Book Collection
Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak
The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul....
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "aQF2DwAAQBAJ",
"etag": "09nN7bYnPJg",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/aQF2DwAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Three Daughters of Eve",
"authors": [
"Elif Shafak"
],
"publisher": "Bloomsbury Publishing",
"publishedDate": "2019-01-22",
"description": "The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground--an old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past--and a love--Peri had tried desperately to forget. Three Daughters of Eve is set over an evening in contemporary Istanbul, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country between East and West, religious and secular, rich and poor. Over the course of the dinner, and amidst an opulence that is surely ill begotten, terrorist attacks occur across the city. Competing in Peri's mind, however, are the memories invoked by her almost-lost Polaroid, of the time years earlier when she was sent abroad for the first time, to attend Oxford University. As a young woman there, she had become friends with the charming, adventurous Shirin, a fully assimilated Iranian girl, and Mona, a devout Egyptian American. Their arguments about Islam and feminism find focus in the charismatic but controversial Professor Azur, who teaches divinity, but in unorthodox ways. As the terrorist attacks come ever closer, Peri is moved to recall the scandal that tore them all apart. Three Daughters of Eve is a rich and moving story that humanizes and personalizes one of the most profound sea changes of the modern world.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9781632869968"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "1632869969"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": true
},
"pageCount": 385,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"averageRating": 3,
"ratingsCount": 1,
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "0.3.3.0.preview.1",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aQF2DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=aQF2DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=aQF2DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9781632869968&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=aQF2DwAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9781632869968&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Three_Daughters_of_Eve.html?hl=&id=aQF2DwAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "PARTIAL",
"embeddable": true,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": true,
"acsTokenLink": "http://books.google.com/books/download/Three_Daughters_of_Eve-sample-pdf.acsm?id=aQF2DwAAQBAJ&format=pdf&output=acs4_fulfillment_token&dl_type=sample&source=gbs_api"
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=aQF2DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "SAMPLE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "Three Daughters of Eve is a rich and moving story that humanizes and personalizes one of the most profound sea changes of the modern world."
}
}
]
}
Burning Boy
Paul Auster
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "lidlEAAAQBAJ",
"etag": "yPJqjGuSJAM",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/lidlEAAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Burning Boy",
"subtitle": "The Life and Work of Stephen Crane",
"authors": [
"Paul Auster"
],
"publisher": "Holt Paperbacks",
"publishedDate": "2022-11",
"description": "A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane. With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death. In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences—the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9781250848543"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "1250848547"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": true,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 0,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Biography & Autobiography"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "preview-1.0.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lidlEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=lidlEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=lidlEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9781250848543&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=lidlEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9781250848543&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Burning_Boy.html?hl=&id=lidlEAAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "NO_PAGES",
"embeddable": false,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=lidlEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "NONE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": ""A landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane"--"
}
}
]
}
When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. New York Times Editor’s Pick. Library Journal Best Books of 2019. TIME Magazine's "Best...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "unlfxAEACAAJ",
"etag": "B/BlPLhheKg",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/unlfxAEACAAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "When They Call You a Terrorist",
"subtitle": "A Black Lives Matter Memoir",
"authors": [
"Patrisse Khan-Cullors",
"asha bandele"
],
"publisher": "St. Martin's Griffin",
"publishedDate": "2020-01-14",
"description": "THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. New York Times Editor’s Pick. Library Journal Best Books of 2019. TIME Magazine's \"Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far.\" O, Oprah’s Magazine’s “10 Titles to Pick Up Now.” Politics & Current Events 2018 O.W.L. Book Awards Winner The Root Best of 2018 \"This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized a generation. This book is a must-read for all of us.\" - Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America—and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free. Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin’s killer went free, Patrisse’s outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin. Championing human rights in the face of violent racism, Patrisse is a survivor. She transformed her personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering inequality and a movement fueled by her strength and love to tell the country—and the world—that Black Lives Matter. When They Call You a Terrorist is Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele’s reflection on humanity. It is an empowering account of survival, strength and resilience and a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "1250306906"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9781250306906"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 288,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Biography & Autobiography"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "preview-1.0.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=unlfxAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=unlfxAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=unlfxAEACAAJ&dq=isbn:9781250306906&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=unlfxAEACAAJ&dq=isbn:9781250306906&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/When_They_Call_You_a_Terrorist.html?hl=&id=unlfxAEACAAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "NO_PAGES",
"embeddable": false,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=unlfxAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "NONE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "This book is a must-read for all of us."
