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116,114 | From Here to Eternity | 1,951 | 4.09 | 15,045 | 409 | The World War II Trilogy | 1 | James Jones | Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him.First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife.Bo
Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him.First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife.Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood... and, possibly, their death.In this magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier's life, James Jones portrays the courage, violence and passions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterable despair... in the most important American novel to come out of World War II, a masterpiece that captures as no other the honor and savagery of men.
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842,401 | Funny Farm | 1,985 | 3.59 | 103 | 12 | null | null | Jay Cronley | Book by Cronley, Jay | 0 | 19 | 39 | 33 | 8 | 4 | -0.888174 | 0.53 |
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578,940 | The Garden of Allah | 1,904 | 3.22 | 49 | 10 | null | null | Robert Smythe Hichens | A sensation from its initial publication, Hichens' novel about a British woman traveling alone in the Algerian desert and her affair with a fallen Trappist monk inspired a play and several film versions. | 492 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 9 | -2.174282 | 0.406667 |
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111,775 | Georgy Girl | 1,965 | 3.4 | 248 | 27 | null | null | Margaret Forster | Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate bravely as she alternates between playing the fool and humbling herself before Meredith, her pretty, callous flatmate, although when James, middle-aged socialite and self-imposed 'Uncle', asks Georgy to become his mistress, she is tempted to accept.
Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate bravely as she alternates between playing the fool and humbling herself before Meredith, her pretty, callous flatmate, although when James, middle-aged socialite and self-imposed 'Uncle', asks Georgy to become his mistress, she is tempted to accept. Then Meredith announces that she is pregnant and Jos, the expectant father, decides he is in love with Georgy...
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19,161,905 | The Getaway | 1,959 | 3.94 | 5,559 | 240 | null | null | Jim Thompson | Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal career, his shot doesn't hit the mark, everything begins to fall apart. And Doc begins to realize that the perfect bank robbery isn't complete without the perfect getaway to back it up.THE GETAWAY is the classic story of a bank robbery gone horribly wrong, where the smallest mi
Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal career, his shot doesn't hit the mark, everything begins to fall apart. And Doc begins to realize that the perfect bank robbery isn't complete without the perfect getaway to back it up.THE GETAWAY is the classic story of a bank robbery gone horribly wrong, where the smallest mistakes have catastrophic consequences, and shifting loyalties lead to betrayals and chaos. The basis for the classic Steve McQueen film of the same name, as well as a 1994 remake with Alec Baldwin, Thompson's novel set the bar for every heist story that followed--but as Thompson's proved time and again, nobody's ever done it better than the master.
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258,945 | Gigi | 1,944 | 3.73 | 1,131 | 91 | null | null | Colette | Une histoire de la naissance de la f | 182 | 235 | 461 | 347 | 69 | 19 | -0.401539 | 0.576667 |
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3,971,094 | Glory for Me | 1,945 | 4.15 | 33 | 9 | null | null | MacKinlay Kantor | This is a narrative poem telling the story of three veterans returning home at the end of WWII and of their adjustment into society. The film, The Best Years of Our Lives was based on this book, with some changes. | 268 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1.058368 | 0.716667 |
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3,759 | Goldfinger | 1,959 | 3.81 | 17,206 | 848 | James Bond Original Series | 7 | Ian Fleming | Ein genialer Gangster - das m | 264 | 4,092 | 6,992 | 5,039 | 908 | 175 | -0.123461 | 0.603333 |
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40,190 | A Good Year | 2,004 | 3.64 | 7,030 | 766 | null | null | Peter Mayle | The writer with a claim to being the world's foremost literary escape artist is back, with an intoxicating novel about the business and pleasure of wine, set in his beloved Provence.Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle's vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delici
The writer with a claim to being the world's foremost literary escape artist is back, with an intoxicating novel about the business and pleasure of wine, set in his beloved Provence.Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle's vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his new property is swill. Why then are so many people interested in it Enter a beguiling Californian who knows more about wine than Max does | 287 | 1,435 | 2,483 | 2,368 | 622 | 122 | -0.714376 | 0.546667 |
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1,934,232 | The Great Dinosaur Robbery | 1,970 | 3.24 | 41 | 7 | null | null | David Forrest | The Great Dinosaur Robbery is a now out-of-print book released in 1970 and written by David Eliades and Robert Forrest Webb under the pseudonym of David Forrest. The book was later the basis for the 1975 film One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing.The book is set in New York City in the 1970s, and follows attempts by a group of British nannies who discover that a microdot contain
The Great Dinosaur Robbery is a now out-of-print book released in 1970 and written by David Eliades and Robert Forrest Webb under the pseudonym of David Forrest. The book was later the basis for the 1975 film One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing.The book is set in New York City in the 1970s, and follows attempts by a group of British nannies who discover that a microdot containing Chinese military secrets that they believe to be vital to the survival of the British Empire has been hidden in a skeleton in the American Museum of Natural History. They cannot find the message, so contrive to steal the entire skeleton and mail it to the Queen. The Chinese agents who hope to retrieve the message, and the Americans searching for the missing dinosaur, play important roles.
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2,623 | Great Expectations | 1,860 | 3.76 | 576,109 | 14,001 | null | null | Charles Dickens | In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman | 505 | 173,275 | 193,439 | 134,438 | 49,325 | 25,632 | -0.29726 | 0.586667 |
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19,161,914 | The Grifters | 1,963 | 3.98 | 8,191 | 401 | null | null | Jim Thompson | To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand d
To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars--the money Roy makes from his short cons, his "grifting." For years, Roy has effortlessly maintained control over his house-of-cards life--until the simplest con goes wrong, and he finds himself critically injured and at the mercy of the most dangerous woman he ever met: his own mother.THE GRIFTERS, one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, is an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for Stephen Frears' and Martin Scorsese's critically-acclaimed film of the same name.
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7,733 | Gulliver's Travels | 1,726 | 3.56 | 207,589 | 4,674 | null | null | Jonathan Swift | 'I felt something alive moving on my left leg ... when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could. I perceived it to be a human Creature not six inches high' Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounte
'I felt something alive moving on my left leg ... when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could. I perceived it to be a human Creature not six inches high'
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and the brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves.This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all its original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication.
