Josiah's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 27 Jul 2020 22:27:10 -0700 60 Josiah's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)]]> 16054808 A New York Times Bestseller

Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world, just so happens to be the genius behind the building of the new town library.

Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in the library for an overnight of fun, food, and lots and lots of games. But when morning comes, the doors remain locked. Kyle and the other winners must solve every clue and every secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route. And the stakes are very high.

In this cross between Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and A Night in the Museum, Agatha Award winner Chris Grabenstein uses rib-tickling humor to create the perfect tale for his quirky characters. Old fans and new readers will become enthralled with the crafty twists and turns of this ultimate library experience.]]> 304 Chris Grabenstein 037587089X Josiah 5 4.11 2013 Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)
author: Chris Grabenstein
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.11
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]]> Foundation (Foundation, #1) 29579 The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.]]> 244 Isaac Asimov 0553803719 Josiah 2 4.18 1951 Foundation (Foundation, #1)
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1951
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)]]> 42080479 The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away.

This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.

But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes reversed—Sophie’s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School For Good, thrust amongst handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication. But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are�?]]> 488 Soman Chainani 006210490X Josiah 4 4.00 2013 The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)
author: Soman Chainani
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1)]]> 11607446 The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about.

But after a series of encounters with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls alike, getting back home is going to be harder than they thought.]]> 438 Chris Colfer 031620157X Josiah 4 4.25 2012 The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1)
author: Chris Colfer
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[Keeper of the Lost Cities (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #1)]]> 12842828
Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers there’s a place she does belong, and that staying with her family will place her in grave danger. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to leave behind everything and start a new life in a place that is vastly different from anything she has ever known.

Sophie has new rules to learn and new skills to master, and not everyone is thrilled that she has come “home.�
There are secrets buried deep in Sophie’s memory—secrets about who she really is and why she was hidden among humans—that other people desperately want. Would even kill for.

In this page-turning debut, Shannon Messenger creates a riveting story where one girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world, before the wrong person finds the answer first.]]> 496 Shannon Messenger 1442445939 Josiah 4 4.39 2012 Keeper of the Lost Cities (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #1)
author: Shannon Messenger
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.39
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits]]> 23535088 202 Alexei Maxim Russell Josiah 5 4.35 2014 The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits
author: Alexei Maxim Russell
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Alexei Maxim Russell's Field Guide to Assholes]]> 25129557 92 Alexei Maxim Russell 1508749701 Josiah 4 4.42 2015 Alexei Maxim Russell's Field Guide to Assholes
author: Alexei Maxim Russell
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[Trueman Bradley - The Next Great Detective]]> 25419982 336 Alexei Maxim Russell 1511829176 Josiah 5 4.70 2015 Trueman Bradley - The Next Great Detective
author: Alexei Maxim Russell
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.70
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai]]> 23535198 86 Alexei Maxim Russell Josiah 5 4.59 2013 Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai
author: Alexei Maxim Russell
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.59
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]]> <![CDATA[Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective]]> 12262889
Trueman leaves his hometown of Heartville, Illinois, and arrives in New York City, hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming a private detective, like his comic book heroes. He is soon told that a guy with AS could not possibly succeed as a detective. Undeterred, Trueman uses his exceptional mathematical skills to invent a crime-fighting equation, and with the help of his new friends and some amazing inventions, sets out to test his skills against the criminal world of New York. He is determined to show the police, his friends, and himself, that a guy with AS can become as good a detective as anyone else, maybe, even, one of the best.

Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective is a fantasy adventure that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in Asperger's Syndrome.]]> 304 Alexei Maxim Russell 184905262X Josiah 5 4.43 2007 Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective
author: Alexei Maxim Russell
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> The Japanophile's Handbook 28293718
Being a genuine Japanophile (or Otaku, as it is more commonly called today) is a true art form and as exacting as any science. However, with this trusty handbook, you basically have the manual and so you can confidently embark on the path to Otaku glory! Learn all that a self-respecting Otaku should know: from anime/manga to gaming to Japanese cinema, J-pop, spirituality and culture. Learn all about the dreaded Weeaboo and how to avoid becoming one. Learn the six sacred commandments of the Otaku and much, much more! With this handbook at the ready, every aspiring Otaku can learn the true way of the Japanophile and so reach the lofty heights of pure, unrepentant Otakuhood!]]> 174 Alexei Maxim Russell Josiah 4 4.00 The Japanophile's Handbook
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hiker's Guide to Nature Spirits]]> 32166772 254 Alexei Maxim Russell 1537499513 Josiah 5 5.00 The Hiker's Guide to Nature Spirits
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Extremely entertaining with very good illustration. Perfect for someone who loves folklore and nature, like me.
]]> Pachinko 34051011
Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters—strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis—survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.]]> 496 Min Jin Lee Josiah 5 4.35 2017 Pachinko
author: Min Jin Lee
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2017
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]]> The Girl Who Drank the Moon 28110852
One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this enmagicked girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. To keep young Luna safe from her own unwieldy power, Xan locks her magic deep inside her. When Luna approaches her thirteenth birthday, her magic begins to emerge on schedule--but Xan is far away. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Soon, it is up to Luna to protect those who have protected her--even if it means the end of the loving, safe world she’s always known.]]> 388 Kelly Barnhill 1616205679 Josiah 0 4.11 2016 The Girl Who Drank the Moon
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name: Josiah
average rating: 4.11
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]]> Want 44009968 Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love.

Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD―and now they’re filing for bankruptcy. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it while her work and home lives feel poised to fall apart, she wakes at ungodly hours to run miles by the icy river, struggling to quiet her thoughts.

When she reaches out to Sasha, her long-lost childhood friend, it feels almost harmless―one of those innocuous ruptures that exist online, in texts. But her timing is uncanny. Sasha is facing a crisis, too, and perhaps after years apart, their shared moments of crux can bring them back into each other’s lives.

In Want, Lynn Steger Strong explores the subtle violences enacted on a certain type of woman when she dares to want things―and all the various violences in which she implicates herself as she tries to survive.]]> 209 Lynn Steger Strong 1250247543 Josiah 0 to-read 3.33 2020 Want
author: Lynn Steger Strong
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average rating: 3.33
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]]> An Unwanted Guest 38240386 A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway . . . but when the storm hits, no one is getting away

It's winter in the Catskills and Mitchell's Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing--maybe even romantic--weekend away. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with a good murder mystery.

So when the weather takes a turn for the worse, and a blizzard cuts off the electricity--and all contact with the outside world--the guests settle in and try to make the best of it.

Soon, though, one of the guests turns up dead--it looks like an accident. But when a second guest dies, they start to panic.

Within the snowed-in paradise, something--or someone--is picking off the guests one by one. And there's nothing they can do but hunker down and hope they can survive the storm--and one another.]]> 352 Shari Lapena 0525557628 Josiah 0 to-read 3.73 2018 An Unwanted Guest
author: Shari Lapena
name: Josiah
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2018
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]]> A Woman of War 42206368 Germany, 1944. Taken from the camps to serve the Führer himself, Anke Hoff is assigned as midwife to one of Hitler’s inner circle. If she refuses, her family will die.

Torn between her duty as a caregiver and her hatred for the Nazi regime, Anke is swept into a life unlike anything she’s ever known � and she discovers that many of those at the Berghof are just as trapped as she is. And soon, she’s falling for a man who will make her world more complicated still�

Before long, the couple is faced with an impossible choice � and the consequences could be deadly. Can their forbidden love survive the horrors of war? And, more importantly, will they?

]]> 370 Mandy Robotham 0008324239 Josiah 0 to-read 4.28 2018 A Woman of War
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> Spring (Evermore Academy, #2) 48546525
My name is Summer Solstice and this is going to be my year.

Except, in the Everwilde, nothing ever goes according to plan. Students from the rival Fae academy join Evermore, and the Spring Court heir decides it’s his mission to make my life hell.

In an effort to bend me to his will, the Spring Court heir takes someone I love. There’s only one way to save them, but it jeopardizes my entire future.

Worse, someone steals the Darken’s soulstone. Everyone at the academy is a suspect.

Forces are gathering.

Sides are being chosen.

