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"Beware of the man of one book." - Author unknown.

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." - Henry Ward Beecher.

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an e-book.

Books may also refer to a literature work, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature.

In novels, a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, etc).

A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile, a bibliophilist, or a philobiblist, or, more informally, a bookworm.

A store where books are bought and sold is a bookstore or bookshop. Books can also be borrowed from libraries.

QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS:

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison.

A library is a hospital for the mind. - Anonymous.

People die, but books never die. - Anonymous.

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. - Anonym.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot.

A good book has no ending. - R.D. Cumming.

• ASK US 24/7 - a service of cooperating New York State libraries. - "We can find answers to your reference questions and provide information on your local library."
• AUDIBLE.COM - "Listen to a Best Seller on your iPod or MP3 player!" Provider of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming. Audible sells audiobooks, radio and TV programs, and audio versions of magazines and newspapers.
• BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA - both a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity and an attempt to rekindle something of the brilliance that this earlier center of study and erudition represented.
• BLURB - make your own book with Blurb.
• CENTER FOR INQUIRY LIBRARIES
• DAILYLIT - read books online by daily email.
• EUROPEANA - Think Culture! Search through the cultural collections of Europe. It links you to 6 million digital items.
• FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR | FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE
• FRANKLIN EBOOKMAN - designs, develops, publishes, and distributes globally innovative electronic language learning solutions on handheld devices, memory media cards. Also distributes more than 52,000 book titles in electronic format.
• GOOGLE BOOKS - a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans.
• HARPER COLLINS - founded in New York City in 1817. One of the world’s leading English-language publishers.
• HOW TO FIND A BOOK - Wikibooks.
• INSIDE GOOGLE BOOKS - "Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you."
• INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS | ILAB - "The World's Best Books, the World's Best Booksellers."
• INTERNET BOOK DATABASE - online database with information about books and authors with an added social networking component. It currently contains information on over 300,000 books (over 910,000 ISBNs), 92,000 authors and 4,000 series making it one of the largest online databases of author and book information.
• INTERNET BOOK LIST - online database with information about books, authors, and short stories.
• INTERNET BOOK DATABASE OF FICTION - currently holds information for over 35800 books and 4730 authors.
• ISBN | INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
• ISSN | INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
• ISSUU - you publish. Turns your documents into beautiful online publications.
• LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books.
• LINOTYPE - download fonts from classic to cool.
• LITERATURE - Wikipedia.
• NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS LIST
• OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL
• PAPERBACK - Wikipedia.
• PRINT-ON-DEMAND - printing what you want, when you want, where you want.
• PROJECT GUTENBERG - the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).
• PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - international book & bookselling news, reviews, bestsellers.
• SCRIBD - the largest social publishing company in the world — the website where more than 60 million people each month discover and share original writings and documents.
• SPEED READING - Glossary.
• STRAND MAGAZINE - the magazine for mystery & short story lovers.
• THE BOOKSELLER - daily news and comment for the book business.
• THE BRITISH LIBRARY - "We hold 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 58 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and so much more."
• THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY - searches the content of European national libraries.
• THE FREE LIBRARY - (19,266,820 articles & books: March 21, 2010): news, magazines, newspapers, journals, reference articles and classic books.
• THE INTERNET SPECULATIVE FICTION DATABASE - database of bibliographic information on science fiction and related genres such as fantasy fiction and horror fiction.
• THE LITERARY REVIEW - its many special issues have introduced new fiction, poetry, and essays from many nations, regions, or languages to English readers.
• THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF WRITING (NAW) - "A new start for talented writers." (UK).
• THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
• THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
• THE NEW YORK TIMES: BOOKS
• THE SHAKESPEARE CENTRE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE - at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon.
• THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
• UBUWEB - a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.
• WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY - a talent & literary agency.
• WORLD BOOK DAY - designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading.

