Sue's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 04 Dec 2022 17:11:27 -0800 60 Sue's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Crime and Punishment 7144 671 Fyodor Dostoevsky Sue 0 to-read 4.26 1866 Crime and Punishment
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Apocrypha, King James Version 35830156 246 Anonymous Sue 0 currently-reading 4.22 1611 Apocrypha, King James Version
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<![CDATA[Readers Digest Condensed Book, Favorites, Volume VII: The Lady / The Scapegoat / My Early Life / Onions In The Stew / Boon Island]]> 9794205 1 The Lady by Conrad Richter
2 The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier
3 My Early Life by Winston Churchill
4 Onions In The Stew by Betty Macdonald
5 Boon Island by Kenneth Roberts]]>
Conrad Richter Sue 0 to-read 5.00 Readers Digest Condensed Book, Favorites, Volume VII: The Lady / The Scapegoat / My Early Life / Onions In The Stew / Boon Island
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<![CDATA[Betty: The Story of Betty MacDonald, Author of The Egg and I]]> 29811344 294 Anne Wellman Sue 4 4.10 Betty: The Story of Betty MacDonald, Author of The Egg and I
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<![CDATA[The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #2)]]> 37199 254 Betty MacDonald Sue 5 to-read 4.19 1948 The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #2)
author: Betty MacDonald
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average rating: 4.19
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<![CDATA[Who, Me? (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1-4)]]> 8551334 333 Betty MacDonald Sue 0 4.36 1960 Who, Me? (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1-4)
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<![CDATA[Anybody Can Do Anything (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #3)]]> 37200 224 Betty MacDonald 0704102439 Sue 0 4.13 1945 Anybody Can Do Anything (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #3)
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<![CDATA[Onions in the Stew (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #4)]]> 37198 256 Betty MacDonald 1888173300 Sue 0 4.11 1955 Onions in the Stew (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #4)
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<![CDATA[The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales]]> 22915
� "The Frog Prince"

� "Hansel and Gretel"

� "Snow-White and Red-Rose"

� "Rapunzel"

� "Little Red Riding Hood"

� "Rumpelstiltskin"]]>
704 Jacob Grimm 0517229250 Sue 0 currently-reading 4.17 1812 The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
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<![CDATA[The Psychopathology of Everyday Life]]> 132449
This edition supersedes the Brill translation first published in 1914 and reprinted nineteen times. It was commissioned for the Standard Edition of Freud's works published by the Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psychoanalysis. The Brill translation had "modified and substituted some of the author's cases by examples comprehensible to the English-speaking reader." This new version is an exact rendering of the German text, with explanations where linguistic differences occur. It incorporates new material added by Freud to the later German editions and is almost half as long gain as the former English version.]]>
116 Sigmund Freud 1420924915 Sue 0 to-read 3.87 1901 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
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Leaving Time 18816603 398 Jodi Picoult 0345544927 Sue 0 to-read 3.96 2014 Leaving Time
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<![CDATA[People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges]]> 18248422 A debut collection of witty, biting essays laced with a surprising warmth, from Jen Mann, the writer behind the popular blog People I Want to Punch in the Throat

People I want to punch in the throat:
� anyone who feels the need to bling her washer and dryer
� humblebraggers
� people who treat their pets like children

Jen Mann doesn’t have a filter, which sometimes gets her in trouble with her neighbors, her fellow PTA moms, and that one woman who tried to sell her sex toys at a home shopping party. Known for her hilariously acerbic observations on her blog, People I Want to Punch in the Throat, Mann now brings her sharp wit to bear on suburban life, marriage, and motherhood in this laugh-out-loud collection of essays. From the politics of joining a play group, to the thrill of mothers� night out at the gun range, to the rewards of your most meaningful relationship (the one you have with your cleaning lady), nothing is sacred or off-limits. So the next time you find yourself wearing fuzzy bunny pajamas in the school carpool line or accidentally stuck at a co-worker’s swingers party, just think, What would Jen Mann do? Or better yet, buy her book.]]>
208 Jen Mann 034554983X Sue 0 to-read 3.58 2014 People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges
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<![CDATA[The Gods of Guilt (The Lincoln Lawyer, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #26)]]> 17333227
When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that she was back in LA and back in the life. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger.

