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34452243 /m/0h_9n1q Stranger Will Caleb J. Ross {"/m/0488wh": "Literary fiction", "/m/03xj9g": "Hardboiled"} William Lowson spends his working life in the town of Brackenwood as a Human Remains Removal Specialist, cleaning stains left over after violent deaths. He spends his home life trying to convince his pregnant ... |
34457593 /m/0h_cqj5 Arrhythmia {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is set in a busy Montreal hospital in 1999. Joelle, a secretary at a hospital, worries that her marriage is failing as her husband Marc continuously shows signs of distraction. Marc, who also works at the hospital, becomes obsessed with Ketia, a 19-year-... |
34459940 /m/0h_ddfq I Didn't Mean to be Kevin Caleb J. Ross {"/m/0488wh": "Literary fiction"} Jackson Jacoby lives a life of abandonment. His father died when he was young. He and his mother suffered a falling-apart when Jackson was only ten. He lives alone in a studio apartment, uses the delivery truck he drives for... |
34471214 /m/0h_bm26 Nine Inches Colin Bateman 2011-10-13 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/0vgkd": "Black comedy"} The four-year-old son of Jack Caramac, a shock jock radio broadcaster and old friend of Dan Starkey, is kidnapped for one hour and returned unharmed. Starkey, now a self-styled "upmarket private eye", is ... |
34477621 /m/0h_d4r_ Chowringhee Mani Shankar Mukherjee 1962 Sankar named his novel Chowringhee as the novel is set in Chowringhee, a neighborhood in Calcutta, in the mid-1950s. The narrator, Shankar, an ambitious young man who is previously a secretary of an English barrister, becomes unemployed as the Barrister dies... |
34479695 /m/0j27vx_ The Life {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The Life traces the life story of Dennis Keith, now obese, mentally unwell and living in retirement village with his mother. A young would-be biographer arrives one day and begins to teases out his past. The story is told in different strands, one being reflections ... |
34483310 /m/0j27drs The Wanderers Richard Price {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Richie Gennaro is the 17-year-old leader of the Wanderers, an Italo-American youth gang in the Bronx in 1962. His girlfriend is Denise Rizzo. Richie’s friends in the Wanderers are Joey Capra, Buddy Borsalino, Eugene Caputo and Perry LaGuardia. At t... |
34485490 /m/0j272pg Child of Fortune Norman Spinrad The book is presented as an autobiographical tale, CHILD OF FORTUNE, A Historie of the Second Starfaring Age by Wendi Shasta Leonardo, and it includes an introduction written by the fictional narrator. Adolescents in the Second Starfaring Age are expected to embark... |
34487989 /m/0j2690v Dead End in Norvelt Jack Gantos 2011-09-13 Dead End takes place during the summer after the American schoolboy Jack Gantos fires his father's war trophy, a Japanese sniper rifle. As punishment he must stay in the house except as sent by his mother to help their elderly neighbor Miss Volker write o... |
34497243 /m/0j24g8l My French Whore Gene Wilder Set towards the end of WWI, in 1918, it tells the story of a shy young railway employee and amateur actor from Milwaukee, named Paul Peachy. Having realised that his wife no longer loves him, Paul enlists as a private in the U.S. Army and boards ship for the trenches o... |
34507959 /m/0c3q812 The descendants Kaui Hart Hemmings 2007 Matthew King was once considered one of the most fortunate men in Hawaii. His missionary ancestors were financially and culturally progressive–one even married a Hawaiian princess, making Matt a royal descendant and one of the state’s largest landowners. Now... |
34514620 /m/0j28pvw Madonna: Like an Icon Lucy O'Brien 2007-08-27 {"/m/017fp": "Biography"} The biography is divided into three parts. The first part is named Baptism and tells about Madonna's birth in Detroit, Michigan, her early childhood, her time in New York, and her dance degree. It also talks in detail about the... |
34522298 /m/0crqkn City of God Paulo Lins 1997 {"/m/012jgz": "Autobiographical novel", "/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction"} City of God is set in a city renowned for its natural beauty. The novel follows the lives of gangsters and petty criminals living in the Favela. The novel is set from the 1960s through to the 1980s. At t... |
34544176 /m/0j27lky The Demigod Diaries Rick Riordan 2012-08-14 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/0707q": "Short story"} The Demigod Diaries contains four new stories with character interviews, illustrations of Annabeth Chase, Percy Jackson, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Leo Valdez and a... |
