Top Books of 1996
The most significant literary works published this year.
A Game of Thrones
By Unknown Author
***A Game of Thrones*** is the inaugural novel in ***A Song of Ice and Fire***, an epic series of fantasy novels crafted by the American author **George R. R. Martin**. Published on August 1, 1996, this novel introduces readers to the richly detailed world of Westeros and Essos, where political intrigue, power struggles, and magical elements intertwine. The story unfolds through multiple perspectives, each chapter focusing on a different character, allowing readers to experience the narrative from various angles. This complex structure has become a hallmark of Martin's storytelling, immersing readers in the lives and motivations of a diverse cast. ### Plot Summary Set in the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, the narrative revolves around the power struggles among noble families vying for the Iron Throne, the seat of power in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. The story is rich with political intrigue, betrayal, and epic battles, as well as a deep exploration of themes such as loyalty, honor, and the consequences of power. ### Themes The novel explores themes of power, loyalty, and the moral complexities of leadership. It delves into the consequences of ambition and the struggle between personal honor and political necessity. The richly detailed world-building and intricate character development make ***A Game of Thrones*** a compelling and immersive read. ### Key Characters - **Eddard "Ned" Stark**: The honorable Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, known for his unwavering honor and sense of duty. - **Catelyn Stark**: The devoted wife of Eddard Stark, whose strength and wisdom guide her family through challenging times. - **Robert Baratheon**: The King of the Seven Kingdoms, who won the throne through rebellion. His reign is marked by political intrigue and personal struggles, reflecting the broader conflicts of the realm. - **Cersei Lannister**: The ambitious and cunning Queen of Westeros, whose political acumen and determination make her a formidable presence in the court. - **Jaime Lannister**: A skilled swordsman and member of the Kingsguard, known for his prowess in battle and complex loyalties. - **Tyrion Lannister**: The witty and resourceful dwarf, known for his sharp mind and cunning, navigating the treacherous politics of the realm. - **Daenerys Targaryen**: An exiled princess of House Targaryen, seeking to reclaim her birthright and restore her family's dynasty. - **Jon Snow**: The bastard son of Eddard Stark, who joins the Night's Watch and faces unique challenges in the far north. - **Sansa Stark**: The eldest daughter of Eddard Stark, initially known for her naivety and romantic ideals, who learns to navigate the complexities of court life. - **Arya Stark**: The youngest daughter of Eddard Stark, known for her spirited and adventurous nature, seeking her own path in the world. - **Bran Stark**: The second son of Eddard Stark, whose life takes a dramatic turn. ### Awards and Recognition - Winner of the 1997 Locus Award - Nominated for the 1997 Nebula Award - Nominated for the 1997 World Fantasy Award - Winner of the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella for "Blood of the Dragon," which includes the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel - Became a New York Times Bestseller in January 2011 and reached No. 1 on the list in July 2011 Followed by: [***A Clash of Kings***][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL257939W
The Green Mile
By Unknown Author
The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single-volume work. The book is an example of magical realism. The Green Mile won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1996. In 1997, The Green Mile was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". ---------- Contains: 1. [The Two Dead Girls](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149165W/The_Two_Dead_Girls) 2. [The Mouse on the Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149147W/The_Mouse_on_the_Mile) 3. [Coffey's Hands](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149107W/Coffey's_Hands) 4. [The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15861106W/The_Bad_Death_of_Eduard_Delacroix) 5. [Night Journey](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16252000W/Night_Journey) 6. [Coffey on the Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15136222W/Coffey_on_the_Mile)
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
By Unknown Author
Includes a bonus excerpt of Robin Sharma's upcoming The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. With more than four million copies sold in fifty-one languages, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari launched a bestselling series and continues to help people from every walk of life live with far greater success, happiness and meaning in these times of dramatic uncertainty. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari celebrates the story of Julian Mantle, a successful but misguided lawyer whose physical and emotional collapse propels him to confront his life. The result is an engaging odyssey on how to release your potential and live with passion, purpose and peace. A brilliant blend of timeless wisdom and cutting-edge success principles, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is now, more than ever, a guide for the times, as countless Canadians dedicate themselves to living a life where family, work and personal fulfillment are achieved in harmonious balance.
The Notebook
By Unknown Author
A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. An achingly tender story about the enduring power of love. A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories...until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, The Notebook establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters. "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." And so begins one of the most poignant and compelling love stories you will ever read...The Notebook
Fight Club
By Unknown Author
A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together. Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.
Angela's Ashes
By Unknown Author
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. in the 1930s and 40s. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling -- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. - Jacket flap.
Airframe
By Unknown Author
Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf and then in 1997, as a paperback, by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and 56 injured. ---------- See also: [Airframe. 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28764897W/Airframe._1_2)
Bridget Jones's Diary
By Unknown Author
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. Written in the form of a personal diary, the novel chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman living in London. She writes about her career, self-image, vices, family, friends, and romantic relationships. ---------- Also contained in: [Novels (Bridget Jones's Diary / Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17546573W)
Into the Wild
By Unknown Author
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of I*nto the Wild*. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and , unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interst that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the dries and desires that propelled McCandless. Digging deeply, he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naivete, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity , and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding--and not an ounce of sentimentality. Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, *Into the Wild* is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Into Thin Air
By Unknown Author
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds...Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed Outside journalist and author of the bestselling Into the Wild. Taking the reader step by step from Katmandu to the mountain's deadly pinnacle, Krakauer has his readers shaking on the edge of their seat. Beyond the terrors of this account, however, he also peers deeply into the myth of the world's tallest mountain. What is is about Everest that has compelled so many poeple--including himself--to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense? Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.From the Paperback edition.
