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Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism by Philip Miller and Molly Devon |… (2011) 14 copies
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert (2011) 7 copies
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Dossie Easton | Summary & Study Guide (2014) 7 copies
Dark Magic by Christine Feehan 7 copies
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling Summary & Study Guide (2010) 7 copies, 1 review
A Storm of Swords: Summary 6 copies
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 6 copies
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema Chodron Summary & Study Guide (2011) 6 copies
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 5 copies, 2 reviews
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 5 copies, 1 review
Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson l Summary & Study Guide 4 copies
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival by Velma Wallis | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 4 copies
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer | Summary & Study guide (2011) 4 copies
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, on the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. King Summary & Study Guide (2011) 3 copies
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS by Abraham Verghese | Summary & Study… (2013) 3 copies
Diamond Age, or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 3 copies, 1 review
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux Summary & Study Guide 2 copies, 1 review
Lesson Plan Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women by Jean Shinoda-Bolen (2012) 2 copies
Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds by Thomas G. West |… (2011) 2 copies
Summary & Study Guide American Short Story Masterpieces Edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks (2011) 2 copies
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace Summary & Study Guide (2011) 2 copies
My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Lesson Plans (2012) 2 copies
Summary & Study Guide American Indian Mythology by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin (2013) 2 copies
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado l… (2011) 2 copies
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 by Etty Hillesum l Summary & Study Guide (2011) 2 copies
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (BookRags.com Summary & Study Guide) (2010) 2 copies
Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A by Luis J. Rodriguez Summary & Study Guide (2010) 2 copies
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr by Martin Luther King, Jr. Summary & Study guide 2 copies
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Summary & Study Guide 2 copies, 1 review
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone l Summary & Study Guide (2014) 2 copies
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 2 copies
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 2 copies
Summary & Study Guide The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson 2 copies
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler | Summary & Study Guide (2010) 2 copies
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks | Summary & Study Guide (2013) 2 copies
Summary & Study Guide Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass by… (2012) 1 copy
Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn l Summary & Study Guide 1 copy
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe by Michael S. Schneider l Summary & Study Guide 1 copy
Summary & Study Guide The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, The Finca Vigia Edition 1 copy
Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda Summary & Study Guide, A 1 copy
Lesson Plan Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012) 1 copy
Summary & Study Guide Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (2013) 1 copy
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, The Finca Vigia Edition | Summary & Study Guide 1 copy
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin l… (2015) 1 copy
Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee l Summary & Study Guide (2012) 1 copy
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida l Summary & Study Guide (2014) 1 copy
Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women by Jean Shinoda-Bolen l Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy by Annie G. Rogers l Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | Summary & Study Guide (2012) 1 copy
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters by Wally Lamb l Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
Practical Demonkeeping: A Comedy of Horrors by Christopher Moore | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
Au Bonheur Des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) by Émile Zola | Summary & Study Guide | BookRags.com (2010) 1 copy
Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans by Wallace Terry | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel |… (2011) 1 copy
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean P. Sasson | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas, Ed., with an Introd. by Anton C. Pegis by Saint Thomas Aquinas | Summary & Study… (2011) 1 copy
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino | Summary & Study Guide | BookRags.com (2010) 1 copy
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour Hersh | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Lesson Plans (2012) 1 copy
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Lesson Plans (2015) 1 copy
Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s by Hunter S. Thompson | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama | Summary & Study… (2011) 1 copy
To Say Nothing of the Dog, or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis l Summary & Study Guide (2015) 1 copy
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History Lesson Plans (2014) — Author — 1 copy
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester | Summary & Study Guide (2010) 1 copy
Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph Over Autism by Catherine Maurice | Summary & Study Guide (2010) 1 copy
Freakonomics Lesson Plans 1 copy
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick | Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
Wool by Hugh Howey Omnibus Edition (Books 1-5 of the Silo Series) l Summary & Study Guide (2014) 1 copy
In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter by Gordon Zahn l Summary & Study Guide (2011) 1 copy
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz l… by BookRags BookRags
Though I didn't read the edition indicated above--it was a 344-page paperback/softcover edition borrowed from my local library--I thought that Paul Theroux's 1975 travelogue debut was very interesting, at times hilarious and quite insightful. His chronicle of his four-month rail odyssey in late 1973 through the world's largest continent includes many destinations and experiences that one probably won't find in travel brochures. Each of the book's thirty chapters carries as its title one of the trains and destinations he rode, and he peppers the book with stories and his impressions of the people he met, and the food he ate, along the way. I was amazed that such a mammoth undertaking--some 15,000 miles (about 24,000 kilometers) on thirty-one trains--was even possible. Through it all Theroux reminds the reader that travel, with all its challenges, can be both broadening and limiting at the same time, and that after a long trip, it's great to be home.… (more)
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