Loyd's bookshelf: all en-US Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:25:28 -0700 60 Loyd's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)]]> 16326
From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

How could this happen with the world's No. 1 private detective on board?]]> 336 Agatha Christie 000711933X Loyd 5 3.84 1935 Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)]]> 7039 Librarian note: Older cover edition of 9780349116655.

In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the ‘International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement.

Tears of the Giraffe takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana's only Ladies' detective agency. Among her cases are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids and a challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son, who is long lost on the African plains. Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to that most gentlemanly of men, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of her secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective and new additions to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.]]> 233 Alexander McCall Smith Loyd 3 3.98 2000 Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
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]]> You Are Not Alone 45046742
Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better. Shay would die for them to like her. She may have to.]]> 343 Greer Hendricks 1250202035 Loyd 4 3.73 2020 You Are Not Alone
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dark Horse (Walt Longmire, #5)]]> 5950876 318 Craig Johnson 0670020877 Loyd 4 4.22 2009 The Dark Horse (Walt Longmire, #5)
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> <![CDATA[The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)]]> 21416690 Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently...

Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book.

Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested - the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. Irene's new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own.

Soon, she's up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. Yet failure is not an option - the nature of reality itself is at stake.]]> 329 Genevieve Cogman 1447256239 Loyd 3 3.71 2014 The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)]]> 6853 (USA Today) introduces feisty out-of-work bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, who takes a job as an apprehension agent and winds up getting assigned to track down and arrest her former flame, an ex-cop charged with murder.]]> 320 Janet Evanovich 0312362080 Loyd 4 4.05 1994 One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Innocent in Death (In Death, #24)]]> 74033
Magdalena Percell, an old flame of Eve's billionaire husband Roarke, has turned up in New York, and she's anything but innocent. Unfortunately, Roarke seems blind to Magdalena's maniuplations, but not to her shapely figure and flirtatious ways. But Eve will have to put aside her potential heartbreak, for a while at least- because another man has just turned up dead…]]> 385 J.D. Robb 0399154019 Loyd 5 4.36 2007 Innocent in Death (In Death, #24)
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]]> Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1) 23153154
When Amos Decker returned home to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn't think he could carry on living.

Overwhelmed with grief, Decker saw his life fall apart, losing his job as a detective, his house, and his self-respect. But when his former partner visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the murder of his family, he knows he must seek justice for them.

Then tragedy strikes at the local school: teenagers are gunned down and the killer is at large. Following the serious brain injury Amos suffered as a professional footballer, he gained a remarkable gift - and the police believe that this unusual skill will assist in the hunt for the killer.

Amos Decker must endure the memories he would rather forget, and when new evidence links the murders, he is left with only one option...]]> 416 David Baldacci 1455559822 Loyd 2 4.04 2015 Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)
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]]> Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1) 6566722 Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly bestselling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City’s top homicide squads. She’s hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York’s finest. Pulitzer- Prize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wisecracking and meddling aren’t her only problems. as she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called Heat.]]> 198 Richard Castle 1401323820 Loyd 2 3.57 2008 Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)]]> 16298
The novel was promoted on both sides of the Atlantic as Agatha Christie's 50th book and published in 1950 by William Collins.

Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "A Murder is Announced." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."]]> 288 Agatha Christie 1579126294 Loyd 4 4.01 1950 A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder at Tutley Brewery: A Jack Ludefance Novel]]> 252431154
When a death inside the brewery's walls points to a tangled history of family rivalries, buried betrayals, and carefully guarded lies, the case becomes anything but straightforward. As the evidence deepens, so does the suspicion that the killer isn't just hiding in plain sight- they may be part of the very story Tutley has spent years trying to forget.

With a sharp-eyed investigator, a layered cast of suspects, and a setting rich with atmosphere, Murder at Tutley Brewery delivers a classic mystery puzzle with modern tension. Fans of character-driven crime fiction, small town secrets, and cunning twists will find plenty to savor as the truth slowly comes to the surface.

If you enjoy mysteries where every clue matters and every character has something to hide, this novel will keep you turning pages until the final reveal.
]]> 285 Behcet Kaya Loyd 4 4.37 Murder at Tutley Brewery: A Jack Ludefance Novel
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]]> Rebecca 17899948 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century.]]> 449 Daphne du Maurier 0316323705 Loyd 5 4.28 1938 Rebecca
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]]> <![CDATA[Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)]]> 16363
When Mrs. Boynton is found dead, all are suspects even though she was ill enough to die a natural death. Just when the tension becomes unbearable, the doctor discovers essential evidence about Mrs. Boynton's devilish plan to possess and torment the children in death as in life.

We should add that, holidaying in Baghdad at the same time, is the well known Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.]]> 303 Agatha Christie 0007119356 Loyd 3 3.87 1938 Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)]]> 28877 454 Thomas Harris Loyd 5 4.07 1981 Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)]]> 34091380 405 Michael Connelly 0316225983 Loyd 4 3.95 2017 The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)
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]]> The Little Prince 157993 96 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 0152023984 Loyd 5 4.33 1943 The Little Prince
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]]> <![CDATA[Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum]]> 32905484 264 Sara Pascoe 0993574718 Loyd 4 4.33 2016 Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
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]]> <![CDATA[The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)]]> 78418
If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I'm afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don't be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery.

In fact, within the pages you now hold in your hands, the three siblings endure a car accident, a terrible odor, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a large brass reading lamp, and the appearance of a person they'd hoped never to see again.

I am bound to record these tragic events, but you are free to put this book back on the shelf and seek something lighter.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket]]> 192 Lemony Snicket Loyd 3 4.03 1999 The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)]]> 2
There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? It's not just the upcoming O.W.L. exams; a new teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a venomous, disgruntled house-elf; or even the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Now Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty; and unbearable sacrifice.

This stunning illustrated edition brings together the talents of award-winning artists Jim Kay and Neil Packer in a visual feast, featuring iconic scenes and much loved characters -- Tonks, Luna Love good, and many more -- as the Order of the Phoenix keeps watch over Harry Potter’s fifth year at Hogwarts. With its oversized format, high-quality paper, ribbon bookmark, and color on nearly every page, this edition is the perfect gift for Harry Potter fans and book lovers of all ages.]]> 576 J.K. Rowling Loyd 3 4.50 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times]]> 61355265 #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 - In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world.

