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Most of the books on this list come from reviews in the magazines Entertainment Weekly and People. A lot of the descriptions are excerpted from the reviews. Please support these magazines and the books that they recommend.
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| Murphy, Julie | Dumplin' | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Netflix movie. When Willowdean loses her self-confidence, she decides to get it back by competing in her town's teen beauty pageant. I think this might be a "fat positive" book. |
| Murphy, Julie | Ramona Blue | Youth | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "A fresh and glorious love story". Ramona, who has long yearned for a life beyond her Mississippi trailer park home, identifies as a lesbian… but then Freddie arrives and makes her reevaluate everything she thought she knew. |
| Murphy, Pamela | Instant Pot Cookbook | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Easy-To-Do Recipes Using Simple Ingredients for Your Everyday Meals |
| Murray, Cora A. | Surviving Earth: Makayla's Journey | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. After two years of being alone, keeping death at bay by sheer will, Makayla isn't sure if she was fit for humanity, much less a young girl and two teen boys. At 19 she's seen and done things that would make your blood curdle and survived it all with the aid of her Dad's Glock, a sawed-off shotgun, her katana and the skills she learned from her Dad. But, as the days pass life is breaking her down. Will Makayla survive the Earth that has been left or will she fall prey to what hides in the shadows? |
| Murray, E.C. | A Long Way From Paris | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Set in 1980, Elizabeth carves out a life without heat, running water, or even a good grasp of French. Far from her younger days as a New England preppie and Oregon hippie, the challenges of farm work daunt her. She befriends an Australian shepherd, reflects on her spirituality, and muses on the man she left behind. Elizabeth grows stronger as she faces self-doubt while still maintaining her humor. She ekes fun where she can. When tragedy strikes Elizabeth's adopted family, she summons belief in herself and becomes the leader they desperately need. |
| Murray, Richard | Burden of Survival | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Killing the Dead Book . Season Two Book One - a separate story from the first six books. Ryan and Lily are safe on their island in the middle of Lake Windermere. At least that's what they thought. When the people from a neighbouring safe place don't show up as expected, all they have built comes under threat. With enemies from beyond their island and growing pressures within, they will need to fight just to survive while coping with burdens that may well tear them apart. |
| Murray, Richard | Hope Abandoned | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Killing the Dead Book 4. 192 pages. After the devastating attack on their camp by the undead, Ryan and Lily are stuck on the boat in the lake with the rest of their ragged group. Only Ryan knows that Beth is infected and will soon turn. The chances of surviving the apocalypse are becoming slimmer. With few options remaining and almost no supplies or weapons, the harsh weather of the winter months rolls in with full force. The threat of death is all around them as Ryan battles the growing need to kill. Hope is something long abandoned. |
| Murray, Richard | Killing the Dead | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Killing the Dead Book 1. 124 pages. Ryan has always lived quietly. He barely knows his neighbours, keeps apart from co-workers and is happy to be left alone. No one knows that he is a serial killer in the north of England. When Lily knocks at his door, pursued by the zombies he soon realizes that everything has changed. With the zombies growing in number, Ryan is more than happy to put his skills to the test by killing the dead. Anything to avoid that much greater challenge of learning to live and work with other people to survive. |
| Murray, Richard | Safety Lost | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Killing the Dead Book 3. 231 pages. Finding himself all alone, Ryan decides to follow after Lily and the group with the hope of meeting up with them as soon as possible. What would have been a short journey before the apocalypse began, is now a perilous trek through the zombie infested countryside of England. With no weapons and few supplies, Ryan has to do what he can to survive. |
| Murray, Richard | Search for Safety | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Killing the Dead Book 2. 168 pages. Ryan and Lily keep their group of survivors moving as they search for a place of safety to survive as the winter season begins. Short on supplies and weapons to defend themselves they know it is just a matter of time before the Zombies move out of the cities and spread through the country searching for fresh prey. |
| Murray, Richard | Various - Killing the Dead Series | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Author.
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| Myers, Mark | A Smarter Way to Learn Python | Technical/Reference | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.69 Kindle book. Learn it faster. Remember it longer. Research shows that you will remember everything if you're repeatedly asked to recall it. That's the beauty of flash cards. But technology offers an even better way to make information stick. With my book you get almost a thousand interactive exercises--they're free online--that embed the whole book in your memory. Algorithms check your work to make sure you know what you think you know. When you stumble, you do the exercise again. You keep trying until you know the chapter cold. |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Bad Boy | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A former Ambassador for Young People's Literature recounts his days as a bright but hot-tempered boy growing up in 1940s Harlem. |
| Myracle, Lauren | The Infinite Moment of Us | Youth | "Let It Snow" co-author with John Green. Two mature recent high school graduates fall in love and bring out the best in each other. |
| Myracle, Lauren | This Boy | Youth | Suggested By: Author. Lauren Myracle brings her signature frank, funny, and insightful writing to this novel of a teenage boy's coming-of-age. Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the hypermasculine crustacean king who intimidates the other male lobsters, beds all the lady lobsters, and "wins" at life. At least not according to the ego-bursting feedback he's given in his freshman seminar. But Paul finds a funny, faithful friend in Roby Smalls, and maybe - oh god, please - he's beginning to catch the interest of smart, beautiful Natalia Gutierrez. Cruising through high school as a sauced-out, rap-loving beta lobster suits Paul fine, and if life ever gets him down? Smoke a little weed, crunch a few pills . . . it's all good. |
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| Nabhan, Gary Paul | Coming Home to Eat | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. For a year, Gary Nabhan vowed to eat only foods grown close to his home - with amazing results. "The first manifesto of the local food movement, and one of the best - eloquent, bracing, and full of vital information" (Michael Pollan). |
| Nabhan, Gary Paul | Where Our Food Comes From | Non-fiction | Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine |
| Nadelberg, David | Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic. | Essays | Otherwise normal adults revisit private love letters and diary entries from their youth. Riveting and mortifying. |
| Nafisi, Azar | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir In Books | Memoir | Teaching English lit under arbitrary rules of Islam. |
| Namu, Yang Erche and Christine Mathieu | Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World | Memoir | This independent, curious, and talented young Himalayin girl's life is sometimes scandalous, always absorbing. Born in a matrilineal Moso society where women enjoy unusual freedoms and great responsibility; marriage is discouraged, and children are raised by their mother and brothers and sisters in a large household. |
| Nansen, Fridtjof | Farthest North | History | Suggested By: Other. One of the 100 greatest adventure books of all times (National Geographic). In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set out to explore the North Pole. Traveling by dogsled, Fridtjof and Hjalar Johansen faced dangerously freezing weather and the treacherous unknown in this spirited true story. |
| Napolitano, Ann | Dear Edward | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Jet crash sole survivor (ala real life George Lamson, Jr.). After a jet crashes, a 12-year-old passenger named Edward wakes up in the hospital to find out that his parents and everyone on board the plane were killed. Alternates between the pre-occupations of everyone on board before the crash, and Edward's struggles afterward to survive emotionally. Insightful and moving. |
| Naquin, Allyson C. | Ketogenic Instant Pot | Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. 100 easy, delicious, and health recipes to cook in the pressure cooker. |
| Naquin, Allyson C. | VEGAN Instant Pot | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. 210 Recipes in two Manuscripts: Vegan Instant Pot & Ketogenic Vegan. |
| Nash, David and James Talmage "Dr Prepper" Stevens | 52 Prepper Projects | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. A Project a Week to Help You Prepare for the Unpredictable |
| Nashawaty, Chris | Caddyshack | Non-fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Wild behind-the-scenes story of Harold Ramis's 1980 comedy. A joke-filled, jerry-rigged mess - prop gopher included. |
| Natera, Andre | Chef's PSA: How Not To Be the Biggest Idiot in the Kitchen | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. If you have ever worked in a professional kitchen, are in culinary school or thinking about a career as a chef then you need this book. It will guide you on the behaviors of top chefs and how to conduct yourself in the kitchen. |
| Nathan, Debbie | Pornography | Non-fiction | Nathan describes in clear and cogent terms the arguments for and against pornography, as well as looking into who is making those arguments and why. She examines the porn industry and looks at what pornography is like when it's made by women rather than men. |
| Nathan, Debbie | Sybil Exposed | Non-fiction | The story of Sybil was a wild fabrication. This book exposes one of the most damaging frauds in medicine - creating a gripping history of crackpot psychiatry. |
| Nathan, Melissa | The Nanny | Chick Lit | Jo leaves her country life to move in with an affluent London family. Laugh-out-loud prose balances the twisty plot. |
| Nayeri, Daniel | Everything Sad is Untrue | Youth | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Daniel regales his Oklahoma middle school classmates with stories of magic, myth, and his own miraculous journey as an Iranian refugee. NPR Best Book of 2020. |
| Naylor, Gloria | Mama Day | Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. In New York City, Cocoa meets George. They fall in love and marry quickly. But when she finally brings him home to Willow Springs, the Georgia island's darker forces come into play. As their connection is challenged, Cocoa and George must rely on Mama Day's mysticism. Told from multiple perspectives, Mama Day is equal parts star-crossed love story, generational saga, and exploration of the supernatural. Hailed as Gloria Naylor's "richest and most complex" novel, it is the kind of book that stays with you long after the final page. |
| Neal, Patricia | As I Am | Memoir | "What an amazing life that woman led." |
| Nealon, Louise | Snowflake | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When Debbie heads to Dublin for college, she leaves her eccentric family and their countryside farm behind for an unfamiliar new world. An endearingly off-kilter coming-of-age story. Will win your heart. |
| Near, Holly | Fire in the rain--singer in the storm : an autobiography | Auto/Biography | Looks much cuter than I expected in the pictures. |
| Nedescu, Lori | 30-Day Whole Foods Cookbook & Meal Plan | Cookbook | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A simple, satisfying program for healthful eating! Featuring over 65 delicious recipes and weekly meal plans, this cookbook makes it easy to cut out processed foods and adopt a nutritious diet you can sustain in the future. |
| Needleman, Jacob | Why Can't We Be Good? | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. What makes people betray their own moral values time and again? A philosopher tackles this question |
| Nei, Lu | Young Babylon | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Knowing nothing more than the working-class life he is born into, headstrong Lu Xiaolu reluctantly starts down the path he is expected to follow. At age nineteen in 1990s China, he feels pressure to follow suit with those around him and takes a job at the town's saccharin factory. Slowly, he adjusts to the bureaucratic factory routine, making the best of the situation by bonding with coworkers, flirting with girls, and refusing to give in completely to the expectations of those around him. |
| Neihardt, John G. | Black Elk Speaks | Non-fiction | One of Elizabeth Berg's best-loved books. Black Elk Speaks is the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863?1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881?1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. |
| Nellums, Eliza | All That's Bright and Gone | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. For fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Six-year-old Alice sets out to discover the truth behind her brother's death - with the help of her nosy neighbor and her imaginary friend. Endearing, funny, and poignant coming-of-age story. |
| Nelson, Antonya | Living To Tell | Fiction | Son returns to his family home after 5 yrs in prison. |
| Nelson, Claire | Things I Learned from Falling | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A gripping account. While hiking in the California desert, Clair Nelson fell more than 25 feet - and miraculously survived four days trapped between boulders. She documents her harrowing story in this astonishing read. |
| Nelson, Jandy | I'll Give You the Sun | Youth | Suggested By: Other. This heartfelt, breathlessly told novel takes teenagers' emotional lives serious without being either sappy or gloomy. An artistic boy named Noah narrates half the story and his daredevil twin sister, Jude, tells the other half. The siblings are close until a family drama wrenches them apart, and they must find their way back to each other. Each experiences and exhilarating romance - Noah's is with another boy - and an earnest struggle to figure out where their passions in life truly lie. |
| Nelson, Maggie | The Argonauts | Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Emma Watson feminist book club selection. Nelson touches on a myriad of topics: gender and identity, motherhood, transgender, queer families, same-sex marriage, writing and death. The opinion pieces contain occasional gems of wisdom, but soon become somewhat preachy, tedious, and boring. |
| Nelson, Mark | Millionaire Mindset | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $0.00 Kindle book. A Collection of Principles, Habits, and Mental Models From Top Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Great Thinkers to Achieve Financial Freedom and Prosper in All Areas of Life. |
| Nesbø, Jo | The Redbreast | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. Harry Hole series book 3. A chilling tale of murder and betrayal that ranges from the battlefields of World War Two to the streets of modern-day Oslo. Follow Hole as he races to stop a killer and disarm a ticking time-bomb from his nation's shadowy past. |
| Nesbø, Jo | Various - The Harry Hole Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The Harry Hole detective series by Norwegian author, Jo Nesbø. Scandinavian.
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| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and telling William Shakespeare's plays in a way they could be easily understood.
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| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | Harding's Luck | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. The second (and last) story in the Time-travel/Fantasy "House of Arden" series for children. |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | In Homespun | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Ten short stories of the typical Nesbit strong woman of 19th century England--a few not so typical in being almost amoral--narrated in the first person singular, and set in the South Kent villages and 'out away among the Sussex downs'. |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. The story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family; its sequels are The Wouldbegoods (1899) and The New Treasure Seekers (1904). |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | Oswald Bastable and Others | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. E. Nesbit created Oswald Bastable and his four siblings in the 1890s[2] and featured them in numerous children's adventure stories narrated by Oswald (not to be confused with the children's fantasy adventures, Five Children and It and its sequels). Many Bastable stories were first published in magazines, not plainly as serial novels, but they are now known from the three episodic novels The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899), The Wouldbegoods (1901), New Treasure Seekers (1904). Four more Bastable stories are in the collection Oswald Bastable and Others (1905). |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Book of Dragons | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Dragons -- of all sorts -- make for marvelous fun, and this collection of madcap tales is filled with them. Some of the legendary monsters are funny and mischievous, others are downright frightening, and a number of them are wild and unpredictable. There's a dragon made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, a scaly creature that carries off the largest elephant in a zoo, and even a dragon whose gentle purring comforts a tiny tot. |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Children's Shakespeare | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. May be the same as "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare". |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Incomplete Amorist | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Adult novel. Young Betty grows up an orphan with her strict stepfather, a vicar in rural England in Edwardian times. She dreams of being an artist, and one day, while she is out sketching, happens to come across a man who really is an artist. Predictably, the two of them embark on something we today would certainly not call an affair (they never even kiss or hug), but what was deemed improper from society's point of few back then. |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Magic City | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. After Philip's older sister and sole family member Helen marries, he goes off to live with his new step sister Lucy. To entertain himself he builds a giant model city from things around the house: game pieces, books, blocks, bowls, etc. Then through some magic, he finds himself inside the city, and it is alive with the people he has populated it with. |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Magic World | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. An influential collection of twelve short stories.
