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# 1 - Taken - by Robert Crais
First week on the list
When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers don't yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two hostages back, he himself is taken and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole's steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers . . . before it is too late.
# 2 - Private: #1 Suspect - by James Patterson with Maxine Paetro
4 weeks on the list
Unsolvable cases
Since former Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most effective investigation firm--sought out by the famous and the powerful to discreetly handle their most intimate problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world--and they always uncover the truth.
Impossible murders
When his former lover is found murdered in Jack Morgan's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect. While Jack is under police investigation, the mob strong-arms him into recovering $30 million in stolen pharmaceuticals for them. And the beautiful manager of a luxury hotel chain persuades him to quietly investigate a string of murders at her properties.
The #1 suspect is Jack Morgan
While Jack is fighting for his life, one of his most trusted colleagues threatens to leave Private, and Jack realizes he is confronting the cleverest and most powerful enemies ever. With more action, more intrigue, and more twists than ever before, PRIVATE: #1 SUSPECT is James Patterson at his unstoppable best.
# 3 - Death Comes to Pemberley - by P.D. James
8 weeks on the list
A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy’s magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth’s sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy’s sister Georgiana. And preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball.
Then, on the eve of the ball, the patrician idyll is shattered. A coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, Elizabeth’s disgraced sister, who with her husband, the very dubious Wickham, has been banned from Pemberley. She stumbles out of the carriage, hysterical, shrieking that Wickham has been murdered. With shocking suddenness, Pemberley is plunged into a frightening mystery.
Inspired by a lifelong passion for Austen, P. D. James masterfully re-creates the world of Pride and Prejudice, electrifying it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted crime story, as only she can write it.
# 4 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - by Stieg Larsson
76 weeks on the list
In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head.
But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll seek revenge--against the man who tried to killer her and against the corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life.
# 5 - 11/22/63 - by Stephen King
12 weeks on the list
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force.
Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history.
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.
Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.
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# 1 - Ameritopia - by Mark Levin
2 weeks on the list
From the Amazon book description: AN INTELLECTUALLY BRACING NEW VOLUME ON AMERICA’S TRANSFORMATION AND THE CLASH BETWEEN CONSTITUTIONALISM AND UTOPIANISM—FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIBERTY & TYRANNY , MARK R. LEVIN Hailed by Rush Limbaugh as “the most compelling defense of freedom for our time,” and “the necessary book of the Obama era” by The American Spectator, Mark R. Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny made the most persuasive case for conservatism and against statism in a generation. In this most crucial time, this leading conservative thinker explores the psychology, motivations, and history of the utopian movement, its architects, and its modern-day disciples—and how the individual and American society are being devoured by it. Levin asks, what is this utopian force that both allures a free people and destroys them? Levin digs deep into the past and draws astoundingly relevant parallels to contemporary America
# 2 - American Sniper - by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
4 weeks on the list
He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers . . .
From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.
A native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father, Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11, he was thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror, and soon found his calling as a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a personal-record 2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved heavy fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly about the pain of war—of twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close friends.
American Sniper also honors Kyles fellow warriors, who raised hell on and off the battlefield. And in moving first-person accounts throughout, Kyles wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and children, as well as on Chris.
Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell.
# 3 - Steve Jobs - by Walter Isaacson
14 weeks on the list
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 ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
# 4 - Quiet - by Susan Cain
First week on the list
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer.
Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Taking the reader on a journey from Dale Carnegie’s birthplace to Harvard Business School, from a Tony Robbins seminar to an evangelical megachurch, Susan Cain charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal in the twentieth century and explores its far-reaching effects. She talks to Asian-American students who feel alienated from the brash, backslapping atmosphere of American schools. She questions the dominant values of American business culture, where forced collaboration can stand in the way of innovation, and where the leadership potential of introverts is often overlooked. And she draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to reveal the surprising differences between extroverts and introverts.
Perhaps most inspiring, she introduces us to successful introverts--from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Finally, she offers invaluable advice on everything from how to better negotiate differences in introvert-extrovert relationships to how to empower an introverted child to when it makes sense to be a "pretend extrovert."
This extraordinary book has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves.
