,144,391
9781593076122,1593076126,Museum of Terror,Tomie 2,Junji Itō,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bXVQAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An eternally youthful and beautiful girl inspires people to commit murder in the most twisted ways.,2006,4.1,376,888
9781593076191,1593076193,Star Wars: OmnibusXWing Rogue Squadron Vol. 2,,Various,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FsCvAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As the Empire withers away and the New Republic grows, one team of ace starfighters takes on the most critical missions to ensure freedom in a galaxy long oppressedRogue Squadron! Collecting XWing Rogue Squadron #920, this mammoth volume includes Battleground Tatooine, The Warrior Princess, and Requiem for a Rogue. Whether it's keeping a massive weapons cache out of the hands of Jabba the Hutt's wouldbe successors, brokering peace on a planet wracked by civil war, or rescuing a downed cruiser from the jaws of an ancient evil, no task is too treacherous for the heroes of Rogue Squadron! • This giant, affordable volume is the perfect opportunity to catch up on some of the most popular stories in the Star Wars Universe!",2005,3.87,288,300
9781593076276,1593076274,Star Wars: Empire Volume 6 In The Shadows of Their Fathers,,Thomas Andrews;Scott Allie;Adriana Melo; Michael LaCombe; Joe Corroney,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EFvXzAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Luke Skywalker confronts the legacy of the Jedi father he never knew in an epic story involving Princess Leia, Darth Vader, and the fate of an entire planet! When Luke and Leia travel to Jabiim recruiting allies for the fledgling Rebellion, they unwittingly set into motion events that will ignite one man's betrayal of his people, pit rebel hero against rebel hero, and attract the attention of the Empire's deadliest enforcer-Darth Vader! • This action-packed tale sheds new light on Anakin Skywalker's actions at the Battle of Jabiim during the Clone Wars.",2005,3.71,144,116
9781593076405,1593076401,Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Vol. 1--Commencement,,John Jackson Miller;Brian Ching;Travel Foreman; Travis Charest,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=srJgAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Thousands of years before Luke Skywalker would destroy the Death Star in that fateful battle above Yavin 4, one lone Padawan would become a fugitive hunted by his own Masters, charged with murdering every one of his fellow Jedi-in-training! From criminals hiding out in the treacherous undercity of the planet Taris, to a burly, mysterious droid recovered from the desolate landscape of a cratered moon, Padawan Zayne Carrick will find unexpected allies in his desperate race to clear his name before the unmerciful authorities enact swift retribution upon him! • Collects Knights of the Old Republic #0-#6. • Set during the era of the smash-hit video games, Knights of the Old Republic features all-new characters in an action-packed adventure essential to any serious Star Wars devotee and the perfect introduction for anyone interested in exploring the universe beyond the movies!",2006,4.07,152,1723
9781593076672,1593076673,Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch HC,,Neil Gaiman;Michael Zulli,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U_vswAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Come, come and hear of the strange and terrible tale of Miss Finch, an exacting woman befallen by mystery and abduction deep under the streets of London! New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman delivers another stunning hardcover graphic novel with longtime collaborator Michael Zulli (Creatures of the Night, The Sandman). This is the first comics adaptation of his popular story ""The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch,"" which saw print only in the U.K. edition of Gaiman's award-winning work Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions and was recently interpreted for his Speaking in Tongues CD. The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch is a ""mostly true story"" that combines the author's trademark magic realism with Zulli's sumptuous paintings, and has been newly rewritten for this hardcover. Join a group of friends, with the stern Miss Finch in tow, as they enter musty caverns for a subterranean circus spectacle called ""The Theatre of Night's Dreaming."" Come inside, get out of the pounding rain, and witness this strange world of vampires, ringmasters, illusions, and the Cabinet of Wishes Fulfill'd. • The latest hardcover from New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys and The Sandman: Endless Nights), one of the world's best-loved comics writers! • Smoke and Mirrors won the 1998 MacMillan Silver PEN Award for Best Short Story Collection.",2008,3.55,51,1934
9781593077099,1593077092,Star Wars: Empire Volume 7--The Wrong Side of the War,,Welles Hartley;Davide Fabbri;Christian DallaVecchia; David Michael Beck,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=i6DfxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Fresh from the killing fields of Jabiim, where the Empire has virtually wiped out the populace of that world, Imperial Lieutenant Janek Sunber is sent to the quiet prison base on Kalist VI. But, unbeknownst to the Empire, the Rebels have designs on Kalist Base both for its desirable fuel supplies, and for the presence of a very important prisoner-one of their own who has already attracted the interest of Darth Vader. Sunber doesn't know it, but he's on a collision course with an old friend who is with the Rebels, and he finds himself wondering which of them is on the wrong side of the war. • Just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of Star Wars comes a story that reintroduces a character not mentioned since A New Hope! • Collecting issues #35-40 of Star Wars Empire, this graphic novel holds a surprise that is sure to delight every Star Wars fan!",2007,3.8,144,103
9781593077365,159307736X,Devil by the Deed,,Matt Wagner;Rich Rankin,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cfA8AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Matt Wagner's diabolical, Eisner nominated series, starring one of the most popular and controversial characters in modern comics history.",2007,4.08,48,521
9781593080037,1593080034,Ward No. 6 and Other Stories,,Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w4lxIoUjQdsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov, is part of theBarnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Anton Chekhov invented the modern short story. With writing that is concise, realistic, and evocative, he became a sort of photographer in words, less interested in plot than in the subtleties of mood and atmosphere, and the telling detail. His characters, always vividly drawn, come from all walks of life and often seem to be caught up in a world they don''t quite understand. Early in his brief literary career, Chekhov outlined in a letter to his brother his idea of the ingredients of a good short story. Arguing against moral judgments and political, economic, or social commentary, he wrote, ""To describe . . . you need . . . to free yourself from the personal expression. . . . Subjectivity is a terrible thing."" Instead, he favored objectivity, truthfulness, originality, compassion, and brevity. Although his writing developed and matured, he remained largely faithful to these principles. This new selection of twenty-three stories explores the entire range of Chekhov''s short fiction, from early sketches, such as ""The Cook''s Wedding"" (1885) and ""On the Road"" (1886) to late works, such as ""In the Ravine"" (1900) and ""The Bishop"" (1902). Ward No. 6 and Other Stories includes some of his most popular tales, such as the title story and ""The Lady with the Dog"" (1899), as well as several lesser-known works, no less masterful in their composition. David Plante is a Professor of Writing at Columbia University. He is the author of many novels, including The Ghost of Henry James, The Family (nominated for the National Book Award), and The Woods. He has been a contributor to The New Yorker, Esquire, and Vogue, and a reviewer and features writer for the New York Times Book Review.",2003,4.32,400,6805
9781593080112,1593080115,Robinson Crusoe,,Daniel Defoe,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=or5IfwJKSUcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,FIRST PUBLISHED 1719. BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF ANDREW SELKIRK.,2003,3.67,312,339
9781593080181,1593080182,Moby-Dick,,Herman Melville,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PUQXCBB4AVAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.,2003,3.49,707,1165
9781593080235,1593080239,Middlemarch,,George Eliot;Megan McDaniel,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rTuCTr1pdc4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Enter the provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830, where the individual destinies of tradespeople, middle classes, and country gentry shape and are shaped by the community.",2003,3.95,848,478
9781593080365,1593080360,Main Street,,Sinclair Lewis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YNM9wKuY0UsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Features the story of a college graduate from St. Paul who leaves to marry a doctor in a small, middle-class town, only to find her efforts to bring culture and beauty to the town thwarted by its residents, testing her idealism.",2003,3.76,560,283
9781593080389,1593080387,Uncle Tom's Cabin,,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FkCHGkuPf98C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Uncle Tom's master sells him, separating him from his wife, and he becomes attached to the gentle daughter of his new owner, but after her death, he is sold to the evil Simon Legree""--NoveList.",2003,3.86,530,490
9781593080495,1593080492,Sense and Sensibility,,Jane Austen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PTUH6Zg2QQYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Romantic walks through lush Devonshire and genteel dinner parties at a stately manor draw two pretty sisters into the schemes and manipulations of landed gentry determined to marry wisely and well.,2003,4.07,336,636
9781593080549,1593080549,The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories,,Robert Louis Stevenson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ksnsDr1Rpl4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is part of theBarnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. Idealistic young scientist Henry Jekyll struggles to unlock the secrets of the soul. Testing chemicals in his lab, he drinks a mixture he hopes will isolate--and eliminate--human evil. Instead it unleashes the dark forces within him, transforming him into the hideous and murderous Mr. Hyde. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde dramatically brings to life a science-fiction case study of the nature of good and evil and the duality that can exist within one person. Resonant with psychological perception and ethical insight, the book has literary roots in Dostoevsky''s ""The Double"" and Crime and Punishment. Today Stevenson''s novella is recognized as an incisive study of Victorian morality and sexual repression, as well as a great thriller. This collection also includes some of the author''s grimmest short fiction: ""Lodging for the Night,"" ""The Suicide Club,"" ""Thrawn Janet,"" ""The Body Snatcher,"" and ""Markheim."" Jenny Davidson is Assistant Professor of eighteenth-century literature and culture in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her novel Heredity appeared from Soft Skull Press in 2003.",2003,4.01,320,829
9781593080648,1593080646,The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe,,Edgar Allan Poe,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0sJr1xPt30UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An anthology of short stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe including ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue,"" ""The Purloined Letter,"" ""Annabel Lee,"" and ""The Raven.""",2004,4.36,688,65137
9781593080693,1593080697,The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories,,graf Leo Tolstoy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=49qJW9M8O0wC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Meaning of life novel.,2004,4.1,400,251
9781593081256,1593081251,Sense and Sensibility,,Jane Austen,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yhiJVxesrWwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and sentimental, find that only through compromise of their mutual differences can they get along.",2004,4.07,325,1199
9781593081539,1593081537,The House of Mirth,,Edith Wharton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CedoNRdNuc0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The tragic story of a beautiful young woman caught up in the shallow and corrupt world of New York society at the turn of the century, where wealth and social status are everything.",2004,3.95,348,338
9781593082031,1593082037,The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Some personalia about Mr. Sherlock Holmes,,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,"Detective and mystery stories, English",,,2004,4.49,709,946
9781593082697,159308269X,Essential Dialogues of Plato,,Plato,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eKRQH7wAbQEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the Publisher: Western philosophy starts with Socrates and his student Plato. By way of the dialectic that evolved between master and student, Plato invented the philosophical method of inquiry and analysis, and became the first to use a logical framework to ask-and try to answer-the eternal questions about ethics, politics, art, and life that still haunt humanity. Along with such exemplars of Plato's thought as Symposium, Apology, and Phaedrus, this volume includes the first three books of Plato's Laws.",2005,4.05,624,4731
9781593082901,1593082908,Daniel Deronda,,George Eliot,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7_k0KO6TzQ4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot, is part of theBarnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today''s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader''s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader''s understanding of these enduring works. George Eliot''s last, most ambitious novel, Daniel Deronda aroused scandal when it first appeared in 1876. What begins as a passionate love story takes a surprising turn into the hidden world of the early Zionist movement in Victorian England. The story opens memorably at a roulette table, where we first meet the young and idealistic Daniel Deronda and the enchanting Gwendolen Harleth--whom many critics consider to be George Eliot''s finest creation. Although the two are immediately drawn to one another, Gwendolen--outwardly alluring and vivacious, inwardly complex and unsettled--is forced by circumstance into an oppressive marriage with the harsh aristocratic Henleigh Grandcourt. Deeply unhappy, she turns for friendship to Daniel, only to discover his involvement with Mirah Lapidoth, a talented young Jewish woman. Torn between his devotion to Gwendolen and his passion for Mirah and the plight of her people, Daniel is forced to look at his own mysterious past and find out who he really is--and who he wants to become. Earl L. Dachslager is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Houston and an adjunct professor in the University''s Distant Education Program. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland. He reviews books regularly for the Houston Chronicle.",2005,3.83,784,197
9781593083243,1593083246,... The Circulation,,Benjamin W. Ussery,,,,1853,4.25,392,1563
9781593083779,1593083777,Swann's Way,,Marcel Proust;Elizabeth Dalton,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wHUIr6NhLwMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the first book of Proust's monumental work ""Remembrance of Things Past"", introducing such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories.",2005,4.14,466,18
9781593600259,1593600259,The Sillymarillion,An Unauthorized Parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's Classic the Silmarillion,D. R. Lloyd,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=shwBAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Satirizing one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most popular fantasy epics, a parody in the tradition of Bored of the Rings blends modern humor with Tolkien's saga of good and evil. Original.",2004,3.65,192,23
9781593761226,1593761228,The Soloist,,Nicholas Christopher,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A7U2swEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At thirty-four, piano soloist Max Randal has hit a wall. It's been four years since his last live performance, and his manager is intent on revitalizing his career with a big concert at Carnegie Hall. As if that wouldn't be enough for Max to worry about, as he struggles to prepare, the ghosts of his failed relationships have come to haunt him -- his first ex-wife is dying, his second ex-wife wants to get back together, the mother of his child has taken off for Europe and unexpectedly left him to care for their nine-year-old, and his present girlfriend now wants to get serious. Believe it or not, the plot only gets thicker. Merging dozens of characters and events into a seamless narrative, gifted novelist and poet Nicholas Christopher delivers a compelling tale. Like an exhilarating performance,The Soloist takes you on a brilliant adventure that resonates even once it's over.",2006,3.27,320,54
9781593851170,1593851170,The Nature of Play,Great Apes and Humans,Anthony D. Pellegrini;Peter K. Smith,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Nukz6dJNCO0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"""Comprehensive and up to date, this tightly edited volume belongs on the desks of researchers and students in developmental psychology, comparative psychology, animal behavior, and evolutionary psychology, and will also be of interest to anthropologists. It is a richly informative text for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses.""--BOOK JACKET.",2005,4.25,308,4
9781593854461,1593854463,Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties,,Janette K. Klingner;Sharon Vaughn;Alison Boardman,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NfLfnEdzD60C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A ChoiceOutstanding Academic Title! A highly practical resource for the classroom, this book offers clear, research-based recommendations for helping students at all grade levels understand and learn from what they read. Explaining the skills and strategies that good readers use to comprehend text, the authors show how to support struggling students in developing these skills. They present a variety of effective assessment procedures, ways to enhance vocabulary instruction and teach students about different text structures, and instructional practices that promote comprehension before, during, and after reading. Special features include discussion questions in every chapter, and reproducible instructional materials and lesson plans.",2007,3.77,178,22
9781594130076,1594130078,The Fellowship of the Ring,Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings,John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZQFiPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A New York Times Bestseller Part One of The Lord of the Rings In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins is faced with an immense task as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the One Ring of Sauron to his care. Frodo must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the all-powerful Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.",2003,4.35,855,164
9781594160004,1594160007,Seabiscuit,The Saga of a Great Champion,B. K. Beckwith,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DkFWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Through first-hand accounts, chronicles the story of the legendary thoroughbred from his birth in Kentucky to his victory at Santa Anita, including anecdotes about the horse and those who cared for him.",2003,4.46,64,22
9781594201004,1594201005,The War of the World,Twentieth-century Conflict and the Descent of the West,Niall Ferguson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UO2qQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Seeks to establish a connection between industrial and technological progress and violence in the modern era, arguing that the twentieth century has been the most violent period in history in spite of unprecedented achievements. By the author of Paper and Iron. 100,000 first printing.",2006,4.04,808,1968
9781594481529,1594481520,The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil,,George Saunders,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PWWmyMgGZ5gC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Citizens waiting to enter the country of Inner Horner, a strange land that is only large enough for one resident at a time, fall prey to the tyrannical rule of the ambitious and power-hungry Phil, igniting an outbreak of injustice and mass hysteria, in an unusual novel by the author of Pastoralia. Original.",2005,3.7,130,4923
9781594481574,1594481571,Plan B,Further Thoughts on Faith,Anne Lamott,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=__EKDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A spiritual guide by the author of the best-selling Traveling Mercies shares humorous and inspirational advice on how to manage with grace in today's world of terrorism, while caring for aging parents and children simultaneously, and in the face of environmental threats. Reprint.",2006,4.06,352,18609
9781594481758,159448175X,The Portrait,,Iain Pears,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eszUELpiqtwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Journeying to a remote French island to sit for a portrait that is painted by his tormented artist friend, an influential London art critic recalls the early years of their friendship, his own influence over aspiring artists, and the power struggle between subject and artist in the course of the sitting. By the author of An Instance of the Fingerpost. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.",2006,3.45,211,1347
9781594481772,1594481776,The Kite Runner,,Khaled Hosseini,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3GqcPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.",2005,4.28,383,5241
9781594481932,1594481938,A Long Way Down,,Nick Hornby,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2s3RBNZkZT4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Meeting on New Year's Eve on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination infamous as a last stop for suicidal people, a television talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother share the stories about their circumstances and decisions. By the author of How to Be Good. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 500,000 first printing.",2006,3.42,368,63741
9781594481949,1594481946,Everything Bad is Good for You,How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter,Steven Johnson,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9_YZyOfgqbEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the intellectual benefits of elements from modern popular culture, including video games and reality TV programs.",2006,3.49,254,3939
9781594489259,1594489254,The Ghost Map,"The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and how it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World",Steven Johnson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cWtglGzhPPEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A historical chronicle of Victorian London's worst cholera outbreak traces the day-by-day efforts of Dr. John Snow, who put his own life on the line in his efforts to prove his previously dismissed contagion theory about how the epidemic was spreading. 80,000 first printing.",2006,3.91,299,30268
9781594489426,1594489424,Grace (eventually),Thoughts on Faith,Anne Lamott,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mIZbCiH5OOcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness--sometimes all at once. Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotion muck we all slog",2007,3.98,255,13718
9781594720352,1594720355,Legend Of The Five Rings,Roleplaying Game,Rich Wulf;Shawn Carman;Seth Mason,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8nz6PAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2005,3.78,318,165
9781594731402,1594731403,How to be a Perfect Stranger,The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook,Stuart M. Matlins;Arthur J. Magida,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3vDI7YSzQEQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A guide to the rituals and celebrations of the major religions and denominations in the United States and Canada helps the well-meaning guest feel at ease when visiting other people's religious ceremonies. Original.,2006,3.96,403,114
9781594860164,1594860165,"Live Rich, Die Broke",A Radical Seven-Part Plan to Increase Your Net Worth and Afford You the Lifestyle of Your Dreams,Stephen M. Pollan,"Finance, Personal",,,2004,3.29,482,14
9781594862953,1594862958,New Rules,Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,Bill Maher,Humor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rIG9ciCJjHsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The comedian host of Politically Incorrect draws on previously written material and the ""New Rules"" segments of his popular cable show, Real Time, to consider such topics as cell phones, fast food, and the agendas of conservative government figures. 250,000 first printing.",2005,3.71,304,4964
9781594865671,1594865671,An Inconvenient Truth,The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It,Al Gore,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=93M6C24ac9MC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The former vice-president details the factors contributing to the growing climate crisis, describes changes to the environment caused by global warming, and discusses the shift in environmental policy that is needed to avert disaster.",2006,3.76,328,5615
9781595140326,1595140328,So Yesterday,A Novel,Scott Westerfeld,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oRZy5SqnwFoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Trend-spotter and fashion expert Hunter Braque must use all of his cool-hunting talents to find a big-money client who has mysteriously disappeared. Reprint.,2005,3.58,256,10282
9781595322326,1595322329,Diabolo,,Kaoru Ohashi;Kei Kusunoki,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rOtyNgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this tale of a dark past, Ren and Rai sell their souls to Diabolo to save Ren's cousin, Mio. Illustrations.",2004,3.44,199,203
9781595324849,1595324844,RG Veda,,Clamp,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5NbOt8YUT5kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Three hundred years ago, a warlord overthrew the Emperor of Heaven and began a cruel and tyrannical reign, but a prophecy foresaw that Six Stars could bring about his downfall, and Yasha is determined to make the prophecy come true.",2005,3.72,197,785
9781595329141,1595329145,Dragon Head,,Minetaro Mochizuki,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HOsfMiDATbEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the medicine to cure Teru in hand, Ako and Nimura struggle to return to their ailing friend. Standing in their way is a whole town bent on killing them as well as the strange young man with the scar on his head. Will they be able to save Teru before its too late? Older teens.",2006,3.69,220,794
9781595540454,1595540458,The Oath,,Frank E. Peretti,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UlpfXTEnDNQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A decade ago, Peretti unleashed what many fans consider his most suspenseful, multilayered novel ever--now available in a 10th anniversary edition with an all-new cover, new Foreword by the author, and the author's signature on the cover and case of the book.",2005,4.07,576,31
9781595542328,1595542329,A Time to Embrace,,Karen Kingsbury,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CzlXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Their whole life was a series of miracles. Can they really hope for one more? And as tragedy pulls their lives apart, can they somehow find that all-important time to embrace? After twenty-one years, John and Abby Reynolds are back together and feeling like newlyweds. Together they are convinced they can handle the issues of their past, the questions from their children, and even the high-school politics that drain the joy from John's coaching career. But then disaster strikes...the type of tragedy John and Abby never expected. The squeal of brakes and the crunch of metal changes everything. Suddenly devastation tears at the heart of their family, and the depth of their existence. In the process, their children falter in their faith and guilt colors everything about the future. Fumbling for forgiveness and hoping for a miracle, John and Abby must remember what is important and cling to that above all else. Together, they're determined to move on with their lives. but is ""together"" enough for a future they never expected?",2006,4.35,400,3648
9781595690364,1595690360,"Teleny, Or, The Reverse of the Medal",,Oscar Wilde,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qw2ItholIXQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This homoerotic novel unmasked the cynical double moral standards of the Victorian era: The love of Camille and Teleny is shattered by social reprisals. It was originally published in 1893 by Leonard Smithers who praised it as being ""the most powerful and cleverly written erotic romance which has appeared in the English language."" (Adult Fiction)",2006,3.68,138,932
9781595690555,1595690557,His Excellency,,Émile Zola;Ernest Alfred Vizetelly,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oZgkKVGNDMQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"His Excellency (French: Son Excellence Eugene Rougon) - From Zola's Rougon-Macquart Series. ""Son Excellence Eugene Rougon is the one existing French novel which gives the reader a fair general idea of what occurred in political spheres at an important period of the Empire. It is a book for foreigners and particularly Englishmen to read with profit, for there are yet many among them who cherish the delusion that Napoleon III. was not only a good and true friend of England, but also a wise and beneficent ruler of France; and this, although his reign began with bloodshed and trickery, was prolonged by means of innume-rable subterfuges, and ended in woe, horror, and disgrace... There is, of course, some fiction in the book; but, again and again, page after page, I have found a simple record of fact, just deftly adapted to suit the requirements of the narrative. The history of the Second Empire is probably as familiar to me as it is to M. Zola himself-for, like him, I grew to manhood in its midst, with better opportunities, too, than he had of observing certain of its distinguishing features - and thus I have been able to identify innumerable incidents and allusions, and trace to their very source some of the most curious passages in the book. And it is for this reason, and by virtue of my own knowledge and experience, that I claim for His Excellency the merit of reflecting things as they really were in the earlier years of the Imperial regime."" (Ernest Alfred Vizetelly)""",2006,3.69,364,44
9781595820129,1595820124,Vampire Hunter D Volume 1,,Hideyuki Kikuchi;Yoshitaka Amano;Kevin Leahy,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6GswxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires-and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves. Every village wants a Hunter-one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and their swords to the eradication of the Nobility. But some Hunters are better than others, and some bring their own kind of danger with them... From creator Hideyuki Kikuchi, one of Japan's leading horror authors with illustrations by renowned Japanese artist, Yoshitaka Amano, best known for his illustrations in Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters and the Final Fantasy games.",2005,3.98,238,3782
9781595820143,1595820140,Vampire Hunter D Volume 2: Raiser of Gales,,Hideyuki Kikuchi;Yoshitaka Amano;Kevin Leahy,Comics & Graphic Novels,,"The adventures of Vampire Hunter D continue! Vampires: murderous creatures in the shape of humans, they stalk the night feeding on the blood of innocents. Seemingly immortal, they can be destroyed only by the use of a stake through the heart, severing of their heads, or exposure to sunlight. By the year 12, 090 A.D. vampires have ruled the Earth for almost 300 years, and it is only these weaknesses that have kept these foul monsters from totally overrunning the world. But what happens when those rules no longer apply? The village of Tsepesh sits in the eternal shadow of an abandoned castle, a onetime stronghold of the Nobility, the vampire lords who rule the devastated wasteland of the future. Ten years ago four children disappeared while playing near the castle, only to mysteriously reappear a month later. Now vampires have begun to hunt in the daylight. Are the two events connected? The villagers turn to the vampire hunter known only as D, but as he follows the children, now adults, the answers he finds may be more terrifying than anything he could ever imagine. FOR MATURE READERS",2005,3.87,250,1733
9781595820310,1595820310,Vampire Hunter D Volume 3: Demon Deathase,,Hideyuki Kikuchi;Yoshitaka Amano;Kevin Leahy,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ShQvxgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The novel that was the basis for the hit motion picture Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlustis available in English for the first time! The third volume of the popular Japanese series Vampire Hunter D comes to America in Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase. The vampire hunter known only as D has been hired by a wealthy, dying man to find his daughter, who was kidnapped by the powerful vampire Lord Meierlink. Though humans speak well of Meierlink, the price on his head is too high for D to ignore and he sets out to save her before she can be turned into an undead creature of the night. In the nightmare world of 12090 A.D., finding Meierlink before he reaches the spaceport in the Clayborn States and gets off the planet will be hard enough, but D has more than just Meierlink to worry about. The dying man is taking no chances, and has also enlisted the Marcus family, a renegade clan of four brothers and a sister who don't care who they kill as long as they get paid. Beautiful illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano complement the post-apocalyptic plot, filled with chilling twists. FOR MATURE READERS",2005,4.02,211,1478
9781595820617,1595820612,Coffin,The Art of Vampire Hunter D,Yoshitaka Amano;Robert Simpson,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OnkwAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"For over 20 years, the character Vampire Hunter D has haunted the imaginations of people around the world, its image forever etched in the mind's eye through the dazzling artwork of Yoshitaka Amano. As the original novels appear in English for the first time, American readers are clamoring for a more extensive look at this singular creation. Coffin obliges. This gorgeous retrospective embraces the full scope of Amano's work with the character: in the novels, as inspiration for the animators of the two theatrical films, rare paintings, and illustrations created for release as limited edition prints. In addition to the breathtaking artwork, Coffin features an original Vampire Hunter D short story by creator Hideyuki Kikuchi, available nowhere else.",2006,4.58,199,588
9781595820631,1595820639,Tale of Genji,,Yoshitaka Amano,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1tgAwQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Yoshitaka Amano has been praised around the world for his lush watercolors and evocative work dealing with myth and legend. In The Tale of Genji Mr. Amano brings his considerable talent to retelling one of the most famous of Japanese myths: written by Murasaki Shikibu shortly after 1000 AD and considered by most scholars to be the first novel ever written, The Tale of Genji is the story of the romantic adventures of Genji, the amazingly handsome prince and his many romantic conquests. Told through stunning paintings, Mr. Amano brings this classic story to life for a new generation. • As one of the most respected stories of all time, The Tale of Genji holds a worldwide place of honor among lovers of myth and legend.",2006,4.06,81,462
9781595820716,159582071X,Ju-on,A Novel,Kei Ōishi;Joe Swift,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mP3oPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A novelization of the horror film The Grudge, based on the popular manga and film series, traces the experiences of a senior citizen outreach volunteer who encounters a murderous deadly force involving the victims of a terrible curse. Original.",2006,3.84,240,331
9781595820938,1595820930,Vampire Hunter D Volume 4: Tale of the Dead Town,,Hideyuki Kikuchi;Yoshitaka Amano;Kevin Leahy,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_3k1zQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a floating city becomes the target of a rash of vampire attacks, only one man can restore the oasis. ""The City,"" a tiny metropolis of a few hundred sheltered citizens floating serenely on a seemingly random course a few feet above the ground, has long been thought safe from the predation of marauding monsters. It seemed like a paradise. A paradise shattered when an invasion of apparent vampires threatens the small haven. While the Vampire Hunter known only as ""D"" struggles to exterminate the scourge, a former denizen of the city, the attractive Raleigh Knight, and the brash John M. Brassalli Pluto VIII seize control of the city lurching it onto a new and deadly course. D's travails are just beginning. * The Vampire Hunter D films are two of the most-popular Japanese anime films released in the United States consistently ranking among the top DVDs sold on amazon.com! FOR MATURE READERS",2006,3.92,205,1137
9781595820945,1595820949,Vampire Hunter D Volume 5: The Stuff of Dreams,,Hideyuki Kikuchi;Yoshitaka Amano;Kevin Leahy,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CtHmAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In a world where even the smallest and most remote village is being terrorized by the monsters that stalk the night, there is a hamlet, prosperous and peaceful, where mortals and vampires have lived in harmony for years. It is there that seventeen-year-old Sheavil Schmidt has slept, neither waking nor aging, for thirty years since first receiving the vampire's immortal kiss. The mysterious Vampire Hunter D is lured to the tranquil oasis by recurrent dreams of the beautiful, undying girl bathed in an eerie blue light and dancing in a ghostly chateau. * Over 100,000 copies of the Vampire Hunter D novels have been sold. * The Stuff of Dreams is volume 5 in a seventeen volume series. FOR MATURE READERS",2006,3.99,208,1064
9781595821065,1595821066,Vampire Hunter D Volume 6: Pilgrimage of the Sacred,,Hideyuki Kikuchi;Yoshitaka Amano,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sohKtgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Granny Viper is a ""people finder,"" a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire Nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier's far border. But rescuing Tae is only half the battle--Viper knows she and the girl can't cross the formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone. After making the fatal mistake of hiring the mercenary Bullow Brothers to help her, Granny turns to the legendary Vampire Hunter D for salvation. As they traverse the bleak desert between the Inner and Outer Frontier, the two women and D find themselves in a race for their lives. And they soon discover how cruel the desert is--and how very ruthless the Bullow Brothers are . . . * Features six illustrations by the renowned Yoshitaka Amano, illustrator of Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters.",2006,4.11,208,822
9781595821072,1595821074,"Vampire Hunter D Volume 7: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part 1",,Hideyuki Kikuchi;Yoshitaka Amano,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BEJwAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A girl's dying wish sends D on an impossible quest in this riveting prose novel. Even a reluctant hero can't refuse the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives him a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. D's journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing to claim the jewel. Will they catch him? Hideyuki Kikuchi's crackling narrative and Yoshitaka Amano's imaginative artwork make this a must-read entry in the series.",2007,4.27,209,1042
9781596060241,1596060247,Inside Job,,Connie Willis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3ZwmAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Inside Job is a tale of spiritualists, seances, skeptics, and a love that just might be able to rise about it all.",2005,3.66,99,1398
9781596321281,1596321288,Hard Candy,,Angela Knight;Sheri Gilmore;Morgan Hawke,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vMVlAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"If one man is good, then two are so much better. An erotic romance anthology for those who like it hot, hard and oh so wickedly delicious, with stories by USA Today bestselling author Angela Knight, and erotic romance rising stars Morgan Hawke and Sheri Gilmore. PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This anthology is also available in e-book format, and contains material some readers may find offensive.",2005,4,350,554
9781596432949,1596432942,Side Effects,,Amy Goldman Koss,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iqXgZE0yfDgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Everything changes for Isabelle, not quite fifteen, when she is diagnosed with lymphoma--but eventually she survives and even thrives.",2006,3.87,144,889
9781596670235,1596670231,Active Literacy Across the Curriculum,"Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening",Heidi Hayes Jacobs,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9104ZLuR4Y0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents cross-curricular teaching strategies for K-12 teachers to help students develop effective listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills.",2006,3.94,138,31
9781596792371,159679237X,A Christmas Carol,,Charles Dickens,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=A8D33OzY0U4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.,2005,4.34,238,431
9781596792500,1596792507,Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles,,Arthur Conan Doyle;Malvina G. Vogel,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EWgWPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the bleak wastes of Dartmoor to solve the mystery surrounding the late Sir Charles Baskerville and a ghostly hound.,2005,4.51,237,28
9781596870413,1596870419,"I, Robot",The Illustrated Screenplay,Harlan Ellison;Isaac Asimov,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0ntXkgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Presents a screenplay of Asimov's classic where the development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored.,2004,4.02,288,26
9781596871328,1596871326,Roger Zelazny's To Rule in Amber,,John Gregory Betancourt,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H_BukgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As Oberon takes up the reins of leadership to build a new empire on the foundations of that laid by his father, he confronts a host of challenges as he deals with old and new enemies, political intrigue, power-mad siblings, assassins, a mad father, and the King of Chaos. Reprint.",2005,3.75,310,730
9781597221108,1597221104,Undead and Unwed,,MaryJanice Davidson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XE9SPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A just-laid-off secretary has a really bad week when she dies and is then made Queen of the Undead. ""Chick lit meets vampire fiction in this creative, sophisticated, sexy, and wonderfully witty book.""--Catherine Spangler.",2005,3.82,392,89
9781597221283,1597221287,Undead and Unappreciated,,MaryJanice Davidson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W09SPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The newly crowned queen of the undead, fashion-savvy Betsy Taylor continues her reluctant reign while trying to uncover the truth about some troublesome family secrets.",2005,3.88,279,67
9781597800440,1597800449,The Algebraist,,Iain M. Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Mxg4vgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of — part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony — Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer — a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he's ever known. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.",2006,4.01,434,14737
9781597818704,1597818704,Marilyn Manson,The Lonely Watchman,Richard D. Nelson,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=widCESlfeN4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""There are many Christian haters this I know, for the rockstars tell me so!"" This book is a call for anti-Christians everywhere to a more open-minded response to thoughtful Christian engagement.",2006,4,224,3
9781598160109,1598160109,LOVE MODE Volume 1: (Yaoi),,Yuki Shimizu,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nuwqxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows couples and characters who visit the Blue Boy, an exclusive male dating club.",2005,3.92,192,1401
9781598160116,1598160117,LOVE MODE Volume 2: (Yaoi),,Yuki Shimizu,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BHatAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows couples and characters who visit the Blue Boy, an exclusive male dating club.",2006,4.24,204,742
9781598160147,1598160141,LOVE MODE Volume 5: (Yaoi),,Yuki Shimizu,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HYDIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Follows couples and characters who visit the Blue Boy, an exclusive male dating club.",2007,4.32,192,569
9781598161991,1598161997,Tramps Like Us,,Yayoi Ogawa,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-aqNAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sumire is demoted from her job on the same day that she discovers her boyfriend cheated on her, but things look up when she meets Momo, an engaging homeless guy who makes her life even more complicated.",2007,4.38,179,488
9781598163209,1598163205,Shout Out Loud! Volume 5: (Yaoi),,Satosumi Takaguchi,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6oYxPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Tenryu and Shino finally make a decision on their relationship, Nakaya, unsure if he can accept the new romance, confronts Tenryu.",2007,3.95,192,82
9781598163322,1598163329,"BLOOD SUCKER Volume 1: Legend of ""Zipangu""",,Saki Okuse;Aki Shimizu,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wIj-IOPBryYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With the help of his right hand man Kuraha, Migiri has been brought back to life and granted a sacrifice in the form of the beautiful young Kikuri. The only thing standing in the way of Migiri's restoration is Yusuke Himukai, who is sworn to protect Kikuri!",2006,3.2,200,49
9781598165760,1598165763,Seikai: Crest of the Stars Volume 2: A Modest War,,Morioka Hiroyuki,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zIhbAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Jinto and Lafiel escape from Baron Febdash's orbital palace only to fall into the clutches of the Human Unification Army. Thrust into the middle of an ugly battle for intergalactic supremacy, the lander noble and the Imperial princess must learn to work together if they want to survive. Young adult.",2007,4.1,222,129
9781598165777,1598165771,Seikai: Crest of the Stars Volume 3: Return to a Strange World,,Morioka Hiroyuki,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xBVmAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Barely escaping the Human Unification Army, Lafiel and Jinto crash-land on Planet Clasbul, which is already under enemy occupation. With no means to rejoin the fleet, they must find a way to survive until rescued. However, the Abh princess is nothing more that a clueless girl, and Jinto must use his experience to protect her.",2007,4.21,203,125
9781598166743,1598166743,Trinity Blood,,Sunao Yoshida;Beni Axia Conrad;Christine Boylan,Comics & Graphic Novels,,"In a post-apocalyptic world of constant war between humans and vampires, many desire a peaceful co-existence between the two species, but standing between them is a group of vampire extremists who manipulate the two sides and pit them against each other.",2006,4.11,177,4926
9781598169461,1598169467,"Twelve Kingdoms, The - Hardcover Edition Volume 1: Sea of Shadow",,Fuyumi Ono;Akihiro Yamada;Alexander O. Smith,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8rr6yAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"After normal high-schooler Yoko is whisked away to another world by Keiki, a holy man who claims she is the heir to the kingdom of Kei, she is left only with a magical sword, a gem, and questions about her destiny as she fights for her throne.",2007,4.21,464,2430
9781599900056,159990005X,The Drift House,The First Voyage,Dale Peck,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kbwPYAYoJlcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Sent to stay with their uncle in a ship-like home called Drift House, twelve-year-old Susan and her stepbrothers embark on an adventure involving duplicitous mermaids, pirates, and an attempt to stop time forever.",2006,3.64,437,595
9781599982939,1599982935,Naughty Little Secret,,Shelley Bradley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HMuDmAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"By night, he becomes a mysterious stranger devoted only to her pleasure?and discovers she?s hiding a naughty little secret.After divorcing her never-home husband, Lauren Southall plucked up her courage, dusted off her power suits, and returned to corporate life. Two years later, there?s just one six-foot three, testosterone-packed problem: her ex-husband?s good friend and her current boss, Noah Reeves. Lauren aches for him. No other man will do. But she can?t possibly measure up to the silicone-packed professional cheerleaders he dates. So she hides her desire behind a professional persona and fantasizes.For ten years, Noah Reeves has waited to make Lauren his. Once her divorce was final, he tracked down and hired the brilliant, dedicated woman. But when he?s with her, it isn?t spreadsheets and profit margins on his brain. Problem is, she?s never seen him as anything but her ex-husband?s pal. Now that she?s finally a free woman and with him 40+ hours a week, well? he?d love to persuade her to throw in her nights and weekends.Noah decides to romance her by day. By night, he becomes a mysterious stranger devoted only to her pleasure?and discovers she?s hiding a naughty little secret of her own.Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language.",2006,3.73,212,2270
9781600100291,1600100295,The Great and Secret Show,,Chris Ryall,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XA5AZoZ4CkAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The beginning of a battle between good and evil that will span many decades and different dimensions is presented in the first volume of an adaptation of horror master Clive Barker's epic journey into the fantastic.,2006,4.22,136,17047
9781600430015,1600430015,Vegas Bites,A Werewolf Romance Anthology,L. A. Banks;J. M. Jeffries;Seressia Glass;Natalie Dunbar,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eoMbPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What howls in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Welcome to the French Quarter, Sin City's premier casino, where the high rollers are vampires, the sexy showgirls are werewolves, and the lounge magician is a djinn. Beneath the sexy, sassy, smoldering action, danger lurks and Lady Love reigns supreme. Below the glittering, glitzy Las Vegas front lies a struggle for life, death, and dominance of the most powerful werewolf pack in North America. Explore this high roller fantasy world of feuding werewolf packs, high-stakes thieves, a sexy djinn, and a mystical medallion. But baby it's only Vegas.",2006,4.11,346,193
9781600961502,1600961509,The Lost Continent,,Edgar Rice Burroughs,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=35GYPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Lost Continent is one of the least-known of Burroughs' thrilling science-fiction tales. In the year 2137, civilization has been in decline for nearly two centuries, and war-torn Europe is but a distant memory to the inhabitants of the isolated United States. But an American adventurer rediscovers the Old World, which has become a strange and savage land.",2008,3.67,108,1200
9781740591201,1740591208,Cuba,,Conner Gorry;David Stanley,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AQkS5MU0q-4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reviews the history, geography, and culture of Cuba, describes tourist attractions in each region, and recommends hotels and restaurants.",2004,3.91,448,15
9781740596466,1740596463,Australia and New Zealand on a Shoestring,,Paul Smitz,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pISjtwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At last - the two hottest stars on the travel circuit combined in one sizzling guidebook! Grab your pack and head south to Australia's awesome beaches and New Zealand's spectacular landscapes. Written for backpackers by backpackers, this guide to the wonders clown under helps you travel further and pay less. - Two in one - No other guide covers both Australia and New Zealand, let alone from a backpacker's perspective - Get the lowdown on where to go for nonstop parties, and where to find a little space all to yourself - Eat cheap and sleep easy with our fully updated coverage of the best local eateries and great-value accommodation - Take your life in your hands - get your thrills from the best scuba diving, bungy jumping, skiing and jetboating that Oz and NZ bas to offer!",2005,4.04,836,25
9781740597401,1740597400,Australia,,Paul Smitz;Carolyn Bain;Sandra Bao;Susannah Farfor,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nMMgn_f4PsgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Complemented by easy-to use, reliable maps, helpful recommendations, authoritative background information, and up-to-date coverage of things to see and do, these popular travel guides cover in detail countries, regions, and cities around the world for travelers of every budget, along with extensive itineraries, maps with cross-referencing to the text, ""Top 10"" and ""Top 5"" lists, and other practical features.",2005,4.02,1120,43
9781740597463,174059746X,Cuba : Brendan Sainsbury,,Brendan Sainsbury,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BV_BqSd6aV8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This country guide offers down to earth, accurate information for every budget. Includes detailed Getting Started and itinerary chapters, Highlights sections that showcase the country's must-see sights, easy-to-use grid-referenced maps, and chapters on history, culture, food and environment.",2006,3.91,520,59
9781740597623,1740597621,Switzerland,,Damien Simonis;Sarah Johnstone;Nicola Williams,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-CIiItGuisoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Complemented by easy-to use, reliable maps, helpful recommendations, authoritative background information, and up-to-date coverage of things to see and do, these popular travel guides cover in detail countries, regions, and cities around the world for travelers of every budget, along with extensive itineraries, maps with cross-referencing to the text, ""Top 10"" and ""Top 5"" lists, and other practical features.",2006,3.82,364,51
9781740597715,1740597710,West Africa,,Anthony Ham;James Bainbridge,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JVdWavZlYKgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Lonely Planet Regional Guides are the essential companion. Includes well-presented information on everything from folklore to reading lists to insider lunch spots. Highlights sections and tailored itineraries make pre-trip planning a breeze.,2006,3.69,904,27
9781740599085,174059908X,Amsterdam,,Andrew Bender,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_iiWTKQTt7sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Marvel at the Dutch Masters and take a step back in time in an elegant merchant's house. Join the late-night revellers in the Red Light District or cosy-up canalside in a "" brown café "". Get the low-clown on Queen's Day and see the Royal Orchestra at the Concertgebouw. Elegant, history-steeped port; liberal, laid-back party town. Connect with your Amsterdam using this stylish and streetwise guide. Comprehensive listings - more than 250 reviews of 4 the best restaurants, cafés, coffeeshops and clubs in town. Expanded architecture chapter - get gable- gazing with our chapter dedicated to this remarkable city's characterful buildings. Be informed - in-depth analysis of current events gets you under the skin of the city. Explore the city your way- tailor-made cycling and walking tours and recommended canal cruises",2006,3.87,298,16
9781740599245,1740599241,Japan,,Chris Rowthorn,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G7HJwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Complemented by easy-to use, reliable maps, helpful recommendations, authoritative background information, and up-to-date coverage of things to see and do, these popular travel guides cover in detail countries, regions, and cities around the world for travelers of every budget, along with extensive itineraries, maps with cross-referencing to the text, ""Top 10"" and ""Top 5"" lists, and other practical features.",2005,4.04,812,707
9781741040913,1741040914,London,,Martin Hughes;Sarah Johnstone;Tom Masters,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5DQXAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This jolly good guide has elaborate descriptions of things to see and do on and alongside the River Thames, plus the detailed entertainment section covers music, theater and spectator sports.",2004,4.02,480,62
9781741042955,174104295X,Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands,,Danny Palmerlee;Michael Grosberg;Carolyn McCarthy,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3l4dypdvRXAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the people, customs, geography, and climate of Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands; recommends hotels and restaurants; and looks at points of interest in each region.",2006,3.87,440,64
9781741044768,1741044766,Eastern Europe,,Tom Masters,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZEWKJKR_eFgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This country guide offers down to earth, accurate information for every budget. Includes detailed Getting Started and itinerary chapters, Highlights sections that showcase the country's must-see sights, easy-to-use grid-referenced maps, and chapters on history, culture, food and environment.",2007,3.89,988,62
9781741045918,1741045916,Europe on a Shoestring,,Sarah Johnstone,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=e7_-rb4Et6UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lonely Planet's Shoestring Guides are the passport to the adventure of a lifetime--without blowing a traveller's budget. Along with insider tips on how to eat, sleep and travel cheaply are sections that cover studying, working and volunteering.Europe on a Shoestring is the single most comprehensive guide to Europe, covering 44 countries and Kaliningrad.",2007,4.05,1284,357
9781741140378,1741140374,Plain Truth,,Jodi Picoult,Amish,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3SJMZlq9nE8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Jodi Picoult explores the complex choices of the heart for a young Amish woman - and the compelling journey of discovery for an urban lawyer who befriends and protects her.,2003,3.97,416,189
9781741142396,1741142393,Harvesting the Heart,,Jodi Picoult,Domestic fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0uNEzMkXweIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Harvesting the Heart explores the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love and vulnerability, Harvesting the Heart recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Sue Miller.",2003,3.6,468,72
9781790877799,1790877792,The Perfume Factory,"It's Catcher in the Rye As Re-Imagined by Bruce Springsteen. -- Jim Testa, Jersey Beat Magazine",Alex Austin,,,"As the summer of his eighteenth birthday unfolds, Sam Nesbitt finalizes plans to escape his violent abusive father and bleak Jersey Shore town. Although the local police have Sam in their sights for a break-in and theft, he has nimbly avoided arrest, and vows to stay out of trouble. His plans are disrupted when he meets Julie, a pretty, vivacious young woman from the city, who takes an unexpected interest in him. To cement her interest, he tells numerous lies about himself, including his acceptance by an Ivy League college. Sam, who has survived by suppressing his feelings and emotions--playing it cool--obsessively pursues her, setting aside his habitual caution, altering his escape plans, and experiencing his first romantic love and sexual experience, pain and joy in tow.",2018,4.33,227,9
9781840220551,1840220554,The Complete Novels of Jane Austen,,Jane Austen,England,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=k9Bm_uBn778C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator. Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose.",2004,4.55,1431,924
9781840224535,1840224533,The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories,,Leo Tolstoy,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qzcSTHoNdSsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Tolstoy wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time.",2004,4.1,256,305
9781840233803,184023380X,Planet of the Apes,The Human War,Ian Edginton;Paco Medina;Adrian Sibar,Human-animal relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KsixAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Hit Movie and Beyond...; A sequel story arising out of events featured in the Tim Burton summer blockbuster sci-fi movie, Planet of the Apes. It's the year 2029, and astronaut/pilot Leo Davidson was caught in a special anomaly, stranded on a world where gorillas and chimps were the dominant species. A world where the remnants of mankind struggled to survive beneath the heel of ape rule. In this unique story, we discover what happens in the aftermath of Leo's adventure on the ape world.",2001,3.32,72,1
9781840237870,1840237872,American Splendor Presents Bob and Harv's Comics,,Harvey Pekar;Robert Crumb,Graphic novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-WhcPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Harvey Pekar is a true American original, known by many as the blue-collar Mark Twain. For over 25 years he's been writing comic books about his life, chronicling the ordinary and everyday in stories both funny and moving.",2004,4.02,318,6520
9781840239249,1840239247,Ministry of Space,,Warren Ellis;Chris Weston;Laura DePuy,Imperialism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QaHaswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this alternative history tale, the British capture the cream of Nazi rocket science at the end of World War Two and create a new British Empire that extends to the moon and beyond; but the road to space is paved with a secret dark enough to bring the empire to its knees.",2005,3.71,100,1298
9781840460278,184046027X,E.M. Forster - A Passage to India,,Betty Jay,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Eyga_7KoLpgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A Passage to India (1924), the last of E. M. Forster's novels to be published in his lifetime, became an immediate bestseller and also met with critical acclaim for its moral and political commentary on the crossings between individuals and cultures in the India of the British Empire. Forster's record of the terrible consequences of failed connection, of the unexpected upheavals that unsettle the calm of middle-class life, and of the challenges to the ideological foundations of Empire draw their strength from the novel's blend of intense realism and complex narrative technique. In this Readers' Guide, Betty Jay considers the establishment of Forster's reputation and the various attempts of critics to decipher the complex codes that are a feature of his novel. Successive chapters focus on debates around Forster's liberal-humanism, with essays from F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling and Malcolm Bradbury; on the indeterminacy and ambiguity of the text, with extracts from essays by Gillian Beer, Robert Barratt, Wendy Moffat and Jo-Ann Hoeppner Moran; and on the sexual politics of Forster's work, with writings from Elaine Showalter, Frances L. Restuccia and Eve Dawkins Poll. The Guide concludes with essays from Jeffrey Meyers and Jenny Sharpe, who read A Passage to India in terms of its engagement with British imperialism.",1998,3.56,176,108