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| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Phoenix and the Carpet | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that begins with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb. Their mother buys the children a new carpet to replace one from the nursery that they have destroyed in an accidental fire. The children find an egg in the carpet, which hatches into a talking Phoenix. |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Railway Children | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. The story concerns a family who move from London to "The Three Chimneys", a house near the railway in Yorkshire, after the father, who works at the Foreign Office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children befriend an Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 train near their home; he is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence, and the family is reunited. |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Rainbow and the Rose | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Poetry collection. |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Story of the Amulet | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead--the "it" in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children's other discovery, the Amulet, thus following a formula successfully established in The Phoenix and the Carpet. |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Story of the Treasure Seekers | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family; its sequels are The Wouldbegoods (1899) and The New Treasure Seekers (1904). The novel's complete name is The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune. |
| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Works of E. Nesbit (16 books) | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Note: this list of contents is in alphabetical order, not the order in which they were published or should be read.
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| Nesbit, E. (Edith) | The Wouldbegoods | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. Stories about the Bastables, a fictional middle-class family that has fallen on relatively hard times. This is the second story in The Bastables Series following The Story of the Treasure Seekers. The third book is The New Treasure Seekers. |
| Ness, Patrick | Release | GLBT | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "An insanely beautiful writer" (John Green). As Adam Thorn deals with his new boyfriend, his religious family, and his feelings for his ex, he'll discover what truly matters. |
| Nesser, Hakan | Hour of the Wolf | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Swede crime writer. Retired police officer Van Veeteren is drawn into a web of awful murders. |
| Nestle, Marion | What to Eat | Non-fiction | Buffeted by health claims--should we, for example, restrict our intake of carbs or fats or both? Is organic food better for us?--we become confused and tune out. |
| Netzer, Lydia | Shine Shine Shine | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson. This literary love story takes place in an uptight, upscale, and decidedly Southern Virginia suburb--and also outer space. Astronaut Maxon is on a mission to colonize the moon with his robots, but it is his earthbound wife, Sunny, whose journey resonated so loudly with my own passionate, sometimes ambivalent, joy-and-terror-filled relationship with motherhood. |
| Neuburger, Emily K. | Journal Sparks | Craft | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Fire Up Your Creativity with Spontaneous Art, Wild Writing, and Inventive Thinking. Not sure if this is too arty or wordy for me, or if it would be fun to try. Journaling, Ephemera, Stationery, Mail Art. |
| Neumann, Ariana | When Time Stopped | Non-fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Drawing on letters her father left her when he died, the author reconstructs her family's horrifying Holocaust story and how the survivors reinvented themselves. |
| Neuvel, Sylvain | Sleeping Giants | SciFi | Suggested By: Suggested List. This doesn't appeal to me, but I've seen two rave reviews. A little girl falls into a hole and lands on a gigantic metal hand. A few decades later, scientists begin to find body parts all over the globe. I think I've seen it described as in the style of "The Martian", but I would find it hard to believe anything is that funny. |
| Newbery Medal | Various - Newbery Medal Winners and Honors | Fiction | Suggested By: Suggested List. Newbery Medal Winners. The John Newbery Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". The Newbery and the Caldecott Medal are considered the two most prestigious awards for children's literature in the United States. |
| Newkirk, Pamela | Spectacle | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Spectacle "Meticulously detailed… Readers will be moved" (Publishers Weekly): In the early 1900s, an African man named Ota Benga was put on display in a cage at New York's Zoological Gardens. |
| Newman, Paul | The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man | Memoir | Suggested By: Author. In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, began an extraordinary project. Stuart was to compile an oral history, to have Newman's family and friends and those who worked closely with him, talk about the actor's life. And then Newman would work with Stewart and give his side of the story. The only stipulation was that anyone who spoke on the record had to be completely honest. That same stipulation applied to Newman himself. The project lasted five years. |
| Newman, Sandra | The Country of Ice Cream Star | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In a devastated future, a plague kills anyone who reaches adulthood. When Ice Cream Star's brother begins showing signs of illness, she vows to change his fate. Better than The Hunger Games and Lord of the Flies. |
| Newport, Jerry and Mary and Johnny Dodd | Mozard and the Whale | Memoir | Suggested By: Unknown. The Newports, both autistic, wrote this memoir about their tumultuous but triumphant love story. Says collaborator, Dodd, "They hope their love story will illustrate what's possible when you don't give up." Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
| Nft | Not for Tourists 2010 Guide to... | Travel | Not for Tourists guidebooks are map-based, neighborhood by neighborhood guides designed to lighten the load of already street-savvy residents, commuters, business travelers, and yes, tourists too. |
| Nguyen, Andrea | Vietnamese Food Any Day: Simple Recipes for True, Fresh Flavors | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. Recommended by Christopher Kimball, founder of Milk Street. Drawing on decades of experience, as well as the cooking hacks her mom adopted after fleeing from Vietnam to America, award-winning author Andrea Nguyen shows you how to use easy-to-find ingredients to create true Vietnamese flavors at home--fast. With Nguyen as your guide, there's no need to take a trip to a specialty grocer for favorites such as banh mi, rice paper rolls, and pho, as well as recipes for Honey-Glazed Pork Riblets, Chile Garlic Chicken Wings, Vibrant Turmeric Coconut Rice, and No-Churn Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream. Nguyen's tips and tricks for creating Viet food from ingredients at national supermarkets are indispensable, liberating home cooks and making everyday cooking easier. |
| Nguyen, Bich Minh | Stealing Buddha's Dinner | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Coming of age in 1980s Michigan, a Vietnamese girl struggled with her desire to fit in -- and became obsessed with American junk food. "A charming memoir". |
| Nguyen, Viet Thanh | The Refugees | Short Stories | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. |
| Nicholls, David | A Question of Attraction | Fiction | A working-class nerd itching to remake himself at a snooty British university in 1985. By page 9 you'll be won over. This is a big-hearted, flawless coming-of-age tale, as scary and funny as your yearbook picture. |
| Nicholls, David | One Day | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Checking in on the pair once a year on the same date, July 15, over a period of two decades during which both become famous (but for very different reasons). The book is headed for the silver screen. Recommended by Nick Hornby. Over the course of two decades, good friends Dexter and Emma grapple with the rhythms of life. Hilarious and emotionally riveting. |
| Nichols, Michael and Mike Fay | The Last Place on Earth | Photo | Rain forests in Gabon and Congo. One volume of Nichol's powerphotos, another of Fay's dramatic journals. |
| Nichols, John | The Milagro Beanfield War | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The New Mexico Trilogy. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.
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| Nielsen, Sarah | Manipulation | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. How to recognize and outwit emotional manipulation and mind control in your relationships. |
| Nies, Judith | The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington--Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department economist. But when her husband brought home a list of questions from an FBI file with Judith's name on the front, Nies soon realized that her life was about to take a radical turn. Shocked to find herself the focus of an FBI investigation into her political activities, Nies began to reevaluate her role as grateful employee and dutiful wife. |
| Niffenegger, Audrey | The Time Traveler's Wife | SciFi | A beatifully written love story, with this weird sci-fi element. |
| Nightingale, Keith M. | Just Another Day in Vietnam | History | Suggested By: BookBub.com. If you want to know about war, Keith Nightingale is your man. The birth of modern-day special operations is elucidated in this account of an often overlooked Vietnam War battle. |
| Nisbett, Richard | The Geography of Thought | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Recommended in the NYT by an author and teacher as a good book to explain China to a Western audience. |
| Nissel, Angela | Mixed: My Life in Black and White | Memoir | Mixed people have a sense about other mixed people that's like gaydar. I have a friend who's biracial, and white people compliment her on her tan; black or mixed people can tell that she's partly black. |
| Nissel, Angela | The Broke Diaries | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In this candid and witty read, a financially struggling undergrad chronicles her daily efforts to stay afloat while pursuing her education. A "charming and sharp" account that "will be relished by anyone who's ever been a student" . |
| Niven, Jennifer | Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $1.07 Kindle book. The remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island. Blackjack was the only female on a five-person expedition in 1921 of which she was the only survivor. |
| Niven, Jennifer | Holding Up the Universe | Youth | Suggested By: BookBub.com. After a cruel high school game, Libby and Jack are thrown together in group counseling - and wind up changing each others' lives. |
| Niven, Jennifer | Velva Jean Learns To drive | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. From a New York Times bestselling author: Velva Jean wants to be a star in Nashville, but after an unexpected encounter, she must choose between love and her dream. "A touching read, funny and wise… Niven makes some memorable moon-spun magic". Velva Jean Learns to Fly (book 2). Becoming Clementine (book 3). American Blonde (book 3). Warning: by the author of "All The Bright Places" about two teens who were so off-putting that I couldn't finish the book. |
| Niven, Larry | Destiny's Road | Post-Apocalyptic | Post-apocalyptic. On the planet Destiny, which has been settled by Earth colonists, Jemmy Bloocher lives in Spiral Town at the far end of the peninsula. After accidentally killing a man from one of the caravans that supply trade goods and the essential potassium-rich speckles, Jemmy flees down the road into the unknown, assuming new identities to avoid capture for 27 years. Curious about what happened to a second landing spaceship, Jemmy traces its route 200 years after it first landed. He discovers what really befell the ship, that there are other towns along the road Spiral Town residents never knew about, and the secret of speckles. This realistic tale of power, deceit, adventure, and awakening by Hugo and Nebula Award winner Niven is highly recommended for sf collections. (found on list at amazon.com) |
| Nix, Garth | The Left-Handed Booksellers of London | Fantasy | Suggested By: BookBub.com. While searching for her father, Susan meets Merlin and his family of magical booksellers - who police the mythical Old World when it intrudes upon modern society. A witty, clever adventure in an exquisitely detailed world (ruh roh - it's not a "look at my kewl world" kind of book, is it?) |
| Nixon, Lindsay S. | The Happy Herbivore Cookbook | Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. Over 175 Delicious Fat-Free and Low-Fat Vegan Recipes |
| Noah, Trevor | Born A Crime | Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. The Daily Show host is the product of a black/white relationship that was illegal in South Africa when he was born. In 2009, Trevor Noah's mother was shot in the back of her head by her ex-husband. The bullet entered the back of her skull and came out the front, but still managed to miss all the important bits. The doctors stitched her up and sent her home, and seven days later she was back at work. |
| Nolan, Savala | Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body | Essays | Suggested By: Other. A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces--between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat. |
| Nolan, Stephanie | Promised the Moon | Non-fiction | Honors women in the Mercury space program. |
| Nolen, Roland | Beyond Performance | Non-fiction | What emps really need to know to climb the ladder of success. |
| Norberg, Katherine | You Can't Wallpaper My Igloo | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. Tales of living and teaching in the Alaskan wilderness. |
| Nordberg, Jenny | The Underground Girls of Kabul | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. An investigative journalist chronicles the gripping true stories of girls temporarily raised as boys in the male-dominated world of Afghanistan. |
| Nordhaus, Hannah | The Beekeeper's Lament | Non-fiction | How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America |
| Nordland, Rod | The Lovers | Non-fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Afghani Romeo and Juliet. Defying Islamic law, Afghanis Ali and Zakia, who are from different Muslim sects, risked everything to marry. A gripping tale of forbidden romance in a tumultuous unjust society. |
| Norman, Donald | The Design of Everyday Things | Non-fiction | Among other things, an explanation of good door design. |
| Norman, Elizabeth M. | We Band of Angels | History | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Follows US military nurses who were stationed in the Philippines at the start of WWII, serving the injured and facing the horrors of internment. |
| Normant, Serge | Metamorphosis | Photo | Celebrity photos, 'He transforms you and the results are always beautiful.' |
| Norris, Mary | Between You & Me | Memoir | Suggested By: People Mag. Part memoir, part grammar guide - confessions of a comma queen. Correct usage has never been so entertaining. |
| North, Claire | The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Until the eleventh time... |
| North, Vanessa | Roller Girl | GLBT | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $1.07 Kindle book. Recently divorced Tina Durham is trying to be self-sufficient, but her personal-training career is floundering, her closest friends are swept up in new relationships, and her washing machine has just flooded her kitchen. It's enough to make a girl cry. Instead, she calls a plumbing service, and Joanne "Joe Mama" Delario comes to the rescue. Joe is sweet, funny, and good at fixing things. She also sees something special in Tina and invites her to try out for the roller derby team she coaches. |
| Northrup, Christiane M.D. | Various - Christiane Northrup M.D. | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Movie/TV. The lady on PBS with the blue dress and the blond bob talking about how to live without aging. I'm not sure if she's a weird new age-y nut-job, but she's an M.D. with science to back up her ideas about how to live as you grow older. Her titles like "Goddesses Never Age" sound hopelessly naive. |
| Northrup, Dr. Christiane | Goddesses Never Age | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Movie/TV. $15.86 Kindle book. The secret prescription for radiance, vitality, and well-being. |
| Nortman, Karen Musser | The Time Travel Trailer | SciFi | Suggested By: Other. Kindle Free book. The Time Travel Trailer Book 1. A 1937 vintage camper trailer half hidden in weeds catches Lynne McBriar's eye when she is visiting an elderly friend Ben. Ben eagerly sells it to her and she just as eagerly embarks on a restoration. But after each remodel, sleeping in the trailer lands Lynne and her daughter Dinah in a previous decade--exciting, yet frightening.