There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life's big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?

Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles--the earned wisdom that helps her continue to "become." She details her most valuable practices, like "starting kind," "going high," and assembling a "kitchen table" of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness.

"When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it," writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.]]> 319 Michelle Obama 0593237463 Loyd 4 4.27 2022 The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
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]]> <![CDATA[The Holy Bible: King James Version]]> 1923820 1590 Anonymous Loyd 1 4.45 1611 The Holy Bible: King James Version
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]]> Open 6480781
Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. By the time he turns pro at sixteen, his new look promises to change tennis forever, as does his lightning-fast return.

And yet, despite his raw talent, he struggles early on. We feel his confusion as he loses to the world’s best, his greater confusion as he starts to win. After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals, Agassi shocks the world, and himself, by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon. Overnight he becomes a fan favorite and a media target.

Agassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match and every relationship. Never before has the inner game of tennis and the outer game of fame been so precisely limned. Alongside vivid portraits of rivals from several generations—Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer—Agassi gives unstinting accounts of his brief time with Barbra Streisand and his doomed marriage to Brooke Shields. He reveals a shattering loss of confidence. And he recounts his spectacular resurrection, a comeback climaxing with his epic run at the 1999 French Open and his march to become the oldest man ever ranked number one.

In clear, taut prose, Agassi evokes his loyal brother, his wise coach, his gentle trainer, all the people who help him regain his balance and find love at last with Stefanie Graf. Inspired by her quiet strength, he fights through crippling pain from a deteriorating spine to remain a dangerous opponent in the twenty-first and final year of his career. Entering his last tournament in 2006, he’s hailed for completing a stunning metamorphosis, from nonconformist to elder statesman, from dropout to education advocate. And still he’s not done. At a U.S. Open for the ages, he makes a courageous last stand, then delivers one of the most stirring farewells ever heard in a sporting arena.

With its breakneck tempo and raw candor, Open will be read and cherished for years. A treat for ardent fans, it will also captivate readers who know nothing about tennis. Like Agassi’s game, it sets a new standard for grace, style, speed, and power.]]> 388 Andre Agassi 0307268195 Loyd 5 4.30 2009 Open
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]]> The Romanovs, 1613-1918 21094391
This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon Sebag Montefiore’s gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, with a global cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy and Pushkin, to Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria and Lenin.]]> 784 Simon Sebag Montefiore 0297852663 Loyd 4 3.98 2016 The Romanovs, 1613-1918
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]]> His Forefathers and Mick 211398166 336 Michael G. Kramer Loyd 0 to-read 4.36 2024 His Forefathers and Mick
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]]> <![CDATA[Motive Black (Motive Black Series, #1)]]> 216383106
“Surreal, shocking, and beautifully disorienting—Motive Black conjures a world that feels too close to our own.”
— ★★★★★ Readers’ Favorite

Cannibalism, rape, murder—just a few of the ways love is love inside Safe Dome Austin. And though Simon has managed to avoid all but one—rape, obviously—by secluding himself inside the same Safe Space for hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours, a disagreement with the Institute's AI, Google, over which dress looks best on his Shell escalates into jealousy, and she locks him out—not just from his preferred Safe Space, but from every Safe Space on his Safe Block.

What follows is a neon-drenched, blood-soaked fever dream of paranoia, survival, and intrigue inside the metal walls of a dystopian world where everyone is finally free to do whatever they want, identify however they want—and where having a problem with that means being picked apart for the ingredients in Safe McDonald’s classic, the Safe Big Mac.

Described by readers as the “logical conclusion to our current society” and the “True Detective: Season One of novels,” MOTIVE BLACK is a satirical, Kafkaesque horror show. The first in a four-part jaunt into hell, journey through the kind of Sodom and Gomorrah only the 21st century could promise, and bear witness to one seriously fvcked up man’s desperate struggle to break free from the Safety every scientist across the globe agrees is all that separates us from the hatred of white people and the dying world outside.

CONTENT WARNING: This book contains graphic depictions of violence and sex. It features pervasive drug use, obscene language, and torture. Reader discretion is advised.]]> 490 Adam Scott Huerta Loyd 0 to-read 4.18 Motive Black (Motive Black Series, #1)
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]]> Dune (Dune #1) 39776179
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad’Dib—and of a great family’s ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.]]> 687 Frank Herbert 0441013597 Loyd 0 to-read 4.24 1965 Dune (Dune #1)
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]]> The Mayan Legacy 40892001 Nothing happened…Or did it?
Jeremy is an adrenaline junky who just made a serious mistake. It nearly killed him. While being drug under water with a parachute line around his neck, he saw his life pass before his eyes…plus something else, something not part of his life. Something he dismisses until he begins to suspect its true importance. Now he has to see it
Maybe to save the world.
But how do you have a near-death experience intentionally? Jeremy scrambles to solve this puzzle while the world scrambles to solve its own near death experience.
Timing is everything.]]> 369 Jody Summers 0989107973 Loyd 0 to-read 4.39 2018 The Mayan Legacy
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]]> A Delicate Marriage 183316742 Isabela, a wealthy woman, sacrifices her artistic aspirations to marry Marco, a penniless man dedicated to improving conditions on the island. As the island's insular government enacts pro-U.S. policies, Marco builds a real estate empire while struggling to maintain his populist principles. Meanwhile, Isabela feels unfulfilled in her traditional role as a wife and mother and becomes disillusioned with Marco's shifting moral compass. She begins to identify with anti-U.S. factions, leading a dangerous double life that puts her family in peril.
As political violence threatens their paradise, Isabela and Marco question whether their marriage, like the island's relationship with the U.S., should continue. Margarita Barresi's debut novel celebrates Puerto Rican culture while delving into themes of class, oppression, and the effects of colonialism through the lens of a marriage.]]> 352 Margarita Barresi 1639889302 Loyd 0 to-read 4.40 A Delicate Marriage
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]]> <![CDATA[Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance]]> 210434495 31 Sherman Kennon Loyd 0 to-read 4.33 Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
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]]> <![CDATA[James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children]]> 191385541
If Governor Eversole is successful, his reforms will scrap the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), and they will rebuild K-12 education on a solid foundation of courses known to the "Greatest Generation" as the Three R's. His reforms also limit instructional practices in the classroom to the ancient principles of teaching and learning.

