Charlie's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:48:17 -0700 60 Charlie's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[This Is The Way The World Ends]]> 40295 319 James K. Morrow 0156002086 Charlie 4 3.75 1986 This Is The Way The World Ends
author: James K. Morrow
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)]]> 3590 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'.
The editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. With John Michael Gibson, he compiled the Soho Series Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle.
1. A Scandal In Bohemia
2. The Red-Headed League
3. A Case Of Identity
4. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
5. The Five Orange Pips
6. The Man With The Twisted Lip
7. The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle
8. The Adventure Of The Speckled Band
9. The Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb
10. The Adventure Of The Noble Bachelor
11. The Adventure Of The Beryl Coronet
12. The Adventure Of The Copper Beaches]]> 389 Arthur Conan Doyle Charlie 3 4.32 1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1892
rating: 3
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]]> The Plague 11989
It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The narrator remains unknown until the start of the last chapter, chapter 5 of part 5. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view.

The book tells a gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.

The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus' objection to the label. The novel stresses the powerlessness of the individual characters to affect their destinies. The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, whose individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings; the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.]]> 308 Albert Camus Charlie 2 4.05 1947 The Plague
author: Albert Camus
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1947
rating: 2
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]]> The Stranger 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus Charlie 4 4.04 1942 The Stranger
author: Albert Camus
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1942
rating: 4
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]]> Earth Abides 93269 345 George R. Stewart 0345487133 Charlie 5 3.94 1949 Earth Abides
author: George R. Stewart
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1949
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire, #1)]]> 26863057
Now only a few stand between humankind and annihilation: Raithe, reluctant to embrace his destiny as the God Killer; Suri, a young seer burdened by signs of impending doom; and Persephone, who must overcome personal tragedy to lead her people. The Age of Myth is over. The time of rebellion has begun.]]> 432 Michael J. Sullivan 1101965339 Charlie 4 4.21 2016 Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire, #1)
author: Michael J. Sullivan
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> Level 7 820073 Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons," a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country’s deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return.

Originally published in 1959, and with over 400,000 copies sold, this powerful dystopian novel remains a horrific vision of where the nuclear arms race may lead, and is an affirmation of human life and love. Level 7 merits comparison to Huxley’s A Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 and should be considered a must-read by all science fiction fans.]]> 200 Mordecai Roshwald 0299200647 Charlie 0 to-read 3.93 1959 Level 7
author: Mordecai Roshwald
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1959
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Creative Short Stories)]]> 3120995 32 James Thurber 1583415866 Charlie 0 to-read 3.64 1939 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Creative Short Stories)
author: James Thurber
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1939
rating: 0
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]]> Lies, Inc. 22582 The Unteleported Man, which Dick worked on shortly before his death. In Lies, Inc., fans of the science fiction legend will immediately recognize his hallmark themes of life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring of reality and illusion. This publication marks its first complete appearance in the United States.

In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into cramed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never comeback. When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale's Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a scapeship on the eighteen-year journey there to see if anyone wants to return.]]> 202 Philip K. Dick 1400030080 Charlie 2 to-read I really loved the premise of this novel, the idea of the mysterious Utopia which is Whales Mouth really attracted me, yet like others have said just before halfway(I think) the novel becomes inaccessible. Seriously I just had no idea what was going on which always really angers me in a book and so I never finished it, if anyone could tell me what happens in the end it would be much appreciated because like I said the premise really draws you in, unfortunately the execution is not as successful.
]]> 3.24 1983 Lies, Inc.
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.24
book published: 1983
rating: 2
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I really loved the premise of this novel, the idea of the mysterious Utopia which is Whales Mouth really attracted me, yet like others have said just before halfway(I think) the novel becomes inaccessible. Seriously I just had no idea what was going on which always really angers me in a book and so I never finished it, if anyone could tell me what happens in the end it would be much appreciated because like I said the premise really draws you in, unfortunately the execution is not as successful.

]]> The Man Who Fell to Earth 396329 209 Walter Tevis 0345431618 Charlie 4 4.00 1963 The Man Who Fell to Earth
author: Walter Tevis
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1963
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)]]> 21611 278 Joe Haldeman Charlie 5 4.14 1974 The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
author: Joe Haldeman
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1974
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Ruin (The Faithful and the Fallen, #3)]]> 23524878 768 John Gwynne 1447259629 Charlie 5 4.49 2015 Ruin (The Faithful and the Fallen, #3)
author: John Gwynne
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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It gonna take me a while before I'm emotionally capable of talking about this
]]> <![CDATA[The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)]]> 77565 517 Dan Simmons 0553288202 Charlie 4 4.23 1990 The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
author: Dan Simmons
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919–2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Charlie 4 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
author: J.D. Salinger
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1951
rating: 4
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]]> A Clockwork Orange 227463 A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"

