8,319
8.3K
1994
1994
by
Achebe, Chinua
texts
eye 8,319
favorite 26
comment 0
[This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ...Uniquely ...African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover
Topics: Igbo (African people), British, Men, Race relations
3,842
3.8K
1986
1986
by
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
texts
eye 3,842
favorite 13
comment 0
"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow
Topics: Man-woman relationships, Misogyny, Women
2,950
3.0K
1998
1998
by
Stein, Murray, 1943-
texts
eye 2,950
favorite 14
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index
Topics: Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961, Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961, Jung, C. G. (Carl...
2,381
2.4K
1999
1999
by
David J. Griffiths
texts
eye 2,381
favorite 5
comment 1
favorite ( 1 reviews )
Topic: Electrodynamics.
2,223
2.2K
2004
2004
by
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-
texts
eye 2,223
favorite 10
comment 0
Growing up in a wealthy Nigerian home under the domain of a harsh, demanding, and tyrannical father, Kambili and her brother, Jaja, find new happiness during a visit to their Aunty Ifeoma outside the city, but as Kambili enjoys her newfound freedom and falls in love for the first time, the country begins to fall apart under a military coup
Topics: Teenage girls, Children of the rich, Brothers and sisters, Fathers and daughters, Religious...
1,929
1.9K
2000
2000
by
Rowling, J. K; GrandPré, Mary, ill
texts
eye 1,929
favorite 9
comment 0
"Year 4"--Spine
Topics: Wizards, Magic, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Imaginary place), Schools, Wizards,...
1,920
1.9K
1976
1976
by
Anderson, E. Ruth, 1928-
texts
eye 1,920
favorite 6
comment 0
Topics: Composers, Compositeurs, Komponist, Biographie
1,732
1.7K
1984
1984
by
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
texts
eye 1,732
favorite 1
comment 0
Revised versions of 3 lectures delivered at Harvard University in Apr. 1983
Topics: Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001, Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001, Authors, American, Fiction in English American...
1,701
1.7K
1998
1998
by
Margaret Atwood
texts
eye 1,701
favorite 6
comment 0
Topics: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, Misogyny -- Fiction, Women -- Fiction
1,644
1.6K
1958
1958
by
Uris, Leon, 1924-2003
texts
eye 1,644
favorite 2
comment 0
A novel of Israel
Topics: Exodus 1947 (Ship), Jews, Holocaust survivors, Jewish refugees, Juifs
1,555
1.6K
1999
1999
by
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-; Myers, Christopher, ill
texts
eye 1,555
favorite 9
comment 0
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken
Topics: Trials (Murder), Prisons, Self-perception, African Americans, Trials (Murder), Prisons,...
1,545
1.5K
1993
1993
by
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-
texts
eye 1,545
favorite 19
comment 1
In his first novel in ten years, Ernest Gaines, the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, brings us a wrenching story of death and identity in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s. A young black named Jefferson is a reluctant party in a shoot-out in a liquor store in which the three other men involved are all killed, including the white store owner. Jefferson, the only survivor, is accused of murder. At the trial, the essence of the...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: African American men, Death row inmates, Race relations, Friendship, Roman américain
1,501
1.5K
1985
1985
by
Robin Norwood
texts
eye 1,501
favorite 8
comment 0
Topics: Relationship addiction -- Treatment., Group psychotherapy., Women -- Mental health., Love.
