Books??????

Nichole L

I am looking for books like lovely bones. Or teen romance or murder myestery. Please if you know of any or any you think i would like tell me.
It also would be great if you tell me the authors so i could also read other books by them.

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Sonya Hartnett has written some really great YA books. They're not specifically murder mysteries but many have an element of mystery about them. I like her books because they don't have the typical "happy ever after" endings that a lot of YA books have. Here's a list of some of her books:

Sleeping Dogs
Wilful Blue
What the Birds See
Thursday's Child
Surrender

The above are all good but my fave is Sleeping Dogs. It's about a family (mother, father, five children) who run a caravan park. An artist comes to stay at their park and finds the family interesting and mysterious, especially the beautiful older daughter. He sets out to discover their "secret" and does so, to a shocking conclusion. I highly recommend it.

Happy reading to you! :-)

Whatis a good Great Books (classics) to read like the odyysey and illaid , and History of rome?

Angel

I am interested in reading the Great Books (classics) but I want one that will improve my vocabulary and increase my intelligence. Specifically I am looking for a nice Great book about philosophy. I am also interested in one that will further my knowledge in math and science or history. I am not talking about classic books from like the 50's 60's 70's I am talking about books like the Odyssey, the praise of folley, on the nature of things, and Institutes of Oratory.

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Here is a great list of the most influential books ever written, a history of thought from ancient times:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_Most_Influential_Books_Ever_Written_%28book%29

My suggestions, both available online:

Philosophy - Plato, The Repubic

Science - Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

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