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| Nortman, Karen Musser | Trailer on the Fly | SciFi | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. The Time Travel Trailer Book 2. She bought a 1937 camper that turned out to be a time portal. And when she meets a young woman who suffers from serious depression over the loss of a close friend ten years earlier, she has the power to do something about it. And there is no reason not to use that power. Right? |
| Nortman, Karen Musser | We are NOT Buying a Camper!: A Frannie Shoemaker Prequel (The Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries Book 0) | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. A prequel to the Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries. Frannie and Larry Shoemaker have busy jobs, two teenagers, and plenty of other demands on their time and sanity. Larry's sister and brother-in-law pester them to try camping for relaxation--time to sit back, enjoy nature, and catch up on naps. After all, what could go wrong? Join Frannie as "RV there yet?" becomes "RV crazy?" and she learns that going back to nature doesn't necessarily mean a simpler life. |
| Norton, Andre | Time Traders | SciFi | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA's greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with technologies--and weapons--far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition's ancient source . . . and take it down. |
| Norton, Christy | Once Upon a Dinner | Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. $3.22 Kindle book. Once a month freezer to crock pot meal planning. |
| Norton, Preston | Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe | Youth | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Sixteen-year-old Cliff Hubbard's miserable ife takes a turn when his worst enemy claims that God gave him a list of ways to make their high school better...and he needs Cliff's help to do it. Laugh-out-loud funny, well plotted and sneakily thought-provoking. |
| Nosrat, Samin | Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat | Cookbook | Suggested By: Movie/TV. $4.30 Kindle book. Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. |
| Notaro, Laurie | Housebroken: Admissions of an Untidy Life | Memoir | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. If Laurie Notaro's books don't inspire pants-wetting fits of laughter, then please consult your physician, because clearly your funny bone is broken. Notaro isn't exactly a domestic goddess - unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition. |
| Notaro, Laurie | The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death | Essays | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The incisive Laurie Notaro tackles everything from new neighbors to open-mouth coughs with the wit of Erma Bombeck and Jen Lancaster. |
| Notaro, Tig | I'm Just a Person | Humorous | Suggested By: Author. A world-class stand-up comedian finds the humor in a year packed with bad news. Thrilling, candid, hilarious. |
| Novak, B.J. | One More Thing | Essays | Brainy, quirky hilarity. |
| Novak, B.J. | The Book With No Pictures | Humorous | Suggested By: Author. Suggested by Sherman Alexie. I think this is also Mindy Kaling's friend. |
| Novak, Jacqueline | How to Weep in Public | Humorous | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Relatable, laugh-out-loud memoir of a comedian's personal struggles "adds levity to the daunting topic of depression". "...gives me hope in this business" (Amy Shumer) |
| Novik, Naomi | His Majesty's Dragon | Fantasy | For anyone who's read one of Patrick O'Brian's 19th-century naval adventures and mused, "You know what would make this better? Dragons!" What could have been a D&D inspired mess is, in Novik's hands, a completely authentic tale, brimming with all the detail and richness one looks for in military yarns as well as the impossible wonder of gilded fantasy. |
| Novogratz, Jacqueline | The Blue Sweater | Non-fiction | Novogratz left international banking to help women in developing countries borrow small sums of money to start their own businesses. She saw an African boy wearing the very sweater she'd given away years before. An inspiring book by a remarkable woman. |
| Noyce, Wilfrid | South Col | Memoir | One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953. A better book than Sir John Hunt's official chronicle, "The Ascent of Everest". |
| Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Thaler, Richard H. and Cass R. Sunstein | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Nudge is about choices--how we make them and how we can make better ones. Drawing on decades of research in the fields of behavioral science and economics, authors Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein offer a new perspective on preventing the countless mistakes we make--ill-advised personal investments, consumption of unhealthy foods, neglect of our natural resources--and show us how sensible "choice architecture" can successfully nudge people toward the best decisions. |
| Nugent, Shemane | Married to a Rock Star | Non-fiction | Introduction by Ted Nugent. |
| Nunez, Sigrid | What Are You Going Through | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Recommended by the New York Times. A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. |
| Nunn, Emily | The Comfort Food Diaries | Memoir | Suggested By: People Mag. After her brother's suicide and a broken engagement, former food writer Nunn hits the road seeking nourishment for body and soul. A delightful ride - with recipes. |
| Nussbaum, Susan | Good Kings Bad Kings | Youth | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In a home for young people with disabilities, a group of teenagers finds true friendship -- and the courage to love themselves. |
| Nutt, Amy Ellis | Becoming Nicole | GLBT | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "Enlightening" (Cheryl Strayed): In this New York Times bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter chronicles the inspiring journey of a transgender girl and her family. "A profoundly moving true story" (People) of identity, love, and acceptance. |
| Nutting, Alissa | Various - Alissa Nutting | Fiction | Suggested By: Author.
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| Nuzum, Eric | Giving Up The Ghost | Memoir | Suggested By: Unknown. As a teenager, Eric was convinced a ghost was following him and his terrifying experience nearly destroyed his life. Can a journey through America's most haunted places finally bring him peace? |
| Nyhan, Loretta | All The Good Parts | Chick Lit | Suggested By: BookBub.com. At 39, Leona is a broke student living in her sister's basement, playing the role of the zany aunt. But when she learns that her eggs are just about drying up, she jumps into a hilarious quest to find the perfect donor. A "sweet and unconventional story" (Booklist). |
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| O'Brian, Patrick | Aubrey/Maturin novels | Other | BOOKS ON TAPE. Read by Patrick Tull, recommended by Stephen King. |
| O'Brian, Patrick | The Aubrey/Maturin Novels | Fiction | Suggested By: Movie/TV.
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| O'Brien, Cory | Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes | Humorous | Suggested By: BookBub.com. These crude retellings of classic myths will have you snorting with laughter - and feeling glad that you've never run into the god of lightning. |
| O'Brien, Flann | At Swim-Two-Birds | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "One of the best books of our century" (Graham Greene). As a Dublin university student spends his time writing, he creates a character who soon creates character of his own. "Ranks with the world's funniest books" (The New York Times). |
| O'Brien, Flann | The Third Policeman | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The murderous narrator encounters three mysterious policemen whose behaviors defy the laws of reality. The funniest scariest book ever written. |
| O'Brien, Keith | Fly Girls | Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. Pilots. O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high‑school dropout who worked for a dry cleaner in Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcee; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at the constraints of her blue‑blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the mother of two young kids who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to race against the men -- and in 1936 one of them would triumph in the toughest race of all. |
| O'Brien, Mandy and Dionna Ford | Homemade Cleaners | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Quick-and-Easy, Toxin-Free Recipes to Replace Your Kitchen Cleaner, Bathroom Disinfectant, Laundry Detergent, Bleach, Bug Killer, Air Freshener, and More. |
| O'Brien, Tim | If I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home | Memoir | O'Brien's searing memoir of his years as a soldier in Vietnam takes readers with him through the ghostly ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. |
| O'Brien, Tim | Tomcat in Love | Fiction | Riotous good time. Minnesota linguistics professor and his wife are vacationing in Florida when she befriends a guy and dumps her husband. |
| O'Callaghan, Billy | My Coney Island Baby | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Once a month, Michael and Caitlin meet at a run-down Coney Island hotel. But when external circumstances threaten their arrangement as a storm rages outside, they're forced to reexamine their lives. "These characters will linger with you long after the book is closed (The Guardian). |
| O'Carroll, Brendan | The Mammy, The Chisellers, The Granny | Fiction | Raucous hilarity and fierce familial loyalty. |
| O'Connell, Caitlin | The Elephant's Secret Sense | Non-fiction | O'Connell conveys the delight of a baby trying to control its undeveloped trunk but "whacking itself with its limp propeller," and depicts locals leery of Westerners trying to "save Africa." Making up in raw adventure what it lacks in polish, Sense provides a ride as rough and astonishing as the roads of the African floodplain. |
| O'Connell, Libby | The American Plate | Non-fiction | Chart the evolution of American cuisine thru 100 dishes ranging from early delicacies such as roast turtle to the most current culinary fads. |
| O'Connell, Meaghan | And Now We Have Everything | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Cheryl Strayed is a fan of this strikingly honest account of motherhood that covers everything from the ravages of breastfeeding to postpartum sex (or the lack thereof). |
| O'Connor, David | Fitness For Seniors 50, 60 and Beyond: 80 easy-to-follow illustrated home exercises to improve strength, balance and energy | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. This book will show you step-by-step what you need to do to change your nutrition, exercise, and other healthy habits to ensure that you can keep enjoying a high quality of life as you get older. It includes over 80 easy-to-follow illustrated home exercises that improve your core strength, balance, and fitness, three pillars of good health. |
| O'Donnell, Lisa | The Death of Bees | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "A page-turner and a fairy tale turned inside-out" - Alice Hoffman. After their parents' deaths, sisters Marnie and Nelly hide the bodies to avoid being separated by social services. Dark humor, compelling story lines. |
| O'Donnell, Rosie | Find Me | Memoir | Amazing experience that changed her life. |
| O'Donoghue, Brian Patrick | Honest Dogs | Non-fiction | Recounts his last-place finish in the Yukon Quest. |
| O'Donoghue, Domhnall | Sister Agatha | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. At 118 years old, Sister Agatha is determined to become the world's oldest person. But when she learns she has only one week left to live, she sets off on a globe-trotting adventure to kill her competitors. Zany, darkly comic romp. |
| O'Farrell, John | The Best A Man Can Get | Fiction | The best look into a man's mind short of a CAT scan. |
| O'Farrell, John | This Is Your Life | Humorous | O'Farrell is one of the funniest things in Britain, funnier even than Prince Charles' ears. Jimmy, a likeable non-entity has chance meeting with a famous comedian just before he dies, and is mistaken as being a comedian himself by a reporter at the funeral. This book also supplies a genuinely stunning climactic twist. |
| O'Farrell, Maggie | The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When Iris meets the great-aunt she never knew existed, they untangle a web of family betrayal together. |
| O'Hanlon, Bill | Do One Thing Different | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Book by BILL O'HANLON!!!! (Unlikely to be THAT B.O.) How can you get unstuck when you're wrestling with a tough problem? Get ideas from this guide to overcoming the obstacles in your way by using 10 simple yet effective methods for dealing with all aspects of life. |
| O'Hara, Mary | The Shame Game | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Blaming the poor for their own condition is so prevalent that it features prominently in at least four new books. O'Hara dips into her own life to explore poverty and how it's portrayed in the United States and Britain. She grew up in Belfast without an indoor toilet, central heating, or a refrigerator. Three other books: Tightrope by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, and Invisible Americans by Jeff Madrick. |
| O'Leary, Beth | The Road Trip | Brit Lit | Suggested By: Other. Addie and her sister are about to embark on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in rural Scotland. The playlist is all planned and the snacks are packed. But, not long after setting off, a car slams into the back of theirs. The driver is none other than Addie's ex, Dylan, who she's avoided since their traumatic break-up two years earlier. |
| O'Leary, Susanne | Sisters of Willow House | Chick Lit | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Utterly heartwarming, feel-good Irish fiction. Sandy Cove Book 2. A heart-warming story about the bond between sisters, set along Ireland's windswept shores, where romance beckons and secrets unfold. Roisin McKenna and her husband Cian are taking time apart. Unsure of what she wants, Roisin's prayers are answered when she receives a call from her sister Maeve who is desperate for her help. |
| O'Mara, Shane | In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. As isolation leaves gyms unused and outdoor swimming pools empty, many people around the world are turning to the oldest form of transportation for fitness, anxiety relief, and even community. O'Mara, a professor of experimental brain research at Trinity College in Dublin, argues that we should keep it up. According to science, walking is fundamental to our physiques, yes, but also our psyches. |
| O'Nan, Stewart | Henry, Himself | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Part of a series of related books (see below). Recommended on list posted by Elizabeth Berg. Set in Pittsburgh on the cusp of a new century, newly retired 75-year-old Henry looks back on his life, full of questions with no answers. Henry has spent his life trying to do all the right things as a son, husband, soldier, and churchgoer, but as time marches on, he begins to wonder if this is all there is. With his children distant and only his wife, Emily, and dog, Rufus, to keep him company, Henry, once an everyman, feels as if the world has passed him by. But he might soon realize that what feels like an ending could surprise him.
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| O'Nan, Stewart | The Circus Fire | Non-fiction | True story, fire in 1944 killed 167 people. |
| O'Neal, Barbara | Various - Barbara O'Neal | Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: Author. Magical Realism author, recommended by Menna van Praag. And Sarah Addison Allen "Barbara is a good soul, and she writes about food and love and magic!"
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| O'Neil, Cathy | Weapons of Math Destruction | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and uncontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination: If a poor student can't get a loan because a lending model deems him too risky (by virtue of his zip code), he's then cut off from the kind of education that could pull him out of poverty, and a vicious spiral ensues. Models are propping up the lucky and punishing the downtrodden, creating a "toxic cocktail for democracy." Welcome to the dark side of Big Data. |
| O'Neill, Dan | A Land Gone Lonesome | Travel | While recalling 1890s gold rushers, O'Neill canoes down the frigid Yukon River from Canada to Alaska. |
| O'Neill, Louise | Only Ever Yours | SciFi | Suggested By: Suggested List. Women are raised in dorms and trained to be beautiful, quiet, obedient wives. An ingenious exploration of gender role, female identify, and female competition. |
| O'Rourk, P.J. | Holidays in Heck | Humorous | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Charmingly meandering. O'Rourke chronicles his family vacations. They're far less adrenaline-inducing than his work trips, but much funnier. |
| O'Rourke, P.J. | A Cry From the Far Middle | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Best-selling political humorist asks his fellow Americans to take it down a notch. Is there an upside to being woke (and unable to get back to sleep)? If we license dentists, why don't we license politicians? Is your juicer sending fake news to your FitBit about what's in your refrigerator? |
| O'Rourke, P.J. | Eat the Rich | Non-fiction | ?? |
| O'Sullivan, Suzanne | Is It All In Your Head? | Non-fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. A neurologist shares stories of her patients' psychosomatic disorders and what causes them. Weird and wonderful. |
| O'Toole, Fintan | We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. A remarkably compassionate yet exacting observer, O'Toole in coruscating prose captures the peculiar Irish habit of "deliberate unknowing," which allowed myths of national greatness to persist even as the foundations were crumbling. Forty years in the making, We Don't Know Ourselves is a landmark work, a memoir and a national history that ultimately reveals how the two modes are entwined for all of us. |
| O'Toole, Jennifer | Autism in Heels | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When Jennifer O'Toole was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the age of 35, her life suddenly made sense. She chronicles her experiences in a memoir that is "witty, frank and full of insight" (NYT). Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
| O'Toole, Peter | Loitering With Intent | Memoir | The actor's 1992 autobiography tumbles wittily through his boyish shenanigans, and attempt to be a "scholar Bohemian", and two obsessions: with the profoundly strange Adolf Hitler, and the glories of acting. |
| Oakley, Colleen | You Were There Too | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Mia has recurring dreams about a mysterious stranger - and when she moves to a small town, they meet. Brought me to tears. |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Hazards of Time Travel | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In the near future, a young woman is cast out of society and exiles back in time to 1959 Wisconsin - where she beings to question the nature of her own world. Clever and brain-twisting. |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | The Falls | Fiction | In 1950 Ariah Erskine's husband flees their hotel after a disastrous wedding night and throws himself into the roiling waters. When she fears her second husband may also leave, Ariah's jealousy turns her marriage as toxic as the chemicals leaching into the Love Canal. |
| Obama, Barack | 86 books recommended by Barack Obama | Other | Suggested By: Other.
