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1775704 /m/05vzq7 The Buccaneers Marion Mainwaring The story revolves around five wealthy and ambitious American girls, their guardians and the titled, landed but impoverished Englishmen who marry them as the girls participate in the London Season in search of a titled English gentleman for matrimonial purposes. As ... |
1776204 /m/05w039 The Algerine Captive The Algerine Captive tells the story of the upbringing, early career, and later enslavement of fictional Boston native, narrator Updike Underhill. The first volume chronicles Updike Underhill's youth and early adulthood in America; the Preface suggests that its aim is to "at l... |
1776850 /m/05w1n3 Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer 1979 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book tells the stories of two men born worlds apart. They have nothing in common except the same date of birth (18 April 1906) and a zeal to succeed in life. William Lowell Kane is a wealthy and powerful Boston Brahmin... |
1777067 /m/05w260 Contest Matthew Reilly {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} The story focuses on Dr. Stephen Swain, a radiologist, who manages to fight off two gang members despite having ... |
1779024 /m/05w72f Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer 2006-04-04 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The main protagonist of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. Oskar Schell's father Thomas Schell dies in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade ... |
1779171 /m/05w7f0 Our Lady of the Flowers Jean Genet 1948 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel tells the story of Divine, a drag queen who, when the novel opens, has died of tuberculosis and been canonised as a result. The narrator tells us that the stories he is telling are mainly to amuse himself w... |
1780941 /m/05wdw5 The Hot Zone Richard Preston 1994 {"/m/03lrw": "Hard science fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} The book is in four sections: * "The Shadow of Mount Elgon" delves into the history of filoviruses, as well as speculation about the origins of AIDS. Preston accounts the story of ... |
1781984 /m/05wh9r Islands in the Net Bruce Sterling 1988 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The action takes place in 2023–2025 on Galveston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Grenada, an island in the north east coast of South America; Singapore and Africa. Protagonist Lau... |
1784357 /m/05wn6w Forty Signs of Rain Kim Stanley Robinson 2004-01 {"/m/03lrw": "Hard science fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The focus of the novel is the effects of global warming in the early decades of the 21st century. Its characters are mostly scientists, either invol... |
1784687 /m/05wnxn Heer Ranjha Heer is an extremely beautiful woman, born into a wealthy Jat family of the Sayyal clan in Jhang, Punjab. Ranjha (whose first name is Dheedo; Ranjha is the surname), also a Jat of the Ranjha clan, is the youngest of four brothers and lives in the village 'Takht Hazara' by the river Che... |
1785629 /m/05wrn9 Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield The book begins with Vercingetorix conceding his defeat to Julius Caesar. He throws his weapons at Caesar's feet — or rather, on Caesar's feet. In pain, Caesar hops away to the infirmary while Vercingetorix is arrested. The weapons remain where they were th... |
1787582 /m/05wykb Z for Zachariah Robert C. O'Brien 1975 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Ann Burden's diary begins on Monday, May 20. After living alone for a year and believing herself the last survivor of a nuclear war, A... |
1788886 /m/05x1dl Green Mansions William Henry Hudson {"/m/017fp": "Biography", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Prologue: An unnamed narrator tells how he befriended an old "Spanish" gentleman who never spoke of his past. Piqued, the narrator finally elicits th... |
1789029 /m/05x1vz Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon K. W. Jeter 2000-12-04 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The story follows Iris, another Blade Runner, on an assignment to find Tyrell's owl, which seems to have special importance for the Tyrell Corporation and other dubious organizatio... |
1789241 /m/05x2kt Mr Standfast John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir 1919 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Dick Hannay, under forty and already a successful Brigadier-General with good prospects of advancement, is called out of uniform by his old comrade, spymaster Sir Walter Bullivant, and sent to Fosse Man... |
1789839 /m/05x3zs Limes inferior Janusz Zajdel 1982 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} The hero, Adi Cherryson, also known as Sneer (named after one of Zajdel's fellow science fiction writers Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg), is a lifter who "helps" people cheat during the computer controlled IQ exams by gi... |