James Ed Hoskins initiates the first of many battles that the gubernatorial reforms will encounter in the legislative process. At a staff meeting, he questions his supervisor. Her summary of the information that her staff had collected from focus groups in school districts across Kentucky did not include the meritorious suggestions. She gives him a curt non-answer. He reminds her that Governor Eversole is a businessman, and he urges her to assist him in every way possible with the K-12 experience on her staff. "With our help," James Ed concludes, "we can at least give him a fighting chance to keep his promise.]]> 279 Shafter Bailey Loyd 0 to-read 4.38 James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children
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]]> <![CDATA[Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order]]> 34640476
The first book, The State, represents a radically new political system of society, one which is the most democratic system ever possible! This is a completely new society, a real civil society, which otherwise in the capitalist system is only a utopia. In this book, I scrutinize the principles of scientific socialism; i.e., all those principles of Marxism concerning the state that build socialism as a political system.

The second book, The Economic Theory of Socialism, is a sequel, and as far as I know, the only sequel of the greatest work by Karl Marx – Capital. The economics of socialism makes Marx’s socialism already completely possible. In this book, I scrutinize the economic laws that build socialism as a more effective economic system than capitalism. These laws are extracted from Marx’s main work – Capital.

From 1917 to 1991, the totalitarian system in USSR and East Europe was called socialism, and even by the scientific nonsense and absurd names of communism and communist system. In this system, the official ideology was allegedly Marxism, but really it could not endure any Marxist criticism. There was never any socialism anywhere!

In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but for the utopia of writers before and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism – state, monopolistic.

There is no better application of Keynes’s doctrine than the “socialism” of the twentieth century. His “planned capitalism” is actually “planned socialism.”

About the
Todor Bombov lives in Varna, Bulgaria, the town called the Pearl of Black Sea.]]> 269 Todor Bombov 1681819643 Loyd 3 to-read 4.28 2017 Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order
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]]> TWISTED 218487053



What should be an innate appreciation of society holds little to no relevance today. Your financial footing takes priority over just about any and everything. Being alive, able bodied, and breathing isn't enough. What happens when that's all stripped away?




The choice to exist in the creation of social media was yours, where a mere accusation, or negative posting could damage what should be held in the highest regard, your reputation. The cyber establishment's choke-hold is fierce, and you feel it, yet you constantly wonder why you can't breathe, but hey, you're "woke," right?




Your foundation, personal and or financial might be buckling, but you're clueless, even though it was you who shared every delicate and secular aspect of your life. Our brand has replaced moral fiber, dictating and tampering with the control of humanity. Are we waiting for the catastrophic crash of mankind? It appears so, when you step back from the edge, watch and listen? That's a predicament that wasn't even on your radar, but here you are, "woke," right?

A roof over your head, clothes on your back, sustenance, hell, even the air you breathe, all taken for granted. This should be a daunting notion I'm setting before the appetite of your consciousness, but perhaps it remains far-fetched. The question you should be asking yourself is, how woke are you; really?




Regardless of gender, a simple compliment, smile, assistance, or jealousy can ignite a desire to stalk or destroy a person. - The only untainted bubble any of us occupied was in utero, so you are not above reproach of any kind. Whatever self-made bacterial hubris you've placed yourself in, outside of that, speaks to the degree of self-importance encasing you, so it's impossible for you to appreciate what it is to be "woke," in the real world.]]> Fayton Hollington Loyd 0 to-read 4.19 TWISTED
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]]> <![CDATA[One More Life to Live (Edward and the Bricklayer Book 1)]]> 215515923
Audiobook narrated by Linda Jones, the multi-award-winning performer honored by the One Voice Awards, Independent Audiobook Awards, Voice Arts Awards, and more — bringing over 150 audiobooks to life with her acclaimed voice.

For a man who thought love was lost forever, an unfathomable miracle is still to come.Edward Stubbins is an orphan in post-war England. Shipped to Australia at ten, he’s offered hope—then abandoned—again and again. A kind nun, a wealthy patron, a girl who promises forever—each walks away when he needs them the most. By the time he’s grown, his heart is sealed shut. When the end finally comes, it is quiet and bitter.

But grace keeps its own strange clock. The emptiness Edward expected in death never comes. Instead, a luminous stranger offers him the chance to live again—in a new body, in a new life, with a chance to rewrite his story.

One More Life to Live is a historical romance with a spiritual twist—a moving story of love, redemption, and the choices that define us. Perfect for fans of Mitch Albom, Laura Hillenbrand, and Nicholas Sparks.
]]> 346 Steven Decker Loyd 0 to-read 4.36 2024 One More Life to Live (Edward and the Bricklayer Book 1)
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]]> The Rooster Bar 34201164 But maybe there's a way out. Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no . . .
Pull up a stool, grab a cold one, and get ready to spend some time at The Rooster Bar.]]> 352 John Grisham 0385541171 Loyd 0 to-read 3.55 2017 The Rooster Bar
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)]]> 205338104 334 Susan Rowland 1685032095 Loyd 0 to-read 4.29 2024 Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Essential Guide to Treat Diabetes and to Lower Cholesterol: Treat Prediabetes and Lower Cholesterol]]> 17221619 40 Howard T. Joe 1625100140 Loyd 0 to-read 4.37 2013 Essential Guide to Treat Diabetes and to Lower Cholesterol: Treat Prediabetes and Lower Cholesterol
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)]]> 43722869 384 Barry Kirwan Loyd 0 to-read 4.22 2011 The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Fate Finally Found Us: Tommy and Barbara Beal: A Compelling Story of Rock 'n' Roll, His Overcoming Addiction, and Rediscovering Love]]> 219688205 Fate Finally Found Us is a love story that transcends time, distance, and the trials of life. Tommy Beal lived the life of a true rock star, sharing stages with some of the most iconic bands in history, but the true highlight of his life was not fame—it was love. His saving grace, his forever love, would come in the form of a woman whose presence felt like destiny fulfilled.