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1,123,610 | Guns of the Timberlands | 1,955 | 3.96 | 1,634 | 77 | null | null | Louis L'Amour | Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay gr
Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay grazes his cattle. Backing Devitt are shady politicians, a dishonest banker, and fifty of the toughest lumberjacks in the county. But as Colleen Riley, Devitt | 224 | 510 | 630 | 428 | 58 | 8 | 0.397934 | 0.653333 |
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409,654 | H.M. Pulham, Esq. | 1,942 | 3.8 | 99 | 19 | null | null | John P. Marquand | Harry Pulham tells his story while he is preparing for his 25th Harvard reunion. Through him Marquand reveals lives of quiet desperation lived by successful people with the "right" background. A deft dissection of the Ivy League milieu and an absorbing read. | 432 | 18 | 55 | 17 | 6 | 3 | -0.158221 | 0.6 |
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3 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 1,997 | 4.46 | 5,799,402 | 93,027 | Harry Potter | 1 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter's life is miserable. His parents are dead and he's stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he's a wizard. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
Harry Potter's life is miserable. His parents are dead and he's stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he's a wizard. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.After a lifetime of bottling up his magical powers, Harry finally feels like a normal kid. But even within the Wizarding community, he is special. He is the boy who lived: the only person to have ever survived a killing curse inflicted by the evil Lord Voldemort, who launched a brutal takeover of the Wizarding world, only to vanish after failing to kill Harry.Though Harry's first year at Hogwarts is the best of his life, not everything is perfect. There is a dangerous secret object hidden within the castle walls, and Harry believes it's his responsibility to prevent it from falling into evil hands. But doing so will bring him into contact with forces more terrifying than he ever could have imagined.Full of sympathetic characters, wildly imaginative situations, and countless exciting details, the first installment in the series assembles an unforgettable magical world and sets the stage for many high-stakes adventures to come.
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5 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 1,999 | 4.55 | 2,298,966 | 44,970 | Harry Potter | 3 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter's third year at Hogwarts is full of new dangers. A convicted murderer, Sirius Black, has broken out of Azkaban prison, and it seems he's after Harry. Now Hogwarts is being patrolled by the dementors, the Azkaban guards who are hunting Sirius. But Harry can't imagine that Sirius or, for that matter, the evil Lord Voldemort could be more frightening than the dem
Harry Potter's third year at Hogwarts is full of new dangers. A convicted murderer, Sirius Black, has broken out of Azkaban prison, and it seems he's after Harry. Now Hogwarts is being patrolled by the dementors, the Azkaban guards who are hunting Sirius. But Harry can't imagine that Sirius or, for that matter, the evil Lord Voldemort could be more frightening than the dementors themselves, who have the terrible power to fill anyone they come across with aching loneliness and despair. Meanwhile, life continues as usual at Hogwarts. A top-of-the-line broom takes Harry's success at Quidditch, the sport of the Wizarding world, to new heights. A cute fourth-year student catches his eye. And he becomes close with the new Defense of the Dark Arts teacher, who was a childhood friend of his father. Yet despite the relative safety of life at Hogwarts and the best efforts of the dementors, the threat of Sirius Black grows ever closer. But if Harry has learned anything from his education in wizardry, it is that things are often not what they seem. Tragic revelations, heartwarming surprises, and high-stakes magical adventures await the boy wizard in this funny and poignant third installment of the beloved series.--scholastic.com
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1 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2,005 | 4.56 | 2,056,192 | 32,941 | Harry Potter | 6 | J.K. Rowling | When Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens, the war against Voldemort has begun. The Wizarding world has split down the middle, and as the casualties mount, the effects even spill over onto the Muggles. Dumbledore is away from Hogwarts for long periods, and the Order of the Phoenix has suffered grievous losses. And yet, as in all wars, life goes on.Harry, Ron, and H
When Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens, the war against Voldemort has begun. The Wizarding world has split down the middle, and as the casualties mount, the effects even spill over onto the Muggles. Dumbledore is away from Hogwarts for long periods, and the Order of the Phoenix has suffered grievous losses. And yet, as in all wars, life goes on.Harry, Ron, and Hermione, having passed their O.W.L. level exams, start on their specialist N.E.W.T. courses. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate, losing a few eyebrows in the process. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Harry becomes captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, while Draco Malfoy pursues his own dark ends. And classes are as fascinating and confounding as ever, as Harry receives some extraordinary help in Potions from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.Most importantly, Dumbledore and Harry work together to uncover the full and complex story of a boy once named Tom Riddle | 652 | 1,366,613 | 510,219 | 147,878 | 23,181 | 8,301 | 2.483514 | 0.853333 |
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136,251 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | 2,007 | 4.63 | 2,156,324 | 58,316 | Harry Potter | 7 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid | 759 | 1,560,324 | 434,655 | 125,459 | 24,537 | 11,349 | 2.726832 | 0.876667 |
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2,719,663 | The Harvey Girls | 1,942 | 3.72 | 18 | 8 | null | null | Samuel Hopkins Adams | Novel about the Harvey Girls, waitresses for the nation-wide chain of Fred Harvey Restaurants in the 19th century, which fed pioneers and travelers alike. This book is the basis for the 1946 MGM musical starring Judy Garland and Angela Lansbury. | 327 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | -0.436298 | 0.573333 |
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6,976,271 | Hawk of the Wilderness | 1,933 | 3.56 | 9 | 4 | null | null | William L. Chester | Somewhere above the Arctic circle lies a volcanic ice-ringed island of evergreens and mighty forests and primeval creatures. And in this land, Kioga, the last survivor of a lost ship, grew to manhood. Kioga, whose white skin and hunting skill earned him the name of Snow Hawk, found adventure his daily fare, made the great bears his friends and a savage mountain lion his co
Somewhere above the Arctic circle lies a volcanic ice-ringed island of evergreens and mighty forests and primeval creatures. And in this land, Kioga, the last survivor of a lost ship, grew to manhood. Kioga, whose white skin and hunting skill earned him the name of Snow Hawk, found adventure his daily fare, made the great bears his friends and a savage mountain lion his companion. The terrific saga of the "Hawk of the Wilderness" has long been a classic among devotees of the Tarzan tales. A vivid novel of peril and adventure in a forgotten land among savage peoples, it is an exciting reading experience.