Haunted by the ghosts of his past, Mickey must work tirelessly and bring all his skill to bear on a case that could mean his ultimate redemption or proof of his ultimate guilt.]]>
389 Michael Connelly 0316069515 Sue 0 to-read 4.12 2013 The Gods of Guilt (The Lincoln Lawyer, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #26)
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<![CDATA[A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder]]> 401625 304 Robert B. Oxnam 1401308686 Sue 0 to-read 3.86 2005 A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder
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<![CDATA[The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father]]> 38737
Alf Wight (aka James Herriot) grew up in Glasgow, where he lived during a happy rough-and-tumble childhood and then through the challenging years of training at the Glasgow Veterinary College. The story of how the young vet later traveled to the small Yorkshire town of Thirsk, aka Darrowby, to take the job of assistant vet is one that is well known through James Herriot's internationally celebrated books and the popular All Creatures Great and Small television series.

But Jim Wight's biography ventures beyond the trials and tribulations of his father's life as a veterinarian to reveal the man behind the stories--the private individual who refused to allow fame and wealth to interfere with his practice or his family. With access to all of his father's papers, correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs--and intimate remembrances of all the farmers, locals, and friends who populate the James Herriot books--only Jim Wight could write this definitive biography of the man who was not only his father but his best friend.]]>
371 Jim Wight 0345434900 Sue 0 to-read 4.19 1999 The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father
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Dry 32370 293 Augusten Burroughs 0312423799 Sue 0 to-read 4.02 2003 Dry
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<![CDATA[It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It]]> 93679 218 Robert Fulghum 0449000966 Sue 0 to-read 4.11 1989 It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
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<![CDATA[First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple]]> 379992 A Note from Dr. Cameron West

... First of all, for those of you who have read First Person Plural, thank you. Rikki, Kyle, and I have been very moved by the kind words many of you have sent, and for the stories some of you have shared about overcoming your own challenges.

I'd like to share something with you that Leonardo da Vinci wrote, which I think of as "Leonardo's Rule." He said, "Every object yields to effort." I remind myself of that every day, and when I'm having a difficult time, Rikki reminds me that this rule applies not only to the obstacles "out there," but to the more important ones-the ones we face in our own minds. Rikki lives by Leonardo's Rule; it comes to her naturally. Even though they are Leonardo's words, it is Rikki's actions that guide me and inspire me to work toward becoming a healthier and better person. ]]>
368 Cameron West 0786889780 Sue 0 to-read 4.12 1999 First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple
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Mama's Bank Account 77034 160 Kathryn Forbes 0156563770 Sue 0 to-read 4.24 1943 Mama's Bank Account
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<![CDATA[Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking]]> 8520610 The book that started the Quiet Revolution

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.

In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.

Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content.]]>
333 Susan Cain 0307352145 Sue 0 to-read 4.07 2012 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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The Sisterhood 17046617 402 Helen Bryan 1611099285 Sue 0 to-read 3.58 2012 The Sisterhood
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Nisei Daughter 609367
Replaced by ISBN 9780295993553]]>
256 Monica Itoi Sone 0295956887 Sue 5 3.88 1979 Nisei Daughter
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<![CDATA[Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV)]]> 5883777 The English Standard Version (ESV) Bible is an essentially literal Bible translation that combines word-for-word precision and accuracy with literary excellence, beauty, and depth of meaning.

The ESV Bible is equipped with an enhanced navigation feature. Kindle's index feature can be used to navigate directly to any verse. This feature is not supported on the Kindle 1 or any Kindle applications.



This edition includes cross-references within the text.

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1243 Anonymous 1433502976 Sue 5 4.54 Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV)
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<![CDATA[Big and Bodacious Insights from a Crazy Fat Chick]]> 21308053 20 Kim McKoy Sue 5 5.00 2012 Big and Bodacious Insights from a Crazy Fat Chick
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Total Juicing 792376 Lose weight; lower your blood pressure; boost your energy levels; prevent psoriasis, stomach ulcers, arthritis, anemia, gout, and even cancer; and feel years younger—all in your own kitchen.

Jack and Elaine LaLanne led a nutritional revolution in the United States, helping millions of people to discover juicing as an easy, inexpensive, and delicious way to enjoy amazing health and nutritional benefits. Take control over your well-being with antioxidant- and supernutrient-filled fresh-fruit and vegetable juices, and the fiber-rich pulp that your juicer leaves behind.