Barbara Beal’s narrative, woven with adventure, heartache, and faith, reminds us that love often finds us when we least expect it and in the most unexpected ways. From childhood friends who experienced the ups and downs of life, Tommy and Barbara’s paths crossed repeatedly until fate finally brought them together. With heartfelt reflections, deep emotion, and a glimpse into a lifetime of intertwined moments, this story captures the beauty of love’s resilience and the guiding hand of destiny.

Prepare to be swept into a world of tender moments, life’s greatest challenges, and the unshakable belief that some love stories are written in the stars. Fate Finally Found Us will captivate your heart and lift your soul as you discover that sometimes, the best things in life truly do come to those who wait.]]> 127 Barbara Beal Loyd 0 to-read 4.34 Fate Finally Found Us: Tommy and Barbara Beal: A Compelling Story of Rock 'n' Roll, His Overcoming Addiction, and Rediscovering Love
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]]> Lethal Impulse 217228766
Winner of 2022 Public Safety Writing Association’s Writing Competition for an unpublished novel.

Longlisted in the 2022 Page Turner Awards.

Minutes ticked toward another murder in Greenwich Village.

Neil Caldera’s split-second decision cost him his detective’s badge.
He seeks relief from a relentless wave of guilt after a he kills a crime boss's daughter in NYC, and settles in the quietness of Madison, Georgia, a town once named “The Best Place to Live in Georgia.”

Months later, a gruesome discovery sets off a chain reaction of chaos in the community after the local police respond to the murder of a teenage girl where they stumble upon a chilling scene—Neil's likeness painted in blood. The investigation uncovers evidence of another gruesome murder in Neil's home.

Refusing to surrender, Neil finds an ally in the town’s police sergeant. Together, they plunge headlong into a treacherous game of seduction and violence, desperate to stop a bloodthirsty predator before more lives are claimed, including his.]]> 267 Steve Rush 1509258132 Loyd 0 to-read 4.44 Lethal Impulse
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]]> <![CDATA[To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)]]> 15749186
But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister's ex-boyfriend, Josh.

As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all.]]> 384 Jenny Han 1442426713 Loyd 0 to-read 4.03 2014 To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
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]]> Just Out Of Reach 201930414 1960’s, the main character, Jake Johnson, faces various situations which
cause him to examine the changes that life hands him. This novel explores themes
of love, prejudice, deception and loss as viewed by a twelve year old young boy.
Set in the suburbs and later on a farm just outside a small town, the main character tries
to navigate the life of a child in a military family to living a week with his great
aunt and great uncle on their farm. The novel features the flashes of humor, confusion,
trust and sadness that are inherent in childhood.]]> 213 R. Gerry Fabian Loyd 0 to-read 4.41 Just Out Of Reach
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]]> <![CDATA[Mademoiselle le Sleuth (Paris Backstage Murders)]]> 220768368
The novel is etched in the vibrant colors of Paris streets and neighborhoods. From the Skeleton Museum to the zoo and carousel of extinct animals in the Jardin des Plantes, young Miranda and her aunt take readers on a thrilling romp through every tourist’s favorite city.]]> 201 Theasa Tuohy Loyd 0 to-read 4.31 2024 Mademoiselle le Sleuth (Paris Backstage Murders)
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]]> Joey and His Friend Water 153680369 96 Ellen J. Lewinberg 0228881692 Loyd 0 to-read 4.30 Joey and His Friend Water
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]]> The Pink Cadillac 217217019 A restless spirit, fallen from heaven to earth, finds solace in a simple activity. Two close friends, trapped in various situations for years, remain unaware of how close their destination truly is. When Dakota left her profession at the peak of her career due to unforeseen circumstances, the same profession found a new Dakota years later. In this seductive and kinky story, the universe weaves its peculiar magic, orchestrating bizarre twists to lead each character toward their destined path.]]> 236 Rebecca Harlem 1035864509 Loyd 0 to-read 4.31 The Pink Cadillac
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)]]> 32075671
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.

But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice.

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062498533 can be found here.]]> 453 Angie Thomas 0062498533 Loyd 0 to-read 4.46 2017 The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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]]> Life of Pi 4214 460 Yann Martel 0770430074 Loyd 0 to-read 3.94 2001 Life of Pi
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]]> <![CDATA[Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States]]> 22979279  
Focusing on the new worker cooperative movement in the West, this study not only contains the first systematic discussion of the solidarity economy in the light of Marxist theory; it also introduces a major revision of Marxism that both updates it for the twenty-first century and illuminates our historical moment. It includes an analysis of the history of cooperatives in the U.S., showing where they went wrong and how we can correct their past mistakes. It has a case-study of the successful new worker-owned business New Era Windows in Chicago, which has been celebrated internationally for its defiance of conventional paradigms. And it shows a way out of the age-old conflict between Marxism and anarchism, arguing that both are more relevant now than they have ever been. Which is to a gradualist "revolution" is, for the first time, within the realm of possibility.]]> 260 Chris Wright 1632634325 Loyd 0 to-read 4.31 2014 Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel (The Tixie Chronicles Book 4)]]> 220761949 Four summers have flown by, since Avelyn and her family won the vicious battle in the unforgettable YA Fantasy novel The Ants of Fire . Now, a mysterious aging sickness is tragically shortening the lives of the tixies everywhere in their forest homes.

When shy but determined 16-year-old Avelyn's beloved mother suddenly ages 100 summers before her eyes, she is paralyzed with sadness. But her more outgoing little brother Killian discovers a way to save their mother and the other tixies suffering from the debilitating disease.

Far into the west, outside of the confines of their massive forest home, a fabled pixie city sits on a barren hilltop. This legendary city is the home of a sacred Magic Dust that is rumored to give creatures unnaturally long life. Desperate to find a cure for her mother, Avelyn agrees to her younger brother's crazy idea, leading to an epic journey across dark and dangerous lands, where three young heroes fight for their lives against mythical creatures, like the stinky Toadskunks, and many other formidable foes.

