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The Spirit LevelKate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
Average wait: 5d, 21hThis groundbreaking book, based on thirty years’ research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the book lays out and the measures it uses are like a… more
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Shelter From The WindMarion Dane Bauer
Average wait: N/AIt used to be just Stacy and her dad, ever since Stacy’s mother left them five years ago. But Stacy’s stepmother, Barbara, seems to have taken over their world—and now she’s pregnant, too. One hot June morning Stacy runs away, not sure wher… more
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BlackbriarWilliam Sleator
Average wait: N/ADanny can feel something sinister about his new home, Blackbriar, an old, abandoned cottage in the English countryside. The residents of a nearby town refuse to speak of the house and can barely look Danny in the eyes. Then Danny begins to … more
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Elephant Girl: A Human StoryJane Devin
Average wait: < 1hWritten in three distinct voices — child, teen and adult — Jane Devin takes readers on an intimate, imaginative and often harrowing life journey. Born unwanted and raised without love, the child-author invents a rich inner life to see her… more
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BetrayedJeanette Windle
This action-packed international thriller brings readers to Guatemala, where anthropologist Vicki Andrews discovers that her sister has been murdered. Guatemalan authorities dismiss her death as another of the country’s frequent muggings or… more
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Learn Me GoodJohn Pearson
Average wait: < 1hJack Woodson was a thermal design engineer for four years until he was laid off from his job. Now, as a teacher, he faces new challenges. Conference calls have been replaced with parent conferences. Product testing has given way to standard… more
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Thin Wire: A mother's journe...Christine Lewry
Average wait: N/AThin Wire is an honest and intimate account of heroin addiction told by both mother and daughter. Amber is introduced to drugs and becomes addicted without her mother’s knowledge. She meets a dealer who feeds her habit. Whilst living togeth… more
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The Rose HotelRahimeh Andalibian
A country in chaos and a family torn asunder… In the midst of the upheaval and violence of Iran’s 1979 revolution, a young girl struggles to make sense of a complex swirl of mystery and change.In the novel, The Rose Hotel, Dr. Rahimeh And… more
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Soul DNA: Your Spiritual Gen...Jennifer O'Neill
Average wait: < 1hDo you ever find yourself feeling:Lost ConfusedStuckDon’t know which way to go in life?Do you ever find yourself thinking:”Why am I here?”“What is my purpose?”Do you feel like you are stuck in a dead end job or relationship?If you answere… more
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Isabel's Run (Danny Logan My...M.D. Grayson
When danger comes lurking in the night, most people run home and hide—safe behind a locked door. For others, though, running home isn’t the answer. For these unlucky ones, when the front door closes and locks at night—the horror’s not loc… more
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Play DeadAnne Frasier
Average wait: < 1hNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORUSA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORRITA AWARD AUTHORDAPHNE DU MAURIER AWARD AUTHOR ~~~PLAY DEAD IS A USA TODAY BESTSELLERWatch your back, Elise. No one understands the dark side of Savannah better than homicide det… more
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So We Bought the FarmSteve Riddle
Average wait: N/AWhen Steve Riddle moved his family to the country, he never planned on starting a farm. Raised a military brat accustomed to the nomadic life, he never dreamed about putting down roots and raising animals. Most of all, he never imagined he’… more
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The 4 Seasons of Marriage: S...Gary Chapman
Average wait: N/ASpring, summer, winter, fall. Marriages are perpetually in a state of transition, continually moving from one season to another—perhaps not annually, as in nature, but just as certainly and consistently. Sometimes we find ourselves in winte… more
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The Frugal Life: The Simple ...Michelle Stewart
Average wait: N/AAuthor Michelle Stewart delivers a common sense approach to living a simple, frugal life. With tips that include how to save money in almost any area of your home, how to cut back on entertainment costs without giving up fun, and how to inc… more
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Urban Gardening: How To Grow...Will Cook
Average wait: < 1hHow To Grow An Urban Garden In Any City With Little or No SpaceI Believe Every Person On This Planet Can Grow Their Own Food Using These Proven Urban Gardening TechniquesYou could be just months away from a harvest of delicious, fresh organ… more
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Robin: Lady of Legend (The C...R.M. ArceJaeger
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- 2ND PRIZE WINNER IN AMAZON’S BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD CONTEST! * Robin Hood is given an incredible spin in this fast-paced, exciting adventure story by #1 Amazon bestselling author R.M. ArceJaeger.When circumstances force Robin of … more
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The Spirit LevelKate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
Average wait: 5d, 21hThis groundbreaking book, based on thirty years’ research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the book lays out and the measures it uses are like a… more
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The ZonaNathan Yocum
Average wait: < 1hPraise for The Zona:”The Zona is a brutal glimpse into a post apocalyptic world that is all too plausible… If you enjoy your apocalyptic fiction gritty and with a hint of the new old-west, The Zona will blow you away.” — Paul Antony Jone… more
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Food Revolution, The: How Yo...John Robbins
In 1987, John Robbins published Diet for a New America, which was an early version of this book, and he started the food revolution. He continues to work tirelessly to promote conscious food choices more than 20 years later. First published… more
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Memento NoraAngie Smibert
In the future, it doesn’t pay to remember.In Nora’s world you don’t have to put up with nightmares. Nora goes with her mother to TFC—a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic. There, she can describe her horrible memory and take the pill that will e… more
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Ice AgeBrian Freemantle
A mysterious disease emerges from the Antarctic, threatening the survival of mankindAs the polar ice caps melt, scientists prepare for slowly rising sea levels. But there is a far more urgent threat, hitherto unimaginable, which in a matter… more
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Political posturing threatens to overshadow the scientific urgency of curing the aging disease.