With more than 125 mouthwatering recipes for breakfast drinks, lunchtime refreshers, dinner beverages, and flavorful desserts, Total Juicing also provides:

· An A-to-Z guide to juicing, vitamin and mineral content of fruits and vegetables, and the health benefits of specific foods
· A weight-loss program that works
· The dos and don’ts of making and storing juice
· Baby-food recipes
· Original recipes that use fiber-rich pulp
· Tried-and-true guidance on a healthy diet]]>
256 Elaine LaLanne 0452269288 Sue 4 3.82 1992 Total Juicing
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<![CDATA[Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality]]> 11030967 In WHY JESUS?, Ravi Zacharias looks at the impact of this "storm" by discussing the 60s-70s "Age of Aquarius," actor Shirley MacLaine's book and TV series Out On a Limb, author James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), Rhonda Byrne (The Secret), Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), and other books by Eckart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, the Dali Lama, and Marianne Williamson. Special attention will be given to the influence of Oprah Winfrey's media platform in reshaping society by introducing and promoting certain books and authors.

Major new age and human potential tenets will be discussed like: the belief that we are all gods and have to discover our divinity; Jesus was only a good teacher; Christianity is but one among many ways to eternal life; reincarnation is real; Jesus was married; truth is relative; there is no sin; and perfection is possible.

The truth of and the arguments for the bodily resurrection of Jesus will be presented as the most important argument for the exclusive claims about Jesus and Christianity.]]>
281 Ravi Zacharias 0892963190 Sue 4 3.99 2012 Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality
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Recapture the Wonder 235387 188 Ravi Zacharias 1591452767 Sue 0 to-read 4.17 2000 Recapture the Wonder
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<![CDATA[The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life]]> 13575519
The Wisdom of the Shire draws important lessons from The Lord of the Rings , The Hobbit , The Silmarillion , and other tales of the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, and the many residents of Middle-earth. Author Noble Smith shows how a snug Hobbit-hole is actually just a state of mind and how even the smallest person can have the valor of a Rider of Rohan. He explores subjects dear to a Halfling's heart, such as beer, food, and friendship, as well as more serious concerns, such as courage, living in harmony with nature, and good versus evil.

How can simple pleasures such as gardening, taking long walks, and eating delicious meals with friends make you significantly happier? Why is the act of giving presents on your birthday instead of getting them such a revolutionary idea? What should you do when dealing with the Gollum in your life? And how can we carry the burden of our own "magic ring of power" without becoming devoured by it? For fans of Tolkien's books and their award-winning film adaptations by director Peter Jackson, The Wisdon of the Shire holds the answers to these and more of life's essential questions.]]>
224 Noble Smith 1250025567 Sue 0 to-read 3.88 2012 The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life
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Lolita 7604 Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537.

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.]]>
368 Vladimir Nabokov 0679723161 Sue 4 3.87 1955 Lolita
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The Outsiders 231804 The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.

Librarian note: This record is for one of the three editions published with different covers and with ISBN 0-140-38572-X / 978-0-14-038572-4. The records are for the 1988 cover (this record), the 1995 cover, and the 2008 cover which is also the current in-print cover.]]>
208 S.E. Hinton 0670532576 Sue 4 4.13 1967 The Outsiders
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The Grapes of Wrath 4395 The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.

First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath summed up its era in the way that Uncle Tom's Cabin summed up the years of slavery before the Civil War. Sensitive to fascist and communist criticism, Steinbeck insisted that "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" be printed in its entirety in the first edition of the book—which takes its title from the first verse: "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored." At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s fictional chronicle of the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s is perhaps the most American of American Classics.]]>
455 John Steinbeck Sue 4 3.88 1939 The Grapes of Wrath
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Night 1617 Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again.]]> 120 Elie Wiesel 0374500010 Sue 0 to-read 4.38 1956 Night
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The Lord of the Rings 33 One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

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

From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he 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; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.]]>
1216 J.R.R. Tolkien 0618640150 Sue 5 4.52 1955 The Lord of the Rings
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Sunbathing in the Rain 1592183 gwyneth-lewis 0007120613 Sue 0 to-read 3.50 2002 Sunbathing in the Rain
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<![CDATA[Angst: Origins of Anxiety and Depression]]> 13690123
Kahn looks at five basic types of modern-day angst--Panic Anxiety, Social Anxiety, OCD, Atypical Depression, and Melancholic Depression--and shows how each derives from primeval social instincts that once helped our ancestors survive. For instance, the "panic disorder" which prevents some people from flying may have originally evolved to keep our tribal ancestors from traveling dangerously far from home. Likewise, the increased emotional sensitivity to social rejection that now triggers episodes of "atypical depression" may have helped maintain polite behavior and social harmony in our ancestors. Our distinctly human civilization and rational consciousness lets us defy these social instincts. But those over-ridden instincts can resurface as stressful emotional disorders. Kahn notes that some of us painfully tackle this distress head-on, in ways that can advance intellectual creativity, social performance and productivity. He also describes the interplay of instinct with the advance of civilization, and on how evolutionary perspective explains why modern treatments work.
Ranging from Darwin and Freud to the most cutting-edge medical and scientific findings--drawing from ancient writings, modern humor and popular lyrics, and with many amusing cartoons--Angst offers us an exciting new slant on some of the most pervasive mental health issues of our time.]]>
312 Jeffrey P. Kahn 0199796440 Sue 0 to-read 3.53 2012 Angst: Origins of Anxiety and Depression
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The Cracker Factory 1491726 Joyce Rebeta-Burditt Sue 3 3.70 1977 The Cracker Factory
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average rating: 3.70
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Just Listen 51738
This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong.

