14,178
14K
2007
2007
by
Aciman, André
texts
eye 14,178
favorite 71
comment 0
Topics: Teenage boys, Gay teenagers, Authors
5,973
6.0K
2006
2006
by
Byrne, Rhonda
texts
eye 5,973
favorite 35
comment 0
The secret revealed -- The secret made simple -- How to use the secret -- Powerful processes -- The secret to money -- The secret to relationships -- The secret to health -- The secret to the world -- The secret to you -- The secret to life
Topic: New Thought
3,680
3.7K
1984
1984
by
Schwartz, Alvin
texts
eye 3,680
favorite 15
comment 0
Topics: Ghost stories, American, Tales -- United States, Ghosts -- Folklore, Horror stories, Folklore --...
2,822
2.8K
1999
1999
by
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-; Myers, Christopher, ill
texts
eye 2,822
favorite 18
comment 0
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken
Topics: Trials (Murder), Prisons, Self-perception, African Americans, Trials (Murder), Prisons,...
2,620
2.6K
2012
2012
by
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
texts
eye 2,620
favorite 21
comment 0
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10,...
2,599
2.6K
1993
1993
by
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-
texts
eye 2,599
favorite 21
comment 1
In his first novel in ten years, Ernest Gaines, the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, brings us a wrenching story of death and identity in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s. A young black named Jefferson is a reluctant party in a shoot-out in a liquor store in which the three other men involved are all killed, including the white store owner. Jefferson, the only survivor, is accused of murder. At the trial, the essence of the...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: African American men, Death row inmates, Race relations, Friendship, Roman américain
2,394
2.4K
1987
1987
by
Schwartz, David Joseph
texts
eye 2,394
favorite 52
comment 0
"A Fireside book."
Topic: Success
2,211
2.2K
2012
2012
by
Madeline Miller
texts
eye 2,211
favorite 18
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Trojan War, Greeks, Fiction, Achilles (Greek mythology), History
2,140
2.1K
2004
2004
by
Tartt, Donna
texts
eye 2,140
favorite 10
comment 0
Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable
Topics: Teacher-student relationships, College students, Classicists, Murder, College stories, Papen,...
2,083
2.1K
texts
eye 2,083
favorite 13
comment 0
"Book One of the After series--the Internet sensation with millions of readers. Tessa didn't plan on meeting H. during her freshman year of college. But now that she has, her life will never be the same"--
Topics: Man-woman relationships, FICTION, FICTION, Man-woman relationships
1,982
2.0K
1958
1958
by
Uris, Leon, 1924-2003
texts
eye 1,982
favorite 3
comment 0
A novel of Israel
Topics: Exodus 1947 (Ship), Jews, Holocaust survivors, Jewish refugees, Juifs
1,908
1.9K
1978
1978
by
Deveraux, Jude
texts
eye 1,908
favorite 3
comment 0
1,820
1.8K
Sep 6, 2005
09/05
by
Neil Strauss
texts
eye 1,820
favorite 8
comment 0
1,616
1.6K
2011
2011
by
Isaacson, Walter
texts
eye 1,616
favorite 20
comment 0
"FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and...
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
1,550
1.6K
2018
2018
by
Lee, Kai-Fu, author
texts
eye 1,550
favorite 8
comment 0
xi, 253 pages ; 24 cm
Topics: Artificial intelligence -- Economic aspects -- China, Artificial intelligence -- Economic aspects...
1,525
1.5K
2008
2008
by
Kinney, Jeff
texts
eye 1,525
favorite 35
comment 14
A Junior Library Guild selection
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 14 reviews )
Topics: Middle schools, Schools, Families, Diaries, Middle schools, Schools, Family life, Diaries, Humorous...
1,462
1.5K
texts
eye 1,462
favorite 12
comment 2
This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her struggle for survival. It is the winner of the Noma Award
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Women, Teachers, Women teachers, Bigamy, Nouvelles africaines de langue française
1,458
1.5K
2010
2010
by
Byrne, Rhonda
texts
eye 1,458
favorite 11
comment 0
What is the power? -- The power of feelings -- Feeling frequencies -- The power and creation -- Feeling is creation -- Your life ? : your choice -- Keys to power -- The power to money -- The power to relationships -- The power to health -- The power and you -- The power to life
Topic: Control (Psychology)
1,437
1.4K
texts
eye 1,437
favorite 17
comment 0
Originally published: Australia : Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House, 2011
Topics: Man-woman relationships, Dominance (Psychology), Man-woman relationships, FICTION / Contemporary...
1,414
1.4K
2000
2000
by
Ryan, Pam Muñoz
texts
eye 1,414
favorite 5
comment 0
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10,...
1,375
1.4K
texts
eye 1,375
favorite 10
comment 0
Topics: Humorous stories, Middle schools, Diaries, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, Family life,...
1,316
1.3K
2012
2012
by
Jamie McGuire
texts
eye 1,316
favorite 12
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Man-woman relationships, Fiction
1,276
1.3K
texts
eye 1,276
favorite 6
comment 0
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash
Topics: Interpersonal relations, Boarding schools, Schools, Death
1,244
1.2K
2011
2011
by
Ellen DeGeneres
texts
eye 1,244
favorite 4
comment 0
Topics: Television personalities, Comedians, Biography
1,232
1.2K
1996
1996
by
Nicholas Sparks
texts
eye 1,232
favorite 7
comment 0
Topics: Oral reading -- Fiction, Older people -- Fiction, North Carolina -- Fiction
1,215
1.2K
1993
1993
by
James Baldwin
texts
eye 1,215
favorite 8
comment 0
Topic: Reading Level-Adult
1,213
1.2K
2009
2009
by
Kinney, Jeff; Kinney, Jeff, book designer, cover designer; Beckerman, Chad, cover designer; Amulet Books, publisher
texts
eye 1,213
favorite 4
comment 0
"Book design by Jeff Kinney ; Cover design by Chad W. Beckerman and Jeff Kinney."--T.p. verso
Topics: Wit and humor, Juvenile, Humorous stories, Summer, Diaries, Vacations, Video games, Mothers and...
1,208
1.2K
2000
2000
by
Murphy, Raymond; Smalzer, William R
texts
eye 1,208
favorite 6
comment 0
"Self-study reference and practice for students of English, with answers"--T.p
Topics: English language, English language, English language
1,198
1.2K
2011
2011
by
Kinney, Jeff
texts
eye 1,198
favorite 6
comment 2
"Greg struggles to stay on Santa's 'nice' list while snowed in with the rest of the Heffley family in the days leading up to Christmas"--
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Blizzards, Diary fiction, Families, Humorous stories, Middle schools, Schools, Diaries, Behavior,...
1,186
1.2K
1998
1998
by
Cunningham, Michael, 1952-
texts
eye 1,186
favorite 8
comment 0
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award (American Library Association), 1999
Topics: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, Women, Man-woman relationships, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction
1,179
1.2K
2011
2011
by
Rainbow Rowell
texts
eye 1,179
favorite 19
comment 0
1,176
1.2K
2008
2008
by
Adiga, Aravind
texts
eye 1,176
favorite 3
comment 0
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life--having nothing but his own wits to help him along
Topics: Chauffeurs, Poor, Ambition, Businesspeople
1,159
1.2K
1995
1995
by
Matheson, Richard
texts
eye 1,159
favorite 13
comment 0
"The complete novel, plus several more unforgettable tales by Richard Matheson"--Page 4 of cover
Topics: Vampire fiction, Thriller Fiction
1,122
1.1K
2009
2009
by
Kinney, Jeff
texts
eye 1,122
favorite 6
comment 1
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school
favorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Middle schools, Schools, Family life, Diaries, Humorous stories, Middle schools, Schools, Families,...
1,115
1.1K
2009
2009
by
Cullen, David, 1961-
texts
eye 1,115
favorite 13
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-403) and index
Topics: Columbine High School (Littleton, Colo.), Littleton (Colo.), Columbine High School Massacre,...
1,114
1.1K
texts
eye 1,114
favorite 9
comment 0
Originally published: Australia : The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House, 2011
Topic: Sexual dominance and submission
1,108
1.1K
2006
2006
by
Snicket, Lemony; Helquist, Brett, ill
texts
eye 1,108
favorite 4
comment 0
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe
Topics: Orphans, Brothers and sisters, Islands, Humorous stories
1,102
1.1K
2010
2010
by
John Green (1977- )
texts
eye 1,102
favorite 11
comment 0
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12
1,096
1.1K
2011
2011
by
King, Stephen, 1947-
texts
eye 1,096
favorite 3
comment 0
Watershed moment -- The janitor's father -- Living in the past -- Sadie and the general -- 11/22/63 -- The green card man
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10,...