9781840462685,184046268X,Jean Rhys,Wide Sargasso Sea,Carl Plasa,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0sF1QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this Reader's Guide, Carl Plasa provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the most stimulating critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea. The opening chapter outlines initial reactions to the novel from English and Caribbean critics, charting the differences between them. Chapter Two explores Wide Sargasso Sea 's dialogue with Jane Eyre and the theoretical questions it has raised. Succeeding chapters examine how critics have assessed the racial politics of Rhys's text, discuss the novel's African Caribbean cultural legacy, and explore how critics read the work both in terms of its moment of production and the early Victorian period in which it is set.",2003,3.64,194,165
9781840681123,1840681128,Divine Filth,Lost Scatology and Erotica,Georges Bataille,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mvGRAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Divine Filth is a collection of long-overlooked erotic prose and scatological fragments rivaled only by Bataille's most well know work, Story of the Eye, for pure 'pornographic' content that transcends the limits of literature and the self. These are shattered mystic visions of a seminal Surrealist with a deep thirst for negation of consciousness through ecstasy, humiliation, depravity and pain. Comprised of two parts, 'Filthy' describes a descent into the scummy underworld of London's nightlife, while 'Divinity' describes drinking to excess and S&M pleasure.",2004,3.93,160,74
9781841150352,1841150355,The Hours,,Michael Cunningham,American fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rbLQpzFDKOcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In 1990s New York, Clarissa Vaughan goes shopping for flowers for a party for her AIDS-suffering poet-friend. This novel meditates on artistic behaviour, love and madness.",1999,3.93,230,1533
9781841150505,1841150509,The Patron Saint of Liars,,Ann Patchett,Catholic women,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b2xpEpQGmAoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Roman.,2003,3.79,352,24030
9781841156736,1841156736,The Corrections,,Jonathan Franzen,Aged women,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rT6W4padP34C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The winner of THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, the New York Times No. 1 Bestseller and the worldwide literary sensation, The Corrections has established itself as a truly great American novel. The Lamberts -- Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children -- are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is ill and as his condition worsens the whole family must face the failures, secrets and long-buried hurts that haunt them if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs. Stretching from the Midwest in the mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of globalised greed, The Corrections brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty into wild collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and New Economy millionaires. It announces Jonathan Franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.",2002,3.79,653,128702
9781841157481,1841157481,The Twenty-seventh City,,Jonathan Franzen,Detective and mystery stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n9-haBVXbDoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Dying St. Louis is turned inside-out by the appointment of a charismatic young woman from Bombay as police chief, an act which launches the city's prominent citizens into political conspiracy. Franzen's first novel is already a classic of contemporary fiction.",2003,3.12,528,119
9781841157498,184115749X,Strong Motion,,Jonathan Franzen,Boston (Mass.),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HS-OchrnnuAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of 'The Corrections'. 'Strong Motion' is the brilliant, bold second novel from the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of 'The Corrections' and 'Freedom'. Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings - earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with Renée Seitchek, a passionate and brilliant seismologist, whose discoveries about the origin of the earthquakes complicate everything. Potent and vivid, 'Strong Motion' is a complex story of change from the forceful imagination of Jonathan Franzen.",2003,3.51,528,3865
9781841482644,1841482641,The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories,,Jane Yolen;Heidi Stemple,Ballets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DJJDPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Retellings of seven of the world's greatest ballet stories.,2004,4.22,96,0
9781841491837,1841491837,Crossroads of Twilight,,Robert Jordan,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DSp5PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Robert Jordan's epic fantasy saga The Wheel of Time is now firmly established as a classic of the genre and a world-wide bestseller. Now the series continues with the eagerly-awaited tenth volume ... Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must fight on against the Dark One in a struggle that has drawn an entire world into its vortex - claiming the souls of friends and enemies alike. He has cleansed the taint of madness from the male half of the True Source, so may now draw on its power as a weapon of awesome potential. This could tip the balance in a perilous battle against evil as Rand must gamble with himself at stake. He cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies - even among lifelong companions.",2003,3.83,818,794
9781841492056,1841492051,Shadow of the Giant,,Orson Scott Card,Life on other planets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GwiBPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Orson Scott Card's acclaimed new series following the events of his classic, award-winning Ender saga continues. Bean has narrowly averted total disaster and managed to thwart the plans of Achilles. But Achilles is far from defeated and his final goal - total domination of the Earth - is still well within his grasp. Now Bean must bring all his power and intellect to bear if he is to withstand the rise of the Hegemon. But even one of Ender's greatest generals must realise when he is fighting a battle that cannot possibly be won. For more information on Orson Scott Card and other Orbit authors visit the web-site at www.orbitbooks.co.uk.",2005,3.99,388,40738
9781841492667,1841492663,The Word and the Void,,Terry Brooks,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=JI-5HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"RUNNING WITH THE DEMON: One Fourth of July weekend, two men come to Hopewell, Illinois. One is a demon, a dark servant of the Void, who will feed off the anger and frustration of the community to achieve a terrible goal. Whilst families picnic and fireworks explode only John Ross, a Knight of the Word, can change the fate of humanity and save the soul of fourteen-year-old Nest Freemark. A KNIGHT OF THE WORD: The years spent saving mankind from the horrors of the Void have taken their toll on John Ross. He's lost his spirit, his belief, and now, it seems his magic. When Nest is once again drawn into the mythic world of the Word and the Void she must warn John to take up his staff of magic once again, or the battle may be lost forever. ANGEL FIRE EAST: For twenty five years, Ross has single-handedly battled against the legion of demons of the Void. But now he learns of a gypsy morph, whose power and wild magics will be an invaluable weapon against the Void - but the Void knows this too and will not rest until the creature has been corrupted - or destroyed.",2003,4.31,872,1113
9781841492704,1841492701,Unto Leviathan,,Richard Paul Russo,Life on other planets,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=coIRHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On a ship without a mission ... No one remembers where they came from or where they're going. For hundreds of years, the starship Argonos, home to generations of humans, has wandered throughout the galaxy, searching for other signs of life. Now, a steady, unidentified transmission lures them toward a nearby planet. On a planet without inhabitants ... The colony has vanished. But deep within the planet's steamy jungles, the exploration team find horrible evidence of its fate: a cavernous chamber neatly filled with rows of skeletons, each one hanging on its own hook. On a collision course with the unknown ... Once more, a signal lures the crew of the Argonos. Haunted by what they have seen, they have no choice but to follow - deep into space, where an alien mystery waits.",2003,3.74,442,134
9781841492872,1841492876,The Sword of Shannara Trilogy,,Terry Brooks,"Fantasy fiction, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b8DHGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"THE SWORD OF SHANNARA: Long ago, the world of Shea Ohmsford was torn apart by war. But the half-human, half-elfin, Shea now lives in peace - until the forbidding figure of Allanon appears, to reveal that the long dead Warlock Lord lives again ... THE ELFSTONES OF SHANNARA: Ancient evil threatens the Elves and the Races of Man. For the Ellcrys, the tree of long-lost Elven magic, is dying - loosing the spell of Forbidding that locks the hordes of Demons away from Earth. Only one source has the power to stop it: the Elfstones of Shannara. THE WISHSONG OF SHANNARA: Evil stalks the Four Lands as the Ildatch, immemorial book of evil spells, has stirred to eldritch life. Once again Allanon, ancient Druid Protector of the Races, must seek the help of a descendant of Jerle Shannara.",2004,3.94,1191,169
9781841493558,1841493554,The Heritage of Shannara,,Terence Dean Brooks;Terry Brooks,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U2jEGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"THE SCIONS OF SHANNARA - A dire message from the Druid Allanon sends Par and his brother on an impossible task: to recover the long-lost Sword of Shannara - or the Four Lands will be destroyed. THE DRUID OF SHANNARA - Evil forces remain in control of the Four Lands. To restore Druid Allanon's keep, Walker Boh journeys to find the black Elfstone. He must venture into perilous lands with a strange band of fellow travellers - one of whom is hatching his own sinister plot. THE ELF QUEEN OF SHANNARA - Ordered by the Druid Allanon to find the Elves and return them to the world of Men, Wren is taken to an island where they might still exist. Even if by some miracle she locates the Elves, will they follow her? THE TALISMANS OF SHANNARA - The Shadowen still swarm over the Four Lands, poisoning everything with their dark magic. Their leader is determined to destroy all the Scions of Shannara. The charges are doomed to failure - unless Par can unlock the Sword of Shannara's power.",2005,4.28,1238,66
9781841494081,1841494089,The Darkness that Comes Before,,R. Scott Bakker,Fantasy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=BG8qGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A score of centuries has passed since the First Apocalypse and the thoughts of men have turned, inevitably, to more worldly concerns... A veteran sorcerer and spy seeks news of an ancient enemy. A military genius plots to conquer the known world for his Emperor but dreams of the throne for himself. The spiritual leader of the Thousand Temples seeks a Holy War to cleanse the land of the infidel. An exiled barbarian chieftain seeks vengeance against the man who disgraced him. And into this world steps a man like no other, seeking to bind all - man and woman, emperor and slave - to his own mysterious ends. But the fate of men - even great men - means little when the world itself may soon be torn asunder. Behind the politics, beneath the religious fervour, a dark and ancient evil is reawakening. After two thousand years, the No-God is returning. The Second Apocalypse is nigh. And one cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten...",2005,3.79,638,317
9781841581224,1841581224,"The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940",,William L. Shirer,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d8FVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the Nuremberg rallies, when Hitler roared through the streets elebrating his newly-won domination of Germany, Shirer was there. In Munich, as Chamberlain abandoned the Czechs, Shirer was there. In Vienna during the night of the Anschluss, in Berlin, when Hitler loosed his Blitzkrieg on Poland and began the war, Shirer was there. Through articles, translations of Hitler's speeches, and his own broadcasts, Shirer tried to warn the Western world of the terrible evil that was arising in Germany. The Nightmare Years is his witness to these years in which a collective madness gripped the German soul as it lurched towards war and Armageddon.",2001,4.23,654,817
9781841591056,184159105X,"Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves",,P. G. Wodehouse,Humorous stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N1BBPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Gussie Fink-Nottle simply must marry Madeline Bassett or Bertrand Wooster will be obliged to proffer the ring in his stead. In a daring attempt at securing the engagement, Jeeves and Bertie visit a rural leper colony.",2000,4.29,211,6720
9781841591063,1841591068,"Eggs, Beans and Crumpets",,P. G. Wodehouse,"Humorous stories, English",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5aneAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""In this wonderful collection of nine stories, Wodehouse puts old friends through their paces and finds them as lively as ever""--Page 4 of cover.",2000,4.12,224,874
9781841591162,1841591165,Jeeves in the Offing,,P. G. Wodehouse,Butlers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=35IoAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Anyone who involves himself with Roberta Wickham is asking for trouble, so naturally Bertie Wooster finds himself in just that situation when he goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court. So much is obvious. Why celebrated loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop should be there too, masquerading as a butler, is less clear. As for Bertie's former headmaster, the ghastly Aubrey Upjohn, the dreadful novelist, Mrs Homer Cream and her eccentric son Wilbert, their presence is entirely perplexing. Without Jeeves to help him solve these mysteries, Bertie nearly comes unstuck. It is only when that peerless manservant returns from his holiday that the resulting tangle of problems is sorted out to everyone's satisfaction - except Bertie's.",2002,4.17,208,26
9781841591384,1841591386,Mr Mulliner Speaking,,Pelham Grenville Wodehouse,England,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7zRbPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More stories about the incredible Mulliner clan, following on from Meet Mr Mulliner. This volume includes such classic Wodehouse tales as 'The Man Who Gave Up Smoking', 'The Awful Gladness of the Mater', 'Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court' and 'The Passing of Ambrose'.",2005,4,232,1453
9781841811109,1841811106,Zen in Your Garden,,Jenny Hendy,Gardens,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SCvxNwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This title seeks to help the reader create a garden that is a haven of tranquility by drawing on the principles of Zen aesthetics and by incorporating elements of Zen philosophy and symbolism into garden design. It shows how to design rock and water gardens which symbolize spiritual qualities.,2001,3.6,128,7
9781841882543,1841882542,The Science Book,,Peter Tallack,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iw73HE2cmRkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This chronology of scientific discoveries and achievements spans from 35,000 BC (""Origins of counting"") to 2000 (""Human genome sequence).",2006,4.05,528,23
9781841953670,1841953679,Gone Bamboo,,Anthony Bourdain,Assassins,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X1g0AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Welcome to the retirement home of Henry and Frances, ex - New Yorkers and professional assassins. A luxury hotel suite in an idyllic, tequila - drenched Caribbean hideaway. It's supposed to be all cocktails and sex on the beach. But when a job icing a Mafioso godfather goes awry, trouble hits paradise . . . in the form of a cross - dressing capo, a debaunched and savage Irish hardman and a slew of incompetant but vicious US marshals. Mix yourself a Tequila Sunrise and dive into Gone Bamboo.",2002,3.47,286,1021
9781841954318,1841954314,The Crimson Petal and the White,,Michel Faber,London (England),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xGvlys8IlDkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sugar, An alluring, nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the peculiar Mrs Castaway, yearns for a better life. And when she is visited by William Rackham – the somewhat reluctant heir to Rackham Perfumeries – she begins an ascent through the strata of 1870's London society that offers us intimacy with a host of loveable, maddening and superbly realised characters. Gripping from the first page, this immense novel is an intoxicating and deeply satisfying read – not only a wonderful story but the creation of an entire, extraordinary world.",2003,3.88,835,27143
9781841954745,1841954748,The Cutting Room,,Louise Welsh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=upRb_-11Ng0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Auctioneer and antiques expert Rilke's discovery of a cache of violent erotica leads him on a compulsive search for the creators, and victims, of the pornography. A first novel. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.",2004,3.62,294,2199
9781841957173,1841957178,The Penelopiad,,Margaret Atwood,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HbkV_EmCn60C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A look at the Odyssey from Penelope's point of view.,2005,3.69,198,26779
9781841957180,1841957186,Weight,,Jeanette Winterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QovNAKUeSSgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and The Passion: Written on the Body rewrites the myth of Atlas and Hercules, finding new meaning in this ancient tale. 75,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.",2005,3.77,151,4154
9781841957951,184195795X,Adiós Hemingway,,Leonardo Padura Fuentes;Leonardo Padura,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6y2CHZYxBfwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a human skeleton is discovered on Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, police inspector Mario Conde is called up out of retirement to unearth the truth. In the course of his investigations, Conde gradually reconstructs the mysterious goings-on of the night of 3rd October 1958 and in doing so is forced to come to terms with a very different side to the character of his former literary hero. Padura Fuentes cuts between Conde's world and that of Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier.",2006,3.71,229,604
9781842122914,1842122916,Never Call Retreat,,Bruce Catton;Everette Beach Long,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=mZ0rHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""...one of the great historical accomplishments of our time...will have an enduring place in our national records.""--New York Times.",2001,4.33,558,1485
9781842122921,1842122924,The Coming Fury,,Bruce Catton;Everette Beach Long,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NjORQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the history of the American Civil War, starting with the Democratic Party's Charleston Convention in 1860, and ending with first battle of the war at Bull Run.",2001,4.29,568,2055
9781842122938,1842122932,Terrible Swift Sword,,Bruce Catton,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NthXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, slowly and inexorably, reconciled themselves to an all-out war--an epic struggle for freedom.",2001,4.35,558,1382
9781842124024,1842124021,The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells,,Herbert George Wells;John R. Hammond,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4mS4SAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the founding-fathers of science fiction, it is in his short stories that Wells first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of his age. In this first ever complete collection of his stories, 84 minor miracles of the storyteller's art remind us of the relevance of this greatest of modern dreamers.",2000,4.14,864,867
9781842163863,1842163868,Portrait of Dorian Gray,,Elizabeth Gray,English language,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=zYGvRAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Dorian remembered the wish he had made at Basil's. He had said that he wished the portrait would grow old and ugly while he remained young and beautiful. But could such things come true? Dorian didn't think so. But what about the portrait? It had changed.,2000,3.88,32,118
9781842430224,184243022X,Still Life with Woodpecker,,Tom Robbins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8E8-PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A sort of love story revealing the purpose of the moon, the difference between criminals and outlaws, and the problem with redheads. Also paints a humorous portrait of contemporary society.",2001,4.04,288,60966
9781842430354,1842430351,Jitterbug Perfume,,Tom Robbins,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Yq18PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Reissue of the classic Tom Robbins novel which has been a bestseller since first released.,2001,4.24,342,52696
9781842552476,1842552473,Ballet Shoes,,Noel Streatfeild,Ballet,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2oM8PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.",2004,4.07,184,206
9781842931530,1842931539,Beowulf & Grendel,The Truth Behind England's Oldest Myth,John Grigsby,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yQPXAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The author of Heaven's Mirror and The Mars Mystery presents evidence that the legend of Beowulf originated in an ancient human sacrifice ritual that was suppressed in Britain and later found expression in this compelling tale. Original.,2005,3.57,246,47
9781842931851,1842931857,Mysteries,"An Investigation Into the Occult, the Paranormal and the Supernatural",Colin Wilson,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LiHQIYR2MwAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Through his own cathartic experiences, Colin Wilson discovered that human beings consist of a ladder or hierarchy of selves, whose upper members may be called on at will for personal transformation and deep knowledge. ""Mysteries"" attempts to explain all paranormal phenomena -- from precognition to Uri Geller's spoon bending -- in terms of this theory. Included are detailed studies of haunting, possession, and "" demonic hypnosis, "" and also of magic, the Kabbalah, and astrology. At the heart of the book is a fascinating chapter on the "" Great Secret"" of the alchemists, which Wilson sees as the key to the mystery of the "" ladder of selves.""",2006,4.08,672,348
9781843103318,1843103311,Laughter and Tears,A Family's Journey to Understanding the Autism Spectrum,Ann Hewetson,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0uYPBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Laughter and Tears follows the life story of Mark, a young man with autism, from birth to the age of 30, and is interwoven with observations of the history of autism as it unfolds from its first diagnosis in 1943 to the present day.",2005,4,224,4
9781843534099,1843534096,Cuba,,Fiona McAuslan;Matthew Norman,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ggOlMQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""The Rough Guide to Cuba is the ultimate guidebook to the Caribbean's most exciting destination. Features include: Full-colour section including Cuba's highlights; Detailed accounts of every attraction, from the resort of Varadero and the unspoiled Vinales valley to the vibrant and accessible capital city of Havana. Informed reviews of the best places to eat, drink and stay, for every taste and budget. Expert coverage of Cuba's enthralling culture and history, plus how to experience the island's dynamic music scene first-hand. Practical advice for dealing with transport, currency and bureaucracy. Maps and plans for every region."" -- Back cover.",2005,3.78,640,7
9781843536161,1843536161,The Rough Guide to Vietnam,,Jan Dodd;Mark Lewis;Ron Emmons,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CoGAPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A travel guidebook to Vietnam. Recommends accommodations, restaurants and attractions for various budgets.",2006,3.89,639,34
9781843537205,1843537206,The Rough Guide to the Beatles,,Chris Ingham,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HWE8AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Beatles are the ultimate band – the most popular, the most respected, the most influential. This new edition of The Rough Guide to the Beatles covers every aspect of the Fab Four, delving deep into the music, lyrics, movies and solo careers. Features include: The Story: from Liverpool clubs to Beatlemania. The Music: incisive reviews of every Beatles and solo album. The Canon: the inside track on the 50 greatest songs. On Screen: the movies, the promos and the TV appearances. The Fifth Beatle: George Martin, Yoko Ono, Magic Alex and other contenders. Beatleology: the best books, the weirdest covers, the most obsessive websites, the obscurest trivia.",2006,3.87,325,46
9781843541677,184354167X,Carpenter's Gothic,,William Gaddis,Married people,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=n0KoPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this tempestuous novel, Liz and Paul, the occupants of Carpenter s Gothic do battle with the Reverend Ude to preserve the African mission on which they live.",2003,3.76,262,1071
9781843607403,1843607409,Primal Heat,,Sherri L. King;Lorie O'Clare;Jaci Burton;Lora Leigh,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kvG2tAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Moonlust: ""During Brianna's trip to the Ural Mountains of Russia, a life-threatening accident places her at the mercy of a strange, reclusive man. A man whose secrets and unquenchable hunger will change her life forever...""--Publisher description.",2004,4.12,196,3524
9781843914112,1843914115,The Fatal Eggs,,Mikhail Bulgakov;Hugh Aplin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qzJuPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An inspired work of science fiction and a biting political allegory, Bulgakov'sThe Fatal Eggstells of a brilliant scientist whose experiments with life spiral terribly—and fatefully—out of control. Quite by chance, Professor Persikov discovers a new form of light ray whose effect, when directed at living cells, is to accelerate growth in primitive organisms. But when this ray is shone on the wrong batch of eggs, the Professor finds himself both the unwilling creator of giant hybrids and the focus of a merciless press campaign. For it seems the propaganda machine has turned its gaze upon him, distorting his nature in the very way his “innocent” tampering created the monster snakes and crocodiles that now terrorize the neighborhood. Russian novelist and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov is one of the foremost satirists of the 20th century.",2005,3.79,104,4669
9781844130801,1844130800,The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople,,Jonathan Phillips,Crusades,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nXxIN5mp_00C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out to free Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But after a dramatic series of events, the crusaders turned their weapons against the Christian city of Constantinople, the heart of the Byzantine Empire and the greatest metropolis in the known world. The crusaders spared no one in their savagery: they murdered and raped old and young - they desecrated churches, plundered treasuries and much of the city was put to the torch. Some contemporaries were delighted: God had approved this punishment of the effeminate, treacherous Greeks; others expressed shock and disgust at this perversion of the crusading ideal. History has judged this as the crusade that went wrong. In this remarkable new assessment of the Fourth Crusade, Jonathan Phillips follows the fortunes of the leading players and explores the conflicting motives that drove the expedition to commit the most infamous massacre of the crusading movement.",2005,4.04,416,22
9781844151455,184415145X,Red Road From Stalingrad,Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman,Mansur Abdulin,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=adaXAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story. His vivid inside view of a ruthless war on the Eastern Front gives a rare insight into the reality of the fighting and into the tactics and mentality of the Soviet army. In his own words, and with a remarkable clarity of recall, he describes what combat was like on the ground, face to face with a skilled, deadly and increasingly desperate enemy.",1990,4.12,195,74
9781844164035,1844164039,The Ultramarines Omnibus,,Graham McNeill,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=U2z2AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Graham McNeill narrowly escaped a career in surveying to work for Games Workshop as a games designer. He has a strong following with his novels Nightbringer, Warriors of Ultramar, Dead Sky, Black Sun and Storm of Iron.",2008,3.97,768,1647
9781844164110,184416411X,Outlander,,Matt Keefe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=843TAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When a stranger comes to town, the local religious zealots see an opportunity to put the man's forgery skills to nefarious use. But is the stranger all he seems and is revenge the only thing he's interested in forging? When a stranger comes to town, the local religious zealots see an opportunity to put the man's forgery skills to nefarious use. But is the stranger all he seems and is revenge the only thing he's interested in forging?",2006,3.9,254,48
9781844350483,1844350487,Doctor Who Short Trips: Repercussions,,Gary Russell,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EJFdOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Doctor Who Short Trips is a series of themed short story anthologies of new Doctor Who fiction, featuring the Doctor in all of his first eight incarnations. They feature stories written by some of the leading names in Doctor Who, past and present, including Paul Cornell, Gareth Roberts, Christopher H. Bidmead, and Paul Magrs. Repercussions features 16 tales set on a strange airship taking its passengers on a trip to who-knows-where. Among the people aboard is young adventuress Charley Pollard, just a few weeks into her life aboard the TARDIS alongside the Eighth Doctor, a man whose past she knows frighteningly little about. She encounters a diplomat trying to stop a war, a young man seemingly murdered by the Doctor, a tramp, a seismologist, and a republican trying to save the life of his plague-stricken daughter. One thing they all have in common: an encounter with a strange alien visitor who seemed to help them, but perhaps should have left them alone.",2004,3.38,246,42
9781844494248,1844494241,Jimi Hendrix,The Complete Guide to His Music,Peter Doggett,Music,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NZC39WzfzG8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Updated and redesigned editions of the classic guides to the music of the worldâs best known acts. Written by experts, each book examines every song in a given artistâs recorded repertoire, making it an invaluable guide for collectors and fans alike.",2004,4,96,4
9781844580514,1844580512,Attack of the Jaguar,,M. A. Harvey,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3HUdt6w9XVAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This training manual for operatives of Xtreme Adventures Inc., tells the story of Simon, a teenager who finds himself alone in the depths of the Amazon, where he must rescue his parents and survive the dangers of the jungle.",2004,3.4,125,4
9781844670222,1844670228,Planet of Slums,,Mike Davis,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FToaDLPB2jAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An exploration of modern-world urbanization cites a concerning rise in slum life that currently accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world's population, arguing that urban populations are disconnected and exempt from the formal world economy and may represent an explosive convergence of ethnic, religious, and political unrest.",2006,3.91,228,1652
