Books Goodreads: September 2016

Friday, September 30, 2016

Generation Dead

By :"Daniel Waters"
Published on 2010-05-27 by Simon and Schuster

Category :"Juvenile Fiction"

All over the tri-state area, something strange is happening. Teenagers who die aren't staying dead. They are coming back to life, but they come back different - they stutter and their reactions to everything are slower. Termed 'living impaired' or 'differently biotic', there are lots of conspiracy theories to explain this new phenomenon. But as their numbers keep on growing, so does the discomfort of the living people in the community. When Phoebe falls for Tommy Williams, her best friend and star of the football team, Adam, has conflicting emotions. And when Tommy decides to try out for the football team, it sets off a chain of events that escalates into deadly violence.

Lenght : 400

Language : en

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword my love lies bleeding

The Wizard of Oz

By :"L. Frank Baum"
Published on 2001 by Scholastic Inc.

Category :"Juvenile Fiction"

After a terrible cyclone, Dorothy finds herself lost in a strange and magical world. The only way to get home is to visit the Emerald City, where she may be able to ask the Great Wizard of Oz for help. Will Dorothy ever reach Oz? And what will she find when she gets there?

Lenght : 156

Language : en

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By :"L. Frank Baum"
Published on 1900 by Random House Books for Young Readers

Category :"Fantasy"

In the first of L. Frank Baum's time-honored Oz novels, country girl Dorothy Gale gets whisked away by a cyclone to the fantastical Land of Oz. Dropped into the midst of trouble when her farmhouse crushes a tyrannical sorceress, Dorothy incurs the wrath of the Wicked Witch of the West. Dorothy is desperate to return to her native Kansas, and, aided by the Good Witch of the North, she sets out for the Emerald City to get help from the legendary Wizard. On her way, she meets three unlikely allies who embody key human virtues—the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion.

Lenght : 191

Language : en

This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword oz

In a Green Shade

By :"Allen Lacy"
Published on 2000 by

Category :"Gardening"

The former Wall Street Journal and New York Times garden columnist shares stories from three decades of transforming a suburban lot into a garden paradise

Lenght : 290

Language : en

This Book was ranked 33 by Google Books for keyword shade

The Book of the Holy Light

By :"Michael Levey"
Published on 2004-01 by 1st World Publishing

Category :"Religion"

LISTEN TO ITS RHYTHMS WITH AN OPEN HEART The Book of the Holy Light reveals the nature of God in the form of the Son of God. The first chapter, The Testament of the Holy Light of God, opens the framework of existence in the body of God revealing the nature of light in the embrace of unity. The book continues with The Testament of the Son of God inviting the children of light to return home to the inner space of God. The next chapter, The Twelve Transformations of the Holy Light of God, awakens the inner transformations of consciousness transmuting the children of light into the body of God. Next, The Trans-portal Matrix of Divine Grace describes the inter-connecting matrix of consciousness binding the children of light in the body of God. The book continues with The Dimensions of Light opening the multi-dimensional universe to the children of God. The next chapter, The Forms of Ascending Light, triggers the mechanisms of ascension in the consciousness of the child of light. Finally, The Circle of Ascending Light weaves a tapestry of light around the children of God connecting them to the body of God. This is the story of light told through revelation. To appreciate it fully you must set aside your intellect and, like poetry, listen to its rhythms with an open heart. Tony Ellis, award winning poet and author of There is Wisdom in Walnuts

Lenght : 204

Language : en

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword the book of tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow

By :"Allan Folsom"
Published on 2008-11-15 by Hachette UK

Category :"Fiction"

The novel that took the nation by storm is now in paperback. Allan Folsom has created an international conspiracy of apocalyptic dimensions that interconnects three intricate and compelling stories spanning two continents and five decades. \

Lenght : 608

Language : en

This Book was ranked 30 by Google Books for keyword the book of tomorrow

Men of Tomorrow

By :"Gerard Jones"
Published on 2005-09-20 by Basic Books

Category :"Art"

Springing from the depths of the Depression, the birth of the comic book superhero spawned a new genre that still resonates seventy years later, a journey chronicled in an in-depth look at the people and personalities behind the creations. 60,000 first printing.