1,458
1.5K
1982
1982
by
Italo Calvino
texts
eye 1,458
favorite 9
comment 0
1,399
1.4K
2005
2005
by
Atkins, P. W. (Peter William), 1940-; Jones, Loretta
texts
eye 1,399
favorite 4
comment 0
Includes index
Topics: Chemistry, Chemie, Química, Einführung, Chemie, Einführung
1,227
1.2K
1981
1981
by
Cook, David A
texts
eye 1,227
favorite 13
comment 0
Bibliography: p. 671-692
Topics: Motion pictures, Filmkunst, Cinéma, Motion pictures, Film
1,216
1.2K
1948
1948
by
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960; Gilbert, Stuart, tr
texts
eye 1,216
favorite 13
comment 0
Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran
Topics: Plague, Plague
1,195
1.2K
1994
1994
by
Bennis, Warren G
texts
eye 1,195
favorite 8
comment 0
Originally published: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1989. With a new introduction
Topics: Leadership, Leadership
1,168
1.2K
1987
1987
by
Jeanette Winterson
texts
eye 1,168
favorite 4
comment 0
Topics: Teenage girls -- Fiction, Lesbians -- Fiction, England -- Fiction
1,131
1.1K
1996
1996
by
McNeil, Legs; McCain, Gillian
texts
eye 1,131
favorite 20
comment 1
cloth, 424 p.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Popular Music, Punk, Oral HIstory, Interviews, New York City, USA, America, United States, Lower...
1,130
1.1K
1993
1993
by
Morrison, Toni
texts
eye 1,130
favorite 12
comment 0
Topics: African Americans, Crimes of passion, Middle-aged persons, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Triangles...
1,113
1.1K
texts
eye 1,113
favorite 11
comment 1
Includes index
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Sex Pistols (Musical group), Sex Pistols (Musical group), Sex Pistols, Punk rock musicians, Punk...
1,092
1.1K
2004
2004
by
Tartt, Donna
texts
eye 1,092
favorite 5
comment 0
Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable
Topics: Teacher-student relationships, College students, Classicists, Murder, College stories, Papen,...
1,025
1.0K
1980
1980
by
Emberley, Ed
texts
eye 1,025
favorite 29
comment 2
Step-by-step instructions for drawing people and animals using a minimum of line and circle combinations
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Drawing, Orange (Color) in art, Drawing
1,002
1.0K
1900
1900
by
Pelikan, Jaroslav Jan, 1923- . dn
texts
eye 1,002
favorite 1
comment 1
Includes bibliographies and indexes
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Theology, Doctrinal
998
998
1999
1999
by
Rowling, J. K; GrandPré, Mary, ill
texts
eye 998
favorite 7
comment 0
"Year 2"--Spine
Topics: Wizards, Magic, Schools, Orphans, Wizards, Magic, Schools, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Determination...
980
980
1988
1988
by
Duby, Georges; Duby, Georges; Ariès, Philippe, 1914-1984
texts
eye 980
favorite 7
comment 0
964
964
1968
1968
by
William D. Thornbury
texts
eye 964
favorite 4
comment 0
900
900
1986
1986
by
Jones, Diana Wynne
texts
eye 900
favorite 21
comment 0
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl
Topic: Fantasy
899
899
1993
1993
by
James Baldwin
texts
eye 899
favorite 5
comment 0
Topics: African Americans, Black Muslims, United States -- Race relations
887
887
2006
2006
by
Keith L. Moore
texts
eye 887
favorite 3
comment 0
Topics: Human anatomy., Anatomy, Pathological., Anatomy.
880
880
1989
1989
by
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
texts
eye 880
favorite 2
comment 0
"This U.S. edition first published in 1989 by Seal Press"--T.p. verso
Topic: Women
880
880
1975
1975
by
Doctorow, E. L., 1931-
texts
eye 880
favorite 6
comment 0
Three remarkable families lives' become entwined with Henry Ford, Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata at the turn of the century
Topics: Einwanderer, Ragtime
875
875
2000
2000
by
Snicket, Lemony; Helquist, Brett, ill
texts
eye 875
favorite 10
comment 1
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Orphans, Brothers and sisters, Humorous stories, Orphans, Brothers and sisters, Humorous stories
872
872
2001
2001
by
Nasar, Sylvia
texts
eye 872
favorite 10
comment 0
Reprint. Previously published: A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999
Topics: Nash, John F., 1928-, Mathematicians, Mentally ill, Schizophrenics, Schizophrenia, Mathematics
864
864
2000
2000
by
Ryan, Pam Muñoz
texts
eye 864
favorite 2
comment 0
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Topics: Mexican Americans -- California -- Juvenile fiction, Mexican Americans -- California -- Fiction,...