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Vaccine NationDavid Lender
Average wait: 7d, 17hDani North is a filmmaker who just won at the Tribeca Film Festival for her documentary, The Drugging of Our Children, a film critical of the pharmaceutical industry. When she is handed “whistleblower” evidence about the U.S. vaccination pr… more
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The vaccine corporations will kill anyone to keep the truth about vaccinations a secret
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Memento NoraAngie Smibert
In the future, it doesn’t pay to remember.In Nora’s world you don’t have to put up with nightmares. Nora goes with her mother to TFC—a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic. There, she can describe her horrible memory and take the pill that will e… more
sharebooks700 added a soundbite about Memento Nora 1 year ago
Corporations or government; who's in control? Definitely geared towards teens.
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Ice AgeIain Rowan
Average wait: < 1hICE AGE is a collection of eight short stories of the strange and the chilling by award-winning author Iain Rowan.Stories of the dead and the living, and cities at war where it is hard to tell one from the other. Lonely roads and forest pat… more
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Ice Age by Brian Freemantle is a different book: Political & scientific thriller
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Parenting Books Guide: Quick...Monica McBride
Average wait: < 1hSo you think you weathered through the worst having nursed and cared for a colicky infant? You are probably looking forward to enjoying a restful sleep after seemingly endless months of waking up every 30 minutes or so. Well, you’re in for … more
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Pretty shallow 101 manual. On the plus side, it's a quick read for tired parents
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Wicked: Life and Times of th...Gregory Maguire
This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire’s breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, … more
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A complex and moving view of Oz and all the characters. There is much more to the "Wicked Witch"
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All the Shah's Men: An Ameri...Stephen Kinzer
Average wait: N/AThis is the first full-length account of the CIA’s coup d’etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (incl… more
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Riveting recounting of the US naively meddling in Iran. Crucial history to analyze Iran/US relations
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The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins
Average wait: 3d, 11hNow in paperback, the book no one can stop talking about …In 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 … more
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In case you haven't heard: gripping, fast-paced, and horrific. A dystopia that continually terrifies
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The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins
Average wait: 3d, 11hNow in paperback, the book no one can stop talking about …In 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 … more
sharebooks700 added a soundbite about The Hunger Games 1 year ago
In case you haven't heard: gripping, fast-paced, and horrific. A dystopia that continually terrifies
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The Happiness Project: Or, W...Gretchen Rubin
“This book made me happy in the first five pages.” —AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible Award-winning author Gretchen Rubin is back with a bang, with The Ha… more
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Full of humor and interesting tips, it will broaden your ideas about happiness and self-improvement.
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The Five Love Languages: The...Gary D Chapman
Average wait: 7hMarriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking t… more
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A completely wonderful, positive and straight forward way to ensure your relationship thrives.
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The PactJodi Picoult
From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish — and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Until the phone cal… more
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Great insight into the misunderstood logic of desperation and the tragedy of teenage suicide.
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Zeitoun (Vintage)Dave Eggers
National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book An O, The Oprah Magazine Terrific Read of the YearA Huffington Post Best Book of the Year A New Yorker Favorite Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kans… more
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Gripping and shocking read on the criminalization of free citizens caught in Hurricane Katrina.
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The DeclarationGemma Malley
Anna Covey is a ‘Surplus’. She should not have been born. In a society in which ageing is no longer feared, and death is no longer an inevitability, children are an abomination. Like all Surpluses, Anna is living in a Surplus Hall and learn… more
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Having children is illegal once death has been cured. The world is the domain of the old.
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Tooth and ClawJo Walton
A tale of contention over love and money—among dragonsTooth and ClawJo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King’s Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John… more
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A very solid read with a victorian era feel to it (plus dragons).
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The White Woman on the Green...Monique Roffey
A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad Monique Roffey’s Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait of postcolonialism that stands a… more
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A bitter couple regrets their life in Trinidad and mistreatment of each other. Depressing.
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The Civilized World: A Novel...Susi Wyss
A glorious literary debut set in Africa about five unforgettable women—two of them haunted by a shared tragedy—whose lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes explosive ways When Adjoa leaves Ghana to find work in the Ivory Coast, she hop… more
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A story of overlapping lives throughout the African continent. Shallow growth and grief.
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Matched (Matched Trilogy)Ally Condie
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander’s face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate … until she sees … more
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Girl is torn between two great boys, predictably choses the one that will change her life.
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Delirium: The Special EditionLauren Oliver
Ninety-five days, and then I’ll be safe.I wonder whether the procedure will hurt.I want to get it over with. It’s hard to be patient. It’s hard not to be afraid while I’m still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn’t touched me yet.Still,… more
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A girl is devoted to the system, meets a boy who isn't, begins to open her eyes and fall in love.
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