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| Obama, George | Brother | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Discover the gripping true story of the former President's half brother, George - who rose from a difficult childhood in Nairobi to become an activist and community leader. A moving account of hope and triumph in the face of unthinkable adversity. |
| Obama, Michelle | Becoming | Memoir | Suggested By: Author. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. Best Seller in 2018. |
| Obreht, Téa | Inland | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Arizona!! Strib best 10 books of 2019. Like her luminous, numinous novel "The Tiger's Wife," the parched landscape of Téa Obreht's "Inland" is alive with myth and magic, especially for the homesteading housewife stranded in the Arizona Territory, circa 1893, and the orphaned Levantine immigrant who happens into the Camel Corps at the tail end of the Civil War, both of whom, as their stories meander toward each other, commune with the dead, the voices of loss and longing and, oddly, infinite promise. |
| Oddly Normal | Schwartz, John | Memoir | Parents help gay son come to terms with his sexuality. |
| Odede, Kennedy and Jessica Posner | Find Me Unafraid | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Brought together by shared passion for positive change, Kennedy and Jessica feel in love and set out to transform the troubled Kenyan neighborhood where Kennedy grew up. |
| Odell, Jenny | How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. |
| Oelke, Lianne | Nice Try, Jane Sinner | Youth | Suggested By: Amazon.com. "Jane Sinner snarked her way into my heart, and she's never leaving. Prepare to fall hard for this hilarious, heartfelt gem of a book."--Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda. It's Kind of a Funny Story meets Daria in the darkly hilarious tale of a teen's attempt to remake her public image and restore inner peace through reality TV. The only thing 17-year-old Jane Sinner hates more than failure is pity. After a personal crisis and her subsequent expulsion from high school, she's going nowhere fast. Jane's well-meaning parents push her to attend a high school completion program at the nearby Elbow River Community College, and she agrees, on one condition: she gets to move out. |
| Off-Grid Living | Zachary Lawson | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Escape the Hectic City Life, Forget All the Stress, Towards a Healthy and Happy Life. A Practical Guide to Being Self-Sufficient From Building Your Own Shelter to Getting Food |
| Offerman, Nick | Good Clean Fun | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Author. Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop. Megan Mullally's husband. Earl and the dying girl's father. |
| Offerman, Nick | Paddle Your Own Canoe | Humorous | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A witty guide to living the good life. Thought-provoking, profane, and frequently hilarious. |
| Offill, Jenny | Dept. of Speculation | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. When their marriage reaches a sudden breaking point, the wife tries to retrace the steps that have led them to this place, invoking everything from Kafka to the Stoics to doomed Russian cosmonauts as she analyzes what is lost and what remains. In language that shimmers with rage and longing and wit, Offill has created a brilliantly suspenseful love story--a novel to read in one sitting, even as its piercing meditations linger long after the last page. |
| Offill, Jenny and Elissa Schappell | The Friend Who Got Away | Essays | A compelling collection of true stories by women about winning - and losing - friends. |
| Offir, Amit | How to Draw Collection 1-12 | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. |
| Ogawa, Yoko | The Housekeeper and the Professor | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper--with a ten-year-old son--who is hired to care for the Professor. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. |
| Ogley, Desmond | Nordic Walking | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The beginner's guide to Nordic pole walking for health, fitness & adventure. |
| Ojeda, Monalisa Ivan | Las Biuty Queens | GLBT | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Follow the lives of a group of Latinx queer and trans immigrants living in New York City as they navigate hardships, trauma, and joy in this unforgettable read. |
| Okamura, Takashi and Marcia Hall | Michelangelo: The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel | Photo | First pictures after 1980-1994 restoration. |
| Okrant, Robyn | Living Oprah | Memoir | Suggested By: Movie/TV. My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk. Despite skepticism about the validity (or possibility) of finding happiness through Oprah, she embarked on 12 months of Oprah-prescribed activities and expenditures, plus blog updates. Monthly tallies detail activities, expenditures and the author's thoughtful observations. For example, she writes: "I believe Oprah's ultimate goal is to empower women and girls," but "I think Oprah devalues women by focusing so much on our bodies." The author is honest about her own experiment-inspired conflicts: as a result of her endeavors, she has a book and has lost weight, but is "almost always a stressed-out, insecure, exhausted mess." Okrant posits that, in many ways, pursuing a "life" detracts from "real life." In the end, while there are few real revelations, Okrant has written a thoughtful, honest examination of her journey. |
| Okrent, Daniel | Last Call | Non-fiction | Why did Prohibition ever happen? Banning liquor didn't stop the good times flowing. What it did was raise crime rates and decrease govt revenues, leading to a repeal in 1933. Fun, effervescent as champagne. |
| Older, Daniel José | Shadowshaper | Youth | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Full of a joyful, defiant spirit and writing as luscious as a Brooklyn summer night, Shadowshaper introduces a heroine and magic unlike anything else in fantasy fiction, and marks the YA debut of a bold new voice. |
| Oliver, Isaac | Intimacy Idiot | Essays | Oliver has mastered the art of self-deprecation. Numerous observations from jury duty and late-night subway rides prove both tragic and transcendent. |
| Oliver, Jamie | Cook With Jamie | Cookbook | "Cooking isn't hard or elitist. It's just about learning little bits." Excellent looking recipe for raw beet salad with feta and pear. |
| Olivis, Argena | Network Marketing For Introverts | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Guide To Success For The Shy Network Marketer (network marketing, multi level marketing, mlm, direct sales). |
| Ollestad, Norman | Carzy for the Storm | Memoir | Survival memoir. 11-year-old competitive skier Norman O crashed into California's snowy San Gabriel Mountains. The accident killed the pilot and Ollestad's father and gravely injured his father's girlfriend, leaving Norman facing an icy high-altitude death. |
| Ollestad, Norman | Crazy for the Storm | Memoir | Suggested By: Unknown. Flying to a ski championship in Feb 1979, the plane crashed and 11 year old Norman had to make his way alone down a treacherous mountain alone. Mountain climbing (not really, but I think it's the type of adventure I'd like to see if I did search for mountain climbing books). |
| Ollivier, Bernard | Out of Istanbul | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Grieving the loss of his wife, retired journalist Bernard Ollivier set out to walk the Silk Road. He shares his trek in this remarkable chronicle of the storied trade route's past and present. Walk. Hike. Hiking. Trail. |
| Ollivier, Bernard | Walking to Samarkand | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When journalist Bernard Ollivier set out to walk for 7,200 miles along the Silk Road, he found wonder, friendship, and unforeseen danger. Follow him from Turkey to China in this spellbinding travelogue. |
| Olson, Zach | The Epic Trivia Quiz & Fun Facts Bundle | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com. $0.00 Kindle book. Used Amazon book credits. Random Knowledge and Awesome Trivia Questions - For Laughter at Family Road Trips, Trivia Night or the Bathroom (Fun Facts and Amazing Trivia Series). |
| Omasta, Ann | The Keys to my Diary | Chick Lit | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. My life is wacky, often wild, and always entertaining. From my love-hate relationship with the book, The Secret, to my encounters with cursing parrots and skittering crabs, the summations of my offbeat life will make you laugh right along with me. |
| Onfray, Michel | Athiest Manifesto | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. This hugely controversial work demonstrates convincingly how the world's three major monotheistic religions have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, condemning nonbelievers often to death. |
| Oppenheimer, Jerry | Crazy Rich | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Unravels the scandals and tragedies that have haunted five generations of the Johnson family dynasty. A character-driven saga suggesting that the spoiled rich are their own worst enemies. |
| Oppenheimer, Jerry | Toy Monster | Non-fiction | The big, bad world of Mattel. Behind-the-scenes dirt on the world of Barbie. |
| Oram, Andy | Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think | Non-fiction | How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions to high-profile projects. |
| Ordorica, Ray | The Alaskan Retreater's Notebook: One Man's Journey Into the Alaskan Wilderness | Memoir | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Available as library eBook. In the fall of 1978 Ray Ordorica packed everything he thought he would need into his Toyota Land Cruiser and drove north to Alaska. He came to a land he had never seen, to find something he wasn't even sure existed: a wilderness cabin he could use for a year or more to live, think, relax, read, and write. Ordorica found his cabin, fixed it up, and, although it was just an uninsulated twelve-by-sixteen-foot one-room log structure, he spent three winters in it in relative comfort. Ordorica's life in that cabin fulfilled a dream he had had for more than ten years. During his long winters in Alaska, it occurred to him that there must be many others who have put off an extended wilderness visit out of ignorance or fear. They would have as many questions about Alaska as he'd had before he arrived. How do you cope with forty below? How do you get water? Is it totally dark in mid-winter? |
| Orenstein, Peggy | Boys & Sex | Non-fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Bigger kids, bigger problems: Orenstein's journey into the world of the young American male may not reassure ("You must talk about porn," she advises), but it's essential. |
| Orenstein, Peggy | Girls & Sex | Non-fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Orenstein interviewed more than 70 women in their tweens and early 20s to find out in a non-sensational but deeply entertaining way what they're thinking and doing sexually. |
| Orenstein, Peggy | Waiting for Daisy | Memoir | Just when you think there is no more to say about the comedy and tragedy of infertility, Peggy Orenstein comes along and changes your mind. This may be the most honest book written about the tsunami of emotion that hits women when what should come most naturally - reproduction - becomes instead one vast, expensive science experiment. |
| Orfield, Myron | Metropolitics and American Metropolitics | Non-fiction | Cutting edge groundbreaking work about suburbs. |
| Orlean, Susan | The Library Book | Non-fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. On April 28, 1986, fire demolished the Los Angeles public library, burning 400,000 books and damaging 700,000 more. But was it arson or accident? Orlean's thrilling tale reminds us why libraries matter - now more than ever. |
| Orozco, Daniel | Oriention: And Other Stories | Short Stories | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. "Orientation" is a story from Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection of the same name, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination. |
| Orr, CFP Mark J. | Recession-proof Retirement | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Safe strategies to manage wealth and retirement income. Safely increase interest income now. |
| Orsborn, Carol M.D. | The Year I Saved My (downsized) Soul | Memoir | Is it possible to keep your spirit intact while losing your job, dealing with rejection and uncertainty and seeking a new way to make a living? Carol Orsborn, Ph.D. began keeping a daily journal of her tumultuous journey through recessionary times, struggling to make sense of both personal and societal tribulation. Along the way, she found herself testing spiritual principles she'd been sharing over the course of the 15 books she'd authored, ultimately embracing both the despair and delight of what it means to be fully alive. |
| Ortho | Wood Projects for the Garden | Craft | Wood projects. For the garden. |
| Ortiz, Gayle and Joe Ortiz with Louisa Beers | The Village Baker's Wife | Cookbook | Suggested By: Unknown. If you dream of making delectable croissants, pastries, and pies, don't miss this wondrous collection of recipes from one of the top bakeries in the country! |
| Orwell, George | 1984 | SciFi | The classic. Not sure when/why I put it on the list. Maybe it's time to think about re-reading it? |
| Osburn, Terri | Home To Stay | Fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. Free Kindle book. An Anchor Island Novel Book 3. Willow Parsons's two new best friends are getting married, putting her squarely on the sidelines of romance--which suits her just fine. After the nightmarish situation she escaped from, featuring the ultimate Mr. Wrong, she is more than happy to spend her days slinging drinks in Dempsey's Bar & Grill, and her nights alone. But her Anchor Island refuge has just one catch: muscle-bound charmer Randy Navarro. |
| Oseland, James | Jimmy Neurosis | GLBT | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Food writer James Oseland relives his wild coming-of-age as a young, gay rebel amidst the burgeoning punk movement of 1970s America. Brave, engrossing, and deeply touching. |
| Oseman, Alice | Various - Alice Oseman | Youth | Suggested By: Author.
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| Osgood, Charles | Funny Letters from Famous People | Non-fiction | Collection of correspondence that illustrates the rich and often surprising senses of humor of famous people. |
| Oswalt, Patton | Silver Screen Fiend | Memoir | Occupied much of his 20s mainlining celluloid. A slim collection of loosely sequential essays. |
| Oswalt, Patton | Zombie Spaceship Wasteland | Humorous | It's not exactly a memoir, but somehow the individual shards form a believable portrait of a witty, vulnerable funnyman. |
| Otagawa, Sarah | Simple Sushi Cookbook | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $0.00 Kindle book. Over 100 Original Step-By-Step Recipes to Make Delicious Sushi at Home. |
| Otsuka, Julie | The Buddha in the Attic | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Once again, Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times. |
| Ottens, William | Librarian Tales | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks. Available as library eBook. |
| Otto, Whitney | How To Make an American Quilt | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The New York Times bestseller that inspired a major motion picture starring Winona Ryder and Maya Angelou! In a small California town, generations of women come together weekly for a quilting circle. |
| Outside Magazine, intro by Hampton Sides | The Polar Bear Waltz: And Other Moments of Epic Silliness | Photo | Skiers, bikers, and mountain climbers in astonishing poses; animals behaving hilariously; funky clouds. |
| Owen, David | Copies in Seconds | Non-fiction | The invention of the photocopy machine led to "the biggest communication breakthru since Guttenberg". Both the tale and Owen's unfettered apperciation for his subject make for a fascinating read. |
| Owen, Katie | Mrs Owen's Beginning Prepper Guide for Women | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. $1.05 Kindle book. All the basics in emergency preparation from Canning to Beekeeping, building cabins to creating your own medicine box. Her advice is practical and inspiring. |
| Owens, Delia | Where the Crawdads Sing | Fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Reba McEntire's mother said that this book upset her so much that she had to skip to the back to see how it ended because of the child being abandoned. Reba's heart hurt so much for this child, and how she was so strong and what she achieved in life was a miracle. |
| Owens, Mark and Delia | Secrets of the Savanna | Non-fiction | The naturalists launched an ambitious project [in Zambia's North Luangwa National Park] to create jobs for poachers and study the animals who survived. Their story is thrilling - the kind of tale that wild-animal lovers won't easily forget. |
| Oxenreider, Tsh | Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World | Memoir | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. It doesn't always feel like it, but we do have the freedom to creatively change the little things in our lives so that our path better aligns with our values and passions. Part memoir, part travelogue, part practical guide, Notes from a Blue Bike takes you on a ride from a hillside in Kosovo to a Turkish high-rise, to the congested city of Austin to a small town in Oregon. It chronicles schooling quandaries and dinnertime dilemmas, as well as entrepreneurial adventures and family excursions via plane, train, automobile, and blue cruiser bike. |
| Oxford, Kelly | Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar | Humorous | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Memoir. The highs and lows of one woman's off-the-wall existence come to life in this sidesplitting memoir. Recommended by Jason Segel. |
| Oyeyemi, Helen | Boy, Snow, Bird | Fiction | A woman marries a widower, then learns he and his daughter are light-skinned African-Americans who have been passing for white. |
| Oyeyemi, Helen | Gingerbread | Fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Margot Lee passes down her famed gingerbread recipe to her daughter, Harriet, who does the same for her daughter, Perdita. What a strange, ponderous book this is - a beautifully, wildly inventive beast. Punctures the timelessly poetic with harshly contemporary asides. Animating plants and dolls with a cool nonchalance. This dark nutty novel exudes cozy warmth above all else. |
| Oyeyemi, Helen | What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours | Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Short stories. Give it a try and see how it compares to Aimee Bender. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. |
| Oz, Dr. Mehmet C. | You: The Owners Manual | Non-fiction | An insider's guide to the body that will make you healthier and younger. |
| Ozeki, Ruth | A Tale for the Time Being | Fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. Full of Ozeki's signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox--possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. |
| Ozick, Cynthia | Heir to the Glimmering World | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Wise and quietly magical. When orphan Rose Meadows finds employment with the Mitwissers - a family of refugees fleeing Nazi Germany - she is pulled into an eccentric and unfamiliar world. |
| Ozick, Cynthia | Quarrel and Quandary | Essays | Essays by remarkable mind. |
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| Pépin, Jacques | Fast Food My Way | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. In this companion volume to the PBS series, Jacques Pépin shows you how to create great-tasting dishes ranging from stunning salads such as Tomato and Mozzarella Fans to Supreme of Chicken with Balsamic Vinegar and Shallot Sauce to his breathtaking Almond Cake with Berries, all special enough for company, yet easy enough for those weekday evenings when you have no time. Fast food Jacques's way involves no compromises in taste but saves you hours in the kitchen. His Instant Beef Tenderloin Stew, for instance, not only is far faster to make than traditional versions, but tastes brighter and fresher. |
| Pépin, Jacques | New Complete Techniques | Cookbook | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $3.23 Kindle book. I'm not sure if this will be fun, or depressing as it reveals how bad my basic cooking skills are. Filled with thousands of photographs demonstrating techniques; new advice and tips; and hundreds of recipes ranging from simple to sublime, this is the must-have manual for any kitchen aficionado. Pépin offers step-by-step instructions on every aspect of cooking, including: learning basics, such as how to use knives correctly and how to cut a flawless julienne; conquering classic recipes, such as crêpes suzette and hollandaise sauce; creating whimsical and elegant decorations, such as olive rabbits and tomato flowers; tackling inventive ways of becoming a culinary superstar, such as turning an old refrigerator into a makeshift smoker. |
| Pace, Michael | Getting Old Sucks!: 101 Ways to a Happier, Healthier and Fun Senior Life | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book.
