An arresting coming of age, an exploration of gender, a modern folktale, a powerful portrait of a family--Katya Kazbek breaks out as a new voice to watch. When Mitya was two years old, he...
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Author: Kazbek, KatyaSummary:Genre: Bildungsromans, Historical fiction
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Author: Corey, James S.A.Summary:
This is how it ends. Leviathan Falls is the explosive final novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning Expanse series, now a major TV series. The Laconian Empire has fallen,...
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Author: Aslan, RezaSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A lucid, intelligent page-turner” (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer
Two thousand years ago,...
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Author: Palmer, AdaSummary:
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer-a...
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Author: Corey, James S. A.Summary:
The second book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's...
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Author: Corey, James S. A.Summary:
This is how it ends. Leviathan Falls is the explosive final novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning Expanse series, now a major TV series. The Laconian Empire has fallen,...
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Author: Theroux, PaulSummary:
Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi...
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Author: Theroux, PaulSummary:
A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch. To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard...
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Author: Manseau, PeterSummary:
A story of faith and fraud in post-Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn...
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Author: Calvino, ItaloSummary:
Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino...
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Author: Shors, JohnSummary:
Ian and his 10-year-old daughter Mattie are struggling with the passing of Kate--wife and mother--after her long battle with cancer. When Ian finally opens a letter Kate handed him before her...
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Author: Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.Summary:
Dozens of identical blue shoes are found in the ocean off the coast of Florida, all with a severed human foot inside. Pendergast reluctantly arrives on Captiva Island and is quickly drawn into the...
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Author: Corey, James S. A.Summary:
For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has...
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Author: Corey, James S. A.Summary:
The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Holden and his crew must contend with the growing tensions between the settlers and the company that...
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Author: Corey, James S. A.Summary:
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As a new human order is struggling to be born in blood and fire, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante...
Genre: Science fiction