Adam's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:31:56 -0700 60 Adam's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Sexe et mensonges: La vie sexuelle au Maroc]]> 33180755 La vie sexuelle au Maroc.

Sexe et mensonges, c’est la parole, forte et sincère, d’une jeunesse marocaine bâillonnée dans un monde arabe où le sexe se consomme pourtant comme une marchandise.

Les femmes que Leïla Slimani a rencontrées lui ont confié sans fard ni tabou leur vie sexuelle, entre soumission et transgression. Car, au Maroc, la loi punit et proscrit toute forme de relations sexuelles hors mariage, tout comme l’homosexualité et la prostitution.

Dans cette société fondée sur l’hypocrisie, la jeune fille et la femme n’ont qu’une alternative : vierge ou épouse.

Sexe et mensonges est une confrontation essentielle avec les démons intimes du Maroc et un appel vibrant à la liberté universelle d’être, d’aimer et de désirer.]]> 192 Leïla Slimani 2352045681 Adam 3 3.93 2017 Sexe et mensonges: La vie sexuelle au Maroc
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]]> <![CDATA[Anxiety: Panicking about Panic: A Powerful, Self-Help Guide for Those Suffering From an Anxiety or Panic Disorder]]> 22251998 133 Joshua Fletcher Adam 0 to-read 4.34 2014 Anxiety: Panicking about Panic: A Powerful, Self-Help Guide for Those Suffering From an Anxiety or Panic Disorder
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]]> <![CDATA[A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)]]> 13496
Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.]]> 835 George R.R. Martin Adam 0 currently-reading 4.45 1996 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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]]> كبرياء التاريخ في مأزق 17161340
وأما الزعيم فهو الذي يظل يبكي في السوق ويطلب الرحمة ويتحدث عن حبه وإخلاصه لها وصدق أحزانه ودموعه, ويهتف بنخوتها ويبالغ في مغازلتها حتى ترق له وتدعي الإيمان والاتباع له, كأنها بذلك تحاول التصدق عليه والفرار من إلحاحه والرثاء لدموعه واسترحامه والمجاملة لنفاقه وكذبه عليها باسمها!.

وأما الشجاعة فهي أن تكون جباناً جداً حتى لا تستطيع أن تجد على عصيان تعاليمك وتاريخك وطغاتك, حينما يدفعون بك ان تقتل نفسك, وتقتل أيضاً أبرياء مغلوبين مثلك, دفع بهم جبنهم إلى أن يكونوا شجعاناً على قتلك وقتل أنفسهم, لأنهم ليسوا شجعاناً على أن يعصوا تعاليمهم وتاريخهم وطغاتهم!

وأما الطبيعة فهي ذلك "اللقيط" الضخم الذي لا يعرف من جنى عليه, فهو المجني عليه بلا جان, والجاني بلا جناية

وأما الثائر فهو الذي يثور على الناس بحجة الثورة من أجلهم ويسلبهم الحرية والكرامة والذكاء والرخاء والفضيلة والسلام بحجة التسامي بهم؟

إن الثوار والمعلمين والزعماء هم جهاز الاستفراغ الذي تستفرغ به الجماهير أحزانها وعداواتها وفحشها وغباءها, وتستفرغها على نفسها وعلى ما حولها وعلى ما تمارس من مذاهب ومعتقدات وآلهة وبشر"]]> 380 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.68 2001 كبرياء التاريخ في مأزق
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]]> صحراء بلا أبعاد 6488524 286 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.85 2003 صحراء بلا أبعاد
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]]> <![CDATA[الإنسان يعصي .. لهذا يصنع الحضارات]]> 10600338 368 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.66 2008 الإنسان يعصي .. لهذا يصنع الحضارات
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]]> الثورة الوهابية 9966952 284 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 2.66 1936 الثورة الوهابية
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]]> أيها العار إن المجد لك 6184103
عربي يريد أن يكون كل ذلك... إذن هل يوجد أشد غربة أو شذوذاً منه؟.. وفي تفسير هل يوجد أشد ضعفاً وضياعاً منه؟ أجل، هل يوجد أشد اغتراباً أو شذوذاً أو ضعفاً وهزيمة من عربي يعيش في العالم العربي ويريد أن يكون ذاته فقط وصوته فقط ذاك ما يراه القصيبي ولتلك الأسباب سطر كلماتها في "أيها العار إن المجد لك".]]> 492 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.73 2001 أيها العار إن المجد لك
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]]> هذا الكون ما ضميره 17161300 "لقد ظلت الشمس - مجد هذا الكون الذي نراه - في وقفتها الطويلة الخرساء, زفي دورتها الغبية المتسكعة, تعرض بإفتضاح جسدها المزخرف, مثلما تفعل أجهل غانية رخيصة مستهترة, وتبدد طاقاتها الجزافية التي لا تعرف كيف ولا لماذا ملكتها بلا حساب, أو ذكاء,أو تدبير. وتواجه هذا الكون, والناس, والآلهة, واالحشرات, والفراغ الرهيب العقيم دون أن ترفض, أو تغضب, أو تبكي, أو تحزن, أو تمرض, أو تقاوم, أو تسأل: لماذا أنا, إلى أين أساق, من فعل بي ذلك. لمصلحة من, ما الهدف, ما البداية, ما النهاية, متى الاستراحة, من أين؟"
لماذا لم يرفض الكون نفسه, لماذا لم يمت انتحاراً, أو اشئزازاً مما يمارس ويواجه ويرى؟
لماذا لم يمت حزناً على المتألمين والمقهورين, وعلى الباحثين عن العزاء؟
إنه لم يفعل, لأنه لايحتج.]]> 340 عبد الله القصيمي 6144040110 Adam 0 to-read 3.88 2001 هذا الكون ما ضميره
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]]> العالم ليس عقلاً 7870922 580 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.81 العالم ليس عقلاً
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]]> يا كل العالم لماذا أتيت؟ 13374545
ويل لعقل يعيش في غير زمانه ومكانه ولقلب يخفق بين قلوب خامدة.. ويل لمن يرى بكل معانيه كل ما تراه عيناه. وهل وجد هذا الرائي؟