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| Pace, Natalie | The ABCs of Money | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Time-proven, 21st Century Strategies for Investing, Debt Reduction, Stocks, Real Estate, Bonds, Gold, Crypto, Budgeting & More. |
| Pacelle, Wayne | The Humane Economy | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Explores how a rising economic movement is improving the welfare of animals around the world. |
| Pacelli, Trevor | Six-Word Lessons on Growing Up Autistic | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. 100 Lessons to Understand How Autistic People See Life (The Six-Word Lessons Series). My name is Trevor Pacelli. I was diagnosed with Autism at age 5. I am the first in my extended family to have autism. Growing up autistic has been difficult not only for me but for my parents and my sister. We've all had to learn about autism and how to maintain a peaceful household. I deeply want other families with autistic children to learn from my experiences. This is why I wrote Six Word Lessons on Growing Up Autistic. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
| Packard, Jerrold M. | Victoria's Daughters | Non-fiction | Queen Victoria's daughters were married off politically all over Europe. Family turmoil and intrigue of soap-opera proportions. |
| Packer, Ann | Songs Without Words | Fiction | By the author of "The Dive From Clausen's Pier". Liz has always taken care of her mother, but now a crisis with her own daughter leaves her the one needing support. Sounds lame, but I think Clausen's Pier was pretty good. |
| Packer, ZZ | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | Short Stories | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decides where his allegiance lies; an international group of drifters in Japan, who are starving, unable to find work; and more. |
| Padgett, Alyssa | A Beginner's Guide to Living in an RV | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Everything I Wish I Knew Before Full-Time RVing Across America. UPDATED 2020 EDITION. When my husband and I started full-time RVing, we knew nothing about RV living. We made it up as we traveled to all fifty states, constantly googling things like "how to RV" and "what is boondocking?" Meanwhile, we flooded the bathroom, took ice-cold showers, and got stuck in the mud. Now, we've been full-timing for nearly six years and we've learned the ins and outs of RVing America. In this guide, I answer all of the most common questions we receive about RV living, from how to choose the right RV to how we get mail on the road, to how to find free camping. |
| Padgett, Jason and Maureen Seaberg | Struck By Genius | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A traumatic brain injury turned Jason Padgett into an unlikely mathematical genius. He relates his experiences with acquired savant syndrome. |
| Pagán, Camille | Forever is the Worst Long Time | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When Lou and James act on their long-standing mutual attraction, the consequences are more heartbreaking--and miraculous--than either of them could have ever anticipated. Then life throws James one more curveball, and he, Rob, and Lou are forced to come to terms with the unexpected ways in which love and loss are intertwined. |
| Pagán, Camille | Life and Other Near-Death Experiences | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. With nothing left to lose, she abandons her life in Chicago for the clear waters and bright beaches of the Caribbean for what might be her last hurrah. Despite her new sunny locale, her plans go awry when she finds that she can't quite outrun the past or bring herself to face an unknowable future. Every day of tropical bliss may be an invitation to disaster, but with her twin brother on her trail and a new relationship on the horizon, Libby is determined to forget about fate. Will she risk it all to live--and love--a little longer? |
| Page, Sally | The Keeper of Stories | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $0.00 Kindle book. Used book credits. When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs. B--a shrewd and prickly woman in her nineties--she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the keeper of stories, she doesn't have a story to tell. At least, not one she can share. |
| Page, Tim | Parallel Play | Memoir | Suggested By: Unknown. A quirkily appealing memoir about growing up with Asperger's - and succeeding because of it. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
| Paine, Thomas | Common Sense (Annotated): The Origin and Design of Government | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation.It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at taverns and meeting places. |
| Painte, Nell Irvin | The History of White People | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of "whiteness" for economic, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People closes a huge gap in literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds us that the concept of "race" is an all-too-human invention whose meaning, importance, and reality have changed as it has been driven by a long and rich history of events. |
| Painter, Nell Irvin | Old in Art School | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Princeton historian Nell Painter retired in her 60s to pursue painting. She recounts the truths she learned along the way in this smart, funny, and compelling memoir. |
| Painter, Sarah | The Art of Giving | Short Stories | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book, downloaded from BookHip.com/GZFKGS using the "Experimental Browser" on my Kindle. This book does not show up in my Amazon.com list of Kindle books. I received this freebie in return for signing up for Sarah Painter's email list. |
| Painter, Sarah | The Night Raven | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Crow Investigations Book 1. Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London. When a professional snafu forces her home, the head of the family calls in a favour, and Lydia finds herself investigating the disappearance of her cousin, Maddie. |
| Painter, Sarah | Various - Crow Investigations Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author.
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| Painter, Sarah | Various - Sarah Painter | Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: Unknown.
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| Palahniuk, Chuck | Choke | Fiction | Author of Fight Club |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Invisible Monsters | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Shannon McFarland's career as a picture perfect model was ruined the day her lower jaw was shot off while she was driving down the freeway. Her best friend Evie Cottrell steals all her clothing while she is in the hospital, and her fiancé Manus Kelley leaves her; but during her speech therapy classes she meets the enigma that is Brandy Alexander. |
| Pallingston, Jessica | Lipstick A Celebration of the World's Favorite Cosmetic | Non-fiction | ?? |
| Palmer, Connie | Your Story, My Story | Fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. In this mesmerizing fictional work, Connie Palmen tells Sylvia Plath's husband's side of the story, previously untold, delivered in Ted Hughes's own uncompromising voice. A brutal and lyrical confessional, Your Story, My Story paints an indelible picture of their seven-year relationship--the soaring highs and profound lows of star-crossed soul mates bedeviled by their personal demons. It will forever change the way we think about these two literary icons. |
| Palmer, Liza | Conversations With The Fat Girl | Chick Lit | Overweight Maggie and Olivia are best friends...until Olivia gets gastric bypass surgery and embarks on a size 2 life. The story takes a more interesting turn once Maggie stops wallowing, and the descriptions of Olivia's catty pals are priceless. |
| Palmieri, Suzanne | Various - The Witch Of Series | Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: Author. Sarah Addison Allen recommended The Witch of Little Italy.
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| Pandith, Farah | How We Win | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Movie/TV. How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat. "Drawing on her decades of experience, Pandith unweaves the tangled web of extremism and demonstrates how government officials, tech CEOs, and concerned citizens alike can do their part to defeat it." – Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright |
| Pandolfe, David | Streetlights Like Fireworks | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. When Jack experiences a mystifying event involving visions, voices and spectral visits, he figures there's only one person to help him understand who's calling out to him and why. Before long, Jack and Lauren are off on a road trip of discovery that could provide answers to a mystery left unsolved for twenty years. |
| Pang, Amy | Instamatic Karma | Photo | In 1973 Yoko Ono told the couple's then assistant that "I think you should go out with him". Pang dated Lennon for 18 months [weird]. Pang, now 57, shares her personal photos for the first time. |
| Pao, Ellen | Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. If you talk, you talk too much. If you don't talk, you're too quiet. You don't own the room. If you want to protect your work, you're not a team player. |
| Pappas, Alexi | Bravey | Memoir | Suggested By: People Mag. Bravery means fighting fears to achieve your dreams and her delightful memoir shows how. |
| Parazynski, Scott | The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed | Memoir | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. This intimate, compelling account offers a rare portrait of space exploration from the inside.Parazynski flies with John Glenn, tests jet packs, trains in Russia to become a cosmonaut, and flies five missions to outer space (including seven spacewalks) in his seventeen-year NASA career. An unparalleled, visceral opportunity to understand what it's like to train for--and deploy to--a home in zero gravity. Plus other stuff about his life. |
| Paretsky, Sara | Blacklist | Crime/Mystery | V.I. Warshawski in Paretsky's 11th crime novel. |
| Paretsky, Sara | Various - VI Warshawski Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Movie/TV.
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| Paris, James and Norman J Stone | Square Foot Gardening | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. How To Grow Healthy Organic Vegetables The Easy Way: Including Companion Planting & Intensive Vegetable Growing Methods (Gardening Techniques Book 6) |
| Park, Clara Clairborne | Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. Autistic woman's path to middle age. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
| Park, Frances | When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon | Fiction | Asian-American writer in tradition of Amy Tan. |
| Park, Patricia | Re Jane | Fiction | Suggested By: Suggested List. A story of heritage defining who you are and your value in the culture as a half-Korean half-American orphan moves from a Korean-American neighborhood in Queens NY to Seoul Korea. |
| Park, Yeonmi | In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape. |
| Parker Bowles, Tom | The Year of Eating Dangerously | Travel | Camilla's son (ew). Whether he's choking down dog stew in Korea of sipping cobra bile in China, Parker Bowles imbues his odyssey with self-deprecatory wit and sensitivity that make this travelogue a rare treat. |
| Parker, Alexander | Overthinking | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle Book. Turn Off Your Thoughts, How To Overcome Your Thoughts And Start Thinking Positively. |
| Parker, Emily | Hygge | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. 25 secrets from the Danish art of happiness, getting cozy, and living well. |
| Parker, Jameson | An Accidental Cowboy | Memoir | Guy from "Simon and Simon" got shot by a neighbor. |
| Parker, John L. Jr. | Once A Runner | Fiction | Often tops Bookfinder's list of most sought-after out-of-print books. A college-age runner strives to complete a 4-minute mile. |
| Parker, Miriam | The Shortest Way Home | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Delightful, effervescent, intoxicating. Hanna has a seemingly perfect life - but when she leaves it all behind to work at a struggling winery, her world changes in ways she could have never imagined. |
| Parker, Robert B. | Night Passage | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. First book in the Jesse Stone series. |
| Parker, Robert B. | Various - Jessie Stone Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Here is a list of the first few.
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| Parker, Robert B. | Various - The Spenser Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. The first few books in the series.
