SweetBean '25: Y2K...Quarter Centennial!?

Twenty-five? TWENTY-FIVE!? That's right, for the Y2K Beanstack challenge we've curated a stunningly niche list of recommendations for you - books with "Twenty-Five" or "Quarter" in the title.

Updated December 30, 2024
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Fire in the ashes : twenty-five years among the poorest children in America
Kozol, Jonathan.
Paper Book
   In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their...
The destructionists : the twenty-five year crack-up of the Republican Party
Milbank, Dana
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold on to political power by any means necessary, by a hugely popular Washington Post political columnist "A thorough and scathing account of how the Republican Party...
Look alive twenty-five
Evanovich, Janet
Paper Book
Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. There's nothing like a good deli, and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World-famous for its pastrami, cole slaw, and...
The prize winner of Defiance, Ohio : how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less
Ryan, Terry.
Paper Book
"Angela's Ashes" meets "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" in this inspirational, true story of an enterprising mother who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the '50s and '60s. "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio" is the biography Evelyn Ryan, whose joy...
The prisoner of cell 25
Evans, Richard Paul.
Paper Book
The electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling first installment of the action-packed Michael Vey series from author Richard Paul Evans. My name is Michael Vey, and the story I'm about to tell you is strange. Very strange. It's my story. To everyone at...
The quarter-life breakthrough : invent your own path, find meaningful work, and build a life that matters
Poswolsky, Smiley
Paper Book
An empowering and insightful self-help book for Gen Z young adults to find passion, purpose, and success in their careers How do you actually find meaning in the workplace? How do you find work that makes your heart sing, creates impact, and pays your rent? After...
No quarter : the three lives of Jimmy Page
Power, Martin
Paper Book
Using new and exclusive interviews Martin Power tells the full story of Jimmy Page's long career. Starting with the early Sixties session scene when the teenage Page contributed to recordings by The Who, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones and many more, the author goes on to explore Page's time in The...
Beat to quarters
Forester, C. S.
CD
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water...
Five quarters of the orange
Harris, Joanne
Paper Book
The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orange represents Harris's most complex and sophisticated work yet -- a novel in which darkness and fierce joy come together to create an unforgettable story. When Framboise Simon returns to a small...
The mystery of three quarters : the new Hercule Poirot mystery
Hannah, Sophie
Paper Book
The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot--the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket--returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930. "We Agatha Christie fans read her...

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