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Dave Pelzer's Memoirs: Book 1

A Child Called "It"

by Dave J. Pelzer

This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. As a child Dave Pelzer was abused in ways one cannot begin to imagine; his alcoholic mother brutally beat, starved, and isolated him. She played tortuous, unpredictable... (learn more about this book)

Freakonomics: Book 1

Freakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like... (learn more about this book)

The Tipping Point

by Malcolm Gladwell

This celebrated New York Times bestseller now poised to reach an even wider audience in paperback is a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwell's new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the... (learn more about this book)

The Secret: Book 1

The Secret

by Rhonda Byrne

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In... (learn more about this book)

Outliers

by Malcolm Gladwell

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" — the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what... (learn more about this book)

Sarah's Key

by Tatiana de Rosnay

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel’... (learn more about this book)

This book is based on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Pride and Prejudice (A SmartPass Audio Study Guide)

by Jane Austen

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick , "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in... (learn more about this book)

Go Ask Alice

by Beatrice Sparks

This book tells the tale of an unnamed 15-year-old girl as she becomes acquainted with the world of drugs. Desperate for friendship in a new town and vulnerable from typical teenage insecurities, the narrator gets involved with a seemingly-harmless group of teenagers who introduce her to... (learn more about this book)

The World Is Flat

by Thomas L. Friedman

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed... (learn more about this book)

In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and... (learn more about this book)