9781844670536,1844670538,Le Système Des Objets,,Jean Baudrillard,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0T3-3Ce5VocC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offersa cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillardclassifies the everyday objects of the ""new technical order"" asfunctional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts ""modern"" and""traditional"" functional objects, subjecting home furnishing andinterior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment ofnonfunctional or ""marginal"" objects focuses on antiques and thepsychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends tothe useless, the aberrant and even the ""schizofunctional."" Finally,Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit andadvertising for the commodification of everyday life. The System of Objectsis a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the earlyBaudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rodfor all the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of""expenditure"" and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's lonely crowdand the ""technological society"" of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism ofRoland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre's workon the social construction of space; and last, but not least, GuyDebord's situationist critique of the spectacle.",2005,4,224,957
9781844670550,1844670554,The Function of Criticism,,Terry Eagleton,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0gZvs4RvRRIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, form Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida, by Britain's most stylish critic.",2005,3.65,138,181
9781844671083,1844671089,In Defense of Lost Causes,,Slavoj Žižek,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VWB0QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A high-energy philosophical manifesto on the concept and virtues of universal values addresses such topics as Heidegger's engagement with the Third Reich, the role of class struggles in global capitalism, and the legacy of Christianity against New Age spiritualism. Original.",2008,3.89,504,780
9781844740444,1844740447,Desiring God,Meditations of a Christian Hedonist,John Piper,Christian life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EodFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2004,4.14,391,60
9781845130497,1845130499,"My Wicked, Wicked Ways",,Errol Flynn,Actors and actresses,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=641bPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book, illustrated for the first time with two dozen photos, reveals an introspective and enigmatic personality previously hidden behind a hedonistic facade.",2005,4.01,438,1535
9781845203344,1845203348,The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact,,Jean Baudrillard,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jNxzQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"There are few philosophers today cool enough to be referenced in the Matrix, interesting enough to be mentioned on Six Feet Under, and popular enough to get over 606,000 hits on Google. Jean Baudrillard has succeeded in all of this and more. Now, in his latest book, Baudrillard presents his most popular themes--symbolic exchange, hyper-reality, technology and war--and applies them to the current global conflict between ""the West and the Rest"", including Islam. Ultimately, it is not simply about the war against terror but about the bigger picture of capitalism versus everything else. This book serves as the summation of Baudrillard's work over the last twenty years and is the essential analysis of the fundamental conflict of our time.",2005,3.86,215,239
9781845390105,1845390105,Scary Edwin Page,,Alec Sillifant;Daniel Postgate,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uikcOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Edwin Page was scarier than a bin bag full of bad dreams. And on one night of the year, Edwin Page was very, very scary indeed. But for once, on this Hallowe'en, something is about to change.",2004,3.21,24,14
9781845760182,1845760182,Ghost in the Shell,,Masamune Shirow,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9tMePwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Deep into the 21st century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg super-agent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including ""ghost hackers,"" capable of exploiting the human/machine interface by reprogramming human minds to become puppets to carry out their criminal ends.",2006,4.18,368,59
9781850522317,1850522316,Red Dragon,The Silence of the Lambs,Thomas Harris,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c1qLQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Kriminalromaner.,1992,4.48,534,283
9781851681822,1851681825,Love Letters,The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah,Kahlil Gibran;Suheil Bushrui,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OY0MAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A moving anthology of correspondence between Gibran and May Ziadah.,1999,3.67,178,201
9781852339463,1852339462,The Future of the Universe,,A.J. Meadows,Science,,"Many books have described how the universe became the way it is today. But what about the future of the universe? How long might the universe as we recognize it survive? The Future of the Universe takes the reader on a journey through space and time, beginning with a long look at the Earth and solar system, voyaging to the outermost galaxies, and finishing with speculations about the life and fate of the entire universe.",2007,3.75,175,4
9781852402877,1852402873,There is Always Enough,The Story of Rolland and Heidi Baker's Miraculous Ministry Among the Poor,Rolland Baker;Heidi Baker,Church work with the poor,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=H-AMAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tells the story of an adventure that began when the authors, founders of IRIS Ministries, and both natives of California, USA, answered God's call to minister to the poorest of the poor.",2003,4.45,192,34
9781852421175,1852421177,The Chomsky Reader,,Noam Chomsky;James Peck,Estados Unidos - Relaciones exteriores - 1945-1989,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pc5zQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the centre of pratically every major debate over America?s role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky?s ideas - sometimes attacked, sometimes studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence. Drawing from his published and unpublished work, The Chomsky Reader reveals the awesome range of this ever-critical mind - from global questions of war and peace to the most intricate questions of human intelligence, IQ and creativity. It reveals the underlying radical coherency of his view of the world - from his enormously influential attacks on America?s role in Vietnam to his perspective on Nicaragua and Central America Today. Chomsky?s challenges to accepted wisdom about Israel and the Palestinians has caused a furore in America, as have his trenchant essays on the real nature of terrorism in our age. No one has dissected more graphically the character of the cold war consensus and the way it benefits the two superpowers, and argued more thoughtfully for a shared elitist ethos in liberalism and communism. No one has exposed more logically America?s acclaimed freedoms as masking irresponsible power and unjustified privilege, or argued quite so insistently that the ?free press? is part of a stultifying conformity that pervades all aspects of American intellectual life.",1987,3.97,492,1564
9781852424473,1852424478,The Blonde on the Street Corner,,David Goodis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=CkrzQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Long out-of-print major work from a master of classic American crime fiction,1954,3.72,155,277
9781852426743,1852426748,Of Tender Sin,,David Goodis,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r0kFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"'It began with a shattered dream?' Alvin Darby is a 29 year old insurance clerk, with a comfortable apartment, a beautiful wife and enough money in the bank not to have to worry. So why does he wake up in the middle of the night tortured by the image of a woman with platinum blonde hair? And why is he suddenly convinced that his wife is having an affair? Consumed by jealousy, Alvin leaves his comfortable life to walk the streets of Skid Row intent on murder. Caught up in an underworld of drugs and crime, Alvin is soon out of his depth, and back with his old girlfriend Geraldine, whose seductive silver yellow hair and orange lips seem to hold the key to unlock the dark and terrible sin of his past?",1952,3.69,181,143
9781852428082,1852428082,Before Night Falls,,Reinaldo Arenas,"Authors, Cuban",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=r01MCuyrcOEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reinaldo Arenas presents a book about sexual, political and artistic freedom. In Before Night Falls, Arenas recounts his journey from a poverty-stricken rural childhood in Cuba to his death in New York four decades later.",2001,4.17,317,3024
9781852864989,1852864982,Death,The High Cost of Living,Neil Gaiman,Death (Fictitious character : Gaiman),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5XnXOAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A tale of music, mortality, friendship and death is told in a graphic novel designed for mature readers by author Neil Gaiman. Spinning off from the popular Sandman Library, this is the story of Foxglove, a rising star of the music world who must wrestle with revealing her true sexual orientation as her companion, Hazel, is lured into the realm of Death.",1994,4.18,104,37678
9781853260216,1853260215,The History of Tom Jones,A Foundling,Henry Fielding,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xViaKR7HSG8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. 'Tom Jones' is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire. Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women. Misfortune, followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune, teach him a sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-heartedness. This 'comic, epic poem in prose' will make the modern reader laugh as much as it did his forbears. Its biting satire finds an echo in today's society, for as Doris Lessing recently remarked ""This country becomes every day more like the eighteenth century, full of thieves and adventurers, rogues and a robust, unhypocritical savagery side-by-side with people lecturing others on morality"". AUTHOR: Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was an English novelist; building on the foundations put in place by Daniel Defoe and others, he was a major contributor to the form of the modern novel. He wrote four novels, of which the most enduring is 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling', widely regarded as among the finest books ever written.",1992,3.74,734,555
9781853260407,1853260401,The Three Musketeers,,Alexandre Dumas,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vp--U7m0g-AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury A historical romance, 'The Three Musketeers' tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background. But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains, and Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping and dramatic conclusion. Our edition uses the William Barrow translation first published by Bruce and Wylde (London,1846) AUTHOR Alexandre Dumas, père (French for ""father"", akin to 'Senior' in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870)[1] was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'The Three Musketeers', 'Twenty Years After', and 'The Vicomte de Bragelonne' were serialised. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.",1993,4.07,555,759
9781853260735,1853260738,Moll Flanders,,Daniel Defoe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kzuSuZj03P8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the New World. 'Moll Flanders' was one of the first social novels to be published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography and social conditions prevailing in the London of the late 17th century. AUTHOR: Born Daniel Foe in London in 1660, Defoe was a prodigious writer on many subjects, producing over 500 books, pamphlets and articles. He is now remembered for his novels, primarily 'The Life and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York' and 'The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders' and is considered to be one of the key figures in establishing the format of the English novel.",1993,3.52,339,34477
9781853261404,1853261408,Tales from Shakespeare,,Charles Lamb;Mary Lamb,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LYQYYbFiU8IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Includes Shakespeare's best-loved tales, comic and tragic, rewritten for a younger audience. This title contains the delightful pen-and-ink drawings of Arthur Rackham.",1994,3.94,278,111
9781853361067,1853361062,Hemingway in Paris,Parisian Walks for the Literary Traveller,Noel Riley Fitch,"Authors, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=O4vwAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1989,3.96,195,8
9781854591173,1854591177,Cyrano de Bergerac,,Edmond Rostand,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=txm46dfx0WMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Translated by Anthony Burgess.,1991,4.06,192,58
9781854596017,1854596012,Abandonment,,Kate Atkinson,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dUrSIq5E6RMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist. Elizabeth, forty-something, childless, recently separated, just wants to be alone. She's moved into a converted Victorian mansion, alive with history, character, woodworm and rot. But worse than that she's besieged by invaders of the human kind. Her best friend, her sister, their mother, the builder and a photographer are all determined to make their mark. And a former inhabitant of the house, disturbed from her resting place by Elizabeth's arrival, revisits her own long-forgotten past. Kate Atkinson's play Abandonment was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2000.",2000,3.6,96,78
9781854790477,1854790471,The Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens,,Shelley Klein;Charles Dickens,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=51RhAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A prolific novelist and chronicler of Victorian England, the works of Charles Dickens have inspired, enthralled and entertained millions across the globe. In The World According to Charles Dickens, aspects of the personal life of Britain's greatest writer are revealed and explored, along with the highs and lows of his professional life, covering such subjects as childhood and family, women and love, politics and wealth, marriage and divorce. Born in Portsmouth, in 1812, he spent a happy childhood in Chatham, Kent, until the age of twelve, when his father was imprisoned for debt. After working as an office boy, and studying shorthand, he became a reporter for the Morning Chronicle before writing articles for numerous other periodicals. By 1836, these articles were republished in book form as Sketches by Boz. Dickens then began his career as a novelist, and continued to write until his death in 1870. An entertaining and informative biography, which features extracts and quotes from his works, and draws comparisons between the life and work of one of the world's best-known writers, The World According to Charles Dickens provides a fascinating insight into this great individual. A must for all readers and admirers of Dickens.",2002,3.55,162,28
9781855325524,1855325527,Lützen 1632,Climax of the Thirty Years War,Richard Brzezinski,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xrtXvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Thirty Years War, a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants, raged across Europe between 1618 and 1648, devastating huge areas of Germany. By 1632 the Protestant powers were in a desperate situation until King Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden, 'the Lion of the North', came to their rescue. This book describes how, having smashed one of the two main Catholic armies, he faced the other at Lützen near Leipzig in November 1632. In a nightmare battle fought in thick fog, his Swedish troops locked horns with the Imperial army. It was a bloody clash, in which Gustavus himself demonstrated true courage at the head of his cavalry - and one for which he would pay the ultimate price.",2001,3.61,96,15
9781855384279,1855384272,The Art of Dreaming,,Carlos Castaneda,Dreams,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h4BElKY-TjAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Carlos Castaneda Was One Of The Most Influential Spiritual Teachers Of The 20Th Century. In This Stunning New Jacket Edition Of His Bestselling Book, He Takes The Reader On An Amazing Journey Of The Soul Via The Teachings Of The Great Sorcerer Don Juan And Reveals That There Are Worlds Existing Within Our Own That Can Be Visited Through Dreams. The Art Of Dreaming Is An Extraordinary And Exciting Adventure Of The Psyche Unlike Any Other, Which Takes The Reader On An Amazing Journey Of The Soul Via The Teachings Of The Great Sorcerer, Don Juan. Carlos Castaneda Reveals That, Like The Layers Of An Onion, There Are Worlds Existing Within Our Own That Can Be Visited Through Dreams. Using Powerful Ancient Techniques To Alter His State Of Consciousness, Castaneda Travels Into New Worlds And Encounters Remarkable But Dangerous Beings; He Conjoins Energy Bodies With Another Dreamer In Order To Dream And Explore Together, And Thus Acquires New Knowledge And Understanding. Castaneda'S Compelling Writing Enables The Reader To Participate Fully In His Eye-Opening And Thrilling Discoveries And Explorations.",1994,4.11,260,3362
9781857024074,1857024079,A Thousand Orange Trees,,Kathryn Harrison,Historical fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TRMwGQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Set in 17th-century Spain, this is a twisting together of the stories of two women born on the same day and whose lives are devoured by the bloodthirsty Spanish state.",1995,3.61,317,78
9781857024692,1857024699,A Scandalous Life,The Biography of Jane Digby,Mary S. Lovell,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y0tQPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the acclaimed biographer of The Sisters, the story of one of the most remarkable women of the 19th century, who traveled far and wide on a quest for true love Produced from Jane Digby's diaries, this sympathetic and dramatic portrait of a rare woman explores a fascinating glimpse into the centuries-old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost. A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at 17. Their divorce a few years later was one of England's most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfillment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince, King Ludwig I of Bavaria, and a Greek count whose infidelities drove her to travel Eastern Asia. In Syria, she found the love of her life, a Bedouin nobleman, Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab, who was 20 years her junior. During the remainder of her life she adopted for six months of each year the exotic but uniquely harsh existence of a desert nomad living in the famous black goathair tents of Arabia; the remaining months she spent in the splendid palace she built for herself and Medjuel in Damascus. As wife to the Sheikh and mother to his tribe this passionate woman found not only genuine fulfillment but further adventures, all of which she committed each year to her diary.",1996,4.03,365,819
9781857027129,1857027124,Galileo's Daughter,"A Drama of Science, Faith and Love",Dava Sobel,Astronomers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SEpCrFCkwscC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial and persecution. Winner of the Christopher Award and named a Notable Book of the Year by the ""New York Times"". Illustrations.",2000,3.76,448,117
9781857028157,1857028155,The Magician's Assistant,,Ann Patchett,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-yU3AQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The national bestseller--now in paperback. When the magician Parsifal dies, his assistant, Sabine, who was also for only the last few months of his life married to Parsifal, must sort out the emotional baggage she inherits.s",1998,3.65,357,24470
9781857093315,1857093313,Tom Hunter,Living in Hell and Other Stories,Tracy Chevalier;Colin Wiggins,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jaN5QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Tom Hunter is a London-based photographer of international renown for his engaging, distinctive, and often provocative re-creations of Old Master paintings. In 1998 he won the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award for A Woman Reading a Possession Order, a beautifully crafted photograph based on a composition by the Dutch master, Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675). Featuring selections of the bold images that established Hunter’s reputation, together with new work, this book conveys the artist’s deep concern with depicting the lives of the residents of Hackney, East London, as captured in the headlines of Hunter’s local newspaper, the Hackney Gazette. These startling, sometimes tragic, stories are retold in carefully staged photographs, whose compositions are frequently derived from paintings in the National Gallery. An essay by best-selling novelist Tracy Chevalier examines Hunter’s story-telling, while Colin Wiggins discusses the relationship between Hunter’s work and paintings in the National Gallery and elsewhere.",2005,3.58,80,40
9781857150940,1857150945,The Odyssey,,Homer;Robert Fitzgerald;Seamus Heaney,Epic literature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zv9FPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has an economy and soar of a poet'. Introduced by Seamus Heaney",1992,3.75,509,45
9781857151336,185715133X,Lolita,,Vladimir Nabokov,American literature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o8KYQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures.",1992,3.89,335,795
9781857152746,1857152743,The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,The Girls of Slender Means ; The Driver's Seat ; The Only Problem,Muriel Spark;Frank Kermode,Girls,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5yQLAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece, illustrate her development over four decades. Despite the seriousness of their themes, all four are fantastic comedies of manners, bristling with wit. Spark's most celebrated novel, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, tells the story of a charismatic schoolteacher's catastrophic effect on her pupils. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS is a beautifully drawn portrait of young women living in a hostel in London in the giddy postwar days of 1945. THE DRIVER'S SEAT follows the final haunted hours of a woman descending into madness. And THE ONLY PROBLEM is a witty fable about suffering that brings the Book of Job to bear on contemporary terrorism. All four novels give evidence of one of the most original and unmistakable voices in contemporary fiction. Characters are vividly etched in a few words; earth-shaking events are lightly touched on. Yet underneath the glittering surface there is an obsessive probing of metaphysical questions: the meaning of good and evil, the need for salvation, the search for significance.",2004,3.78,512,1456
9781857231106,1857231104,The Elfstones of Shannara,,Terry Brooks,Elves,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eAPuGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"An ancient evil threatens the Elves and the Races of Man. The Ellcrys, the tree of long-lost Elven magic, is dying, unravelling the spell of Forbidding that locks the hordes of Demons away from the world. Already the fearsome Reaper is free. Only by quickening a new seed in the mysterious Bloodfire can the Ellcrys be reborn and the Forbidding made whole. Amberle, a young Elven girl, is chosen to undertake the quest for the Bloodfire. The way is perilous, though. Other demons besides the Reaper stalk the land. Amberle will need a protector if she is to prevail, and Wil Ohmsford, heir to the elven magics of Shannara, is chosen to accompany her. Amberle's quest and the fate of the Four Lands will rest on Wil's ability to unlock the magic of the mysterious Elfstones of Shannara. THE ELFSTONES OF SHANNARA is the second volume of the classic series that has become one of the best loved fantasy tales of all time.",1982,3.97,469,313
9781857231359,185723135X,Use of Weapons,,Iain Banks,Science fiction,,"The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances'foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past.",1992,4.19,411,30779
9781857232097,1857232097,The Fires of Heaven,,Robert Jordan,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4HyfQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The fifth book in Robert Jordan's internationally bestselling epic fantasy series, THE WHEEL OF TIME, now reissued with a stunning new cover design. The bonds and wards that hold the Great Lord of the Dark are slowly failing, but still his fragile prison holds. The Forsaken, immortal servants of the shadow, weave their snares and tighten their grip upon the realms of men, sure in the knowledge that their master will soon break free ... Rand al' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, knows that he must strike at the Enemy, but his forces are divided by treachery and by ambition. Even the Aes Sedai, ancient guardians of the Light, are riven by civil war. Betrayed by his allies, pursued by his enemies and beset by the madness that comes to the male wielders of the One Power, Rand rides out to meet the foe. Find out more about this title and others at www.orbitbooks.co.uk",1994,4.15,912,106302
9781857232561,1857232569,Magic Kingdom for Sale,Sold,Terry Brooks,Fantasy fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1tdqPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it for a million dollars, Ben Holiday discovered that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention. Such as the fact that the kingdom was falling into ruin. The barons refused to recognize a king and taxes hadn't been collected for years. The dragon, Strabo, was laying waste to the countryside, while the evil witch, Nightshade, was plotting to destroy no less than everything. And if that weren't enough for a prospective king to deal with, Ben soon learned that the Iron Mark, terrible lord of the demons, challenged all pretenders to the throne of Landover to a duel to the death - a duel no mere mortal could hope to win. But Ben Holiday had one human trait that even magic couldn't overcome. Ben Holiday was stubborn...",1987,3.88,324,29300
9781857233940,1857233948,Excession,,Iain Banks,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YqpyQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,By the author of Feersum Endjinn. The Excession has returned but the only person who is aware of its potential is living out her death in the immense Sleeper Service ship. The Excession is something the culture must understand better - before it falls into less understanding hands.,1996,4.2,451,165
9781857234022,1857234022,A Man Betrayed,,J. V. Jones,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Kcg6PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At Castle Harvell, demented Prince Kylock grabs the reins of power by murdering his father. Harvell's two young refugess are torn apart by the storms of war: headstrong young Melliandra is captured by brutal slavers and Jack, whose wild power works miracles, falls prey to a smuggler's lying charms and a woman's seductive schemes. Meanwhile, a knight's shattered destiny is about to lead from death-sport pits to the blood-strewn creation of an empire. For more information on this or any other Orbit title, visit the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk",1996,3.9,560,121
9781857237382,1857237382,A Knight of the Word,,Terry Brooks,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QPJ2HAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Five years have passed since the cataclysmic events which took place in RUNNING WITH THE DEMON. John Ross, a Knight of the Word, sworn to fight the eternal battle against mankind's demons, has moved on. But his years spent saving mankind from the horror of the Void have taken their toll. He has lost his spirit, his belief and now it seems he has lost his magic. Working in a hostel for homeless children, his life is now spent fighting a battle in which he feels he might make a difference. But Nest Freemark, whose involvement in those events five years ago shattered her childhood, is about to be drawn once more into the mythic world of the Void and the Word. For she learns that John Ross is in great danger from a demon like no other. And if she doesn't warn him in time - and if he isn't persuaded to take up once more his staff of magic - the battle may be lost forever.",1999,4.05,421,48
9781857237504,1857237501,The Conan Chronicles 1,,Robert Jordan,Conan (Fictitious character),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QHERQQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Before Robert Jordan conquered the bestseller lists with his phenomenally successful Wheel of Time series, he revived the legendary fantasy hero, Conan the Cimmerian. These widely acclaimed adventures introduced the world-famous barbarian to a new generation of readers. This volume contains three tales, CONAN THE INVISIBLE, CONAN THE DEFENDER and CONAN THE UNCONQUERED, all of which feature the storytelling magic and epic splendour that have made Robert Jordan one of the best-loved fantasy authors of all time.",1999,3.78,510,31
9781857237641,1857237641,Otherland,River of blue fire,Tad Williams,Otherland (Imaginary place),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s73lHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Otherland, an incredibly complex and detailed virtual reality, has appeared. Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares of its users and its creators. Vast amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have laboured to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource - its children. The story begun in OTHERLAND continues in this, the second volume of an astonishing series which is destined to become a landmark in imaginative fiction.",1998,4.01,796,192
9781857239706,1857239709,Angel Fire East,,Terry Brooks,Courage,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6QXiHAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"As a Knight of the Word, John Ross has struggled against the tireless dark forces of the Void for twenty-five years. Ross is driven by dreams that show the world reduced to blood and ashes by the Void and its minions. But for all his power, John Ross is only one man, while the demons he battles are legion. Then Ross learns of the birth of a gypsy morph, a rare and dangerous creature formed of wild magics. If he can discover its secret, the morph will be an invaluable weapon against the Void. But the Void also knows the value of the morph, and will not rest until the creature has been corrupted - or destroyed. Desperate, Ross turns to Nest Freemark, a young woman with magical abilities of her own. And there they prepare to face an ancient evil beyond anything they have ever encountered. Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk",1999,4.1,440,9851
9781857442021,1857442024,The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal,,Mihails Tāls,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tkt9QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mikhail Tal, the 'magician from Riga, ' was the greatest attacking World Champion of them all, and this enchanting autobiography chronicles his extraordinary career with charm and humor. Dazzling games are interspersed throughout with anecdotes and witty self-interviews, and in typically objective fashion he related both the downs and ups of his encounters. An inveterate smoker and drinker, Tal's life on the circuit was punctuated by bouts in the hospital with kidney problems, but nothing could dull his love for chess and his sheer genius on the chessboard. His illustrious tournament record, up to his death in 1992, is included here in full, along with 100 complete games and nearly as many positions. Tal's annotations in this book are a world apart from ordinary games collections. No reader could fail to be swept along by his passion and vitality as he sets the scene for an encounter and then recounts every psychological twist and turn",1997,4.51,496,411
