Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

Ever wondered how top atheletes got their start in the game? Well, former N F L star Tim Green (now a regular commentator for N P R and Fox as well as a novelist in his own right) is going to tell you. Drawing on interviews he's conducted in the course of his career, this is the real story of how some of biggest, toughtest, hardest-hitting guys came to play the game.

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

14.5 Million copies sold to date The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text.

Brink of Death (Hidden Faces Series)

by Brandilyn Collins

Terror rocks Grove Landing when a woman is murdered in her home. The victim's young daughter, Erin, witnessed the crime but is too traumatized to give a description. Desperate detectives ask neighbor Annie Kingston, with a background in art, to interview Erin for a composite. But what if Annie's lack of experience in forensic art leads Erin astray? The detectives could end up searching for a face that doesn't... (more)

Paranormal Powers (Secrets of the Unexplained, Group 1)Gary L. Blackwood, Daniel Cohen

Paranormal Powers (Secrets of the Unexplained, Group 1)

by Gary Blackwood

Discusses ESP, enhanced perception, psychokinesis, and other paranormal phenomena, as well as the work of psychic detectives and water witches.

Great American Mysteries

by E. Randall Floyd

YA-- Got a minute? That's plenty of time for reading one of the 38 mysteries in this collection. Readers will find out what really happened the day Lizzie Borden's parents died, and what incident stopped the Salem Witchcraft trials. They'll also learn more about the abominable snowman, the Bermuda Triangle, ghosts, and psychics. These stories--told in a manner somewhere between ``just the facts, ma'am,'' and... (more)

The Bermuda Triangle (X Science: An Imagination Library Series)

The Bermuda Triangle (X Science: An Imagination Library Series)

by Jacqueline Laks Gorman

Harry Potter: Book 6

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet . . . As with all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Harry receives some extraordinary help in Potions from the mysterious Half-Blood... (more)

Oliver Twist

or, The Parish Boy's Progress

by Charles Dickens

A young boy flees from an orphanage to London, only to be captured by thieves.

The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaitre, Einstein, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

by John Farrell

Sometimes our understanding of our universe is given a huge boost by one insightful thinker. Such a boost came in the first half of the twentieth century, when an obscure Belgian priest put his mind to deciphering the nature of the cosmos. Is the universe evolving to some unforeseen end, or is it static, as the Greeks believed? The debate has preoccupied thinkers from Heraclitus to the author of the Upanishads,... (more)

Bolt of Fate

Benjamin Franklin and his Electric Kite Hoax

by Tom Tucker

Was Benjamin Franklin's famous electric kite experiment a fraud? And did it determine the course of the American Revolution? Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and... (more)

Best Dad in the Sea (Finding Nemo Step into Reading, Step 1)

Best Dad in the Sea (Finding Nemo Step into Reading, Step 1)

by Amy J. Tyler

A Step into Reading Book. Nemo loves his father Marlin, and Marlin loves his little Nemo. In this Step 1 story based on Disney/Pixar’s new feature film Finding Nemo, young readers will love watching Marlin gain courage as he searches the ocean for his son–and seeing Nemo learn that he’s capable of great things, just like his dad!

Shakespeare's King Lear (In the Original and Modern English, Shakespeare's parallel text series)Maurice Charney