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| Parker, T. Jefferson | California Girl | Crime/Mystery | Hard-boiled L.A. noir and psychologically lurid novel set in the cultural divide of the 60s. |
| Parks, Alan | Bobby March Will Live Forever | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Harry McCoy Book 3. In this fascinating and dangerous Scottish noir, a detective scours Glasgow's gritty streets for two missing teens in the wake of a rock star's death. July 1973. The Glasgow drug trade is booming and Bobby March, the city's own rock star hero, has just overdosed in a central hotel. |
| Parks, Tim | An Italian Education | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A wry, thoughtful, and often hilarious book about an expatriate raising his children in Italy. |
| Parnell, Sean and John Bruning | Outlaw Platoon | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. Heroes, renegades, infidels, and the brotherhood of war in Afghanistan. A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell's stunning personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan. |
| Parnia, Sam and Josh Young | Erasing Death | Non-fiction | Following years of advancements in modern medicine, doctors now have the power to resuscitate people who have been unconscious for as long as several hours. This New York Times bestseller investigates the afterlife and the journey of the subconscious during these near-death experiences. |
| Parr, Ben | Captivology | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Why does the mind fixate on some ideas, events, or people -- and not others? Discover the science of holding people's attention and seven triggers used to captivate audiences in this insightful read. "Parr keeps readers engaged, amused, and focused" (Success). |
| Parravani, Christa | Her | Non-fiction | The searing story of an identical twin's struggle to go on after her beloved sister's tragic early death. |
| Parvizi, Lauren | La Vie, According to Rose | Chick Lit | Suggested By: Amazon.com. $0.00 Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads May 2023. Recommended by Mindy Kaling. Rose Zadeh pleases everyone, except herself. Memories of her late Iranian-immigrant father, who valued hard work and family, keep Rose in a dead-end job as a Silicon Valley copywriter, and tethered to her guilt-trippy mom and needy sisters. As much as it would disappoint her father, Rose needs an escape. Voilà ! A mandated vacation gives her the chance. Three weeks on a long-dreamed-of trip to the City of Light. |
| Passan, Jeff | The Arm | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Passan spent three years researching every aspect of the epidemic of arm injuries in baseball, from the horrors of youth baseball to the doctors who perfected the dreaded Tommy John surgery to two big leaguers facing a future after their golden arms go bust. |
| Pasternak, Judy | Yellow Dirt | Non-fiction | For decades, the U.S. put Navajos at risk mining uranium; the radioactive "dirt" remains and still kills. An investigative tour-de-force. |
| Pastiloff, Jennifer | On Being Human | Memoir | Suggested By: People Mag. Throughout her unstable childhood, Pastiloff ignored the ringing in her ears. Finally, years after dropping out of college, she realized she was reading lips. This is her powerful account of hearing loss and learning to communicate in a new way - through yoga, gratitude, and radical honesty. |
| Pastine, Ivan and Tuvana Pastine | Introducing Game Theory: A Graphic Guide | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Game theory is the study of how we make a decision when the outcome of our moves depends on the decisions of someone else. Economists Ivan and Tuvana Pastine explain why, in these situations, we sometimes cooperate, sometimes clash, and sometimes act in a way that seems completely random. |
| Patchett, Ann | Commonwealth | Fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. This deeply pleasurable novel about a big blended family meanders through five decades, shedding light on secrets, tragedies, and relationships. |
| Patchett, Ann | The Patron Saint of Liars | Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. But when Cecilia is born, Rose makes a place for herself and her daughter amid St. Elizabeth's extended family of nuns and an ever-changing collection of pregnant teenage girls. |
| Patchett, Ann | This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage | Non-fiction | Each piece - whether about her failed marriage, the love of an adopted dog, or a vacation spent marooned in a hotel room - is wit-filled and elegantly executed. |
| Patchett, Ann | Truth & Beauty | Memoir | Friendship of Lucy Grealy (who lost jaw to cancer as a child) and author Ann Patchett. |
| Patching, Will | Remorseless | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Doc Powers & D.I. Carver Investigate book 1. Criminal profiler Doc Powers tries to unravel the truth about a psychopathic potential parolee in time to prevent him wreaking bloody revenge on those he blames for his incarceration - including Doc himself. |
| Patneaude, David | Epitaph Road | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Thirty years earlier, a widespread and hyper-deadly virus caused the near-extinction of the world's male population. Now women rule everywhere, and poverty, hunger, crime, and war are for the most part dim memories, or the stuff of cautionary lessons in history books. |
| Patric, Phaedra | Rise & Shine Benedict Stone | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A perfect read for lovers of Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove. Jewelry shop owner Benedict Stone's orderly life is upended by the arrival of Gemma, his estranged brother's teenage daughter. Quirky characters and sweet premise. |
| Patrick, Brian | How To Create A Website Using Wordpress | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $0.00 Kindle book. Warning: this is older than I thought it would be. The Beginner's Blueprint for Building a Professional Website in 3 Easy Steps (Plus 40+ Premium Wordpress Video Tutorials) |
| Patrick, C.P. | The Truth About Awiti | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history--the trans–Atlantic slave trade. |
| Patrick, Phaedra | Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Benedict Stone has settled into a complacent and predictable routine. Business at his jewelry shop has dried up; his marriage is on the rocks. His life is in desperate need of a jump start--and then a surprise arrives at his door in the form of his audacious teenage niece, Gemma. Reckless and stubborn, she invites herself into Benedict's world and turns his orderly life upside down. But she might just be exactly what he needs to get his life back on track. |
| Patrick, Phaedra | The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Recommended by Joshilyn Jackson fan in relation to Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. Curiously charming debut! In this hauntingly beautiful story of love, loneliness and self-discovery, an endearing widower embarks on a life-changing adventure. |
| Patrick, Phaedra | The Library of Lost and Found | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When quiet librarian Martha finds a mysterious book on her doorstep, she discovers it holds long-buried secrets from her grandmother's past. |
| Patrick, Phaedra | The Messy Lives of Book People | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When her boss, reclusive author Essie, suddenly passes away, housekeeper Liv is shocked to learn her dying wish: She must finish Essie's final novel. Simply delightful read. |
| Patterson, D. B. | Perdido River Bastard | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Prodigal son Duddy Doogan has a promise to keep. He is going home, to a place where his eccentric storytelling kin await his first visit since his father went missing two years ago. Home to where a powerful river carves an age-old border between Florida and Alabama, dividing the land and people living there. Home to a family tree moss-draped with secrets and lies, forgotten memories, and old mysteries buried in its roots. |
| Patterson, James | Ali Cross | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Patterson's blockbuster Alex Cross series brought to a new generation. Alex's son Ali is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery? |
| Patterson, Jodie | The Bold World | GLBT | Suggested By: People Mag. In her wise, warm memoir, Patterson describes finding her way in the world - first as a person of color in posh Manhattan schools, then at a black women's college. But when her 3-year-old daughter announces she's a boy, Patterson embarks on an entirely new identify journey. Timely and essential. |
| Patterson, Scott | The Quants | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. This New York Times bestseller tells the inside story of the Quants, a group of math geniuses who took over Wall Street -- and set the stage for one of the world's greatest financial disasters. |
| Patton, Jim | Don't Make Me Say I Told You So. | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. The Investment Book For People Over 50. Jim Patton provides those who are currently retired, and those saving for retirement, with a roadmap designed to address these challenges and give you the best chance to build, maintain and preserve a nest egg that will allow you to live life on your terms in retirement. |
| Paul, Richard and Steven Moss | We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. This "surprising and insightful" history profiles ten African American engineers, mathematicians, and others who worked for NASA's space program. |
| Paulún, Fredrik | 50 Shortcuts to a Sugar-Free Life | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Do you want to consume less refined sugar? A nutritionist offers 50 simple strategies for cutting down on the sweet stuff in this concise, accessible guide to nutrition. |
| Pavlovsky, Nicole | The Dinner Salad Cookbook | Cookbook | Suggested By: Amazon.com. $4.30 Kindle book. Easy & Satisfying Recipes That Make a Meal. Perfect for preparing flavorful meals any night of the week, this salad cookbook offers practical recipes--most of which are ready to serve in 35 minutes or less--that use only a few ingredients and keep your grocery list to a minimum. An easy fix to get your fill for dinner. |
| Pawar, Sandeep | Thank God I'm Fired: A Corporate Enigma | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $0.00 Kindle book. This novella takes you on a light-hearted tour of the contemporary software industry where you can ask the haunting question loudly- is getting sacked a blessing in disguise? |
| Payne, Ronald | Private Spies | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Espionage doesn't just take place in the world of government spies. Explore its role in private industry - and what happens when company secrets are sold. |
| Peacock, Roxe Anne | History Lover's Cookbook | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Over 150 full-color photos inspired by nineteenth century recipes, anecdotes, and the Civil War. Prepare a picnic of lemonade, raspberry shrub, mint julep, fried chicken, ham sandwiches, potato salad with boiled dressing, cold slaw, soda biscuits and quince marmalade to observe one of the many Civil War re-enactments throughout the United States. |
| Pearl, Nancy | Book Lust | Non-fiction | Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason. Written by librarian that CO and KR have seen speak. She sounds like fun, AND she says it's perfectly okay to stop reading a book if you don't like it. |
| Pearl, Nancy | Book Lust to Go | Non-fiction | Recommended reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers |
| Pearl, Nancy | George and Lizzie | Fiction | Suggested By: Book Award List. From list of books that you can finish in one sitting. With pitch-perfect prose and compassion and humor to spare, George and Lizzie is an intimate story of new and past loves, the scars of childhood, and an imperfect marriage at its defining moments. |
| Pearson, Allison | I Don't Know How She Does It | Fiction | Brit-lit. Her London home life is more frenzied than the NASDAQ. |
| Pearson, Judith L. | The Wolves at the Door | Auto/Biography | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When American Virginia Hall joined the British Special Operations Executive, she was deployed to occupied France - and soon became one of the Allies' most useful spies. This riveting account shares a suspenseful slice of World War II history. |
| Pearson, T.R. | A Short History of a Small Place | Fiction | Zany small town happenings in a cheerful ambling narrative. |
| Pearson, T.R. | Seaworthy | Non-fiction | William Willis sails across the Pacific with only a cat and a parrot, and Pearson tells the (true) tale. |
| Pecaut, Daniel and Corey Wrenn | University of Berkshire Hathaway | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting. |
| Peck, Cheryl | Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs | Essays | Peck usually proves as playful and poignant as her title. Witty essays and [erg] poems. |
| Peiss, Kathy | Hope in a Jar | Non-fiction | Historian Kathy Peiss traces the evolution of our beauty culture. |
| Pekkanen, Sarah | The Ever After | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When Josie makes a shocking discovery, she must face the reality of her marriage in this weighty and emotional novel. For fans of Liane Moriarty who will enjoy its depth. |
| Pelaez, Jill Fletcher | The Day is a White Tablet | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. In this gripping Southern saga, America is in the final days of the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict ever waged on her soil. Tench Traymore, a free black teen, has been following his older white cousin, Lance Traymore, as his cook. The two young men grew up together and are inseparable as they fight under the command of General Pickett. |
| Pelecanos, George | The Night Gardener | Crime/Mystery | A riveting whodunit that doubles as a wide-angle portrait of urban America. |
| Pelicanos, George | Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, and Soul Circus | Crime/Mystery | Black PI, white partner. |
| Pellegrino, Charles | The Last Train from Hiroshima | Non-fiction | Devoted mostly to 30 people who - unbelievably - survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book is a tragic cautionary tale as well as a celebration of human resilience. |
| Pelliccia, Lindsey | SAVE YOURSELF: The Ultimate No Bullsh*t Guide To Living Your Dream Life | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. In her blunt and humorous writing style, Lindsey Pelliccia shakes you out of your half-realized existence and shows you how to start living the life you've always wanted. Do you feel trapped by the expectations of others or society? Are false and limiting beliefs preventing you from making a change? Save Yourself will help you call out all the bullsh*t fears that have kept you tame and boring, and give you the kick-ass mentality you need in order to start making your dreams come true. |
| Penn, Joanna | Career Change | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it! |
| Pennington, Emily | Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America's National Parks | Memoir | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads January 2023. After a decade as an assistant to high-powered LA executives, Emily Pennington left behind her structured life and surrendered to the pull of the great outdoors. With a tight budget, meticulous routing, and a temperamental minivan she named Gizmo, Emily embarked on a yearlong road trip to sixty-two national parks, hell-bent on a single goal: getting through the adventure in one piece. She was instantly thrust into more chaos than she'd bargained for and found herself on an unpredictable journey rocked by a gutting romantic breakup, a burgeoning pandemic, wildfires, and other seismic challenges that threatened her safety, her sanity, and the trip itself. |
| Penny, Louise | A Trick of the Light | Crime/Mystery | An art critic is throttled in a flower bed and Inspector Gamache must look for answers in the back-stabbing Quebec art world. Smart plot, and fascinating nuanced characters. |
| Penny, Louise | Various - Armand Gamache Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: People Mag. "The Canadian Kurt Wallander"
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| Pepin, Jaques | The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen | Memoir | Another chef story. That old guy from TV with the good fast food. |
| Peppard, Jacqueline | New Era Healthy Eating Cookbook | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Recipes when you want healthy but LOVE food. |
| Pepperberg, Irene M. | Alex & Me | Memoir | Suggested By: Author. $1.07 Kindle book. A fascinating look at animal intelligence, Pepperberg's tale is also a love story between beings who sometimes "squabbled like an old married couple" but whose bond broke only with Alex's death at 31 in 2007. |
| Peppernell, Courtney | Keeping Long Island | GLBT | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Kayden is about to start her final year at college. And while she's always been a good listener, she's never been good at sharing. At the suggestion of her therapist, she finds a safe place for her secrets between the pages of a daily journal. Just when Kayden thinks things are finally back on track, her life takes an unexpected turn – a mysterious letter from someone named Alex. |
| Percy, Benjamin | The Dead Lands | Post-Apocalyptic | 150 years after a flu-like virus wipes out civilization as we know it, what few humans remain live in outposts. When a stranger arrives from the wasteland with news of a place where rain falls, crops grow, and civilization still thrives, a small group led by Lewis Meriwether and Mina Clark strike out against the wishes of the Sanctuary to find this new land. |
| Perel, Esther | The State of Affairs | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. The iconic couples therapist will get you rethinking love and sex with this provocative, fresh look at infidelity. |
| Perella, Marco | Adventures of a No Name Actor | Non-fiction | A bit-player writes about making movies. |
| Peress, Gilles and Michael Shulan and Charles Traub and Alice Rose George | Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs | Photo | A document that will endure as a heartening monument long after most 9/11 books have been forgotten. I need to weep every time I open it. [Kris' note: this is from a review - not me] |
| Perez, Caroline Criado | Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. |
| Perle, Liz | Money, A Memoir | Memoir | Moves to Singapore with her transferred husband, who shortly thereafter informs her that the marriage is over. How did a well-educated woman who had always held a job suddenly end up broke? |
| Perlstein, Linda | Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers | Non-fiction | Perlstein spent a year with some sixth through eighth graders. |
| Perrin, Briar | Beneath | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. When Mason's friend goes missing, he leads the search for his good friend. He slips and falls, crashing into an old, disused segment of the pit. Surrounded by evil creatures in the pitch darkness, can he find his way out to warn the locals? Or will the monsters escape and wreak havoc before he gets the chance? |
| Perrotta, Tom | Election | Fiction | Suggested By: Movie/TV. Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She's one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister (aka "Mr. M."), thinks the students deserve better. So he persuades Paul Warren--a well-liked, good-hearted jock--to throw in his hat. But that puts Paul's sister, Tammy, in a snit. So she runs, too, on an apathy platform--before starting a real campaign...to get herself kicked out of school. |
| Perrotta, Tom | Little Children | Fiction | Bitingly hysterical exploration of bored young suburban parents and the child molester who disrupts their lives. By the author of "Election" and "Joe College". |
| Perrotta, Tom | Mrs. Fletcher | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Straight-laced Eve Fletcher - divorced, lonely, still pretty at 46 - drops her son off at college and prepares to enjoy her empty nest. Light, zingy, and laugh-out-loud funny. |
| Perrotta, Tom | The Abstinence Teacher | Fiction | Sex ed meets Christian values in this satirical portrayal of confused suburban adults, from the author of Election. |
| Perrotti, Kylie | The Weekly Meal Plan Cookbook | Cookbook | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $2.15 Kindle book. A 3-Month Kickstart Guide to Healthy Home Cooking. Learn how to utilize common ingredients in new and exciting ways with this how-to guide for conquering the kitchen. The Weekly Meal Plan Cookbook offers three months' worth of meal plans with 60 tried-and-true dinner recipes for every night of the week. Comprehensive grocery lists take the guesswork out of grocery shopping and include simple, versatile ingredients that can be used multiple times throughout the week (so you'll never have to worry about that big bunch of basil going bad). |
| Perry, Amani | South to America | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. A scholar from Alabama explores the South to understand its history, culture, and communities. An essential meditation on the South, its relationship to American culture - even Americanness itself. |
| Perry, Matteson | Available | Memoir | Suggested By: People Mag. Hilarious, touching post-breakup year of hound-dogging (really? ick - sounds yucky). He gets better, bolder - and finally learns that Nice (and Funny) does get the girl. |
| Perry, Matthew | Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing | Memoir | Suggested By: Author. Chandler Bing from Friends!! |
| Perry, Sarah | After the Eclipse | Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. The central event in Perry's stunning memoir is her mother's murder. I was determined to make it more about Mom's life than a true-crime-y whodunit. I wanted to address our epidemic of violence against women and the connections between that and everyday misogyny. |
| Perry, Steve | Man Up! Nobody is Coming to Save Us | Non-fiction | Man Up! is a hard hitting, hig, introspective look into what the Black community must do to save itself. Finally, a voice speaks to the complex relationship between personal and community responsibility. Steve Perry effectively calls to task organizations such as the NAACP and the Black church as well as talking heads like Michael Eric Dyson and Cornell West for their role in the retardation of the Black community. Ultimately Man Up! is about the simple solutions offered in each chapter. |
| Perry, Steve | Various - The Matador Series | SciFi | Suggested By: Friend.
