The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0340978503
ISBN-13 : 9780340978504
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Lecture by : Randy Pausch

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Before We Were Strangers

Before We Were Strangers
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781501105784
ISBN-13 : 1501105787
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Before We Were Strangers by : Renée Carlino

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

The Boat Builder's Bed

The Boat Builder's Bed
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 152276514X
ISBN-13 : 9781522765141
Rating : 4/5 (4X Downloads)

Synopsis The Boat Builder's Bed by : Kris Pearson

A passionate romantic comedy that begins with a windy day, a flyaway signboard, and a hideous crunch. Sophie Calhoun can't imagine how she'll pay for the damage to the luxurious car. Already cash-strapped, she's struggling to launch her new interior design studio and make a home for her daughter. She's only days away from disaster. Out of the sleek black Jaguar storms super-yacht tycoon Rafe Severino. Steaming mad. Totally gorgeous. And desperately in need of a top-line decorator for his spectacular new harbor-side mansion. Sophie fears her dream contract comes with strings that tie her to the boat-builder's bed. No matter how she tries to escape, he's always there - implacable and irresistible. She knows he doesn't want a preoccupied single mother, but concealing her daughter's existence from the man she's falling in love with is getting harder and harder. If he discovers her lies, she'll instantly lose everything. Warning: contains one determined golden-skinned man who knows his way around boats, bodies and bed-sheets.

Beautiful Disaster Signed Limited Edition

Beautiful Disaster Signed Limited Edition
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9781476719078
ISBN-13 : 1476719071
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Beautiful Disaster Signed Limited Edition by : Jamie McGuire

Abby Abernathy is re-inventing herself as the good girl as she begins her freshman year at college, which is why she must resist lean, cut, and tattooed Travis Maddox, a classic bad boy.

Forever Odd

Forever Odd
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Publisher : Bantam
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9780307414311
ISBN-13 : 0307414310
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Forever Odd by : Dean Koontz

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it. Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He’s just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when a childhood friend disappears, Odd discovers something worse than a dead body and embarks on a heart-stopping battle of will and wits with an enemy of exceptional cunning. In the hours to come there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. You’re invited on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror and transcendence to wonders beyond imagining. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.

The Great Night

The Great Night
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781429961004
ISBN-13 : 1429961007
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Night by : Chris Adrian

Acclaimed as a "gifted, courageous writer"(The New York Times), Chris Adrian brings all his extraordinary talents to bear in The Great Night—a brilliant and mesmerizing retelling of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." On Midsummer Eve 2008, three people, each on the run from a failed relationship, become trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is happening in the faerie kingdom: in a fit of sadness over the end of her marriage, which broke up in the wake of the death of her adopted son, Titania has set loose an ancient menace, and the chaos that ensues will threaten the lives of immortals and mortals alike. Selected by The New Yorker as one the best young writers in America, Adrian has created a singularly playful, heartbreaking, and humorous novel—a story that charts the borders between reality and dreams, love and magic, and mortality and immortality.

Smitten

Smitten
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780061801808
ISBN-13 : 0061801801
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Smitten by : Janet Evanovich

Single mom Lizabeth Kane isn't exactly carpenter material -- she's never picked up a hammer in her life. But she desperately needs the construction job that builder Matt Hallahan is offering. And even though he knows trouble is ahead, Matt can't refuse Lizbeth's irresistible smile. Matt Hallahan isn't exactly relationship material -- he has always been too busy working on other people's houses to make a home of his own. And even though she knows better, Lizabeth can't stop thinking about the rugged carpenter. Is the relationship Matt and Lizabeth are building solid -- or more like a house of cards?

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 735
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ISBN-10 : 9781466804272
ISBN-13 : 1466804270
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Sophie's World by : Jostein Gaarder

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

The Devils You Know

The Devils You Know
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Publisher : Soho Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781616957889
ISBN-13 : 1616957883
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Devils You Know by : M. C. Atwood

Separated from their class during a senior trip to the infamous Boulder House, five teens confront their darkest selves and band together to escape the terrors of a Wisconsin landmark.