9781857880786,1857880781,Snapshots From Hell,The Making of an MBA,Peter Robinson,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Pgb8wAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This work is an attempt to provide an answer to the paramount question every prospective student asks, ""What is business school really like?"" During his first year at Stanford Business School, the author began keeping a journal of his day-to-day impressions which evolved into this book, the writing of which he came to see as a ""simple act of decency, like going back to the last calm bend in the river and nailing up a sign that reads 'Waterfall Ahead'"". From his initial harrowing days at ""maths camp"" through the dizzying phalanx of core courses, the frenzy of the exam week, the pitfalls and triumphs of the interview process (including a surreal interview with Robert Maxwell) to being wined and dined by some of the most prestigious companies in the world, Robinson's account is an irreverent story peopled with a wide range of characters.",2005,3.69,296,560
9781857983418,1857983416,"Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said",,Philip K. Dick,Identity (Psychology),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Wn2uuQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Another classic novel from the world's greatest writer of science fiction Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people ... and he's the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he's a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a nobody. Will he ever be rich and famous again? Was he, in fact, ever rich and famous?",2001,3.93,204,25740
9781857988093,1857988094,I Am Legend,,Richard Matheson,Horror tales,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gi94PwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Robert Neville is the last living man on earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville¿s blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive like this?",1999,4.06,160,55137
9781857988192,1857988191,The Rediscovery of Man,,Cordwainer Smith,"Science fiction, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FGV1GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An interstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals turned into the semblance of people. A world in which the great ships which sail between the stars are eventually supplanted by the mysterious, instantaneous technique of planoforming. A world of wonder and myth, and extraordinary imagination.",1999,4.14,368,2328
9781857988369,1857988361,Stand on Zanzibar,,John Brunner,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ki-cPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes ... all the hysteria of a dangerously overcrowded world, portrayed in a dazzlingly inventive style.",1999,3.96,672,12149
9781857988376,185798837X,Martian Time-slip,,Philip K. Dick,Mars (Planet),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hvxrHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mars is a desolate world. Largely forgotten by Earth, the planet remains helpless in the stranglehold of Arnie Kott, who as boss of the plumber's union has a monopoly over the vital water supply. Arnie Kott is obsessed by the past; the native Bleekmen, poverty-stricken wanderers, can see into the future; while to Manfred, an autistic boy, time apparently stops. When one of the colonists, Norbert Steiner, commits suicide, the repercussions are startling and bizarre.",1999,3.77,226,341
9781857989120,1857989120,Three Early Novels,,Philip K. Dick,"Science fiction, American",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xbVYHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"At the beginning of his career, Philip K. Dick, whose later work won him widespread acclaim as the world's greatest sf writer, wrote a number of short novels which were published as paperback originals back-to-back in dual volumes with works by writers who were then more famous. Considerably more straightforward than his later novels, these stories are nevertheless unmistakably the work of the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik in their quirky exuberance and originality.",2000,3.71,422,61
9781857989342,1857989341,The Gods Themselves,,Isaac Asimov,Science fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8ClIPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the year 2100, mankind on Earth, settlers in a lunar colony and aliens from the para-universe, a strange universe parallel in time to our own, are faced with a race against time to prevent total destruction of the Earth. The invention of the Inter-Universe Electron Pump has threatened the rate of hydrogen fusion in the sun, leading, inevitably, to the possibilty of a vast explosion -- and the vapourisation of the Earth exactly eight minutes later . . .",2000,4.09,288,41304
9781859605158,185960515X,Motorcycle Basics Techbook,,John Haynes,Transportation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1aBkQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"All common engine, chassis and electrical systems fully explained and illustrated. Topics covered include engine cycles and layouts, carburettors and fuel injection, ignition systems, clutches, gearbox, engine lubrication and cooling, wheels, tires, braking systems, suspension, steering, handling, design and electrical systems.",2002,3.83,222,36
9781859840542,185984054X,The Missionary Position,Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice,Christopher Hitchens,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PTgJIjK67rEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Explores the work of Mother Teresa, questioning her association with corrupt and cruel leaders and discussing the way wealthy western society promotes her as a celebrity",1995,4.06,98,6892
9781859842843,1859842844,No One Left to Lie to,The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton,Christopher Hitchens,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VGSztGHC914C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Suggests that President Clinton's largest legacy may be the weakening of the presidency and of the Democratic Party.,2000,3.85,150,1357
9781859843406,1859843409,Blaming the Victims,Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question,Edward W. Said;Christopher Hitchens,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wELzivMr_-cC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Blaming the Victims demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful and above all honest it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible. With a new introduction by Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens and contributions by Norman G. Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, Noam Chomsky, G.W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Rashid Khalidi, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Muhammad Hallaj and Elia Zureik.",2001,4.21,296,158
9781859843826,1859843824,Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World,,Mike Davis,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RQsHCBwizFcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Shows how the droughts affecting northern Africa, China, and India in the 1870s and 1890s are consistant with El Niäno effects, and discusses the economic, racial, and political forces that allowed fifty million people to starve.",2002,4.1,464,970
9781859843833,1859843832,Unacknowledged Legislation,Writers in the Public Sphere,Christopher Hitchens,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Dt8lTI6Q4h0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretz's 'bloody crossroads'. Instead Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument.",2002,3.99,430,206
9781859843987,1859843980,The Trial of Henry Kissinger,,Christopher Hitchens,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=pBBBEH0OEoUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Calling upon personal testimony and documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, chronicles the life of Henry Kissinger, linking him to events including the war in Indochina and genocide in East Timor.",2002,3.96,161,2485
9781859848982,1859848982,The Communist Manifesto,A Modern Edition,Karl Marx;Friedrich Engels,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WwTCaF6iu9sC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The political tract in which Marx presented the core of his philosophy and revolutionary program, with an introduction analyzing its significance to the realities of today and to Marx's own times",1998,3.54,88,292
9781860460586,1860460585,The Bridge Over the Drina,,Ivo Andrić,Bosnia and Herzegovina,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Sd06LrG5vasC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand vezir, bears witness to three centuries of conflict. Visegrad has long been a bone of contention between the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but the bridge survives unscathed until 1914, when the collision of forces in the Balkans triggers the outbreak of World War I. The bridge spans generations, nationalities and creeds, silent testament to the lives played out on it. Radisav, a workman, tries to hinder its construction and is impaled alive on its highest point; beautiful Fata leaps from its parapet to escape an arranged marriage; Milan, inveterate gamble, risks all in one last game on it. With humour and compassion, Andric chronicles the lives of Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox Christians unable to reconcile their disparate loyalties.",1995,4.33,314,237
9781860465024,1860465021,The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis,,José Saramago,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=-GPVxLKsJdwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Lisbon. 1936. Ricardo Reis is a doctor, returning to his native Portugal from Brazil after 16 years away. But what kind of doctor is he? His companions include: the ghost of the poet Pessoa; a girl with a paralysed hand; and the hotel chambermaid, who slips into his bed at night.",1998,4.03,384,3618
9781860465819,1860465811,The Wind-up Bird Chronicle,,Haruki Murakami;Jay Rubin,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=94dHPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1999,4.17,609,736
9781860467219,1860467210,The Stone Raft,,José Saramago,Disasters,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nKfrc8OSjfQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One day a rift opens along the border between Spain and France, and the Iberian peninsula floats off across the Atlantic, a great stone raft. But what of the floating population? While the tourists and investors flee, the Spanish and Portuguese escape the coast and wander the inland roads.",2000,3.8,272,3115
9781860467226,1860467229,The History of the Siege of Lisbon,,Jose Saramago;Giovanni Pontiero,Lisbon (Portugal),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2SQ7j8g8ZskC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When Raimundo Silva, humble proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, takes it upon himself to insert a negative into the sentence of a history book, he rewrites history. The effect of this act of insubordination is to make his editor, the voluptuous Dr Maria Sara, fall in love with him.",2000,3.8,314,2353
9781860467769,1860467768,Independent People,An Epic,Halldór Laxness;J. Anderson Thompson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oozqxQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bjartus is a sheep farmer hewing a living from a blighted patch of land in Iceland. After 18 years of servitude to a master he despises, all he wants is to raise his flock unbeholden to anyone. Nothing, not inclement weather, not his wives, not his family will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only Asta Solillja, the child he brings up as his daughter, can pierce his stubborn heart. But she too wishes to live independently - and when Bjartus throws her from the house on discovering she is pregnant, her more temperate determination is set against his stony will.",1946,4.17,544,77
9781860469015,1860469019,Baltasar & Blimunda,,José Saramago,Aeronautics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VTUF8oX1tl0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the Crown and the Church clash, they purse his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.",2001,3.91,346,97
9781860492914,1860492916,Becoming a Mother,,Kate Mosse,Childbirth,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WKT1GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Combining medical and historical information with real life accounts of ordinary women, this book is an essential guide to the facts, feelings and emotions experienced during pregnancy and birth. It takes you week by week, from the decision to conceive, through to first impressions of life with your baby, offering invaluable information. Topics include: Conception - If and When; Feelings for Your Growing Baby; Your Career and Financial Position; Fear that Something May Go Wrong; Changing Relationships with Family and Friends; Choosing Where and How to Give Birth; How Others Felt - Women Relate their Experiences; The First Few Days with Your Baby",1997,3.9,392,0
9781860499296,1860499295,Peyton Place,,Grace Metalious,City and town life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SoNkPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Switch off those TVs, kill your mobiles and settle down with the most controversial book ever written. Once denounced as 'wicked', 'sordid', 'cheap' 'moral filth', PEYTON PLACE was the top read of its time and sold millions of copies worldwide. Way before TWIN PEAKS, SURVIVOR or BIG BROTHER, the curtains were twitching in the mythical New England town of Peyton Place, and this soapy story exposed the dirty secrets of 1950s small-town America: incest, abortion, adultery, repression and lust. Take a peek ...",2002,3.75,475,119
9781860645884,1860645887,"Mary, Queen of Scots","Pride, Passion and a Kingdom Lost",Jenny Wormald,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5XtL-F1LKUcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Mary, Queen of Scots, was one of history's most romantically tragic figures. Her endless plotting eventually led her to flee from Scotland and be imprisoned by her equally ambitious cousin and fellow queen--Elizabeth of England--who later ordered Mary to be beheaded in 1587. This book looks at her tragedy. of photos.",2001,3.71,224,37
9781861891846,1861891849,'Photos of the Gods',The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India,Christopher Pinney,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8hhXq7hpzSwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Drawing on years of archival research, interviews with artists and publishers, and the ethnographic study of their rural consumers, Christopher Pinney traces the intimate connections between the production and consumption of mass-produced images in India and the struggle against colonial rule.",2004,3.96,239,23
9781861974426,1861974426,Call of the Mall,How We Shop,Paco Underhill,Consumer behavior,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wTxkHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Like Underhill's bestseller, Why We Buy, this is a pleasurable and informative book on how we shop that surprises and tickles. Like Bill Bryson's Walk in the Woods, which took readers up the Appalachian Trail, this book takes readers to a place they know much better: the shopping centre, the place where people meet. Nothing exemplifies shopping more than the mall or shopping centre. It is the US's gift to personal consumption and the crossroad where consumer marketing, media and street culture meet. It is where the developed world (and increasingly everyone else too) goes to acquire, eat and hang out. It is where fashion trends are made dreams are constructed, and many people find their first jobs. The Call of the Mall is about sex and buying lingerie, about why the same camel coat costs exactly twice as much in the women's department to the men's, about why all mall food is so dreadful when the commodities in the shops are so good. Why location matters so much - but more for perfumes than DIY and why malls are invariably such bad architecture. Underhill's views on the mall are sophisticated, funny, serious, and surprising.",2004,3.6,227,14
9781861977694,1861977697,The Art of Seduction,,Robert Greene,Seduction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZePgwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Which sort of seducer could you be: *Siren? *Rake? *Cold Coquette? *Star? *Comedian? *Charismatic? or *Saint? This book will show you which. 'Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. In part II, immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip.",2004,4.06,466,13029
9781861979339,1861979339,Talk to the Hand,The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life (or Six Good Reasons to Stay at Home and Bolt the Door),Lynne Truss,Conduct of life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ds5TPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Sticklers unite! The Queen of Zero Tolerance takes on the sorry state of modern manners, in the spirit of her three million copy worldwide bestseller, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. ""Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening,"" the saying goes. When did the world get to be so rude? When did society become so inconsiderate? It's a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says that it has now reached boiling point. Taking on the boorish behaviour that has become a point of pride for some, Talk to the Hand is a rallying cry for courtesy. Like Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Talk to the Hand is a spirited conversation, not a stuffy guidebook. It is not about forks, for a start. Why hasn't your nephew ever thanked you for that perfect Christmas present? What makes your builder think he can treat you like dirt in your own home? When you phone a utility with a complaint (and have negotiated the switchboard), why can't you ever speak to a person who is authorised to apologise? What accounts for the appalling treatment you receive in shops? Most important, what will it take to roll back a culture that applauds rudeness and finds it so amusing? For anyone who's fed up with the brutality inflicted by modern manners (and is naturally too scared to confront the actual yobs), Talk to the Hand is a colourful call to arms - from the wittiest defender of the civilised world.",2005,3.32,214,198
9781862073296,1862073295,Rodinsky's Room,,Rachel Lichtenstein;Iain Sinclair,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aN7RhyhzJZYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"David Rodinsky lived above a synagogue in the heart of the old Jewish East End of London, and sometime in the late 1960s he disappeared. His room, a chaos of writings, annotated books and maps, gramophone records and clothes, was left undisturbed for 20 years. Rodinsky's world captured the imagination of a young artist, Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had escaped Poland in the 30s, and over a period of years she began to document the bizarre collection of artifacts that were found in his room, and make installations using images from his enigmatic bequest. She became obsessed with this mysterious man: Who was he? Where did he come from? Where did he go? Now Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair have written an extraordinary book that weaves together Lichenstein's quest for Rodinsky. Part mystery story, part memoir, part travelogue, Rodinsky's Room is a testament to a world that has all but vanished and the celebration of the life of a unique man.",2000,3.88,362,187
9781862073708,1862073708,Out of Place,A Memoir,Edward W. Said,"Authors, Arab",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Zxm-QgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Edward Said was born in Jerusalem, and brought up in Cairo, spending every summer in the Lebanese mountain village of Dhour el Shweir, until he was ""banished"" to America in 1951. This work is a mixture of emotional archaeology and memory, exploring an essentially irrecoverable past. As ill health sets him thinking about endings, Edward Said returns to his beginnings in this personal memoir.",2000,3.96,295,1490
9781862074057,1862074054,Moth Smoke,,Mohsin Hamid,"Nineteen ninety-eight, A.D.",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eGx8oQbjzjcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Pakistan, Summer 1998: hot, with a late monsoon and the occasional nuclear test. In Lahore, Daru Shezad loses his job. While the jet set parties behind high walls, the economy crumbles and Daru's electricity is cut off. Soon he has fallen for his best friend's wife, started mixing heroin with his hash and joined forces with a criminal rickshaw driver. Moth Smoke is the story of Daru's spectacular",2000,3.82,247,50
9781862075948,1862075948,The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol,,Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ;Richard Pevear,Short stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7cNpfQ8oYiwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A new, annotated translation of Gogol's classic short fiction, destined to become the definitive edition",2003,4.35,435,81
9781862076655,1862076650,Money to Burn,,Ricardo Piglia;Amanda Hopkinson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d40p2M2ikJ8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A prize-winning novel from one of Argentina's most important contemporary authors, based on a true crime",2004,3.75,209,66
9781862076891,1862076898,Jack,,A. M. Homes,Children of divorced parents,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ijqDmZ3jszgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A funny and engaging novel about family, growing up, and change.",2004,3.63,221,1052
9781862301382,1862301387,Redwall,,Brian Jacques,Animals,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xtiusomLTBUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"What can the peace-loving mice of Redwall Abbey do to defend themselves against a battle-seasoned army of rats? Teeming with riddles, humor, unforgettable characters, and high-bounding adventure, ""Redwall"" launched a series that has captured the world's attention.",2006,4.13,352,84503
9781864503821,1864503823,Southwest France,,John King;Julia Wilkinson,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o-qTNQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This guide to the southwest area of France covers the Dordogne, Bordeaux and midi-Pyrenees regions, as well as Lourdes. There are sections on food and wine, chateaux and bastides, as well as a look at the championship surfing along the Atlantic coast, from Lacanau to Biarritz.",2002,3,400,2
9781877741098,1877741094,Zen in the Art of Writing,,Ray Bradbury,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SslWj26w7x0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Eleven essays discuss the joy of writing, the writing process, inspiration, creativity, and the circumstances surrounding the writing of several of his works",1994,4.1,176,840
9781878825018,1878825011,What Uncle Sam Really Wants,,Noam Chomsky,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tbpTP-Q2BsgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The co-author of Manufacturing Consent analyzes the real motivation behind U.S. foreign policy, drawing his commentary from his celebrated speeches. Original.",1992,3.99,111,1631
9781879181489,1879181487,Maya Cosmogenesis 2012,The True Meaning of the Maya Calendar End-Date,John Major Jenkins,"Body, Mind & Spirit",,"While researching the 2012 end-date of the Maya Calendar, John Major Jenkins decoded the Maya's galactic cosmology. The Maya discovered that the periodic alignment of the Sun with the center of the Milky Way galaxy is the formative influence on human evolution. These alignments also define a series of World Ages. The fourth age ends on December 21, 2012, when an epoch chapter in human history will come to an end. Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 reveals the Maya's insight into the cyclic nature of time, and prepares us for our own cosmogenesis--the birth of a new world.",1998,3.7,480,183
9781879794061,1879794063,Best of the Eighties,,John L. Goldwater,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=G7JvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This 96-page full color trade paperback features many of the most hilarious exploits of Archie and Friends'from the ""ME"" decade, better known as the Eighties. Computers! New age music! Urban cowboys! Preppies! E.T.! Roller boogie! Michael Jackson! Cabbage Patch Kids! Breakdancing! Trivial Pursuit! Music videos! It's all here in this amazing volume!",2001,3.94,96,58
9781879960749,1879960745,Borderlands,The New Mestiza,Gloria Anzaldúa,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3vopAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The Twentieth Anniversary edition of Gloria Anzaldúa's classic exploration of life in the borderlands.,2007,4.28,255,421
9781880393338,1880393336,Plato on Rhetoric and Language,Four Key Dialogues,Plato;Jean Nienkamp,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dPEU-Zc29J0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Collected here for the first time in one volume, four key Platonic dialogues-the Ion, the Protagorus, the Gorgius and the Phaedrus - serve as an important introduction to the productive ambiguities of Platonic thought on rhetoric and language. In her introduction to the volume, editor Jean Nienkamp considers Plato's views on language, genre, and writing, and outlines the critical issues involved in the study of Platonic thought on rhetoric and poetics. Readers are invited to participate in the dialogues as vital philosophical conversations about issues that animate contemporary rhetorical and literary thought today.",1999,4.2,232,10
9781880656419,1880656418,Hayao Miyazaki,"Master of Japanese Animation : Films, Themes, Artistry",Helen McCarthy,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4YPh2_D9q2EC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Artist-writer-director-producer Hayao Miyazaki is often called ""the Walt Disney of Japan."" His animated theatrical features have been smash hits in Japan, and many, including My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service, are already familiar to American audiences. Now, with Disney-Miramax's imminent release of Princess Mononoke,, Miyazaki's masterwork and one of the top-grossing film in all Japanese history, this ""animation master"" is about to take America and the world by storm. Mixing first-hand interview and personal insights with critical evaluations of art, plot, production qualities, and literary themes, McCarthy provides a film-by-film appraisal that examines technique as well as message. She reveals Miyazaki to be not just a master of the art of animation, but a meticulous craftsman who sees his work as a medium for shaping the humanistic and environmental concerns of our times. An overview of the artist and his early career is followed by in-depth examinations of seven major Miyazaki films: Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Castle of Cagliostro, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, and Princess Mononoke. Included are design and technical data, story synopses and character sketches, personnel and filmography data, and critical evaluation. Illustrations throughout, in color and black and white, show the detail and vigor of Miyazaki's art. Written for anime fans as well as students of film, literature, and popular culture, McCarthy's book raises animation criticism to a whole new level and is an essential guide to the work of a world-class filmmaker. London-based Helen McCarthy is author of Anime! A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Animation, The Anime Movie Guide, and (with Jonathan Clements) The Erotic Anime Movie Guide. She appears frequently on radio and TV and at conferences around the world.",1999,3.94,240,301
9781880685358,1880685353,Harrington on Hold 'em,Expert Strategy for No-Limit Tournaments; Volume II: the Endgame,Dan Harrington;Bill Robertie,Games & Activities,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=u8y_9XdJaEMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Provides poker strategies for every phase of tournament play, covering the early phase where the stakes are small to later tactics such as bluffing, flops, scare cards, playing shorthanded, loose games, and endgame play.",2005,4.15,450,1413
9781881244066,1881244067,Orin Òrìṣà,Songs for Selected Heads,John Mason,Music,,"""This is the first comprehensive translation and review of close to 600 Yorùbá songs that have been used in Cuba by Africans and their descendents, for over two hundred years, and in the U.S., since 1960, to prainse and envoke some 25 òrìṣà/deities. The classical character of the music, songs, and historic/elemental archetypes is discussed fully.""--Page 4 of cover.",1997,4.39,450,39
9781881475712,1881475719,Purity,,Douglas Clegg,Fiction,,"Owen Rites, the son of the groundskeeper for the Montgomery estate, has become obsessed with Jenna Montgomery.",2000,3.78,118,95
9781883011079,1883011078,Raymond Chandler: Stories & Early Novels (LOA #79),"Pulp Stories / the Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / the High Window",Raymond Chandler,"Detective and mystery stories, American",,"In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) ""down these mean streets"" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire. In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as ""Red Wind,"" ""Finger Man,"" The King in Yellow,"" and ""Trouble Is My Business."" Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.",1995,4.49,1199,1296
9781883011093,1883011094,"Complete Stories, 1892-1898",,Henry James,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=b4uyxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Twenty-one stories include ""The Turn of the Screw,"" and ""The Figure in the Carpet""",1996,4.23,958,188
9781883011499,1883011493,Crime Novels,American Noir of the 1930s and 40s,,American fiction,,A collection of classic stories exemplify the best of American noir fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s.,1997,4.36,892,414
9781883011697,1883011698,Novels 1957-1962,,William Faulkner,Mississippi,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bM5XwgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1999,4.54,1020,72
9781883011932,1883011930,Collected Stories,1911-1937,Edith Wharton,Short stories,,,2001,4.3,928,51
9781883398293,1883398290,"H. R. Giger's Retrospective, 1964-1984",,H. R. Giger;Käthi Christen;Adrienne Theimer,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fr40AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"More than 150 artworks, spanning 20 years in the career of the world's most renowned artist of the fantastical and the surreal, are gathered in one volume, rich with detail and color. Carefully rendered reproductions of Giger's best paintings are accompanied by his own commentary. 70 color illus. 75 bandw illus. 25 bandw photos.",1997,4.35,112,113
9781883477370,1883477379,Nineteen Sixty Eight,War and Democracy,David Charles Hoeh,,,"Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy's own account of the year 1968, a year in which he challenged and unseated a sitting US President and made a fundamental contribution to the ending of a disasterous, and undeclared, war conducted by a president who was assuming near-dictatorial powers in the pursuit of that illegal war.",2000,4.5,246,2
9781884365300,1884365302,The Jungle,The Uncensored Original Edition,Upton Sinclair;Kathleen De Grave,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4cY-vgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The horrifying conditions of the Chicago stockyards are revealed through this narrative of a young immigrant's struggles in America, including five chapters omitted from the original edition.",2003,3.73,335,106675
9781885586421,1885586426,The World of Jules Verne,,Gonzague Saint Bris,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VjkbAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Not strictly a biography of Jules Verne, it is a fascinating mix of anecdotes, extracts from the novels and real-life incidents. The reader re-encounters extraordinary characters like Phileas Fogg and Captain Nemo against a backdrop of marvellous illustrations.",2006,3.5,85,4