Tall, dark, and music-obsessed, Owen is a reformed bad boy with a commitment to truth-telling. With Owen's help, maybe Annabel can face what happened the night she and Sophie stopped being friends.]]>
371 Sarah Dessen 0670061050 Sue 0 to-read 4.06 2006 Just Listen
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When Rabbit Howls 760941 400 Truddi Chase 0515103292 Sue 5 4.05 1987 When Rabbit Howls
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<![CDATA[Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities]]> 1551737
Baer recognizes that Karen is on the verge of suicide and, while trying various medications to keep her alive, attempts to discover the root cause of her strange complaints. It’s the work of months, and then years, to gain Karen’s trust and learn the true extent of the trauma buried in her past. What she eventually reveals is nearly beyond belief, a narrative of a childhood spent grappling with unimaginable horror. How has Karen survived with even a tenuous grasp on sanity?

Then Baer receives an envelope in the mail. It’s marked with Karen’s return address but contains a letter from a little girl who writes that she’s seven years old and lives inside of Karen. Soon Baer receives letters from others claiming to be parts of Karen. Under hypnosis, these alternate Karen personalities reveal themselves in shocking variety and with undeniable traits—both physical and psychological. One “alter� is a young boy filled with frightening aggression; another an adult male who considers himself Karen’s protector; and a third a sassy flirt who seeks dominance over the others. It’s only by compartmentalizing her pain, guilt, and fear in this fashion—by “switching time� with alternate selves as the situation warrants—that Karen has been able to function since childhood.

Realizing that his patient represents an extreme case of multiple personality disorder, Baer faces the daunting task of creating a therapy that will make Karen whole again. Somehow, in fact, he must gain the trust of each of Karen’s seventeen “alters� and convince them of the necessity of their own annihilation.

As powerful as Sybil or The Three Faces of Eve, Switching Time is the first complete account of such therapy to be told from the perspective of the treating physician, a stunningly devoted healer who worked selflessly for decades so that Karen could one day live as a single human being.


From the Hardcover edition.]]>
368 Richard K. Baer 0307382664 Sue 0 to-read 4.02 2007 Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
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<![CDATA[A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy]]> 73384
In this brave, iconoclastic, and utterly unique book, psychotherapist Annie Rogers chronicles her remarkable bond with Ben, a severely disturbed 5-year-old. Orphaned, fostered, neglected, and "forgotten" in a household fire, Ben finally begins to respond to Annie in their intricate and revealing place therapy.

But as Ben begins to explore the trauma of his past, Annie finds herself being drawn downward into her own mental anguish. Catastrophically failed by her own therapist, she is hospitalised with a breakdown that renders her unable to even speak.

Then she and her gifted new analyst must uncover where her story of childhood terror overlaps with Ben's, and learn how she can complete her work with the child by creating a new story from the old - one that ultimately heals them both.]]>
336 Annie G. Rogers 0140240128 Sue 0 to-read 4.26 1995 A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy
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The Last Time I Wore a Dress 70320 20/20, Dateline, Today, and Leeza. But his memoir, bound to become a classic, tells the story in a funny, ironic, unforgettable voice that "isn't all grim; Scholinski tells [his] story in beautifully evocative prose and mines [his] experiences for every last drop of ironic humor, determined to have the last laugh." (Time Out New York)]]> 272 Daphne Scholinski 1573226963 Sue 0 to-read 3.89 1997 The Last Time I Wore a Dress
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<![CDATA[Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder]]> 421518 Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones. A mother, wife, and working professional, Reiland was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at the age of 29—a diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive episodes including bouts of anorexia, substance abuse, and promiscuity. A truly riveting read with a hopeful message.]]> 436 Rachel Reiland 1592850995 Sue 0 to-read 3.95 2002 Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
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The Haunting of Hill House 89717 182 Shirley Jackson 0143039989 Sue 5 3.85 1959 The Haunting of Hill House
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Jane Eyre 10210 Alternate editions can be found here and here.

