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I would recommend this book to others. I really enjoyed this one! Barnes and Noble Description:Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior sp... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others. It was ok, not great, but not terrible. Barnes and Noble Description:In her final novel, as in her earlier ones, Jane Austen uses a love story to explore and gently satirize social pretensions and emotional confusion. Persuasion follows the romance of Anne Elliot and naval officer Frederick Wentworth. They were happily engaged until Anne’s friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her that Frederick was “unworthy.” Now, eight years later, Frederick returns, ... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others.Barnes and Noble Description: Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.
As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to everyone. After just a few pages I knew I was reading something that I was going to love. The writing style is amazing because it is so real. The author pays less attention to grammar than feeling and the result is smart and witty. I read this in one sitting because I could't put it down. I found myself smiling, laughing and sobbing multiple times while reading. Everyone should read this book.Barnes and Noble Description:Despite the tumor-shrinking medical mirac... Continue reading ...
I would not recommend this book to others.Barnes and Noble Description:Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some inclu... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others.Barnes and Noble Description:When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian’s singular erotic tastes, Ana demands a deeper commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees.
Now, Ana and Christian have it all—love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a wo... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others. Barnes and Noble Description:Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.
But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others. This was definitely a guilty pleasure read. The writing itself isn't great, but the story makes up for that. It was entertaining and I plan on finishing the series.Barnes and Noble Description: When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic rese... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others. This book is dark and not at all what I expected, but it was entertaining. Barnes and Noble Description:Emily Brontë’s only novel, Wuthering Heights remains one of literature’s most disturbing explorations into the dark side of romantic passion. Heathcliff and Cathy believe they’re destined to love each other forever, but when cruelty and snobbery separate them, their untamed emotions literally consume them. Set amid the wild and stormy Yorkshire m... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others.Barnes and Noble Description:Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick is back and she's having a bad hair day -- for the whole month of January.She's been given the unpopular task of finding Mo Bedemier, Trenton's most beloved citizen, arrested for carrying concealed, gone no-show for his court appearance. And to make matters worse, she's got Lula, a former hooker turned file clerk -- now a wannabe bounty hunter -- at her side, sticking lik... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others. If you like to cry, this is a good one for you. It's a little cheesy, but it's super short and a quick read. Barnes and Noble Description:James Patterson has written a love story! -a powerfully moving and suspenseful novel about families, loss, new love, and hope. Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker-everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. But one day, without explanation, he dis... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others. It takes a while for things to get started, but after page 150 or so, it really takes off. Barnes and Noble Description:An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these ye... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this series to EVERYONE! These books are hilarious! I will be reading the rest of the series! Barnes and Noble Descriptions:One for the Money (#1)ONE FINE MESS Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash—fast—but times are tough, and soon she’s forced to turn to the last resort of the tru... Continue reading ...
I would not recommend this book to others. It was hard for me to relate to the characters and it had a very predictable ending. Barnes and Noble Description:"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of... Continue reading ...
I would not recommend this book to others. This book was just really strange. It has some really messed up things happen in it that really disturbed me.
Barnes and Noble Description:The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, has ju... Continue reading ...
I would not recommend this book to others. This book was terrible. I will not be reading the rest of the series.
Barnes and Noble Description:Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rar... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others. This book was a good read, and has the most shocking ending EVER!
Barnes and Noble Description:I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new h... Continue reading ...
I would not recommend this book to others. This book was slow, and just plain weird.
Barnes and Noble Description:The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians,... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others. This is a beautiful story that I think everyone should read!
Barnes and Noble Description:Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this entire series! These books are WONDERFUL!
Barnes and Noble Description:Book 1: The Hunger GamesCould you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of tw... Continue reading ...
I would recommend both of these books to others. I plan to continue reading the rest of this series. It's like Law and Order on paper.
Barnes and Noble Descriptions:1st to Die:Four women-four friends-share a determination to stop a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thoma... Continue reading ...
I would recommend this book to others. I liked this book except for the surprise ending. Enjoy!
Barnes and Noble Description:It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this... Continue reading ...
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