Authors

• Crime, Mystery, Spy & Thriller Writers
• BOND LIFESTYLE AUCTIONS - James Bond memorabilia, and more.
• CLASSIC LITERATURE LIBRARY - free public domain ebooks and classic books.
• CRIME FICTION - the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives.
• CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION - writers' association in the United Kingdom founded in 1953.
• INVERTED DETECTIVE STORY - also known as a "howcatchem", is a murder mystery fiction structure in which the commission of the crime is shown or described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator.
• JAMES BOND 007 MUSEUM
• LIST OF CRIME WRITERS - Wikipedia.
• LIST OF EUROPEAN MYSTERY WRITERS - Wikipedia.
• LIST OF THRILLER WRITERS - Wikipedia.
• MYSTERY STORY - Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction in which a detective, either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.
• MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA - the premier organization for mystery and crime writers, professionals allied to the crime writing field, aspiring crime writers, and folks who just love to read crime fiction.
• POLICE PROCEDURAL MYSTERY STORY - a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes.
• PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA
• THE CAMBRIDGE FIVE - a ring of spies in the UK who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and into the early 1950s.
• THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER
• THE MYSTERIOUS BOOKSHOP - "The World's Finest Mystery Specialty Store. Offering the best in Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Espionage & Detective Fiction." New York City, NY, U.S.A.
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - complete works free online.
• "Whodunit" - (for "Who done it?") is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is the main feature of interest.

Crime, Mystery, Spy & Thriller Writers

• ABBY MANN - (NYPD Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak).
• AGATHA CHRISTIE - (Miss Jane Marple & Hercule Poirot).
• ALAN FURST
• ALAN HUNTER - (Inspector George Gently).
• Andrea Camilleri - (Inspector Salvo Montalbano).
• ANN CLEEVES - (Inspector Ramsay).
• ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - (Sherlock Holmes & Dr John H. Watson).
• CAROLINE GRAHAM - (DCI Tom Barnaby and Sergeant Troy).
• COLIN DEXTER - (Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis).
• COLLIER YOUNG - (Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside).
• DAN BROWN - (Symbologist Robert Langdon).
• DASHIELL HAMMETT - (Sam Spade, Nick & Nora Charles & The Continental Operative").
• DICK FRANCIS
• DON WINSLOW
• DOROTHY L. SAYERS - (Lord Peter Wimsey).
• EDGAR ALLAN POE - (C. Auguste Dupin).
• EDGAR WALLACE - (Inspector Wembury).
• ELIZABETH GEORGE - (DI Thomas Lynley)
• ELLERY QUEEN - (Ellery Queen).
• ELMORE LEONARD
• ERIC AMBLER
• ERLE STANLEY GARDNER - (Perry Mason).
• FREDERICK FORSYTH
• G. K. CHESTERTON - (Father Brown).
• GASTON LEROUX - (Joseph Rouletabille). Best known for writing the novel 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
• GEORGES SIMENON - (Commissaire Jules Maigret).
• GLENN CHANDLER - (Scottish detective Taggart).
• GRAHAM GREENE
• HENNING MANKELL - (Kurt Wallander).
• HERBERT REINECKER - (Derrick: DCI Stephan Keller and The Commissioner: DCI Herbert Keller).
• HERMAN CYRIL McNeile - (Bulldog Drummond).
• IAN FLEMING - (Commander James Bond).
• IAN RANKIN - (D.I. John Rebus).
• JAMES CRUMLEY
• JAMES ELROY
• JAN GUILLOU - (Carl Hamilton).
• JAMES H. MCCLURE - (Kramer and Zoni).
• JASON STARR
• JEAN-CHRISTOPHE GRANGÉ
• JEFFERY DEAVER - (John Pellam, Lincoln Rhyme, Kathryn Dance. Deaver will write the next James Bond novel).
• JOHN BANVILLE - a.k.a. Benjamin Black.
• JOHN BUCHAN
• JOHN GRISHAM
• JOHN LE CARRÉ - (George Smiley).
• JOHN MORTIMER - (Horace Rumpole).
• KEN BRUEN
• LEIF DAVIDSEN
• LEN DEIGHTON - (Harry Palmer).
• LESLIE CHARTERIS - (Simon Templar)
• LYNDA LA PLANTE - (DCI Jane Tennison, Mike Walker).
• MAURICE LEBLANC - (Arsène Lupin).
• MICHAEL CONNELY
• MICKEY SPILLANE - (Mike Hammer).
• NGAIO MARSH - (British CID detective Roderick Alleyn).
• P. D. JAMES - (Commander Adam Dalgliesh).
• PATRICIA HIGHSMITH - (Tom Ripley).
• PATRICK HAMILTON
• PAUL ERDMAN
• PETER CHEYNEY - (Lemmy Caution).
• PETER ROBINSON - (Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks).
• R. D. WINGFIELD - (DI William Edward Frost, GC).
• RAYMOND CHANDLER - (Philip Marlowe).
• REGINALD HILL - (DSI Andrew Dalziel and DI Peter Pascoe).
• RICHARD LEVINSON - (Lieutenant Columbo)
• ROBERT B. PARKER - (Spenser).
• ROBERT BANKS STEWART - (Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac).
• ROBERT LUDLUM - (Jason Charles Bourne - real name David Webb).
• RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS
• RUTH RENDELL - (Chief Inspector Wexford).
• SJÖWALL AND WAHLÖÖ - (Martin Beck).
• STEPHEN KING
• STIEG LARSSON - (Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist).
• THOMAS HARRIS - (Hannibal Lector).
• TOM CLANCY - (Jack Ryan).
• W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
• W. J. BURLEY - (Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe).

