A Word a Day: 365 Words to Enhance Your Vocabulary
By: Joseph Piercy
3.87
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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1. Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.18
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingd… read more
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"Bein’ human means judgin’ all the time,"-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
"Do you understand what’s going on here?"-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
"Everywhere I look, I see something holy."-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
"Hah! The leopard does not change his shorts, my girl!"-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
2. Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
By: Doug Lemov
4.01
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
***PLEASE NOTE, THIS EDITION IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. THERE IS A NEW EDITION AVAILABLE, TEACH L… read more
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- nonfiction
- reference
"One of the problems with teaching is that there's a temptation to evaluate what we do in the classroom based on how clever it aligns with a larger philosophy , or even how gratifying it is to use not…"-Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
"...we spend a lot of time defining behavior by the negative "that was inappropriate." These commands are vague and inefficient...Telling students what to do in a way that is specific, concrete, seque…"-Doug Lemov, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
3. When the Sleeper Wakes
By: H.G. Wells , Orson Scott Card
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the adva… read more
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"There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control."-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
"As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard."-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
"So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey."-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
"There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair."-H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes
4. Private Peaceful
By: Michael Morpurgo
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the Children's Laureate of England, a stunning novel of the First World War, a boy who is on i… read more
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"I have no pity for them, but no hatred either"-Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful
"Tonight, more than any other night, I want to feel alive."-Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful
"Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow."-Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful
"Here there are no folds in the fields, only wide open plains, scarcely a hill in sight. And instead of church towers they have spires that thrust themselves skywards like a child putting his hand up …"-Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful
5. Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pajamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and How We Got Them
By: Judy Parkinson
3.45
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
"Make no bones about it"--here's a "grand slam" for anyone seeking the meanings of catch phrases an… read more
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- nonfiction
- reference
6. The Collected Short Stories of Saki
By: Saki , None
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. 'All decent people live beyond their incomes… read more
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"Mrs. Cricks had a long family and was therefore licensed in the eyes of her world to have a short temper."-Saki, The Collected Short Stories of Saki
"Lady Susan disapproved of racing. She disapproved of many things; some people went as far as to say that she disapproved of most things. Disapproval was to her was neuralgia and fancy needlework are …"-Saki, The Collected Short Stories of Saki
"I am sure I don't know what I should do without Florence," admitted Mrs. Troyle; "she understands my hair. I've long ago given trying to do anything with it myself. I regard one's hair as I regard hu…"-Saki, The Collected Short Stories of Saki
"She and Dora are good friends, aren't they? They used to be, as far as I remember." "They used to be; that's what makes them all the more bitter now. Each feels that she has nursed a viper in her bos…"-Saki, The Collected Short Stories of Saki
7. Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The debut short novels--nearly thirty years out of print-- by the internationally acclaimed writer,… read more
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8. Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more
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9. A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East
By: James Barr
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers - including T.E. Lawrence, Win… read more
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- nonfiction
10. The Invisible Man
By: H.G. Wells , Дмитро Паламарчук
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a … read more
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"But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men…"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
11. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
By: Alcoholics Anonymous
4.08
Format: None pages,
Librarian's Note: This is an alternate-cover edition for Originally published in 1952, this class… read more
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- nonfiction
- reference
12. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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13. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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14. This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.64
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more
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"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
15. Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
By: Malorie Blackman
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice … read more
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16. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
17. The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers
By: Henry James , Anthony Curtis
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the windo… read more
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18. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
19. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By: Mary Roach
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue. For two tho… read more
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"There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room..."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
20. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
21. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
22. Cold, Cold Bones (Temperance Brennan, #21)
By: Kathy Reichs
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“Reichs has written her masterpiece—smart, scary, complicated, and engrossing.” —Michael Connelly “… read more
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23. Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
By: Susie Dent
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to a year of wonder through the English language with Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordina… read more
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- reference
24. Thistlefoot
By: GennaRose Nethercott
3.96
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con a… read more
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"what is a memory if not a ghost?"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"Memory, it was nothing but a leash"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"This song is for the goners, whose smiles are dust"-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
"Leaves fell like one thousand small, flaming hands."-GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
25. Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
By: Michael Mosley
4.03
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
Based on the popular BBC podcast, Just One Thing, this book brings to life Dr Mosley's mission to u… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Jog On: How Running Saved My Life
By: Bella Mackie
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in… read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Mysteries of History: Unravelling the Truth from the Myths of Our Past
By: Graeme Donald
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
As Napoleon himself once said, 'History is a version of past events that people have decided to agr… read more
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28. Crazy Stories for Curious Minds: Strange and Unexplained Facts about History, Science, Mysteries, Pop Culture and Much More (Exploring Facts & Stories)
By: Henry Bennett
3.88
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
Are you ready to deep dive into some of the greatest mysteries and weirdest facts that have changed… read more
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29. This Book Will Make You Think
By: Alain Stephen
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Succinctly distills each of the great philosophers' best-known theories through their most famous q… read more
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30. A Word a Day: 365 Words to Enhance Your Vocabulary
By: Joseph Piercy
3.87
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A Word a Day contains 365 carefully selected words that will enhance and expand your vocabulary, al… read more
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31. I Used to Know That: English
By: Patrick Scrivenor
3.54
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Relearn the essential rules of the English language, from grammar and punctuation to sentence const… read more
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- reference