34584043 /m/0j252r9 Belenggu Armijn Pane The novel begins as Sukartono (Tono), a Dutch-trained doctor, and his wife Sumartini (Tini), residents of Batavia (modern day Jakarta), are suffering a marital breakdown. Tono is busy treating his patients, leaving no time for him to be with Tini. In response, Tini has become... |
34607458 /m/0j24ckm Wisdom's Daughter H. Rider Haggard {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} As Holly points out, the story is told from She’s perspective, and since She claims to have lived for over two thousand years, since Ancient Egypt, there is no way to compare her story with any other sources, or witnesses. She Who Must Be... |
34621656 /m/0j28_b0 The Twilight of Briareus John Middleton Murry, Jr. 1974 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} Briareus Delta becomes a supernova only about 130 light-years from Earth. While admiring the aurora it produces, the comprehensive-school English teacher Calvin Johnson meets one of his students, Margaret Hardy.... |
34666321 /m/0j26nc5 The Black Box Michael Connelly {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction"} "Bosch will tackle a 20-year-old cold case" which took place during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. |
34671340 /m/0j28pk5 Der Wehrwolf Hermann Löns {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The Thirty Years' War is at its height and the peasantry suffers under countless marauders, which roam the lands. The main protagonist Harm Wulf, a peasant, already lost his family in the first years of war and becomes the defending Wulf (wehrender W... |
34728872 /m/0j3d5qz Suspicion Friedrich Dürrenmatt Inspector Hans Bärlach, at the end of his career and suffering from cancer, is recovering from an operation. He witnesses how his friend and doctor Samuel Hungertobel turns pale and becomes nervous when looking at a photograph in a magazine he is reading. The person... |
34748589 /m/0j3dk3d Who Killed Zebedee? Wilkie Collins {"/m/028v3": "Detective fiction", "/m/0707q": "Short story"} "Who Killed Zebedee?," opens with a direct address to the readers by an otherwise unnamed narrator. On his deathbed, our narrator, a Roman Catholic, feels compelled to make a confession to the readers a... |
34759173 /m/0j3cgjl Charon's Claw Robert Anthony Salvatore The story begins in the year 1463 DR with a meeting of the Xoralarrin House of Menzoberranzan. Ravel is the second boy and spellspinner of the house. He is a former apprentice of Gromph. While studying with him he discovered the Skull Gem containing the soul... |
34760692 /m/0j3gcfn Der Schimmelreiter Theodor Storm 1888 The novella tells the story of Hauke Haien, allegedly related to the author by a schoolmaster in a small town in Northern Frisia. Hauke is the son of a farmer and licensed surveyor, and does his best to learn his father's trade. He even learns Dutch so he can ... |
34788521 /m/0j3d55w The Last Girl Stephan Collishaw {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Steponas Daumantas, an elderly poet, walks the streets of Vilnius photographing young women with their babies. He becomes obsessed with one particular woman, Jolanta, and strikes up a friendship with her. J... |
34801976 /m/0j3d1rv From This Wicked Patch of Dust Sergio Troncoso 2011-09 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} In the border shantytown of Ysleta, Texas, Mexican immigrants Pilar and Cuauhtemoc Martinez strive to teach their four children to forsake the drugs and gangs of their neighborhood. The family’s hardscrabble origins unite ... |
34822427 /m/0j3cmlh The Democratic Paradox Chantal Mouffe 2000 The eponymous paradox of democracy that this collection of essays deals with is the internal conflict within modern democracy that is created by the union of two separate strands of political thought: the tradition of Classical Liberalism and the traditio... |
34890405 /m/0bs0stb Beautiful Creatures Margaret Stohl 2009-12-01 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel"} Beautiful Creatures is set in fictional Gatlin, South Carolina. The novel is told by protagonist Ethan Wate, who lives with his writer father and housekeeper A... |
34890908 /m/047ccdf Beautiful Chaos Gary Russell {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel"} After returning home, more strange things are starting to occur in the small town of Gatlin. Horrific storms, sweltering heat, and hordes o... |
34971264 /m/0j42t4h Kaytek the Wizard Janusz Korczak The book depicts a schoolboy who gains magic powers. At first, Kajtuś acts as a selfish child, using his power for mischief. Eventually, he becomes dissatisfied with himself, and leaves his home town, where he acquires a reputation as a troublemaker. On his travel... |
35044216 /m/0j6431p The Hydrogen Sonata Iain Banks The Gzilt, a civilisation that almost joined the Culture 10,000 years before the novel, have decided to sublime, having had a referendum on the subject and voted in favour of it. Within the novel it is stated that several things happen once a civilisation has made s... |