ويل لفكر يرفض هو أن يكون كاذباً أو جباناً ويرفضون بل ويعاقبون هم أن يكون صادقاً أو شجاعاً..

ويل لعربي ترفض أو لا تستطيع جبهته وقامته السجود والانحناء لكل الأوثان والوثنيات العربية..

أليس كل شيء في التاريح العربي حتى أقبح الأشياء وأردؤها حتى الثورات العربية حتى الثوار العرب وحتى المتنبي وأمثاله من صناع العار العربي قد تحول إلى أوثان ووثنيات.. إلى أقسى الأوثان والوثنيات..
أليست كل الأوثان والوثنيات قد تجمعت في التاريخ العربي.. العربي .. والعربي الإسلامي؟

إن الإنسان المثل الذي يجب أن يكون هو زنديق العقل.. قديس النفس والأخلاق.. هوالعاصي المتمرد المحارب بتفكره.. المؤمن التقي الورع بسلوكه ونياته.. وليس العكس.

فهل تلد الأحشاء أو الأصلاب أو الواهب العربية هذا الانسان المثل؟
هل تلده تقوى الإنسان العربي أو يلده تدينه أو إيمانه أو قرآنه أو كعبته؟
أو يلده أنبياؤه أو اتقياؤه أو فقهاؤه أو شعراؤه أو خلفاؤه الراشدون أو غير الراشدين؟ هل يلده عدنانه أو قحطانه أو الفاقد لأنسابه وانتسابه؟]]> 656 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.75 2008 يا كل العالم لماذا أتيت؟
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]]> الكون يحاكم الإله 15845803
ويستعمل بدلا من ذلك تعبيرا أحاديا هو (الإله) الذي يأتي أحيانا بصيغة الجمع أيضا (الآلهة) وبمكن أستعماله لجميع أشكال ألالهة في مختلف العقائد، أو أنه يستعمل كلمة أكثر عمومية هي الألوهية . أما في كتاباته المتاخرة في الثمانينات فقد سقطت هذه المحظورات أيضا وأخذ يستعمل بصورة متزايدة كلمة الله مباشرة . أضافة الى ذلك بدأ أيضا ينادي الأله مباشرة :(يا إله – يا إلهي – يا الله) فقد تحولت الشكوى من صورة الإله في أذهان المتدينين الى شجار مع الأله

يحاكم القصيمي الله في كتابه الكون يحاكم الإله، والكتاب وثيقة نادرة لهذا التنازع الداخلي الشخصي جدا ... هذا الشجار مع الإله مسألة قديمة في الفلسفة العربية والتصوف الأسلامي. توجيه الأنتقاد الى مسؤولية الإله عن أحوال الدنيا والشك في رحمته نجدها عند أبن الراوندي و أبن سينا والمعري. وعند فريد الدين العطار وغيره من المتصوفة يتجسد هذا الشجار في شخصية المجنون الذي يتمتع بسبب جنونه بحرية أكبر من الأشخاص العاديين لمناقشة الأله وأنتقاده ولعل القصيمي أستعمل نوعا من حرية المجانين بأن وضع أقواله التي تحطم الصور في سياقات تبدو غريبة وعبثية]]> 638 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.61 1981 الكون يحاكم الإله
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]]> لئلا يعود هارون الرشيد 6481617
ينتقد العرب من خلال قضايا كثر كعقلية الرفض، والموقف من إسرائيل.

