Books Are More Important Than Business Companies

Books Are More Important Than Business Companies

It is a great pity that majority of Nigerians are intellectual illiterates or intellectual dummies.

The greatest nations on earth have been built on the foundations of books.
The Greek-Roman Civilation would not have existed without the Classics.
Israel was built on the Holy Scripture.
The Industrial Revolution was propelled by The Renaissance.
The United States of America was built by the vision of the Founding Fathers whose books launched the American Dream.
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream launched the emergence of Barack Obama, the first black President of the USA.

Chinua Achebe's all time classic Things Fall Apart has done more for African Civilization than the First Bank of Nigeria Plc.
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's corpus means more to the world than Union Bank Plc.
Have you read You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir ?

In fact, I will not exchange my new historical documentary on Barack Obama for the whole of Globacom.

I regard books more than workplaces.

If only Nigerians love books as much as they love their GSM phones and each of the over 75 million GSM users spend only N500 monthly to buy a Nigerian book instead of spending it on unprofitable text messages and gossip calls, Nigerians would be more educated and rewarded and develop faster than ever before.



Half of a Yellow Sun ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Becoming Abigail ~ Christopher Abani

The Thing Around Your Neck ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Wayo Guy and other Nigerian Short Stories ~ Chima Uchendu

The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series) ~ Wole Soyinka

Book of the Month: Oil on Water by Helon Habila

Oil on Water by Helon Habila

From the desks of Nigeria?s newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. Zaq, an infamous media hack, knows what?s in store, but Rufus, a keen young journalist eager to get himself noticed, has no idea what he?s let himself in for. Journeying into the oil-rich regions of South Africa, where militants rule and the currency dealt in is the lives of hostages, Rufus soon finds himself acting as intermediary between editor, husband, captive and soldier. As he follows the trail of the missing woman, the love for the ?story? becomes about much more than just uncovering her whereabouts, and instead becomes a mission to seek out and expose the truth. In a cruel twist of fate, Rufus finds himself taking on Zaq?s role much more literally than he ever anticipated, and in the midst of a seemingly endless, harrowing war, he learns that truth can often be a bitter pill to swallow . . .


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Publisher: ePenguin (August 5, 2010)
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Language: English
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Oil on Water: Tankers, Pirates and the Rise of China ~ Paul French

Painting with Water-Soluble Oils ~ Sean Dye

Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia ~ Toby Craig Jones

Bread & Water, Wine & Oil: An Orthodox Christian Experience of God ~ Meletios Webber

From the Beginning to Baptism: Scientific and Sacred Stories of Water, Oil, and Fire ~ Linda Gibler

Oil, Water, and Climate: An Introduction ~ Catherine Gautier

No Experience Required! - Water-Soluble Oils ~ Mary Deutschman

Oil: The Ocean (HT244) ~ Irene Lumgair


Robert Warren's Guide to Painting Water Scenes ~ Robert

Harvard Book Store Top 100 books.

These are the Harvard Book Store staff's favorite 100 books.