Booksellers (Online)

• AMAZON.COM - as of June 12, 2010: 27,711,214 books.
• ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS' ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | ABAA
• BARNES & NOBLE - Internet's largest bookstore: "We stock over 1 million titles for immediate delivery -- that's more titles than any other online bookseller."
• BODLEIAN LIBRARY - search Oxford libraries online.
• BOOKFINDER.COM - search for new & used books, textbooks, out-of-print and rare books.
• BOOKMAN - used, unique and out of print books.
• BOOKMOOCH.COM - exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter.
• BOOKS-A-MILLION ONLINE BOOKSTORE - buy discount books, music, movies, magazines.
• BORDERS - buy books, DVD movies & music CDs online.
• COMIC CONNECT - the online marketplace for comic buyers & sellers.
• DE GRUYTER - since 1749. For more than two-hundred and sixty years the name De Gruyter has been synonymous with high-quality, landmark publications in the humanities and natural sciences.
• FOYLES - fiction, medical, textbooks and more at our London store and online.
• INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS | ILAB - "The World's Best Books, the World's Best Booksellers."
• LIBRISSIME - "Hyperstylish books & objects! From $ 9 up to $ 99,999. We offer rare and exceptional books on all subjects (history of mankind, religions, arts, design, fashion, lifestyle, architecture, photography...), together with lifestyle related objects (library-trunks, decorative tabletop libraries, bookends, paperpresses, notebooks, bookbags and prints).
• OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS - the largest university press in the world.
• PENGUIN BOOKS - UK book shop and online bookstore.
• PROMETHEUS BOOKS - a leader in publishing books for the educational, scientific, professional, library, popular, and consumer markets since 1969.
• RANDOM HOUSE - bringing you the best in fiction, nonfiction, and children's books.
• SIMON & SCHUSTER - new book releases, bestsellers, author info & more.
• TASCHEN BOOKS - publisher of books on art, architecture, design and photography.
• TENEUES PUBLISHING GROUP - leading book publishers in the areas of illustrated books on photography, design, lifestyle, travel, collector's editions, luxury photography books and pictorial calendars.
• W.H. SMITH - books, audio books, bestselling hardbacks & much more.