To stand any chance of saving humanity, I must finally accept the soulbond with the Winter Prince.]]> 426 Audrey Grey Josiah 0 to-read 4.19 2020 Spring (Evermore Academy, #2)
author: Audrey Grey
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> Crossings 44596827 384 Alex Landragin 1760557250 Josiah 0 to-read 3.87 2020 Crossings
author: Alex Landragin
name: Josiah
average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories]]> 4612017
Contents:
- Introduction: The Science Fiction Blowgun by Isaac Asimov
- A Loint of Paw by Isaac Asimov
- The Advent on Channel Twelve by C.M. Kornbluth
- Plaything by Larry Niven
- The misfortune cookie by Charles E. Fritch
- I Wish I May, I Wish I Might by Bill Pronzini
- FTA by George R.R. Martin
- Trace by Jerome Bixby
- The Ingenious Patriot by Ambrose Bierce
- Zoo by Edward D. Hoch
- The destiny of Milton Gomrath by Alexei Panshin
- The Devil and the trombone by Martin Gardner
- Upstart by Steven Utley
- How It All Went by Gregory Benford
- Harry Protagonist, Brain-Drainer by Richard Wilson
- Peeping Tommy by Robert F. Young
- Starting from Scratch by Robert Sheckley
- Corrida by Roger Zelazny
- Shall the dust praise thee? by Damon Knight
- Bug-getter by R. Bretnor
- The deadly mission of Phineas Snodgrass by Frederik Pohl
- Fire sale by Laurence M. Janifer
- Safe at Any Speed by Larry Niven
- The Masks by James Blish
- Innocence by Joanna Russ
- Kin by Richard Wilson
- The Long Night by Ray Russell
- Sanity Clause by Edward Wellen
- If at First You Don't Succeed, to Hell with It! by Charles E. Fritch
- The question by Laurence M. Janifer & Donald E. Westlake
- The perfect woman by Robert Sheckley
- The system by Ben Bova
- Exile to Hell by Isaac Asimov
- Inaugural by Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini
- Martha by Fred Saberhagen
- Kindergarten by Fritz Leiber
- Landscape with sphinxes by Karen Anderson
- The happiest day of your life by Bob Shaw
- The worlds of Monty Willson by William F. Nolan
- Punch by Frederik Pohl
- Doctor by Henry Slesar
- The Man from When by Dannie Plachta
- Crying Willow by Edward Rager
- January 1975 by Barry N. Malzberg
- Mail Supremacy by Hayford Peirce
- Mistake by Larry Niven
- Half-Baked Publisher's Delight by Jeffrey S. Hudson & Isaac Asimov
- Far from Home by Walter S. Tevis
- Swords of Ifthan by Jams Sutherland
- Argent Blood by Joe L. Hensley
- Collector's Fever by Roger Zelazny
- Sign at the End of the Universe by Duane Ackerson
- Stubborn by Stephen Goldin
- The Re-Creation by Robert E. Toomey, Jr.
- The Better Man by Ray Russell
- Oom by Martin Gardner
- Merchant by Henry Slesar
- Don't Fence Me In by Richard Wilson
- The Die-Hard by Alfred Bester
- The First by Anthony Boucher
- Eripmav by Damon Knight
- Feeding Time by Robert Sheckley
- The Voice from the Curious Cube by Nelson Bond
- I'm Going to Get You by F.M. Busby
- The Room by Ray Russell
- Dry Spell by Bill Pronzini
- Bohassian Learns by William Rotsler
- Star Bride by Anthony Boucher
- Latest Feature by Maggie Nadler
- Chief by Henry Slesar
- After You've Stood on the Log at the Center of the Universe, What Is There Left to Do? by Grant Carrington
- Maid to Measure by Damon Knight
- Eyes Do More Than See by Isaac Asimov
- Thang by Martin Gardner
- How Now Purple Cow by Bill Pronzini
- Revival Meeting by Dannie Plachta
- Prototaph by Keith Laumer
- The Rocket of 1955 by C.M. Kornbluth
- Science Fiction for Telepaths by E. Michael Blake
- Kindergarten by James E. Gunn
- A Little Knowledge by Paul Dellinger
- A Cup of Hemlock by Lee Killough
- Present Perfect by Thomas F. Monteleone
- A Lot to Learn by Robert T. Kurosaka
- The Amphibious Cavalry Gap by James E. Thompson
- Not Counting Bridges by Robert L. Fish
- The Man Inside by Bruce McAllister
- The Mars Stone by Paul Bond
- Source Material by Mildred Downey Broxon
- The Compleat Consummators by Alan E. Nourse
- Examination Day by Henry Slesar
- The Sky's an Oyster: The Stars Are Pearls by David Bischoff
- The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock by Ralph Milne Farley (pseudonym of Roger Sherman Hoar)
- Patent Rights by Daniel A. Darlington
- Alien Cornucopia by Walt Liebscher
- The Last Paradox by Edward D. Hoch
- Course of Empire by Richard Wilson
- Synchronicity by James E. Thompson
- Sweet Dreams, Melissa by Stephen Goldin
- The Man on Top by R. Bretnor
- Rejection Slip by K.W. MacAnn

Cover illustration by John Harris]]> 302 Isaac Asimov 033026155X Josiah 2 3.69 1978 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> Forgotten Lore: Volume I 25560329 290 Alexei Maxim Russell Josiah 5 4.53 2014 Forgotten Lore: Volume I
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average rating: 4.53
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]]> Forgotten Lore: Volume II 25560247 344 Alexei Maxim Russell 151216187X Josiah 5 4.20 2015 Forgotten Lore: Volume II
author: Alexei Maxim Russell
name: Josiah
average rating: 4.20
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