# 5 - Killing Lincoln - by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
18 weeks on the list
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly
The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles. President Abraham Lincoln's generous terms for Robert E. Lee's surrender are devised to fulfill Lincoln's dream of healing a divided nation, with the former Confederates allowed to reintegrate into American society. But one man and his band of murderous accomplices, perhaps reaching into the highest ranks of the U.S. government, are not appeased.
In the midst of the patriotic celebrations in Washington D.C., John Wilkes Booth—charismatic ladies' man and impenitent racist—murders Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. A furious manhunt ensues and Booth immediately becomes the country's most wanted fugitive. Lafayette C. Baker, a smart but shifty New York detective and former Union spy, unravels the string of clues leading to Booth, while federal forces track his accomplices. The thrilling chase ends in a fiery shootout and a series of court-ordered executions—including that of the first woman ever executed by the U.S. government, Mary Surratt. Featuring some of history's most remarkable figures, vivid detail, and page-turning action, Killing Lincoln is history that reads like a thriller.
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# 1 - Steve Jobs - by Walter Isaacson
From Amazon's Books of the Month Review: It is difficult to read the opening pages of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs without feeling melancholic. Jobs retired at the end of August and died about six weeks later. Now, just weeks after his death, you can open the book that bears his name and read about his youth, his promise, and his relentless press to succeed. But the initial sadness in starting the book is soon replaced by something else, which is the intensity of the read--mirroring the intensity of Jobs’s focus and vision for his products. Few in history have transformed their time like Steve Jobs, and one could argue that he stands with the Fords, Edisons, and Gutenbergs of the world. This is a timely and complete portrait that pulls no punches and gives insight into a man whose contradictions were in many ways his greatest strength.
# 2 - Boomerang - by Michael Lewis
As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.
Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piñata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.
Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.
# 3 - That Used To Be Us - by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges—globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation’s chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption—and spell out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment.
They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues. They show how our history, when properly understood, provides the key to addressing them, and explain how the paralysis of our political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible for us to carry out the policies the country needs. They offer a way out of the trap into which the country has fallen, which includes the rediscovery of some of our most valuable traditions and the creation of a new, third-party movement. That Used to Be Us is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.
“As we were writing this book,” Friedman and Mandelbaum explain, “we found that when we shared the title with people, they would often nod ruefully and ask: ‘But does it have a happy ending?’ Our answer is that we can write a happy ending, but it is up to the country—to all of us—to determine whether it is fiction or nonfiction. We need to study harder, save more, spend less, invest wisely, and get back to the formula that made us successful as a country in every previous historical turn. What we need is not novel or foreign, but values, priorities, and practices embedded in our history and culture, applied time and again to propel us forward as a country. That is all part of our past. That used to be us and can be again—if we will it.”
# 4 - Great by Choice - by Jim Collins
The new question
Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times.
The new study
Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today.
With a team of more than twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness—beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years—in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these “10X companies” to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments.
# 5 - Entreleadership - by Dave Ramsey
Your company is only as strong as your leaders. These are the men and women doing battle daily beneath the banner that is your brand. Are they courageous or indecisive? Are they serving a motivated team or managing employees? Are they valued?
Your team will never grow beyond you, so here’s another question to consider. Are you growing? Whether you’re sitting at the CEO’s desk, the middle manager’s cubicle, or a card table in your living-room-based startup, EntreLeadership provides the practical, step-by-step guidance to grow your business where you want it to go. Dave opens up his championship playbook for business to show you how to:
•Inspire your team to take ownership and love what they do
•Unify your team and get rid of all gossip
•Handle money to set your business up for success
•Reach every goal you set
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# 1 - The End of Illness - by David B. Agus
2 weeks on the list
Can we live robustly until our last breath? Do we have to suffer from debilitating conditions and sickness? Is it possible to add more vibrant years to our lives? In The End of Illness, David B. Agus, MD, one of the world’s leading cancer doctors, researchers, and technology innovators, tackles these fundamental questions, challenging long-held wisdoms and dismantling misperceptions about what “health” means. With a blend of storytelling, landmark research, and provocative ideas on health, Dr. Agus presents an eye-opening picture of the human body and all of the ways it works—and fails—showing us how a new perspective on our individual health will allow each of us to achieve that often elusive but now reachable goal of a long, vigorous life.