This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."]]> 192 Anthony Burgess Charlie 3 3.98 1962 A Clockwork Orange
author: Anthony Burgess
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1962
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)]]> 77566 500 Dan Simmons 0553283685 Charlie 5 4.26 1989 Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
author: Dan Simmons
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1989
rating: 5
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]]> 77 Shadow Street 11166890
But now, inexplicable shadows caper across the walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths. With each passing hour, a terrifying certainty grows: Whatever drove the Pendleton's past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. As nightmare visions become real, as a deadly tide begins to engulf them, the people at 77 Shadow Street will find that they hold the key to humanity's future... if they can survive to use it.]]> 698 Dean R. Koontz 0553807714 Charlie 2 I have to finish any book which I start. Because if not I feel like eventually I will have to come back to it and I still know the characters. With this book I was aware of how many pages I was from the end. It was basically a real drag and I found myself cutting dull paragraphs. Here's my main reason why.
- Description: there was just to much description of things like the fungi. It just got really boring and took the edge off the tension. I'm sorry but that was my main problem I found the characters sometimes a bit boring but sometimes rather interesting and I never want to watch Bambi again. I don't know why. Maybe I'll give Koontz another go but not in the next 3 and a half years.]]> 3.34 2011 77 Shadow Street
author: Dean R. Koontz
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2011
rating: 2
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Really a Struggle.
I have to finish any book which I start. Because if not I feel like eventually I will have to come back to it and I still know the characters. With this book I was aware of how many pages I was from the end. It was basically a real drag and I found myself cutting dull paragraphs. Here's my main reason why.
- Description: there was just to much description of things like the fungi. It just got really boring and took the edge off the tension. I'm sorry but that was my main problem I found the characters sometimes a bit boring but sometimes rather interesting and I never want to watch Bambi again. I don't know why. Maybe I'll give Koontz another go but not in the next 3 and a half years.
]]> <![CDATA[The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)]]> 23807
Dr. Lecter is a former psychiatrist with a grisly history, unusual tastes, and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of "The Silence of the Lambs"—an ingenious, masterfully written book and an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.]]> 421 Thomas Harris Charlie 3 4.25 1988 The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
author: Thomas Harris
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1988
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Malice (The Faithful and the Fallen, #1)]]> 15750692
Young Corban watches enviously as boys become warriors under King Brenin’s rule, learning the art of war. He yearns to wield his sword and spear to protect his king’s realm. But that day will come all too soon. Only when he loses those he loves will he learn the true price of courage.

The Banished Lands has a violent past where armies of men and giants clashed shields in battle, the earth running dark with their heartsblood. Although the giant-clans were broken in ages past, their ruined fortresses still scar the land. But now giants stir anew, the very stones weep blood and there are sightings of giant wyrms. Those who can still read the signs see a threat far greater than the ancient wars. Sorrow will darken the world, as angels and demons make it their battlefield. Then there will be a war to end all wars.

High King Aquilus summons his fellow kings to council, seeking an alliance in this time of need. Some are skeptical, fighting their own border skirmishes against pirates and giants. But prophesy indicates darkness and light will demand two champions, the Black Sun and the Bright Star. They would be wise to seek out both, for if the Black Sun gains ascendancy, mankind’s hopes and dreams will fall to dust.]]> 672 John Gwynne 0230758452 Charlie 5 4.15 2012 Malice (The Faithful and the Fallen, #1)
author: John Gwynne
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> The Invisible Man 17184 192 H.G. Wells 0451528522 Charlie 3 A marathon....of sorts
First this novel was nothing like I expected. My first encounter with this character was in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, so I was expecting something slightly different to what I expected.
What I expected was something fun to read but with sinister undertones, presenting a really dark atmosphere ending with tragedy.
Received- I just found the start rather dull, I wanted there to more excitement, don't get me wrong the events at the Couch and Horse built mystery superbly but then it sort of dragged on and on. Griffin I think just had so much more potential.
The reason I refer it to a marathon(of sorts) is because in the last 30 pages of the book it was a really fun read, it was gripping, I could not help but imagine the serious threat an Invisible Man presented and then I thought what about group of them, I was enthralled to find about how they would deal with the menace. So it started slow, but then when the end was in sight it picked up.
I give it 3 stars simply for the line "The Invisible Man is COMING". I cannot explain why this line made me laugh yet sent a buzz through me simultaneously. I mean it was awesome, next time I'm in the school hall I'll run in in hysterics, screaming "The Invisible Man is COMING, flee, flee for your lives" and true to his word nobody will see him]]> 3.63 1897 The Invisible Man
author: H.G. Wells
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1897
rating: 3
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"The INVISIBLE MAN IS COMING!!!!
A marathon....of sorts
First this novel was nothing like I expected. My first encounter with this character was in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, so I was expecting something slightly different to what I expected.
What I expected was something fun to read but with sinister undertones, presenting a really dark atmosphere ending with tragedy.
Received- I just found the start rather dull, I wanted there to more excitement, don't get me wrong the events at the Couch and Horse built mystery superbly but then it sort of dragged on and on. Griffin I think just had so much more potential.
The reason I refer it to a marathon(of sorts) is because in the last 30 pages of the book it was a really fun read, it was gripping, I could not help but imagine the serious threat an Invisible Man presented and then I thought what about group of them, I was enthralled to find about how they would deal with the menace. So it started slow, but then when the end was in sight it picked up.
I give it 3 stars simply for the line "The Invisible Man is COMING". I cannot explain why this line made me laugh yet sent a buzz through me simultaneously. I mean it was awesome, next time I'm in the school hall I'll run in in hysterics, screaming "The Invisible Man is COMING, flee, flee for your lives" and true to his word nobody will see him
]]> <![CDATA[Plague Land (Somershill Manor Mystery, #1)]]> 22488006
Yet some things never change. Oswald's mother remains the powerful matriarch of the family, and his sister Clemence simmers in the background, dangerous and unmarried.