يحتوى الكتاب أيضا رسائل مقالية هجومية بين القصيمي ومحمد جواد مغنية، ورسائل من الشاعر المعروف أنسي الحاج يدعم فيها القصي، ومقابلة أدونيس للقصيمي، ودراسة صلاح الدين المنجد للقصيمي ورد القصيمي عليها.]]> 191 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.50 2006 لئلا يعود هارون الرشيد
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]]> عاشق لعار التاريخ 6251813 287 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.41 2005 عاشق لعار التاريخ
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]]> العرب ظاهرة صوتية 6251849 720 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.62 2006 العرب ظاهرة صوتية
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]]> يكذبون كي يروا الإله جميلاً 7913735
يجدف القصيمي عكس التيار في كتاباته، يقرأ الإنسان عكس حريته وعكس مبادئه وعكس فطرته. يحاول أن يشكل فكر إنسان من عدم. وبعبارة أخرى ومن خلال تجاربه الحياتية المزروعة بالتناقضات، خلق حرية تذيل الإنسان وفكره قبله.]]> 144 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.41 2001 يكذبون كي يروا الإله جميلاً
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]]> هذي هي الأغلال 5150131 من الجائز أن أكون قد أخطأت أو بالغت في بعض المواضع, ولكن أمرين يجب ألا يقع عندهما خلاف ولايسوء فيهما فهم؛ أحدهما أني كنت مخلصًا في جميع ما كتبت, وأني ما أردت إلا خدمة الحق وخدمة أمتنا العزيزة. وليكن هذا شفيعًا لي عند من يخالفني في بعض المسائل أو بعض الشروح والتفصيلات. وثانيهما أني لم أحاول إلا أن أكون مؤمنًا بالله ورسله وكتبه واليوم الآخر ...]]> 360 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.68 1946 هذي هي الأغلال
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]]> أيها العقل من رآك 6251841
فهو صراخ يقول كل شيء ولا يقول شيئا، يخاطب الجميع ولا يخاطب أحدا. إنه الوجه والقفا، ثائر ومتلائم، ملتزم وغير ملتزم، بريء وفتاك.

مسكون بشحنة الاحتجاج، متناقض ومنطقين شعري وعقلاني، معتم وصاف، كأنه الرمل وقطر المطر.]]> 329 عبد الله القصيمي Adam 0 to-read 3.72 1963 أيها العقل من رآك
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]]> Shuggie Bain 52741293 Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.

Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good--her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits--all the family has to live on--on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs.

Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her--even her beloved Shuggie.

A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of Edouard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell.]]> 430 Douglas Stuart 0802148042 Adam 0 to-read 4.28 2020 Shuggie Bain
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]]> Young Mungo 58891551
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars—Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic—and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future.

Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.]]> 390 Douglas Stuart 0802159559 Adam 0 to-read 4.37 2022 Young Mungo
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]]> <![CDATA[Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)]]> 44421460 What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]> 213 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529029589 Adam 0 to-read 3.63 2015 Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever]]> 55972096
A single document poorly designed by one single clerk in one single county changed the outcome of a presidential election and led directly to a major war.
A soldier accidentally kicks a helmet off of the top of a wall and causes an empire to collapse.
A small mechanical device several inches long fails to function, which changes the outcome of WWII and leads to the death of millions of people.
A man fails to gather his army in time to defend against an attack because of the temptation of opium and a young slave woman.
And many more!]]> 457 Jared Knott 1735972916 Adam 0 to-read 4.01 Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
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]]> Tao Te Ching 67896 A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket Library edition.

Written more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching, or -The Classic of the Way and Its Virtue, - is one of the true classics of the world of spiritual literature.

Traditionally attributed to the legendary -Old Master, - Lao Tzu, the Tao Teh Ching teaches that the qualities of the enlightened sage or ideal ruler are identical with those of the perfected individual.

Today, Lao Tzu's words are as useful in mastering the arts of leadership in business and politics as they are in developing a sense of balance and harmony in everyday life. To follow the Tao or Way of all things and realize their true nature is to embody humility, spontaneity, and generosity.

John C. H. Wu has done a remarkable job of rendering this subtle text into English while retaining the freshness and depth of the original. A jurist and scholar, Dr. Wu was a recognized authority on Taoism and the translator of several Taoist and Zen texts and of Chinese poetry.

This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series. The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts.

The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.]]> 107 Lao Tzu 0679724346 Adam 0 currently-reading 4.28 -350 Tao Te Ching
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]]> انتفاضات في زمن الذلقراطية 13633419 262 المهدي المنجرة Adam 0 currently-reading 3.99 2002 انتفاضات في زمن الذلقراطية
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]]> <![CDATA[Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones]]> 40121378 Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:
- Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);
- Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;
- Design your environment to make success easier;
- Get back on track when you fall off course;
...and much more.

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.]]> 319 James Clear Adam 0 currently-reading 4.31 2018 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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]]> Kafka on the Shore 239775146 Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.

Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky.

There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle - yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.]]> 467 Haruki Murakami 1400079276 Adam 0 currently-reading 4.04 2002 Kafka on the Shore
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]]> The Night Circus 9361589
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.]]> 506 Erin Morgenstern Adam 0 currently-reading 3.99 2011 The Night Circus
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]]> A Little Life 22822858
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.]]> 736 Hanya Yanagihara 0385539258 Adam 0 currently-reading 4.24 2015 A Little Life
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]]> الفيل الأزرق 16031620
في "8 غرب"، القسم الذي يقرّر مَصير مُرتكبي الجرائم، يُقابل صديقاً قديماً يحمل إليه ماضياً جاهد طويلاً لينساه، ويصبح مَصيره فجأة بين يدي يحيى..

تعصِف المفاجآت بيحيى وتنقلب حياته رأسًا على عقب، ليصبح ما بدأ كمحاولة لاكتشاف حقيقة صديقه، رحلة مثيرة لاكتشاف نفسه.. أو ما تبقى منها..

يأخذنا أحمد مراد في روايته الثالثة إلى كواليس عالم غريب قضى عامين في دراسة تفاصيله، رحلة مثيرة مستكشف فيها أعمق وأغرب خبايا النفس البشرية..]]> 386 Ahmed Mourad 9770931543 Adam 0 to-read 3.79 2012 الفيل الأزرق
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]]> <![CDATA[The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)]]> 15931
Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories...until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again.

Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape.

Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, The Notebook establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters.

"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."

And so begins one of the most poignant and compelling love stories you will ever read...The Notebook]]> 214 Nicholas Sparks 0553816713 Adam 0 to-read 4.07 1996 The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)]]> 23807
Dr. Lecter is a former psychiatrist with a grisly history, unusual tastes, and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of "The Silence of the Lambs"—an ingenious, masterfully written book and an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.]]> 421 Thomas Harris Adam 0 to-read 4.26 1988 The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)]]> 50365 A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.]]> 1474 Vikram Seth 0060786523 Adam 0 to-read 4.11 1993 A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 129915654 400 Jane Austen Adam 0 currently-reading 4.35 1813 Pride and Prejudice
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]]> <![CDATA[Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson]]> 6900
Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?

Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.]]> 210 Mitch Albom Adam 0 to-read 4.21 1997 Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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]]> The Kite Runner 17165596 The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.

A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.

The 10th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller and international classic loved by millions of readers.

]]> 371 Khaled Hosseini Adam 0 to-read 4.46 2003 The Kite Runner
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]]> Essay Writing Guide 40031855 Jordan B. Peterson Adam 0 currently-reading 4.15 2014 Essay Writing Guide
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain]]> 627206 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. Truly The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes:


the very latest developments in brain research
new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education
instruction on self-expression through drawing
an updated section on using color
detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving]]> 291 Betty Edwards 0874774241 Adam 0 currently-reading 3.87 1979 The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
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]]> The Wings of the Dove 124272 The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction, “The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.”]]> 741 Henry James 0812967194 Adam 0 to-read 3.81 1902 The Wings of the Dove
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]]> Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1) 194618 455 Winston Graham 0330344951 Adam 0 to-read 4.08 1945 Ross Poldark (Poldark, #1)
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]]> The Painted Veil 99664 The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful, but love-starved Kitty Fane.

When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.

The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.]]> 246 W. Somerset Maugham 0307277771 Adam 0 to-read 3.96 1925 The Painted Veil
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]]> Northanger Abbey 414332 here and here.

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to the joys of Gothic romances, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's house, Northanger Abbey. There, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue, Catherine comes to imagine terrible crimes committed by General Tilney, risking the loss of Henry's affection, and has to learn the difference between fiction and reality, false friends and true. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's works.]]> 254 Jane Austen Adam 0 to-read 3.78 1817 Northanger Abbey
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]]> The Mill on the Floss 20564 'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?'

Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family's worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot's most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.

In this edition writer and critic A.S. Byatt provides full explanatory notes and an introduction relating Mill on the Floss to George Eliot's own life and times.

Edited with an introduction and notes by A.S. BYATT]]> 579 George Eliot 0141439629 Adam 0 to-read 3.83 1860 The Mill on the Floss
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]]> Persuasion 2156

When Captain Wentworth returns, wealthy and successful, their paths cross again. Amidst the intricate social dynamics of Regency England, Anne must navigate her lingering feelings for him while grappling with the pressures of family, society, and her own sense of self-worth.


Austen’s masterful exploration of resilience, maturity, and enduring love makes Persuasion a deeply moving and timeless classic. With its sharp social commentary and compelling characters, this novel is a treasure for lovers of romance, wit, and literary brilliance.]]> 249 Jane Austen 0192802631 Adam 0 to-read 4.15 1817 Persuasion
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]]> The Lady of Shalott 724371 She knows not what the curse may be...