Bookshops

• BOOKSELLING - Wikipedia.
• BARNES & NOBLE - New York City, NY, U.S.A.
• CATHACH BOOKS - Dublin, Ireland.
• DUSSMANN DAS KULTUR KAUFHAUS - Berlin, Germany.
• FOYLES - London, U.K.
• HATCHARDS BOOKSHOP - booksellers since 1797. London, U.K.
• LIVRARIA DA VILA - Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• LIVRARIA LELLO - Porto, Portugal.
• LONDON REVIEW BOOKSHOP - London, U.K.
• MÁL & MENNING - Reykjavik, Iceland.
• SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY - Paris, France.
• SLIGHTLY FOXED - London, U.K.
• STRAND BOOKSTORE - New York City, NY, U.S.A.
• THE MYSTERIOUS BOOKSHOP - "The World's Finest Mystery Specialty Store. Offering the best in Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Espionage & Detective Fiction." New York City, NY, U.S.A.
• W.H. SMITH - over 550 High Street stores and 440 Travel outlets at airports, train stations, hospitals and motorway service areas.

Bookstore (Online)

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Lifestyle	Luxury	Miscellaneous
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Religion	Royalty & Aristocracy	Science
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Who's Who

Architecture

Asset Protection

• Asset Protection : Concepts and Strategies for Protecting Your Wealth - by Jay Adkisson.
• Asset Protection (Entrepreneur Legal Guides) - by Robert Klueger.
• Asset Protection... In Financially Unsafe Times - by Arnold S. Golstein.
• Asset Protection Planning Guide, Second Edition - by Barry S. Engel.
• Asset Protection Strategies: Wealth Preservation Planning With Domestic And Offshore Entities Volume II - by Alexander A., Jr. Bove.
• Bulletproof Asset Protection - by William S. Reed.
• Bulletproof Offshore Asset Protection - by Jim Bennett.
• Fundamentals Of Offshore Banking: How To Open Accounts Almost Anywhere - by Walter Tyndale.
• Global Private Banking and Wealth Management: The New Realities (The Wiley Finance Series) - by David Maude.
• Hide Your Assets and Disappear: A Step-by-Step Guide to Vanishing Without a Trace - by Edmund Pankau.
• How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty - by Harry Browne.
• How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life - by J. J. Luna.
• How To Start Your Own Country - a book about micronations and new country projects by Erwin S Strauss. It is generally considered to be the first attempt at documenting micronations as a global phenomenon.
• International Trust Laws - by Paolo Panico.
• Investing Offshore: Secrets Of Asset Protection - by Robert Forbush.
• Legal Offshore Tax Havens: How to Take LEGAL Advantage of the IRS Code and Pay Less in Taxes - by Jesse Schmitt.
• Lawyers Are Liars: The Truth About Protecting Our Assets - by Mark J. Kohler.
• Non-Resident & Offshore Tax Planning - by Lee Hadnum.
• Offshore Advantage : A Canadian Guide to Wealth Creation, Asset Protection, and Estate Planning - by Gordon Laight.
• Offshore Asset Protection for Busy Professionals - by James Bennett.
• Offshore Business Centres: A World Survey, (Formerly Grundy's Tax Havens - by Milton Grundy.
• Offshore Havens - by Arnold S. Goldstein.
• Offshore Investments that Safeguard Your Cash: Learn How Savvy Investors Grow and Protect Their Wealth - by Erika Nolan.
• Offshore Investments: The Millionaire Vision - by Raj D. Rajpal.
• Offshore Investing (Made E-Z Guides) - by Arnold S. Goldstein.
• Offshore Money Book, The: How to Move Assets Offshore for Privacy, Protection, and Tax Advantage - by Arnold Cornez.
• Offshore: The Tax Free World - The Indispensible Guide to Offshore Financial World - by Scott M. Smathers.
• Offshore Trusts, Your Key to Flexible Asset Protection - by Robert E. Bauman.
• Questions Great Financial Advisors Ask... and Investors Need to Know - by Alan Parisse.
• Safe Harbors: An Asset Protection Guide for Small Business Owners (Business Owner's Toolkit series) - by Nicolas C. Masenti.
• Secrets of Swiss Banking: An Owner's Manual to Quietly Building a Fortune - by Hoyt Barber.
• So Sue Me! How to Protect Your Assets from the Lawsuit Explosion - by Arnold S. Goldstein.
• Strategies for Protecting Wealth - by Darrell Aviss.
• Tax Avoidance: Barter, Tax Haven, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion, Transfer Pricing, 2008 Liechtenstein Tax Affair, Tax Rates Around the World - by Books LLC.
• Tax Haven Roadmap - by Richard Czerlau.
• Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works (Cornell Studies in Money) - by Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy and Christian Chavagneux.
• Tax Havens of the World - by Walther & Dorothy Diamond.
• Tax Havens of the World, Eighth Edition - by Thomas Azzara.
• Tax Havens Today: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Banking and Investing Offshore - by Hoyt L. Barber.
• Tax Rates Around the World: List of Countries by Tax Revenue as Percentage of GDP, Dividend Imputation, Tax Freedom Day, Welfare State, Tax Haven - by Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon and Susan F. Marseken.
• The Complete Book of Trusts, 3rd Edition - by Martin M. Shenkman.
• The Complete Tax Guide for Real Estate Investors: A Step-By-Step Plan to Limit Your Taxes Legally - by Jackie Sonnenberg.
• The Consumer's Guide to Swiss Annuities - by Jean-Francois Meillard.
• The Doctor's Wealth Preservation Guide - by Roccy DeFrancesco.
• The International Man - by Douglas R. Casey.
• The Law of Offshore Asset Protection - by Christopher Hunter.
• The Offshore Asset Protection Workbook - by Alan Stang.
• The Offshore Counsellor: Asset Protection - by Thomas Malcolm.
• The PPLI Solution: Delivering Wealth Accumulation, Tax Efficiency, and Asset Protection Through Private Placement Life Insurance - by Kirk Loury.
• The Private Interest Foundation of Panama (Harris, Marc M. Harris Offshore Manual.) - by Marc M. Harris.
• The Real Estate Investor's Guide to Corporations, LLCs, and Asset Protection Entities - by Richard T. Williamson.
• The Ultimate Guide to Offshore Tax Havens - by Samuel Blankson.
• The World of Tax Havens - by Lucio Velo.
• The World's Best Tax Havens: How to Cut Your Taxes to Zero and Safeguard Your Financial Freedom - by Lee Hadnum.
• Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World - by Nicholas Shaxson.
• Trump University Asset Protection 101 - by J. J. Childers.
• Trusts and Related Tax Issues in Offshore Financial Law - by Rose-Marie Belle Antoine.
• Using Offshore Havens for Privacy & Profit: Revised and Updated Edition - by Adam Starchild.
• Wealth Management: The Financial Advisor's Guide to Investing and Managing Client Assets - by Harold Evensky.

