9,069
9.1K
1994
1994
by
Achebe, Chinua
texts
eye 9,069
favorite 28
comment 0
[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
Topics: Igbo (African people), British, Men, Race relations
4,379
4.4K
1986
1986
by
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
texts
eye 4,379
favorite 13
comment 0
"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow
Topics: Man-woman relationships, Misogyny, Women
4,296
4.3K
2000
2000
by
Rowling, J. K; GrandPré, Mary, ill
texts
eye 4,296
favorite 16
comment 0
"Year 4"--Spine
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
3,950
4.0K
1998
1998
by
Stein, Murray, 1943-
texts
eye 3,950
favorite 27
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index
Topics: Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961, Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961, Jung, C. G. (Carl...
3,693
3.7K
1984
1984
by
Schwartz, Alvin
texts
eye 3,693
favorite 15
comment 0
Topics: Ghost stories, American, Tales -- United States, Ghosts -- Folklore, Horror stories, Folklore --...
3,589
3.6K
1999
1999
by
David J. Griffiths
texts
eye 3,589
favorite 6
comment 1
favorite ( 1 reviews )
Topic: Electrodynamics.
2,827
2.8K
1999
1999
by
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-; Myers, Christopher, ill
texts
eye 2,827
favorite 18
comment 0
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken
Topics: Trials (Murder), Prisons, Self-perception, African Americans, Trials (Murder), Prisons,...
2,644
2.6K
2004
2004
by
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
texts
eye 2,644
favorite 15
comment 0
Growing up in a wealthy Nigerian home under the domain of a harsh, demanding, and tyrannical father, Kambili and her brother, Jaja, find new happiness during a visit to their Aunty Ifeoma outside the city, but as Kambili enjoys her newfound freedom and falls in love for the first time, the country begins to fall apart under a military coup
Topics: Teenage girls, Children of the rich, Brothers and sisters, Fathers and daughters, Religious...
2,603
2.6K
1993
1993
by
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-
texts
eye 2,603
favorite 21
comment 1
In his first novel in ten years, Ernest Gaines, the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, brings us a wrenching story of death and identity in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s. A young black named Jefferson is a reluctant party in a shoot-out in a liquor store in which the three other men involved are all killed, including the white store owner. Jefferson, the only survivor, is accused of murder. At the trial, the essence of the...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: African American men, Death row inmates, Race relations, Friendship, Roman américain
2,145
2.1K
2004
2004
by
Tartt, Donna
texts
eye 2,145
favorite 10
comment 0
Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable
Topics: Teacher-student relationships, College students, Classicists, Murder, College stories, Papen,...
2,019
2.0K
1985
1985
by
Robin Norwood
texts
eye 2,019
favorite 11
comment 0
Topics: Relationship addiction -- Treatment., Group psychotherapy., Women -- Mental health., Love.
1,984
2.0K
1958
1958
by
Uris, Leon, 1924-2003
texts
eye 1,984
favorite 3
comment 0
A novel of Israel
Topics: Exodus 1947 (Ship), Jews, Holocaust survivors, Jewish refugees, Juifs
1,973
2.0K
1976
1976
by
Anderson, E. Ruth, 1928-
texts
eye 1,973
favorite 7
comment 0
Topics: Composers, Compositeurs, Komponist, Biographie
1,936
1.9K
1984
1984
by
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
texts
eye 1,936
favorite 2
comment 0
Revised versions of 3 lectures delivered at Harvard University in Apr. 1983
Topics: Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001, Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001, Authors, American, Fiction in English American...
1,904
1.9K
1968
1968
by
William D. Thornbury
texts
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favorite 8
comment 0
1,886
1.9K
2005
2005
by
Atkins, P. W. (Peter William), 1940-; Jones, Loretta
texts
eye 1,886
favorite 5
comment 0
Includes index
Topics: Chemistry, Chemie, Química, Einführung, Chemie, Einführung
1,885
1.9K
1998
1998
by
Margaret Atwood
texts
eye 1,885
favorite 10
comment 0
Topics: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, Misogyny -- Fiction, Women -- Fiction
1,702
1.7K
1982
1982
by
Italo Calvino
texts
eye 1,702
favorite 12
comment 0
1,683
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1999
1999
by
Rowling, J. K; GrandPré, Mary, ill
texts
eye 1,683
favorite 15
comment 0
"Year 2"--Spine
Topics: Wizards, Magic, Schools, Orphans, Wizards, Magic, Schools, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Determination...