'The Lady of Shalott' is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson. Inspired by the short prose text 'La Damigella di Scalot' from the 13th-century, it tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot. It is one of Tennyson's most famous and memorable works, with its lucid medieval romanticism, as well as enigmatic symbolism.

Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892), invariably known as Alfred Lord Tennyson, was born in Somersby, UK. At the age of 18, he published his first book, 'Poems by Two Brothers' with his brother, later followed by 'Poems Chiefly Lyrical' (1830). In 1850, Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate and married his childhood friend, Emily Sellwood. In 1884, as a great favorite of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was given the title of Baron Tennyson of Aldworth, the first Englishman to be granted such a high rank solely for his literary faculty. Tennyson continued to write poetry throughout his life. He died in 1892 at the age of 83, to be then buried in Westminster Abbey.]]> 40 Alfred Tennyson 0192723715 Adam 0 to-read 4.18 1833 The Lady of Shalott
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]]> The Collector 243705 283 John Fowles Adam 0 to-read 3.98 1963 The Collector
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]]> Daisy Miller 16204 164 Henry James 1592243002 Adam 0 to-read 3.38 1878 Daisy Miller
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]]> I Capture the Castle 31122 408 Dodie Smith 0312181108 Adam 0 to-read 3.98 1948 I Capture the Castle
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]]> Eugene Onegin 27822 Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other
characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original.]]> 240 Alexander Pushkin Adam 0 to-read 4.12 1831 Eugene Onegin
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]]> <![CDATA[Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)]]> 7260188 My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.

It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss.

The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.]]> 390 Suzanne Collins 0439023513 Adam 0 to-read 4.12 2010 Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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]]> The Taming of the Shrew 47021
Padua holds many suitors for the hand of fair Bianca, but Bianca may not be married until her spinster sister, Kate, is wed. Could any man be rash enough to take on Kate?

The witty adventurer Petruchio undertakes the task. While he sets about transforming Kate from foul-tempered termagant to loving wife, young Lucentio and his clever servant, Tranio, plot to win Bianca.

Frances Barber and Roger Allam are Kate and Petruchio. Lucentio is played by Alan Cox.]]> 291 William Shakespeare 074347757X Adam 0 to-read 3.75 1593 The Taming of the Shrew
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]]> <![CDATA[New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)]]> 49041 There is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13 9780316160193 here.

I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.

I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING NIGHTMARES, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.

FOR BELLA SWAN THERE IS ONE THING more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning....

LEGIONS OF READERS ENTRANCED BY THE New York Times bestseller Twilight are hungry for the continuing story of star-crossed lovers Bell and Edward. In New Moon, Stephanie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural spin. passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.]]> 563 Stephenie Meyer 0316160199 Adam 0 to-read 3.62 2006 New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Villette (Penguin Popular Classics)]]> 58669 Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey—a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.]]> 507 Charlotte Brontë 014062077X Adam 0 to-read 3.82 1853 Villette (Penguin Popular Classics)
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]]> Vanity Fair 5797 0141439831.

A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.]]> 867 William Makepeace Thackeray Adam 0 to-read 3.80 1847 Vanity Fair
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]]> The Sorrows of Young Werther 16640 149 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0812969901 Adam 0 to-read 3.72 1774 The Sorrows of Young Werther
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]]> The Little Mermaid 132391 48 Hans Christian Andersen Adam 0 to-read 3.98 1836 The Little Mermaid
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]]> Madonna in a Fur Coat 27793819 The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time.



'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.'

A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul.



'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla Özkirimli, writer and literary historian]]> 168 Sabahattin Ali 014198127X Adam 0 to-read 4.15 1943 Madonna in a Fur Coat
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)]]> 1232 The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets—an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.]]> 487 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Adam 4 4.26 2001 The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Labyrinth of the Spirits (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #4)]]> 37954156 In this unforgettable final volume of Ruiz Zafón’s cycle of novels set in the universe of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, beautiful and enigmatic Alicia Gris, with the help of the Sempere family, uncovers one of the most shocking conspiracies in all Spanish history.

Nine-year-old Alicia lost her parents during the Spanish Civil War when the Nacionales (the fascists) savagely bombed Barcelona in 1938. Twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars of that violent and terrifying time. Weary of her work as investigator for Spain’s secret police in Madrid, a job she has held for more than a decade, the twenty-nine-year old plans to move on. At the insistence of her boss, Leandro Montalvo, she remains to solve one last case: the mysterious disappearance of Spain’s Minister of Culture, Mauricio Valls.