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics.

Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.]]>
532 Charlotte Brontë 0142437204 Sue 5 4.14 1847 Jane Eyre
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She’s Come Undone 5203
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.]]>
465 Wally Lamb 0671021001 Sue 5 3.91 1992 She’s Come Undone
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The Client 5359 483 John Grisham 0385339089 Sue 5 4.06 1993 The Client
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average rating: 4.06
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<![CDATA[The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)]]> 32508 482 Michael Connelly 0446612731 Sue 4 4.11 1992 The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
author: Michael Connelly
name: Sue
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)]]> 32506 597 Michael Connelly 0446690457 Sue 5 4.20 1996 The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
author: Michael Connelly
name: Sue
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1)]]> 37301
The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep the police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Davenport--a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare--is brought in to take up the investigation, maddog suddenly has an adversary worthy of his genius.

Librarian's note: the first five books in the Lucas Davenport series are #1, Rules of Prey, 1989; #2, Shadow Prey, 1990; #3, Eyes of Prey, 1991; #4, Silent Prey, 1992; and #5, Winter Prey, 1993.]]>
479 John Sandford 0425205819 Sue 5 4.10 1989 Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)]]> 2373 528 Jeffery Deaver 0451188454 Sue 5 4.20 1997 The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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average rating: 4.20
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<![CDATA[Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)]]> 13148
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed.

In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears.

And in Washington D.C., Cross needs to find the solution to the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing - and they are working coast to coast. Is Alex Cross up to the challenge?]]>
481 James Patterson 0446677388 Sue 4 3.99 1995 Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)
author: James Patterson
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<![CDATA[Presumed Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #1)]]> 425029 Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and values on trial—including his own life. It's a book that lays bare a shocking world of betrayal and murder, as well as the hidden depths of the human heart. And it will hold you and haunt you ... long after you have reached its shattering conclusion.]]> 421 Scott Turow 0446350982 Sue 5 4.10 1987 Presumed Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #1)
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The Firm 5358 Adaptation for younger readers.

Mitch McDeere is a young, intelligent and ambitious lawyer. When he gets a job with a top tax law firm in Memphis, he is delighted. But he quickly becomes suspicious after mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations. The situation only escalates when Mitch discovers that the firm is listening in on his phone calls and that the FBI want to speak to him. Money and power has a price � and it could be Mitch's life.

Adaptation Notes
This adaptation is a simplified text designed in association with world famous educational publishers, to provide a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure. The series include original stories, contemporary titles based on today's best-selling media hits, and easily accessible versions of the literary classics from around the world. Each book has an introduction and extensive activity material. They are published at different levels for readers of all skill levels.

Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter

Book Details:
- Difficulty: Level 5 - Upper Intermediate (2300 words)
- Category: Contemporary
- Dialect: British English]]>
76 Robin Waterfield 0582418275 Sue 5 4.06 1991 The Firm
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<![CDATA[A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)]]> 32542 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780385338608

Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence, as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town, Clanton, Mississippi.

The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. That is, until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes matters into his hands.

For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life, and then his own.]]>
738 John Grisham Sue 5 4.11 1989 A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
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<![CDATA[Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)]]> 13145
Gary Soneji wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the first female supervisor of the Secret Service. They complete one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read.

Alex and Jezzie are about to have a forbidden love affair—at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji is playing at the top of his game. The latest of the unspeakable crimes happens in Alex Cross's precinct and it happens under the nose of Jezzie and her men.

Alex faces the ultimate test: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath?]]>
449 James Patterson 0446692638 Sue 4 4.13 1993 Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)
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The Maltese Falcon 29999 213 Dashiell Hammett Sue 5 3.89 1930 The Maltese Falcon
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rating: 5
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<![CDATA[1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)]]> 13137 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.]]>
424 James Patterson 0446696617 Sue 4 4.09 2001 1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme, #2)]]> 227729 532 Jeffery Deaver Sue 4 4.16 1998 The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme, #2)
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average rating: 4.16
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<![CDATA[Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)]]> 128759 448 Kathy Reichs 1416510567 Sue 3 4.05 2001 Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
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average rating: 4.05
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rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Ashes to Ashes (Kovac and Liska, #1)]]> 84847 Librarian’s note: This is a previously-published edition of
Kindle ASIN: B000FBJF46.



He performs his profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then setting the bodies ablaze. He has already claimed three lives, and he won’t stop there. Only this time there is a witness. But she isn’t talking.