855
855
1985
1985
by
Auel, Jean M
texts
eye 855
favorite 0
comment 0
Map on lining papers
Topics: Prehistoric peoples, Ayla (Fictitious character), Glacial epoch
855
855
texts
eye 855
favorite 10
comment 0
Topics: Humorous stories, Middle schools, Diaries, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, Family life,...
850
850
1982
1982
by
Fessenden, Ralph J., 1932-; Fessenden, Joan S
texts
eye 850
favorite 4
comment 0
Includes index
Topic: Chemistry, Organic
850
850
1999
1999
by
Magona, Sindiwe
texts
eye 850
favorite 0
comment 0
An American girl is murdered by blacks in 1993 South Africa while preparing them for democracy. The novel is in the form of a letter to the girl's mother, from the mother of one of the killers, describing the way apartheid brutalized her son. A first novel based on real events by a black South African writer
Topics: Modern fiction, Fiction, Fiction - General, General, Fiction / General, Biehl, Amy, Americans,...
840
840
1973
1973
by
Hammond Incorporated
texts
eye 840
favorite 4
comment 0
"New census edition including ZIP codes."--jacket
Topic: Atlases
838
838
1984
1984
by
Schwartz, Alvin
texts
eye 838
favorite 7
comment 0
Topics: Ghost stories, American, Tales -- United States, Ghosts -- Folklore, Horror stories, Folklore --...
828
828
texts
eye 828
favorite 6
comment 1
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: British -- West Indies -- Fiction, West Indies -- Fiction
827
827
1987
1987
by
Bernal, Martin
texts
eye 827
favorite 33
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Topics: Civilisation grecque, Civilización griega, Griekse oudheid, Cultuur, Invloed, Geschiedbeschouwing,...
825
825
1999
1999
by
Blackburn, Simon
texts
eye 825
favorite 14
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-310) and index
Topic: Philosophy
823
823
1998
1998
by
Cunningham, Michael, 1952-
texts
eye 823
favorite 5
comment 0
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award (American Library Association), 1999
Topics: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, Women, Man-woman relationships, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction
807
807
2005
2005
by
Rowling, J. K; GrandPré, Mary, ill
texts
eye 807
favorite 9
comment 0
"Year 6"--Spine
Topics: Wizards, Magic, Schools, Potter, Harry (Fictitious character), Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and...
801
801
1995
1995
by
Guterson, David
texts
eye 801
favorite 12
comment 0
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar...
Topics: Japanese Americans, Trials (Murder), Journalists
793
793
1980
1980
by
Musil, Robert, 1880-1942
texts
eye 793
favorite 15
comment 0
Translation of: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
Topic: German fiction
791
791
1992
1992
by
Alvarez, Julia
texts
eye 791
favorite 4
comment 0
Sequel: Yo!
Topics: Sisters, Dominican Americans
790
790
1989
1989
by
Konigsburg, E. L
texts
eye 790
favorite 2
comment 0
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself
Topics: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Runaways, Brothers and sisters
786
786
texts
eye 786
favorite 12
comment 0
772
772
2001
2001
by
Hitchens, Christopher
texts
eye 772
favorite 11
comment 0
"In the book that he quite possibly was born to write, provocateur and bestselling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person pitched at an angle of passionate disagreement against the lazy consensus than Hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways?" "This book explores the entire range of "contrary...
Topics: Conformity, Dissenters, Radicalism, Maatschappijkritiek, Dissenters
749
749
texts
eye 749
favorite 5
comment 0
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash
Topics: Interpersonal relations, Boarding schools, Schools, Death
744
744
2007
2007
by
Emecheta, Buchi
texts
eye 744
favorite 3
comment 0
Topics: Motherhood -- Nigeria -- Fiction, Nigeria -- Fiction
734
734
2007
2007
by
Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant), 1923-
texts
eye 734
favorite 8
comment 0
Originally published: Novato, Calif. : Presidio Press, 1981
Topics: Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant), 1923-, United States. Marine Corps. Regiment, 5th. Battalion,...
