aNobii: News from [person name]'s shelf

The Coven

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:51:34 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Morgan's powers are stronger than she ever imagined. She has visions, she lights fires with her mind, and her spells work miracles. When her boyfriend Cal, a member of the same coven, insists that witchcraft is in her blood, Morgan is confused. Her parents definitely aren't witches. They do seem to be keeping something secret, though-something about Morgan's past.

The Vampire Lestat

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:51:10 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. His is a mesmerizing story–passionate, c ...

Encyclopedia of World History

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:50:46 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The Celestine Prophecy

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:50:05 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Find out for yourself why virtually everyone you know has this book, described as an "adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery", on their coffee table. In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan.

The Book of the Dead

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:54:23 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins and sarcophagi and rolls of ...

The Silmarillion

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:54:06 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:53:47 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handso ...

The Devil and Miss Prym

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:53:26 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. Burying these in the vicinity, the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village - Miss Prym. In this stunning new novel, Paulo Coelho's unusual protagonist acts as the devil, setting the town a moral challenge from which they may never reco ...

The Alchemist

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:53:05 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. "The Alchemist" is such a book. W ...

For One More Day

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:52:08 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Every family is a ghost story ...' As a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both.' So he chooses his father, only to see him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyed by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bott ...

Tuesdays with Morrie

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:51:50 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights f ...