A–Z catalog · Part 3 of 21

Reviewed Book Summaries

1. Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
2. Breaking Creed by Bryn Greenwood
3. Breaking the Cycle: Free Your Organization from Employee Negativity by Brian Tackett
4. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza
5. Breath by Tim Winton
6. Breath by James Nestor
7. Brendan's Fabulous Voyage A Lecture delivered on January 19, 1893, before the Scottish Society of Literature and Art by John Patrick Crichton-Stuart Marquess of Bute
8. Brida by Paulo Coelho
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
11. Bright Tomorrow by Eleanor Burford
12. Broken Harbor by Tana French
13. Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine
14. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
15. Brother Cadfael's First Case by Ellis Peters
16. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
17. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
18. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
19. Buffalo Roost: A Story of a Young Men's Christian Association Boys' Department by Frank H. (Frank Howbert) Cheley
20. Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua
21. Building Microservices by Sam Newman
22. Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems by Sam Newman
23. Building Mr. Darcy by Ashlinn Craven
24. Building Secure and Reliable Systems by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, Adam Stubblefield
25. Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship
26. Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, Adam Stubblefield
27. Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems by Heather Adkins
28. Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer et al.
29. Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness by Edward E. Lawler III & Christopher G. Worley
30. Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
31. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras
32. Built to Move by Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett
33. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
34. Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
35. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
36. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
37. Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels in the First Human Rights Crusade by Adam Hochschild
38. Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
39. Business Across Cultures by Fons Trompenaars
40. Business in the 21st Century: A Sustainable Approach by Claudia Nelly Berrones-Flemmig
41. Buttered Side Down: Stories by Edna Ferber
42. Cabin Fever by Alisha Rai
43. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
44. Call Me by My Name by John Paul II
45. Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
46. Call Me Zebra by Ayesha Harruna Attah
47. Call Me Zelda by Jeanne Mackin
48. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Roy Chapman Andrews
49. Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
50. Candide by Voltaire
51. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
52. Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
53. Carnivàle: The Official Companion by Jeff Jensen
54. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
55. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
56. Castles in Spain by Eleanor Burford
57. Castro: My Life: A Spoken History by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet
58. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
59. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
60. Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France by William Wirt
61. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
62. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
63. Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Richard Steven Street
64. Cesar: The Autobiography of Cesar Chavez by Cesar Chavez
65. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by 1518- Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi
66. Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life by Wayne W. Dyer
67. Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds by Howard Gardner
68. Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science by Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe
69. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez
70. Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
71. Chapter of Autobiography by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone
72. Chapters in Rural Progress by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield
73. Character by Samuel Smiles
74. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
75. Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
76. Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
77. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
78. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
79. Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman
80. Chronicle of the 20th Century by Clifton Daniel
81. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
82. Circe by Madeline Miller
83. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
84. City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
85. City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
86. City of Endless Night by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
87. City of Glass by Paul Auster
88. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
89. City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson
90. City of Spies by Samantha Harvey
91. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
92. Clara Schumann: An Artist's Life by Nancy B. Reich
93. Classical Enigmas, Adapted to Every Month in the Year Composed from the English and Roman Histories, Heathen Mythology and Names of Famous Writers: Meant to Amuse Youths of All Ages, and at the Same Time Exert Their Memories, by Calling to Mind What They Have Read at Different Times by Mrs. (Anne) Ritson
94. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
95. Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert C. Martin
96. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
97. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
98. Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth by Joyce Tyldesley
99. Clever Girl Finance by Bola Sokunbi
100. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
101. Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology, Security, and Architecture by Thomas Erl
102. Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology, Security, and Architecture, 2nd Edition by Thomas Erl
103. Cloud FinOps, 2nd Edition by J.R. Storment
104. Cloud Native Patterns: Designing change-tolerant software by Cornelia Davis
105. Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation by Pini Reznik, Jamie Dobson, Michelle Gienow
106. Cloud Security and Compliance: A Practical Guide by Ben Potter
107. Cloud Security and Compliance: A Practical Guide by Ben Potter, Scott Ward, Michael Becher
108. Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø
109. Code Complete by Steve McConnell
110. Code Complete 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell
111. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
112. Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software by Max Kanat-Alexander
113. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
114. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming by Peter Seibel
115. Cognitive Therapy in the Twenty-First Century: Current Status and Future Directions by David A. Clark
116. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
117. Coming of age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
118. Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael E. Porter
119. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter
120. Compilers: Principles and Practice by Parag H. Dave, Himanshu B. Dave
121. Compilers: Principles, Practice, and Tools by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman
122. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman
123. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred V. Aho
124. Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, David J. Wetherall
125. Computers and Society: Computing for Good by John Impagliazzo, Leslie A. Carr (Editors)
126. Computers and Society: Computing for Good by John Impagliazzo and Leslie A. Carr (Editors)
127. Computers and Society: Computing for Good by John Impagliazzo
128. Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design by Wayne Wolf
129. Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business by John Mackey & Raj Sisodia
130. Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
131. Contagious: How to Build Word of Mouth in the Digital Age by Jonah Berger
132. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble, David Farley
133. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble
134. Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by Paul M. Duvall, Steve Matyas, Andrew Glover
135. Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by Paul M. Duvall
136. Continuous Observability: A Practical Guide to Microservices Observability in the Cloud by Ben Sigelman, Yuri Shkuro, Gardner Montgomery
137. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
138. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
139. Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Neil deGrasse Tyson and James Trefil
140. Cosmos by Carl Sagan
141. Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice by Derald Wing Sue
142. Courage Is Calling by Ryan Holiday
143. Cours de Linguistique Generale by Ferdinand Saussure
144. Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
145. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
146. Cracking the Tech Career: Insider Advice on Landing a Job at Google, Microsoft, Apple, or any Top Tech Company by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
147. Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate by Zoë Quinn
148. Creating the United Nations by Andrew Ehrhardt
149. Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley and David Kelley
150. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by Tom Kelley & David Kelley
151. Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by Tom Kelley
152. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
153. Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
154. Crime and Its Causes by William Douglas Morrison
155. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
156. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
157. Cristo versus Arizona by Noah Glick
158. Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley
159. Crito by Plato
160. Cross-Cultural Psychology: Contemporary Themes and Perspectives by Kenneth D. Keith
161. Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications by David A. Levy
162. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore
163. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore
164. Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson et al.
165. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
166. Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice by William Stallings
167. Cudjo's own story of the last African slaver by Zora Neale Hurston
168. Curse of Democracy: Evidence from the 21st Century by Yusuke Narita
169. Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know by P.W. Singer
170. Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know by P.W. Singer, Allan Friedman
171. Dair Devil: A Georgian Historical Romance by Lucinda Brant
172. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
173. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery
174. Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
175. Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown
176. Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
177. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
178. Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening by Manal al-Sharif
179. Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
180. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
181. Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary by Tony Fry
182. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
183. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
184. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
185. Data Engineering on Azure by Vasily Ershov
186. Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein
187. Data Management for Researchers: Organize, Maintain and Share Your Data for Research Success by Katherine Skinner
188. Data Science for Business by Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett
189. Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python by Joel Grus
190. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
191. Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody
192. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
193. Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
194. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
195. Dawn in darkest Africa by John H. (John Hobbis) Harris
196. Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo
197. Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—and a Love Letter to a Way of Life by Nyle DiMarco
198. Dear Delusion by Eleanor Burford
199. Death and the Afterlife by Robert Kastenbaum
200. Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie