
Still Life
by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates the suspicious death of a beloved woman in the idyllic village of Three Pines.
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by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates the suspicious death of a beloved woman in the idyllic village of Three Pines.
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by Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss dismantles the assumption that the standard life script — work 40+ hours a week for 40 years, then retire — is either necessary or desirable. He outlines a practical system for outsourcing, automating, and liberating your work life to create what he calls 'lifestyle design'.
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by Kate Quinn
Two women separated by thirty years — a WWI spy and a postwar American girl — are connected by the real-life Alice Network, a ring of female spies embedded in German-occupied France.
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by Julia Cameron
A twelve-week program for recovering and developing creativity through two core practices: Morning Pages (three pages of stream-of-consciousness writing each morning) and the Artist's Date (a weekly solo creative excursion).
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by Sylvia Plath
Esther Greenwood, a brilliant college student in 1950s New York, descends into mental illness and attempted suicide in Sylvia Plath's semi-autobiographical masterpiece.
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by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
A dialogue between a philosopher and a young man across five nights explores Alfred Adler's psychology of freedom — the idea that unhappiness is a choice, trauma is a story, and happiness requires the courage to be disliked.
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by Rick Rubin
Legendary music producer Rick Rubin offers a philosophical meditation on creativity — what it is, how it works, and how to live in a way that allows it to flourish.
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by Michael E. Gerber
Why most small businesses don't work and what to do about it — the classic guide to building a business rather than owning a job.
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by Robert Jordan
Three young men from the isolated village of Emond's Field are driven from their homes by dark forces — and drawn into a world-spanning conflict they barely understand, in the opening of one of fantasy's greatest and most ambitious epic series.
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by Gary Chapman
Marriage counselor Gary Chapman identifies five distinct ways people express and receive love — words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch — and argues that mismatches cause most relationship conflict.
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by Don Miguel Ruiz
Drawing on ancient Toltec wisdom, Don Miguel Ruiz identifies four agreements — be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, always do your best — that can transform life by dismantling the limiting beliefs we absorbed in childhood.
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by Kristin Hannah
A Texas farm woman faces an impossible choice during the Great Depression's Dust Bowl: stay on the land that is killing them or take her children to California's labor camps.
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by Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls recounts her extraordinary childhood, raised by brilliant but dysfunctional nomadic parents who flouted convention and neglected their children's basic needs.
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by Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize–winning epic follows Wang Lung, a poor Chinese farmer, from his wedding day through poverty, famine, and hard-won wealth, tracing the rise and moral cost of a family bound to the land across a time of vast upheaval.
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by Kristin Hannah
In 1974, a Vietnam vet moves his family to remote Alaska wilderness, where the land's magnificent isolation amplifies his PTSD and the family's survival depends on his wife and daughter's strength.
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by Robert Greene
Robert Greene analyzes eighteen fundamental aspects of human psychology — from narcissism and envy to grandiosity and conformism — and shows how understanding them enables better navigation of people and situations.
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by Michael Connelly
Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between Los Angeles courthouses. When a wealthy Beverly Hills client hires him to fight a serious assault charge, Haller begins to suspect the man is guilty of something far worse — and that he has defended it before.
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by Kazuo Ishiguro
Stevens, an aging English butler, takes a motoring trip through the English countryside and reflects on a lifetime of dedicated service — and the opportunities for love and meaning he declined in its name.
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by Carissa Broadbent
A human raised among vampires enters a deadly century-old tournament for a single wish, forced into an uneasy alliance with a rival competitor who may be the only person she cannot afford to trust.
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by Peter Frankopan
A radical reorientation of world history centered on the Silk Roads — the trade routes connecting East and West — arguing that Asia, the Middle East, and Central Asia have been the world's true centers for most of recorded history.
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by Madeline Miller
Patroclus, the unassuming son of a minor Greek king, tells the story of his life alongside Achilles — the most beautiful and most doomed of Greek heroes — and the love between them.
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by Carissa Broadbent
The first book of the Shadowborn Duet, in which a vampire missionary trapped in the underworld must strike a bargain with the God of Death to escape, in a darker, more romantic corner of the Crowns of Nyaxia world.
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by Elena Ferrante
The second Neapolitan novel follows Lila into her disastrous marriage and Elena through her university entrance exams and early years of higher education, as their friendship navigates the widening gap of their diverging lives.
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by Mark Manson
A counterintuitive approach to living a good life — stop trying to be positive all the time and instead focus on what truly matters.
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