The Lost City is the immersive 4th volume of the Tixies Chronicles YA Fantasy series, which features heart-stopping sword fighting action scenes, memorable characters with complex relationships, heroic bravery, and vivid world-building. In this memorable coming of age journey, Avelyn must realize her full potential and use the Sword of Light to find her destiny… before it’s too late.

“The king’s fall is imminent, Konskara. The prophesy is true and is coming to fulfillment. They have come.”

Page Up and Order Now.


]]> 326 Jack Borden Loyd 0 to-read 4.36 The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel (The Tixie Chronicles Book 4)
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]]> A Particular Man 212083184 A Particular Man is about love, truth and the unpredictable consequences of loss.

When Edgar dies in a Far East prisoner of war camp it breaks the heart of fellow prisoner Starling. In Edgar’s final moments, Starling makes him a promise. When, after the war, he visits Edgar’s family to fulfill this promise, Edgar's mother Clementine mistakes him for another man. 

Her mistake allows him access to Edgar’s home and to those who loved him, stirring powerful and disorientating emotions, and embroiling him in a web of deceit.

The loss has driven his sister Aida to seek solace in the arms of a series of men—but the meeting with Starling sparks a complex connection, fueled by their mutual longing for Edgar.

Meanwhile Clementine, also grieving for Edgar, has secrets of her own…]]> 374 Lesley Glaister Loyd 0 to-read 4.39 2024 A Particular Man
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]]> <![CDATA[Leah on the Offbeat (Simonverse, #3)]]> 31180248 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst.

When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon.

So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.]]> 352 Becky Albertalli 0062643800 Loyd 5 3.79 2018 Leah on the Offbeat (Simonverse, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Mr. Cavendish, I Presume (Two Dukes of Wyndham, #2)]]> 2881565 finally get around to marrying her. But as she watches him from afar, she has a sneaking suspicion that he never thinks about her at all ...

It's true. He doesn't. Thomas rather likes having a fiancée — all the better to keep the husband-hunters at bay — and he does intend to marry her ... eventually. But just when he begins to realize that his bride might be something more than convenient, Thomas's world is rocked by the arrival of his long-lost cousin, who may or may not be the true Duke of Wyndham. And if Thomas is not the duke, then he's not engaged to Amelia. Which is the cruelest joke of all, because this arrogant and illustrious duke has made the mistake of falling in love ... with his own fiancée!]]> 370 Julia Quinn 0060876115 Loyd 5 3.57 2008 Mr. Cavendish, I Presume (Two Dukes of Wyndham, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty]]> 59232998
Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.

It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.

She’s even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the dangerous thrill Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits. This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there’s the biggest question of all—how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love?

Akwaeke Emezi’s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds.]]> 288 Akwaeke Emezi 1982188707 Loyd 5 3.50 2022 You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
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]]> <![CDATA[American Queen (New Camelot Trilogy, #1)]]> 30314992
My name is Greer Galloway, and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.

This is the story of an American Queen.]]> 393 Sierra Simone 153344367X Loyd 5 3.75 2016 American Queen (New Camelot Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Air He Breathes (Elements, #1)]]> 25564446
“Stay away from him,” people said.
“He’s cruel.”
“He’s cold.”
“He’s damaged.”

It’s easy to judge a man because of his past. To look at Tristan and see a monster.

But I couldn’t do that. I had to accept the wreckage that lived inside of him because it also lived inside of me.

We were both empty.
We were both looking for something else. Something more.
We both wanted to put together the shattered pieces of our yesterdays.

Then perhaps we could finally remember how to breathe.]]> 308 Brittainy C. Cherry Loyd 4 4.11 2015 The Air He Breathes (Elements, #1)
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]]> Will Grayson, Will Grayson 6567017
It's not that far from Evanston to Naperville, but Chicago suburbanites Will Grayson and Will Grayson might as well live on different planets. When fate delivers them both to the same surprising crossroads, the Will Graysons find their lives overlapping and hurtling in new and unexpected directions. With a push from friends new and old - including the massive, and massively fabulous, Tiny Cooper, offensive lineman and musical theater auteur extraordinaire - Will and Will begin building toward respective romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history's most awesome high school musical.]]> 320 John Green 0525421580 Loyd 5 3.69 2010 Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> After We Fell (After, #3) 22609080
Tessa and Hardin’s love was complicated before. Now it’s more confusing than ever. AFTER WE FELL...Life will never be the same. #HESSA

Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. Revelations about first her family, and then Hardin’s, throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim.

Tessa’s life begins to come unglued. Nothing is what she thought it was. Not her friends. Not her family. The one person she should be able to rely on, Hardin, is furious when he discovers the massive secret she’s been keeping. And rather than being understanding, he turns to sabotage.

Tessa knows Hardin loves her and will do anything to protect her, but there’s a difference between loving someone and being able to have them in your life. This cycle of jealousy, unpredictable anger, and forgiveness is exhausting. She’s never felt so intensely for anyone, so exhilarated by someone’s kiss—but is the irrepressible heat between her and Hardin worth all the drama? Love used to be enough to hold them together. But if Tessa follows her heart now, will it be...the end?]]> 837 Anna Todd 147679250X Loyd 5 3.78 2014 After We Fell (After, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)]]> 52237989
Will has no idea what that information is, and nobody to turn to, until Kim Secretan—charming, cultured, oddly attractive—steps in to offer help. As Kim and Will try to find answers and outrun trouble, mutual desire grows along with the danger.

And then Will discovers the truth about Kim. His identity, his past, his real intentions. Enraged and betrayed, Will never wants to see him again.

But Will possesses knowledge that could cost thousands of lives. Enemies are closing in on him from all sides—and Kim is the only man who can help.

A 1920s m/m romance trilogy in the spirit of Golden Age pulp fiction.]]> 265 K.J. Charles 1912688158 Loyd 3 3.98 2020 Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Whitney, My Love (Westmoreland, #2)]]> 350684
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.]]> 736 Judith McNaught 1416530711 Loyd 3 4.10 1985 Whitney, My Love (Westmoreland, #2)
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)]]> 285205 Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings. In return, the average law-abiding, solid citizen has little to worry about from the things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I wish I was an average citizen...

Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind.

But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.]]> 292 Patricia Briggs 0441014739 Loyd 5 4.30 2007 Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)
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]]> Sweet Evil (Sweet, #1) 11808950
What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?

This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.
Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but it isn't until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He's the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.

Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?]]> 447 Wendy Higgins 0062085611 Loyd 3 4.07 2012 Sweet Evil (Sweet, #1)
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]]> Eightt is God 60832578 20 Nameetta Sood Loyd 0 to-read 4.19 Eightt is God
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]]> Ezekiel's Eyes 60893635
Ezekiel was born with the ability to see evil in all of its forms. But not only that, he was gifted the ability to kill it as well. On the flip-side, he can also harm an angel, which puts him in a unique position, and he now finds himself sought out by both sides.

The demons want him because if they were to possess him, they could use him to harm angels before the appointed time, which is something none of them can do at present. The angels want him because he represents a threat, which they cannot allow to be exploited to shi the balance of power that has been preordained.

An angel, Joshua, recognized all the good and potential within Ezekiel and chose to mentor and train him to stay hidden from Evil's sight, while helping him to develop his gifts. Joshua prepared Ezekiel for the impending battle he would soon have to face with the dark one, Nestor, a powerful demon who devours a person's physical body and their immortal soul. He seeks gifted ones like Ezekiel and adds their power to his own. Souls like Ezekiel's are very rare and referred to as keys. There are twelve of them in total that remain, and Nestor is intent on finding all of them. He would try to possess who he could, and then use them to draw the other keys to him-killing any that resist, taking their power and souls, until there were no more.

Joshua believes that Ezekiel not only has the power to resist Nestor, but to destroy him as well, as the time of Tribulation draws near.]]> John Pease Loyd 0 to-read 4.38 2022 Ezekiel's Eyes
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]]> <![CDATA[Mindset: The New Psychology of Success]]> 40745 A newer edition of this book can be found here.

After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset — those who believe that abilities are fixed — are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset — those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.

In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love — to transform their lives and your own.]]> 276 Carol S. Dweck Loyd 0 to-read 4.09 2006 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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]]> Daisy Jones & The Six 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]> 368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 Loyd 0 to-read 4.19 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)]]> 7235533 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.

and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.]]> 1007 Brandon Sanderson 0765326353 Loyd 0 to-read 4.66 2010 The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[No Road to Khartoum (Michael McGuire Trilogy 1)]]> 38621101 462 Nigel Seed Loyd 0 to-read 4.25 2018 No Road to Khartoum (Michael McGuire Trilogy 1)
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]]> Snow Gypsy, The 40607608 From the bestselling author of The Woman on the Orient Express comes a haunting novel of two women—one determined to uncover the past and the other determined to escape it.

At the close of World War II, London is in ruins and Rose Daniel isn’t at peace. Eight years ago, her brother disappeared while fighting alongside Gypsy partisans in Spain. From his letters, Rose has just two clues to his whereabouts—his descriptions of the spectacular south slopes of the Sierra Nevada and his love for a woman who was carrying his child.

In Spain, it has been eight years since Lola Aragon’s family was massacred. Eight years since she rescued a newborn girl from the arms of her dying mother and ran for her life. She has always believed that nothing could make her return…until a plea for help comes from a desperate stranger.

Now, Rose, Lola, and the child set out on a journey from the wild marshes of the Camargue to the dazzling peaks of Spain’s ancient mountain communities. As they come face-to-face with war’s darkest truths, their lives will be changed forever by memories, secrets, and friendships.]]> 0 Lindsay Ashford 1721333355 Loyd 0 to-read 3.66 2019 Snow Gypsy, The
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]]> <![CDATA[Wanted: An Honest Man (Lindsey Lark #1)]]> 30409158
Though she doesn't want to be alone, she isn't ready to go looking for new love, but men find her anyway. A handsome college student involved in some tricky human research gets into trouble in more ways than one. His inherent propensity to play detective, though helpful at times, seems to attract Murphy and his darned Law far too often ... and now his eyes are on Lindsey. Will his heart follow?

"Charming ... unexpected ... emotionally charged!"

--- Amylynn Bright, author of Finish What We Started

"Ms. Rohman's entertaining novel, WANTED: AN HONEST MAN, has all the hallmarks of a bestseller including a cast of inspired characters that bring real-world authenticity to her tale." --- BookViral]]> 355 Cricket Rohman 0989697169 Loyd 0 to-read 4.41 2016 Wanted: An Honest Man (Lindsey Lark #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear]]> 24453082 Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.]]> 276 Elizabeth Gilbert 1594634718 Loyd 0 to-read 3.95 2015 Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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]]> 11/22/63 10644930
Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment—a real life moment—when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history.


Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.]]> 849 Stephen King 1451627289 Loyd 0 to-read 4.34 2011 11/22/63
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]]> The Well House 20961995 308 M.S. Matassa 1478723351 Loyd 0 to-read 4.33 2014 The Well House
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]]> <![CDATA[The Clouds Still Hang (The Clouds Still Hang, #1-3)]]> 21336272 and tragedy; novels that chart one man's attempts to rise above the legacy
of a traumatic childhood.
The first book deals with Simon’s childhood friendship and eventually love
affair with an older boy, the second the trauma of his teenage years and early
adulthood, the third his struggle to maintain equilibrium and the consequences
of his failure at one point to achieve that.
It is a fictional biography, written because it tells a strong story which
raises many issues over six decades, the post war baby boomer generation who in many ways never had it so good.
His own experience is probably unique, yet will strike a chord with many others who have been through similar things, as well as those with an interest in such matters, either personal or professional.
It's a varied, exciting, demanding, sometimes terrifying life story.
It is not suitable for those under 18 years or who find explicit sexual narrative, including sexual violence, offensive.]]> 545 Patrick C. Notchtree 0957236115 Loyd 0 to-read 4.13 The Clouds Still Hang (The Clouds Still Hang, #1-3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Down in the Valley (The Netahs)]]> 208354245
With the council’s approval, he makes a hesitant entry into the community, and marvels at the amazing technology that has allowed the shapeshifters to live in harmony with nature, and away from prying human eyes. But everything is so different from his former life and Josh wonders how he can fit in. He has so much to learn about how to live as a Netah, and very few of his housemates seem willing to share their knowledge with him. Luckily, he finds a few friends who are brave enough to support him on his journey, and they warn him that his father appears intent on making contact with Josh.