}
}
]
}
Perhaps the Stars
Ada Palmer
From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "W4xVEAAAQBAJ",
"etag": "TsABe7yUMkg",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/W4xVEAAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Perhaps the Stars",
"authors": [
"Ada Palmer"
],
"publisher": "Tor Books",
"publishedDate": "2022-09-13",
"description": "From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series. World Peace turns into global civil war. In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos. Now, war spreads throughout the globe, splintering old alliances and awakening sleeping enmities. All transportation systems are in ruins, causing the tyranny of distance to fracture a long-united Earth and threaten to obliterate everything the Hive system built. With the arch-criminal Mycroft nowhere to be found, his successor, Ninth Anonymous, must not only chronicle the discord of war, but attempt to restore order in a world spiraling closer to irreparable ruin. The fate of a broken society hangs in the balance. Is the key to salvation to remain Earth-bound or, perhaps, to start anew throughout the far reaches of the stars?",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9780765378071"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "0765378078"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": true,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 0,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "preview-1.0.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W4xVEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=W4xVEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=W4xVEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9780765378071&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=W4xVEAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9780765378071&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Perhaps_the_Stars.html?hl=&id=W4xVEAAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "NO_PAGES",
"embeddable": false,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=W4xVEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "NONE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "The fate of a broken society hangs in the balance. Is the key to salvation to remain Earthbound or, perhaps, to start anew in the stars?"--Page 4 of cover."
}
}
]
}
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
John McPhee
In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "bzpnGwAACAAJ",
"etag": "w1KlY0iLu9Y",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/bzpnGwAACAAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "The Survival of the Bark Canoe",
"authors": [
"John McPhee"
],
"publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
"publishedDate": "1982-05-01",
"description": "In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made with Vaillancourt, he also traces the evolution of the bark canoe, from its beginnings through the development of the huge canoes used by the fur traders of the Canadian North Woods, where the bark canoe played the key role in opening up the wilderness. He discusses as well the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. In a style as pure and as effortless as the waters of Maine and the glide of a canoe, John McPhee has written one of his most fascinating books, one in which his talents as a journalist are on brilliant display.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "0374516936"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9780374516932"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 160,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Social Science"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "preview-1.0.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bzpnGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bzpnGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=bzpnGwAACAAJ&dq=isbn:9780374516932&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=bzpnGwAACAAJ&dq=isbn:9780374516932&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Survival_of_the_Bark_Canoe.html?hl=&id=bzpnGwAACAAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "NO_PAGES",
"embeddable": false,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=bzpnGwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "NONE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology."
}
}
]
}
The Time of Our Singing
Richard Powers
The book follows the mixed-race Strom family through much of the 20th century, from 1939 when German-Jewish physicist David Strom...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "0fY4EAAAQBAJ",
"etag": "EH+TmFa28d0",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/0fY4EAAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "The Time of Our Singing",
"subtitle": "A Novel",
"authors": [
"Richard Powers"
],
"publisher": "Picador USA",
"publishedDate": "2022-04-05",
"description": "The book follows the mixed-race Strom family through much of the 20th century, from 1939 when German-Jewish physicist David Strom meets Delia Daley, a black, classically trained singer from Philadelphia through the 1990s. The couple marries and has three children: eldest son Jonah, a charismatic, egotistical singing prodigy; Joseph, his self-sacrificing accompanist; and Ruth, the rebel of the family, who becomes a militant black activist. There are two separate strands to the story: one is a third-person chronicle of David and Delia's relationship through the 1940s; the other, narrated by Joseph, is about the brothers' education in the nearly all-white world of classical music and their experience of the civil rights movement as the rest of the country grudgingly catches up to the Stroms' radical experiment.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9781250829672"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "1250829674"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": true,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 0,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "preview-1.0.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0fY4EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=0fY4EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=0fY4EAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9781250829672&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=0fY4EAAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9781250829672&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Time_of_Our_Singing.html?hl=&id=0fY4EAAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "NO_PAGES",
"embeddable": false,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=0fY4EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "NONE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "The book follows the mixed-race Strom family through much of the 20th century, from 1939 when German-Jewish physicist David Strom meets Delia Daley, a black, classically trained singer from Philadelphia through the 1990s."
}
}
]
}
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Nominated as one of...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "bhJgd3hGdxQC",
"etag": "l1PEfYuUiRQ",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/bhJgd3hGdxQC",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "The Grapes of Wrath",
"authors": [
"John Steinbeck"
],
"publisher": "Penguin",
"publishedDate": "2006-03-28",
"description": "The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read A Penguin Classic First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert Demott. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "0143039431"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9780143039433"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 532,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"averageRating": 5,
"ratingsCount": 4,
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": true,
"contentVersion": "2.4.5.0.preview.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bhJgd3hGdxQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bhJgd3hGdxQC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=bhJgd3hGdxQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780143039433&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=bhJgd3hGdxQC&dq=isbn:9780143039433&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Grapes_of_Wrath.html?hl=&id=bhJgd3hGdxQC"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "PARTIAL",
"embeddable": true,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=bhJgd3hGdxQC&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "SAMPLE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert Demott. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world."