Enter Kate Conlan, former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. Not even she can tell if the reluctant witness is a potential victim or something more troubling still. Her superiors are interested only because the latest victim may be the daughter of Peter Bondurant, an enigmatic billionaire. When Peter pulls strings, Special Agent John Quinn gets assigned to the case. But the FBI’s ace profiler of serial killers is the last person Kate wants to work with, not with their troubled history. Now she faces the most difficult role of her career—and her life. For she’s the only woman who has what it takes to stop the killer . . . and the one woman he wants next.

“You’ll want to lock the doors while you’re reading.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“An up-all-night read.”�The Detroit News


From the Paperback edition.]]>
592 Tami Hoag 0553589172 Sue 3 4.06 1999 Ashes to Ashes (Kovac and Liska, #1)
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<![CDATA[Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)]]> 85379 An earlier cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is called in to autopsy the body of convicted murderer Ronnie Waddell after his execution. Several days after the execution, a young boy is discovered murdered in the fashion of Waddell's earlier killings, with Waddell's prints near the body. Scarpetta, along with FBI Agent Benton Wesley and Detective Pete Marino, try to discover how a dead inmate could have possibly committed another murder after his death. As the story progresses she seeks the assistance of her 17-year-old niece Lucy after she discovers a strange folder on her computer.]]>
407 Patricia Cornwell 0380718340 Sue 3 4.14 1993 Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
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<![CDATA[A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)]]> 64863
A IS FOR ACCUSED. That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy.

A IS FOR ALIBI. If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer--and sharper--than she imagined.]]>
308 Sue Grafton 0312938993 Sue 4 3.87 1982 A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
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average rating: 3.87
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<![CDATA[The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)]]> 24244 Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together.

Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border. Now this battle-scarred veteran will find himself in the centre of a complex and deadly game - one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.

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439 Michael Connelly 0446613444 Sue 4 4.07 1993 The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)
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A Million Little Pieces 1241 Before considering reading this book, please see the BookBrowse note on the book jacket/review page.

BookBrowse Note: January 9th 2006: An article in the Smoking Gun claimed that James Frey (author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard) fabricated key parts of his books. They cited police records, court documents and interviews with law enforcement agents which belie a number of Frey's claims regarding criminal charges against him, jail terms and his fugitive status.

In an interview with the Smoking Gun, Frey admitted that he had 'embellished central details' in A Million Little Pieces and backtracked on claims he made in the book.

January 26th 2006. Frey's publisher stated that while it initially stood by him, after further questioning of the author, the house has "sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished." It will be adding a a publisher's note and author's note to all future editions of A Million Little Pieces.]]>
515 James Frey 0307276902 Sue 5 3.68 2003 A Million Little Pieces
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<![CDATA[Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog]]> 12691
Marley quickly grew into an uncontrollable ninety-seven-pound steamroller of a Labrador retriever. Expelled from obedience school, even the tranquillisers prescribed by the vet couldn't stop him.

Yet through the chaos and the hilarity, he won hearts and remained a steadfast model of devotion to his family, even when they were at their wits' end. Unconditional love, they would learn, comes in many forms.]]>
291 John Grogan 0739461192 Sue 0 to-read 4.14 2005 Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
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The Far Side Gallery 77281 The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

The Far Side Gallery is an anthology of Gary Larson's The Far Side comic strips, which were printed from 1982�1984.]]>
192 Gary Larson 0836220625 Sue 5 4.43 1982 The Far Side Gallery
author: Gary Larson
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average rating: 4.43
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<![CDATA[Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How To Get From Monday to Friday... in 12 Days]]> 996551 224 Erma Bombeck 0449209377 Sue 0 to-read 4.13 1979 Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How To Get From Monday to Friday... in 12 Days
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average rating: 4.13
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies 1235257 192 Jean Kerr 0385048602 Sue 5 3.92 1957 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
author: Jean Kerr
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 1957
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<![CDATA[The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank]]> 432288 256 Erma Bombeck 0345471725 Sue 5 4.06 1976 The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
author: Erma Bombeck
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 1976
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<![CDATA[The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)]]> 23770
A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier.]]>
288 Betty MacDonald 0704102471 Sue 5 3.90 1945 The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)
author: Betty MacDonald
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average rating: 3.90
book published: 1945
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<![CDATA[If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?]]> 432283
Ever since she was a child, Erma Bombeck has been an expert worrier, and married life has only honed that skill. She gets anxious about running out of ball bearings; about snakes sneaking in through the pipes; about making meaningful conversation on New Year’s Eve. Married life, she realizes, is an unpredictable saga even when you know exactly how loud your husband snores every night—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. In this crisp collection of essays, Bombeck shows off the irresistible style that made her one of America’s favorite humorists for more than three decades. When she sharpens her wit, no family member is sacred and no self-help fad is safe.]]>
224 Erma Bombeck 0449208397 Sue 5 4.04 1971 If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?
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<![CDATA[Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right]]> 23577 People), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of slander, bias, and even treason. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He's even watched Fox News. A lot.