Biographies

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Business

• Big Business by C. Northcote Parkinson
• Bunny: The Real Story of Playboy
• Business the Richard Branson Way: 10 Secrets of the World's Greatest Brand Builder


• Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
• Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich?: The Full Story of Bernard Cornfeld and I.O.S.
• How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty
• How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life
• LEXIS NEXIS
• Money Game
• Money Spinner: Monte-Carlo and Its Fabled Casino
• Polk's World Bank Directory
• Supermoney by Adam Smith
• TAX HAVENS of the WORLD BY WALTER & DOROTHY DIAMOND
• Tax Havens of the World, Eighth Edition By Thomas Azzara
• The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
• The Book of Heroic Failures
• The Common Millionaire and How to Get That Way
• The Complete Tax Haven Guide: Financial Freedom Through Global Investing
• The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
• The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co
• The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide
• The New Elite: Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy
• The Rich and The Super-Rich by Ferdinand Lundberg
• The Rise of the Rich
• The Robber Barons
• The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way
• Trump 101: The Way to Success
• Trump: How to Get Rich
• Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success
• Trump Strategies for Real Estate: Billionaire Lessons for the Small Investor
• Trump-Style Negotiation: Powerful Strategies and Tactics for Mastering Every Deal
• Trump: The America We Deserve
• Trump: The Art of the Comeback
• Trump: The Art of Survival
• Trump: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received
• Trump: Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life
• Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life
• Trump University Asset Protection 101 (Trump University)
• Trump University Entrepreneurship 101: How to Turn Your Idea into a Money Machine
• Trump University Marketing 101: How to Use the Most Powerful Ideas in Marketing to Get More Customers
• Trump University Real Estate 101: Building Wealth with Real Estate Investments
• Trump University Wealth Building 101: Your First 90 Days on the Path to Prosperity (Trump University)
• Trump: Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men - One Message

Classics

• Hans Christian Andersen's Fairytales - online.
• THE COMPLETE WORKS OF CHARLES DARWIN - online.
• The Complete Works of Percy Byssche Shelley, 8 Volumes, Leatherbound.
• William Shakespeare - online.
• William Shakespeare's Sonnets - online.