Neverwhere
By Unknown Author
"Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man with an ordinary life and a good heart. His world is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. This small kindness propels him into a dark world he never dreamed existed. He must learn to survive in London Below, in a world of perpetual shadows and darkness, filled with monsters and saints, murderers and angels. He must survive if he is ever to return to the London that he knew."
Desperation
By Unknown Author
Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin. Miners at the China Pit have accidentally broken into another dimension and released a horrific creature known as Tak, who takes human form by hijacking some of the town's residents. The forces of good orchestrate a confrontation between this ancient evil and a group of unsuspecting travelers who are lured to the dying town. This rag-tag band of unwilling champions is led by a young boy who speaks to God. ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.stephenking.com/library/novel/desperation.html
The Runaway Jury
By Unknown Author
An anonymous woman tips officials that the jury for a multimillion dollar trial surrounding the tobacco industry may be tampered with.
Hogfather
By Unknown Author
Who would want to harm Discworld's most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there's something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork's rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld's entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man's vacated sleigh . . . which, in turn, has Death's level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it.
The millionaire next door
By Unknown Author
Can you spot the millionaire next door? Who are the rich in this country? What do they do? Where do they shop? What do they drive? How do they invest? Where did their ancestors come from? How did they get rich? Can I ever become one of them? Get the answers in The Millionaire Next Door, the never-before-told story about wealth in America. You'll be surprised at what you find out. "Why aren't I as wealthy as I should be?" Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well-educated, middle-to-high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent? The answer lies in The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's wealthy. According to authors Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy in America. It is seldom inheritance or advanced degrees or even intelligence that builds fortunes in this country. Wealth in America is more often the result of hard work, diligent savings, and living below your means. - Jacket.
Push
By Unknown Author
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time
Works (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe)
By Unknown Author
This is the collection of all five of the books in Douglas Adams' famous galaxy exploring trilogy. It follows Arthur Dent and his friends as they travel around the Milky Way meeting strange new cultures and having many entertaining adventures in the search for the meaning of life. ---------- Contains: [The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163649W/The_Hitch_Hiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) [The Restaurant at the End of the Universe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163720W/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe) [Life, the Universe and Everything](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163716W) [So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163719W/So_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_fish) Mostly Harmless Young Zaphod Plays it Safe
Forbidden knowledge
By Unknown Author
Forbidden Knowledge boldly traces the tragic arc of Western literature and culture as it explores the notion of "forbidden knowledge," from the sexual innocence of Adam and Eve to the awe-inspiring discoveries of modern scientists who have created the atomic bomb and recombinant DNA. The result is a dire portrait of human presumption and of a culture that has abandoned all limits in the quest for knowledge and experience. The harrowing imagery that Shattuck presents is matched only by his faith that we can understand our grievous loss of innocence by reexamining our greatest myths and stories of the last two thousand years. In lively, lucid prose Shattuck explores our uncertain fate through such myths as that of Prometheus and a wide range of literary works, including Milton's Paradise Lost, the writings of the Marquis de Sade, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Melville's Billy Budd, and the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Parents and teachers should be aware that Chapter VII does not make appropriate reading for children and minors. In this seminal work, Shattuck breaks new ground in opening up a crucial subject never before accorded this full-scale treatment. Forbidden Knowledge impels us to a renewed effort to think judiciously about morality and the sacred during a decade of radical skepticism. Forbidden Knowledge represents the capstone of Roger Shattuck's career as one of America's most original and gifted thinkers.
Feet of Clay
By Unknown Author
Nineteenth in the Discworld universe and third entry of the City Watch series, this novel follows Captain Carrot, Commander Vimes, and the rest of the Night Watch as they attempt to unravel the mystery of who poisoned Lord Vetinari the Patrician.
Alias Grace
By Unknown Author
In 'Alias, Grace, ' bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since 'The Handmaid's Tale.' She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of circumstances?
Jingo
By Unknown Author
It isn't much of an island that rises up one moonless night from the depths of the Circle Sea -- just a few square miles of silt and some old ruins. Unfortunately, the historically disputed lump of land called Leshp is once again floating directly between Ankh-Morpork and the city of Al-Khali on the coast of Klatch -- which is spark enough to ignite that glorious internationalpastime called "war." Pressed into patriotic service, Commander Sam Vimes thinks he should be leading his loyal watchmen, female watchdwarf, and lady werewolf into battle against local malefactors rather than against uncomfortably well-armed strangers in the Klatchian desert. But war is, after all, simply the greatest of all crimes -- and it's Sir Samuel's sworn duty to seek out criminal masterminds wherever they may be hiding ... and lock them away before they can do any real damage. Even the ones on his own side.
