Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

Ever since the morning Molly woke up to find that her parents hadvanished, her life has become filled with terrible questions. Where have her parents gone? Who is this spooky old man who's taken her to live with him, claiming to be her great-uncle? Why does he never eat, and why does he lock her in her room at night? What are her dreams of the Skeleton Man trying to tell her? There's one thing Molly does know. She... (more)

Bambi Grows Up (Walt Disney Productions)

Bambi Grows Up (Walt Disney Productions)

by Disney

Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life

by Tyler Perry

If you can count on one thing from "Madea" Mabel Simmons, star of the smash hits Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea's Family Reunion , it's that she's got something to say. Now the beloved, sharp-tongued, pistol-packing grandmother has her own book-part memoir, many parts hard-won, hilarious, straight-up in-your-face words of wisdom.

A Choice of Enemies

by Mordecai Richler

A colony of Canadian and American writers and filmmakers, exiled by McCarthyist witch-hunts at home, find themselves in London, England, where they evolve a society every bit as merciless, destructive, and close-minded as that from which they have fled. The bonds of the group are strained when Norman Price, an academic turned hack writer, befriends an enigmatic German refugee. Ostracized by his colleagues, Norman... (more)

Highlander(TM): The Measure of a Man (Highlander)

Highlander(TM): The Measure of a Man (Highlander)

by Nancy Holder

In mid-seventeenth-century Venice, Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander, tests his wit, his honor, and his immortality against the machinations of master manipulator and schemer Niccolo Machiavelli. TV tie-in.

Fidel Castro: A Biography

by Volker Skierka

Fidel Castro is one of the most interesting and controversial personalities of our time – he has become a myth and an icon. He was the first Cuban Caudillo – the man who freed his country from dependence on the USA and who lead his people to rediscover their national identity and pride. Castro has outlived generations of American presidents and Soviet leaders. He has survived countless assassination attempts by... (more)

Pocket Aquinas

by Thomas Aquinas

Funny, Peculiar: The True Story of Benny Hill

Funny, Peculiar: The True Story of Benny Hill

by Mark Lewisohn

Benny Hill's saucy smirks at underdressed women are relished the world over. Yet the comedian cut an unlikely figure of global admiration: unmarried and emotionally enfeebled in his few relationships, he was a deeply private individual uninterested in the trappings of success, a frugal man content to live in his humble childhood home flooded, freezing and burgled while his building society account bulged with... (more)

Airman

by Eoin Colfer

Conor Broekhart was born to fly. In fact, legend has it that he was born flying in a hot air balloon at the world's fair. In the 1890's Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king's daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy's idyllic life changes forever... (more)

In the Spotlight (Silver Blades)

by Melissa Lowell

Chosen as the lead in the ice show at Seneca Falls, Silver Blades club member Danielle Panati soon finds that the pressure to perform perfectly is too intense.

Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask

Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask

by Nick Henck

Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas in rebellion against the government; by sunset Marcos was on his way to becoming the most famous guerrilla leader since... (more)

Not Even If You Begged

by Francis Ray

Widow Traci Evans happily sits in on meetings with the lovely ladies of the Invincible Sisterhood solely because they reached out to her first. A loner, Traci feels for the first time she belongs. All of the official members are sweet older women who have lost the love of their lives, their husbands. Unknown to them, Traci is more angry than she is grief-stricken because her husband died in the midst of... (more)

Womyn

by Duane Romana

Once upon a time…in a land called Nowhere, there was Man who ruled everything. He had no worries. He was all to Himself…until Woman came along. After their encounter, a dilemma emerges. Will both be able to co-exist, despite their inherent differences? Now begins the saga battle of the sexes, in this poem of gender wars. Will there ever be a solution to the problem? Only time and Womyn will tell….

The Dark Before The Light At Dawn

by Vannessagrace

This book is riveting! You can actually imagine the settings, the moods, the expressions, and the depth of each character and situation. The characters are believable—you feel what they feel. The women in this book show great strength, each having their story of struggle and misfortune yet they maintain a great presence. It takes love for each of them to admit to past hurts and that same love... (more)

Understanding Human NatureAlfred Adler

Understanding Human Nature

by Alfred Adler

Inheritance Cycle: Book 3

Brisingr

by Christopher Paolini

OATHS SWORN . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide. Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep. First is Eragon’s oath to his cousin Roran: to help rescue... (more)

Sweet Valley High: Book 100

The Evil Twin

Sweet Valley Twins

by Francine Pascal, Kate William

Eager to get rid of either Elizabeth or Jessica Wakefield and take a place among their friends and family, Margo decides to strike when the twins are fighting, Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield are out of town, and Sweet Valley is in chaos.

Sahm-e Man

by Parinoush Saniee

Who Lied and Said We Left the Garden of Eden? Memoirs of a Homeless Man

Who Lied and Said We Left the Garden of Eden? Memoirs of a Homeless Man

by Daniel Martin

An Unflinching Portrait of Life on the Streets Providing a rare first-hand glimpse into the life of a homeless person, Who Lied and Said We Left the Garden of Eden is a lucid, eye-opening chronicle of author Daniel Martin's time on the mean streets of Texas and California. As a teenager, he turns to drugs for relief from his Christian fundamentalist upbringing--a tactic that plunges him into escalating... (more)

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

by Beatrice Colin

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite (Book Review)The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite is a bestselling literary novel by Beatrice Colin. It is a paperback published by John Murray and its ISBN is 1848540310. It is so well written it is a pleasure to read and it is full of historical content of 20th century Germany and the history of the movie industry. It is a sad and touching story rich in characterisation... (more)

Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: man

by Joseph Bruchac