Before he can do anything, Oswald is confronted by the shocking death of a young woman, Alison Starvecrow. The ambitious village priest claims that Alison was killed by a band of demonic dog-headed men. Oswald is certain this is nonsense, but proving it by finding the real murderer is quite a different matter. Every step he takes seems to lead Oswald deeper into a dark maze of political intrigue, family secrets and violent strife.

And then the body of another girl is found.

Sarah Sykes brilliantly evokes the landscape and people of medieval Kent in this thrillingly suspenseful debut."]]> 336 S.D. Sykes 1605986739 Charlie 3 3.48 2014 Plague Land (Somershill Manor Mystery, #1)
author: S.D. Sykes
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> The Death of Grass 941731
In Britain, where green fields are fast turning brown, the Government lies to its citizens, devising secret plans to preserve the lives of a few at the expense of the many.

Getting wind of what's in store, John Custance and his family decide they must abandon their London home to head for the sanctuary of his brother's farm in a remote northern valley.

And so they begin the long trek across a country fast descending into barbarism, where the law of the gun prevails, and the civilized values they once took for granted become the price they must pay if they are to survive.]]> 224 John Christopher 0722122977 Charlie 3 3.87 1956 The Death of Grass
author: John Christopher
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1956
rating: 3
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]]> Mister Pip 543873
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.

So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, “A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe.” Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing.]]> 256 Lloyd Jones 0385341067 Charlie 4 3.67 2006 Mister Pip
author: Lloyd Jones
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> At the Mountains of Madness 32767 At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries --and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization--is a milestone of macabre literature.

This Definitive Edition of At the Mountains of Madness (The Modern Library) also includes Lovecraft's long essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature."]]> 194 H.P. Lovecraft 0812974417 Charlie 0 to-read 3.85 1931 At the Mountains of Madness
author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1931
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]]> The Man in the High Castle 216363
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.]]> 259 Philip K. Dick 0679740678 Charlie 0 to-read 3.64 1962 The Man in the High Castle
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1962
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]]> <![CDATA[Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen, #2)]]> 18513718 War has erupted in the Banished Lands as the race for power intensifies.

Corban flees his homeland searching for peace, but he soon discovers that there is no haven in the west as the agents of Rhin and roaming bands of giants hound his every step.

Veradis leaves the battleground and rushes to his King's side. But he has witnessed both combat and betrayal and his duty weighs heavily upon him.

Maquin seeks only revenge, but pirate slavers and the brutal world of pit-fighting stand in his way.

Nathair becomes embroiled in the wars of the west as Queen Rhin marches against King Owain. The need to find the cauldron of the giants drives him on.

Sides are chosen and oaths will be fulfilled or broken in a land where hell has broken loose.
]]> 649 John Gwynne 0316399744 Charlie 5 4.37 2014 Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen, #2)
author: John Gwynne
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)]]> 2429135
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.]]> 480 Stieg Larsson 0670069019 Charlie 5 4.17 2005 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)
author: Stieg Larsson
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> The Book Thief 19063 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)]]> 592 Markus Zusak Charlie 3 4.38 2005 The Book Thief
author: Markus Zusak
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2005
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]]> The Sacrifice (The Enemy #4) 13539941 Small Sam and his unlikely ally, The Kid, have survived. They’re safe with Ed and his friends at the Tower of London, but Sam is desperate to find his sister.