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16,082,997 | Header | 1,995 | 3.88 | 536 | 74 | Header | 1 | Edward Lee | Grandpappy, what's a headerHeader is a tale of consummate grotesquerie from the master of graphic horror -- the author of such books as: Succubi, Incubi and Creekers. It is a chapbook of the most extreme fiction you'll ever read! A horrific splatter mystery in the Joe R. Lansdale tradition... bathed in blood!An old man with no feet, a bumpkin rapist fresh out of prison, a
Grandpappy, what's a headerHeader is a tale of consummate grotesquerie from the master of graphic horror -- the author of such books as: Succubi, Incubi and Creekers. It is a chapbook of the most extreme fiction you'll ever read! A horrific splatter mystery in the Joe R. Lansdale tradition... bathed in blood!An old man with no feet, a bumpkin rapist fresh out of prison, a federal cop who will do anything for money... They all have one thing in common...The ultimate revenge, the ultimate perversion. What kind of a mind could devise such a thing What kind of evilDeep in the hills, something hideous is going on. From the squalid shack you can hear it: the demented revel, the shrill, nerve-racking whine, and screams sailing away into an endless night. But don't look in the window unless you really want to know!Made Preliminary Stoker Award Ballot for Best Long Fiction of 1996. The classic Lee hardcore horror novella involves a most demented sex act as backwoods vengeance. Originally written for an aborted short story collection called TERRA DEMENTATA, Lee sold this outrageous piece to Necro Publications. He didn | 100 | 178 | 187 | 118 | 35 | 18 | 0.119856 | 0.626667 |
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369,265 | Headhunters | 2,001 | 3.08 | 96 | 11 | null | null | Jules Bass | Armed with credit cards, forged documents, and faux jewelry, four New Jersey women head to Monte Carlo posing as four of the richest women in the world. Their plan is to meet Mr. Right (also known as Mr. Rich). The problem is that they've pulled off their scheme so perfectly that they've attracted four charming, elegant men -- who have a very similar plan in mind. | 336 | 14 | 18 | 36 | 18 | 10 | -2.660918 | 0.36 |
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93 | Heidi | 1,880 | 3.98 | 162,321 | 3,186 | Heidi | 1-2 | Johanna Spyri | Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness to all who know her on the mountain. When Heidi goes to Frankfurt to work in a wealthy household, she dreams of returning to the mountains and meadows, her friend Peter, and her beloved grandfather. | 352 | 59,314 | 53,523 | 38,615 | 8,600 | 2,269 | 0.467453 | 0.66 |
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99,329 | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | 1,749 | 3.74 | 29,619 | 878 | null | null | Henry Fielding | A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire | 975 | 8,483 | 9,633 | 7,832 | 2,575 | 1,096 | -0.366779 | 0.58 |
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159,929 | A History of Violence | 1,997 | 3.46 | 2,170 | 238 | null | null | John Wagner | It's just another quiet day in small-town, USA, until a couple of wanted killers walk into Tom McKenna's diner looking for trouble. When Tom gives them more than they bargained for, he and his family are thrust into the kind of white-hot media spotlight that attracts a lot of attention - and questions about Tom's past. ls he really an easygoing small town guy, or is there
It's just another quiet day in small-town, USA, until a couple of wanted killers walk into Tom McKenna's diner looking for trouble. When Tom gives them more than they bargained for, he and his family are thrust into the kind of white-hot media spotlight that attracts a lot of attention - and questions about Tom's past. ls he really an easygoing small town guy, or is there something more
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624,644 | The Holy Innocents | 1,988 | 3.7 | 1,600 | 135 | null | null | Gilbert Adair | Paris in the spring of 1968 amidst the student revolts. Guillaume and his twin sister Danielle, cinemaphiles, befriend a young American student, Matthew, a friendship quickly becoming erotic, exploring sibling intimacy and menage a trois in its pure form, and which spirals towards inevitable disaster. | 160 | 410 | 546 | 457 | 131 | 56 | -0.505818 | 0.566667 |
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835,203 | Hombre | 1,961 | 3.96 | 2,753 | 208 | null | null | Elmore Leonard | John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him -- until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die. | 201 | 782 | 1,197 | 662 | 94 | 18 | 0.397934 | 0.653333 |
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596,576 | The Hot Rock | 1,970 | 3.94 | 4,284 | 369 | Dortmunder | 1 | Donald E. Westlake | John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convict and his ride pal Kelp plot to steal the $500,000 Balaboma Emerald. The former British colony has recently become independent and split. The Akinzi have the stone, the Talabwo want it back, and their UN rep will pay for retrieval. | 287 | 1,274 | 1,775 | 1,002 | 186 | 47 | 0.328414 | 0.646667 |
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40,496 | How Green Was My Valley | 1,939 | 4.16 | 13,244 | 1,209 | null | null | Richard Llewellyn | A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsGrowing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons - at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. Looking back on the hardships of his early life
A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsGrowing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons - at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. Looking back on the hardships of his early life, where difficult days are faced with courage but the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. An immediate bestseller on publication in 1939, How Green Was My Valley quickly became one of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century. Poetic and nostalgic, it is an elegy to a lost world.Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (1906-1983), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, claimed to have been born in St David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales; after his death he was discovered to have been born of Welsh parents in Hendon, Middlesex. His famous first novel How Green Was My Valley (1939) was begun in St David's from a draft he had written in India, and was later adapted into an Oscar-winning film by director John Ford. None But the Lonely Heart, his second novel, was published in 1943, and subsequently made into a film starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore. As well as novels including Green, Green My Valley Now (1975) and I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982), Llewellyn wrote two highly successful plays, Poison Pen and NooseIf you enjoyed How Green Was My Valley, you might like Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Vivid, eloquent, poetical, glowing with an inner flame of emotion'The Times Literary Supplement
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38,374,795 | Howards End | 1,910 | 3.96 | 67,833 | 2,556 | null | null | E.M. Forster | Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life. Howards End is considered by some to be Forster's masterpiece. | 318 | 22,705 | 25,607 | 14,870 | 3,499 | 1,152 | 0.397934 | 0.653333 |
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2,767,052 | The Hunger Games | 2,010 | 4.33 | 5,648,861 | 161,731 | The Hunger Games | 1 | Suzanne Collins | Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morningIn the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages
Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morningIn the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before - and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.(front flap)
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8,432,594 | The Hunter | 1,962 | 4.05 | 7,895 | 711 | Parker | 1 | Richard Stark | You probably haven | 0 | 2,808 | 3,169 | 1,496 | 320 | 102 | 0.710771 | 0.683333 |
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40,940,649 | I Am Legend | 1,954 | 4.06 | 75,991 | 4,763 | null | null | Richard Matheson | Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.How long can one man survive like this | 162 | 27,008 | 31,047 | 14,344 | 2,897 | 695 | 0.745531 | 0.686667 |
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149,621 | Ice Station Zebra | 1,963 | 3.98 | 15,430 | 240 | null | null | Alistair MacLean | Under the Polar Ice-Cap ....The atomic submarine 'Dolphin' has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice-floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle.But the orders do not say what the 'Dolphin' will find if she succeeds | 254 | 4,934 | 6,020 | 3,818 | 563 | 95 | 0.467453 | 0.66 |
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171,624 | The Ipcress File | 1,962 | 3.95 | 13,822 | 240 | Secret File | 1 | Len Deighton | Len Deighton | 342 | 4,176 | 5,585 | 3,378 | 537 | 146 | 0.363174 | 0.65 |
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355,697 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1,930 | 3.95 | 317,521 | 8,614 | All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back | 1 | Erich Maria Remarque | This is the testament of Paul B | 296 | 116,676 | 107,465 | 63,844 | 20,158 | 9,378 | 0.363174 | 0.65 |
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231,821 | The Incredible Journey | 1,961 | 4.16 | 45,203 | 863 | null | null | Sheila Burnford | Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure, and wild forest animals to make their way home to the family they love. The Inc
Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure, and wild forest animals to make their way home to the family they love. The Incredible Journey is one of the great children's stories of all time--and has been popular ever since its debut in 1961.