When Dr. Agus decided to pursue a career in oncology, many of his mentors questioned his choice. Why, they asked, would a promising young doctor want to enter a field known for its inescapably grim outcomes? But it was precisely the lack of progress that inspired Dr. Agus to join the war on cancer. He moved away from the modern methods of the medical establishment, which aim to reduce our afflictions to a single point. Instead, as he does in this book, Dr. Agus argues for the adoption of a systemic view—a way of honoring our bodies as complex, whole systems. This outlook informs how we can avoid all illnesses—not just cancer. Dr. Agus
# 2 - Taking People With You - by David Novak
4 weeks on the list
David Novak learned long ago that you can't lead a great organization of any size without getting your people aligned, enthusiastic, and focused relentlessly on the mission. But how do you do that? There are countless leadership books, but how many will actually help a Taco Bell shift manager, a Fortune 500 CEO, a new entrepreneur, or anyone in between?
Over his fifteen years at Yum! Brands, Novak has developed a trademarked program he calls Taking People with You. He spends several weeks each year personally teaching it to thousands of managers around the world. He convinces them that they'll never make big things happen until they learn how to get people on their side. No skill in business is more important. And Yum!'s extraordinary success (at least 13 percent growth for each of the last nine years) proves his point.
Novak knows that managers don't need leadership platitudes or business school theories. So he cuts right to the chase with a step-by- step guide to setting big goals, getting people to work together, blowing past your targets, and celebrating after you shock the skeptics. And then doing it again and again until consistent excellence becomes a core element of your culture.
This book has specific tools at the end of each chapter that will challenge you to reflect on how you're really doing on key aspects of leadership. And if you apply it, you'll immediately start to improve.
# 3 - Deliciously G-Free - by Elizabeth Hasselbeck
3 weeks on the list
Growing up in a family where everyone came together at the dinner table, Elizabeth Hasselbeck savored the signature meatball, lasagna, and ziti dishes of her grandmother and great-grandmother, and the pierogies of her father’s heritage. But a decade ago, the Emmy Award–winning co-host of The View, New York Times bestselling author, and mother of three was diagnosed with celiac disease, and the family recipes she grew up suddenly became strictly off-limits. Or so she thought.
Getting rid of gluten, however, doesn’t have to mean giving up taste. Deliciously G-Free combines Hasselbeck’s knowledge for healthy living and passion for tasty food to bring you 100 delectable, easy-to-make, and family-friendly gluten-free recipes. By adding a variety of other ingredients to the fridge and pantry, she’s perfected scrumptious zero-gluten versions of old standards and new creations that would make her relatives proud.
Loaded with gorgeous color photos, Deliciously G-Free also satisfies your taste buds with ideas for gourmet entertaining, kid-friendly concoctions, cool-weather comfort foods, and “Get Fit” G-Free recipes. Plus, Hasselbeck opens up about her own gluten-free journey—from getting diagnosed to getting her family on board—and shares tips for how to stock your kitchen, prevent cross-contamination, and whip up G-Free flour mixes that literally take the cake.
Looking great and feeling good from the inside-out is just one Deliciously G-Free meal away!
# 4 - The Physchology of Wealth - by Charles Richards
2 weeks on the list
Why do some people feel a perpetual state of lack and fear about money, while others feel genuinely prosperous, regardless of the size of their bank accounts? Why do some people shudder with dread when it comes to setting financial goals, while others embrace it with enthusiasm and confidence?
What makes the difference? Could it be in their relationship with money itself?
People who enjoy a healthy relationship with money share common habits and traits. So, how do they think, and what do they do differently? Are these behaviors hardwired in an individual’s psyche, or can they be learned?
In this provocative book, psychotherapist Dr. Charles Richards provides unexpected and encouraging answers to these questions. Based on his research and expert interviews, Dr. Richards shows how each of us can develop a thriving relationship with money and create a rich and rewarding life.
A t the book’s heart are the stories of people who have faced adversity with courage and created extraordinary lives. Their accounts—along with Dr. Richards’ interviews with finance professors, legislators, entrepreneurs, and mavens of success—pave a path to a brighter future for us all.
Today we live in a trying economic environment. Every day, popular financial advisors exhort us to hunker down, play it safe, and protect ourselves from an uncertain future. To the voices who promote fear and doubt, Dr. Richards answers with balance, wisdom, and optimism.
The Psychology of Wealth is for anyone interested in succeeding personally or professionally, and in achieving true prosperity. It offers golden steps on the path to a better life.
