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  The Guide to Getting It On!

  The Universe's Coolest and Most Informative Book About Sex

  by Paul Joannides, GoofyFootPress

  When it comes to sex, this book is the pants-down favorite from dorm rooms to bedrooms across the planet. You will be hard-pressed to find a single page of this down-to-earth boinking bible that doesn't bring a smile, a blush of crimson, or a moment of awe. Few books on sex provide such a satisfying link between the cutting edge of science and the emotions that accompany love and sex. Perhaps that's... (more)
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  The Twilight Saga: Book 1

  Twilight

  by Stephenie Meyer

  When Bella's mother remarries she grudgingly decides to go live with her father in the sunless, perpetually rainy city of Forks, Washington. It's the middle of the semester at a new school and the most she can hope for is to blend in. Then she sees the mysterious Edward Cullen. He's handsome, intriguing and he happens to be a vampire. Despite the risk to her life, Bella and Eward are drawn together and their... (more)
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  Robert Langdon: Book 1

  Angels & Demons

  by Dan Brown

  World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful... (more)
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  Robert Langdon: Book 2

  The Da Vinci Code

  by Dan Brown

  Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and further. The curator, part of a secret society named the Priory of Sion, may have sacrificed... (more)
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  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

  by Thomas Hardy

  Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim, Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty, while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned upon its publication... (more)
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  The Road

  by Cormac McCarthy

  "The Road" is a post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy -- the tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and, apparently, most life on earth.
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  False Start

  How the New Browns Were Set Up to Fail

  by Terry Pluto

  It was supposed to be the dawn of a grand new era of football in Cleveland. Instead, it was a rude wakeup call. When the new Cleveland Browns took the field in 1999, legions of loyal fans—once heartsick, abandoned, and disgusted at the loss of their team in 1995—were ready to forgive the past and embrace the future . . . a new owner, a new team, a new stadium. They just wanted their Browns back. They didn’t... (more)
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  Love Story: Book 2

  You Suck

  by Christopher Moore

  Being undead sucks. Literally.Just ask C. Thomas Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he's ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody, is a vampire. And surprise! Now he's one, too. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues.But word has it that the... (more)
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  Fallen Angels

  by Walter Dean Myers

  Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry has just graduated from high school. There's no way he can afford college, and the streets are just too hard. So he signs up for the army and gets shipped off to Vietnam. In a battlefield jungle where every move can mean the difference between life and death, he meets Peewee, Lobel, Johnson, and Brunner. They're all here for different reasons, but now they share a single... (more)
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  Spirit Bear: Book 1

  Touching Spirit Bear

  by Ben Mikaelsen

  Will the attack of the Spirit Bear destroy Cole's life or save his soul? Cole Matthews has been fighting stealing and raising hell for years. So his punishment for beating Peter Driscal senseless is harsh. Given a choice between prison and Native American Circle Justice, Cole chooses Circle Justice: He'll spend one year in complete isolation on a remote Alaskan island. In the first days of his banishment, Cole... (more)
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  Maximum Ride: Book 4

  The Final Warning

  by James Patterson

  AS THE WORLD WARMS UP, THE FLOCK FEELS THE HEATThe thrill ride wasn't over when Max and her flock of winged kids flew off into the sunset at the end of Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports. Turns out retirement's kind of boring for the flock--especially when the planet still needs to be saved and they're the only ones capable of doing it. With the help of a group of environmentalists (who just might be... (more)
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  The Cemetery of Forgotten Books: Book 2

  The Angel's Game

  by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind , comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love. "The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I opened those windows — my new windows — each evening its streets would whisper stories to me,... (more)
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  Maximum Ride: Book 5

  Max

  by James Patterson

  JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE WATER WAS SAFE...Someone—or something—is decimating ships and sea life off Hawaii's coast, and Max and her flock find themselves sucked into the Navy's top-secret investigation of the catastrophe. Their objective: Rescue Max's activist mom from a wicked subterranean enemy. The hitch: They must dive deep into dark waters, where gruesome evil dwells...and for high-flying Maximum... (more)
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  The Hunger Games: Book 2

  Catching Fire

  by Suzanne Collins

  SPARKS ARE IGNITING.FLAMES ARE SPREADING.AND THE CAPITOL WANTS REVENGE. Katniss is threatened to make a show for the President that she did not make fun of the capitol.Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and... (more)
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  Sheep Detectives: Book 1

  Three Bags Full

  by Leonie Swann

  A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd. On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, the members of the flock gather around their shepherd, George, whose body lies pinned to the ground with a spade. Led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world), they set out to find... (more)
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  Secret Confessions of a High-Priced Call Girl (AUK Adult)

  by Dimitra Ekmektsis

  Being a call girl isn't really about the money and the sex - it's about the excitement and the experiences... A high-class call girl in New York City at 21, the mistress of a much older sugar daddy at 24, and later working in a legal brothel in Nevada, Dimitra has a tale to tell about the sex trade. In "Secret Confessions of a High-Priced Call Girl" she draws back the sheets to reveal the whole story. Written in... (more)