And, in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely and candidly exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying liars. Al destroys the liberal media bias myth by doing what his targets seem incapable of: getting his facts straight. Using the Right's own words against them, he takes on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues, in the most talked about book of the year.

Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always funny, Lies sticks it to the most right-wing administration in memory, and to the right-wing media hacks who do its bidding.

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421 Al Franken 0452285216 Sue 5 3.82 2003 Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
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The Scarlet Pimpernel 136116 182 Emmuska Orczy 1576469239 Sue 5 4.07 1905 The Scarlet Pimpernel
author: Emmuska Orczy
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average rating: 4.07
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rating: 5
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King Rat (Asian Saga, #4) 9827 368 James Clavell 0385333765 Sue 5 4.15 1962 King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
author: James Clavell
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 1962
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Little Women (Little Women, #1)]]> 1934 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305.

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.

It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,� including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book� her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

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449 Louisa May Alcott Sue 5 4.16 1868 Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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<![CDATA[The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)]]> 1295 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.

A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly--she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.]]>
512 Jean M. Auel 0553381679 Sue 5 4.03 1980 The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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The Color Purple 11486
Then her husband's lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love.]]>
295 Alice Walker Sue 5 4.22 1982 The Color Purple
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Evening Class 41967 528 Maeve Binchy 0752876821 Sue 5 4.01 1996 Evening Class
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To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]>
323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Sue 5 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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<![CDATA[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe]]> 9375 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who is telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women, the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.]]> 416 Fannie Flagg 0375508414 Sue 5 4.28 1987 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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The Shell Seekers 37095 The Shell Seekers, is now worth a small fortune, it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family, or be split apart.]]> 544 Rosamunde Pilcher 051722285X Sue 5 4.16 1987 The Shell Seekers
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The Prince of Tides 16735 Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family into which they were born.]]> 679 Pat Conroy 0553381547 Sue 4 4.25 1986 The Prince of Tides
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<![CDATA[Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]> 546018 her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.

Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of "the African"—Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.

Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.

But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.]]>
729 Alex Haley 0440174643 Sue 5 4.44 1976 Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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The Thorn Birds 3412
The central figures in this enthralling story are the indomitable Meggie, the only Cleary daughter, and the one man she truly loves, the stunningly handsome and ambitious priest Ralph de Bricassart. Ralph's course moves him a long way indeed, from a remote Outback parish to the halls of the Vatican; and Meggie's except for a brief and miserable marriage elsewhere, is fixed to the Drogheda that is part of her bones - but distance does not dim their feelings though it shapes their lives.

Wonderful characters people this book; strong and gentle, Paddy, hiding a private memory; dutiful Fiona, holding back love because it once betrayed her, violent, tormented Frank, and the other hardworking Cleary sons who give the boundless lands of Drogheda the energy and devotion most men save for women; Meggie; Ralph; and Meggie's children, Justine and Dane. And the land itself; stark, relentless in its demands, brilliant in its flowering, prey to gigantic cycles of drought and flood, rich when nature is bountiful, surreal like no other place on earth.

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0380018179 (ISBN13: 9780380018178)]]>
692 Colleen McCullough Sue 5 4.24 1977 The Thorn Birds
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Gone with the Wind 18405 1037 Margaret Mitchell 0446365386 Sue 5 4.30 1936 Gone with the Wind
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The Abyss 40289 Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book here and here and here..