Infinite Jest
By Unknown Author
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
Children of the Mind
By Unknown Author
The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world. Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves.
Excession
By Unknown Author
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.
Chrzest ognia
By Unknown Author
Nieustraszony pogromca potworów podąża tropem przeznaczonej mu dziewczynki. W świecie targanym krwawą wojną nie jest mu dane zachować neutralność. Oto Geraltowa kompania: JASKIER, trubadur w kapelusiku z piórkiem egreta. Studiował siedem sztuk wyzwolonych, słynny po wszystkich dworach i zamtuzach. „Kłamliwa łajza” i „zachrypnięty bażant” to najłagodniejsze z określeń, jakim obdarzają go porzucone kochanki. CAHIR, czarny rycerz z koszmarów Ciri. Poszukiwany przez najlepszych szpiegów Cesarstwa Nilfgaardczyk, który dowodzi, że Nilfgaardczykiem wcale nie jest. MILVA, trafiająca z dwustu kroków łuczniczka. Pyskata i do słów nieparlamentarnych skora. REGIS, cyrulik intelektualista. Nosi się staroświecko i pachnie ziołowo-korzennie. Osobnik jakby nie z tej bajki. Piątka krasnoludów oraz sprytny gnom zwiadowca.
Asesino Real
By Unknown Author
Young Fitz, the illegitimate son of the noble Prince Chivalry, is ignored by all royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has had him tutored him in the dark arts of the assassin. He has barely survived his first, soul-shattering mission, and returns to the court where he is thrown headfirst into the tumult of royal life. With the King near death, and Fitz's only ally off on a seemingly hopeless quest, the throne itself is threatened. Meanwhile, the treacherous Red Ship Raiders have renewed their attacks on the Six Duchies, slaughtering the inhabitants of entire seaside towns. In this time of great peril, it soon becomes clear that the fate of the kingdom may rest in Fitz's hands--and his role in its salvation may require the ultimate sacrifice.From the Paperback edition.
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
By Unknown Author
Principal Krupp once again turns into the superhero Captain Underpants in order to save the world, and Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, from the evil talking toilets and the Turbo Toilet 2000.
The Wedding
By Unknown Author
Lairds' Fiancées #2 Journeying from England to Scotland to wed a highlander, Lady Brenna had resigned herself to the arranged match. But when a band of fierce, painted warriors captured her en route, she fearlessly met their demand to marry their leader -- the quick-tempered laird Connor MacAlister. She couldn't know that her capture was merely the first act of vengeance against her betrothed, Connor's sworn enemy. Brenna harbored no illusions that her husband was in love with her; after a hasty forest wedding, MacAlister assured her she could return home once she had borne him a son. But she could not deny that she had once proposed to MacAlister -- ten years ago, when she was just a child, and the visitor to her father's castle charmed her with his dazzling, unexpected smile. Now, as she sets out to win the brave chieftain whom she has come to adore, a legacy of revenge ensnares Brenna in a furious clan war -- and only her faith in her gallant hero can save her... Lairds' Fiancées: The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1) The Wedding (Lairds' Fiancées, #2)
Borrowed Wife
By Unknown Author
To have ... but not to hold! Logan Steele was determined to win back his bride, Abigail -- even after four long years. And if she wouldn't come willingly, then he'd have to make her an offer she couldn't refuse and simply 'borrow' her back for a while. His pretense -- that he needed a wife to clinch a deal. His intention -- to persuade her to stay. He'd given himself a tough task, for Abigail was equally determined not to forgive Logan for the wrong she thought he's done her. Yet if she truly didn't love him, why was she still wearing his ring?
The Trophy Husband
By Unknown Author
Hidden agendas.... The personal assistant: When Sara Lacey caught her fiance being unfaithful with her cousin, she felt doubly betrayed. Her boss: Almost miraculously, Alex Rossini was on hand to help Sara pick up the pieces. However, having worked for Alex for some time now, she knew he never did anything without expecting something in return. So why was she surprised when he revealed that he was prepared to pay the cost of having her--be it money or marriage? Business or pleasure? Sara wanted Alex so badly, she would have given herself to him with no strings attached. But in order to win Alex, she would have to play his game--and choose her price....
Blood of the Fold
By Unknown Author
The third book in the sword of truth series The Blood of the Fold continue to hunt down those with the gift, unwittingly being used by the Emperor Jagang, aka the Dream Walker, who tells some that he is the Creator and others that he is the Keeper. Either way, the images he shows them in their dreams, along with the commands he gives them, are enough to make them comply with whatever he says to do, including crimes that they normally would never commit. The only way to escape his control is to recite the oath that binds people to the protective magic of the Lord Rahl. After a pitched battle with the D'Haran army, the surviving members of the Blood of the Fold plead the oath, releasing them from the waking nightmare control of Jagang.