As he learns about the Netah ways and what role he can play in his new world, he can’t stop thinking about the missing piece of the puzzle in his life, his birth father. Josh is torn by the need to know about his roots, and the dangerous killer his father appears to be.]]> 318 Lisa Kaniut Cobb 1039174639 Loyd 0 to-read 4.38 Down in the Valley (The Netahs)
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]]> Dogs vs Bears 197525278 52 Austin Davis 1636983006 Loyd 0 to-read 4.30 Dogs vs Bears
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]]> After You (Me Before You, #2) 27774596 A newer edition of ISBN 978-0143108863 can be found here.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.

“You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will.”

How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living?

Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started.

Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . .

For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.]]> 352 Jojo Moyes Loyd 0 to-read 3.75 2015 After You (Me Before You, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing]]> 22318578 Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo's clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list).

With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house "spark joy" (and which don't), this international best seller featuring Tokyo's newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home - and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.

]]> 224 Marie Kondō 1607747308 Loyd 0 to-read 3.88 2010 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
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]]> I'm Fine and Neither Are You 41451741 A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.

Honesty is the best policy… except maybe when it comes to marriage in this brilliant novel about the high price of perfection from bestselling author Camille Pagán.

Wife. Mother. Breadwinner. Penelope Ruiz-Kar is doing it all—and barely keeping it together. Meanwhile, her best friend, Jenny Sweet, appears to be sailing through life. As close as the two women are, Jenny’s passionate marriage, pristine house, and ultra-polite child stand in stark contrast to Penelope’s underemployed husband, Sanjay, their unruly brood, and the daily grind she calls a career.

Then a shocking tragedy reveals that Jenny’s life is far from perfect. Reeling, Penelope vows to stop keeping the peace and finally deal with the issues in her relationship. So she and Sanjay agree to a radical proposal: both will write a list of changes they want each other to make—then commit to complete and total honesty.

What seems like a smart idea quickly spirals out of control, revealing new rifts and even deeper secrets. As Penelope stares down the possible implosion of her marriage, she must ask herself: When it comes to love, is honesty really the best policy?]]> 270 Camille Pagán 1542042550 Loyd 0 to-read 3.58 2019 I'm Fine and Neither Are You
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]]> <![CDATA[Kingdom of Embers (Kingdom Journals, #1)]]> 34103053

As a creature forbidden by both vampire and witch cultures, Alena traverses the country with her mother in search of an unknown entity. When Alena finds Hunter everything changes. Their bond may be the key to answers Alena seeks. As she investigates the connection, an equally handsome, but mysterious suitor appears. Will the truth be uncovered before it is too late? Or will her Mother’s kingdom be reduced to embers?]]> 334 Tricia Copeland 0463011104 Loyd 0 to-read 3.90 Kingdom of Embers (Kingdom Journals, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master]]> 52022378 For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to be one of them. One night he buys a journal, its pages blank. The woman who sells him the journal extracts his promise to record his deeds for study. “Lo, the steps of your life mark the journey of your soul.” To expose his prior life, however, would be akin to suicide, for Sheever is a man brimming with secrets.

He begins the journal cautiously, describing the area where he works as a cook, and the people he’s forced to endure. Hints of his past emerge as he also records day-to-day events. As the journal evolves, he finds himself more entangled than he ever wanted to be in the lives around him, and more sympathetic to people he wanted to hate.

Memories haunt him, and he struggles to maintain a grip on his sanity as he prays for – and fears – the signal that his years in exile have ended and he can return home.

This then is Sheever’s Journal, Diary of a Poison Master.

About the Author:
K. Ritz lives with her husband in a small town in Massachusetts. This is her first book in a series about a world of shadows.
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]]> <![CDATA[Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think]]> 34890015 Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).

Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. ]]> 342 Hans Rosling 1473637465 Loyd 0 to-read 4.34 2018 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)]]> 13 815 Douglas Adams 0345453743 Loyd 0 to-read 4.38 1996 The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
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]]> The Dragon Storm - Gates 62606951 Anthony DiPaolo Loyd 0 to-read 4.38 The Dragon Storm - Gates
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]]> The Art of War 10534 170 Sun Tzu Loyd 0 to-read 3.97 -500 The Art of War
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]]> <![CDATA[My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1)]]> 22341263
When Sarah’s remains are finally discovered near their hometown in the northern Cascade mountains of Washington State, Tracy is determined to get the answers she’s been seeking. As she searches for the real killer, she unearths dark, long-kept secrets that will forever change her relationship to her past — and open the door to deadly danger.]]> 410 Robert Dugoni 1477825576 Loyd 0 to-read 3.92 2014 My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)]]> 25074850
Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Salander for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals, and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it . . .

The duo who captivated millions of readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest join forces again in this adrenaline-charged, uniquely of-the-moment thriller.]]> 400 David Lagercrantz 0385354282 Loyd 0 to-read 3.74 2015 The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors]]> 204866266 Explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the healthcare industry

AI The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare provides a timely and authoritative overview of the current impact and future potential of AI technology in healthcare. With a reader-friendly narrative style, this comprehensive guide traces the evolution of AI in healthcare, describes methodological breakthroughs, drivers and barriers of its adoption, discusses use cases across clinical medicine, administration and operations, and life sciences, and examines the business models for the entrepreneurs, investors, and customers.

Detailed yet accessible chapters help those in the business and practice of healthcare recognize the remarkable potential of AI in areas such as drug discovery and development, diagnostics, therapeutics, clinical workflows, personalized medicine, early disease prediction, population health management, and healthcare administration and operations. Throughout the text, author Ronald M. Razmi, MD offers valuable insights on harnessing AI to improve health of the world population, develop more efficient business models, accelerate long-term economic growth, and optimize healthcare budgets.