35166850 /m/0j64xyy Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. James 2012-03-05 Fifty Shades of Grey follows Anastasia "Ana" Steele, a 22-year-old college senior who lives with her best friend Katherine Kavanagh; Katherine writes for their college's student paper. Because of illness, Katherine persuades Ana to take her place and int... |
35232728 /m/0j7lvqz The Family Corleone Edward Falco 2012-05-08 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction"} The novel, set in the Great Depression, tells the story of how Vito Corleone rose through the criminal underworld to become the most powerful Don in New York. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny — 17 years ... |
35311147 /m/0czwqd Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 4: The Siege Helen Dunmore 2004-05-01 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} ==Receptio |
35471510 /m/0j9q2rv The Casual Vacancy J. K. Rowling 2012-09-27 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0q9mp": "Tragicomedy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0vgkd": "Black comedy"} The novel is split into seven parts, the first depicting the aftermath of the death of local Pagford Parish Councillor, Barry Fairbrother, who suffers a... |
35482946 /m/0bmg3gb Infected Scott Sigler The book follows several characters as they deal with an alien invasion on the microscopic level. The narration is primarily through the perspectives of Perry Dawson, an ex-football player with an anger problem, and Margaret Montoya, an epidemiologist with the CDC that is in... |
35587482 /m/0jk_hyr Raboliot Maurice Genevoix 1925 The novel is set in the country-side around Lamotte-Beuvron and Brinon-sur-Sauldre, and deals with the relationship between landowners and poor people in the years after World War I. |
35629454 /m/0jl1q_1 The Racketeer John Grisham The book is about a federal judge's murder and an imprisoned lawyer who has inside knowledge on the details of the murder. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarka... |
35654800 /m/05nlmwt Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Patrick Robinson 2007-06-12 {"/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} At the beginning of the book, Marcus Luttrell describes his childhood and his training to prepare for the Navy SEALs with Billy Shelton. After joini... |
35706912 /m/0jt6csb A Conspiracy of Friends Alexander McCall Smith 2011-05-01 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story is set in a fictional housing unit in London nicknamed Corduroy Mansions, and details the lives of the inhabitants of the large Pimlico house and others. The main characters are Barbara Ragg, Basil Wickramsi... |
35719914 /m/0jt5sph Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 2012-05-08 {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/0488wh": "Literary fiction"} Bring Up the Bodies begins where the previous novel finished. The King and Master Secretary Thomas Cromwell are the guests of the Seymour family at Wolf Hall. The King shares private m... |
35731962 /m/0jt39dm Finale Becca Fitzpatrick 2012-10-23 The book follows Nora and Patch, a teenaged girl and an angel that have fallen in love with each other. As Patch is a fallen angel, their relationship is frowned upon by many and Nora's own heritage and destiny means that the two of them should be enemies. As th... |
35802230 /m/0jt8896 De vierde man The novel is a frame narrative: a writer named Gerard recounts the events that happened years before to his friend, Ronald. The story is as follows. Gerard, after a speaking engagement in the town of V., in the southern Netherlands, has a brief affair with a woman named Christine, ... |
35916725 /m/0jwxcdy Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure James Patterson 2012-08-06 {"/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature"} The prologue is Angel's vision of Max's death.The book starts off with Max and her Flock preparing to go to school while they live in Oregon in a house Nino Pierpont gave them. Max is watc... |
35993963 /m/0jzxgsx The Bourne Imperative Robert Ludlum 2012-06-05 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction"} :For a more detailed background of the main character, see Jason Bourne. The man Jason Bourne fishes out of the freezing sea is near death, half-drowned and bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound. H... |
36043883 /m/05h5ndx Family The Family focuses on three brothers from the Gao family, Juexin, Juemin and Juehui, and their struggles with the oppressive autocracy of their feudalistic family. The idealistic, if rash Juehui, the youngest brother, is the main protagonist, and he is frequently contrasted with the weak ... |