1. A People’s History of the United States
   Howard Zinn
2. The Wind Up Bird Chronicles
   Haruki Murakami
3. The New York Trilogy
   Paul Auster
4. The Crying of Lot 49
   Thomas Pynchon
5. Lord of the Rings
   J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Jane Eyre
   Charlotte Bronte
7. Lolita
   Vladimir Nabokov
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four
   George Orwell
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude
   Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. The Catcher in the Rye
    J.D. Salinger
11. Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
12. On the Road Kerouac
13. Alice in Wonderland Carrol
14. Brothers Karamozov Dostoevsky
15. The Age of Innocence Wharton
16. Don Quixote Cervantes
17. Perfume Suskind
18. Ulysses Joyce
19. Anna Karenina Tolstoy
20. Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
21. Cry the Beloved Country Paton
22. Dracula Stoker
23. The Eagles Die Marek
24. Emotionally Weird Atkinson
25. The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood
26. Infinite Jest Wallace
27. Kitchen Yoshimoto
28. London Fields Amis
29. Moise and the World of Reason Williams
30. Movie Wars Rosenbaum
31. Paradise Lost Milton
32. Persuasion Austen
33. Tortilla Curtain Boyle
34. Visions of Excess Bataille
35. Where the Wild Things Are Sendak
36. Wild Sheep Chase Murakami
37. Beloved Morrison
38. Counterfeiters Gide
39. The Bell Jar Plath
40. Blind Owl Hedayat
41. Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
42. The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas
43. Dealing With Dragons Wrede
44. The Earthsea Trilogy Le Guin
45. The Ecology of Fear Davis
46. Franny and Zooey Salinger
47. History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides
48. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez
49. Kabuki: Circle of Blood Mack & Jiang
50. Of Human Bondage Maugham
51. The Satanic Verses Rushdie
52. The Sheltering Sky Bowles
53. Tristam Shandy Sterne
54. Well of Loneliness Hall
55. Wicked Pavilion Powell
56. Collected Stories of V.S. Pritchett
57. War and Peace Tolstoy
58. Babel 17 Delany
59. Dora Freud
60. Empire Falls Russo
61. For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway
62. Girl in Landscape Letham
63. Goodbye to All That Graves
64. Ham on Rye Bukowski
65. Like Life Lorrie Moore
66. Mao II Delillo
67. Random Family Leblanc
68. Revolutionary Road Yates
69. The Stranger Camus
70. Humboldt’s Gift Bellow
71. White Noise Delillo
72. Atlas Shrugged Rand
73. Bastard Out of Carolina Allison
74. Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills Bukowski
75. Delta of Venus Nin
76. Fast Food Nation Schlosser
77. Ficciones Borges
78. Go Ask Alice Anonymous
79. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams
80. Iliad Homer
81. On Photography Sontag
82. Republic Plato
83. Shockproof Sydney Skate Meaker
84. Society of the Spectacle Debord
85. Strangers in Paradise Moore
86. The Sun Also Rises Hemingway
87. A Wrinkle In Time L’Engle
88. Dubliners Joyce
89. The Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut
90. No Logo Klein
91. Aeneid Virgil
92. Ariel Plath
93. Charlotte’s Web White
94. Curious George Learns the Alphabet Rey
95. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Paley
96. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers
97. Henry VIII Shakespeare
98. I, Claudius Graves
99. The Lost Continent Bryson
100. Master and Margarita Bulgakov

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12 novels by America’s bestselling fiction author of all time find new home at AuthorHouse

Rediscovering a Classic


12 novels by America’s bestselling fiction author of all time find new home at AuthorHouse


“Nobody on the bestseller list writes for money. The people who write for money never make it to the bestseller list,” wrote Tony Parsons in a 2007 Spectator article, adding “Robbins wrote the best books he could, and he wrote them because he had to.”

In his heyday, Harold Robbins was known as the writer who brought the sexy blockbuster paperback to the mainstream and to the screen—more than a dozen of his novels have been adapted for the screen. From the release of his debut novel in 1948 until his death in 1997, Robbins wrote 24 novels that sold more than 750 million copies worldwide.

Though recently out of print, the following Robbins novels have been reissued in hardback, paperback and electronic format: Dreams Die First; Goodbye, Janette; Where Love Has Gone; The Inheritors; The Lonely Lady; The Dream Merchants; Memories of Another Day; Never Love a Stranger; The Adventurers; Descent from Xanadu; Spellbinder; and The Pirate.

The decision to give readers the chance to rediscover Robbins’ classic works came from his widow Jann, who chose AuthorHouse for many reasons.

“I’ve been watching the market for the last three years, and hasn’t publishing changed in those years,” Jann told Publishers Weekly, according to a July 2010 article. “I just saw that the big five [houses]—or however many there are—are great, but they don’t give the support that I think is needed, especially for a classic book to come out and be rediscovered.”

Making Robbins’ novels compatible with modern technology was another reason Jann said she chose AuthorHouse, which includes digital formatting or eBook development with all publishing options.

“I’m an avid reader of eBooks, and Harold would have loved the idea of making his books available digitally,” said Jann Robbins. “His books spoke to all people, and by increasing the ways we can reach readers, I believe we’re carrying on his legacy.”