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267,071 | In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant (Extraordinary Voyages, #5) | 1,867 | 4.08 | 9,296 | 194 | null | null | Jules Verne | ALL that could be discovered, however, on these pieces of paper was a few words here and there, the remainder of the lines being almost completely obliterated by the action of the water. Lord Glenarvan examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of writing, while the other
ALL that could be discovered, however, on these pieces of paper was a few words here and there, the remainder of the lines being almost completely obliterated by the action of the water. Lord Glenarvan examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of writing, while the others looked on with anxious eyes.
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17,184 | The Invisible Man | 1,897 | 3.63 | 114,321 | 4,617 | null | null | H.G. Wells | This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows. | 192 | 22,271 | 41,375 | 39,047 | 9,683 | 1,945 | -0.749135 | 0.543333 |
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119,502 | The Iron Man | 1,968 | 3.93 | 7,564 | 558 | The Iron Man | 1 | Ted Hughes | Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction caused by the Iron Man. A trap is set for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world. | 63 | 2,595 | 2,606 | 1,765 | 460 | 138 | 0.293655 | 0.643333 |
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6,386,195 | The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance | 1,913 | 3.86 | 22 | 3 | null | null | Rex Beach | This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally importan
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
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2,052,777 | Island in the Sky | 1,944 | 4.15 | 160 | 6 | null | null | Ernest K. Gann | Men against the north--a story of the ferry command, Air Transport, & of Dooley, who had 20 years' record of success in commercial air flight, only to come down, icebound, somewhere in the unchartered northland. Dooley was dean of a close knit group, & everything else took second place as the men came into headquarters, & set out again to find him. An unknown l
Men against the north--a story of the ferry command, Air Transport, & of Dooley, who had 20 years' record of success in commercial air flight, only to come down, icebound, somewhere in the unchartered northland. Dooley was dean of a close knit group, & everything else took second place as the men came into headquarters, & set out again to find him. An unknown lake--beyond unknown mountains--a time schedule--& faith--such alone they had to go on, hampered by Army red tape, lack of radio contact, navigation rules upset by the frozen north. The story shifts from Dooley's experiences, with the five men who counted on him, to the men who sought him. Starkly told--another segment of understanding of total war.--Kirkus
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6,440 | Ivanhoe | 1,820 | 3.75 | 78,241 | 2,075 | Waverley Novels | 5 | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first attempt to combine history and romance, which later influenced Victorian medievalism. Set at the time of the Norman Conquest, Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to claim his inheritance and the love of Rowena and becomes involved in the struggle between Richard Coeur de L
Ivanhoe (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first attempt to combine history and romance, which later influenced Victorian medievalism. Set at the time of the Norman Conquest, Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to claim his inheritance and the love of Rowena and becomes involved in the struggle between Richard Coeur de Lion and his Norman brother John. The gripping narrative is structured by a series of conflicts: Saxon versus Norman, Christian versus Jew, men versus women, played out against Scott's unflinching moral realism.
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6,689 | James and the Giant Peach | 1,961 | 4 | 328,346 | 6,015 | null | null | Roald Dahl | When James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree, strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. When James discovers a secret entranceway into the fruit and crawls inside, he meets wonderful new friends--the Old-Green-Grasshopper, the dainty Ladybug, and the Centipede of the m
When James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree, strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. When James discovers a secret entranceway into the fruit and crawls inside, he meets wonderful new friends--the Old-Green-Grasshopper, the dainty Ladybug, and the Centipede of the multiple boots. After years of feeling like an outsider in his aunts' house, James finally found a place where he belongs. With a snip of the stem, the peach household starts rolling away--and the adventure begins!Roald Dahl's first and most widely celebrated book for young people continues to thrill readers around the world."This is a stunning book to be cherished for its story, a superb fantasy."--Chicago Tribune"A beautifully written, fantastic book."--Christian Science Monitor
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10,210 | Jane Eyre | 1,847 | 4.11 | 1,416,760 | 35,695 | null | null | Charlotte Bront | Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Ad | 507 | 640,227 | 439,961 | 229,475 | 69,105 | 37,992 | 0.919329 | 0.703333 |
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126,232 | Jaws | 1,974 | 3.97 | 121,439 | 2,924 | Jaws | 1 | Peter Benchley | "Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer.The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating terror that inspired the Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again -- or for the first time! | 320 | 43,900 | 40,807 | 27,845 | 6,704 | 2,183 | 0.432693 | 0.656667 |
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990,860 | Journal d'un cur | 1,936 | 3.95 | 1,713 | 208 | null | null | Georges Bernanos | Achev | 313 | 653 | 549 | 333 | 128 | 50 | 0.363174 | 0.65 |
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6,561,703 | A Journey to Matecumbe | 1,961 | 4.23 | 47 | 6 | null | null | Robert Lewis Taylor | A book I read years ago and knew had been written by the same man who wrote The Travels of Jamie McPheeters. It has taken me several attempts to locate it. It is the story of a boy who takes a trip from Illinois to the Florida Keys. It has everything from hurricans to Seminole in it. Glad I found it again. | 424 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1.336445 | 0.743333 |
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13,037 | Justine | 1,957 | 3.91 | 6,038 | 642 | Alexandria Quartet | 1 | Lawrence Durrell | The time is the eve of the Second World War. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are still dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed and purblind characters in this mesmerizing first novel of the Alexandria Quartet, the pursuit of knowledge leads to no library, only to the bedrooms in which each s
The time is the eve of the Second World War. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are still dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed and purblind characters in this mesmerizing first novel of the Alexandria Quartet, the pursuit of knowledge leads to no library, only to the bedrooms in which each seeks to know - and possess - the other. Since its publication in 1957, "Justine" has inspired an almost religious devotion among readers and critics. It is not so much a book as it is a self-contained universe, constructed by one of the most elegant and formidably intelligent minds in contemporary fiction.