From the author of "Speaker's for the Dead", and "Seventh Son", this science fiction thriller is set in the Caribbean where a US submarine is mysteriously attacked. Foul play by the Soviets is suspected, and the world draws close to nuclear war. But the answer has nothing to do with human deeds.]]>
363 Orson Scott Card 0099690608 Sue 5 4.08 1989 The Abyss
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Logan's Run 73654 The bestselling dystopian novel that inspired the 1970s science-fiction classic starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, and Richard Jordan.In 2116, it is against the law to live beyond the age of twenty-one years. When the crystal flower in the palm of your hand turns from red to black, you have reached your Lastday and you must report to a Sleepshop for processing. But the human will to survive is strong—stronger than any mere law. Logan 3 is a Sandman, an enforcer who hunts down those Runners who refuse to accept Deep Sleep. The day before Logan’s palmflower shifts to black, a Runner accidentally reveals that he was racing toward a Sanctuary. With this information driving him forward, Logan 3 assumes the role of the hunted and becomes a Runner.]]> 149 William F. Nolan 0553025171 Sue 4 3.67 1967 Logan's Run
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Fantastic Voyage 83539 186 Isaac Asimov 0553275720 Sue 4 3.92 1966 Fantastic Voyage
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Planet of the Apes 414895
With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. In this simian world, civilization is turned upside down: apes are men and men are apes; apes rule and men run wild; apes think, speak, produce, wear clothes, and men are speechless, naked, exhibited at fairs, used for biological research. On the planet of the apes, man, having reached to apotheosis of his genius, has become inert.

To this planet come a journalist and a scientist. The scientist is put into a zoo, the journalist into a laboratory. Only the journalist retains the spiritual strength and creative intelligence to try to save himself, to fight the appalling scourge, to remain a man.

Out of this situation, Pierre Boulle has woven a tale as harrowing, bizarre, and meaningful as any in the brilliant roster of this master storyteller. With his customary wit, irony, and disciplined intellect and style, the author of The Bridge Over the River Kwai tells a swiftly moving story dealing with man's conflicts, and takes the reader into a suspenseful and strangely fascinating orbit.

First edition in English here]]>
276 Pierre Boulle 0345447980 Sue 4 3.95 1963 Planet of the Apes
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<![CDATA[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]> 127515 224 Jack Finney 0684852586 Sue 4 3.91 1955 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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The Day of the Triffids 530965
The triffids are grotesque and dangerous plants, over seven feet tall, originally cultivated for their yield of high-grade oil. So long as conditions give the mastery to their human directors, they are a valuable asset to mankind. But when a sudden universal disaster turns those conditions upside down, then the triffids, seizing their opportunity, become an active and dreadful menace.

The story of what happens is told here by one of the few people lucky enough to escape the disaster.]]>
228 John Wyndham 0812967127 Sue 5 4.01 1951 The Day of the Triffids
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Brave New World 5129 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]>
268 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Sue 3 3.99 1932 Brave New World
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Food Network Favorites 14718 264 Jennifer Darling 0696230216 Sue 5 4.09 2005 Food Network Favorites
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30-Minute Meals 2 71805 192 Rachael Ray 1891105108 Sue 4 3.86 2003 30-Minute Meals 2
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<![CDATA[Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker]]> 852460 284 Dawn J. Ranck 1561483397 Sue 0 to-read 3.89 2000 Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker
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Betty Crocker's Cookbook 1127996 575 Betty Crocker 0307098222 Sue 5 4.26 1969 Betty Crocker's Cookbook
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<![CDATA[Everyday Food: Great Food Fast: 250 Recipes for Easy, Delicious Meals All Year Long]]> 335459 Everyday Food, you’ll find all of that: 250 simple recipes for delicious meals that are quick enough to make any day of the week.

Because a change in weather affects how we cook as much as what we cook, the recipes in Everyday Food are arranged by season. For spring, you’ll find speedy preparations for main-course salads, chicken, and poached salmon that minimize time spent at the stove; summer features quick techniques for grilling the very best burgers and kabobs as well as no-cook pasta sauces; for fall, there are braised meats and hearty main-course soups; and winter provides new takes on rich one-dish meals, roasts and stews, and hearty baked pastas. Finally, a chapter on basics explains how to make year-round staples such as foolproof roast chicken, risotto, couscous, and chocolate sauce.

Designed in a contemporary and easy-to-read format, Everyday Food boasts lush, full-color photography and plenty of suggestions for substitutions and variations. With Everyday Food, even the busiest on-the-go cook can look forward to meals that bring freshness, nutrition, and a range of flavors to dinner all week long.]]>
384 Martha Stewart 0307354164 Sue 0 to-read 3.98 2007 Everyday Food: Great Food Fast: 250 Recipes for Easy, Delicious Meals All Year Long
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<![CDATA[Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving]]> 843016 448 Sarah Page 0778801314 Sue 4 4.29 2006 Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
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The Taste of Home Cookbook 3885 676 Taste of Home 0898214971 Sue 5 4.27 2006 The Taste of Home Cookbook
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<![CDATA[Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book]]> 411053 576 Better Homes and Gardens 0696215322 Sue 5 4.15 1953 Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
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