Idoru
By Unknown Author
From first page Berkley paperback September 1997: **21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Is something different here, in the very nature of reality? Or is it that something violently *new* is about to happen...** *Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information, the "signature" an individual creates simply by going about the business of living. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful -- to certain people.* *Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. She's fourteen. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo/Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo/Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out.* *Rei Toei is the* idoru -- *the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez had declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo. True or not, the* idoru *and the powerful interests surrounding her are enough to put all their lives in danger.*
Sex and the City
By Unknown Author
A chronicle of the mating habits and rituals of America's cultural elite offers a look at topics including sex clubs, suburban sexuality, and celebrity affairs.
The Invasion
By Unknown Author
Jake, an average suburban kid, is confronted one night by a creature from space who teaches him how to morph into the forms of other creatures. This fantastic, unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat series can best be described as an "X-Files" for kids--plus a whole lot more! Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Marco are the Animorphs--five kids who can change into any animal they touch. The bottom of each page is animated with "flip-book" images, so as kids flip pages, drawings of each character "morph" into animals.
Essential Maths
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1996.
Gold Ring of Betrayal
By Unknown Author
They've never stopped being married . . . Nicolas Santino doesn't accept that Lia is his daughter. He believes Sara, his wife, cheated on him with another man, and Lia is the result of that betrayal. So Sara and Nicolas are separated - until the silence between them is forcibly broken - Lia has been kidnapped! Nicolas knows he is the only one who can secure the little girl's safe return, but it means he must go back to Sara - and find that, even after three long years, she still wears his ring...
Vampire Breath
By Unknown Author
Freddy Martinez and his friend Cara find an empty coffin in Freddy's basement along with a bottle labeled "Vampire Breath," and quickly learn that opening the small, blue bottle was a big mistake.
The Two Dead Girls
By Unknown Author
[The Green Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81629W/The_Green_Mile) #1 The story is told by former prison guard, Paul Edgecombe, of events in Cold Mountain penitentiary during 1932 when an unusual inmate by the name of John Coffey is brought to the prison. He and his fellow guards are assigned to watch inmates on death row, known as The Green Mile. John Coffey has been convicted of murdering two young girls and sentenced to death but there's something about him that makes Paul question whether this man could have committed that crime. ([source][1]) [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novel/green_mile_the_two_dead_girls_the.html
Two for the dough
By Unknown Author
Stephanie Plum is still an inexperienced bounty hunter, so her boss and cousin Vinnie gives her an easy case: apprehend local boy Kenny Mancuso, accused of shooting his best friend in the knee and then jumping bail. Because Kenny is the blacksheep cousin of vice cop Joe Morelli, Morelli is on Kenny's trail as well.
The Sparrow
By Unknown Author
The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience so harrowing and profound that it makes him question the existence of God. This experience--the first contact between human beings and intelligent extraterrestrial life--begins with a small mistake and ends in a horrible catastrophe.
JavaScript
By Unknown Author
JavaScript is a powerful, object-based scripting language; JavaScript programs can be embedded directly into HTML web pages. When combined with the Document Object Model (DOM) defined by a web browser, JavaScript allows you to create Dynamic HTML (DHTML) content and interactive client-side web applications. JavaScript syntax is based on the popular programming languages C, C++, and Java, which makes it familiar and easy to learn for experienced programmers. At the same time, JavaScript is an interpreted scripting language, providing a flexible, forgiving environment in which new programmers can learn. *JavaScript: The Definitive Guide* provides a thorough description of the core JavaScript language and both the legacy and standard DOMs implemented in web browsers. The book includes sophisticated examples that show you how to handle common tasks such as validating form data, working with cookies, and creating portable DHTML animations. The book also contains detailed reference sections that cover the core JavaScript API, the legacy client-side API, and the W3C standard DOM API, documenting every JavaScript object, method, property, constructor, constant, function, and event handler in those APIs. This fourth edition of the bestselling JavaScript book has been carefully updated to cover JavaScript 1.5 (ECMAScript Version 3). The book also provides complete coverage of the W3C DOM standard (Level 1 and Level 2), while retaining material on the legacy Level 0 DOM for backward compatibility. *JavaScript: The Definitive Guide* is a complete programmer's guide and reference manual for JavaScript. It is particularly useful for developers working with the latest standards-compliant web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 6, Netscape 6, and Mozilla. HTML authors can learn how to use JavaScript to build dynamic web pages. Experienced programmers can quickly find the information they need to start writing sophisticated JavaScript programs. This book is an indispensable reference for all JavaScript programmers, regardless of experience level. ---------- *Description from the Fourth Edition (2007, O'Reilly Media)* <h2>Printing History</h2> <dl> <dt>August 1996</dt> <dd>Beta Edition.</dd> <dt>January 1997</dt> <dd>Second Edition.</dd> <dt>June 1998</dt> <dd>Third Edition.</dd> <dt>January 2002</dt> <dd>Fourth Edition.</dd> </dl>
The Morning After
By Unknown Author
Cesar DeSanquez was right about Annie's beauty: it had made her into an international supermodel. But the only life about to be ruined was Annie's - by Cesar! In reality, she was a shy virgin, but Cesar preferred to believe in her glossy image. He passionately believed that she had torn apart his family in the space of a night. And now, in the cold light of dawn, he wanted his revenge!
Frindle
By Unknown Author
From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words. Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.