Comics

Cooking

Crime & Espionage

• BENTLEY MARK VI - source for James Bond's fictional car and never-produced 'Bentley Mark II Continental'.
• BOND LIFESTYLE AUCTIONS - James Bond memorabilia, and more.
• CRIME FICTION - the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives.
• CRIME THRILLER AWARDS - British awards ceremony dedicated to crime thriller fiction.
• JAMES BOND 007 MUSEUM - Nybro, Sweden.
• LIST OF CRIME WRITERS - Wikipedia.
• LIST OF EUROPEAN MYSTERY WRITERS - Wikipedia.
• LIST OF THRILLER WRITERS - Wikipedia.
• MYSTERY STORY - Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction in which a detective, either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.
• MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA
• POLICE PROCEDURAL MYSTERY STORY - a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes.
• THE SHERLOCK HOLMES MUSEUM - London, England.
• THE CAMBRIDGE FIVE - a ring of spies in the UK who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and into the early 1950s.
• THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER
• THE SHERLOCK HOLMES MUSEUM - London.
• "WHO DONE IT?" - a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is the main feature of interest.
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Economics

• The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions - by American sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). Famous in the History of economic thought for combining a Darwinian evolutionary perspective with his new institutionalist approach to economic analysis. The Veblen Good is named after his concepts of conspicuous consumption and status-seeking. A MUST READ!

Fantasy

Fashion

• YVES SAINT LAURENT: L'OEUVRE INTÉGRAL, 1962-2002 - limited edition: 500 numbered copies.

Gambling

General

Gossip

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Health

History

Inspiration | Motivation

• Better than Beauty: A Guide to Charm
• Debrett's Correct Form (Debretts)
• Debrett's Etiquette for Girls
• Debrett's Guide for the Modern Gentleman
• Debrett's New Guide to Etiquette and Modern Manners
• Debrett's Manners for Men: What Women Really Want
• Debrett's Wedding Guide (Debretts)
• Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (Oxford Language Classics)
• Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
• The Book of Snobs by John Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford
• The English Gentleman (Prion Humour Classics)
• The Story of Success
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Investment

• The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
• The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel
• The Warren Buffett Way

Lifestyle

• Living the Wisdom of the Tao: The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations
• The Art of Good Living by AndrÉ L. Simon
• The Connoisseur's Book of the Cigar by Zino Davidoff
• The Little Black Book of Style
• The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (The First Guide to What Really Matters in Life)
• The Yuppie Handbook ; the State of the Art Manual for Young Urban Professionals

Luxury

Miscellaneous

• 1001 Cocktails
• CLIMATE CRISIS - Al Gore's new book: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.
• Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
• How to Marry Super Rich: Or, Love, Money, and the Morning After
• How to Run a Stately Home by John Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford
• Inside Monte Carlo
• MICHAEL MOORE'S BOOKS
• Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies of Michel Nostradamus
• The New Journalism. With an Anthology Edited By Tom Wolfe and E.W. Johnson.

Movies

Music

Mystery

Philosophy

• Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
• Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I.




• History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• On War (Oxford World's Classics) by Claus von Clausewitz
• Parkinson's law: Or, The pursuit of progress / C. Northcote Parkinson ; with illus. by Osbert Lancaster
• The Art of Warfare by Sun-Tzu



• Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Selections) / Also sprach Zarathustra (Auswahl): A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Books) (German Edition)

Photography

Poetry

• POETRY - Wikipedia.