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184,803 | The Keys of the Kingdom | 1,941 | 4.3 | 2,088 | 190 | null | null | A.J. Cronin | Francis Chisholm is a compassionate and humble priest whose individuality and directness make him unpopular with other clergy. Considered a failure by his superiors, he is sent to China to maintain a mission amid desperate poverty, civil war, plague, and the hostility of his superiors. In the face of this constant danger and hardship, Father Chisholm finds the keys to the
Francis Chisholm is a compassionate and humble priest whose individuality and directness make him unpopular with other clergy. Considered a failure by his superiors, he is sent to China to maintain a mission amid desperate poverty, civil war, plague, and the hostility of his superiors. In the face of this constant danger and hardship, Father Chisholm finds the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Recognized as A. J. Cronin | 480 | 1,033 | 705 | 300 | 40 | 10 | 1.579763 | 0.766667 |
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258,292 | Kings Row | 1,940 | 3.93 | 223 | 33 | null | null | Henry Bellamann | Only edition of KINGS ROW in print. No printings but KINGDOM HOUSE editions have a biographical and historical illustrated introduction. Contains map, town photographs, and stills and background on the Ronald Reagan film. | 536 | 65 | 91 | 55 | 10 | 2 | 0.293655 | 0.643333 |
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5,297 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 1,890 | 4.07 | 802,520 | 23,980 | null | null | Oscar Wilde | Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde | 367 | 312,096 | 292,545 | 150,046 | 35,934 | 11,899 | 0.78029 | 0.69 |
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1,158,288 | King's Ransom | 1,959 | 3.76 | 1,275 | 88 | 87th Precinct | 10 | Ed McBain | Half a million dollars | 176 | 297 | 491 | 393 | 76 | 18 | -0.29726 | 0.586667 |
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7,933,693 | Kings Go Forth | 1,956 | 3.57 | 7 | 3 | null | null | Joe David Brown | Cover says: "A novel of Men at war-- with the enemy and with each other." Should also say with themselves. Made into a movie starring Frank Sinatra, Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis. | 196 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | -0.957694 | 0.523333 |
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298,663 | The Killer Inside Me | 1,952 | 3.87 | 16,259 | 1,249 | null | null | Jim Thompson | Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you
Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you're happy to have keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday.But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker who fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge--and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him.In The Killer Inside Me, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.
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588,242 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | 1,976 | 3.96 | 10,908 | 680 | null | null | Manuel Puig | Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially n
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.
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167,046 | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | 1,948 | 3.89 | 367 | 40 | null | null | Horace McCoy | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is a kind of success story. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar succeds in turning himself into a vicious and completely immoral criminal - a man whose contempt for law, order, and human life drives him relentlessly into a career of unrelieved evil. He escapes from a chain gang to join a pack of gangsters and a millionaires daughter falls in love with him, but
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is a kind of success story. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar succeds in turning himself into a vicious and completely immoral criminal - a man whose contempt for law, order, and human life drives him relentlessly into a career of unrelieved evil. He escapes from a chain gang to join a pack of gangsters and a millionaires daughter falls in love with him, but eventually his past overtakes him. Kiss Tomorrrow Goodbye is McCoys most ambitious work and the basis for one of the great gangster movies, starring James Cagney.
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10,528,756 | The Lady of the Camellias | 1,848 | 3.98 | 27,181 | 1,440 | null | null | Alexandre Dumas fils | 1902. A Frontispiece and numerous other portraits with descriptive notes by Octave Uzanne. Written by the son of Alexandre Dumas, The Lady of the Camellias is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in Paris in the mid 1800's, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past. Unfortunat
1902. A Frontispiece and numerous other portraits with descriptive notes by Octave Uzanne. Written by the son of Alexandre Dumas, The Lady of the Camellias is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in Paris in the mid 1800's, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past. Unfortunately, it comes back to haunt her and she ends up returning to that life and dies painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was a good woman at heart.
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35,819 | Lair of the White Worm | 1,911 | 2.9 | 2,822 | 309 | null | null | Bram Stoker | In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next vict
In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim...Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula, is one of the most enduring and masterful influences on the literature of terror.
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1,041,041 | The People That Time Forgot | 1,918 | 3.71 | 1,725 | 97 | Caspak | 2 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Ex-cowboy Tom Billings leads a rescue mission to save Bowen Tyler, the protagonist of The Land That Time Forgot. In the midst of hair-raising adventures, he has more trouble keeping his own skin intact than in finding his friend. | 100 | 383 | 614 | 581 | 131 | 16 | -0.471058 | 0.57 |
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895,886 | Lassie Come-Home | 1,940 | 4.17 | 20,772 | 234 | null | null | Eric Knight | A beloved classic gets a beautiful new look.Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of Scotland | 256 | 9,975 | 5,861 | 3,775 | 836 | 325 | 1.127887 | 0.723333 |
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888 | The Last Days of Pompeii | 1,834 | 3.59 | 1,694 | 133 | null | null | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | The Last Days of Pompeii was one of the most popular English historical novels of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of the virtuous Greeks Glaucus and Ione, their escape from Pompeii amid the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, and their eventual conversion to Christianity, against a background of Roman decadence and corrupt Eastern religion. | 360 | 347 | 574 | 554 | 172 | 47 | -0.888174 | 0.53 |
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1,425,024 | The Last Detail | 1,970 | 3.85 | 206 | 28 | null | null | Darryl Ponicsan | Unlike the other branches of the armed services, the navy draws its police force from the ranks, as temporary duty. The risk is that men on Shore Patrol might bring their humanity to the task. This accounts for the underlying tension in "The Last Detail", which takes place during the height of the Vietnam War. Billy Bad-Ass and Mule Mulhall, two career sailors in transit i
Unlike the other branches of the armed services, the navy draws its police force from the ranks, as temporary duty. The risk is that men on Shore Patrol might bring their humanity to the task. This accounts for the underlying tension in "The Last Detail", which takes place during the height of the Vietnam War. Billy Bad-Ass and Mule Mulhall, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, awaiting permanent orders, are given a detail: "chaser" duty. Their assignment is to escort and deliver Larry Meadows, an 18-year-old sailor, from Norfolk to Portsmouth, N.H., where he is to serve an eight year sentence in the brig. It's good duty, on the face of it, until the two old salts realize the injustice of the sentence and are oddly affected by the true innocence of their prisoner, even though he is guilty as charged. Failure, or refusal, to carry out their duty is never a question, no matter how much they hate the detail or how wrong it seems, and yet something must be done, some gesture made in order to help their hapless prisoner survive the long ordeal he faces, and to purge their own sense of shame. "The Last Detail" was Darryl Ponicsan's first book and it catapulted him into the front rank of American novelists. It was made into the 1973 film starring Jack Nicholson, and has become a classic of the Golden Age of American cinema. This new edition of "The Last Detail" coincides with the publication of its long-awaited sequel, "Last Flag Flying", also available from The Wright Press.