The Thief
By Unknown Author
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
The Regulators
By Unknown Author
The Regulators is a novel by American author Stephen King, writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, Desperation. The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the other novel's reality, albeit in different circumstances. Additionally, the hardcover first editions of each novel, if set side by side, make a complete painting, and on the back of each cover is also a peek at the opposite's cover.
Montana Sky
By Unknown Author
Kurzbeschreibung Dies ist Nora Roberts 100. veröffentlichte Novelle !! Der weite Himmel (Montana Sky) - Nora Roberts Der Roman spielt vor der weiten Kulisse Montanas. Die Geschichte um drei eigenwillige Farmerstöchter ist Familiensaga, Liebesroman und prickelnder Thriller zugleich. In seinem Testament hat der millionenschwere Farmer Jack Mercy verfügt, daß seine drei Töchter aus drei verschiedenen Ehen ein Jahr lang gemeinsam auf der Farm leben sollen, ehe sie sich ihren Erbteil verdient haben: Da ist zum einen die robuste Willa, die als einzige dort aufgewachsen ist; dann die smarte Tess aus Hollywood, die der Farm am liebsten den Rücken gekehrt hätte, aber dringend das Geld benötigt, und die zerbrechliche Lily, die nach einer gescheiterten Ehe dankbar das sich ihr bietende Refugium annimmt. Kaum haben sich die drei aneinander gewöhnt, werden sie von mysteriösen Anschlägen in Angst und Schrecken versetzt. Doch auch in Sachen Liebe geraten ihre Gefühle gehörig in Aufruhr.
Fear Street - Secret Admirer
By Unknown Author
Selena is on top of the world, her acting career at Shadyside High is going great- until she starts getting messages from someone calling themselves The Sun and accidents start happening. Can she find out the identity of her 'number one fan' before it's too late?
Jack's Baby
By Unknown Author
Surprise father! Nina in a maternity hospital? Jack Gulliver was in shock! This was the woman who had walked out on him eight months ago. Eight months! Could she have had his baby? He still missed and wanted Nina--with a passion--and now was his chance to get her back. Sure, he'd argued against having children, but he could change. Jack knew Nina was wary. She thought one cry from baby Charlotte would have him running for the door. But just how much trouble could one small baby be?
Blue Mars
By Unknown Author
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green "terraformers". The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations into the solar system, stand in the balance.From the Paperback edition.
Fear Street - The Boy Next Door
By Unknown Author
Scott, the new star of Shadyside High's football team, has moved in right next door to Lauren and Crystal, and both girls will try anything to get the chance to go out with him, but that is all Scott's last girlfriend wanted, too--and now she is dead.
An Innocent Charade (Enchanted)
By Unknown Author
Woman in a man's world! When Alisa heard that Luc Sanchez didn't approve of women in a man's world, she adopted a disguise. Luc wasn't fooled for a moment, but once Alisa's femininity was out in the open he was wowed into changing his mind. He wanted her skills, he wanted her company, and Alisa was delighted to have the upper hand - until she fell head over heels in love!
The Ringworld throne
By Unknown Author
From back cover Del Rey paperback May 1997: *Come back to the Ringworld... the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science-fiction stories ever written!* The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, so of the Kzin called Chmeee... legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires are massing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda -- if anyone dares approach them to learn. Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who will sit on the Ringworld Throne?
The Bone Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel)
By Unknown Author
Number one bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns with his most famous characters Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs in beautifully reissued editions.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
By Unknown Author
From the Preface... In the summer of 1993 the journal Foreign Affairs published an article of mine titled "The Clash of Civilizations?". That article, according to the Foreign Affairs editors, stirred up more discussion in three years than any other article they had published since the 1940s. It certainly stirred up more debate in three years than anything else I have written. The responses and comments on it have come from every continent and scores of countries. People were variously impressed, intrigued, outraged, frightened, and perplexed by my argument that the central and most dangerous dimension of the emerging global politics would be conflict between groups from differing civilizations. Whatever else it did, the article struck a nerve in people of every civilization. Given the interest in, misrepresentation of, and controversy over the article, it seemed desirable for me to explore further the issues it raised. One constructive way of posing a question is to state an hypothesis. The article, which had a generally ignored question mark in its title, was an effort to do that. This book is intended to provide a fuller, deeper, and more thoroughly documented answer to the article's question. I here attempt to elaborate, refine, supplement, and, on occasion, qualify the themes set forth in the article and to develop many ideas and cover many topics not dealt with or touched on only in passing in the article.
The night stalker
By Unknown Author
The definitive account of this serial murderer, based on sixty hours of personal interviews with Ramirez himself. New edition includes interviews with women who have asked to contact Ramirez since the book was first published, and a "death row interview".--From publisher description.
Goosebumps - How to Kill a Monster
By Unknown Author
This book is surprising and strange turns are always being taken.especially at the end!