With her partner, the intimidating policeman Juan Manuel Vargas, Alicia discovers a possible clue—a rare book by the author Victor Mataix hidden in Valls’ office in his Madrid mansion. Valls was the director of the notorious Montjuic Prison in Barcelona during World War II where several writers were imprisoned, including David Martín and Victor Mataix. Traveling to Barcelona on the trail of these writers, Alicia and Vargas meet with several booksellers, including Juan Sempere, who knew her parents.

As Alicia and Vargas come closer to finding Valls, they uncover a tangled web of kidnappings and murders tied to the Franco regime, whose corruption is more widespread and horrifying than anyone imagined. Alicia’s courageous and uncompromising search for the truth puts her life in peril. Only with the help of a circle of devoted friends will she emerge from the dark labyrinths of Barcelona and its history into the light of the future.

In this haunting new novel, Carlos Ruiz Zafón proves yet again that he is a masterful storyteller and pays homage to the world of books, to his ingenious creation of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, and to that magical bridge between literature and our lives.]]> 816 Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1443457132 Adam 0 to-read 4.47 2016 The Labyrinth of the Spirits (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)]]> 4921
"We agree that we are overworked, and need a rest.—A week on the rolling deep?—George suggests the river.—"

And with the co-operation of several hampers of food and a covered boat, the three men (not forgetting the dog) set out on a hilarious voyage of mishaps up the Thames. When not falling in the river and getting lost in Hampton Court Maze, Jerome K. Jerome finds time to express his ideas on the world around—many of which have acquired a deeper fascination since the day at the end of the 19th century when this excursion was so lightly undertaken.]]> 185 Jerome K. Jerome Adam 0 to-read 3.86 1889 Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
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]]> Poetics 13270 144 Aristotle 0140446362 Adam 0 to-read 3.85 -335 Poetics
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]]> <![CDATA[On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo]]> 132626 367 Friedrich Nietzsche 0679724621 Adam 0 to-read 4.17 1887 On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
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]]> Being and Nothingness 10033
Para Sartre, o sentido das nossas vidas não é predeterminado nem por Deus nem pela natureza, não há nenhuma essência que preceda a existê o que nos define não é dado a priori, mas decorre das escolhas que fizermos. Primeiro existimos, e só depois nos definimos. Não existe natureza humana à qual tenhamos irresistivelmente de estamos condenados a ser livres e somos os únicos responsáveis pelos nossos destinos.

No âmago destas posições, está a conceção sartriana de consciência, influenciada pela fenomenologia de Husserl e pela ontologia de Heidegger. Como a consciência é sempre consciência de alguma coisa, ela própria não é nada enquanto não visa algo fora de si. O ser-para-si, a consciência humana, caracteriza-se por ser permanente projeção para o exterior. Daí os conceitos filosóficos de angústia e de «má-fé», ilustrada pelo famoso exemplo do empregado de mesa, e a problemática relação com os demais, tipificada na investigação sobre o desejo sexual e o «olhar» do Outro.]]> 688 Jean-Paul Sartre 0415278481 Adam 0 to-read 4.00 1943 Being and Nothingness
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]]> Metaphysics 208036 365 Aristotle 1888009039 Adam 0 to-read 4.08 -330 Metaphysics
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]]> <![CDATA[Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)]]> 12075 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers. For Wittgenstein, logic was something we use to conquer a reality which is in itself both elusive and unobtainable. He famously summarized the book in the following words: 'What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.' David Pears and Brian McGuinness received the highest praise for their meticulous translation. The work is prefaced by Bertrand Russell's original introduction to the first English edition.]]> 142 Ludwig Wittgenstein 0415254086 Adam 0 to-read 4.09 1921 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)
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]]> <![CDATA[Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy]]> 31862
This edition also includes the "Meditations" and the letter-preface to "The Principles of Philosophy".]]> 103 René Descartes 0872204200 Adam 0 to-read 3.78 1637 Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
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]]> Beyond Good and Evil 12321 Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.

This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner's introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and Evil.

Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable.

If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics.

"One of the greatest books of a very great thinker." —Michael Tanner]]> 240 Friedrich Nietzsche 014044923X Adam 0 to-read 4.04 1886 Beyond Good and Evil
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]]> Philosophical Investigations 12073 Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe's original translation Footnoted remarks in the earlier editions have now been relocated in the text What was previously referred to as 'Part 2' is now republished as Philosophy of Psychology - A Fragment, and all the remarks in it are numbered for ease of reference New detailed editorial endnotes explain decisions of translators and identify references and allusions in Wittgenstein's original text Now features new essays on the history of the Philosophical Investigations, and the problems of translating Wittgenstein's text]]> 464 Ludwig Wittgenstein 0631231277 Adam 0 to-read 4.26 1953 Philosophical Investigations
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]]> <![CDATA[The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays]]> 11987 212 Albert Camus Adam 0 to-read 4.22 1942 The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays
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]]> Fear and Trembling 24965
In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded him to offer his son as a human sacrifice. Abraham had a choice to complete the task or to forget it. He resigned himself to the loss of his son, acting according to his faith. In other words, one must be willing to give up all his or her earthly possessions in infinite resignation and must also be willing to give up whatever it is that he or she loves more than God. Abraham had passed the test -- his love for God proved greater than anything else in him. And because a good and just Creator would not want a father to kill his son, God intervened at the last moment to prevent the sacrifice.]]> 152 Søren Kierkegaard 0143037579 Adam 0 to-read 4.01 1843 Fear and Trembling
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]]> <![CDATA[An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]> 130119 96 David Hume 1420926993 Adam 0 to-read 3.94 1748 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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]]> Apology 73945 The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399BCE against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word "apologia") of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions.