1,667
1.7K
2000
2000
by
Cooper, Geoffrey M
texts
eye 1,667
favorite 17
comment 1
Includes bibliographical references (p. 648-650) and index
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Cellular biology, Molecular biology, Microchemistry, Science, Science/Mathematics, General, Life...
1,613
1.6K
1993
1993
by
Morrison, Toni
texts
eye 1,613
favorite 15
comment 0
Topics: African Americans, Crimes of passion, Middle-aged persons, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Triangles...
1,554
1.6K
1989
1989
by
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
texts
eye 1,554
favorite 7
comment 0
"This U.S. edition first published in 1989 by Seal Press"--T.p. verso
Topic: Women
1,480
1.5K
1986
1986
by
Jones, Diana Wynne
texts
eye 1,480
favorite 25
comment 0
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
Topic: Fantasy
1,474
1.5K
1976
1976
by
Raymond A. Moody
texts
eye 1,474
favorite 5
comment 0
Topics: Future life -- Case studies, Death -- Case studies
1,430
1.4K
1981
1981
by
Cook, David A
texts
eye 1,430
favorite 17
comment 0
Bibliography: p. 671-692
Topics: Motion pictures, Filmkunst, Cinéma, Motion pictures, Film
1,427
1.4K
1987
1987
by
Jeanette Winterson
texts
eye 1,427
favorite 11
comment 0
Topics: Teenage girls -- Fiction, Lesbians -- Fiction, England -- Fiction
1,414
1.4K
2000
2000
by
Ryan, Pam Muñoz
texts
eye 1,414
favorite 5
comment 0
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10,...
1,398
1.4K
1981
1981
by
Gardner, Eldon J. (Eldon John), 1909-1989; Snustad, D. Peter, joint author
texts
eye 1,398
favorite 7
comment 0
Includes bibliographies and index
Topics: Genetics, Génétique, Genetica, Genetics
1,385
1.4K
2002
2002
by
Rowling, J. K; GrandPré, Mary
texts
eye 1,385
favorite 9
comment 0
Sequel to: Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
Topics: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary place), Wizards, Magic, Schools
1,378
1.4K
texts
eye 1,378
favorite 10
comment 0
Topics: Humorous stories, Middle schools, Diaries, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, Family life,...
1,292
1.3K
1994
1994
by
Bennis, Warren G
texts
eye 1,292
favorite 9
comment 0
Originally published: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1989. With a new introduction
Topics: Leadership, Leadership
1,284
1.3K
1948
1948
by
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960; Gilbert, Stuart, tr
texts
eye 1,284
favorite 17
comment 0
Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran
Topics: Plague, Plague
1,280
1.3K
texts
eye 1,280
favorite 6
comment 0
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash
Topics: Interpersonal relations, Boarding schools, Schools, Death
1,274
1.3K
1999
1999
by
Magona, Sindiwe
texts
eye 1,274
favorite 3
comment 0
An American girl is murdered by blacks in 1993 South Africa while preparing them for democracy. The novel is in the form of a letter to the girl's mother, from the mother of one of the killers, describing the way apartheid brutalized her son. A first novel based on real events by a black South African writer
Topics: Modern fiction, Fiction, Fiction - General, General, Fiction / General, Biehl, Amy, Americans,...
1,251
1.3K
1996
1996
by
McNeil, Legs; McCain, Gillian
texts
eye 1,251
favorite 23
comment 1
cloth, 424 p.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Popular Music, Punk, Oral HIstory, Interviews, New York City, USA, America, United States, Lower...
1,249
1.2K
1995
1995
by
Kevin Shillington
texts
eye 1,249
favorite 8
comment 0
1,237
1.2K
1985
1985
by
Achebe, Chinua; Innes, Catherine Lynette
texts
eye 1,237
favorite 6
comment 0
A collection of stories by African writers which deal with life and customs in African society
Topics: Short stories, African (English), Short stories, African, Manners and customs, Short stories,...