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| Perry, Steve | Various - Venture Silk Series | SciFi | Suggested By: Author. I gave mine to the library.
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| Perry, Thomas | Blood Money | Crime/Mystery | Native American Heroine steals from the Mafia to give to the poor. |
| Peter, Peter | The Subway Pictures | Photo | Peter uses hidden camera to catch candid photos of people in post-9/11 NYC. |
| Peters, Julie Anne | Luna | GLBT | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. A groundbreaking novel about a transgender teen, selected as a National Book Award finalist. Regan's brother Liam can't stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female name, his true self, Luna, only reveals herself at night. In the secrecy of his basement bedroom, Liam transforms himself into the beautiful girl he longs to be. |
| Peters, Mark | Japan Dreams: notes from an unreal country | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. Highly recommended by Matthew Amster-Burton. Beautifully written, weird, sexy, and full of smart observations. |
| Peters, Torrey | Detransition, Baby | GLBT | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. |
| Petersen, Elle | Home Workout | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The home workout plan on how to get fit for life. Exercise. Gym. Fit. Fitness. |
| Peterson, Farmer John | Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables | Cookbook | CSA stories and recipes. |
| Peterson, Holly | It Happens in the Hamptons | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. A single mom is lured to the Hamptons for the summer and learns the ways of the 1 percent of the 1 percent. Peterson chronicles this crowed with firsthand knowledge and a sense of the ridiculous. She's like Edith Wharton in Gucci flip-flops. |
| Peterson, Mary Pflum | White Dresses | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. In this stunning New York Times bestseller, an Emmy Award winner tells the story of her mother -- a former nun and compulsive hoarder -- and their beautiful bond that couldn't be broken. |
| Peterson, Megan Cooley | The Liar's Daughter | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When the government raids the compound where she grew up, Piper learns she was kidnapped and raised in a cult - and is sent to live with her birth mother. |
| Peterson, Roger Tory | All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures | Essays | Collection of essays from Peterson's column in Bird Watcher's Digest. Peterson is the guy who published "A Field Guide to the Birds". The writing is bright and lively. |
| Petievich, Gerald | To Live And Die In L.A. | Crime/Mystery | The movie is based on this book. |
| Petri, Alexandra | Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why | Essays | Suggested By: Other. Someone suggested that Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post is hilarious. I found this book. "These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency. In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle your worldview. In essays both new and adapted from her viral Post columns, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted, white supremacy has never been less rampant, and men have been silenced for too long. Q-Anon makes perfect sense! Perhaps the abyss is staring back at you because your outfit looks extra nice today! At the center of the book is a virtuosic account of the past four years, a history as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. This Panglossian venture into the swampy present will soothe--and terrify--readers who have died laughing to ClickHole, the Onion, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, or Veep" |
| Petrie, Nick | The Breaker | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "Ash is the real deal" -Lee Child. Wanted by two governments, Peter Ash lives a quiet life renovating old buildings in Milwaukee - until his dangerous past comes back to haunt him. "If you aren't reading Nick Petrie, now is the time to start" -C.J. Box |
| Petrie, Nick | The Drifter | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Measures up to Jack Reacher. A former Marine lieutenant deeply damaged by his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The second book is Burning Bright. |
| Petrie, Nick | Various - Peter Ash Series | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Recommended by Lee Child and C.J. Box.
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| Petroski, Henry | Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design | Science/Nature | Petroski brings sizable wit and imagination to bear on the everyday items rendered invisiby by their ubiquity. |
| Petroski, Henry | To Engineer is Human | Non-fiction | About re-design. Eg: bridge designs that stand the test of time get copied and minimalized, then copied and stripped down some more, until eventually the design fails and we start over again. |
| Petrow, Steven | Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old | Humorous | Suggested By: BookBub.com. For fans of David Sedaris and Nora Ephron, here is a humorous, irreverent, and poignant look at the gifts, stereotypes, and inevitable challenges of aging, based on the wildly popular New York Times essay from award-winning journalist Steven Petrow. Soon after his 50th birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of "things I won't do when I get old"--mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then 70-something year old parents were doing wrong. |
| Petrus, Junauda | The Stars and the Blackness Between Them | GLBT | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When her mother catches her with her secret girlfriend, Audre is sent to live with her father in Minneapolis - where she finds unexpected love with Mabel, her new classmate. |
| Petry, Ann | The Street | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Follow Lutie Johnson as she struggles to raise her young son amid poverty and injustice during the 1940s. |
| Peyser, Mark and Timothy Dwyer | Hissing Cousins | Non-fiction | Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth were miles apart politically, but they had more in common than you might think. |
| Pham, Andrew X. | Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam | Memoir | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Andrew X. Pham dreamed of becoming a writer. Born in Vietnam and raised in California, he held technical jobs at United Airlines-and always carried a letter of resignation in his briefcase. His father had been a POW of the Vietcong; his family came to America as "boat people." His sister committed suicide, prompting Andrew to quit his job. He sold all of his possessions and embarked on a year-long bicycle journey that took him through the Mexican desert, where he was treated as a bueno hermano, a "good brother"; around a thousand-mile loop from Narita to Kyoto in Japan; and, after five months and 2,357 miles, to Saigon, where he finds "nothing familiar in the bombed-out darkness." In Mexico he's treated kindly as a Vietnamito, though he shouts, "I'm American, Vietnamese American!" In Vietnam, he's taken for Japanese or Korean by his countrymen, except, of course, by his relatives, who doubt that as a Vietnamese he has the stamina to complete his journey ("Only Westerners can do it"); and in the United States he's considered anything but American. A vibrant, picaresque memoir written with narrative flair and a wonderful, eye-opening sense of adventure, Catfish and Mandala is an unforgettable search for cultural identity. |
| Phelps-Roper, Megan | Unfollow | Memoir | Suggested By: People Mag. Child of members of the hateful Westboro church. "My parents are intelligent. They're not inherently hateful, but they've been taught to sublimate their thoughts and feelings to the Westboro ideology." I want to tell my family, Megan writes, that the world isn't evil. It's complicated, beautiful, and good. |
| Phelps, Libby | Girl on a Wire | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. The Westboro Baptist Church was Libby Phelp's entire world - until she escaped from the extremist group and its hateful ideology. She shares her own story of life inside the church in this eye-opening memoir. |
| Philbrick, Nathan | The Last Stand | Non-fiction | Meticulously researched account of General Custer's famous final moments at the Battle of Little Bighorn. |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel | Bunker Hill | Non-fiction | Though you know the ending, you'll whip through the pages, rooting for the ragtag band of patriots. |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel | In The Heart of the Sea | Non-fiction | Sunken whaling ship Essex and its cannibal survivors. |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel | Mayflower | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Charts the history of the Plymouth Colony, from the Mayflower to bloody conflict between colonists and natives. |
| Philbrick, Nathaniel | Sea of Glory | Non-fiction | True story. 1838-42 exploration ship. Tyrant captain. |
| Philippe, Ben | The Field Guide to the North American Teenager | Youth | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Whip-smart. Recommend for fans of John Green. When 17-year-old Norris Kaplan moves from Canada to Texas, can he open himself up to new friendships and unexpected love? |
| Phillips, Richard | A captain's duty | Memoir | Somali pirates, Navy SEALs, and dangerous days at sea |
| Phillips, Susan Elizabeth | Call Me Irresistible | Fiction | Book before The Great Escape. Recommended by Sarah Addison Allen. |
| Phillips, Susan Elizabeth | The Great Escape | Fiction | Sequel to Call Me Irresistible that's equally impossible to resist. Recommended by Sarah Addison Allen. |
| Phillips, Ty | Blacktop Cowboys | Non-fiction | Rodeo cowboys. Like the steer wrestlers Phillips tailed during the 2004 season, he knows how to tell a good story. He captures the solitude and camaraderie which runs deep. |
| Phipps, Mona | Red Dirt Girl | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Mona Phipps describes growing up in the state of Oklahoma in the 1930's and 40's, and the rich family tapestry of being a 12th generation American. |
| Phoenix, Nora | Press: A White House Gay Romance | GLBT | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. .White House Men Series Book 1. Five years ago, Levar survived a terrorist attack. The bombing left its scars, but he's picked up his life. He loves working for the vice president--who is openly bisexual--as his press secretary. Levar can't afford a pesky attraction that proves to be frustratingly stubborn. Worse, those highly combustible sparks are with the very last person he should be falling for: Henley Platt, a well-known reporter covering the White House. Henley may not be Levar's enemy, but he's definitely not his friend. He can't be, not when their jobs put them on opposite sides. Henley is absolutely off-limits, even when he shows his appreciation for the sexy lingerie Levar loves to wear. |
| Pick, Nancy | The Rarest of the Rare | Non-fiction | Stories behind the treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Profiles of seventy-some items that make up a small but noteworthy segment of the massive Harvard collection. Includes stunning color photos. |
| Picoult, Jodi | House Rules | Fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. Tale of a teen with Asperger's who is suspected of murder rocketed to No 1 with 600,000 copies in print. Autism Spectrum. Autistic. Asperger's syndrome. |
| Picoult, Jodi | My Sister's Keeper | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. Jodi Picoult tells the story of a girl who decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body in this New York Times bestseller that tackles a controversial subject with grace and explores what it means to be a good person. |
| Picoult, Jodi | Nineteen Minutes | Fiction | Centered around a Columbine-like school shooting, the book jumps between characters and time periods, making us care as much fot the shooter, Peter Houghton, as for his victims. After murderining 10 classmates in a 19-minute rampage, he offers a terse explanation: "They started it." |
| Picoult, Jodi | Plain Truth | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. Explores the complex choices of the heart for a young Amish woman -- the compelling journey of discovery for an urban lawyer who befriends and protects her. |
| Picoult, Jodi | Second Glance | Fiction | Great ghost story. |
| Picoult, Jodi | Small Great Things | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. In a wealthy Connecticut town a black nurse is accused of murdering the newborn son of white supremacists. |
| Pierce, Carrie | Handwritten Notes: Learn How a Small, Powerful Act Can Enrich Your Life | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $0.00 Kindle book. Long boring text, no pictures (maybe a tiny few). "Carrie Pierce in her engaging, informative Handwritten Notes has reawakened in me that joy of taking time to do that little extra that can make such a difference in improving personal relationships at home and at work. I highly recommend her book." |
| Pierce, Marc | Make Money on eBay | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. 50 items that you can always sell on eBay. |
| Piercy, Marge | Gone To Soldiers | Fiction | Suggested By: Other. $.72 Kindle book. Epic in scope, Marge Piercy's sweeping novel encompasses the wide range of people and places marked by the Second World War. Each of her ten narrators has a unique and compelling story that powerfully depicts his or her personality, desires, and fears. Special attention is given to the women of the war effort, like Bernice, who rebels against her domineering father to become a fighter pilot, and Naomi, a Parisian Jew sent to live with relatives in Detroit, whose twin sister, Jacqueline--still in France--joins the resistance against Nazi rule. |
| Piercy, Marge | Sex Wars | Fiction | A patchwork panorama of late 19th century New York City. Sometimes a clunky read, still the sights and sounds and stink of early NYC linger long after the story is done. |
| Pierre, DBC | Vernon God Little | Fiction | Vernon Little is the second-least-popular guy in school. Pierre has channeled the most afflicted and endearing heao since Rushmore's Max Fischer. |
| Pierson, D.C. | Crap Kingdom | Youth | Suggested By: Library Display. He was the only one who could save them. Then they picked someone else. As seen at the Eagan High School library. |
| Pike, Chris | World on Edge: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. World on Edge Book 1. A surprise attack. No technology. No nothing. A deadly EMP obliterates the nation's power grid. The survivors must rely on themselves, their courage, and wit, while enduring horrific hardships. Joe Buck is on a collision course with a life altering event. He'll need to rely on his skills to survive the catastrophic EMP about to unfold as he's working behind the scenes of his blue collar job at the Super Bowl. Breakout country singer, and small-town girl Lexi Carter is on the same trajectory. She has just finished singing a well-received rendition of the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. It's 5:23 pm and Ethan Crossfield, the lead pilot of the Blue Angels, has NRG Stadium in his sights, packed with thousands of people as he streaks across the sky at mind numbing speeds, moments before his flyover. The crowd is raucous. The performances were meticulously rehearsed, finely tuned down to the second, and should have gone off without a hitch. Except for one surprise glitch: An EMP. During the chaos and the ensuing struggle to survive, society collapses faster than expected, and an unlikely hero emerges, unknowingly stalked by powerful and ruthless people willing to kill at all costs to maintain the secrecy of their diabolical plot. Find out who is left standing in this fast-paced and thrilling first installment in the World on Edge series. |
| Pike, Matt | Apocalypse: Diary of a Survivor | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Other. $1.07 Kindle book. For teenager Jack Baldwin, life as he knows it has always had an easy rhythm – family, friends, school and a regular schedule of Xbox. But when he's tipped off to impending global catastrophe, his casual existence is shaken to the core. Emerging from impact night, when a comet wipes out most of Earth's population, Jack quickly realises the real battle for survival has just begun. As supplies run low, the military disappears, neighbours turn on each other and the body count mounts, fellow survivors fast become the biggest threat of all. |
| Pileggi, Nicholas | Wiseguy | Non-fiction | Book that inspired GoodFellas. |
| Pilloton, Emily | Girl's Garage | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. A trusted household resource and wellspring of encouragement. Available as library eBook. Also, see documentary film, If You Build It. |
| Pines, Trent D. | Life on Altamont Court | Humorous | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. When a gay couple moves in… The Inflatable Snowman. The Gigantic Inflatable Snowman. We thought that ‘Frosty' would lead to our demise. That 20-foot monstrosity had me questioning our decision to move into this seemingly quiet neighborhood on a cul-de-sac. Was I ever wrong. It turned out to be one of the best decisions we ever made. This book is dedicated to the memories and life-changing events that took place during our stay on Altamont Court. |
| Pink, Daniel H. | Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. This #1 New York Times bestseller examines the motivations that really spur humans to action. With over 26,000 five-star Goodreads ratings, "Pink's analysis… offers tremendous insight into our deepest nature" (Publishers Weekly). |
| Pink, Daniel H. | When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Unlocks the scientific secrets of good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home. |
| Pinker, Steven | Enlightenment Now | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. "My new favorite book of all time" (Bill Gates): This New York Times bestseller argues that the values championed by the Enlightenment are essential for our future. "Pinker's sober, lucid, and meticulously researched vision of human progress is heartening and important" |
| Pinker, Steven | How the Mind Works | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Delve into the many mysteries of the human mind in this work of witty popular science that you enjoy reading for the writing as well as for the science. |
| Pinker, Steven | The Better Angels of our Nature | Non-fiction | Times are tough, but we don't need to give up on humanity just yet. Harvard prof Pinker says violence of all kinds has declined markedly over the centuries. |
| Pinkerton, Brian | How I Started the Apocalypse | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. At night, they come for him. They surround his house. They beat down his door. They burst through the windows. They attack him in the dark. But Chaz Singleton is not going down without a fight. Chaz is alone in his battle for survival against overwhelming odds and he holds the fate of the world in his hands, whether he likes it or not. |
| Piperbrook, T. W. | Contamination Boxed Set | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Books 0-3 in the series. The infection has begun, ravaging the American Southwest and leaving a chaos in its wake. In this new world, there will be last meal, no dying wish. The only reward left is to survive another day. I think it might be a zombie series. Not included: Contamination 4: Escape, Contamination 5: Survival, Contamination 6: Sanctuary, Contamination: Dead Instinct (Stand alone, or series companion)
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| Piperbrook, T.W. | Contamination Box Set: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Series (Books 0-7) | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $1.07 Kindle book. The infection has begun, ravaging the American Southwest and leaving chaos in its wake. In this new world, there will be no last meal, no dying wish. The only reward left is to survive another day...