Lenght : 384

Language : en

This Book was ranked 6 by Google Books for keyword the book of tomorrow

Seasons of Tomorrow

By :"Cindy Woodsmall"
Published on 2014-04-15 by WaterBrook

Category :"Fiction"

As love restores Rhoda, a sudden tragedy is the test of faith she never saw coming. More settled in her heart than ever before, Rhoda Byler feels a newfound confidence living in the Old Order Amish settlement she helped establish in Orchard Bend, Maine. Time has helped to heal the wounds of Rhoda’s recent severed relationship, and she finds that even her unusual gift of profound intuition is less of a burden as she continues to seek God’s wisdom for her future. She is happy to be working alongside the King family and the love of her life as they tend and nurture the settlement’s orchard. Yet when Leah King’s involvement with Englischer Landon Olson becomes known outside of the Maine community, her disregard of the Ordnung could threaten all the Orchard Bend Amish are building. In the midst of addressing the discord, a shocking tragedy challenges the young settlement like never before, threatening to uproot Rhoda’s peace and the future of everything she holds dear. When several members of Orchard Bend Farms are displaced, the estranged King brother is called upon to return. Can those who founded the new Amish community in Maine unite Or will the lingering pain of past hurts and present struggles result in the end of their dreams?

Lenght : 336

Language : en

This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword the book of tomorrow

Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition

By :"Elizabeth Heyrick"
Published on 1838 by

Category :"Antislavery movements"

Lenght : 35

Language : en

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword com

Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia

By :"William John Hamilton"
Published on 1842 by

Category :"Armenia"

Lenght : 544

Language : en

This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword com

The Natural History of Pliny

By :"Pliny (the Elder.)"
Published on 1855 by

Category :"Natural history"

Lenght :

Language : en

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword com

Nineveh and its remains

By :"Sir Austen Henry Layard"
Published on 1850 by G.P. Putnam

Category :"Assyria"

Lenght :

Language : en

This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword com

A Little Life

By :"Hanya Yanagihara"
Published on 2015-05-21 by Picador

Category :"Fiction"

WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE 2015 & SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 \

Lenght : 640

Language : en

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword by the time you read this

Hyperbole and a Half

By :"Allie Brosh"
Published on 2013-10-29 by Simon and Schuster

Category :"Biography & Autobiography"

Collects autobiographical, illustrated essays and cartoons from the author's popular blog and related new material that humorously and candidly deals with her own idiosyncrasies and battles with depression.

Lenght : 369

Language : en

This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword by the time you read this

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

By :"Jenny Lawson"
Published on 2012-04-17 by Penguin

Category :"Biography & Autobiography"

From the New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy... When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Includes a new chapter! Readers Guide Inside From the Trade Paperback edition.

Lenght : 384

Language : en

This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword by the time you read this

Consider the Lobster

By :"David Foster Wallace"
Published on 2005-12-01 by Little, Brown

Category :"Literary Criticism"

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.

Lenght : 352

Language : en

This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword eating animals

For Love of Animals

By :"Charles Camosy"
Published on 2013-10-25 by Franciscan Media

Category :"Religion"

For Love of Animals is an honest and thoughtful look at our responsibility as Christians with respect to animals. Many Christians misunderstand both history and their own tradition in thinking about animals. They are joined by prominent secular thinkers who blame Christianity for the Western world's failure to seriously consider the moral status of nonhuman animals. This book explains how traditional Christian ideas and principles—like nonviolence, concern for the vulnerable, respect for life, stewardship of God's creation, and rejection of consumerism—require us to treat animals morally. Though this point of view is often thought of as liberal, the book cites several conservatives who are also concerned about animals. Camosy's Christian argument transcends secular politics. The book's starting point for a Christian position on animals—from the creation story in Genesis to Jesus's eating habits in the Gospels—rests in Scripture. It then moves to explore the views of the Church Fathers, the teachings of the Catholic Church, and current discussions in both Catholic and Protestant theology. Ultimately, however, the book is concerned not with abstract ideas, but with how we should live our everyday lives. Should Christians eat meat? Is cooperation with factory farming evil? What sort of medical research on animals is justified? Camosy also asks difficult questions about hunting and pet ownership. This is an ideal resource for those who are interested in thinking about animals from the perspective of Christian ethics and the consistent ethic of life. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter and suggestions for further reading round out the usefulness of this important work.

