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1085 books in the collection

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A

Absence of Mind
The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
Marilynne Robinson
2010
Acceptance
Southern Reach Trilogy (Book 3)
Jeff Vandermeer
2014
Age of Ambition
Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos
2015
Aimless Love
New and Selected Poems
Billy Collins
2013
Air Guitar
Essays on Art and Democracy
Dave Hickey
1997
Ajax Penumbra 1969
Prequel to Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
2014
All Systems Red
Murderbot Diaries 1
Martha Wells
2019
All in the Same Boat
Family Living Aboard and Cruising
Tom Neale
1997
All the Beauty in the World
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley
2023
Ancillary Justice
(imperial radch #1)
Ann Leckie
2012
Ancillary Mercy
(imperial radch #3)
Ann Leckie
2015
Ancillary Sword
(imperial radch #2)
Ann Leckie
2013
Annihilation
Southern Reach Trilogy (Book 1)
Jeff Vandermeer
2014
Areopagitica
SPEECH OF Mr. JOHN MILTON For the Liberty of UNLICENC'D PRINTING, To the PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND.
John Milton
1644
Art and Industry
the Principles of Industrial Design
Herbert Read
1936
Assassin's Quest
Farseer Trilogy 3
Robin Hobb
1997
Atomic Habits
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
2018
Authority
Southern Reach Trilogy (Book 2)
Jeff Vandermeer
2014
The Abundance
Narrative Essays Old and New
Annie Dillard
2017
The Alchemist and Other Plays
Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair
Ben Jonson
1606

B

A Bond Undone
Legends of the Condor Heroes II
Jin Yong
1957
Bambi
A Life in the Woods
Felix Salten
1923
Barnaby Rudge
A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
Charles Dickens
1841
Bartleby, Le Scribe
Une Histoire de Wall Street
Herman Melville
Beards
Their social standing, religious involve-ments, decorative possibilities, and value in offence and defence through the ages
Reginald Reynolds
1976
Beowulf
A New Verse Translation
Anonymous
900
Bitter Brew
The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer
William Knoedelseder
2014
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
A Journey through Yugoslavia
Rebecca West
1941
Boxers
Boxers & Saints
Gene Luen Yang
2013
Breakneck
China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Dan Wang
2025
Building a Storybrand
Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
Donald Miller
2017
The Beautiful Mystery
Inspector Gamache Book 8
Louise Penny
2013
The Bestiary
A Book of Beasts - Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century
T. H. White
1150
The Big Four
A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Agatha Christie
1927
The Big Short
Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
2010
The Book of Difficult Fruit
Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)
Kate Lebo
2021
The Boy who Played with Fusion
Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star
Tom Clynes
2015
The Bright Sword
A Novel of King Arthur
Lev Grossman
2024

C

Can Poetry Matter?
Essays on Poetry and American Culture
Dana Gioia
1992
Cards on the Table
A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Agatha Christie
1936
Catching Fire
Hunger Games Book 2
Suzanne Collins
2009
Charles Dickens
Last of the Great Men
G. K. Chesterton
1906
Children of Ash and Elm
A History of the Vikings
Neil Price
2020
China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Rob Gifford
2007
Classical Arabic Literature
A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology
Various
800
Close to the Machine
Technophilia and Its Discontents
Ellen Ullman
1998
Confronting Our Freedom
Leading a Culture of Chosen Accountability and Belonging
Peter Block
2023
Constellation Games
A space opera soap opera
Leonard Richardson
2012
Consuming Pleasures
Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera
Jennifer Hayward
1997
Contextual Design
Defining Customer-Centered Systems
Hugh, Karen Beyer & Holtzblatt
1997
Cultures in Conflict
Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Bernard Lewis
1995
The Calcutta Chromosome
A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
Amitav Ghosh
1995
The Camborne Play
A verse translation of Beunans Meriasek
Anonymous
1504
The Cat of Bubastes
A Tale of Ancient Egypt
G.A. Henty
1889
The Chimes
A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In
Charles Dickens
1844
The Coddling of the American Mind
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Jonathan Haidt
2018
The Coming Revolution in Church Economics
Why Tithes and Offerings Are No Longer Enough, and What You Can Do about It
Mark DeYmaz
2019
The Complete Plays of the Wakefield Master
in a new version for reading and performance
Wakefield Master
1576
The Concept of Irony
With Continual Reference to Socrates
Søren Kierkegaard
1841
The Curse of Bigness
Antitrust in the New Guilded Age
Tim Wu
2018

D

D
(A Tale of Two Worlds)
Michael Faber
2020
Death of a Red Heroine
An Inspector Chen Investigation
Qiu Xiaolong
2003
Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
2016
Dissolution
A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery
CJ Sansom
2003
Do: Interesting
Notice, Collect, Share
Russell Davies
2023
Doing Good Even Better
How to be an Effective Board Member of a Nonprofit Organization
Edgar Stoesz
2015
Dracula Daily
Reading Bram Stoker's Dracula in Real Time With Commentary by the Internet
Matt Kirkland
2023
Dramatic Works
The Complete Dramatic Works of Lyof N.Tolstoi
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
1909
The Death of Achilles
An Erast Fandorin Mystery
Boris Akunin
1998
The Death of Adam
Essays on Modern Thought
Marilynne Robinson
1998
The Descent of the Dove
A History of the Holy Spirit
Charles Williams
1939

E

Eben-Ezer
Or, A small monument of great mercy
William Oakley
1675
Electrify
An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
Saul Griffith
2021
Emperor of the Eight Islands
The Tale of Shikanoko: Book 1
Lian Hearn
2016
Enjoying the World
The Rediscovery of Thomas Traherne
Graham Dowell
1990
Epistemology
Becoming Intellectually Virtuous
W. Jay Wood
1998
Eugenics and Other Evils
An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized Society
G. K. Chesterton
1922
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/index1.htm
Anonymous
1900 BC
The End
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13
Lemony Snicket
2006
The Eyes of the Skin
Architecture and the Senses
Juhani Pallasmaa
1996

F

A Feast for Crows
A Song of Ice & Fire, Book 4
George R. R. Martin
2007
Factory Girls
From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang
2008
Fall
or, Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson
2019
Far From the Tree
Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon
2012
Finna
LitenVerse 1
Nino Cipri
2020
Fire From the Midst of You
A Religious Life of John Brown
Louis DeCaro
2005
Fragile Things
Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman
2006
Free to Learn
Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
Peter Gray
2013
The Faithful Spy
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
John Hendrix
2018
The Found and the Lost
The Collected Novellas of Ursula K Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
2016

G

Geronimo Stilton - Moby Dick
Geronimo Stilton Classic Tales
Geronimo Stilton
2010
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got
21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
Jay Abraham
2000
Getting to Yes
Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher
1981
Golden Hill
A Novel of Old New York
Francis Spufford
2017
The Gift of Good Land
Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
Wendell Berry
2009

H

A Heart Divided
Legend of the Condor Heroes IV
Jin Yong
1957
A Hero Born
Legends of the Condor Heroes I
Jin Yong
1957
Hildafolk
ALL the hildabooks
Luke Pearson
2015
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance
2016
Hold Still
A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann
2015
Holiness and Desire
What makes us who we are?
Jessica Martin
2020
Home
A Short History of an Idea
Witold Rybczynski
1987
House of Leaves
The Remastered Full-Color Edition
Mark D. Danielewski
2000
How Big Things Get Done
The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Bent Flyvbjerg
2023
How Soccer Explains the World
An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Franklin Foer
2004
How to Do Nothing
Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
2019
How to Invent Everything
A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Ryan North
2018
How to Know the Birds
The Art and Adventure of Birding
Ted Floyd
2019
How to Measure Anything
Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business
Douglas Hubbard
2007
How to Read a Book
The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler
1940
How to Stay Married
The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
Harrison Scott Key
2023
How to Take Over the World
Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
Ryan North
2022
How to Think
A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs
2017
The Hobbit
or, There and Back Again
JRR Tolkien
1937
The Honeywood File
An adventure in Building
H.B. Creswell
1929

I

An Introduction to Mennonite History
A Popular History of the Anabaptists and the Mennonites
C J Dyck
1967
I, Claudius
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
Robert Graves
1934
Iceland
Enchantment of the World
Barbara A. Somervil
2003
Identity
The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama
2018
The Information Diet
A Case for Conscious Consumption
Clay A. Johnson
2012
The Inklings and King Arthur
J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain
Sørina Higgins
2017
The Innocents Abroad
or: The New Pilgrim's Progress
Mark Twain
1869

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K

L

Letters from Early Mesopotania
Writings from the Ancient World
Piotr Michalowski
2000 BC
The Liberal Imagination
Manners, Morals, and the Novel
Lionel Trilling
1950
The Literature of Ancient Egypt
An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry
Ancient Egyptians
1384 BC

