diff --git a/Lib/Search/BookSearch.php b/Lib/Search/BookSearch.php
index 96ba8da..d9e1d65 100644
--- a/Lib/Search/BookSearch.php
+++ b/Lib/Search/BookSearch.php
@@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ class BookSearch
         );
 
         $this->client = new \SolrClient($options);
-        $this->query = new \SolrQuery();
+        $this->query = new \SolrDisMaxQuery();
+
+        // use the Extended DisMax Query parser
+        $this->query->useEDisMaxQueryParser();
 
         // most options like search fields, sorting, etc are already set
         // as default in the Solr config and thus should be set only on a
@@ -98,7 +101,7 @@ class BookSearch
         $this->query->setRows($count);
 
         try {
-            $results = $this->client->query($this->query)->getResponse();
+            $results = $this->client->query($this->query)->getArrayResponse();
         } catch(\SolrClientException $e) {
             throw new WebException ("SolrError", $e->getMessage(), -700);
         }
@@ -106,7 +109,7 @@ class BookSearch
         $books = array();
         if(isset($results['response']['docs']) && is_array($results['response']['docs'])) {
             foreach($results['response']['docs'] as $r) {
-                $books[''.$r->id] = (array) $r;
+                $books[$r['id']] = $r;
             }
         }
 
@@ -124,14 +127,14 @@ class BookSearch
         $spelling = array();
         if(isset($results['spellcheck']['suggestions'])) {
             foreach($results['spellcheck']['suggestions'] as $s) {
-                $spelling[] = (array) $s;
+                $spelling[] = $s;
             }
         }
 
         $facets = array();
         if(isset($results['facet_counts']['facet_fields'])) {
             foreach($results['facet_counts']['facet_fields'] as $f => $d) {
-                $facets[$f] = (array) $d;
+                $facets[$f] = $d;
             }
         }
 
@@ -150,14 +153,22 @@ class BookSearch
      * Return a list of suggested titles for the given text
      * @param string $text
      * @return array
+     * @throws WebException
      */
     public function suggest($text) {
         $this->query->setQuery($text);
         $this->query->setStart(0);
         $this->query->setRows(0);
         $this->query->setParam('suggest', 'true');
+        $this->query->setParam('facet', 'false');
+        $this->query->setParam('hl', 'false');
+        $this->query->setParam('spellcheck', 'false');
 
-        $results = $this->client->query($this->query)->getResponse();
+        try {
+            $results = $this->client->query($this->query)->getArrayResponse();
+        } catch(\SolrClientException $e) {
+            throw new WebException ("SolrError", $e->getMessage(), -700);
+        }
 
         $text = mb_strtolower ($text, 'UTF-8');
 
@@ -165,14 +176,14 @@ class BookSearch
         if(isset($results['suggest'])) {
             foreach($results['suggest'] as $suggester) {
                 foreach($suggester[$text]['suggestions'] as $s) {
-                    $s->term = strip_tags($s->term);
+                    $s['term'] = strip_tags($s['term']);
 
-                    $pos = strpos(mb_strtolower($s->term, 'UTF-8'), $text);
+                    $pos = strpos(mb_strtolower($s['term'], 'UTF-8'), $text);
                     if($pos !== false) {
                         // increase weight of proposition that have the words at the beginning
-                        $s->weight += (int) ((1 - $pos / strlen($s->term)) * 100);
+                        $s['weight'] += (int) ((1 - $pos / strlen($s['term'])) * 100);
                     }
-                    $suggestions[$s->term] = (array) $s;
+                    $suggestions[$s['term']] = (array) $s;
                 }
             }
         }