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8,472,043 | The Last Hunt | 1,954 | 4.83 | 6 | 4 | null | null | Milton Lott | A novel dealing with the buffalo hunters virtually wiping out the species | 360 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.422026 | 0.943333 |
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38,296 | The Last of the Mohicans | 1,826 | 3.7 | 80,207 | 2,338 | The Leatherstocking Tales | 2 | James Fenimore Cooper | The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper | 410 | 22,072 | 26,160 | 21,134 | 7,560 | 3,281 | -0.505818 | 0.566667 |
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1,123,579 | Last Stand at Papago Wells | 1,957 | 3.91 | 1,589 | 68 | null | null | Louis L'Amour | It was the only water for miles in a vast, sun-blasted desert where water meant survival. So Logan Cates naturally headed for Papago Wells. But he wasn | 136 | 469 | 592 | 459 | 60 | 9 | 0.224135 | 0.636667 |
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288,958 | Last Stand at Saber River | 1,959 | 3.78 | 617 | 50 | null | null | Elmore Leonard | A quiet, haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy. Two brothers | 256 | 122 | 274 | 186 | 32 | 3 | -0.22774 | 0.593333 |
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391,443 | Lay This Laurel: An Album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial on Boston Common Honoring Black and White Men Together Who Served the Union Cause with Robert Gould Shaw and Died with Him July 18, 1863 | 1,973 | 4.14 | 21 | 3 | null | null | Richard Benson | One of the most compelling Civil War stories is that of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment, made up of African-American soldiers who volunteered for the Union Army. Their heroic but futile battle at Fort Wagner was memorialized by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Boston Common in 1897. Both the commemorative book and limited-edition volume depict the monument in stirring detail w
One of the most compelling Civil War stories is that of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment, made up of African-American soldiers who volunteered for the Union Army. Their heroic but futile battle at Fort Wagner was memorialized by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Boston Common in 1897. Both the commemorative book and limited-edition volume depict the monument in stirring detail while celebrating its 100-year anniversary. For photography connoisseurs and Civil War buffs. First Edition, 1973
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306,842 | One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment | 1,965 | 4.05 | 112 | 14 | null | null | Peter D. Burchard | '...written with authority & quiet power, this is the history of a period noted for sweeping action & resounding with the names of great men & women...The decisions they made & the things they did serve as dramatic counterpoint to a story that in the best sense of the term is grand.'--Saunders ReddingNote for Paperback EditionForewordAcknowledgmentsOne Gall
'...written with authority & quiet power, this is the history of a period noted for sweeping action & resounding with the names of great men & women...The decisions they made & the things they did serve as dramatic counterpoint to a story that in the best sense of the term is grand.'--Saunders ReddingNote for Paperback EditionForewordAcknowledgmentsOne Gallant RushAuthor's NoteNotes on SourcesBibliographyIndex
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49,540 | Les Liaisons dangereuses | 1,782 | 4.07 | 39,457 | 1,261 | null | null | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. This new translation gives Laclos a modern voice, and readers will be able a judge whether the novel is as "diabolical" and "infamous" as its critics have claimed, or whether it has much to tell us about the kind of world we ourselves live in. David Coward's introduction explodes myths about Laclos's own life and puts the book in its literary and cultural context.
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58,177 | The Life Before Us ("Madame Rosa'') | 1,975 | 4.17 | 10,995 | 902 | null | null | Romain Gary | The Life Before Us is the story of an orphaned Arab boy, Momo, and his devotion to Madame Rosa, a dying, 68-year-old, 220-lb. survivor of Auschwitz and retired "lady of the night."Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children at Madame Rosa's boardinghouse in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives a
The Life Before Us is the story of an orphaned Arab boy, Momo, and his devotion to Madame Rosa, a dying, 68-year-old, 220-lb. survivor of Auschwitz and retired "lady of the night."Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children at Madame Rosa's boardinghouse in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and as Madame Rosa becomes too ill to climb the stairs to their apartment, he determines to support her any way he can.This sensitive, slightly macabre love story between Momo and Madame Rosa has a supporting cast of transvestites, pimps, and witch doctors from Paris's immigrant slum, Belleville. Profoundly moving, The Life Before Us earned France's premier literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
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557,406 | Wild Animals I Have Known | 1,900 | 4.15 | 886 | 79 | null | null | Ernest Thompson Seton | A stirring account of the lives of eight wild animals, including Lobo, the king of Currumpaw; Silverspot, the story of a crow; Raggylug, the story of a cottontail rabbit; Bingo, the story of a dog; the Springfield fox; the pacing mustang; Wully, the story of a yaller dog; and Redruff, the story of the Don valley partridge. | 280 | 408 | 265 | 163 | 41 | 9 | 1.058368 | 0.716667 |
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99,755 | Oliver's Story | 1,977 | 3.19 | 5,510 | 249 | Love Story | 2 | Erich Segal | Oliver Barrett IV found his true soulmate when he met and fell in love with Jenny Cavilleri. Their love was magical, exhilarating . . . and though heartbreakingly brief, it was enough to last a lifetime. Or so Oliver told himself.Two years have passed since Jenny was taken from him, and Oliver truly believes he will never love again. Then one day, Marcie | 336 | 654 | 1,320 | 2,213 | 1,064 | 259 | -2.278561 | 0.396667 |
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394,040 | Mackenna's Gold | 1,963 | 3.72 | 39 | 3 | null | null | Will Henry | Entrusted with the secret location of the fabled Lost Canyon of Gold by a dying Apache warrior, Glen Mackenna sets out to find the site in the vast wilderness and must fight off the hordes of fortune-seeking scavengers who would beat him there. Original. | 216 | 6 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 0 | -0.436298 | 0.573333 |
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545,936 | Magnificent Obsession | 1,929 | 3.85 | 1,658 | 300 | null | null | Lloyd C. Douglas | When Robert Merrick's life is saved at the expense of the life of an eccentric but adored surgeon, the carefree playboy is forced to reevaluate his own path. Merrick embarks on a course of anonymous philanthropy, inspired by reading the doctor's private papers. An engaging and dramatic story of personal redemption and private sacrifice, this spiritual tale has served as an
When Robert Merrick's life is saved at the expense of the life of an eccentric but adored surgeon, the carefree playboy is forced to reevaluate his own path. Merrick embarks on a course of anonymous philanthropy, inspired by reading the doctor's private papers. An engaging and dramatic story of personal redemption and private sacrifice, this spiritual tale has served as an inspiration for both the stage and screen.