M

Machine of Death
A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die
Various
2010
Marta Oulie
A Novel of Betrayal
Sigrid Unset
1907
Matanga-Lila (Elephant-Sport)
The Elephant Lore of the Hindus - The Elephant Sport (Matanga-Lila) of Nilakantha Translated from the original Sanskrit
Nilakantha
500
Men at Arms
The Sword of Honor Trilogy
Evelyn Waugh
1952
Metro Stop Paris
An Underground History of the City of Light
Gregor Dallas
2008
Middlemarch
A Study of Provincial Life
George Eliot
1872
Miracles
How God Intervenes in Nature and Human Affaiirs
Clive Staples Lewis
1947
Mission to Asia
Narratives and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Various
1245
Monkey King
Journey to the West
Cheng'en Wu
1592
Moomin
The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book One
Tove Jannson
1953
Moominpappa's Memoirs
aka, The Exploits of Moominpappa
Tove Jannson
1950
More from Less
The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources―and What Happens Next
Andrew McAfee
2019
Murder on the Leviathan
An Erast Fandorin Mystery
Boris Akunin
1998
The Making of Prince of Persia
Journals 1985-1993--Illustrated Edition
Jordan Mechner
2020
The Messies Manual
The Procrastinators Guide to Good Housekeeping
Sandra Felt
1983
The Millionaire Next Door
The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Thomas J Stanley
1998
The Mom Test
How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Rob Fitzpatrick
2013
The Mythmakers
The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
John Hendrix
2024

N

Names for the Sea
Strangers in Iceland
Sarah Moss
2010
Never Be Closing
How to Sell Better Without Screwing Your Clients, Your Colleagues, or Yourself
Tim Hurson
2014
News from Tartary
A Journey from Peking to Kashmir
Peter Fleming
1936
No Easy Day
The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Mark Owen
2012
Nocturnes
Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Kazuo Ishiguro
2009
Notes on Nursing
What it is and what it isn't
Florence Nightingale
1859
The New Business Road Test
What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan
John W. Mullins
2004

O

An Oresteia
Agamemnon by Aiskhylos / Elektra by Sophokles / Orestes by Euripides
Αἰσχύλος Aeschylus
408 BC
Oliver Twist
or, The Parish Boy's Progress
Charles Dickens
1839
On Horseback Through Asia Minor
The Classic Great Game Bestseller
Frederick Burnaby
1876
Ordinary Monsters
The Talents Book 1
J. M. Miro
2023
Organize for Complexity
How to get life back into work to build the high-performance organization
Niels Pflaeging
2014
Outlive
The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia
2023
The Overcoat
and Other Tales of Good and Evil
Nikolai Gogol
1841

P

A Preface to Paradise Lost
Being the Ballard Matthews Lectures, Delivered at University College, North Wales, 1941
Clive Staples Lewis
1941
Patterns of Glory
Studies in Charles Williams
Stephen Barber
2024
Pirates of Barbary
Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
Adrian Tinniswood
2010
Present Concerns
A Compelling Collection of Timely, Journalistic Essays
Clive Staples Lewis
1986
Prester John and Europe's Discovery of East Asia
Being the thirty-second George Ernest Morrison lecture in ethnology 1971
I. De Rachewiltz
1971
Profits Aren't Everything, They're the Only Thing
No-Nonsense Rules from the Ultimate Contrarian and Small Business Guru
George Cloutier
2009
Purity and Danger
An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
Mary Douglas
1966
Putin Country
A Journey into the Real Russia
Anne Garrels
2016
The Penderwicks
A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Jeanne Birdsall
2005
The Pickwick Papers
or, the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Charles Dickens
1837
The Possessed
Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Elif Batuman
2010
The Power of Habit
Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
2013
The Prester John of the Indies
A true relation of the lands of the Prester John; being the narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520
Francisco Alvares
1520
The Psychology of Money
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Morgan Housel
2020

Q

R

Real Food for Mother and Baby
The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, And Baby's First Food
Nina Planck
2009
Redwall
Redwall, Book 1
Brian Jacques
1987
Results Without Authority
Controlling a Project when the Team Doesn't Report to You
Tom Kendrick
2006
Romeo And/Or Juliet
A Chooseable-Path Adventure
Ryan North
2016
Royal Assassin
Farseer Trilogy #2
Robin Hobb
1996
The Riddle and the Knight
In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller
Giles Milton
1996
The Riddle of the Sands
A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved
Erskine Childers
1903
The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
2012
The River
Its a hatchet sequel!
Gary Paulsen
1991