1,237
1.2K
2005
2005
by
Rowling, J. K; GrandPré, Mary, ill
texts
eye 1,237
favorite 15
comment 0
"Year 6"--Spine
Topics: Wizards, Magic, Schools, Potter, Harry (Fictitious character), Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and...
1,226
1.2K
1900
1900
by
Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan, 1923- . dn
texts
eye 1,226
favorite 1
comment 1
Includes bibliographies and indexes
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Theology, Doctrinal
1,218
1.2K
1990
1990
by
Jordan, Robert, 1948-2007
texts
eye 1,218
favorite 13
comment 1
In the Third Age, an age of prophecy when the world and time themselves hang in the balance, the Dark One, imprisoned by the Creator, is stirring in Shayol Ghul
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Rand al'Thor (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction - Fantasy, Fantasy - General, Fiction /...
1,215
1.2K
1993
1993
by
James Baldwin
texts
eye 1,215
favorite 8
comment 0
Topic: Reading Level-Adult
1,213
1.2K
2011
2011
by
Kinney, Jeff
texts
eye 1,213
favorite 6
comment 2
"Greg struggles to stay on Santa's 'nice' list while snowed in with the rest of the Heffley family in the days leading up to Christmas"--
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Blizzards, Diary fiction, Families, Humorous stories, Middle schools, Schools, Diaries, Behavior,...
1,201
1.2K
1985
1985
by
Auel, Jean M
texts
eye 1,201
favorite 0
comment 0
Map on lining papers
Topics: Prehistoric peoples, Ayla (Fictitious character), Glacial epoch
1,192
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1994
1994
by
Santiago, Esmeralda; Santiago, Esmeralda. Almost a woman
texts
eye 1,192
favorite 9
comment 0
Continued by: Almost a woman
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
1,189
1.2K
1994
1994
by
Oliver, Mary, 1935-
texts
eye 1,189
favorite 13
comment 0
"A Harvest original."
Topics: English language, American poetry, English poetry, Poetry
1,188
1.2K
1998
1998
by
Cunningham, Michael, 1952-
texts
eye 1,188
favorite 8
comment 0
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award (American Library Association), 1999
Topics: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, Women, Man-woman relationships, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction
1,179
1.2K
2008
2008
by
Adiga, Aravind
texts
eye 1,179
favorite 3
comment 0
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life--having nothing but his own wits to help him along
Topics: Chauffeurs, Poor, Ambition, Businesspeople
1,174
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texts
eye 1,174
favorite 14
comment 1
Includes index
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Sex Pistols (Musical group), Sex Pistols (Musical group), Sex Pistols, Punk rock musicians, Punk...
1,159
1.2K
1999
1999
by
Blackburn, Simon
texts
eye 1,159
favorite 16
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-310) and index
Topic: Philosophy
1,146
1.1K
2001
2001
by
Tufte, Edward R., 1942-
texts
eye 1,146
favorite 17
comment 0
Includes index
Topics: Statistics, Statistique, Statistique, Statistique, Méthode graphique, Statistics as Topic, Data...
1,144
1.1K
2004
2004
by
Toni Morrison
texts
eye 1,144
favorite 7
comment 0
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
1,136
1.1K
texts
eye 1,136
favorite 8
comment 1
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: British -- West Indies -- Fiction, West Indies -- Fiction
1,131
1.1K
1987
1987
by
Bernal, Martin
texts
eye 1,131
favorite 38
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Topics: Civilisation grecque, Civilización griega, Griekse oudheid, Cultuur, Invloed, Geschiedbeschouwing,...
1,119
1.1K
2006
2006
by
Keith L. Moore
texts
eye 1,119
favorite 4
comment 0
Topics: Human anatomy., Anatomy, Pathological., Anatomy.
1,116
1.1K
2009
2009
by
Cullen, David, 1961-
texts
eye 1,116
favorite 13
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-403) and index
Topics: Columbine High School (Littleton, Colo.), Littleton (Colo.), Columbine High School Massacre,...