Lenght : 144

Language : en

This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword eating animals

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat

By :"Hal Herzog"
Published on 2011-08-09 by Harper Collins

Category :"Social Science"

Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What can we learn from biomedical research with mice? Who enjoys a better quality of life—–the chicken destined for your dinner plate or the rooster in a Saturday night cockfight? Why is it wrong to eat the family dog? Drawing on more than two decades of research into the emerging field of anthrozoology, the science of human–animal relations, Hal Herzog offers an illuminating exploration of the fierce moral conundrums we face every day regarding the creatures with whom we share our world. Alternately poignant, challenging, and laugh-out-loud funny—blending anthropology, behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy—this enlightening and provocative book will forever change the way we look at our relationships with other creatures and, ultimately, how we see ourselves.

Lenght : 368

Language : en

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword eating animals

Embassytown

By :"China Mi??ville"
Published on 2011-05-17 by Del Rey

Category :"Fiction"

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties: to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak—but which speaks through her, whether she likes it or not.

Lenght : 368

Language : en

This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword the windup girl

Our Lady of the Ice

By :"Cassandra Rose Clarke"
Published on 2015-10-27 by Simon and Schuster

Category :"Fiction"

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union meets The Windup Girl when a female PI goes up against a ruthless gangster—just as both humans and robots agitate for independence in an Argentinian colony in Antarctica. In Argentine Antarctica, Eliana Gomez is the only female PI in Hope City—a domed colony dependent on electricity (and maintenance robots) for heat, light, and survival in the icy deserts of the continent. At the center is an old amusement park—now home only to the androids once programmed to entertain—but Hope City’s days as a tourist destination are long over. Now the City produces atomic power for the mainland while local factions agitate for independence and a local mobster, Ignacio Cabrera, runs a brisk black-market trade in illegally imported food. Eliana doesn’t care about politics. She doesn’t even care—much—that her boyfriend, Diego, works as muscle for Cabrera. She just wants to save enough money to escape Hope City. But when an aristocrat hires Eliana to protect an explosive personal secret, Eliana finds herself caught up in the political tensions threatening to tear Hope City apart. In the clash of backstabbing politicians, violent freedom fighters, a gangster who will stop at nothing to protect his interests, and a newly sentient robot underclass intent on a very different independence, Eliana finds her job coming into deadly conflict with Diego’s, just as the electricity that keeps Hope City from freezing begins to fail… From the inner workings of the mob to the story of a revolution to the amazing settings, this story has got it all. Ultimately, however, Our Lady of the Ice questions what it means to be human, what it means to be free, and whether we’re ever able to transcend our pasts and our programming to find true independence.

Lenght : 432

Language : en

This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword the windup girl

Shadowlands

By :"Brian Sibley"
Published on 2013 by Hodder Paperbacks

Category :

'We feasted on love, every mode of it - solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes as comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers.' C. S. Lewis The celebrated scholar and writer C. S. Lewis achieved great success in his life - yet to many he remained an engima. Although he had many friends, few if any ever saw the real, private Lewis and for six decades of his life he remained a confirmed bachelor. Then, at the age of sixty, Lewis met Joy Davidman. Davidman, an unconventional American divorcee, turned his world upside down. It was with her that Lewis truly found love and was drawn out of his shell. This is the story of their brief but incandescent love, its tragic end and a faith that endures beyond even the deepest grief. This updated edition contains a new Introduction by author Brian Sibley and a Preface by the UK's leading Lewis scholar, Alister McGrath.

Lenght : 192

Language : en

This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword shadowland

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By :"haldjas"
Published on by Lulu.com

Category :

Lenght :

Language : en

This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword shadowland

Cloudland and shadowland

By :"John Thackray Bunce"
Published on 1868 by

Category :

Lenght : 166

Language : en

This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword shadowland

Shadowland

By :"Alyson Noel","Alyson Noël"
Published on 2010-09-14 by Macmillan

Category :"Juvenile Fiction"

Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives and fought off the world's darkest enemies to be together forever, but just as their long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse threatens them.

Lenght : 368

Language : en

This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword shadowland

Some Things Go Bump in the Night

By :"Deborah L. Davis"
Published on 2010-04 by Publishamerica Incorporated

Category :"Body, Mind & Spirit"

This book includes 30 famous haunted hotels, inns, B&Bs, and restaurants. I have personally spoken with or visited the owners or innkeepers of these places. These stories have made my hair stand on end soâ€¦get the book, lock your doors, turn ON the lights and hope you survive the night!

Lenght : 200

Language : en

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword bump in the night