Addressing the potential impact of AI on the clinical practice of medicine, the business of healthcare, and opportunities for investors, AI The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in

Discusses what AI is currently doing in healthcare and its direction in the next decade Examines the development and challenges for medical algorithms Identifies the applications of AI in diagnostics, therapeutics, population health, clinical workflows, administration and operations, discovery and development of new clinical paradigms and more Presents timely and relevant information on rapidly expanding generative AI technologies, such as Chat GPT Describes the analysis that needs to be made by entrepreneurs and investors as they evaluate building or investing in health AI solutions Features a wealth of relatable real-world examples that bring technical concepts to life Explains the role of AI in the development of vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics during the COVID-19 pandemic
AI The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors is a must-read for healthcare professionals, researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, medical and nursing students, and those building or designing systems for the commercial marketplace. The book's non-technical and reader-friendly narrative style also makes it an ideal read for everyone interested in learning about how AI will improve health and healthcare in the coming decades.]]> 0 Ronald M. Razmi 1394240171 Loyd 0 to-read 4.27 AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
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]]> Pack's Posse (Simon Pack, #8) 54331661 303 John M. Vermillion Loyd 0 to-read 4.27 Pack's Posse (Simon Pack, #8)
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]]> <![CDATA[Her Last Goodbye (Morgan Dane, #2)]]> 35074316 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s Morgan Dane series continues as the fearless attorney and her partner, investigator Lance Kruger, take on a disturbing disappearance…

Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls’ night out…and vanishes. Her family knows she would never voluntarily leave her two small children. Her desperate husband—also the prime suspect—hires Morgan to find his wife and prove his innocence.

As a single mother, Morgan sympathizes with Chelsea’s family and is determined to find her. She teams up with private investigator Lance Kruger. But the deeper they dig, the deadlier their investigation gets. When Morgan is stalked by a violent predator, everything—and everyone—she holds dear is in grave danger.

Now, Morgan must track down a deranged criminal to protect her own family…but she won’t need to leave home to find him. She’s his next target.]]> 327 Melinda Leigh 154204796X Loyd 0 to-read 4.03 2017 Her Last Goodbye (Morgan Dane, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Samantha's Revenge (Arcadia's Children, #1)]]> 34593324 436 Andrew R. Williams Loyd 0 to-read 4.36 Samantha's Revenge (Arcadia's Children, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life]]> 33946361 This motivational how-to book provides insights into the crucial difference between people who make things happen and those who only think about making an impact. Based on research from many disciplines and interviews with professionals at the top of their fields, Firestarters creates a complete roadmap to achieve personal success and make an impact in the world.
The heart of the book features stories about successful entrepreneurs, CEOs, organizational leaders, and forward-looking thinkers from a variety of professions. They describe the factors and conditions that ignited their lives and helped them become achievers. Some are known to the public; others will be completely new. But all the stories demonstrate how they became--and you can become--a Firestarter.
The authors provide pragmatic advice on how individual readers can ignite the qualities that will lead them toward pursuing and realizing their dreams. Self-assessment exercises, checklists, and other tools will help readers apply Firestarter insights to their own lives. Also included are group exercises and discussion guides so the book can be used in business and nonprofit settings to develop the skills that help companies grow.
Whether you're an individual seeking ways to realize personal ambitions or a leader trying to motivate your team, you'll benefit from the Firestarter methods featured in this inspirational book.]]> 330 Raoul Davis Jr. 1633883477 Loyd 0 to-read 4.29 Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life
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]]> Orion Surfacing 30834524 Undeterred, he continues on with the help of unlikely allies, and mysterious beings whom he struggles to understand. When the dust settles... everything he knows about the world, and himself, will be called into question, and nothing will ever be the same.]]> 349 I. James Forrest 1460270258 Loyd 0 to-read 4.23 2015 Orion Surfacing
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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 Loyd 0 to-read 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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]]> The Prophet 2547 Rare Book 127 Kahlil Gibran 000100039X Loyd 0 to-read 4.26 1923 The Prophet
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]]> <![CDATA[The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)]]> 36124936
An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.]]> 561 Stephen King 1501180983 Loyd 0 to-read 3.99 2018 The Outsider (Holly Gibney, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)]]> 7631105 Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.
 
Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.
 
There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.
 
The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.
 
Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off.
 
There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive.]]> 362 James Dashner 0385738757 Loyd 0 to-read 3.90 2010 The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell]]> 58295407 213 Harry F. MacDonald 0645040304 Loyd 0 to-read 4.28 Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell
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]]> <![CDATA[The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story]]> 32722510 368 Diane Ackerman 0393354253 Loyd 0 to-read 3.47 2007 The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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]]> Then She Was Gone 35297426 She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.

NOW
It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.

And then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet.

Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter.

Poppy is precocious and pretty - and meeting her completely takes Laurel's breath away.

Because Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie when she was that age. And now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back.

What happened to Ellie? Where did she go?

Who still has secrets to hide?]]> 356 Lisa Jewell 1501154648 Loyd 0 to-read 4.01 2017 Then She Was Gone
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]]> The 4-Hour Workweek 368593
Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:
- How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want?
- How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs?
- How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist?
- How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"?
- What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income?
- How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it's beyond repair?
- What automated cash-flow "muses" are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks?
- How to cultivate selective ignorance-and create time-with a low-information diet?
- What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are?
- How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80% off?
- How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office]]> 308 Timothy Ferriss 0307353133 Loyd 0 to-read 3.92 2007 The 4-Hour Workweek
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]]> The Unremembered Girl 34663153
Abandoned and nearly feral, Eve has been watching them, seduced by the notion of family—something she’s known only in the most brutal sense. Soon she can’t resist the temptation to get close. Where Henry’s mother sees a poor girl in need, his father sees only wickedness. When Henry forges an unexpected bond with Eve, he believes he might be able to save her. He doesn’t know how wrong he is.

Eve is about to take charge of her own destiny—and that of Henry’s family. As both their worlds spin violently out of control, Henry must make an impossible choice: protect the broken woman who’s claimed a piece of his soul, or put everyone he loves at risk in order to do the right thing.]]> 0 Eliza Maxwell 154360286X Loyd 0 to-read 3.49 2017 The Unremembered Girl
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