The revised edition of this popular textbook features revised vocabulary and grammatical notes that now appear on the same page as the text, sentence diagrams, principal parts of verbs listed both by Stephanus page and alphabetically, word frequency list for words occurring more than twice, and complete vocabulary.]]> 127 Plato 0865163480 Adam 0 to-read 4.22 -399 Apology
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]]> Twisted Lies (Twisted, #4) 62058385
Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman.

He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can't deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him.

She's the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can't solve. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can't refuse.

Every monster has their weakness. She's his.

His obsession.

His addiction.

His only exception.

***

Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage.

Between her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship.

But when a threat from her past drives her into the arms―and house―of the most dangerous man she's ever met, she's tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time.

Because despite Christian's cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she's with him.

Passionate.

Protected.

Truly wanted.

Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies…and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything.]]> 560 Ana Huang 1728274893 Adam 0 to-read 4.07 2022 Twisted Lies (Twisted, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)]]> 2247142
It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game.

“Sinister and strangely alluring,” (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.]]> 271 Patricia Highsmith Adam 0 to-read 3.97 1955 The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
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]]> Final Girls 32796253  
Now, Quincy is doing well—maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé, Jeff; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life all those years ago. Her memory won’t even allow her to recall the events of that night; the past is in the past.
 
That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a whirlwind, Sam seems intent on making Quincy relive the past, with increasingly dire consequences, all of which makes Quincy question why Sam is really seeking her out. And when new details about Lisa's death come to light, Quincy's life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies, evade the police and hungry reporters, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.]]> 352 Riley Sager 1101985364 Adam 0 to-read 3.80 2017 Final Girls
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]]> <![CDATA[The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)]]> 62848145 As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can't risk losing this job – not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe . . .

It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I'm doing laundry. And one day I can't help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything...

That's when I make a promise. After all, I've done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It's simply a question of how far I'm willing to go...]]> 311 Freida McFadden 1837901317 Adam 0 to-read 4.16 2023 The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)]]> 43822820 here.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.

She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.

Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.

The can’t-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.]]> 352 Lisa Jewell 1501190105 Adam 0 to-read 3.92 2019 The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)
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]]> You (You, #1) 36430011
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.

As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.

A terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation.]]> 464 Caroline Kepnes 1501195433 Adam 0 to-read 4.01 2014 You (You, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)]]> 28877 454 Thomas Harris Adam 0 to-read 4.07 1981 Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)]]> 6148028 Sparks are igniting.
Flames are spreading.
And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.]]> 391 Suzanne Collins 0439023491 Adam 0 to-read 4.36 2009 Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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]]> Behind Closed Doors 29437949 The instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling debut psychological thriller.

The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.

But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.

Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.

Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.

“A hair-raising debut, both unsettling and addictive… A chilling thriller that will keep you reading long into the night.” ― Mary Kubica, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Good Girl

“This is one readers won’t be able to put down.” ― Booklist (starred review)

"A can’t-put-down psychological thriller.” ― Library Journal (starred review)

“This debut is guaranteed to haunt you… Warning: brace yourself.” ― Bustle

“The sense of believably and terror that engulfs Behind Closed Doors doesn't waver.” ― The Associated Press, picked up by The Washington Post

“This was one of the best and most terrifying psychological thrillers I have ever read.” ― San Francisco Book Review]]> 293 B.A. Paris 1250121000 Adam 0 to-read 3.95 2016 Behind Closed Doors
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]]> Mystic River 21671
Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood.

A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.]]> 416 Dennis Lehane 0060584750 Adam 0 to-read 4.17 2001 Mystic River
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]]> <![CDATA[Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)]]> 33516773 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

From the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband s Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.

A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.

Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.

Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.]]> 460 Liane Moriarty 0399587195 Adam 0 to-read 4.38 2014 Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
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]]> The Only One Left 62703226 At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life

It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything.

“It wasn’t me,” Lenora said
But she’s the only one not dead

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.]]> 383 Riley Sager 0593183223 Adam 0 to-read 4.11 2023 The Only One Left
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]]> Before I Go to Sleep 9736930 359 S.J. Watson 0062060554 Adam 0 to-read 3.90 2011 Before I Go to Sleep
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]]> The Woman in the Window 40389527
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare.