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29,999 | The Maltese Falcon | 1,930 | 3.91 | 75,654 | 4,179 | null | null | Dashiell Hammett | Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treas
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him
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90,886 | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | 1,955 | 3.83 | 2,445 | 278 | null | null | Sloan Wilson | Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everthing going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom finds himself caught up in the corporate rat race - what he encounters there propels him on a voyage of self-discovery that w
Here is the story of Tom and Betsy Rath, a young couple with everthing going for them: three healthy children, a nice home, a steady income. They have every reason to be happy, but for some reason they are not. Like so many young men of the day, Tom finds himself caught up in the corporate rat race - what he encounters there propels him on a voyage of self-discovery that will turn his world inside out. At once a searing indictment of coporate culture, a story of a young man confronting his past and future with honesty, and a testament to the enduring power of family, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a deeply rewarding novel about the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life.
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376,514 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1,959 | 4.09 | 21,494 | 366 | null | null | Richard Condon | As compelling and disturbing as when it was first published in the midst of the Cold War, "The Manchurian Candidate" continues to enthrall readers with its electrifying action and shocking climax....Sgt. Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the stepson of
As compelling and disturbing as when it was first published in the midst of the Cold War, "The Manchurian Candidate" continues to enthrall readers with its electrifying action and shocking climax....Sgt. Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the stepson of an influential senator...and the perfect assassin. Brainwashed during his time as a P.O.W., he is a "sleeper" -- a living weapon to be triggered by a secret signal. He will act without question, no matter what order he is made to carry out. To stop Shaw and those who now control him, his former commanding officer, Bennett Marco, must uncover the truth behind a twisted conspiracy of torture, betrayal, and power that will lead him to the highest levels of the government -- and into the darkest recesses of his own mind....
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152,380 | Mary Poppins | 1,934 | 4.04 | 100,500 | 4,387 | Mary Poppins | 1 | P.L. Travers | By P.L. Travers, the author featured in the major motion picture, | 209 | 40,703 | 31,195 | 21,629 | 5,369 | 1,604 | 0.676011 | 0.68 |
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39,988 | Matilda | 1,988 | 4.3 | 513,574 | 13,515 | null | null | Roald Dahl | Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered pa
Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Miss ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings.
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56,759 | The Mayor of Casterbridge | 1,886 | 3.82 | 49,684 | 1,901 | null | null | Thomas Hardy | null | 445 | 14,255 | 18,392 | 12,212 | 3,323 | 1,502 | -0.088702 | 0.606667 |
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10,876,694 | The Lady in Cement | 1,961 | 4 | 13 | 5 | Tony Rome | 2 | Anthony Rome | The private-eye business was slow, so Anthony Rome when skin-diving. But instead of treasure he found a woman's naked body--her feet embedded in a block of cement! She had last been seen alive at a ritzy party given by wealthy heiress Gretchen Forrest. Also at the party had been bigtime tough Al Mungo, who claimed he'd quit the rackets. Anthony Rome started asking question
The private-eye business was slow, so Anthony Rome when skin-diving. But instead of treasure he found a woman's naked body--her feet embedded in a block of cement! She had last been seen alive at a ritzy party given by wealthy heiress Gretchen Forrest. Also at the party had been bigtime tough Al Mungo, who claimed he'd quit the rackets. Anthony Rome started asking questions. And one morning he woke up swollen, bruised and beaten. He hadn't learned much--except that Mungo hadn't lost his heavy touch, and that somewhere along the line, Mungo had picked up a very special interest in lovely Gretchen Forrest!Author's full name is Marvin H. Albert.
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161,846 | The Midwich Cuckoos | 1,957 | 3.93 | 15,006 | 801 | null | null | John Wyndham | In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed | 220 | 4,168 | 6,475 | 3,637 | 612 | 114 | 0.293655 | 0.643333 |
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101,205 | Mildred Pierce | 1,941 | 3.92 | 7,263 | 927 | null | null | James M. Cain | Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daugh
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.Out of these elements, Cain created a novel (later made into a film noir classic) of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence - and a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.Narrated by Christine Williams.
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5,060,378 | The Girl Who Played with Fire | 2,007 | 4.23 | 735,191 | 32,776 | Millennium | 2 | Stieg Larsson | Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing expos | 503 | 323,711 | 287,940 | 100,665 | 17,457 | 5,418 | 1.336445 | 0.743333 |
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6,545,849 | Mine-Haha | 1,903 | 3.48 | 185 | 23 | null | null | Frank Wedekind | At once a dystopian fantasy and a critique of sexual norms, Mine-Haha describes a unique boarding institution for girls | 112 | 32 | 65 | 53 | 29 | 6 | -1.270531 | 0.493333 |
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250,041 | Miss Lonelyhearts | 1,933 | 3.61 | 3,350 | 331 | null | null | Nathanael West | As described by Atkinson in the NY Times: "A scornful feature editor of a newspaper picks an ambitious young reporter to conduct the advice of the lovelorn column. Ambitious, opportunistic, 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' as the conductor of the column is inevitably dubbed, begins with contempt of the correspondents and confidence in his own cleverness. As time goes on, the genuinene
As described by Atkinson in the NY Times: "A scornful feature editor of a newspaper picks an ambitious young reporter to conduct the advice of the lovelorn column. Ambitious, opportunistic, 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' as the conductor of the column is inevitably dubbed, begins with contempt of the correspondents and confidence in his own cleverness. As time goes on, the genuineness of the agony in the letters that come in gets under the skin of the columnist. He is distressed to find himself presiding over a monstrous swindle. For he is an idealist in collision with humanity, as his diabolical managing editor expresses it."