9781885865243,1885865244,Through a Brazen Mirror,The Famous Flower of Servingmen,Delia Sherman,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ajlbAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Through a Brazen Mirror is the third book in The Ultra Violet Library, Circlet's imprint of fantasy and science fiction by/for/about lesbian/gay/bi folk. Originally published in 1989 by mass market publisher Ace, the book was marketed as generic sword and sorcery and, in the way of mass market books, disappeared from sight shortly thereafter, before it had a chance to reach an audience who would appreciate its themes. Based on an ancient Anglo-Scots ballad called ""The Famous Flower of Serving Men"" (a magical, tragic tale about a young woman who disguises herself as a man after the murder of her husband), Through a Brazen Mirror tells the tale of the witch Margaret, her daughter Elinor, King Lionel, and the extraordinary William Flowers, who saves the king from doom and Margaret's malevolent magic. With much richness of detail and folklore, Sherman uses the tale to explore issues of attraction, loyalty, and gender identity. For William is Elinor, who as William bonds with the young king and takes charge of a fate that was to be her undoing. The book, though it takes place in a fictional kingdom, is no cleaned-up fairy tale, and presents a historical picture of life circa 1400. In an age when women are not taught to read or write, both Margaret, as an evil schemer, and Elinor, who must take on a man's name and countenance, fight for their self-determination, each in her own way.",1999,3.38,100,116
9781885972101,1885972105,Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path,,Don Webb;Stephen E. Flowers,Magic,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jjfWAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Essential Guide opens the door to the darkly resplendent worlds of the Left Hand Path. Part philosophical treatise, part ontological stand-up comedy, and part magical practicum, this book makes clear what many other books have only hinted at. For people with wit and perseverance, this book is a training manual for super-men and women. Don Webb has been a practitioner of the Left hand path since the 1970s. He is the former High Priest of the Temple of Set, the world's largest Left Hand Path organization, and the author of the best-selling Seven Faces of Darkness.",1999,4.36,128,106
9781886363069,1886363064,Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian,,William Searle Holdsworth,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1_WdLFxkx6kC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Holdsworth, William S. Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929. 157 pp. Reprinted 1995 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 96-46579. ISBN 1-886363-06-4. Cloth. $40. * ""The distinguished English historian, Professor Holdsworth, has contrived even during his moments of recreation to render us his debtors. No two books outside the bounds of technical law are more worth reading for law students than Pickwick Papers and Bleak House. Even a trained trial lawyer however, is puzzled by some of the legal points brought up by Dickens, because they have fortunately passed forever out of the realm of living law. Professor Holdsworth has performed a valuable service to lawyers and laymen alike in explaining these obscurities. And he has done much more than this. He has increased our admiration for the genius of Dickens by proving his great merit as a legal historian."": Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Harvard Law Review 42:286-8.",2010,3.67,166,3
9781886968059,1886968055,Unspeakable Truths,Confronting State Terror and Atrocity,Priscilla B. Hayner,Amnesty,,"""How truth commissions around the world are challenging the past and shaping the future.""--Jacket.",2001,4.18,226,11
9781887178945,1887178945,The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories,,Yasunari Kawabata,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TvE_tAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"One of the most influential figures in modern Japanese fiction, Yasunari Kawabata is treasured for the intensity of his perception and the compressed elegance of his style. This new collection includes twenty-two stories now appearing in English for the first time in book form. Written between 1923 and 1929, these short fictions form a shadow biography of the author's early years, and provide fresh glimpses of Kawabata's haunting and haunted vision. Born in 1899, Kawabata committed suicide at age seventy-two. Throughout his life he was concerned with themes of loss, longing, and memory. His childhood was repeatedly shaken by deaths in the family - first his parents when he was three, then a grandmother, an older sister, and finally the blind grandfather he cared for in his early adolescence. These personal losses linger as motifs in such remarkable stories as ""Gathering Ashes"" and ""The Master of Funerals."" The stark physical details of caregiving - suffused with edgy resentment and desperate fear - are remembered in ""Diary of My Sixteenth Year."" In addition to the twenty-two stories unknown to American readers, this collection features the first translation of the complete text of the classic ""Dancing Girl of Izu."" This unforgettable story portrays the tender anxiety of a young man whose brooding fascination with a pubescent girl nudges him along the path toward adulthood.",1998,3.78,176,1322
9781887368889,1887368884,Blood Lines,"Richard Matheson's Dracula, I Am Legend, and Other Vampire Stories",Richard Matheson;Mark Dawidziak,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1TVAPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Reproductions of scripts and screenplays, short stories, and a novel, along with introductions, photos, cast, and credits.",2006,4.02,520,42
9781887726092,1887726098,Tolkien on film,essays on Peter Jackson's The lord of the rings,Janet Brennan Croft,Literary Criticism,,,2004,3.77,323,39
9781887953795,1887953795,Legend of the Five Rings,Secrets of the Scorpion,Aeg,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nnkIAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2003,3.68,96,44
9781888297010,1888297018,Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense,With Lear's Original Illustrations,Edward Lear,Computers,,A collection of over one hundred limericks accompanied by the author's original illustrations,1995,3.66,46,66
9781888690088,1888690089,Tal-Botvinnik 1960,,Mikhail Tal,Games,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PtDUMQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1960 Mikhail Tal defeated chess champion Mikhail Botvinnik in one of the most celebrated world championship matches of all time. In this volume, Tal sets the stage and explains every one of the 21 games, telling both the on- and off-the-board story of this clash of styles and thought.",2000,4.54,220,153
9781888996289,1888996285,To America with Love,Letters from the Underground,Abbie Hoffman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VQlkPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author and her husband, noted activist Abbie Hoffman, share the letters they exchanged in 1974 and 1975 while Abbie was in hiding to avoid imprisonment.",2000,3.93,224,65
9781889032207,1889032204,Teach Them Diligently,How to Use the Scriptures in Child Training,Louis Paul Priolo,Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VHL3AQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The bookshelves in your home no doubt contain volumes of books, manuals, seminar notes, magazine articles, and video and audio cassettes purporting to address parenting from a Christian point of view. With rare exception, however, most of today's Christian parenting resources fail to emphasize what is perhaps the most important aspect of true biblical parenting -- how to relate the Bible to the disciplinary process in practical ways. Think about it. With all of your training, do you really know how to use the Bible for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness with your children? If you do, read no further. If you don't, this little book will augment and strengthen your parenting skills as you learn how to use the scriptures more thoroughly and effectively in your child training. - Back cover.",2000,4.24,162,294
9781889963853,1889963852,Not Just a Pretty Face,Dolls and Human Figurines in Alaska Native Cultures,Molly Lee,Antiques & Collectibles,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_3Pn-oDS850C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Now in a full-color second edition, Not Just a Pretty Face is an engaging exploration of the role of dolls and doll making in Alaska Native cultures. From ancient ivory carvings to the thriving tourist market, dolls and human figurines have played integral parts in the ritual, economic, and social lives of Native Alaskans. Dolls served as children’s playthings, represented absent community members at ceremonies, and predicted the movements of game animals for shamans. Not Just a Pretty Face surveys these and other uses of dolls and figurines, illustrating in beautiful color photographs the diversity of the doll-making tradition in Eskimo, Athabaskan, and Northwest Coast Native communities. Authors explore the ethnographic literature, twentieth-century oral histories, and photographic documentation of dolls and the doll-making process. Contemporary doll makers explain, in their own words, how they learned to make dolls and what doll making means to them. The second edition features a photo essay on Rosalie Paniyak of Chevak, one of the most influential doll makers in Alaska today. Not Just a Pretty Face provides a panoramic view of an ancient tradition and situates the art of doll making within a contemporary context. Scholarly, yet accessible, Not Just a Pretty Face is a lively contribution to the literature on dolls, anthropology, and Native studies.",2006,3.5,80,2
9781890159191,1890159190,The Mistress Manual,A Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance,"Mistress Lorelei;Lorelei Powers, Mistress",Family & Relationships,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DjOZv-ZM-V0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Originally published in 1994 in a simple pink guidebook format by an experienced and wickedly creative dominant woman, The Mistress Manual fell out of print when the author moved on to other projects. Now, Greenery Press has brought this underground classic back to life, updated with new ideas and information on 'Learning to Love Command' to 'The Art of Discipline'. Learn how to enact the Five Archetypal Fantasies, how to create your own scenarios and much, much more.",2000,3.76,220,323
9781890208288,1890208280,My Sister's Keeper,,Nora Kelly,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VBSEAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Though separated from her lover, a Scotland Yard man, Gillian Adams hasn't lost her sleuthing skills. Sexism has reared its ugly head in attacks on the Feminist (""Eff Yours"") Union at the University of the Pacific Northwest in Vancouver, and a woman is found dead on campus. Adroitly plotted and filled with intrigue, ""My Sister's Keeper"" solves the crimes but leaves open the mystery of Gillian, who is poised between her career as head of history department and her romance in England.",2000,3.7,228,22
9781890447168,1890447161,Change Or Die,,David Foster Wallace;Mary Gaitkill;Irvine Welsh;David Berman;Delmore Schwartz,American literature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R9kiPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The most important new literary journal to emerge since Granta, Open City has published some of the best work by major writers and artists such as Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Jeff Koons, David Foster Wallace, Irvine Welsh, Terry Southern, Patrick McCabe, Sam Lipsyte, and David Berman. Edited by the writers Thomas Beller and Daniel Pinchbeck and originally published by the late Robert Bingham, writing from Open City has been included in many prestigious anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Known for launching the careers of today's best new writers, the editors are also committed to printing important unpublished work by writers from past eras, such as Richard Yates, Delmore Schwartz, Jim Thompson, Cyril Connolly, Edvard Munch, and Gregor von Rezzori. With its innovative and daring mix of the old and the new, Open City combines undiscovered writing by classic authors with a fascinating portrait of a literary generation in the making.Open City #12 includes After the Wall, a special section on Berlin's new generation of fiction writers; a story by Lewis Cole on the end of radicalism; and debut fiction by Sam Brumbaugh and Heather Lorimer. This issue features a previously unpublished story by Ford Maddox Ford.",2000,3.68,234,19
9781890447175,189044717X,Open City 6,The Only Woman He's Ever Left,Thomas Beller;James Purdy;Strawberry Saroyan;Debra Garrison;Michael Cunningham,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=J376GwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The most important new literary journal to emerge since Granta, Open City has published some of the best work by major writers and artists such as Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Jeff Koons, David Foster Wallace, Irvine Welsh, Terry Southern, Patrick McCabe, Sam Lipsyte, and David Berman. Edited by the writers Thomas Beller and Daniel Pinchbeck and originally published by the late Robert Bingham, writing from Open City has been included in many prestigious anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Known for launching the careers of today's best new writers, the editors are also committed to printing important unpublished work by writers from past eras, such as Richard Yates, Delmore Schwartz, Jim Thompson, Cyril Connolly, Edvard Munch, and Gregor von Rezzori. With its innovative and daring mix of the old and the new, Open City combines undiscovered writing by classic authors with a fascinating portrait of a literary generation in the making. Open City #12 includes ""After the Wall"", a special section on Berlin's new generation of fiction writers; a story by Lewis Cole on the end of radicalism; and debut fiction by Sam Brumbaugh and Heather Lorimer. This issue features a previously unpublished story by Ford Maddox Ford.",2000,0,200,0
9781890447427,1890447420,Mother's Milk,A Novel,Edward St. Aubyn,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o8lY2W-OzzQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The author of Some Hope returns with a story of complex family relationships, offering a trenchant novelistic analysis of marriage, adultery, parenthood, and assisted suicide.",2005,3.76,240,52
9781890771485,1890771481,Lands of Promise and Despair,"Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846",Rose Marie Beebe;Robert M. Senkewicz,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q7e5opHZO7IC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This volume is a collection of primary documents of the writings of early California settlers. Taking the point of view of the Indians, settlers, missionaries, soldiers, and others who lived there, the editors offer letters, reports, reminiscences, and other documents that tell the inside story of California before the Gold Rush, from the time the Spanish arrived in the 1530s until the end of California's experience as a territory in the Mexican republic in the 1840s. This work is illustrated with maps, portraits, sketches, and early photographs as well as seven color plates of drawings depicting plant and animal life made by an 18th-century Czech priest.",2001,3.69,506,30
9781890995522,1890995525,The Diamond Color Meditation,Color Pathway to the Soul,John Diamond,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1ChsHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The Diamond Color Meditation presents an inspiring use of color in a therapeutic meditation that is designed for relaxation, deep personal growth, and healing. As you discover the power of each color, you will experience the healing effect it has on your mind, body, and soul. Going far beyond traditional color therapies, this book introduces a completely original concept that uses color to evoke the only true ealing--that which begins from within.",2006,5,74,5
9781891190230,1891190237,City Eclogue,,Ed Roberson,Social Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IGaxAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Poetry. African American Studies. Ed Roberson might no longer live in Pittsburgh, but the city in which he was born and raised still leaves its fragmented structures etched throughout his poetry. A city of hard work and hard times, the now-impoverished neighborhoods that had at one time stood as centers of jazz and art; the hills, the rivers, the skyscraping iron and steel, and the pain. Though most of the poems in this collection do not necessarily take place in Pittsburgh, there is a rhythmic fragmentation here painting portraits of urban life in general. Beauty, music, poverty, blood, and concrete seem to live within the line breaks, while breath-stopping pauses halt you just long enough so that--like at a smoky backroom jazz club--you can't wait to see what he does next.",2006,4.14,136,66
9781891620416,189162041X,White Widow,,Jim Lehrer,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4vs4swEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Praised by the New York Times Book Review as ""an...affecting morality tale,"" Jim Lehrer's devastating White Widow brings the reader to the brink of one man's unstoppable, ruinous passion for a complete stranger. Jack T. Oliver has a solid marriage, a cozy house in Corpus Christi, and a job he loves as a driver for the Great Western Trailways bus line. In a few weeks, Jack is going to be promoted to Master Operator in recognition of his years of perfect service and on-time driving. It's a good life. Until a White Widow boards his bus, on a one-way ticket from Victoria to Corpus Christi. A White Widow is a wild card, a woman traveling alone who can change the course of a driver's life, and not always for the best. What happens when Jack Oliver's White Widow passes through his life is as unforgettable as it is irrevocable. Within weeks, without ever even learning her name, he will fall passionately in love—and lose everything he has, a few things he never had, and some he never thought about until they were gone.",2000,3.01,224,174
9781891830600,1891830600,Carnet de Voyage,,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UUxURSulnHgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Craig Thompson - the award-winning creator of Blankets and Good-Bye, Chunky Rice - spent three months travelling through Barcelona, the Alps, and France, as well as Morocco, where he was researching his next graphic novel, Habibi. Spontaneous sketches and a travelogue diary document his adventures and quiet moments, creating a raw and intimate portrait of countries, culture and the wandering artist.",2004,3.76,224,4294
9781891885266,189188526X,Eureka Mill,,Ron Rash,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WHFVPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2001,4.22,64,152
9781892062437,1892062437,Teleportation: From Star Trek to Tesla,,Commander X;Tim Swartz,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rzMAAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"NOW YOU CAN TRAVEL UP, UP and AWAY...INSTANTLY! ** Mysterious Disappearances Solved! ** Classified Experiments Concerning the Philadelphia Experiment, Time Travel and Area 51 are revealed FOR THE FIRST TIME! ** PROOF ALIENS HAVE LEFT BEHIND IMPORTANT TECHNOLOGICAL CLUES! ** IT IS POSSIBLE TO MASTER THE ART OF TELEPORTATION WITH A BIT OF PRACTICE ON THE PART OF THE READER! The well-known phrase, ""Beam me up, Scotty,"" from the popular television series STAR TREK first introduced the public to the idea of teleportation -- instantaneous transport through time and space -- although the term was probably originally coined by the world famous author of books on unexplained mysteries, the late Charles Fort. Long thought to be the work of over imaginative writers, the author now takes the subject beyond the void of pure speculation and into the realm of 21st Century science. For according the COMMANDER X -- a former military intelligence operative with connections to the CIA and Defense Department, on a number of occasions he witnessed the testing of highly classified super TOP SECRET black project aircraft engaged in maneuvers over Area 51 in the Nevada desert. Furthermore, the national whistle-blower claims he actually sat at the helm of one of these ships as it bio-located from one place to another...INSTANTLY! What was so unusual about these flights over Area 51 is the fact that the technology being tested involved principles of teleportation gleamed from reverse engineering of alien spacecraft which have crashed to Earth. The author maintains that extraterrestrials have been trying to feed us clues regarding the existence of this interstellar mode of transport which will enable us to instantly maneuver between two points in the twinkle of an eye! COMMANDER X further insists it is within the realm of possibility for the reader of this book to learn the fundamentals of teleportation and participate in experiments of their very own -- no matter how outlandish this may seem! In detail, he describes his own work with the military in developing skills necessary to engage in spontaneous teleportation...skills that could very well lead you along the path to personal gratification and success. The book also delves into the impact the STAR TREK series has had on introducing the general public to what is just around the bend for our world and the possibility this is part of a grass roots campaign to inform the public on a need to know basis a little bit at a time. In addition, up to date information from the Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla reveal what the great mind of all time knew about teleportation and how he helped institute this process as part of the Top Secret Philadelphia Experiment.",2001,2.83,139,2
9781892284730,1892284731,Plastic Jesus,,Poppy Z. Brite,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8U8KAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Seth and Peyton were best friends, bandmates, and rivals. The success that lifted their four-man band from Leyborough, England changed the world and very nearly shattered their minds along the way. At first it was one big part. Then it all went terribly wrong and then, somehow, incredibly right.""--Jacket.",2000,3.57,105,28
9781892284891,1892284898,Guilty But Insane,,Poppy Z. Brite,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=gPGvPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2001,3.97,185,118
9781892389381,189238938X,The State of the Art,,Iain M. Banks,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AGRBvgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Iain M. Banks' only short-story collection, never before published in the US. Contents: * Road of Skulls * A Gift from the Culture * Odd Attachment * Descendant * Cleaning Up * Piece * The State of the Art * Scratch * A Few Notes On the Culture Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.",2005,3.84,188,44
9781892391209,1892391201,Her Smoke Rose Up Forever,,James Tiptree,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h6icnOdHfhoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. The Nebula Award?winning short story Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, the Hugo Award?winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award?winning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.",2004,4.21,508,3020
9781892391360,1892391368,The Line Between,,Peter S. Beagle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yOxWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of short stories, including ""Two Hearts,"" ""Quarry,"" and ""A Dance for Emilia.""",2006,4.12,231,698
9781892395566,1892395568,International Building Code 2003,,International Code Council,Reference,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_opUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The 2003 International Building Code addresses the design and installation of building systems through requirements that emphasize performance, providing minimum regulations for building systems using prescriptive- and performance-related provisions, including structural as well as fire- and life-safety provisions covering seismic, wind, accessibility, egress, occupancy, roofs, and more.",2002,3.62,656,15
9781892597267,1892597268,Strangers in Paradise,,Terry Moore,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8BeQCEcju3QC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the relationship between three friends--Katchoo, Francine, and David--and the people they fall in and out of love with.",2004,4.09,344,3443
9781892597380,1892597381,Strangers in Paradise,,Terry Moore,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=d7kLuwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Chronicles the relationship between three friends--Katchoo, Francine, and David--and the people they fall in and out of love with.",2005,4.38,392,978
9781893007161,1893007162,Alcoholics Anonymous,,Anonymous,Self-Help,,"Alcoholics Anonymous (also known as the Big Book in recovery circles) sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. The fourth edition includes twenty-four new stories that provide contemporary sharing for newcomers seeking recovery from alcoholism in A.A. during the early years of the 21st century. Sixteen stories are retained from the third edition, including the ""Pioneers of A.A."" section, which helps the reader remain linked to A.A.'s historic roots, and shows how early members applied this simple but profound program that helps alcoholics get sober today. Approximately 21 million copies of the first three editions of ""Alcoholics Anonymous"" have been distributed. It is expected that the new fourth edition will play its part in passing on A.A.'s basic message of recovery. This fourth edition has been approved by the General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous, in the hope that many more may be led toward recovery by reading its explanation of the A.A. program and its varied examples of personal experiences which demonstrate that the A.A. program works.",2002,4.44,576,466
9781894917124,189491712X,The Devil's in the Details,A Camilla MacPhee Mystery,Mary Jane Maffini,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=YoPY1-njfTIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The news that an old acquaintance has had an accident comes as a surprise to Camilla MacPhee. By the time she unearths Laura's connection to a violent revolutionary group active two decades earlier, she's had several blows to the head and discovered that people shes been talking to keep ending up dead.",2004,4.01,320,62
9781894925020,1894925025,Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla,,Carlos Marighella,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=EYUfPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The classic pamphlet. A how-to guide, tried and tested by countless groups across the world. An important document for anyone vaguely inquisitive, or seriously interested. Written by the Brazilian as a reaction to the failure of Guevara and the rural guerillas. This new edition includes two other documents by Marighella - Problems And Principles Of Strategy And Questions Of Organization, a 1970 interview with liberated Brazilian political prisoners, and a chronology of the guerilla struggle in Brazil from 1964-73. ""It is better to err acting than to do nothing for fear of erring. Without initiative there is no guerilla warfare.""",2002,3.31,66,111
9781895176407,1895176409,"Galapagos, a Natural History",,Michael Hume Jackson,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NXS8cwtMaGwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book details the natural history of the plants and animals found in the Galapagos Islands. A list of the dominant plants according to vegetation zone is included. Of particular note is the discussion of the problems of colonisation by founding populations, biological evolution, and ecology, and of the evolutionary processes bringing about species diversity.",1993,3.87,336,93
9781896597669,1896597661,"Acme Novelty Datebook, Volume One",Volume One,Chris Ware,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2my-tgEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware reveals the outtakes of his genius in these intimate, imaginative, and whimsical sketches collected from the years during which he completed his award-winning graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon). His novel not only won the Manchester Guardian First Novel prize in 2001 but it has sold over 100,000 copies. This book is as much a companion volume to Jimmy Corrigan --one of the great crossover success stories-- as a tremendous art collection from of one of America's most interesting and popular graphic artist. Chris Ware has a passion for drawing that is surprisingly wide-ranging in style and subject. This book surprises the reader on every page with its sense of spontaneous vision. Architectural drawings from Chicago and interplanetary robot comics collide with cruelly doodled human figures and quietly troubling studies of the still life. A must for people with a passion for modern design and old-fashioned style.",2013,4.17,208,494
9781898573456,189857345X,Everest,Expedition to the Ultimate,Reinhold Messner,"Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yYs8PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,In 1978 Messner and Habeler became the first to make a successful ascent and descent of Everest without using supplementary oxygen. This is Messner''s account of this landmark in the history of human physical endeavour.',1999,3.94,286,245
9781902602325,1902602323,No Dress Rehearsal,,Marian Keyes,Adjustment (Psychology),,Lizzie hasn't realized she is dead yet. Two spirits Jan and Jim help with her departure to the other side.,2000,3.3,79,746
9781902602684,1902602684,The Builders,,Maeve Binchy,Construction workers,,,2002,3.96,87,638
9781903015070,1903015073,The Spiral Stair,,Joan Aiken;Quentin Blake,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y2plAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With Noah the boa using his coils to work the doughnut machine and with the three giraffes tangled upon the spiral stair, Mortimer's first night in a zoo was one to be remembered for a long, long time.",2000,4.38,62,33
9781903252048,1903252040,The Elephant War,,Gillian Avery,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=kvX7AQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Based on a true incident in 1882, this gentle satire set in Victorian England is the story of how Aunt Louisa, young Harriet, and others protest against Jumbo's tour of America. Jumbo is ""the elephant friend of all England's children"", and they're determined to keep him there.",2000,3.68,256,17
9781903436578,1903436575,Shakespeare's Sonnets,Third Series,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eMBwueQHR_UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,No Marketing Blurb,1997,4.25,488,67122
9781903809501,1903809509,The Sot-weed Factor,,John Barth,English,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aEhrPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business. The book is a tribute to the most insidious human vices and a hilarious ride through the 18th century in the company of heroes, villans, innocents and rogues.",2002,4.08,756,5777
9781904148456,190414845X,The Scandal of Ulysses,The Life and Afterlife of a Twentieth Century Masterpiece,Bruce Arnold,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Iz8eAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,A recounting of the copyright problems surrounding James Joyce's novel Ulysses.,2004,3.79,350,12
9781904159087,1904159087,X-Men,New Worlds,Grant Morrison;Igor Kordey;Ethan Van Scriver,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=buB9NwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2003,3.85,160,2
9781904233190,1904233198,To the Blight,,Robert Jordan,Children's stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bURfPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Despite the magical aid of Moraine Sedai and the awesome fighting skills of the warrior Lan, Rand Al'Thor and his friends have been unable to throw off the foes that pursue them. Even a detour through the ghosts of the ruined city of Shadar Logoth has failed to deter the Dark One's minions. Now the companions have a Trolloc army at their rear and eyeless shadowmen, known as Myrddraal, laying ambushes on the roads ahead. Worse still, the Dark One has dispatched his most feared general to ensure that Rand will die. Aginor is the powerful magician whose dark magic first created the Trollocs and he will stop at nothing to fulfil his master's bidding. Unless Rand can unlock the secrets of his extraordinary destiny, Aginor will destroy him and the darkness will triumph forever.",2003,4.23,500,1101