Crash
By Unknown Author
Take a look behind the bully in this modern classic from Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli that packs a punch. And don't miss the highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday. Cocky seventh-grade super-jock Crash Coogan got his nickname the day he used his first football helmet to knock his cousin Bridget flat on her backside. And he has been running over people ever since, especially Penn Webb, the dweeby, vegetarian Quaker kid who lives down the block. Through the eyes of Crash, readers get a rare glimpse into the life of a bully in this unforgettable and beloved story about stereotypes and the surprises life can bring. "Readers will devour this humorous glimpse of what jocks are made of." --School Library Journal, starred review
Brian's Winter
By Unknown Author
In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. Finally, as millions of readers know, he was rescued at the end of the summer. But what if Brian hadn't been rescued? What if he had been left to face his deadliest enemy--winter?Gary Paulsen raises the stakes for survival in this riveting and inspiring story as one boy confronts the ultimate test and the ultimate adventure.From the Paperback edition.
Falling Up
By Unknown Author
A collection of humorous poems and drawings.
Principles of Macroeconomics
By Unknown Author
« Écrit dans un style clair, concis et direct, Principes de macroéconomie est le manuel idéal pour entreprendre l'étude des sciences économiques. Cette deuxième édition conserve la force et la rigueur du travail original de Gregory Mankiw, tout en présentant un contenu adapté à la réalité des étudiants canadiens et québécois. Ainsi, les auteurs misent sur une approche éprouvée, fondée sur la présentation de dix principes d'économie, permettant d'arborer de façon progressive les sujets essentiels de la macroéconomie. Des applications et des exemples concrets s'ajoutent aux compléments théoriques et aux retours sur l'histoire de la pensée économique pour offrir un juste équilibre entre la théorie, l'application et la politique économique. Enfin, les résumés, les concepts clés et les questions de révision présentés à la fin de chaque chapitre constituent de précieux outils pour la vérification de la compréhension de la matière. Dans cette deuxième édition -- qui s'adresse aux étudiants du 1er cycle universitaire inscrits au cours d'introduction à la macroéconomie --, on trouve une nouvelle mise en page dynamique et en couleurs, une mise à jour des différentes données et de nouveaux sujets d'actualité. En plus, les turbulences économiques récentes font l'objet de plusieurs exemples pour appuyer les concepts qui permettent de mieux les comprendre. »--
The Magic Tree House Collection #1
By Unknown Author
The adventures that started it all! Newly bound together, the first four books of the fan-favorite chapter-book series are the perfect introduction to the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series. Parents, teachers, and librarians hail the series as a tool to promote reading, as even the most reluctant readers want to know where the Magic Tree House will take the brother-and-sister team next. The story begins with Dinosaurs Before Dark, when Jack and Annie discover a mysterious tree house filled with books and a trip back to the time of the dinosaurs follows. In The Knight at Dawn, Jack and Annie are in the Great Hall of a castle; a feast is under way, but they aren't exactly welcome guests. When the tree house whisks them back to ancient Egypt in Mummies in the Morning, Jack and Annie must help a long-dead queen solve a puzzle. And in Pirates Past Noon, Jack and Annie find a secret map that leads to buried treasure and ruthless pirates! Mary Pope Osborne brings together just the right combination of history, magic, and fast-paced adventure to satisfy kids, parents, teachers, and librarians all over the world with her New York Times bestselling series.
Fear Street Fear Park - The First Scream
By Unknown Author
When her businessman father decides to open up a new amusement park despite the curse of the Fear family, Dierdre Bradley is caught in a seemingly endless nightmare ride.
The Perfect Date
By Unknown Author
Brady Karlin is getting on with his life. The memory of his girlfriend-- killed in a gruesome sledding accident last year-- is beginning to fade. Now he's met Rosha Nelson, the girl of his dreams. And he's never been happier.
A Wife of Convenience
By Unknown Author
"You can't blackmail me to the altar!" Rosie's plea was desperate. It had seemed so simple -- pretending to be her twin sister for just a few days. But her sister's fiance didn't take kindly to being tricked! Morgan Urquart, 35, was a proud, merciless man -- and he was determined to punish Rosie. He needed a dutiful, convenient wife ... and Rosie, 22, seemed the perfect candidate!
Born in Shame
By Unknown Author
A talented graphic artist, Shannon Bodine's life revolved around her job at a prestigious New York advertising agency. But her world was turned upside-down when she learned the identity of her real father: Thomas Concannon. Respecting her late mother's last wish, Shannon reluctantly traveled to County Clare. There, her loneliness and shame melted away in the embrace of the family she never knew existed. And amid the lush Irish landscape steeped in mysticism and legend, she discovered the possibility of a love that was meant to be...
Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren
By Unknown Author
Unable to compete with her friends' fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her.
A Kiss for Julie
By Unknown Author
Julie Beckworth enjoyed her work as a medical secretary at Saint Bravo's hospital in London, so it was a nasty surprise when her elderly boss, Professor Smythe, announced that he was retiring. After a moment's panic, she was partly reassured when told Professor Simon van der Driesma was willing to keep her on, but Simon turned out to be a very different proposition. He was younger, more energetic, and worked Julie much harder--all of which she could have accepted if he would only call her Julie, and not "Miss Beckworth" in that cool voice! Both of them had the wrong impression of the other--what would it take for the truth to be revealed?
When Things Fall Apart
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1996.