S

A Snake Lies Waiting
Legends of the Condor Heroes III
Jin Yong
1957
SHE
A History of Adventure
H. Rider Haggard
1887
Saints
Boxers & Saints
Gene Luen Yang
2013
Saints and Sinners
A History of the Popes
Eamon Duffy
1997
Sculpture City: St. Louis
Public sculpture in the "Gateway to the West"
George McCue
1988
Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom
The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John
L. N. Gumilev
1970
Secret Knowledge
Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
David Hockney
2001
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
1998
Silas Marner
The Weaver of Raveloe
George Eliot
1861
Small Green Roofs
Low-Tech Options for Greener Living
Nigel Dunnett
2011
Small is Beautiful
Economics as if People Mattered
E.F. Schumacher
1973
Some Trick
Thirteen Stories
Helen DeWitt
2018
Song of the Vikings
Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
Nancy Marie Brown
2012
Special Assignments
The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
Boris Akunin
2008
Stolen Focus
Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari
2022
Stone Diary
Confessions of a Hard Hewer
Karl Ramberg
2024
Superintelligence
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
2014
Swords
An Artists Devotion
Ben Boos
2012
Swords and Deviltry
The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Fritz Lieber
1970
The SaaS Playbook
Build a multimillion dollar startup without venture capital
Rob Walling
2023
The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers
Spiritual Insights blah blah blah
Amy Hollingsworth
2005
The State Counsellor
The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
Boris Akunin
2000
The Stonemason
A History of Building Britain
Andrew Ziminski
2020

T

A Time of Gifts
On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
Patrick Leigh Fermor
1934
A true and certaine report
of the beginning, proceedings, ouerthrowes, and now present estate of Captaine Ward and Danseker, the two late famous pirates from their first setting foorth to this present time.
Andrew Barker
1609
Tao Te Ching
A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way
Lao Tzu
400 BC
Telling the Truth
The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
Frederick Buechner
1977
That Hideous Strength
A Modern Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups
Clive Staples Lewis
1945
The Tale of Despereaux
Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
Kate DiCamillo
2003
The Timetables of History
A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
Bernard Grun
1992
The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson
The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627
Olafur Egilsson
1627
The Turkish Gambit
An Erast Fandorin Mystery
Boris Akunin
1998
The Two-Income Trap
Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers are Going Broke
Elizabeth Warren
2003
Theories of Childhood
An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky
Carol Garhart Mooney
2000
This Could Be Our Future
A Manifesto for a More Generous World
Yancey Strickler
2019
Tilman Riemenschneider
The Sculptor and his Workshop: With a catalogue of works generally accepted as by Riemenschneider and his workshop
Iris Kalden-Rosenfeld
2007
Titus Groan
Ghormenghast Trilogy
Mervyn Peake
1946
To Peking
A Forgotten Journey from Moscow to Manchuria
Peter Fleming
1934
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Jake Adelstein
2009
Tom a Lincoln (play)
The Most Pleasant History of Tom a Lincolne That Renowned Soldier The Red Rose Knight Who for his Valour and Chivalry was sirnamed The Boast of England Shewing his Honorable Victories in Forraine Countries and How He Married the Daughter of Prester John
Anonymous
1611
Travels in Mongolia, 1902
A Journey by C. W. Campbell, the British Consul in China
C. W. Campbell
1902

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V

W

A World Lit Only By Fire
The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
William Manchester
1993
The Way It Is
New and Selected Poems
William Stafford
1998
The Weather Machine
A Journey Inside the Forecast
Andrew Blum
2019
The Whale
In Search of the Giants of the Sea
Philip Hoare
2010
The Winter Queen
An Erast Fandorin Mystery
Boris Akunin
1998
The World of Patience Gromes
Making and Unmaking a Black Community
Scott C. Davis
1988
Watching the English
The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
Kate Fox
2004
Weird Medieval Guys
How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times
Olivia Swarthout
2024
Whale Day
And other poems
Billy Collins
2020
White-Jacket
or, The World in a Man-of-War
Herman Melville
1849
Wild West China
The Taming of Xinjiang
Christian Tyler
2004
Winnetou
Vols 1 & 2
Karl May
1893
Wool
Omnibus Edition: Wool 1-5
Hugh Howey
2012
World War Z
An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks
2007

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