1789858 /m/05x40j Paradyzja Janusz Zajdel {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} Paradyzja (from "paradise") is the story about the human colony on a space station orbiting a distant and mineral rich star system. The colony is controlled by a totalitarian regime. All human activity is tracked by elec... |
1789915 /m/05x466 The Commodore C. S. Forester 1945 {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} Having achieved fame and financial security, Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower has married Lady Barbara Leighton (née Wellesley) and is preparing to settle down to unaccustomed l... |
1789930 /m/05x47_ Lord Hornblower C. S. Forester 1946 {"/m/04rlf": "Music", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} Hornblower alters the appearance of his own vessel, the Porta Coeli, so it can masquerade as the mutinous vessel. A... |
1790018 /m/02p2skn The Thirteen-Gun Salute Patrick O'Brian 1989 {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} Immediately following The Letter of Marque, the narrative picks up with Jack Aubrey getting the Surprise underway for a mission to South America. Upon reaching Lis... |
1790287 /m/05x567 Asterix and the Black Gold The book begins with Asterix and Obelix hunting wild boar. One boar is worried, but the other tells him they will escape the Gauls. The Gauls start chasing the boars, but one boar, however, is crafty and leads them straight into a Roman patrol. As the boar predicted, the... |
1791504 /m/05x8sw The Book of Daniel E. L. Doctorow 1971 Writing his thesis ('The Book of Daniel') Daniel investigates the background to his parents' conviction and execution with his adoptive parents (the Lewins). The final dénouement is the revisiting, in flashback, of the death of his parents, and in due course th... |
1791679 /m/05x9ck Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Purnaiya Taylor 1954 {"/m/012jgz": "Autobiographical novel"} Married to a tenant farmer, Nathan, because her family can't afford the dowry for a better match, Rukmani must leave everything she has ever known and learn how to run a household by herself at the age of twelve. Na... |
1792002 /m/05xbdh Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby, Jr. {"/m/06nbt": "Satire"} Last Exit to Brooklyn is divided into six parts that can, more or less, be read separately. Each part is prefaced with a passage from the Bible. * Another Day, Another Dollar: A gang of young Brooklyn hoodlums hang around an all-night ca... |
1797243 /m/05xtdf I, Jedi Michael A. Stackpole {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In I, Jedi, Corran Horn must develop his Jedi powers in order to save the life of his wife, Mirax Terrik. Corran Horn was a member of the elite X-wing force... |
1798336 /m/05xwn9 The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea Nikolai Leskov 1881 Tsar Alexander I of Russia, while visiting England with his servant the Cossack Platov, is shown a variety of modern inventions. Platov keeps insisting that things in Russia are much better (embarrassing a guide at one poi... |
1799004 /m/05xy0f Runaway Horses Yukio Mishima 1969 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Set between June 1932 and December 1933, it tells the story of young Isao Iinuma, a rightist reactionary trained in the samurai code by his father. Isao becomes the instigator of a plot to topple the zaibatsu that he feels... |
1799596 /m/05xzkg The Eleventh Commandment Lester del Rey {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The chief of the CIA, Helen Dexter, decides, on her own, to order the murder of political figures of other nations on the basis of their views on the USA. The book starts with the murder of a candidat... |
1799959 /m/05x_fh Coalescent Stephen Baxter 2003-11 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book consists of four distinct parts. The primary purpose of part one is the introduction of the characters, in ancient Britain and the present. Part two introduces a moder... |
1800897 /m/05y1q9 Jack Faust Michael Swanwick 1997-09 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/06www": "Steampunk"} The plot is based around a modernization of the anti-hero, Dr. Johannes Faust, who struggles with his growing discomfort with modern thought and questi... |
1804983 /m/05ybwv Number the Stars Lois Lowry 1989 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story opens as two Nazi soldiers stop Annemarie Johansen and her friend Ellen Rosen and ask them both questions on the streets of C... |
1808515 /m/05yltr Night on the Galactic Railroad Kenji Miyazawa {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/037mh8": "Philosophy"} Giovanni is a boy from a poor family, working hard to feed his sick mother (who has contracted an unnamed disease). Because of this, he never has any free time and i... |
1808856 /m/05ymh8 Cosmopolis Don DeLillo {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Cosmopolis is the story of Eric Packer, a 28 year old multi-billionaire asset manager who makes an odyssey across midtown Manhattan in order to get a haircut. He drives around in a stretch limo which is richly described as luxurious... |