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1,211,770 | The Molly Maguires | 1,969 | 3.5 | 18 | 1 | null | null | Anthony Bimba | The story of the 1870s frameup of the Pennsylvania Irish anthracite miners. | 144 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | -1.201011 | 0.5 |
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4,556,335 | Montana Rides Again | 1,934 | 3.73 | 11 | 0 | null | null | Max Brand | The Montana Kid, "El Keed" south of the border, slips a marriage noose to join Mateo Rubriz, prince of Mexican outlaws, in a wild cross-border raid. The target: a gold and emerald crown stolen by the governor of Duraya from the church under his protection!In Duraya, Montana and Rubriz have no problem getting into the governor's fort, even finding the crown. It's the gettin
The Montana Kid, "El Keed" south of the border, slips a marriage noose to join Mateo Rubriz, prince of Mexican outlaws, in a wild cross-border raid. The target: a gold and emerald crown stolen by the governor of Duraya from the church under his protection!In Duraya, Montana and Rubriz have no problem getting into the governor's fort, even finding the crown. It's the getting out that nearly undoes them!"Max Brand blazed the western trail for others who came after him. He invented the type for films to follow and, with his books and stories, brought us entertainment that shines as brightly today as when it was first written." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
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3,750 | Moonraker | 1,955 | 3.72 | 17,076 | 1,072 | James Bond Original Series | 3 | Ian Fleming | null | 247 | 3,393 | 6,829 | 5,719 | 1,023 | 112 | -0.436298 | 0.573333 |
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6,138 | The Moonstone | 1,868 | 3.91 | 66,331 | 3,866 | null | null | Wilkie Collins | "The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins | 528 | 20,621 | 25,381 | 15,197 | 3,724 | 1,408 | 0.224135 | 0.636667 |
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256,683 | City of Bones | 2,007 | 4.11 | 1,415,725 | 56,198 | The Mortal Instruments | 1 | Cassandra Clare | When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is not
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothingnot even a smear of bloodto show that a boy has died. Or was he a boyThis is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight The Shadowhunters would like to know...
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130,520 | The Mosquito Coast | 1,981 | 3.82 | 8,603 | 617 | null | null | Paul Theroux | In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions le
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.
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853,510 | Murder on the Orient Express | 1,934 | 4.16 | 285,315 | 18,454 | Hercule Poirot | 10 | Agatha Christie | What more can a mystery addict desire than a much-loathed murder victim found aboard the luxurious Orient Express with multiple stab wounds, thirteen likely suspects, an incomparably brilliant detective in Hercule Poirot, and the most ingenious crime ever conceived | 274 | 111,487 | 117,761 | 48,242 | 6,617 | 1,208 | 1.093127 | 0.72 |
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7,039,768 | Mute Witness | 1,963 | 3.92 | 145 | 48 | null | null | Rick R. Reed | Sean and Austin have the perfect life. Their new relationship is only made more joyous by weekend visits from Sean's eight-year-old son, Jason.And then their perfect world shatters.Jason is missing. When the boy turns up days later, he has been horribly abused and has lost the power to speak. Small town minds turn to the boy's gay father and his lover as the likely culprit
Sean and Austin have the perfect life. Their new relationship is only made more joyous by weekend visits from Sean's eight-year-old son, Jason.And then their perfect world shatters.Jason is missing. When the boy turns up days later, he has been horribly abused and has lost the power to speak. Small town minds turn to the boy's gay father and his lover as the likely culprits. Sean and Austin struggle to maintain their relationship amid the innuendo and the very real threat that Sean will, at the very least, lose the son he loves. Meanwhile, the real villain is much closer to home, intent on ensuring the boy's muteness is permanent.
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17,150 | My | 1,918 | 3.78 | 110,546 | 6,618 | Great Plains Trilogy | 3 | Willa Cather | Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Le
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia.
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6,362,127 | My Philadelphia Father | 1,955 | 3.77 | 26 | 12 | null | null | Cordelia Drexel Biddle | The true life story of Cordelia Drexel Biddle and her family, including her father Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle taking place in early 1900s. Mr. Biddle was an eccentric man who with his fortune was able to try his hand at many things. He was passionate about Christianity, the United States and boxing, the later of which often ruffled the feathers of the other socialites. T
The true life story of Cordelia Drexel Biddle and her family, including her father Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle taking place in early 1900s. Mr. Biddle was an eccentric man who with his fortune was able to try his hand at many things. He was passionate about Christianity, the United States and boxing, the later of which often ruffled the feathers of the other socialites. This book spawned the play and later the movie The Happiest Millionaire.
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164,542 | My Friend Flicka | 1,941 | 4.15 | 26,956 | 324 | Flicka | 1 | Mary O'Hara | It seems Ken can't do anything right. He loses saddle blankets and breaks reins...but then comes the worst news yet: a report card so bad that he has to repeat a grade. How can you tame the dreamy mind of a boy who stares out of the window instead of taking an exam Enter Flicka, the chestnut filly with a wild spirit. Over the course of one magical summer, both will learn
It seems Ken can't do anything right. He loses saddle blankets and breaks reins...but then comes the worst news yet: a report card so bad that he has to repeat a grade. How can you tame the dreamy mind of a boy who stares out of the window instead of taking an exam Enter Flicka, the chestnut filly with a wild spirit. Over the course of one magical summer, both will learn the meaning of responsibility, courage, and, ultimately, friendship.
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121,208 | Nevada | 1,928 | 4.03 | 532 | 20 | null | null | Zane Grey | He was called Nevada, a name he took to lose his past. As a boy he had been thrown among brutal and evil men. He had worked himself above their influence time and again, only to be thrown back, by his own desire for justice or vengeance, into the midst of strife. With a new identity he made a new reputation, but old troubles and old enemies haunted him wherever he went. | 367 | 190 | 190 | 134 | 15 | 3 | 0.641252 | 0.676667 |
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