732
732
1995
1995
by
Aronson, Elliot
texts
eye 732
favorite 1
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-495) and indexes
Topic: Social psychology
728
728
1994
1994
by
Santiago, Esmeralda; Santiago, Esmeralda. Almost a woman
texts
eye 728
favorite 4
comment 0
Continued by: Almost a woman
Topics: Santiago, Esmeralda, Puerto Ricans
721
721
2010
2010
by
Titilola Alexandrah Shoneyin
texts
eye 721
favorite 2
comment 4
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: Polygamy, Wives, Families, Fiction
709
709
1995
1995
by
Kevin Shillington
texts
eye 709
favorite 5
comment 0
707
707
1986
1986
by
Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983)
texts
eye 707
favorite 3
comment 0
706
706
texts
eye 706
favorite 5
comment 0
In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife
Topics: Women, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Mother and child, Mothers, Reminiscing in old age, Loss...
697
697
2000
2000
by
Levine, Ira N., 1937-
texts
eye 697
favorite 8
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 712-714) and index
Topic: Quantum chemistry
695
695
1994
1994
by
Oliver, Mary, 1935-
texts
eye 695
favorite 10
comment 0
"A Harvest original."
Topics: English language, American poetry, English poetry, Poetry
693
693
1991
1991
by
Bryson, Bill
texts
eye 693
favorite 6
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references
Topic: English language
690
690
2000
2000
by
Cooper, Geoffrey M
texts
eye 690
favorite 7
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 648-650) and index
Topics: Cellular biology, Molecular biology, Microchemistry, Science, Science/Mathematics, General, Life...
686
686
1985
1985
by
Achebe, Chinua; Innes, Catherine Lynette
texts
eye 686
favorite 5
comment 0
A collection of stories by African writers which deal with life and customs in African society
Topics: Short stories, African (English), Short stories, African, Manners and customs, Short stories,...
685
685
1992
1992
by
Alex Comfort
texts
eye 685
favorite 3
comment 0
Topics: Sex instruction., Sex customs.
683
683
texts
eye 683
favorite 7
comment 0
Topics: Assimilation (Sociology) -- Fiction., Interracial marriage -- Fiction., Genetic engineering --...
669
669
1990
1990
by
Jordan, Robert, 1948-2007
texts
eye 669
favorite 8
comment 0
In the Third Age, an age of prophecy when the world and time themselves hang in the balance, the Dark One, imprisoned by the Creator, is stirring in Shayol Ghul
Topics: Rand al'Thor (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction - Fantasy, Fantasy - General, Fiction /...
669
669
2002
2002
by
Gawande, Atul
texts
eye 669
favorite 5
comment 0
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso
Topics: Gawande, Atul, Surgeons, Surgery, Chirurg, General Surgery, Medical Errors
667
667
2001
2001
by
Tufte, Edward R., 1942-
texts
eye 667
favorite 13
comment 0
Includes index
Topics: Statistics, Statistique, Statistique, Statistique, Méthode graphique, Statistics as Topic, Data...
662
662
2008
2008
by
Adiga, Aravind
texts
eye 662
favorite 2
comment 0
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life--having nothing but his own wits to help him along
Topics: Chauffeurs, Poor, Ambition, Businesspeople
657
657
1992
1992
by
Fuentes, Carlos
texts
eye 657
favorite 5
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-384) and index
Topics: Beeldvorming, Kultur, Rezeption, Geschichte, Kontinuität
654
654
1985
1985
by
Quirk, Randolph
texts
eye 654
favorite 3
comment 0
Bibliography: p. [1641]-1664
Topics: English language, Anglais (langue), Anglais (Langue), Engels, Grammatik, English language Grammar