1810427 /m/05yrl9 The Computer That Said Steal Me Elizabeth Levy 1983 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} The protagonist, a sixth grader named Adam, has recently moved with his family to Buffalo, New York from San Francisco, California. Adam attends St. Luke's, an expensive private school which he can only afford b... |
1810470 /m/05yrp_ The Duplicate William Sleator {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The main character, David, finds a device at the beach that can duplicate any living organism. After testing the device on his pet fish, David... |
1810542 /m/05yrtj Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1919 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} This cheerful little road novel, published in 1919, is about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the Pacific Northwest, where she falls in love with a nice, down-to-earth young ma... |
1812924 /m/05yz4p Solomon Gursky Was Here Mordecai Richler 1989 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel tells of several generations of the fictional Gursky family, who are connected to several disparate events in the history of Canada, including the Franklin Expedition and rum-running. Some fans and cr... |
1813566 /m/05z04l Sugar Blues William Dufty The book's central argument is that consumption of refined sugar is unnatural and damaging to human health, causing major differences in physical and mental well-being. Dufty even goes so far as to suggest that eliminating refined sugar from the diet of those institutional... |
1813748 /m/05z0pv Scarecrow Matthew Reilly 2003-11 {"/m/017rf8": "Techno-thriller", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Majestic-12, a group of the worlds richest men, make up a bounty list of fifteen targets that have to be eliminated before 12 noon of October, 26th. Among the targets is Shane Schofield, who at that moment is on a ... |
1813784 /m/05z0sn Anvil of Stars Greg Bear 1993 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} There are two interwoven themes in the novel. The first is the cost of justice. Destroying the race that attempted to destroy humanity (and, it is later revealed, other races) appe... |
1814064 /m/05z1hm The Drowned World J. G. Ballard 1962 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0hc1z": "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The Drowned World opens within the conventions of a hard science fiction novel, as the catastrophe responsible for th... |
1816557 /m/05z7ds Fearful Symmetries S. Andrew Swann {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Nohar is living in a cabin in the woods when he is approached by a lawyer to find a missing moreau. Nohar turns the case down and the lawyer leaves. Soon after, the cabin is ... |
1817170 /m/05z910 The Last Yankee Arthur Miller The Last Yankee takes place in a present-day state mental hospital, located somewhere in New England. Patricia Hamilton is recovering from depression, and this may be the day she feels strong enough to go home. But a visit from her husband Leroy, a descendant of one of... |
1818842 /m/05zdx0 Conspiracy of Fools Kurt Eichenwald Conspiracy of Fools tells the story of the 2001 collapse of Enron. Enron's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Andrew Fastow is depicted as voraciously greedy, using front corporations and partnerships, paying himself "management" and "consultant" fees as if he were an... |
1819834 /m/05zgs5 Thud! Terry Pratchett 2005 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} As the book opens, a dwarven demagogue, Grag Hamcrusher, is apparently murdered. Ethnic tensions between Ankh-Morpork's troll and dwarf communities mount in the buildup to the anniversary of the Battle Of ... |
1819957 /m/05zh32 The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1918 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/04chq5": "Planetary romance", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} After John Carter's arrival, a boat of Green Martians on the River Iss a... |
1819976 /m/05zh5k The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1919 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/04chq5": "Planetary romance", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} John Carter discovers that a First Born knows the secret of the Templ... |
1821036 /m/05zkxy Turnabout Margaret Haddix {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In 2001, 100-year-old Amelia Hazelwood was living in a nursing home, sick and tired of life. Content to die, she signs a document given to her by ... |
1823283 /m/05zs95 Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud Montgomery 1919 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Anne Shirley has now been married to Gilbert Blythe for 15 years, and the couple have six children: Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley, and Rilla. After a holiday in Europe, Anne returns to the news that a new minister has arri... |