# 5 - Strategy For You - by Rich Horwath
First week on the list
Do you have a plan for life? Think back on your life and how you arrived at where you are today. Did you envision where you wanted to be and then map out a strategy for getting there? Or, have you bounced around like a bumper car from one thing to the next? New research shows that only 15 per cent of adults have a written plan for their life. But what if you believe that you have more to offer? Much more. In this book, world-renowned business strategist Rich Horwath provides a five-step plan for building a bridge to the life you want.
Using the foundational principles of business strategy, Horwath lays out the five steps you can take to create a more fulfilling and successful life: Discover: Uncover your purpose through insight; Differentiate: Identify your unique strengths; Decide: Allocate your resources; Design: Develop your action plan; and, Drive: Execute your plan. The book gives you the opportunity to maximise your true potential at work and at home. Are you ready to build a bridge to the life you want?
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# 1 - The Fault in Our Stars - by John Green
3 weeks on the list
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
# 2 - The Son of Neptune - by Rick Riordan
17 weeks on the list
In The Lost Hero, three demigods named Jason, Piper, and Leo made their first visit to Camp Half-Blood, where they inherited a blood-chilling quest:
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,
To storm or fire the world must fall.
An oath to keep with a final breath,
And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.
Who are the other four mentioned in the prophesy? The answer may lie in another camp thousands of miles away, where a new camper has shown up and appears to be the son of Neptune, god of the sea. . .
With an ever-expanding cast of brave-hearted heroes and formidable foes, this second book in The Heroes of Olympus series offers all of the action, pathos, and humor that Rick Riordan fans crave.
# 3 - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - by Ransom Riggs
34 weeks on the list
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
# 4 - The Invention of Hugo Cabret - by Brian Selznick
98 weeks on the list
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery.
# 5 - The Lego Ideas Book - by Daniel Lipkowitz
13 weeks on the list
You have what it takes! Did you ever wonder what you can do with all of those LEGO® bricks after you have created the project they came with?
Now with The LEGO Ideas Book, you can take what you already have and make something new! The book is divided into six themed chapters—transportation, buildings, space, kingdoms, adventure, and useful makes—each with basic templates of key models and spreads to inspire you to create your own.
Hints and tips from Master Builders can help you turn your classic car into a race car or add a bridge to your castle! Don't be concerned if you haven't got all the bricks you need: this book also shows how to simplify details, making this a great user-friendly guide for any building ability.
Featuring all-new LEGO® building projects, tips to supplement and enhance your LEGO creations, inspirational builds, and expert advice from LEGO Master Builders, The LEGO Ideas Book will keep kids of all ages creating for hours.
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1225 Christmas Tree Lane, Debbie Macomber
44 Charles Street, Danielle Street
77 Shadow Street, Dean Koontz
A Dance With Dragons, George R.R. Martin
A Discovery of Witches, Deborah E. Harkness
A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny
A Turn in the Road, Debbie Macomber
Abuse of Power, Michael Savage
Against All Enemies, Tom Clancy
American Assassin, Vince Flynn
Bad Blood, John Sandford
Bearers of the Black Staff, Terry Brooks
Bel Air Dead, Stuart Woods
Believing the Lie, Elizabeth George
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Buried Prey, John Sandford
Carte Blanche, Jeffery Deaver
Chasing Fire, Nora Roberts
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Conviction, Aaron Allston
Crescent Dawn, Clive Cussler
Cross Fire, James Patterson
Dark Peril, Christine Feehan
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One Summer, David Baldacci
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Port Mortuary, Patricia Cornwell
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Spider Bones, Kathy Reichs
Split Second, Catherine Coulter
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis, James Luceno
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Strategic Moves, Stuart Woods
Summer Rental, Mary Kay Andrews
Survivors, James Wesley Rawles
Taken, Robert Crais
The Affair, Lee Child
The Best of Me, Nicholas Sparks
The Christmas Wedding, James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
The Cobra, Frederick Forsyth
The Confession, John Grisham
The Devil Colony, James Rollins
The Drop, Michael Connelly
The Fifth Witness, Michael Connelly
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson
The Ideal Man, Julie Garwood
The Inner Circle, Brad Meltzer
The Jefferson Key, Steve Berry
The Jungle, Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul
The Kingdom, Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood
The Land of Painted Caves, Jean Auel
The Litigators, John Grisham
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
The Measure of the Magic, Terry Brooks
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Omen Machine, Terry Goodkind
The Outlaws, W.E.B. Griffin
The Postcard Killers, James Patterson & Liza Marklund
The Race, Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
The Reversal, Michael Connelly
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, Alexander McCall Smith
The Sentry, Robert Crais
The Silent Girl, Tess Gerritsen
The Sixth Man, David Baldacci
The Snow Angel, Glenn Beck
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion, Charlaine Harris
The Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss
Then Came You, Jennifer Weiner
Tick Tock, James Patterson
Towers of Midnight, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Toys, James Patterson and Neil McMahon
Treachery in Death, J. D. Robb
V is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton
Victory and Honor, W.E.B. Griffin
What the Night Knows, Dean Koontz
Wicked Appetite, Janet Evanovich
Worth Dying For, Lee Child
Zero Day, David Baldacci
Hardcover NonFiction
****** Finish First, Tucker Max
1493, Charles C. Mann
63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read, Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell
A Journey, Tony Blair
A Simple Government, Mike Huckabee
A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard
After America, Mark Steyn
Against All Odds, Scott Brown
All That is Bitter and Sweet, Ashley Judd with Maryanne Vollers
America by Heart, Sarah Palin
American Sniper, Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
Ameritopia, Mark Levin
At Home, Bill Bryson
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Mark Twain
Back to Work, Bill Clinton
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua
Being George Washington, Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe
Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton
Blue Nights, Joan Didion
Bossypants, Tina Fey
Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff
Confidence Men, Ron Suskind
Crimes Against Liberty, David Limbaugh
Decision Points, George W. Bush
Decoded, Jay-Z
Demonic, Ann Coulter
Destiny of the Republic, Candace Millard
Does the Noise in my Head Bother You?, Steven Tyler
Earth (The Book), Jon Stewart and others
Empire of the Summer Moon, S. C. Gwynne
Heaven is For Real, Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
I Beat the Odds, Michael Oher
I Remember Nothing, Nora Ephron
If You Ask me, Betty White
I'm All Over That, Shirley MacLaine
In My Time, Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney
In the Blink of an Eye, Michael Waltrip and Ellis Henican
In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson
Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy,
Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI
Kaboom!, Darell Hammond
Killing Lincoln, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Known and Unknown, Donald Rumsfeld
Liberty Defined, Ron Paul
Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me, Chelsea's Family
Life, Keith Richards with James Fox
Malcolm X, Manning Marable
Me, Ricky Martin
Miracle of Freedom, Chris Stewart and Ted Stewart
Moonwalking With Einstein, Joshua Foer
No Higher Honor, Condoleezza Rice
Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward
Of Thee I Zing, Laura Ingraham
Perfection Point, John Brenkus
Pinheads and Patriots, Bill O'Reilly
Quiet, Susan Cain
Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
Red, Sammy Hagar
Seal Team Six, Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin
Seriously, I'm Kidding, Ellen DeGeneres
She Walks in Beauty, Selected by Caroline Kennedy
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Stories I Only Tell My Friends, Rob Lowe
Suicide of a Superpower, Patrick J. Buchanan
Swing Your Sword, Mike Leach
The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
The Greater Journey, David McCullough
The Hidden Reality, Brian Greene
The Last Boy, Jane Leavy
The Next Decade, George Friedman
The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels--A Love Story , Ree Drummond
The Quest, Daniel Yergin
The Roots of Obama's Rage, Dinesh D'Souza
The Social Animal, David Brooks
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
This is Herman Cain!, Herman Cain
Those Guys Have All the Fun, James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
Through My Eyes, Tim Tebow
Thunder Dog, Michael Hingson with Susan Flory
Townie, Andre Dubus III
Trickle Up Poverty, Michael Savage
Unbearable Lightness, Portia de Rossi
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell
White House Diary, Jimmy Carter
Children's Chapter Books
A World Without Heroes, Brandon Mull
Beautiful Darkness, Kami Barcia
Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld
Bloodlines, Richelle Mead
Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare
Crescendo, Becca Fitzpatrick
Crossed, Ally Condie
Darth Paper Strikes Back, Tom Angelberger
Demon Glass, Rachel Hawkins
Dork Diaries, Rachel Renee Russell
Eona, Alison Goodman
Everything On It, Shel Silverstein
Halo, Alexandra Adornetto