Religion

• Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
• Living the Wisdom of the Tao: The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations
• THE BIBLE - online.
• THE QURAN - online.

Royalty & Aristocracy

• Aristocrats
• Burke's Royal Families of the World Volume 1 Europe & Latin America
• Diana: Her True Story - in Her Own Words
• Palace: My Life in The Royal Family of Monaco by Baron de Massy
• Royalty Who Wait: The 21 Heads of Formerly Regnant Houses of Europe
• Royalty's Strangest Characters: Extraordinary But True Tales from 2,000 Years of Mad Monarchs and Raving Rulers (Strangest series)
• Splendor in exile: The ex-majesties of Europe
• The Ruling House of Monaco: The Story of a Tragic Dynasty

Science

Science Fiction

Sports

Travel

• BAEDECKER ONLINE - Baedeker was and remains the world’s most famous guidebook for travellers. Since Karl Baedeker founded the company in 1827, Baedekers have set a benchmark for guidebooks.
• Fodor's Alaska Ports of Call 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Argentina, 4th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Australia 2009 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Austria, 12th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Bahamas 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Beijing, 1st Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Belize 3rd Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Big Island of Hawaii, 1st Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Boston 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Brazil, 5th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's California 2009 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Canada, 29th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Cancun, Cozumel & the Yucatan Peninsula 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Caribbean 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Chicago 2009 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Chile, 3rd Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's China, 5th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Costa Rica 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Croatia and Slovenia, 2nd Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's England 2009: with The Best of Wales (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Essential Italy, 1st Edition: Rome, Florence, Venice & the Top Spots In Between (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's European Ports of Call, 1st Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Florence, Tuscany, Umbria, 8th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's France 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Germany 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Greece, 8th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Greek Islands, 1st Edition: With the Best of Athens (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Hawaii 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Hong Kong, 20th Edition: With Macau and the South China Cities (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's In Focus California Wine Country, 1st Edition
• Fodor's India, 6th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Ireland 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Italy 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Japan, 18th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Kaua'i, 1st Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Las Vegas 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's London 2009 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Maui 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Mexico 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Montreal and Quebec City 2007 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Morocco, 3rd Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Moscow and St. Petersburg (Fodor's Guides)
• Fodor's Naples, Capri & the Amalfi Coast, 4th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's New York City 2009 (Full-Color Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Northern California 2008: with Napa, Sonoma, Yosemite, and Lake Tahoe (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Oahu, 1st Edition: with Honolulu, Waikiki, and the North Shore (Fodor's Gold Guides)



• Fodor's Peru, 2nd Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, 15th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Portugal, 8th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Rome, 6th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's San Francisco 2008 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Scandinavia, 11th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Scotland, 21st Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Seattle, 4th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Shanghai, 1st Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's South America, 7th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Spain 2009 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Switzerland, 44th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Thailand, 10th Edition: With Side Trips to Cambodia & Laos (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's The Carolinas & Georgia, 17th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's The Complete Guide to European Cruises, 1st Edition: A cruise lover's guide to selecting the right trip with all the best ports of call (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Tokyo, 2nd Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Toronto 2007: With Niagara Falls & the Niagara Wine Region (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Turkey, 6th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's U.S. and British Virgin Islands 2009 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Vancouver & Victoria, 1st Edition: With Whistler, Vancouver Island & the Okanagan Valley (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Virginia and Maryland, 9th Edition (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• Fodor's Washington, D.C. 2008: with Mount Vernon, Old Town Alexandria & Annapolis (Fodor's Gold Guides)
• LOUIS VUITTON CITY GUIDE 2009
• Michelin Guide Europe 2009
• Michelin Guide France 2009
• Michelin Guide Las Vegas 2009
• Michelin Guide Paris 2009
• Michelin Guide San Francisco 2009
• Michelin Red Guide Deutschland 2009
• Michelin Red Guide Espagne & Portugal 2009
• Michelin Red Guide Italia 2009
• The Backpacker's Bible: Your Essential Guide to Round the World Travel
• WALLPAPER CITY GUIDES