1,085
1.1K
2002
2002
by
Gawande, Atul
texts
eye 1,085
favorite 9
comment 0
"Several of these pieces have appeared, in slightly different form, in the New Yorker and Slate"--T.p. verso
Topics: Gawande, Atul, Surgeons, Surgery, Chirurg, General Surgery, Medical Errors
1,081
1.1K
2009
2009
by
Pink, Daniel H
texts
eye 1,081
favorite 15
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-229) and index
Topic: Motivation (Psychology)
1,081
1.1K
2004
2004
by
Emoto, Masaru, 1943-
texts
eye 1,081
favorite 8
comment 0
Using high-speed photography, Dr. Masaru Emoto demonstrates that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward them. Water that flows from clear springs or has been exposed to loving words shows brilliant, complex, and colorful snowflake patterns, while polluted water, or water exposed to negative thoughts, forms incomplete, asymmetrical, dull-colored patterns. Since humans and the earth are composed mostly of water, these findings have...
Topics: Water, Water quality, Anthroposophy
1,080
1.1K
2009
2009
by
Grossman, Lev
texts
eye 1,080
favorite 9
comment 1
As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin's fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined for his childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth...
favorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Literature & Fiction -- Literary, Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Fantasy -- Magic &...
1,076
1.1K
2010
2010
by
Perkins, Stephanie
texts
eye 1,076
favorite 5
comment 0
Anna is happy in Atlanta. She has a loyal best friend and a crush on her coworker at the movie theater who is just starting to return her affection. So she's less than thrilled when her father decides to send her to a boarding school in Paris for her senior year. But despite not speaking a word of French and feeling like an outcast, Anna meets some interesting new people and begins to be charmed by Paris, including the handsome Étienne St. Clair, who quickly becomes her best friend, even if...
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10,...
1,071
1.1K
texts
eye 1,071
favorite 14
comment 0
Topics: Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11,...
1,061
1.1K
2007
2007
by
Mead, Richelle
texts
eye 1,061
favorite 17
comment 0
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots
Topics: Vampires, High schools, Magic, Social classes, Vampires, High schools, Schools, Magic, Social...
1,058
1.1K
2001
2001
by
Nasar, Sylvia
texts
eye 1,058
favorite 13
comment 0
Reprint. Previously published: A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999
Topics: Nash, John F., 1928-, Mathematicians, Mentally ill, Schizophrenics, Schizophrenia, Mathematics
1,052
1.1K
2011
2011
by
Higashino, Keigo, 1958-; Smith, Alexander O
texts
eye 1,052
favorite 10
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topic: Fiction
1,049
1.0K
2000
2000
by
Snicket, Lemony; Helquist, Brett, ill
texts
eye 1,049
favorite 13
comment 1
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Orphans, Brothers and sisters, Humorous stories, Orphans, Brothers and sisters, Humorous stories
1,048
1.0K
1995
1995
by
Guterson, David
texts
eye 1,048
favorite 14
comment 0
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar...
Topics: Japanese Americans, Trials (Murder), Journalists
1,047
1.0K
2001
2001
by
Strauss, Neil; Mötley Crüe (Musical group); Mick Mars; Nikki Sixx; Neil Strauss
texts
eye 1,047
favorite 12
comment 0
Tommy Lee ; Mick Mars ; Vince Neil ; Nikki Sixx
Topics: Biography: film, television & music, Rock & pop, Rock musicians, Composers & Musicians...
1,041
1.0K
2008
2008
by
Kinney, Jeff
texts
eye 1,041
favorite 5
comment 0
A Junior Library Guild selection
Topics: Middle schools, Schools, Families, Diaries, Humorous stories, Children's stories, Middle schools,...
1,039
1.0K
2007
2007
by
Krakauer, Jon
texts
eye 1,039
favorite 8
comment 0
Originally published: New York : Villard, c1996
Topics: Discovery And Exploration (General), Outdoor Life, Travel, Biography / Autobiography, Travel -...
1,013
1.0K
1999
1999
by
Stephen Chbosky
texts
eye 1,013
favorite 8
comment 0
Topics: High school students -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction, Epistolary fiction, Diary fiction,...
1,005
1.0K
1983
1983
by
King, Stephen, 1947-
texts
eye 1,005
favorite 5
comment 0
"A Signet book."
Topics: Horror stories, Horror tales, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Teenagers
982
982
2002
2002
by
Indu Sundaresan
texts
eye 982
favorite 3
comment 0
Topics: Nūr Jahān, -- Empress, consort of Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan, -- d. 1645 -- Fiction,...
959
959
2010
2010
by
David Malouf
texts
eye 959
favorite 1
comment 0
Topics: Achilles (Greek mythology) -- Fiction, Priam (Greek mythology) -- Fiction, Loss (Psychology) --...
