![]() ![]() ![]() A very helpful Cliffnotes-esque site, but much better, in my opinion. If you can suggest books from here, that'd be the best. A database of over 17000 books available online. Better yet, books available on e-readers. We'd also appreciate if it were a work of literature complete drivel that is easily located from a local library or book shop, as opposed to ordering something second hand off the internet and missing out on a week's worth of reading. If you have any suggestions of books, choose something that will be appreciated by many people, and has many avenues of discussion. In this thread, we choose one work of literature absolute crap and read/discuss it over a month. Welcome goonlings to the Awful Book of the Month! ![]() Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?! Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The government wants to capture the Shadow Man and has assigned the enigmatic Agent Franks to be Owen’s full time bodyguard, which is a polite way of saying that Owen is monster bait. The Condition is led by a fanatical necromancer known as the Shadow Man. Now an evil death cult known as the Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition wants to capture Owen in order to gain the favor of the great Old Ones. ![]() ![]() Accountant turned professional monster hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, managed to stop the nefarious Old One’s invasion plans last year, but as a result made an enemy out of one of the most powerful beings in the universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Knausgaard isn't afraid to be gauche, anxious, vulgar, inconsistent, portentous, sentimental. Show Less Product DetailsĮntirely ingenious. Utterly gripping and brilliantly rendered in Knausgaard's famously pensive and honest style, Spring is the account of a shocking and heartbreaking familial trauma and the emotional epicentre of this singular literary series. Read more striking novel in the Seasons quartet, Karl Ove Knausgaard reflects uncompromisingly on life's darkest moments and what can sustain us through them. It is a day filled with the small joys of family life, but also its deep struggles. Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over. I have just finished writing this book for you. Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles, beautifully illustrated by Anna Bjerger. ![]() Description for Spring: (Seasons Quartet 3) Hardcover. ![]() ![]() Her characters remain true to themselves and their bleak circumstances, making for some excruciating moments… One thing is certain: Ward’s Numbers is ace.’ The Los Angeles Times ‘It’s a gritty tale, unsparingly told, and debut novelist Ward demonstrates exceptional control of her material. ![]() What starts as a simple extrasensory gimmick grows into an increasingly engrossing and au courant plot line involving terrorism, class tensions, and youth. How would you like to know someone’s fate just by looking in their eyes? Creepy and original.’ R.L. The countdown is on to a blowup!Even the idea of this book gave me chills. But on a trip to London, Jem foresees a chilling chain of events: The city’s a target. Maybe they can find happiness together, if only in the brief time that remains before his expiration date. Until she meets Spider, another outsider, and takes a chance. Burdened by such horrible knowledge, Jem avoids relationships. Dates predicting with brute accuracy each person’s death. Numbers that pop into her head when she looks into someone’s eyes. ![]() Includes a teaser to the sequel! Ever since the day her mother died, Jem has known about the Numbers. Starred by PW and SLJ! Now in paperback, Rachel Ward’s gripping debut psycho thriller that pairs futuristic sci fi with a tender, touchingly real love story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Where it has come from exactly I cannot say, but it is to do with hope, it is to do with light. But Sweetie is as scared of Tyson as Ryan should have been and, as Marcia's learned the hard way, nothing's certain. But Tyson Manley is that kind of a boy and, as his trial unfolds, it becomes clear that it's his girlfriend Sweetie who has the answers Marcia so badly needs and who can - perhaps - offer Marcia some kind. She's not meant to be that woman Ryan, her son, wasn't that kind of boy. She's going there to do something no mother should ever have to do: to attend the trial of the boy accused of her son's murder. Today, Marcia is heading to the Old Bailey. Dustwrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good Yvvette Edwards' second novel, The Mother, tells Marcia's story. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Marcia Williams thought she knew her son. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children's paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. Since 1980 it has always been about the books. 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With 3 stores less than 1 hour outside the DC/Metropolitan area (1 in Gaithersburg, 1 in Frederick and 1 in Hagerstown, MD), we have the largest selection of books in the tri-state area. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the contemporary couples share their stories on how they met and fell in love, as well as photos from when they married or of the families they have started together.ĭays of Love is also a great source of LGBT trivia and stories that have all-too-often been written out of history.įor example, did you know that Sir Isaac Newton, who laid the foundation for modern physics, may have had a relationship with a Swiss mathematician, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier? Packed full of beautiful photos and illustrations it lovingly features the personal stories of LGBT couples from the dawn of history to the present day. A new book chronicling 2,000 years of same-sex love stories, from Alexander the Great to the latest Literary Award winner, makes the perfect Valentine's Day gift.ĭays of Love, created and Edited by Elisa Rolle, makes inspiring reading and lays to rest the myth that LGBT couples are not capable of sustaining life-long relationships. ![]() ![]() End of Watch ended up winning a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery and Thriller. I finished 6 books including End of Watch by Stephen King – which was also the last book in a series ( Bill Hodges Trilogy). I read The City of Mirrors during the Big Book Summer Reads Challenge last year. I finished the series with the 3rd book just months after it came out last year, The City of Mirrors – loved it! The Twelve was the 2nd book in The Passage series. Looking back through my Goodreads shelf, I see that the next book I read after Dark Places was The Twelve by Justin Cronin – another dark, but awesome book. After reading Gone Girl I wanted to read more books by the author, and went on to read Dark Places, which I also liked. This technique was also used, to great effect, in Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn. I love when this is done – and when the perspective turns out to be different enough to throw you. Fates and Furies was a life story being told from the multiple perspectives – that of a husband and then the wife. ![]() This month’s chain begins with Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff. A book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With its oversized format, high-quality paper, ribbon bookmark, and color on nearly every page, this edition is the perfect gift for Harry Potter fans and book lovers of all ages. This stunning illustrated edition brings together the talents of award-winning artists Jim Kay and Neil Packer in a visual feast, featuring iconic scenes and much loved characters - Tonks, Luna Lovegood, and many more - as the Order of the Phoenix keeps watch over Harry Potter’s fifth year at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifice. Now Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. exams a new teacher with a personality like poisoned honey a venomous, disgruntled house-elf or even the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? It's not just the upcoming O.W.L. There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. The fifth book in the beloved, bestselling Harry Potter series, now illustrated in brilliant full color. ![]() ![]() ![]() True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Girls have always left my nuts, my tragic acorns, alone. They don’t need the details of my particular shame to construct empathy. They know what it’s like to be degraded and fucked by this world, to be made a big-time bottom by life. When a man asks, “What did he do to you?” he’s asking to eat one of these traumatic acorns. ![]() I want to chipmunk or squirrel away the memory of this event, place it in a tree trunk with the memories of all the other rapes, attempted rapes, and gropes, memories that will never be released or consumed. A possessive part of me wants to hoard this story. ![]() |