1825433 /m/05zxsh La Foire aux immortels Enki Bilal {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0py0z": "Graphic novel"} Set in the year 2023, the book follows Alcide Nikopol return to Paris after spending 30 years frozen in space as a punishment for dodging the draft. The Paris he once knew is now ruled by fascist dictator ... |
1825444 /m/05zxt7 La Femme piège Enki Bilal 1986 The story centers around Jill Bioskop, a journalist woman with blue hair and white skin whose story becomes involved with that of Alcide Nikopol and the Egyptian god Horus. The story continues two years after Nikopol is admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Paris. Niko... |
1825884 /m/05zz1h Jacob's Hands; A Fable Aldous Huxley Jacob Ericson is a shy, enigmatic, and somewhat inept ranch hand who works for crotchety Professor Carter and his crippled daughter Sharon, on a ranch in the California Mojave Desert in the 1920s. One day he learns that his hands possess the mysterious gift of h... |
1826957 /m/05_1sc The Artemis Fowl Files Eoin Colfer 2004-10-04 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Artemis Fowl lures Mulch Diggums, a dwarf, to work with him to steal a tiara for a laser he is developi... |
1827695 /m/05_42p The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 1970 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel opens with a prologue relating a paragraph-long Dick and Jane tale in which none of Jane's family will agree to play with her until a friend comes along at last. The tale is then repeated two times, each time wit... |
1828832 /m/05_71s The Valley of Horses Jean M. Auel 1982-04-13 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0mz2": "Alternate history", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The book starts off from the events at the end of The Clan of the Cave B... |
1828929 /m/05_795 Tiger Eyes Judy Blume 1981 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Davey Wexler, along with her mother, Gwen, and her little brother, Jason, has just attended the funeral of her father, Adam, who was shot to death in a holdup at their 7-Elev... |
1829395 /m/05_8mq Knowledge of Angels Jill Paton Walsh 1994 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Jill Paton Walsh writes At opposite ends of Grandinsula, a remote pre-reformation Christian island, shepherds find a creature with strange footpri... |
1829447 /m/05_8rz The Mammoth Hunters Jean M. Auel 1985-12-21 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} This book picks up where The Valley of Horses ends; Ayla and Jondalar, meet a group known as the Mamutoi,... |
1830064 /m/05_bss What the Butler Saw Joe Orton ; Characters * Dr. Prentice * Geraldine Barclay * Mrs Prentice * Nicholas Beckett * Dr Rance * Sergeant Match The play consists of two acts, and revolves around a Dr. Prentice, a psychiatrist attempting to seduce his attractive prospective secretary, Geraldine Barclay.... |
1830309 /m/05_cc8 Eine Billion Dollar Andreas Eschbach 2001-09 John Salvatore Fontanelli, the son of a shoemaker in New York who works as a pizza driver, is one day invited to the Waldorf Astoria by an Italian lawyer, where he is informed that he inherited a huge fortune simply by being the last male descendant of a ... |
1830988 /m/05_f2f Intermere {"/m/0c082": "Utopian and dystopian fiction"} Notably in this utopian community women are only permitted to earn half as much as men and cannot vote. Divorce is unknown and Intermere's citizens are said not to have a sense of humor. |
1832004 /m/05_hs2 The Plains of Passage Jean M. Auel 1990-09-24 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The Plains of Passage describes the journey of Ayla and Jondalar west along the Great Mother River (the... |
1832044 /m/05_hwl The Glory of Living Rebecca Gilman The play opens with the main characters Lisa and Clint meeting for the first time. Clint has accompanied a friend to Lisa and her mother's mobile home to see Lisa's mother, a prostitute. Clint picks up on Lisa's unease about her mother's situation and begins charm... |
1832068 /m/05_hy9 The Shelters of Stone Jean M. Auel 2002-04-30 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Central to this book is the tension created by Ayla's healing art, her pregnancy, and the acceptance of her by Jondalar's people, the Z... |
1832080 /m/05_hz0 Natalie Natalia Nicholas Mosley The protagonist of this novel, Anthony Greville, is a Member of Parliament who is married with two children. His son Adam is seventeen and his daughter Sophie is eight. Despite the outward perfection of his life, Greville is having an affair with sculptress Natalia J... |
1832130 /m/05_j38 Woken Furies Richard Morgan 2005-03-17 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Takeshi Kovacs finds himself back on his home planet of Harlan's World. Nine-tenths water, Harlan's World is surrounded by "orbitals" that were created by "Martians". The Ha... |
1833625 /m/05_m0c The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton 1975-05 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} In 1854, Edward Pierce, a charismatic and affluent "cracksman" or master thief, makes p... |
1835728 /m/05_rs6 Father Sergius Leo Tolstoy 1912 The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his beloved Tsar Ni... |