9781904271062,1904271065,King Henry IV Part 2,Second Series,William Shakespeare;A. R. Humphreys,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=AG4h-0aUbmwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A. R. Humphreyswas Professor of English at Leicester University. He also editedKing Henry IV Part 1and Much Ado About Nothing for the Arden Second Series,King Henry VandKing Henry VIIIfor Penguin, andJulius Caesarfor the Oxford Shakespeare. In the introduction to this Arden edition ofKing Henry IV Part 2, A. R. Humphreys begins by discussing the original publication of the play, the establishing of its date, and the extent to which Shakespeare took liberties with historical facts in 1and2 Henry IV. The editor proceeds to examine the relationship between the twoHenry IVplays, considering historical evidence and previous critical analysis. In the following section, Humphreys analyzes the several probable sources for the play, six of which appear in full in an appendix. Later in the introduction, the editor devotes substantial sections of his own criticism to the play's style and themes, with individual sections dedicated to Falstaff and the infamous scene of his rejection by Prince Hal. Humphreys finally dissects problems of the early texts, going over the nuances of the Quarto and Folio editions and comparing the two. Before the actual text of the play, notes are given on the particularities of this edition and its references and abbreviations. Following the text ofKing Henry IV Part 2are eight appendices: ""Source Material""; ""Hall probably not a Source""; ""II. i. 88: The Singing-Man of Windsor""; ""Justice Shallow and Gloucestershire""; ""Gaultree""; ""The Continuity of Scenes in Act IV, i-ii, and iv-v""; ""IV. v. 20-30: 'Why doth the crown lie there . . .'""; and ""Henry and the Crusade."" The Arden Shakespearehas developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the play’s foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader. Table of Contents Preface INTRODUCTION 1. Publication 2. Date 3. The Extent of Revision (i) Changes of Names (ii) Further Revisions? 4. The Relationship to1 Henry IV 5. The Main Sources (i) Holinshed (ii) Daniel (iii) Stow (iv) Elyot (v)A Myrroure for Magistrates (vi) The “Wild Prince Hal” Stories (vii)The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth (viii) Other Prince Hal Plays? 6. Themes and their Treatment (i) Richard and Henry (ii) Henry and Necessity (iii) Statecraft and Morality (iv) Miscalculation (v) Anarchy (vi) Age and Disease (vii) Life in Place and Time 7. Falstaff 8. The Rejection 9. The Style and its Functions 10. The Text (i) The Transmission of the Text (ii) The Cuts in the Quarto (iii) The Copy for the Folio (iv) Comparison of the Quarto and Folio Texts (v) The Folio Text independent of the Quarto? (vi) The Folio Text not independent of the Quarto? (vii) The Answer? (viii) The Dering Manuscript 11. Editorial Methods 12. References and Abbreviations THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH APPENDICES I. Source Material 1. Holinshed 2. Daniel 3. Stow 4. Elyot 5.The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth 6. John Eliot:Ortho-epia Gallica II. Hall probably not a Source III. II. i. 88: The Singing-Man of Windsor IV. Justice Shallow and Gloucestershire V. Gaultree VI. The Continuity of Scenes in Act IV, i-ii, and iv-v VII. IV. v. 20-30: “Why doth the crown lie there . . .” VIII. Henry and the Crusade",1967,3.8,336,241
9781904271352,1904271359,King Henry IV Part 1,Third Series,William Shakespeare;David Scott Kastan,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=7ioeGdWEpP8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Shakespeare's rich exploration of kingship, politics and war and of fathers, sons and coming of age.",2002,3.82,398,17063
9781904271550,1904271553,Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623,Third Series,William Shakespeare,Drama,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rGFlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This second volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and The Folio Text of 1623, fully modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. A companion to the core volume, it will be of particular interest to scholars and students of textual history, or to anyone studying Hamlet at an advanced level. Both play texts are fully edited and collated and the volume has a full Introduction which gives special attention to the 1603 First Quarto text This second volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and The Folio Text of 1623, fully modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. A companion to the core volume, it will be of particular interest to scholars and students of textual history, or to anyone studying Hamlet at an advanced level. Both play texts are fully edited and collated and the volume has a full Introduction which gives special attention to the 1603 First Quarto text",2006,4.01,384,16
9781904316343,1904316344,Judas Pig,,Horace Silver,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=coAEAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Billy Abrahams is a career criminal who makes a very good living from violence, armed robbery, sex shops, and theft from other criminals. But he becomes increasingly haunted by childhood ghosts and by the ever-growing influence of Danny, his psychopathic partner in crime. Billy finds himself starting to look beyond the violence and the scams, slowly descending into a drug-fuelled netherworld that affects his judgment and his perceptions. He is finally tipped over the edge when Danny commits an act even Billy cannot stomach. And that's when things really start to go wrong. This explosive first novel from a reformed career criminal comes with authenticity stamped throughout.",2004,4.35,345,59
9781904341277,1904341276,Dostoevsky,,Richard Freeborn,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=DxhhgrjR7cEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Accessible and affordable illustrated biography,2003,3.78,183,54
9781904633273,1904633277,Little Women,,Louisa May Alcott,Family life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lH7BZwiYplEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Timeless in its evocation of idealised family life and robustly enduring, Little Women is recognised as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a 'girls' story', its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. For this is a beguiling story of happiness and hope, of the joys of companionship, domestic harmony and infinite mother love, all seen through the life of the March family. But which of the four March sisters to love best? For every reader must have their favourite. Independent, tomboyish Jo; delicate, loving Beth; pretty, kind Meg, or precocious and beautiful Amy, the baby of the family? Little Women was an instant success when first published in 1868, and followed only a year later by the sequel, Little Wives.",2004,4.06,327,74
9781904633389,1904633382,The Iliad,,Homer,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=iJsMHciSPKAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"The Iliad is one of the finest of all the great works that have been handed down to us from Classical Antiquity. Paris, a Trojan prince, having won Helen as his prize for judging a beauty contest between the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, abducted her from her Greek husband Menelaus and transported her to Troy. The Greeks, enraged by this audacity and devastated by the loss of the most beautiful woman in the world, set sail to Troy and began the long siege of the city. The Iliad narrates the events ten years into the war, describing the anger of Achilles, which results in the death of Patroclus and Achilles's mourning of him and avenging of his murder. It has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages. Even though it was written more than two thousand years ago, The Iliad remains both powerful and enthralling.",2011,3.85,542,62
9781904634003,1904634001,Book of Haikus,,Jack Kerouac,Poetry,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3W9BPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku.",2004,3.92,200,23
9781904859208,1904859208,Chomsky on Anarchism,,Noam Chomsky,Political Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_HkOaB89p7YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,One of the world's leading radical intellectuals moves beyond criticism as hegives a vision of an anarchist future.,2005,3.95,256,3730
9781904919520,1904919529,Three Men in a Boat,To Say Nothing of the Dog,Jerome K. Jerome,Boats and boating,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Qk7bOlZ0knoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,".0000000000Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends, George and Harris, decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a T. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian clerking classes, it hilariously captured the spirit of its age. Illustrated by A Fredericks, with an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.",2005,3.89,272,50
9781904920359,1904920357,50 Great Curries of India 10th Anniversary Ed.,,Camellia Panjabi,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=h9JfSAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Collects various dishes from all over India - from the classic Goa Lamb Vindaloo to the exotic Gujarat Mango and Yogurt Curry. This book features: the philosophy of Indian food; what exactly is a curry; using spices, herbs and chillies; and, planning an Indian meal and suggested menus. The secret to creating authentic Indian curries at home lies within these fabulous pages. A feast for the senses, this mini format of 50 Great Curries of India is the world's best-selling curry book. It explains how to add taste, aroma and colour to create that perfect curry. Dishes are collected from all over India - from the classic Goa Lamb Vindaloo to the more exotic Gujarat Mango and Yogurt Curry and all are accompanied by tantalising photography to inspire and excite. Other features of the book include the philosophy of Indian food, using spices, herbs and chillies, planning an Indian meal and suggested menus. This revised edition comes with more recipes than ever and full colour photography throughout.",2005,4.17,224,197
9781905177042,1905177046,A Midwife's Story,,Penny Armstrong;Sheryl Feldman,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hnbrAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"When hospital-trained midwife Penny Armstrong takes on a job delivering the babies of the Amish, she discovers an approach to giving birth which would change her life forever. A Midwife's Story is a life-affirming book that never fails to enlighten, inform and surprise. Honest and ultimately very moving, it is inspirational reading for all student midwives and expectant parents.",2006,4.06,194,1434
9781928832430,1928832431,Aquinas's Shorter Summa,St. Thomas Aquinas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica,Saint Thomas (Aquinas),Religion,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1brEAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"From the Church's greatest theologian: the essentials of Catholic doctrine. This book contains Aquinas's simple summary of the Faith. He covers the Trinity, Providence, the Incarnation, the Last Judgment, and much more. It's a concise statement of the key doctrines and elements of the Faith.",2002,4.1,412,196
9781929229482,1929229488,A Framework for Understanding Poverty,,Ruby K. Payne,People with social disabilities,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qUkuAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Identifies the factors that cause poverty, including the lack of financial, emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical resources; and guides educators and others in understanding poverty and counteracting its effects in the classroom and community.",2005,3.9,199,3533
9781929241637,1929241631,Beloved Bride,The Letters of Stonewall Jackson to His Wife,William Potter,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w60zPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The great military exploits of Confederate General 'Stonewall' Jackson are studied in military schools the world over. His iron-will and stern self-disciple are legendary. But the real Thomas J.Jackson was also a humble Christian and a loving husband and father. The tender and instructive letters he wrote to his wife Anna are a model of godly leadership and covenantal faithfulness.,2002,4.14,156,135
9781929610259,1929610254,Lessons from Turtle Island,Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms,Guy W. Jones;Sally Moomaw,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=m5HoCAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The first comprehensive guide to addressing Native American issues in teaching children.,2002,4.12,208,7
9781930464063,1930464061,On Being Ill,,Virginia Woolf,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eqRhQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,An essay that explores the theme of illness and why it has never been a subject of literature.,2002,4.02,63,1012
9781930846395,1930846398,The Empire of Ice Cream,,Jeffrey Ford,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sD6mAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of short stories, including ""Jupiter's Skull,"" ""Boatman's Holiday,"" and ""Coffins on the River.""",2006,4.06,300,410
9781930846456,1930846452,The Jennifer Morgue,,Charles Stross,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=IygxAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Bob Howard is a special operative for the British agency called The Laundry, and his task is to stop a rogue billionaire from using an artifact, known as Gravedust, with the power to reanimate the dead. The U.S. Black Agency sends the lethal Ramona Random to aid Bob's mission, but she seems to have a different agenda",2006,4.04,313,9038
9781930900240,1930900244,The Brothers Lionheart,,Astrid Lindgren;Ilon Wikland;Jill Morgan,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=z2QJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Two brothers share many adventures after their death when they are reunited in Nangiyala, the land from which sagas come.",2004,4.36,231,19745
9781930901353,1930901356,The Irish Anatomist,A Study of Flann O'Brien,Keith Donohue,Biography & Autobiography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=baEJAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The most full length critical and biographical studies of Flann O'Brien(the nom de plume of Brian O' Nolan an otherwise inoffensive Irish public servant) tend to push asid e the leviathan of Cruiskeen Lawn, a commodious, encyclopedic work of some two million words and focus instead on his novels in English. Dr. Donohue in this important new study considers all of O'Nolan's work including college writings, letters to the editor(raised to a form of national genius by F O'B.) and works in Irish. It draws upon the research and biographical material of Anthony Cronin's No Laughing Matter, along with new research and criticism and takes issue with some of the conclusions reached in Keith Hopper's A Portrait of a Postmodernist. By tracing O'Nolan's development as an artist over time, this new study uncovers the relentless anatomist and post modernist in Flann O'Brien, a man of genius dissecting and exposing life and custom in mid 20th century Dublin. O'Nolan's views on the arts and the novel are carefully discussed along with his relation to the literary Ireland of the deValera years.",2002,5,222,1
9781931081672,1931081670,The Value of X,,Poppy Z. Brite,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=dOqbPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Horror.,2003,4.14,200,646
9781931082037,1931082030,Collected Works of Carson McCullers,,Carson McCullers,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5hapswEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2017,4.38,827,1015
9781931082303,1931082308,"Novels, 1896-1899",,Henry James,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ySdwVuCJuZgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Collects four complete novels of Henry James, depicting murder, jealousy, possessiveness, power, divorce, friendship, and innocence.",2003,4.25,1035,24
9781931082549,1931082545,Democracy in America,,Alexis de Tocqueville;Arthur Goldhammer,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UXkJ0gvjS0AC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"An influential study of America's national government, egalitarian ideals, and character offers reflections on the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals and provides insight into the rewards and responsibilities of a democratic government, in a clear new translation of the nineteenth-century classic.",2004,4.02,928,173
9781931082730,1931082731,Little Women ; Little Men ; Jo's Boys,,Louisa May Alcott;Elaine Showalter,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q9SmFnhNNfYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A deluxe single-volume edition of Alcott's classic Little Women trilogy is complemented by the stories' original first-edition illustrations, some of which where drawn by the author's sister May, who inspired the character of Amy.",2005,4.31,1045,2949
9781931082884,193108288X,"Novels, 1901-1902",,Henry James;Leo Bersani,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rQidEk3MLnMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Presents two complete novels from Henry James.,2006,4.68,713,25
9781931382694,1931382697,Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance,,Lennard Zinn,Sports & Recreation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aqYXAgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Shows readers how to maintain their bikes, covering such topics as chains, derailleurs, wheels, shifters, headsets, forks, and frames.",2005,4.28,356,275
9781931414166,1931414165,The Brooklyn Bridge,,Elizabeth Mann;Alan Witschonke,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s28MAgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Describes the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, from its conception by John Roebling in 1852 through its final completion under the direction of his son, Washington, in 1883.",2006,4.44,46,35
9781931514606,1931514607,Paradise Kiss,,Ai Yazawa,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s5QMgY3kPX0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2002,4.1,181,15020
9781931520249,1931520240,Interfictions,An Anthology of Interstitial Writing,Delia Sherman;Theodora Goss,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=w9wHTZwJpMEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Nineteen writers dig into the spaces between genres and bring up gems of new fiction.,2007,3.77,291,220
9781931615037,1931615039,Answers to Questions Teachers Ask about Sensory Integration,"Forms, Checklists, and Practical Tools for Teachers and Parents",Carol Stock Kranowitz;Stacey Szklut;Lynn Balzer-Martin;Elizabeth Haber;Deanna Iris Sava,Minimal brain dysfunction in children,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3_9kPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this elegant approach to the often elusive subject of sensory integration, Kranowitz, author of the bestselling ""The Out-of-Sync Child,"" and expert occupational therapists present an extensive and easy-to-use set of checklists and other tools that are invaluable to every teacher and parent who has children with sensory integration challenges.",2001,4.12,63,17
9781931859356,1931859353,No One is Illegal,Fighting Violence and State Repression on the U.S.-Mexico Border,Justin Akers Chacón;Mike Davis;Julián Cardona,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=4LfbAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices, Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacon expose the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States. |A rare combination of an author, Mike Davis is Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one.| - Susan Faludi |Davis' writing is perceptive and rigorous.| - David Montgomery, The Nation",2006,4.07,240,226
9781931882200,1931882207,Invisible Residents,The Reality of Underwater UFOs,Ivan T. Sanderson,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_BKYTHMBLj8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This book is a groundbreaking contribution to the study of the UFO enigma, originally published over 30 years ago. In this book, Sanderson, a renowned zoologist with a keen interest in the paranormal, puts forward the curious theory that âeoeOINTS""-Other Intelligences-live under the Earthâe(tm)s oceans. This underwater, parallel, civilization may be twice as old as Homo sapiens, he proposes, and may have âeoedeveloped what we call space flight."" Sanderson postulates that the OINTS are behind many UFO sightings as well as the mysterious disappearances of aircraft and ships in the Bermuda Triangle. What better place to have an impenetrable base than deep within the oceans of the planet? Yet, if UFOs, or at least some of them, are coming from beneath our oceans or lakes, does it necessarily mean that there is another civilization besides our own that is responsible? In fact, could it be that since WWII a number of underwater UFO bases have been constructed by the very human governments of our planet? Whatever their source, Sanderson offers here an exhaustive study of USOs (Unidentified Submarine Objects) observed in nearly every part of the world. He presents many well-documented and exciting case studies of these unusual sightings; more.",2005,3.68,100,59
9781932073201,1932073205,Way of the Peaceful Warrior,A Book that Changes Lives,Dan Millman,"Body, Mind & Spirit",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NEU-1RfOMEwC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Presents the author's personal account of his spiritual quest to unite the diverse realms of body, mind, and spirit by combining Eastern philosophy with Western fitness routines to become an example of the peaceful warrior.Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Nick Nolte.",2006,4.14,240,38159
9781932100563,1932100563,The Anthology at the End of the Universe,Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,Glenn Yeffeth,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R7y1PEKjVc0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"A selection of essays dealing with every aspect of one of the most beloved science fiction series of all time contains work from some of the genre's greats, including Cory Doctorow, Stephen Baxter, and Lawrence Watt-Evans, and covers topics as varied as Vogon poetry to the idea of the Internet becoming a real-life Guide. Original.",2005,3.85,240,123
9781932100594,1932100598,Mapping the World of Harry Potter,Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Explore the Best Selling Fantasy Series of All Time,Mercedes Lackey;Leah Wilson,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Vbn7ugEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of critiques of the works of J. K. Rowling, covering the topics and characters found in the Harry Potter books.",2006,4.32,195,2461
9781932111972,1932111972,Theory of Fun for Game Design,,Raph Koster,Computers,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jYdqQ4YdccYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the essential elements in creating a successful game, how playing games and learning are connected, and what makes a game boring or fun.",2005,3.95,256,1972
9781932206081,1932206086,Insights,Talks on the Nature of Existence,Frederick Lenz,Spiritual life,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=NOX2PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In 1983, when Rama - Dr. Frederick P. Lenz recorded a series of profound and powerful talks entitled Insights: Talks on the Nature of Existence. This book is a transcript of those talks. Rama was instructing an ever-growing number of students. Dr. Lenz himself was developing an approach to self-realization that, while emphasizing meditation and enlightenment, drew from a variety of traditions including Vedanta, Tibetan Buddhism and the American mystic teachings described by Carlos Castaneda. The Insights talks, which evolved from this time period, are like a crest jewel of Dr. Lenz's body of teachings. It is interesting to note that most of the Insights talks are subtitled ""Modular Mysticism"" (for example, ""Modular Mysticism: The Truth""). Even the talk titled ""How to Make Friends with God"" - discussed in depth only in this series - is termed a part of ""Modular Mysticism."" In the practice of mysticism, Dr. Lenz explains, the student begins to understand awareness and power. Modular mysticism becomes the science of power, and the student learns to gain power, to stop losing power, to store power, and eventually to give power to others. In order to gain power, the student begins to lead an efficient and well-structured life. As the student accomplishes this, they are able to move more easily through the doorways to enlightenment. At each step along the journey of the Insights talks, Dr. Lenz gives specific examples of how to adapt and integrate mystical Buddhist practice into a Western lifestyle. For Dr. Lenz there was no contradiction between being a successful Westerner and a successful Buddhist, be it building a career, working out at the health club, going to the movies, shopping for clothes -- or understanding why more women don't attain enlightenment (when, in fact, it's easier for them to do so). In every instance, Dr. Lenz connects the heights of the mystical experiences directly to our everyday lives.",2003,5,304,1
9781932206104,1932206108,How to Meditate,"An Anthology of Talks on Meditation and ""Meditation: the Bridge is Flowing But the River is Not""",Frederick Lenz,Meditation,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=HhTVAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"How to Meditate is a transcript all of Rama's, Dr. Frederick Lenz recorded talks on meditation. It also includes his book of lyrical poetry : ""The Bridge is Flowing but the River is Not."" How to Meditate provides a full range of meditation techniques, knowledge and wisdom to deepen meditation practice and understand meditation's essential role in daily life. This volume is excellent for both newcomers and longtime meditators. Open the book at any time to any page, and you will receive your daily quota of inspiration.",2004,0,228,0
9781932234299,1932234292,Birthday,,Kōji Suzuki;Glynne Walley,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2rEwAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Basis of the Hit Movie Ring 0: Birthday! Birthday is Ring-master Koji Suzuki’s return to the Ring universe, a collection of short stories focusing on the female characters with a theme of birth. An exploration of extraordinary circumstances from the perspective of memorable women, this expansion of the Ring, Spiral, and Loop world was adapted into a hit movie less than a year after the book’s publication. Thirty years before the tragic events of Ring, Sadako Yamamura was an aspiring stage actress on the verge of her theatrical debut. The beautiful and ravishing Sadako was the object of every male’s desire involved with the company including n the director. There was one thespian she was interested in, but… Fast forward past the events of Ring, Ryuji Takayama’s distraught lover, Mai Takano is struggling in the wake of the professor’s mysterious demise. Mai visits Ryuji’s parents’ house to find the missing pages of his soon-to-be published article. There she is drawn to a curious videotape and a fate more terrifying than Ryuji or Kazuyuki Asakawa’s. Reiko Sugiura questioned the purpose of bringing a child into a world where there was only death. She already lost one son, and the father of her unborn child, Kaoru Futami, had disappeared in search of a cure to the deadly disease that threatened all life. Despite Kaoru’s to meet again in two months, he has not returned. Despondent but driven for answers Reiko is led to the Loop project, where she will discover the final truths of the Ring virus.",2006,3.68,216,837
9781932361278,1932361278,There's No Toilet Paper... on the Road Less Traveled,The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure,Doug Lansky,Travel,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Bi0XAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A compendium of humorous travel writing includes contributions from Bill Bryson, Steve Martin, Dave Barry, Art Buchwald, David Letterman, Paul Theroux, and others, presenting stories about everything from surviving in a nudist camp to learning how to use an ice-sheet outhouse in Antarctica. Original.",2005,3.4,216,403
9781932382600,1932382607,Richard Matheson's Hell House,,Ian Edington;Simon Fraser;Chris Ryall,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=plkKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Now, IDW brings you a lavishly illustrated adaptation of this tale of newspaper publisher Rudolph Deutsch facing his impending demise. To help Deutsch forestall this and learn the secrets of life after death, a hired team of experts must survive a night in Belasco House, a place known amongst the local townsfolk as Hell House!",2004,4.08,48,13
9781932382723,1932382720,Hell House,,Ian Edginton;Simon Fraser,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=p1kKAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,The notorious Belasco House starts to exert its dark influence on the group of scientists and spiritualists as they unearth the perverse and wretched secrets from within its walls. Hell House has let them in but will it ever let them leave? IDW's adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic tale of terror continues here!,2005,4.5,48,8
9781932386226,193238622X,Artesia,,Mark Smylie,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=UZ8zngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In the Highlands of the Middle Kingdoms, where witchcraft and warlords vie for power, a warrior-priestess named Artesia fights for her king against the rulers of rival citadels. Collecting all six issues of the first Artesia mini-series!",2011,4,192,236
9781932416060,1932416064,McSweeney's,"Twelve new stories from twelve new writers--unpublished, unknown, or, unbelievable--plus--twenty-nine stories written in twenty minutes each. and a story from Roddy Doyle. in over two dimensions--almost three",,American literature,,,2003,3.85,273,189
9781932416121,1932416129,Timothy McSweeney's,At War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been So Scared,Dave Eggers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2CHuAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic Great Gerbil of central Asia, uncovering signs of an impending disaster. The issue also includes strange and wonderful stories from T.C. Boyle, Susan Straight, Jim Shepard, Wells Tower, and others.",2004,3.73,306,333
9781932416138,1932416137,How We are Hungry,Stories,Dave Eggers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1sALAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A debut collection of short stories presents a compelling cast of characters who struggle with inconvenient revelations, from the deserts of Egypt to the side of Interstate 5.",2004,3.75,218,486
9781932416244,1932416242,The Polysyllabic Spree,,Nick Hornby,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bskLAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Shares selections from the author's column in ""The Believer"" that comment on literature he has found interesting, and features passages from the material discussed.",2004,3.73,143,6741
9781932416374,1932416374,The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip,,George Saunders;Lane Smith,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xYJOPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A novel set in the seaside village of Frip follows the adventures of a community plagued by ""gappers""--orange sea creatures that cover the village's goats and prevent them from giving milk.",2006,4.11,84,2317
9781932416381,1932416382,McSweeney's,,Dave Eggers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PYLUzAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a new compilation of writings from the popular literary journal, which began in the 1998 as a small literary journal that published only works rejected from other magazines, including an excerpt from Edmund White's new memoir My Hustlers, as well as works by Jonathan Lethem, William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace, Rick Moody, and many new talents.",2005,3.72,200,401
9781932416480,193241648X,McSweeney's,,T. C. Boyle,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N5nFAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The latest collection from the literary journal that publishes only works rejected from other magazines, and is committed to publishing work of gifted but underappreciated writers, is presented.",2006,3.8,250,303
9781932416596,1932416595,Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt,,Nick Hornby,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yONnAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Offers reviews on a wide range of American works, providing insights into the authors' styles and techniques and making recommendations for readers.",2006,3.88,153,2597