1,112
1.1K
1996
1996
by
Chevallier, Andrew
texts
eye 1,112
favorite 17
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 322) and indexes
Topics: Materia medica, Vegetable, Medicinal plants, Herbs
1,101
1.1K
2004
2004
by
Mahan, L. Kathleen; Escott-Stump, Sylvia
texts
eye 1,101
favorite 19
comment 1
Includes bibliographical references and index
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Diet Therapy, Food, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Diétothérapie, Nutrition, Aliments,...
1,095
1.1K
1980
1980
by
Emberley, Ed
texts
eye 1,095
favorite 34
comment 2
Step-by-step instructions for drawing people and animals using a minimum of line and circle combinations
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Drawing, Orange (Color) in art, Drawing
1,094
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2009
2009
by
Grossman, Lev
texts
eye 1,094
favorite 10
comment 1
As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin's fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined for his childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth...
favorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Literature & Fiction -- Literary, Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Fantasy -- Magic &...
1,092
1.1K
2007
2007
by
Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant), 1923-
texts
eye 1,092
favorite 9
comment 0
Originally published: Novato, Calif. : Presidio Press, 1981
Topics: Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant), 1923-, United States. Marine Corps. Regiment, 5th. Battalion,...
1,088
1.1K
2002
2002
by
Gawande, Atul
texts
eye 1,088
favorite 9
comment 0
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso
Topics: Gawande, Atul, Surgeons, Surgery, Chirurg, General Surgery, Medical Errors
1,075
1.1K
texts
eye 1,075
favorite 14
comment 0
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11,...
1,062
1.1K
2001
2001
by
Nasar, Sylvia
texts
eye 1,062
favorite 13
comment 0
Reprint. Previously published: A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999
Topics: Nash, John F., 1928-, Mathematicians, Mentally ill, Schizophrenics, Schizophrenia, Mathematics
1,061
1.1K
2002
2002
by
Toni Morrison
texts
eye 1,061
favorite 3
comment 0
1,053
1.1K
1988
1988
by
Duby, Georges; Duby, Georges; Ariès, Philippe, 1914-1984
texts
eye 1,053
favorite 11
comment 0
1,051
1.1K
1995
1995
by
Guterson, David
texts
eye 1,051
favorite 14
comment 0
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar...
Topics: Japanese Americans, Trials (Murder), Journalists
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2000
2000
by
Snicket, Lemony; Helquist, Brett, ill
texts
eye 1,049
favorite 13
comment 1
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Orphans, Brothers and sisters, Humorous stories, Orphans, Brothers and sisters, Humorous stories
1,045
1.0K
1993
1993
by
Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-
texts
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comment 0
Topics: Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-, Kaysen, Susanna, 1948-, Psychiatric hospital patients, Commitment of...
1,040
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1994
1994
by
Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007
texts
eye 1,040
favorite 16
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: Resemblance (Philosophy), Reality, Massamedia, Cultuur, Moderniteit, Ressemblance (philosophie),...
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1.0K
1995
1995
by
Gamma, Erich
texts
eye 1,027
favorite 14
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-381) and index
Topics: Object-oriented programming (Computer science), Computer software, Software patterns, Computacao...
Source: binns
1,016
1.0K
1999
1999
by
Stephen Chbosky
texts
eye 1,016
favorite 8
comment 0
Topics: High school students -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction, Epistolary fiction, Diary fiction,...
1,008
1.0K
Sep 15, 2006
09/06
by
Patricia Mccormick
texts
eye 1,008
favorite 10
comment 0
Topics: Social Issues - Sexual Abuse, Social Issues - General, General, Juvenile Fiction, Children's Books...
1,004
1.0K
1992
1992
by
Alvarez, Julia
texts
eye 1,004
favorite 4
comment 0
Sequel: Yo!
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
997
997
1975
1975
by
Doctorow, E. L., 1931-
texts
eye 997
favorite 6
comment 0
Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century
Topics: Einwanderer, Ragtime
996
996
2001
2001
by
Hitchens, Christopher
texts
eye 996
favorite 16
comment 0
"In the book that he quite possibly was born to write, provocateur and bestselling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person pitched at an angle of passionate disagreement against the lazy consensus than Hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways?" "This book explores the entire range of "contrary...
Topics: Conformity, Dissenters, Radicalism, Maatschappijkritiek, Dissenters