1836609 /m/05_v1b Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill {"/m/09s1f": "Business", "/m/02j62": "Economics", "/m/037mh8": "Philosophy", "/m/06ms6": "Sociology"} The essay is divided into five chapters, namely #General Remarks; #What Utilitarianism Is; #Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility; #Of What Sort of Pro... |
1838030 /m/05_wrx The Heidi Chronicles Wendy Wasserstein The plot follows Heidi Holland from high school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art historian more than twenty years later. The play's main themes deal with the changing role of women during this time period, describing both Heidi's ardent feminism ... |
1838889 /m/05_yx0 Shampoo Planet Douglas Coupland 1992 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Part one begins shortly after Tyler’s return from a European vacation. He is in a relationship with a girl named Anna-Louise, and dreams of working for American Defense Contractor, Bechtel. He is obsessed with his hairc... |
1841204 /m/06047p The Family from One End Street Eve Garnett 1937 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Lily Rose comes home early after a pipe has burst at school, and being a Girl Guide, Lily Rose tries to help her mother by ironing some of the laundry her mother does for clients. Unfortunatel... |
1843534 /m/060c1r Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns 1984-11 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} On July 5, 1906, Enoch Rucker Blakeslee announces that he intends to marry Miss Love Simpson, a milliner at his store who is years younger than he. This news shocks his family, since his wife Mattie Lou di... |
1844370 /m/060f6t The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll 1974 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Four days after a Weiberfastnacht party, where Katharina met a man named Ludwig Götten, she calls on Oberkommissar Moeding and confesses to killing a journalist for the newspaper Die Zeitung. Katharina had met Götten at a frie... |
1844480 /m/060fjw Voyage in the Dark Jean Rhys 1934 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} # Anna compares England to her Caribbean, where everything was colourful. By contrast, England was greyish. She dislikes England throughout the novel, always feeling like an outsider; she is always cold and describes all of the towns that she ... |
1845227 /m/060hxb The Story of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} John Dolittle, MD, is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister in the small English village of Puddleby-o... |
1845415 /m/060jf2 Absolute Friends John le Carré 2003 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book tells the story of Ted Mundy, a Pakistani-born Briton who as a student becomes proficient in the German language. He joins a 1960s-era student protest group in West Berlin and becomes a lifelong friend of a West German student anarchi... |
1845545 /m/060jq8 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 1991 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel is set in the small town of Friendly, West Virginia,Nicknamed the "Mountain State", West Virginia abounds in mountains and rivers. For hundreds of years, the state has been home to hunters of de... |
1845692 /m/060k12 We All Fall Down Robert Cormier 1991-10 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} In the small town of Burnside, the Jerome family house is destroyed by teenage vandals, who defecate on the floors and push their daughter down the stairs... |
1845855 /m/060kd0 The Glass Lake Maeve Binchy 1994-09-02 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel"} When the beautiful and glamorous Helen is deserted by her lover, she marries the kindly Martin McMahon and moves to the small village of Lough Glass. Although Martin and Helen have two children, Helen still p... |
1845981 /m/060kn1 Sharpe's Regiment Bernard Cornwell 1986-01-20 {"/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} In this book set during the Napoleonic Wars, Sharpe repeatedly runs into problems caused by his lower social class and his officer standing. This is the only book in the series to be set in England (though in the Televisio... |
1846045 /m/060kv_ The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1922 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Doctor Dolittle meets Tommy Stubbins, the young son of the local cobbler, who becomes his new assistant. Tommy learns how to speak ... |
1847613 /m/060pyr Among the Hidden Margaret Haddix {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} Luke Garner, a twelve year old child, lives on a farm with his mother, fathe... |
1847951 /m/060qp1 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively 1987 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Claudia Hampton, a 76-year-old English woman and a professional historian, is terminally ill and is spending her last remaining moments in and out of consciousness thinking of writing a history of the world with her life as ... |