Shock wave
By Unknown Author
Dirk Pitt meets the most intriguing and sinister villain of his career--a billionaire Australian diamond king with whom he must wage conflict above and below the sea for the survival of vast numbers of sea creatures and more than a million human beings.
The Visitor
By Unknown Author
Rachel is still reeling from the news that the Earth is secretly under attack by parasitic aliens. And that she and her friends are the planet's only defense.
Exclusive
By Unknown Author
Barrie Travis is not famous: she's just a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station. Then the First Lady calls her...and offers her the story of a lifetime. The president's wife, stunned by grief after the loss of her infant son, hints that her child may have been murdered. Blind to everything but finding the truth, Barrie's fight for an exclusive story will test her ethics, her patriotism, and her courage. Then, with the help of Gray Bondurant, a mysterious former presidential aide, she unearths White House secrets that, if exposed, could topple the presidency. Now, even as she falls in love, Barrie must fight powerful forces that want nothing more than to see the scandalous past - and a certain young reporter - dead and buried.
Biscuit Board Book (Biscuit)
By Unknown Author
A little yellow dog wants ever one more thing before he'll go to sleep.
Exquisite Corpse
By Unknown Author
To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his "art" to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway. Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. . Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, and punctuated by rants from radio talk show host Lush Rimbaud, a.k.a. Luke Ransom, Tran's ex-lover, who is dying of AIDS and who intends to wreak ultimate havoc before leaving this world, Exquisite Corpse unfolds into a labyrinth of murder and love. Ultimately all four characters converge on a singular bloody night after which their lives will be irrevocably changed - or terminated.
Computer Concepts
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1996.
Executive orders
By Unknown Author
Political thriller, ninth in the Jack Ryan series. After a terrorist attack on the Capitol, Jack Ryan of the CIA unexpectedly becomes President of the United States and faces some unique challenges.
Coming Home (Today's Woman)
By Unknown Author
"Wednesday's child is full of woe." Sophie Grant certainly had her woes. Her parents had died and left a trust fund she couldn't touch; her home was condemned and she'd just lost her job! She had no option but to stay with Matthew Trevelyan in his isolated Cornish house. Then her woes really began. Sophie fell in love....
The highly sensitive person
By Unknown Author
A national best-seller in hardcover, this book identifies and defines a new personality type -- and shows readers how to overcome its limitations and maximize its strengths.
Chantaje Emocional/Emotional Blackmail
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1996.
ḥa- Hinukh ha-dati ṿeha-neṭiyah le-haḥmir
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1996.
Remember When
By Unknown Author
When multinational tycoon Cole Harrison approaches her on a moonlit balcony at the White Orchid Charity Ball, Diana Foster has no idea how life-changing the night ahead will be. The most lavish social event of the Houston season had brought out Texas aristocracy in glittering array but Diana only agreed to attend to save face after reading about her fiancé leaving her for an Italian heiress in a sleazy gossip magazine. Her Beautiful Living magazine is her family’s success story, and Diana knows that as a single, childless, and suddenly unengaged woman, she is not living up to its lucrative image of upscale domestic tranquility. But when she spots the pride of Dallas billionaires, Cole Harrison, closing in on her with two crystal flutes and a bottle of champagne, she has no idea that he has ulterior motives for seducing her tonight. And he certainly has no idea that a match made in what he considers logic’s heaven might be headed straight for an unexpected, once-in-a-lifetime love. “Judith McNaught once again works her unique magic in this charming, sparkling romance” (RT Book Reviews, 4 stars).
The Mouse on the Mile
By Unknown Author
[The Green Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81629W/The_Green_Mile) #2 The story continues with the addition of two new characters, one a new death row inmate--William "Wild Bill" Wharton. The other, a mouse, called Steamboat Willy by the guards who first noticed him and later Mr. Jingles by Eduard Delacroix, one of the death row inmates who takes in the mouse and makes him his pet. ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.stephenking.com/library/novel/green_mile_the_mouse_on_the_mile_the.html
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
By Unknown Author
Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.
The Vicar's Daughter
By Unknown Author
Falling for the Professor... All the village assumed that Margo Pearson was to marry George, but unexpectedly meeting Professor Gijs van Kessel made her pause for thought. But being a plain, practical girl, Margo knew the professor was most unlikely to look her way. It took a tragic accident to bring an offer of marriage--from the professor. It was a practical proposal, but as Margo was taken into the bosom of his family over Christmas in Holland, she did wonder whether he might, someday, return her love....
Green witchcraft
By Unknown Author
A Beginner's Guide to witchcraft and wicca. You can learn the basics of Witchcraft from a third-generation Witch raised in a family tradition. Positive, practical, and easy to use, Green Witchcraft combines personal anecdotes and the uniquely witchy need for a good grimoire. *Note: Just with all nonfiction books (especially those that have some personal touch) take any and all information with a grain of salt as biases may add their input.* ----------
Cell and Molecular Biology
By Unknown Author
CD-ROM contains: animations of textillustrations and self-tests.
Fear Street saga
By Unknown Author
A notable work from 1996.
The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake)
By Unknown Author
Anita Blake has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. She's survived a lot, but this love affair may kill her yet.