951
951
2011
2011
by
Brosgol, Vera
texts
eye 951
favorite 16
comment 0
Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse
Topics: Graphic novels, Interpersonal relations, Self-esteem, Ghosts, Schools, Russian Americans
944
944
1994
1994
by
Young, Jeffrey E., 1950-; Klosko, Janet S
texts
eye 944
favorite 6
comment 0
Originally published : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, 1993
Topics: Self-defeating behavior, Self-management (Psychology)
941
941
1986
1986
by
Green, Barry, 1945-; Gallwey, W. Timothy
texts
eye 941
favorite 5
comment 0
Introduction / W. Timothy Gallwey -- The Mozart in us -- The inner game -- The inner game skills -- The power of awareness --The power of will -- The power of trust -- Letting go -- Coping with obstacles -- Improving the quality of musical experience --Teaching and learning -- The inner game listener -- Parent and coach -- Integration and balance -- Ensemble playing -- Improvisation, composition, and creativity
Topics: Music, Musique, Musique, Music, Musikpsychologie
938
938
2000
2000
by
Zander, Rosamund Stone, 1942-; Zander, Benjamin, 1939-
texts
eye 938
favorite 11
comment 0
Includes bibliographical references
Topics: Possibility, Achievement, Personal Satisfaction, Self Concept, Possibilité
931
931
2012
2012
by
Bagshawe, Tilly; Sheldon, Sidney
texts
eye 931
favorite 0
comment 0
"When elderly multimillionaire art dealer, Andrew Jakes, is found brutally murdered in his ransacked Hollywood home, his young wife raped and beaten, and his art and jewels stolen, the motive seems pretty clear. But when the investigation doesn't turn up a single, solid lead, the case is closed and his stunning young widow vanishes. A decade passes before Andrew Jakes' estranged son, Matt Daley, does a little digging of his own, only to find that three nearly identical killings have taken...
Topics: Women murderers, Serial murders, Rich people
918
918
1999
1999
by
George R. R. Martin
texts
eye 918
favorite 1
comment 0
908
908
texts
eye 908
favorite 3
comment 0
Topics: United States. -- National Security Agency -- Fiction, Intelligence officers -- Fiction, Computer...
908
908
1998
1998
by
Roberts, Nora. aut
texts
eye 908
favorite 6
comment 0
Topics: Bays, Boatbuilding x Fiction, Brothers
906
906
2008
2008
by
Johanna Lindsey
texts
eye 906
favorite 4
comment 0
Topics: Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction, Kidnapping -- Fiction, Americans -- England -- Fiction
901
901
2009
2009
by
Kinney, Jeff
texts
eye 901
favorite 4
comment 0
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school
Topics: Middle schools, Schools, Family life, Diaries, Humorous stories, Middle schools, Schools, Families,...
879
879
Jan 10, 2008
01/08
by
John J. Ratey
texts
eye 879
favorite 11
comment 0
Topics: Exercise, General, Health & Fitness / Exercise, Health & Fitness, Consumer Health, Mind and...
868
868
2008
2008
by
Byrne, Lorna
texts
eye 868
favorite 5
comment 1
Through different eyes -- The gatekeepers -- Stairway to heaven -- Why do you hide from me? -- Elijah -- Absorbing the pain of others -- A creature without a soul -- The intermediary -- The angel of death -- The bombers -- The angel of mother's love -- Country cottage -- Telling Joe -- I never knew I had a guardian angel -- The power of prayer -- The tunnel -- Three knocks on the window -- Isn't Lorna lucky-- -- "I'm here, I'm here--here I am!" -- The golden chain -- I need some...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Byrne, Lorna, Women mystics, Religious biography
867
867
2010
2010
by
Nelson, Jandy
texts
eye 867
favorite 5
comment 0
In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician
Topics: Grief, Death, Sisters, Musicians
863
863
2006
2006
by
Kurt Vonnegut
texts
eye 863
favorite 10
comment 1
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
859
859
2011
2011
by
Deborah E. Harkness
texts
eye 859
favorite 10
comment 0
856
856
1993
1993
by
Yoshimoto, Banana, 1964-; Backus, Megan; Yoshimoto, Banana, 1964- Munraito shado. English
texts
eye 856
favorite 4
comment 0
842
842
2014
2014
by
Han, Jenny, author
texts
eye 842
favorite 9
comment 0
355 pages ; 22 cm
Topics: {u'11': u'Korean American teenagers', u'13': u'Infatuation', u'12': u'Dating (Social customs)',...
842
842
2001
2001
by
Lindsey, Johanna
texts
eye 842
favorite 0
comment 0
Follows the star-crossed romance of a strong-willed woman who vows that no man will ever capture her heart and the powerful warrior who is equally determined to fight for what he wants
Topics: Women construction workers, Love stories