1851232 /m/060_3t Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson 1994 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the northern Puget Sound region of the state of Washington coast in 1954, the plot revolves around a murder case in which Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American, is accused o... |
1851755 /m/06100_ Rocket Boys Homer Hickam 1998-09-15 {"/m/016chh": "Memoir"} Homer "Sonny" Hickam, Jr. lived in a small coal mining town in West Virginia named Coalwood. Sonny, after seeing the Russian satellite Sputnik, decides to join the American team of rocket engineers called the Army Ballistic Missile Agency wh... |
1852781 /m/0612w3 A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro 1982-02 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} During a visit from her daughter, Niki, Etsuko reflects back on her own life as a young woman in Japan, and how she left that country to live in Britain. As she describes it, she and her Japanese husband, Jiro, h... |
1856501 /m/061f9w Doctor Dolittle's Garden Hugh Lofting 1927 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Doctor Dolittle's assistant, Tommy Stubbins, reports on Professor Quetch, curator of the Dog Museum in the Home for Crossbred Dogs. Meanwhile, the doctor has learnt insect languages and hears ancient tales of a giant rac... |
1856534 /m/061ff0 Doctor Dolittle in the Moon Hugh Lofting 1928 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} Doctor Dolittle has landed on the Moon and each day brings a new discovery. He meets Otho Bludge the Moon Man, a Stone Age artist who was the only human on the Moon when it broke away from the ... |
1856586 /m/061fkw The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} It tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), his relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. Toward the end of the novel, F... |
1858057 /m/061lkv Better Than Life Rob Grant 1990-10-25 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Following on from Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Lister, Rimmer and The Cat have discovered a cache of 'Better Than Life' headbands in one of the sleeping quarters. They fantasise that they b... |
1858142 /m/061lw1 Earthsearch II James Follett {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} The story of Earthsearch 2 continues the adventures of the crew of the starship Challenger (Telson, Sharna, Darv and Astra) begun in the previous serial, Earthsearch, which told t... |
1858211 /m/061m2j The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe The play contains a prologue in which the character Machiavel, a Senecan ghost based on Niccolò Machiavelli, introduces "the tragedy of a Jew." Machiavel expresses the cynical view that power is amoral, saying "I count religion but a childish toy,/And hold there... |
1858514 /m/061mx7 Dragon's Eye: A Chinese Noir Andy Oakes {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction"} The protagonist of the story is Sun Piao, a Chief Investigator of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau Homicide Department. He has a sidekick of sorts, an overweight and spirited rural Chinese, Yaobang. Sun Piao is a jaded, righteo... |
1858892 /m/061nxp Exiles James Joyce 1918-05-25 {"/m/07s9rl0": "Drama"} The action of the play is very simple. Bertha is jealous of Rowan's relationship with Beatrice, and Hand is jealous of Rowan's relationship with Bertha. Joyce himself described the structure of the play as "three cat and mouse acts", and the actio... |
1859415 /m/061qgd Nobody's Buddy John A. Moroso 1936 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Sweet story of a boy and his dog, and their adventures with the circus and the local sheriff. |
1860424 /m/061t27 The Last Days of Pompeii 1834 Pompeii, A.D. 79. Athenian nobleman Glaucus arrives in the bustling and gaudy Roman town and quickly falls in love with the beautiful Greek Ione. Ione's former guardian, the malevolent Egyptian sorcerer Arabaces, has designs on Ione and sets out to destroy their buddin... |
1860568 /m/061tgf The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall 1928 {"/m/04fqp": "K\u00fcnstlerroman", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book's protagonist, Stephen Gordon, is born in the late Victorian era to upper-class parents in Worcestershire who are expecting a boy and who christen her with the boy's name they had already chose... |
1860626 /m/061tlb The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre Louis Cha 1961 {"/m/08322": "Wuxia", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Set in the late Yuan Dynasty, the story revolves around a pair of priceless and extremely powerful weapons, known as the Heaven Reliant Sword (倚天劍) and Dragon Slaying Saber (屠龍刀), which many jianghu pugilists ... |
1860881 /m/061v3h Dead Man's Folly Agatha Christie {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction"} En route to Nasse House, Poirot gives a lift to two female hitch-hikers – one Dutch and one Italian – who are staying at the youth hostel adjoining the Nasse House grounds. When he arrives, Mrs Oliver explains that she feels that her pla... |
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