9781932416640,1932416641,What is the what,The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng : a Novel,Dave Eggers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Ps8LAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy of seven was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked by government helicopters and became one of the estimated 17,000 ""lost boys of Sudan"" before",2006,4.16,475,64088
9781932416770,1932416773,McSweeney's,,Dave Eggers,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=o7cuHQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"With a special section on Donald Barthelme, including remembrances from Ann Beattie, David Gates, and Oscar Hijuelos, and some of Barthelme's barely published and never-collected early work, and a highly theoretical but potentially amazing Z-binding that we can't describe very well here, or even to each other, McSweeney's 24 will never be mistaken for anything else. (Except possibly the June 1978 issue of Popular Mechanics.)",2007,3.81,300,275
9781932420302,1932420304,Erotica,My Dirty Thirties: Male/Female/Male,Kelly Carr,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5TS3AgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""My Dirty Thirties"" takes female empowerment to new levels with a series of erotic novels about women in their 30s who can't say no to their desires. (Adult Fiction)",2004,2.44,152,6
9781932420340,1932420347,Erotica,"My Dirty Thirties, Romantic Hedonism",Kelly Carr,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MGPKwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Romantic Hedonism: What happens when a woman meets the man of her dreams in London? She prays her husband doesn't find out. My Dirty Thirties is a series of erotic novels about women in their thirties who can't say no to their desires. Call it ""The Thing"" or call it sexual peak, but once it happens, there's no turning back. It takes female empowerment to new levels. Romantic Hedonism is the second book in the series.",2004,3,144,8
9781932429237,1932429239,Think and Grow Rich: The 21st-Century Edition,Revised and Updated,Napoleon Hill,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wjgNAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Audio Book- unabriged on CD,2004,4.18,368,44
9781932450750,1932450750,Zero Debt,The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom,Lynnette Khalfani,Business & Economics,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_9URQoEdKYcC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides practical advice on getting out of debt, setting a budget, and managing personal finances to guaranteea a healthy financial future and retirement.",2004,3.65,204,46
9781932664089,1932664084,Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life,,,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=OdzVxwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Scott Pilgrim's fantastic life takes an unforseen turn when rollerblading delivery girl Ramano Flowers makes her appearance.,2004,4.16,168,149508
9781932664393,1932664394,Han'guk-sik Sarang,,J. Torres,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=V1Fex6gnO_oC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Joel, an English teacher, has never really liked Korea, but he decides to extend his stay so that he can pursue Hana, the new receptionist at his school.",2006,3.44,58,9
9781932664591,1932664599,Wasteland Vol. 1,Cities in Dust,Antony Johnston,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8K7CPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"A hundred years after the Big Wet, Earth has been left a broken, infertile world of rock and sand. The town of Providens is like many others on the post-Big Wet planet—small, mostly illiterate and struggling for survival. But while most communities are like Providens, not all the cities that survived the Big Wet are. Some are like Newbegin, burgeoning metropolises that combine pieces of past societies with the new status quo. When Providens welcomes a stranger named Michael into its midst, will the quiet man lead them to the better world of Newbegin or shatter what little order still exists?",2010,3.56,160,569
9781932796780,1932796789,Dragons of Winter Night,,Margaret Weis;Tracy Hickman;Andrew Dabb,Comics & Graphic Novels,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=92L9uAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"When dragons invade the land, a small band of heroes, including a knight, barbarian, dwarf, and half-elf, begin the search for the magical Dragon Orb and Dragonlance, in the second volume of the Dragonlance Chronicles in a graphic novel format. Original.",2007,4.14,358,33846
9781932806496,1932806490,Doc Savage,"Fortress of Solitude"" and ""The Devil Genghis""""",Kenneth Robeson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=5-_nPAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2006,4.01,128,93
9781932855418,1932855416,Bird Songs,250 North American Birds in Song,Les Beletsky,Nature,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=InkFAgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Songs presents the most notable North American birdsincluding the rediscovered Ivory-billed Woodpeckerin a stunning new format. Renowned bird biologist Les Beletsky provides a succinct description of each of the 250 birds profiled, with an emphasis on their distinctive songs. Lavish full-color illustrations accompany each account, while a sleek, built-in digital audio player holds 250 corresponding songs and calls. In his foreword, North American bird expert and distinguished natural historian Jon L. Dunn shares insights gained from a lifetime of passionate study. Complete with the most up-to-date and scientifically accurate information, Bird Songs is the first book to capture the enchantment of these beautiful birds in words, pictures, and song. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, located in Ithaca, New York, is a nonprofit institution focused on birds and whose mission is to interpret and conserve the earth's biological diversity through research. The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab is the major source of sound recordings of birds for research, education, conservation, the media, and commercial products. Listen here Trumpeter Swan Laughing Gull Eastern Bluebird",2006,4.47,368,268
9781932857009,1932857001,Under The Influence,The Disinformation Guide To Drugs,Preston Peet,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=uC0_YznYjScC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents a collection of articles that examine various aspects of the war on drugs, including its political, historical, and economic aspects.",2004,3.64,312,55
9781932857085,1932857087,Real Rule of Four,The Unauthorized Guide to the New York Times #1 Bestseller,Joscelyn Godwin,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=X2-fil65OT4C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Discusses the historical and intellectual background of the novel ""The Rule of Four,"" examining the 1499 Renaissance text that forms the central theme of the novel.",2004,3.45,208,88
9781932857191,1932857192,Underground!,"The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History",Preston Peet,Education,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9nNGMjm8VmgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,Everything from the fingerprints of the gods through the hidden history of the human race.,2005,3.84,343,152
9781933045252,1933045256,Design Like You Give a Damn,Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises,Architecture for Humanity (Organization),Architecture,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jIJuQgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Citing a harrowing lack of adequate shelter and utilities for nearly half the planet's population, a compendium of innovative architectural projects from around the world features more than 80 ideas designed to address specific urgent needs in desperately underprivileged areas.",2006,4.11,336,770
9781933110332,1933110333,A Matter of Trust,,Radclyffe,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=yb5UJkTy6woC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Michael Lassiter hires J.T. Sloan, a security consultant, to protect his company. Sloan shares a painful past with her associate & friend Jason McBride. Sarah Martin, is a gentle practitioner of eastern medicine. Four very different people, each wounded by personal beytrayal, find their lives inextricably linked.",2006,4.2,240,910
9781933110455,1933110457,Carly's Sound,,Ali Vali,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=vAvDwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Is passion still possible the second time around? Poppy Valente has the world in the palm of her hand until fate steals from her the one thing that matters most--her wife Carly. When breast cancer ends their life together, Poppy finds herself at a loss. Julia Johnson is running to Carly's Sound with her newborn daughter Tallulah in search of the path to her future. On a chance meeting two years after Carly's death, these two women form a bond of friendship that lays the foundation for something more.",2006,4.21,212,441
9781933368368,1933368365,The Good Fairies of New York,,Martin Millar,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XbspqbaIgy0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Finding themselves in the very unusual world of Manhattan, a pair of Scottish thimble fairies apply their folk wisdom to assist a pair of down-and-out humans, including Kerry, who struggles with a colostomy bag, and Dinnie, who exhibits anti-social behaviors. Original.",2006,3.51,242,4280
9781933368566,193336856X,Mitz,The Marmoset of Bloomsbury,Sigrid Nu–ez,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9heK_IYC5ewC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In 1934, a ""sickly pathetic marmoset"" named Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. After nursing her back to health, he was rarely seen without the amusing monkey on his shoulder. A ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society, Mitz moved with the Woolfs between their homes in London and Sussex. She developed her own special relationships with the family's cocker spaniels and with the various members of the Woolfs' circle, among them T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. Mitz even played a vital role in helping the Woolfs escape a close call with Nazis in Germany just before World War II. Blending letters, diaries, and memoirs, acclaimed novelist Sigrid Nunez reconstructs Mitz's life, painting it against the fascinating backdrop of Bloomsbury in its twilight years. Tender, affectionate, and filled with humor, this novel offers a striking look at lives shadowed by war, death, and mental breakdown, as well as the happiness and productivity this plucky creature inspired.",2007,3.7,128,102
9781933372198,1933372192,Amazing Disgrace,,James Hamilton-Paterson,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=s7jyAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this sequel to the popular Cooking with Fernet Branca, Gerald Samper is back on his Tuscan hilltop and busily musing on the absurdities of modern life. His entertaining asides - on everything from publishing to penile implants, celebrity sportswomen to Australian media moguls - and his eccentric recipes form the comic heart of this literary romp. Marta, Gerald's nemesis in Cooking with Fernet Branca, is back, along with her penchant for the eponymous potent liquor and her talent for shattering Gerald's evening idylls. But she's not alone: Amazing Disgrace touts a cavalcade of memorable characters, including a foul-mouthed, one-armed yachtswoman, and sees Gerald jettisoned from his Tuscan hideaway into the trendy haunts of his native London.",2006,3.79,320,219
9781933440170,1933440171,Finder Series,One wing in the finder,Ayano Yamane,Gay men,,"Chinese crime lord Fei Long comes to Japan hoping to lure freelance photographer Akihito into his web of intrigue and sex. When his friends fall for Fei Long's schemes, Akihito has only one person to turn to for help--Asami, the Yakuza boss who once made Akihito his sex slave.",2007,4.35,208,562
9781933615097,1933615095,The Best of America's Test Kitchen 2007,"The Year's Best Recipes, Equipment Reviews, and Tastings",America's Test Kitchen,Cooking,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=tQ97AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents nearly one thousand recipes--from appetizers and salads to entrees and desserts--developed by America's Test Kitchen chefs, along with tips for choosing equipment, preparing food, or saving money in the kitchen.",2006,4.34,312,185
9781933618081,1933618086,Falling Angel,,William Hjortsberg,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Z4OBPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Raymond Chandler meets The Exorcist. Classic novel in a signed, limited edition.",2006,3.92,302,2137
9781933633107,1933633107,Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog,The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences,Kitty Burns Florey,Literary Collections,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LItiAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"In this illustrated personal history, Kitty Burns Florey explores the rise and fall of sentence diagramming, including its invention by a mustachioed man named Brainerd 'Brainy' Kellogg and his wealthy accomplice Alonzo Reed - the inferior 'balloon diagram' predecessor - and what diagrams of sentences by Hemingway, Welty, Proust, Kerouac and other famous writers reveal about them. Florey also answers some of literature's most pressing questions: Was Mark Twain or James Fenimore Cooper a better grammarian? What are the silliest grammar rules?",2006,3.59,154,678
9781933648279,1933648279,Night Has a Thousand Eyes,,Cornell Woolrich,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=3Gk6swEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"""Cornell Woolrich's novels define the essence of noir nihilism.""-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review One of Woolrich's most famous novels, this classic noir tale of a con man struggling with his ability to see the future is arguably the author's best in its depiction of his vision of doomed predestination. From the 1930s until his death in 1968, Cornell Woolrich riveted the reading public with his unparalleled suspense stories. Classic films like Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and novels such as Rendezvous in Black earned Woolrich epithets like ""the twentieth century's Edgar Allan Poe"" and ""the father of noir.""",2007,3.77,344,680
9781933771137,1933771135,Neptune Noir,Unauthorized Investigations Into Veronica Mars,Rob Thomas;Leah Wilson,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VHu3waVCobIC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Edited by the creator and executive producer of the teen detective show, a collection of essays address such varied subjects as Veronica's vigilante justice and Veronica and Logan’s everchanging relationship.",2007,3.64,224,911
9781933771175,1933771178,Coffee at Luke's,An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest,Jennifer Crusie,Performing Arts,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ZWW72Cwfj14C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"In the fall of 2000,Gilmore Girls premiered on the WB and viewers were introduced to the quirky world of Stars Hollow and the Gilmores who had made it their home, mother-daughter best friends Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. With the show in its seventh season on the fledgling CW,Coffee at Luke's is the perfect look at what has made the show such a clever, beloved part of the television landscape for so long. What are the risks of having your mother be your best friend? How isGilmore Girls anti-family, at least in the traditional sense? What’s a male viewer to do when he finds both mother and daughter attractive? And how is creator Amy Sherman-Palladino like Emily Gilmore? From the show’s class consciousness to the way the characters are shaped by the books they read, the music they listen to and the movies they watch,Coffee at Luke's looks at the sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking underpinnings of smart viewer’s Tuesday night television staple, and takes them further into Stars Hollow than they’ve ever been before.",2007,3.55,197,897
9781934169070,1934169072,Quo Vadis,,Henryk Sienkiewicz,Christian fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=61b3rQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature. A brilliant Polish writer and patriot, he is possibly best known abroad for his monumental historical epic Quo Vadis that portrays the vibrant and dissonant combination of cruel excesses and decadence of Rome during the reign of the corrupt Emperor Nero and the high faith of the emerging era of early Christianity. Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, is a love story of Marcus Vinicius, a passionate young Roman tribune, and Lygia Callina, a beautiful and gentle Christian maiden of royal Lygian descent and a hostage of Rome, raised in a patrician home. At first Marcus, a typical aristocratic Roman libertine of his time, has no notion of love and merely desires Lygia with erotic animalistic intensity. Through political machinations of the elegant Petronius he contrives to have her taken by force from her foster home and into the decadent and terrible splendor of the court of Ceasar, setting in motion a course of events that culminate in his own spiritual redemption. Intricately researched, populated with vibrant historical figures, and gorgeous period detail, bloody spectacle and intimate beauty, this is an epic tapestry of the triumph of love, faith and sacrifice.",2006,4.15,596,110
9782884490474,2884490477,The Art of Richard P. Feynman,Images by a Curious Character,Richard Phillips Feynman,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jmJk7ZwXNIMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Displays one of America's leading physicist's fascinating development of personal artistic sensitivity to line, form, and the moods of his subject.",1995,4.31,174,13
9782940373154,2940373159,Basics Illustration 01,Thinking Visually,Mark Wigan,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QnxDVGbnpAoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Basics Illustration 01: Thinking Visually explores the importance of ideas, research, drawing and experimentation for the illustrator.",2006,3.64,184,47
9783110172799,3110172798,Syntactic Structures,,Noam Chomsky,Language Arts & Disciplines,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=SNeHkMXHcd8C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is understood by experts in those fields. It is not a mere reorganization of the data into a new kind of library catalogue, nor another specualtive philosophy about the nature of man and language, but rather a rigorus explication of our intuitions about our language in terms of an overt axiom system, the theorems derivable from it, explicit results which may be compared with new data and other intuitions, all based plainly on an overt theory of the internal structure of languages; and it may well provide an opportunity for the application of explicity measures of simplicity to decide preference of one form over another form of grammar.",2002,3.84,135,585
9783125738089,3125738083,"J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye",Annotations and Study Aids,Jerome David Salinger;Rudolph F. Rau,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oTaRAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1999,3.8,80,69
9783425040844,3425040847,In the Country of Last Things,Hauptbd.,Paul Auster,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=hdWaxQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2001,3.91,188,6230
9783464371640,3464371646,About a Boy,,Nick Hornby,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=PuDYwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,2002,3.8,256,155
9783540292128,3540292128,Enzyme-Catalyzed Synthesis of Polymers,,Shiro Kobayashi;Helmut Ritter;David Kaplan,Science,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WXOym0xs3vYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,,2006,0,254,0
9783791329284,3791329286,Joseph Cornell,Secrets in a Box,Joseph Cornell;Alison Baverstock,Juvenile Nonfiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=KnO8AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Provides an introduction to the American artist's work, presenting examples of his works with a discussion of their historical background and critical interpretation.",2003,4.06,27,31
9783856305581,3856305580,C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse,A Record of Two Friendships,Miguel Serrano,Psychology,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=sQt8bd6wFr0C&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Miguel Serrano, a Chilean diplomat and writer who has travelled widely in India studying Yoga, had a close friendship with Jung and Hermann Hesse at the end of their lives. This book is the outcome of his meetings and correspondence with them. Many letters are reproduced, including a document of great importance written to the author by Jung shortly before his death, explaining his ideas about the nature of the world and of his work.",1997,4.03,142,373
9783861878759,3861878755,Wicked Dreams,,Kingdome 19,Photography,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ddgpAAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"The young men of Kingdome 19 all have at least one prominent talent...and it is wonderfully set into scene in these exceedingly aesthetic photos. Powerful and archaic, these wonderful photos, all hand-finished, bring viewers to a place between yesterday and tomorrow. Viewers can see young men in classic poses who radiate power, vulnerability and an intense melancholy.",2006,3.67,112,3
9783895086908,3895086908,War and Peace,,Lev N. Tolstoj,"Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815",http://books.google.com/books/content?id=R1Y6SwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle-all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out of this complex narrative emerges a profound examination of the individual's place in the historical process, one that makes it clear why Thomas Mann praised Tolstoy for his Homeric powers and placed War and Peace in the same category as the Iliad ""To read him . . . is to find one's way home . . . to everything within us that is fundamental and sane.""",1999,4.11,1500,126
9784766113389,4766113381,How to Draw Manga,Girls' Life Illustration File,Kazuko Tadano,Art,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=N3s3GIkquCoC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,This volume was inspired by young women working in cafes and restaurants clad in those absolutely charming uniforms. Snowy white aprons and crisply starched dresses are staples of manga and anime. This guide features various popular uniforms and costumes. Select an interesting uniform or costume to try on one of your own characters!,2003,4.14,132,65
9784770027726,4770027729,ゲンジモノガタリ,,紫式部,Japan,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=MRT-Wf9x_qQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,源氏物語54帖、「宮田切り絵」の真骨頂。,2001,3.76,238,46
9784770028013,4770028016,五輪書 : 英文版,,武蔵·宮本,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=6IAPM-VFdzEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,Book Of Five Rings is a Kodansha International publication.,2002,4.08,157,430
9784770028037,4770028032,日本語の感情表現集,Expressing Emotions in Japanese,村上真美子,Foreign Language Study,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ST7ruDDcNvgC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This is a student's guide to the expression of emotion in the Japanese language. Arranged by emotion type to cover a wide range of feelings - from infatuation to revulsion - this text offers standard Japanese script, romanized Japanese and English translation. A desire to communicate heart-to-heart with people from another culture is what attracts many people to language study in the first place. But it can take a long time to make friends and feel socially comfortable in a Japanese-speaking context, and there are few textbooks that can help. This volume does just",2002,3.54,176,27
9784770028969,4770028962,Coin Locker Babies,,村上龍,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=87DJwAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Rescued from the lockers in which they were left to die as infants and raised to freely follow their ambitions, Kiku and Hashi begin parallel quests of vengeance against the mothers that abandoned them and the society that let it happen.",2002,3.75,393,5560
9787506435673,7506435675,Good Fight,,Judd Winick;Matthew Clark,Juvenile Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xGPZAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Presents the adventures of a new group of heroes, including Grace, a bouncer working at a metahuman club; cyborg girl Indigo; Thunder, the mass-changing daughter of Black Lightning, and the shape shifter, Metamorpho.",2007,,,
9788122200850,8122200850,"Cry, the Peacock",,Anita Desai,Fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=_QKwVYqp7ugC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"This book is the story of a young girl obsessed by a childhood prophecy of disaster. The author builds up an atmosphere of tension and oppression, in the middle of an Indian summer.",1980,3.22,218,134
9788125026600,8125026606,Nietzsche For Beginners,,Marc Sautet,,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fPIv8f02EtYC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Not only does Nietzsche for Beginners delve into the scandalous life and considerable works of Friedrich Nietzsche, it also gives a clear picture of the puzzling time in which he lived. We meet the Luminaries of the day Richard Wagner, Bismarck, Frued, and Darwin, and see their influence on his work.",2004,3.26,192,21
9788171565641,8171565646,Aspects of the Novel,,E. M. Forster,English fiction,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=qWU9PgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Forster's lively, informed originality and wit have made this book a classic. Avoiding the chronological approach of what he calls ""pseudoscholarship,"" he freely examines aspects all English-language novels have in common: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. Index.",2004,3.83,141,10
9788172235222,8172235224,Mistaken Identity,,Nayantara Sahgal,Indic fiction (English),http://books.google.com/books/content?id=q-tKPgAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"On A Train Journey Home To North India After Long Months Of Travel Abroad, The Playboy Bhushan Singh, Son Of The Raja Of Vijaygarh, Is Arrested And Thrown Into Jail. Charged With Treason, Bhushan Finds Himself In A Filthy Prison Cell Surrounded By Elderly Trade Unionists As Innocent Of Any Political Crime, And A Jittery Government Sees Sedition Under Every Stone. As They Wait For The Trial That Never Seems To Come, Bhushan Takes Up The Role Of Scheherazade, Enthralling His Cell-Mates With Stories From His Colourful Past. He Tells Them Of His Boyhood Affair With A Beautiful Muslim Girl That Sparked Off Two Murderous Riots And Led To His Banishment Abroad. He Tells Them Of His Life In The America Of The Roaring Twenties, Of Basking Beside A Turquoise Swimming Pool, Learning The Turkey Trot And Turning Down The Chance Of A Career As A Movie Star. Obsessed With His Childhood Love, Unable To Make Any Plans For His Life Except To Find Her Again, Bhushan Returns To India To Become An Exile Nearer Home In Mumbai. He Becomes The Friend And Lover Of Syllvia, A Vibrant And Modern Parsi Girl, But Even Her Energy And Devotion Are Not Enough To Heal His Wound. As News Of Violent World Events Penetrates The Prison Wall Civil Was In Turkey, The Rise Of Mussoloni, Gandhi S Salt March, Mass Arrests, The Death Of Hunger-Strikers In Lahore Bhushan Reaches The Climax Of His Story: The Monstrous Trick He Discovers Fate Has Played On Him, And The Crime He Can Never Forget. Full Of Mystery And Gentle Humour, Mistaken Identity Is A Story Of Love And Obsession That Brilliantly Summons Up The Turmoil Of India In The Twilight Years Of Empire",2003,2.93,324,0
9788173031014,8173031010,Journey to the East,,Hermann Hesse,Adventure stories,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=rq6JPwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This book tells the tale of a man who goes on a wonderful and amazing journey through Asia. His travels can also be seen as a parable of one person's search for enlightenment. Ever since this book's first publication in 1932, it has influenced generations of readers with its ideas on Eastern religion and Jungian psychology and its criticism of Western middleclass values.",2002,3.7,175,24
9788179921623,817992162X,The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny,,Robin Sharma,Health & Fitness,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=c_7mf7bAe6YC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to: Develop joyful thoughts Follow our life's mission and calling Cultivate self-discipline and act courageously Value time as our most important commodity Nourish our relationships, and – live fully, one day at a time A FABLE ABOUT FULFILLING YOUR DREAMS AND REACHING YOUR DESTINY",2003,3.82,198,1568
9788185300535,8185300534,I Am that,Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj;Sudhakar S. Dikshit,Philosophy,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Fv_JPQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,"This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer's life and work. The book (now in its ninth printing) continues to draw new audiences and to enlighten anxious seekers for self-realisation. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was a teacher who did not propound any ideology or religion but gently unwrapped the mystery of the self. His message is simple, direct and yet sublime. The book preserves his dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking guidance in destroying false identities. The sage's sole concern was with human suffering and the ending of suffering. It was his mission to guide the individual to an understanding of his true nature and the timelessness of being. He taught that mind must recognise and penetrate its own state of being, not 'being this or that, here or there, then or now', but just timeless being. This is a legacy from a unique teacher who helps the reader to a clearer understanding of himself.",1999,4.51,531,104
9788185944609,8185944601,Secrets Of The Heart,,Khalil Gibran,Mysticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=XcrVpL1byOkC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api,,1993,4.08,74,324
9788445074879,8445074873,Fahrenheit 451,,Ray Bradbury,Book burning,,,2004,3.98,186,5733
9789027712059,9027712050,The Berlin Phenomenology,,Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,History,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=Vy7SkjvmfLMC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,"Since the three volume edition ofHegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit (1978, 19792) has been so well received, I have been encouraged to select that part of it most suitable for teaching purposes, and to publish it here as a separate work. As a teaching text, the Berlin Phenomenology has several important advan­ tages. Unlike so many ofHegel's writings, must notably theJena Phenomeno­ logy of 1807, it is concise and to the point, and concemed with issues already familiar to most students of philosophy. Since it consists for the most part of a searching and radical analysis of Kant's epistemology, Fichte's ethics and Schelling's system-building, it provides tirst-rate insight into Hegel's assessment of his immedi~te predecessors. When considered in context, as part of the Encyclopaedia if the Philosophical Sciences, it enables us to distinguish dearly between the systematic, the logical and the psychological aspects of Hegelianism, and is therefore also relevant to some of the central issues in modem phenomenology. It is to be hoped that the introduction and notes prepared for the present edition will prove helpful to both teachers and students. Every effort has been ma de to produce a thoroughly reliable ba sic text and an accurate translation. The text published in 1978 was prepared at the Hegel Archive in Bochum from photocopies, and I am most grateful to the Central Interfaculty of the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, for having made it possible for me to check the printed version against the original manuscripts.",1981,0,210,0
9789042003408,9042003405,'I'm Telling You Stories',Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading,Helena Grice;Tim Woods,Literary Criticism,http://books.google.com/books/content?id=2lVyRH0TWugC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api,This is a jubilant and rewarding collection of Winterson scholarship--a superb group of essays from a host of fine authors.,1998,3.7,136,10