Books Read: 2015
List created by Amy B. (BaileysBooks) on Jan 30, 2015
List Votes: 1 Books: 35 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Closed
List created by Amy B. (BaileysBooks) on Jan 30, 2015
List Votes: 1 Books: 35 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Closed
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb
One of the darkest legends in the Realm of the Elderlings recounts the tale of the so-called Piebald Prince, a Witted pretender to the throne unseated by the actions of brave nobles so that the Farseer line could continue untainted. Now the truth behind the story is revealed through the account... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Fool's Assassin (Fitz and the Fool, Bk 1) (Realm of the Elderlings, Bk 14) by Robin H...
Nearly twenty years ago, Robin Hobb burst upon the fantasy scene with the first of her acclaimed Farseer novels, Assassin's Apprentice, which introduced the characters of FitzChivalry Farseer and his uncanny friend the Fool. A watershed moment in modern fantasy, this novel -- and those that... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Mistborn (Mistborn, Bk 1) by Brandon Sanderson
The Mists rule the night. The Lord Ruler owns the world.
FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years, the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years, the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible.... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, Bk 2) by Brandon Sanderson
Evil has been defeated. The war has just begun.
They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, Bk 3) by Brandon Sanderson
Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness -- the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists -- is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, Bk 4) by Brandon Sanderson
In the three hundred years since the events of the Mistborn trilogy, science and technology have marched on. Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads, electric lighting, and even the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.
Yet even with these advances, the... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Bernadette Fox has vanished. When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
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.... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by E...
Erik Larson, bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Berlin 1942
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Anatomy of Evil (Barker & Llewelyn, Bk 7) by Will Thomas
Cyrus Barker is undoubtedly England's premiere private enquiry agent. With the help of his assistant Thomas Llewelyn, he's developed an enviable reputation for discreetly solving some of the toughest, most consequential cases in recent history. But one evening in 1888, Robert Anderson,... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.
When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Bruno, Chief of Police (aka Death in the Dordogne) (Bruno, Chief of Police, Bk 1) by ...
The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoît Courrèges, a policeman in a small French village where the rituals of the café still rule. Bruno -- as he is affectionately nicknamed -- may be the town's only municipal policeman, but in... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty
A selection of stories from four published collections: The Wide Net, The Bride of the Innisfallen, A Curtain of Green, and The Golden Apples.
Stories include:
The Wide Net
Old Mr. Marblehall
Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden
A Worn Path
Petrified Man
A... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Pride and Prejudice (Abridged) by Jane Austen & Norah Woollard (Editor) & Ann...
Abridged textbook for foreign speakers.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Elantris (Elantris, Bk 1) by Brandon Sanderson
Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Emperor's Soul (Cosmere Universe) by Brandon Sanderson
When Shai is caught replacing the Moon Scepter with her nearly flawless forgery, she must bargain for her life. An assassin has left the Emperor Ashravan without consciousness, a circumstance concealed only by the death of his wife. If the emperor does not emerge after his... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Warbreaker (Warbreaker, Bk 1) by Brandon Sanderson
After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today?s leading master of what Tolkien called "secondary creation," the invention of whole worlds, complete... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Fatal Tree (Bright Empires) by Stephen R. Lawhead
Kit stared at his fellow questors. ?Is this it . . . the End of Everything?? It started with small, seemingly insignificant wrinkles in time: A busy bridge suddenly disappears, spilling cars into the sea. A beast from another realm roams modern streets. Napoleon?s army appears in 1930s Damascus... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child.
So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over -- she’s getting... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Fool's Quest (Fitz and the Fool, Bk 2) (Realms of the Elderlings, Bk 15) by Robin Hob...
Happy endings never last…
Years ago, they freed a dragon from the glaciers on Aslevjal. Then they parted ways, the Fool returning to far-off Clerres, while Fitz finally claimed a wife, a family, and a home of his own.
Now, betrayed by his own people and broken by torment, the Fool... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitch-Hikers Guide, Bk 1) by Douglas Adams
When Earth is destroyed to make way for a Hyperspatial express route, Arthur Dent discovers that space is big, as he is taken on a hair-raising tour of the Galaxy and its very strange inhabitants, by his friend Ford Perfect.
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Rise of the King: Companions Codex, II by R. A. Salvatore
In the second book of the Companions Codex, the latest series in the New York Times best-selling saga of dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, R.A. Salvatore picks up with the fan-favorite storyline of dwarf king Bruenor Battlehammer and his bloody feud with the orc kingdom of Many Arrows.
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf by R. A. Salvatore
Bloody war rages across the Forgotten Realms world in the third book of the Companions Codex, the latest series in R.A. Salvatore's New York Times best-selling saga of dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden.
In the evolving world of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Sundering has given way to months of... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
Go Set a Watchman (Larger Print) by Harper Lee
An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Martian by Andy Weir
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone,... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Bk 1) by Patrick Rothfuss
The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One . . .
MY NAME IS KVOTHE
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled form the... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Bk 2) by Patrick Rothfuss
The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two . . .
Picking up the tale of Kvothe, Kingkiller, once again, we follow him into exile, into political intrigue, courtship, adventure, love and magic ...and further along the path that has turned Kvothe, the mightiest magician of his age, a legend... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Slow Regard of Silent Things: A Kingkiller Chronicle Novella by Patrick Rothfuss
The University, a renowned bastion of knowledge, attracts the brightest minds to unravel the mysteries of enlightened sciences like artificing and alchemy. Yet deep below its bustling halls lies a complex and cavernous maze of abandoned rooms and ancient passageways - and in the heart of it all... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The World's Largest Man: A Memoir by Harrison Scott Key
The riotous, tender story of a bookish Mississippi boy and his flawed, Bunyanesque father, told with the comic verve of David Sedaris and the deft satire of Mark Twain or Roy Blount, Jr.Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women and... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Rithmatist (Rithmatist, Bk 1) by Brandon Sanderson & Ben McSweeney (Illustrat...
More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Chosen by the Master in a mysterious inception ceremony, Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. Rithmatists are humanity’s only defense against the Wild Chalklings -- merciless... more
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Amy B. (BaileysBooks) |
The Water Room (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit, Bk 2) by Christopher Fowler
They are detection’s oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back half a century. Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the secrets, lies, and extreme passions that drive even... more