Marrying Mary
By Unknown Author
A perfect wife? Everyone in her family had agreed that Mary Pagett would one day make some man a perfect wife. The problem was that the only man Mary had ever even thought about marrying was eminent Dutch heart specialist Roel van Rakesma. From the moment he had walked into her life Mary had become quite contrary -- turning from a practical girl into a hopeless romantic. But it had been clear from the start that any attention Professor van Rakesma paid her was purely professional. Professor van Rakesma's only interest was In curing frail hearts, not broken ones!
The Realms of the Gods (The Immortals #4)
By Unknown Author
Daine and Numair are suddenly swept into the otherworldly home of the gods after facing certain death on earth. But they cannot remain there for long, because they are both needed to help fight the desparate battle raging in Tortall. And so they undertake the dangerous journey back to earth...a journey that will teach them a great deal about life and about each other, a journey that will lead to the startling culmination of the conflicts, both mortal and immortal, that have long plagued Tortall. (Fourth in the Immortals series)
A Careful Wife
By Unknown Author
Marriage merger! Honor was convinced Ryan Bailey was looking for a "careful," suitable wife. She was equally certain he'd never consider her an ideal candidate! And she was glad. Getting involved with Ryan would be a bad idea. For one thing, he was her boss. For another, he clearly wanted someone meek and obedient.... Only, it transpired that Ryan had a very different sort of woman in mind. Someone passionate; able to stand up to him -- someone like Honor! And once their relationship had crossed the line from business to personal, there was no turning back!
Servant of the Bones
By Unknown Author
Azriel, Servant of the Bones, is a ghost, a demon, an angel who finds himself in present-day New York witnessing the murder of a young girl- He finds himself obsessed by the desire to avenge her deathe her death___
Reckless Conduct
By Unknown Author
Behaving badly at the office party! Harriet Smith attended the company's New Year's Eve party in all innocence. It wasn't her fault that the punch she'd been drinking was stronger than expected-so that she'd ended up confiding in a gorgeous stranger about her broken engagement. How was she to know she'd been pouring her heart out to the chairman himself, Marcus Fox? Now Harriet has to work with Marcus. Luckily, she's since changed her image, dyed her hair blond and is a model secretary. Unluckily, Marcus still recognizes her--and seems determined to punish Harriet for her reckless conduct!
The Kindly Ones
By Unknown Author
In the longest Sandman story, Morpheus becomes the prey of the Furies--avenging spirits who torment those who spill family blood. A journey both begins and ends for the Lord of Dreams as threads and pieces building since the beginning of the series finally come together in a thrilling climax that forever changes the world of The Sandman. One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman set the standard for mature, lyrical fantasy in the modern comics era. Illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven. The Kindly Ones have many names: The Erinyes. The Eumenides. The Dirae. The Furies. Agents of vengeance, implacable and unstoppable, they do not rest until the crimes they seek to punish are washed clean with blood. It is to them Lyta Hall turns when her baby, Daniel, is taken from her, and it is Dream of the Endless who becomes their target. But behind a mother's grief and unyielding rage, there are darker forces at work, and what they set in motion will eventually demand a sacrifice greater than any the Dreaming has yet known.
Den femte kvinnan
By Unknown Author
In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The only clues Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a case that will test Wallander’s strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman. from Goodreads
The Dark Elf Trilogy
By Unknown Author
This work is an Omnibus containing the following works: - [Homeland][1] - [Exile][2] - [Sojourn][3] [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL516715W/Homeland [2]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL516812W/Exile [3]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL516832W/Sojourn
The Beach
By Unknown Author
Een jonge reiziger komt met zijn metgezellen terecht op een verborgen, paradijselijk Thais eiland, dat langzaam aan verandert in een nachtmerrie.
The butterfly lion
By Unknown Author
Trying to run away from boarding school in England, a boy encounters an old woman who tells him the story of Bertie and his beautiful white lion.
Fear Street - What Holly Heard
By Unknown Author
Holly learned a terrible secret, and now her friends know it too. Someone wants to make sure they never talk about it. Someone who'll go to any length to keep them quiet.
Only by Chance
By Unknown Author
Falling for Adam Life had not been easy for Henrietta Cowper, but she hoped to improve her lot. Then, shortly after she first met consultant neurosurgeon Mr. Adam Ross-Pitt, her small world changed irrevocably. She had Mr. Ross-Pitt to thank for her new job at the manor house near his home, but she was sensible enough to realize that he was beyond her reach. If her gratitude tipped into love, there was no need for him to know--even if he did continue to come to her rescue....
The Bride In Blue
By Unknown Author
Brotherly love...? It was Sophia's wedding day, but she wasn't a happy and radiant bride. How could she feel anything but blue when she wasn't marrying Godfrey, the man she'd loved and the father of the baby she was expecting? Instead she was to wed Godfrey's younger brother. Jonathon Parnell was coldly handsome, and ruthless about carrying out the deathbed promise he'd made to Godfrey: to marry Sophia and give their baby legitimacy and financial security. Jonathon had assured Sophia that this would be a marriage in name only, but now she was beginning to realize that he expected her to act the role of his wife - in every sense...