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Cactus Books
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Nobody Hugs a Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cactus)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,978 ratings — published 2019
The Christmassy Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cactus)
avg rating 4.05 — 357 ratings — published 2023
The Ministry of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cactus)
avg rating 3.57 — 220,566 ratings — published 2024
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cactus)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,458,408 ratings — published 1937
Galápagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cactus)
avg rating 3.87 — 88,768 ratings — published 1985
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cactus)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,505 ratings — published 1959
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cactus)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,078,790 ratings — published 1932
The Ballad of Cactus Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cactus)
avg rating 4.03 — 38 ratings — published
Park Scientists: Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in America's Own Backyard – A Science Book About Citizen Scientists and Nature for Children (Ages 10-12) (Scientists in the Field)
by (shelved 2 times as cactus)
avg rating 4.11 — 87 ratings — published
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life of a Cactus #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cactus)
avg rating 4.28 — 37,223 ratings — published 2017
Cactus Hotel (Rise and Shine)
by (shelved 2 times as cactus)
avg rating 4.33 — 503 ratings — published 1991
Clementina's Cactus (Picture Books)
by (shelved 2 times as cactus)
avg rating 3.74 — 151 ratings — published 1982
The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 3.87 — 11,251 ratings — published 1971
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,300 ratings — published
Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.21 — 29 ratings — published 2011
Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 3.54 — 26 ratings — published 2009
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.07 — 456 ratings — published 2016
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.06 — 776 ratings — published 2001
The History of Middle-earth: Part Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.49 — 217 ratings — published 2003
The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.17 — 291 ratings — published 1994
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,449 ratings — published 2014
Grandmaster Repertoire 1.d4 Volume Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.63 — 35 ratings — published 2009
The English Opening Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.50 — 30 ratings — published 2009
The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 3.77 — 603 ratings — published 2007
Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,013 ratings — published 2010
Glass, Irony and God (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,311 ratings — published 1995
Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,612 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.13 — 805,321 ratings — published 2010
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.44 — 460 ratings — published 1956
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,070 ratings — published 2011
Secrets of Rook Endings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published 1993
عبقرية اللغة (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 3.68 — 574 ratings — published 2004
The Art of the Middle Game (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.04 — 105 ratings — published 1961
Art of Attack in Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.27 — 573 ratings — published 1963
Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.33 — 129 ratings — published 1936
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,017,116 ratings — published 1979
Strike Like Judit!: The Winning Tactics of Chess Legend Judit Polgar (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published
Understanding The Lord Of The Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism – The Definitive Collection: Fifty Years of Essays on Middle-earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,097 ratings — published 2004
Pump Up Your Rating (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.43 — 70 ratings — published 2013
Garry Kasparov on Fischer: My Great Predecessors, Part IV (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.42 — 261 ratings — published 2005
Who Owns Native Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 3.99 — 88 ratings — published 2003
Dreaming the End of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.24 — 103 ratings — published 2006
First Peoples In Canada (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.10 — 63 ratings — published 2004
Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1983
My System & Chess Praxis: His Landmark Classics in One Edition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.33 — 58 ratings — published
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cactus)
avg rating 4.38 — 470 ratings — published 2003
“I can see why people drink booze, because boos are a little too dry to satisfy thirst. It would be like chugging a cactus, and while that has enough water for a duck to swim in, it's the kind of thing that's best served to politicians.”
― Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
― Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“He unlaced his arms and took a step forward. "You hurt?"
"Not badly." She tried to smile, but her lips only curved on one side. "My main problem is that I'm stuck to a cactus."
(...)
"How'd you manage to get tangled up with a cactus?" J.T. crouched beside her and started extricating her from the prickly plant.
"Well, believe it or not, I was on my way to apologize to you when a prairie-dog hole jumped up and grabbed my shoe heel.”
― A Tailor-Made Bride
"Not badly." She tried to smile, but her lips only curved on one side. "My main problem is that I'm stuck to a cactus."
(...)
"How'd you manage to get tangled up with a cactus?" J.T. crouched beside her and started extricating her from the prickly plant.
"Well, believe it or not, I was on my way to apologize to you when a prairie-dog hole jumped up and grabbed my shoe heel.”
― A Tailor-Made Bride















