The Way Things Work is a book by David Macaulay. It is intended to serve as an entertaining introduction to everyday machines. It covers machines as simple as levers and gears and as complicated as radio telescopes and automatic transmissions. Its most notable feature is its illustrations: every page consists primarily of one or more [...]
Angels & Demons is a bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books in 2000. It revolves around the quest of fictional Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon to uncover the mysteries of a secret society called the Illuminati and to unravel a plot to annihilate Vatican City using destructive [...]
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in Colliers Magazine, and subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age (occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories).[1] Developed for years by the late Hollywood mogul Ray Stark, [...]
Sr. Julia is in the New Orleans bookstore that she manages, ready to talk about the books that led her to the Catholic Church: the stories of the saints.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling is now available for pre-order on Amazon. This book of fairy tales was written to supplement the Harry Potter series and will be published in two new editions on December 4, 2008. The Standard Edition features all five fairy tales from the original The [...]
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (often referred to simply as Baby and Child Care), written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, was first published on 14 July 1946, and is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. By 1998, it had sold more than 50 million copies. It has been translated into [...]
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is Robert Kiyosaki’s and Sharon Lechter’s first best-selling book. It advocates financial independence through investing, real estate, owning businesses, and the use of finance protection tactics.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is written in an entertaining anecdotal manner to make finances interesting.The most central element stressed by Kiyosaki and Lechter is the advocacy [...]
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is a 2005 book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner that has been described as melding pop culture with economics. As of 2007, it has sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
Overview
The book is a collection of [...]
Armageddon is the 11th novel in the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. It was first published in 2002.
Plot summary
In the final days of the Tribulation, Nicolae Carpathia prepares to launch the greatest military conflict the world has ever seen, against none other than Jesus Christ himself. Chang must escape New Babylon [...]
For One More Day is a 2006 novel by the acclaimed sportswriter and author Mitch Albom. It opens with the novel’s protagonist planning to commit suicide. His adulthood is shown to have been rife with sadness. His own daughter didn’t invite or tell him about her wedding. His mother has been dead for 8 years, [...]