What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.]]> 455 A.J. Finn Adam 0 to-read 3.93 2018 The Woman in the Window
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]]> None of This Is True 62334530
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.

But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.

Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?]]> 390 Lisa Jewell 1982179007 Adam 0 to-read 4.05 2023 None of This Is True
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]]> Never Lie 62080187
But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end.

In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to Dr. Hale’s mysterious disappearance.

Tricia plays the tapes one by one, late into the night. With each one, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and Dr. Adrienne Hale’s web of lies slowly unravels.

And then Tricia reaches the final cassette.

The one that reveals the entire horrifying truth.]]> 286 Freida McFadden Adam 0 to-read 4.08 2022 Never Lie
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]]> Pretty Girls 25574782
Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that she might not be the only one.

Claire is convinced Julia's disappearance is linked.

But when she begins to learn the truth about her sister, she is confronted with a shocking discovery, and nothing will ever be the same...]]> 432 Karin Slaughter 0062430874 Adam 0 to-read 3.96 2015 Pretty Girls
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]]> Dark Places 5886881
Ben was a social misfit, ground down by the small-town farming community in which he lived. But he did have a girlfriend - a brooding heavy metal fan called Diondra. Through her, Ben became involved with drugs and the dark arts. When the town suddenly turned against him, his thoughts turned black. But was he capable of murder? Libby must delve into her family's past to uncover the truth - no matter how painful...]]> 424 Gillian Flynn 0307341569 Adam 0 to-read 3.94 2009 Dark Places
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]]> <![CDATA[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)]]> 16328
The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. The widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of Veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling case involving blackmail and death that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his career.

Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.]]> 288 Agatha Christie 1579126278 Adam 0 to-read 4.26 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)]]> 5060378 Millenium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry.

The Murder
When a young couple is found dead in their Stockholm apartment, it's a straightforward job for Inspector Bublanski and his team. The killer left the weapon at the scene - and the fingerprints on the gun point in only one direction.

The Girl Who Played with Fire
Ex-security analyst Lisbeth Salander is wanted for murder. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. The only way Salander can be reached is by computer. But she can break into almost any network she chooses...]]> 503 Stieg Larsson 0307269981 Adam 0 to-read 4.25 2006 The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)]]> 960
A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.

Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.]]> 736 Dan Brown 1416524797 Adam 0 to-read 3.95 2000 Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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]]> The Zombie Room 29908754 218 R.D. Ronald Adam 0 to-read 4.10 2012 The Zombie Room
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]]> The Elephant Tree 9293020 252 R.D. Ronald 1848764561 Adam 0 to-read 3.95 2010 The Elephant Tree
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]]> My Sister's Keeper 10917 New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13 she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged ... until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.

My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.]]> 423 Jodi Picoult 0743454537 Adam 0 to-read 4.11 2004 My Sister's Keeper
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]]> The Price of Salt 52258 The Price of Salt tells the riveting story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department store day job, whose routine is forever shattered by an erotic epiphany - the appearance of Carol Aird, a customer who comes in to buy her daughter a Christmas toy. Therese begins to stalk the alluring suburban housewife, who is trapped in a marriage as stultifying as Therese's job. They fall in love and set out across the United States, pursued by a private investigator who eventually blackmails Carol in a choice between her daughter and her lover.]]> 262 Patricia Highsmith 0393325997 Adam 0 to-read 4.04 1952 The Price of Salt
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]]> The Death of the Heart 91494
The Death of the Heart, a story of adolescent love and the betrayal of innocence, is perhaps Bowen's best-known book. When sixteen-year-old Portia, recently orphaned, arrives in London and falls for an attractive cad--a seemingly carefree young man who is as much an outsider in the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of 1930s drawing rooms as she is--their collision threatens to shatter the carefully built illusions of everyone around them. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sharp sense of humor with a devastating gift for divining human motivations.]]> 418 Elizabeth Bowen 0385720173 Adam 0 to-read 3.65 1938 The Death of the Heart
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]]> Falconer 722367 Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him backwards into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.]]> 211 John Cheever 0679737863 Adam 0 to-read 3.67 1977 Falconer
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]]> An American Tragedy 331319
Based on an actual criminal case, 'An American Tragedy' was the inspiration for the film 'A Place in the Sun', which won six Academy Awards and starred Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.]]> 859 Theodore Dreiser 0451527704 Adam 0 to-read 3.96 1925 An American Tragedy
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]]> The Assistant 3068
Like Malamud’s best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and great expectations. Malamud defined the immigrant experience in a way that has proven vital for several generations of writers.
]]> 246 Bernard Malamud 0374504849 Adam 0 to-read 3.88 1957 The Assistant
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