Their search for Ella means Sam and The Kid must cross the forbidden zone. And what awaits them there is more terrifying than any of the horror they’ve suffered so far . . .]]> 456 Charlie Higson 0141336129 Charlie 3 This is the 4th book in Charlie Higsons Zombie series and I'm happy to say it doesn't disappoint. One of the main things I like about this series are the characters. How they are portrayed and how they changed throughout the series.For example Ed at first was weak and actually quite pathetic. But now he has transformed into a stone cold killing machine and a good leader. I'm looking forward to the next book The Fallen and to learning more about the link between St George and Wormwood......
]]> 4.43 2012 The Sacrifice (The Enemy #4)
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name: Charlie
average rating: 4.43
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Guts, Gore and GREENMAN
This is the 4th book in Charlie Higsons Zombie series and I'm happy to say it doesn't disappoint. One of the main things I like about this series are the characters. How they are portrayed and how they changed throughout the series.For example Ed at first was weak and actually quite pathetic. But now he has transformed into a stone cold killing machine and a good leader. I'm looking forward to the next book The Fallen and to learning more about the link between St George and Wormwood......

]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)]]> 3 309 J.K. Rowling 0439554934 Charlie 4 4.47 1997 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)]]> 136251
In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]> 759 J.K. Rowling Charlie 4 4.61 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Charlie
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> The War of the Worlds 8909
Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels,The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published.]]> 192 H.G. Wells 0375759239 Charlie 4 3.84 1898 The War of the Worlds
author: H.G. Wells
name: Charlie
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1898
rating: 4
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]]> Cloud Atlas 49628
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .

Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.

But the story doesn't end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.

As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.]]> 509 David Mitchell 0375507256 Charlie 0 to-read 4.02 2004 Cloud Atlas
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]]> The Shining (The Shining, #1) 11588 497 Stephen King 0450040186 Charlie 3 4.28 1977 The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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]]> Carrie 10592
Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie
--back cover]]> 272 Stephen King 1416524304 Charlie 1 4.00 1974 Carrie
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hobbit, or There and Back Again]]> 5907 Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).]]> 366 J.R.R. Tolkien Charlie 3 4.29 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)]]> 13227454
Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live.

Still in his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold embarks on his urgent quest across the countryside. Along the way he meets one character after another, each of whom unlocks his long-dormant spirit and sense of promise. Memories of his first dance with Maureen, his wedding day, his joy in fatherhood, come rushing back to him - allowing him to also reconcile the losses and the regrets. As for Maureen, she finds herself missing Harold for the first time in years.

And then there is the unfinished business with Queenie Hennessy.]]> 320 Rachel Joyce 0812993292 Charlie 0 to-read 3.91 2012 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
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]]> Shadow Wave (CHERUB, #12) 7929317
Guarding the corrupt governor’s family isn’t James Adams’ idea of the perfect mission, especially as it’s going to be his last as a CHERUB agent. And then retired colleague Kyle Blueman comes up with an unofficial and highly dangerous plan of his own.

James must choose between loyalty to CHERUB, and loyalty to his oldest friend.]]> 352 Robert Muchamore 034095647X Charlie 3 (Spoilers) I went into this book with high hopes and at first I was not disappointed. I was thrilled with the outcome of the of the biker mission and happy as the mission had had a strong finish.

But then reading on I was becoming bored as the book took up the POV of Kyle and I found myself skipping paragraphs and waiting until we get back to James who might offer some entertainment. I was expected a great conclusion like a vital or important mission e.g. Where someone from one james past missions turns up and exposes him. What happened was a boring and dragged on mission which I honestly couldn't care about the outcome. Although I found the epilogue quite funny the book left a bad taste in my mouth from my all time favourite book series...]]> 4.07 2010 Shadow Wave (CHERUB, #12)
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A weak finish for a great series......
(Spoilers) I went into this book with high hopes and at first I was not disappointed. I was thrilled with the outcome of the of the biker mission and happy as the mission had had a strong finish.

But then reading on I was becoming bored as the book took up the POV of Kyle and I found myself skipping paragraphs and waiting until we get back to James who might offer some entertainment. I was expected a great conclusion like a vital or important mission e.g. Where someone from one james past missions turns up and exposes him. What happened was a boring and dragged on mission which I honestly couldn't care about the outcome. Although I found the epilogue quite funny the book left a bad taste in my mouth from my all time favourite book series...
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