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| Pipher, Mary | Seeking Peace | Non-fiction | Author of Reviving Ophelia. |
| Pipher, Mary | Women Rowing North | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Explores the challenges of aging - and how responding with resilience can help you grow and enjoy a wise, blissful life. "Positive, affirming...will inspire and guide women." |
| Pistone, Joe and Bill Bonanno with David Fisher | The Good Guys | Crime/Mystery | Ex-undercover FBI agent Pistone is best known as Donny Brasco. The novel is a strange hybrid of autobiographical reflections and fictional mob thriller. |
| Pistone, Joseph AKA Donnie Brasco | The Way of the Wiseguy | Non-fiction | In a new guide to Mob style and manners, former FBI undercover agent Joseph Pistone, who spent six years posing as mafioso Donnie Brasco, explains how to pass as a made man. |
| Pistorius, Martin | Ghost Boy | Memoir | My Escape From A Life Locked Inside My Own Body. Pistorius spent more than a decade unable to move or communicate, failing all tests of mental awareness. Until he woke up. |
| Pitcher, Blake | Letters from the Apocalypse | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Stranger Sun Apocalypse Book 1. The sun is strange, and the lights in the sky have shut down the world. Roger was on a work trip to Texas when it all happened. Trapped between chaos and the rise of a mysterious, fanatical rancher, Roger seeks to find his way north, and home to his wife. Except it's even harder than it seems. And he doesn't even know if she's alive. Letters from the Apocalypse is the story of two people separated by the end of the world, and the letters that could bring them together again. |
| Pitre, Urvashi | Indian Intant Pot Cookbook | Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. $2.14 Kindle book. Traditional Indian dishes made easy and fast. |
| Pitt, Spike | Skinhead...The Life I Chose: Memoirs of a Real Skin | Memoir | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $0.00 Kindle book. This is a true account of the skinhead cult, told by a man who was really there and still is. It is NOT about Nazism, or Neo-Nazism, and definitely not about politics; it is the story of how the ebullience of youth can be corrupted and misinterpreted by propaganda and the media. |
| Plain, Belva | Various - Belva Plain | Fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Not sure if she's chick lit, romance, or good women's fiction. Many available as library e-books.
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| Plant, Steve | DIY: Secret Hiding Places | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. 90 Places To, Hide What You Don't Want Found! (SHTF Stockpile, SHTF Plan, Prepper's Guide, Prepper's Hacks, Self-Help Workbook, ... Hack Book, Hack It, How To Hide Anything). |
| Plant, Steve | Prepper's Pantry | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. The survival guide to modern day emergency food & water storage. |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar | Fiction | A gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. |
| Platt, Polly | Savoir Flair! | Non-fiction | 211 tips for understanding the French Way. |
| Platt, Sean and David W. Wright | Yesterday's Gone: Seasons 1-6 Complete Saga | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $1.07 Kindle book. On October 15th, humanity went missing. A handful of scattered survivors wake to find the world empty of friends, family, and neighbors. Among them, a child searches for his family. A special agent turned enemy of the state survives a fiery plane crash with no way to reach his daughter. A serial killer discovers he's no longer at the top of the food chain. Now these strangers must find the strength inside them to weather the new world. But they are not alone. In the absence of civilization, a new threat emerges. In the stillness, it waits and watches, preying on their weakness. Their only hope is to find more survivors, rise above their fear, and face the oncoming darkness. |
| Platt, Sean and David Wright | Yesterday's Gone: Season One | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. On October 15th, humanity went missing. A handful of scattered survivors wake to find the world empty of friends, family, and neighbors. Among them, a child searches for his family. A special agent turned enemy of the state survives a fiery plane crash with no way to reach his daughter. A serial killer discovers he's no longer at the top of the food chain. Now these strangers must find the strength inside them to weather the new world. |
| Platt, Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant | Burnout | SciFi | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Cutter Dunn was born a ghost. Unchipped and unregistered, he exists as a nonperson, living off-the-grid, unrecognized by the facial recognition software built into every smart glass device that provides everyone with everything they want and need. According to the official system, he doesn't even exist. He has the skills and out-of-the-box perspective to design the nuts-and-bolts mechanism for the next generation of driverless shipping vehicles. He's also the kind of person that a massively wealthy and corrupt corporation can exploit and make disappear. And that was their big mistake. Because Cutter knows they can't track what they can't trace. And they won't know what he's planning until it hits them. |
| Pletcher, Michael | Stretching Exercises for Seniors | Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Simple Stretching Exercises To Do at Home. Improve Your Movements, Your Health and Prevent Injury After 60. |
| Plimpton, George | Truman Capote | Auto/Biography | In which various friends, enemies, acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career. |
| Plummer, Deborah | Some of My Friends Are... | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Why are cross-racial friendships important - and how can you develop strong relationship that break down potential barriers? Plummer's call is inspiring because of - rather than despite - its willingness to call out difficulties and eschew naivete. |
| Plunket, Honorable Frederica | Here and There Among the Alps | Memoir | Vivid account of early alpine journeys "by the with to persuade other ladies". |
| Pochoda, Ivy | Visitation Street | Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: BookBub.com. On one particularly stifling night, Val and June, "hot and stir-crazy" white teenage girls, dare to take a pink rubber raft out onto the treacherous Hudson River. Val is found unconscious beneath the pier; June is missing. During the ensuing investigation, even the dead have their say. The mysteries of sexuality, guilt, race and class conflicts, artistic pursuits, and psychic abilities are all in play as Pochoda transforms Red Hook into a microcosm of human longing. |
| Pochoda, Ivy | Wonder Valley | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Incandescent third novel. Characters include a naked jogger cuttings thru traffic, a kid out of juvie, a tennis star, and commune escapees. Pochoda keeps you guessing while bringing these lost souls in Los Angeles wonderfully, intensely alive. |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 2 | Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle book. |
| Poehler, Amy | Yes Please | Humorous | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Pure Charm. Amy Poehler shares candid life lessons and laugh-out-loud moments that give full exposure of Poehler's funny and very magnanimous heart. |
| Poeppel, Amy | Small Admissions | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Admissions officer at an elite Manhattan private school - interviewing neurotic parents and prospective middle schoolers unexpectedly cures her funk. Sweet, smart, and satisfying down to the last pleasing twist. |
| Pogue, Lindsey and Lindsey Fairleigh | After the Ending | Post-Apocalyptic | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. When people started getting sick, "they" thought it was just the flu. My roommate, my boyfriend, my family...they're all gone now. I got sick too. I should have died with them--with the rest of the world--but I didn't. I thought witnessing the human population almost disappear off the face of the earth was the craziest thing I'd ever experience. I was so wrong. My name is Dani O'Connor, I'm twenty-six-years-old, and I survived The Ending. |
| Poirier, Anne | The Body Joyful | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Body Neutrality: the ability to accept and respect your body even if it isn't the way you'd prefer it to be. Anne Poirier began using the term in 2015 to help her clients build a healthier, more in-tune relationship to food and exercise. Body Neutrality prioritizes the body's function, and what the body can to, rather than its appearance. |
| Pollacks, John | Cork Boat | Non-fiction | Built boat of wine corks. |
| Pollan, Michael | Cooked | Non-fiction | Equal parts memoir, cookbook, and foodie dissertation. Pedantic at times, but a feast for intellectual omnivores. |
| Pollan, Michael | Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation | Cookbook | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $1.07 Kindle book. In Cooked, Pollan discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements--fire, water, air, and earth--to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with fire, cook with liquid, bake bread, and ferment everything from cheese to beer. Each section of Cooked tracks Pollan's effort to master a single classic recipe using one of the four elements. |
| Pollan, Michael | Food Rules | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. "Avoid cereals that change the color of the milk" and more. Ummm...duh, but this guy has written of lot of intriguing looking books on food and I could use some better (and less obvious) rules, so this is worth looking into. |
| Pollan, Michael | How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. This sounds pretty weird. When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. |
| Pollan, Michael | In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we're consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating. |
| Pollan, Michael | Second Nature: A Gardener's Education | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Author. $2.14 Kindle book. Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature. |
| Pollan, Michael | The Botany of Desire | Non-fiction | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Johnny Appleseed's trees were for hard cider, not eating. |
| Pollan, Michael | This Is Your Mind On Plants | Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So, then, what is a "drug"? And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime? |
| Pollan, Tracy and Dana Pollan and Lori Pollan and Corky Pollan | Mostly Plants: 101 Delicious Flexitarian Recipes from the Pollan Family | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.15 Kindle book. What does choosing "mostly plants" look like in real life? For the Pollans, it means eating more of the things that nourish us, and less of the things that don't. It means cutting down on the amount of animal protein we consume, rather than eliminating it completely, and focusing on vegetables as the building blocks of our meals. |
| Polletta, Francesca | Freedom Is an Endless Meeting | History | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Is democracy effective at creating social progress? From early labor protests to modern-day struggles, this "excellent study" examines how change happen, challenging both proponents and opponents to rethink their deeply held beliefs. |
| Polly, Matthew | American Shaolin | Memoir | In his action-packed quest to immerse himself in Shaolin's insular culture as thoroughly as any Coke-drinking guy from Kansas can, Polly transforms from a gangly wannabe into a formidable kickboxer. Since he never loses his sense of humor when describing his grueling training, the shortcomings of Communist medicine, or the specifics of "iron crotch kungfu," Polly is an easy amateur to root for. |
| Polzin, Jackie | Brood | Fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. An exquisite new literary voice--wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny Offill and Elizabeth Strout--depicts one woman's attempt to keep her four chickens alive while reflecting on a recent loss. Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails. From the forty-below nights of a brutal Minnesota winter to a sweltering summer which brings a surprise tornado, she battles predators, bad luck, and the uncertainty of a future that may not look anything like the one she always imagined. |
| Pomfret, Scott | Since My Last Confession | GLBT | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Meet Scott Pomfret: a devout Catholic lector with an atheist boyfriend and a side job writing gay erotica! Scott offers a hilarious tour through his unconventional life and its many contradictions in this page-turning memoir. |
| Pond, Karen | Getting Genki in Japan | Memoir | Suggested By: Other. Recommended by Matthew Amster-Burton. A comic memoir by an American woman trying to figure out how Tokyo works. |
| Pond, Steve | The Big Show | Non-fiction | Appears to have overheard everything during 15 years of total access behind the scenes at the Academy Awards. |
| Poole, Eric | Where's My Wand? | Memoir | Memoir of growing up gay and Baptist in the 70s. Gut-splittingly funny. |
| Poole, Heather | Cruising Attitude | Memoir | Veteran flight attendant's hilarious take on what really happens behind the scenes at 35,000 feet. |
| Pooley, Clare | The Authenticity Project | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. Some Londoners are strangers to one another and to their neighbors - until an artist confesses his loneliness in a notebook and leaves it at a local cafe, inviting whoever finds it to share his or her own secrets and pass it along. A warm, charming tale about the rewards of revealing oneself. |
| Poore, Michael | Up Jumps the Devil | Humorous | Suggested By: BookBub.com. John Scratch, who happens to be the Devil, tries to win back his lost love in a witty read that's perfect for fans of Christopher Moore. "The sustained comedy in this hilarious novel is equaled only by its heart" |
| Pope, Dorian | Card Tricks For Beginner Magicians | Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Learn Card Magic For Beginners And Impress Your Family And Friends! |
| Popkey, Miranda | Topics of Conversations | Fiction | Suggested By: People Mag. A long, lonely winter's night is best spent in the literary company of fascinating women. Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women--the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves--Topics of Conversation careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. In exchanges about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage, Popkey touches upon desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, and guilt. Edgy, wry, and written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism, this novel introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist. |
| Popkin, Barry | The World is Fat | Non-fiction | The author follows the expanding waistlines of four families in the United States, Mexico and India to argue that obesity is less a result of gluttony and sloth than a confluence of factors rooted in a fundamental conflict between human biology and modern society, where more calories are consumed than expended, and governments and multinational corporations shape everyday lives (a detailed section traces the growth of modern food and beverage conglomerates). |
| Porizkova, Paulina | A Model Summer | Fiction | The heroine is a teen model in Paris. You? "It's my experiences, but filtered. She's more timid. I was a wild child." |
| Porpora, Kenny | The Autumn Balloon | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. When their house was foreclosed upon, Kenny's mother absconded with him and his beloved dog and fled for the Arizona desert, joining her heroin-addicted brother on a quixotic search for a better life. What followed was an outlaw adolescence spent in constant upheaval surrounded by bizarre characters and drug-addicted souls. |
| Porter, Bruce | Blow | Non-fiction | How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All. Cocaine smuggling. Johnny Depp movie. |
| Porter, Monica | Raven | Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Shocking, refreshing. When 60-year-old grandmother Monica Porter was ditched by her long-term partner, she took to the internet in search of romance. Laugh along as she recounts her outrageous escapades in a memoir that's admirably frank and unapologetic. |
| Portis, Charles | True Grit | Fiction | Suggested By: Movie/TV. $2.15 Kindle book. Its recent success is likely due partly to the Coen brothers citing the book (rather than the Wayne movie) as their primary inspiration. Ardent admirers of "True Grit" include not just readers like you and me, but also writers as different as George Pelecanos, Roy Blount Jr. and Donna Tartt. When the book first appeared in 1968, the back cover carried a blurb from Roald Dahl proclaiming it the best work of fiction he had read since he couldn't remember when. Like F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" or John Williams's "Stoner," it is regularly pointed to as one of the world's most artistically perfect novels. Also consider his Norwood, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos. |
| Portman, Frank | King Dork | Fiction | Portman's focus is Tom's life at Hillmont High "which somehow manages to be horrifying and tedious at the same time." But in the politically incorrect adolescent context to masterfully evoked in this terrific novel, I was rooting for him all the way. |
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