Who's Who

• WHO'S WHO 2009 - the definitive directory of everyone who’s anyone in Britain, and beyond, today.
• Who's Who in the World 2009

Book Clubs

• BOOK SALES CLUB - Wikipedia.
• BARNES&NOBLE BOOK CLUBS
• BOOK CLUB OFFERS
• BOOK CLUBS
• BOOK of the MONTH CLUB
• CHRISTIAN BOOK CLUBS
• DOUBLE DAY BOOK CLUB
• HARLEQUIN BOOK CLUBS
• HARVARD BUSINESS BOOK CLUB
• MYSTERY GUILD BOOK CLUB
• OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB
• QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB
• SCI-FI BOOK CLUB
• SIMON & SCHUSTER: BOOK CLUB RESOURCES
• SOUNDVIEW EXECUTIVE BOOK SUMMARIES
• THE LITERARY GUILD

E-Books

• COMPARISON OF E-BOOK FORMATS - Wikipedia.
• E-BOOK - Wikipedia.
• AMAZON.COM'S EBOOK STORE - as of July 2, 2010 2,172,609 titles.
• BARNES & NOBLE - over 1 million titles!
• BOOKS-A-MILLION - eBooks, bestsellers, hard-to-find books.
• DE GRUYTER - the De Gruyter e-dition makes over 60,000 high-quality titles available from De Gruyter’s more than 260-year publishing history.
• FOYLES - range of more than 73,000 fiction and non-fiction eBooks
• GOOGLE EDITIONS BOOKSTORE - "Buy anywhere, read anywhere." Coming soon.
• IBOOKS - for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store.
• PENGUIN BOOKS - ePub eBooks.
• PROJECT GUTENBERG - the first producer of free electronic books (eBooks). The place where you can download over 32,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.
• REFERENCE GLOBAL - Walter de Gruyter is among the first academic publishers in the world to provide electronic access to its journals, books, and databases on a single platform.
• SIMON & SCHUSTER
• THE ONLINE BOOKS PROJECT - listing over 35,000 free books on the web.
• W.H. SMITH

E-Book Reading Devices

• CLASSIC LITERATURE LIBRARY - free public domain ebooks and classic books.
• COMPARISON OF E-BOOK READERS - Wikipedia.
• ECTACO jetBook - the only eBook Reader in the world to support ePub, Mobi, PRC, RTF, .txt, .pdf, .fb2, .jpg, .gif, .png, and .bmp - the widest array of file formats able to be displayed by a single device!
• ALEX EBOOK READER
• ASTAK EBOOK READERS
• CYBOOK EBOOK READERS
• HANVON
• IREX DIGITAL READER
• Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device (9.7
• MIRASOL
• NOOK - "The World's Most Advanced eBook Reader."
• QUE PROREADER - less than a third of an inch thick.
• SAMSUNG E6 & E101
• SAMSUNG E6 - CrunchGear review.
• SKIFF READER - dimension: 9 x 11 x 0.268 inches, display: 11.5 inches.
• SONY READERS
• SONY READER DIGITAL BOOK PRS-700BC
• SONY READER TOUCH EDITION PRS-600BC

Literary Prizes

• AWARD ANNALS - the literary award database.
• LIST OF LITERARY AWARDS - Wikipedia.
• NOBEL LAUREATES IN LITERATURE - Nobel Foundation.
• AMERICAN BOOK AWARD - established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre.
• GALAXY BRITISH BOOK AWARDS - the Oscars of the book world.
• LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES - the Prizes "currently have nine single-title categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and young adult fiction (category added in 1998). In addition, the Robert Kirsch Award is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition."
• NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS - a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year.
• NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE - awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".
• PULITZER PRIZES - U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition.
• SUNDAY TIMES AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE - Oxford Literary Festival.
• THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DAGGER AWARDS
• THE EDGAR AWARDS - named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theatre published or produced in the previous year.
• THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year.
• THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE - is unique in the world of literature in that it can be won by an author of any nationality, providing that his or her work is available in the English language. It is awarded every second year.
• THE SHAMUS AWARDS - awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories of the year.