36126507 /m/0dh1sv Heaven V. C. Andrews 1985-10-15 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Heaven Leigh Casteel is a fourteen year old girl living in poverty with her rather large and discontented family, in a shack in the hills of West Virginia. Her father, Luke, i... |
36126601 /m/0dh1vx Dark Angel V. C. Andrews 1986-11 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature"} After the events of Heaven (the first book in The Casteel Series), Heaven Casteel finds herself in the care and custody of her grandparents, the wealthy Tony and Jillian Tatterton, who live at Fart... |
36126792 /m/044psh Gates of Paradise V. C. Andrews 1989-06 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature"} A novel about Annie Stonewall, the daughter of Heaven Casteel Tatterton Stonewall and Troy Tatterton (though no one knows Troy is Annie's father except Heaven). After being orphaned by an ca... |
36240322 /m/0k29bkf Shelter Harlan Coben 2011-09-15 After Mickey Bolitar moves in with his uncle, Myron Bolitar, his new girl friend disappears and he will stop at nothing to find her. The book begins with Mickey walking in front of his neighbours house. The women living there walks out and tells him that his father ... |
36303946 /m/0k296wc Fire Season Jane Lindskold Stephanie Harrington and her treecat, Climbs Quickly, must help another treecat clan during the dangerous fire season on Stephanie's new home planet of Sphinx. She must also contend with those who wish to use the fire season to their advantage to destroy the treecats an... |
36372465 /m/02vqwsp The Third Lynx Timothy Zahn 2007 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} The story starts with former government agent, Frank Compton, meeting a young man who drops dead at his feet. Compton finds a ticket to a strange, interstellar train called the Quadrail. During Compton's ride on the Quadrail he falls ... |
36531274 /m/0kfwljn The Birth of Plenty William J. Bernstein The Birth of Plenty is an history of the world expressed in economic terms. Bernstein argues that in order to prosper, a country must possess four main attributes: property rights, the scientific method, capitalism and an effective communications infrastru... |
36534061 /m/072y44 Remote Control Andy McNab 1997 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} The series follows the character of Nick Stone, an ex-military man who previously worked for the SAS, British Intelligence, and an American agency. Stone now works as a paid mercenary, willing to... |
36551772 /m/0kg2qzj Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon Set during the summer of 2004, the novel' main plotline concerns Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe. Archy is black, Nat is white and Jewish. The two have been the proprietors of Brokeland Records, a brick-and-mortar store located in North Oakland, on Telegraph Avenue, ... |
36665207 /m/06j7t6 The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family Matt Groening 1997-11-12 {| class="wikitable" |- !Seasons covered !Book title |- |1–8 |The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family |- |9–10 |The Simpsons Forever!: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family ...Continued |- |11–12 |The Sim... |
36934824 /m/0m0p0hr Under Wildwood Colin Meloy 2012-09-25 Prue McKeel, having rescued her brother from the Dowager Governess at the conclusion of the first novel, returns to her normal daily life of school and daydreaming. She finds her mind drifting back to Wildwood as she becomes increasingly bored with her studies... |
37054020 /m/04f1nbs Transfer of Power Vince Flynn 2000-06-01 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The reader first meets Rapp while he is doing a covert operation in Iran and he discovers a possible terrorist attack planned for the nations capital to happen in the near future. Meanwhile in Washington, D.C.... |
37122323 /m/0n5236t Decoded Jay-Z 2010-11-16 {"/m/0xdf": "Autobiography"} The book follows very rough chronological order, while switching from current stories to his story of growing up in the Marcy projects. The autobiographical portion focuses on not only his story of drug dealing, fights, and the beginnings in rap... |
37132319 /m/0n4bqb1 America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't Stephen Colbert 2012-10-02 Colbert addresses topics including Wall Street, campaign finance, energy policy, eating on the campaign trail, and the United States Constitution. |
37159503 /m/073nkd Poor Folk Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1846 {"/m/02ql9": "Epistolary novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova are second cousins twice-removed and live across from each other on the same street in terrible apartments. Devushkin's, for example, is merely a portioned-o... |
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