}
}
]
}
Pipeline
Dominique Morisseau
Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "bOHyDwAAQBAJ",
"etag": "dgynY81GuEk",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/bOHyDwAAQBAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Pipeline",
"authors": [
"Dominique Morisseau"
],
"publisher": "Concord Theatricals",
"publishedDate": "2019",
"description": "Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9780573706813"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "0573706816"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": true
},
"pageCount": 72,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Drama"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "0.1.2.0.preview.1",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bOHyDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bOHyDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=bOHyDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780573706813&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=bOHyDwAAQBAJ&dq=isbn:9780573706813&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Pipeline.html?hl=&id=bOHyDwAAQBAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "PARTIAL",
"embeddable": true,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": true,
"acsTokenLink": "http://books.google.com/books/download/Pipeline-sample-pdf.acsm?id=bOHyDwAAQBAJ&format=pdf&output=acs4_fulfillment_token&dl_type=sample&source=gbs_api"
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=bOHyDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "SAMPLE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore."
}
}
]
}
Remote Control
Nnedi Okorafor
An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "RTeIzQEACAAJ",
"etag": "J80qwq0eo4k",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/RTeIzQEACAAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Remote Control",
"authors": [
"Nnedi Okorafor"
],
"publisher": "Tor.com",
"publishedDate": "2021-01-19",
"description": "An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor “She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own.” The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa—a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks—alone, except for her fox companion—searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers. But is there a greater purpose for Sankofa, now that Death is her constant companion?",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "ISBN_10",
"identifier": "125077280X"
},
{
"type": "ISBN_13",
"identifier": "9781250772800"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 160,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "preview-1.0.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RTeIzQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=RTeIzQEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=RTeIzQEACAAJ&dq=isbn:9781250772800&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=RTeIzQEACAAJ&dq=isbn:9781250772800&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Remote_Control.html?hl=&id=RTeIzQEACAAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "NO_PAGES",
"embeddable": false,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=RTeIzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "NONE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor “She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel ..."
}
}
]
}
Breaking and Entering
Joy Williams
A book about violence and redemption, Joy Williams' new fiction tells the story of two drifters who break into Florida...
{
"kind": "books#volumes",
"totalItems": 1,
"items": [
{
"kind": "books#volume",
"id": "LbogAQAAIAAJ",
"etag": "0tnPGb4OMOk",
"selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes/LbogAQAAIAAJ",
"volumeInfo": {
"title": "Breaking and Entering",
"authors": [
"Joy Williams"
],
"publisher": "Vintage",
"publishedDate": "1988-05-12",
"description": "A book about violence and redemption, Joy Williams' new fiction tells the story of two drifters who break into Florida vacation homes while their owners are away, live there a while, then move on.",
"industryIdentifiers": [
{
"type": "OTHER",
"identifier": "STANFORD:36105040836079"
}
],
"readingModes": {
"text": false,
"image": false
},
"pageCount": 300,
"printType": "BOOK",
"categories": [
"Fiction"
],
"maturityRating": "NOT_MATURE",
"allowAnonLogging": false,
"contentVersion": "0.6.1.0.preview.0",
"panelizationSummary": {
"containsEpubBubbles": false,
"containsImageBubbles": false
},
"imageLinks": {
"smallThumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LbogAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api",
"thumbnail": "http://books.google.com/books/content?id=LbogAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api"
},
"language": "en",
"previewLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=LbogAQAAIAAJ&dq=isbn:9780394757735&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api",
"infoLink": "http://books.google.com/books?id=LbogAQAAIAAJ&dq=isbn:9780394757735&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"canonicalVolumeLink": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Breaking_and_Entering.html?hl=&id=LbogAQAAIAAJ"
},
"saleInfo": {
"country": "US",
"saleability": "NOT_FOR_SALE",
"isEbook": false
},
"accessInfo": {
"country": "US",
"viewability": "NO_PAGES",
"embeddable": false,
"publicDomain": false,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"pdf": {
"isAvailable": false
},
"webReaderLink": "http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=LbogAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api",
"accessViewStatus": "NONE",
"quoteSharingAllowed": false
},
"searchInfo": {
"textSnippet": "From "a brilliant spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor" (Elle) comes a novel starring an exhilarating cast of characters that reflects the search, not just for home, but for self."
}
}
]
}