
The Night She Disappeared
by Lisa Jewell
A young mother and her boyfriend vanish after a night out, a note is found with a cryptic clue, and the rural English countryside hides more than a missing persons case.
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by Lisa Jewell
A young mother and her boyfriend vanish after a night out, a note is found with a cryptic clue, and the rural English countryside hides more than a missing persons case.
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by Alexander McCall Smith
The first of Alexander McCall Smith's beloved series. In Botswana, the warm and wise Precious Ramotswe opens the country's first female-run detective agency, solving small mysteries and large human problems with common sense, kindness, and a deep love of her homeland.
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by Nicholas Sparks
An elderly man reads aloud to his wife from a notebook — the story of their love across decades, class barriers, and the Second World War. One of the best-selling love stories ever written.
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by John Grisham
When two Supreme Court justices are assassinated in one night, law student Darby Shaw writes a speculative legal brief identifying a likely suspect — a powerful oil baron with everything to lose. The brief reaches the wrong hands, and suddenly Darby is running for her life.
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by Josh Kaufman
Josh Kaufman synthesizes the most important concepts from business, marketing, sales, finance, and psychology into a self-directed MBA curriculum.
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by R.F. Kuang
A war orphan from rural China passes the national imperial exam and attends the country's most elite military academy, where she discovers she has the power to channel the gods of war.
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by Niccolò Machiavelli
Written in 1513, published posthumously — a guide for a new prince on how to acquire and keep power. Machiavelli argues that political survival requires abandoning conventional morality when necessary: it is better to be feared than loved, princes must know how to be beasts, and fortune favours the bold.
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by Holly Black
Jude Duarte returns to Elfhame to reclaim her throne and confront the curse that has fallen on Cardan, culminating in the resolution of the Folk of the Air trilogy.
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by Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink's international bestseller. In postwar Germany, a teenage boy has an affair with an older woman who abruptly disappears — only to reappear years later in a courtroom, on trial for Nazi war crimes, forcing him to confront guilt, complicity, and the generation that came after.
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by Stuart Turton
A man awakens with no memory in the body of a different person each morning, forced to relive the same day at a country house party until he can identify the killer of Evelyn Hardcastle — or be trapped forever.
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by Alex Michaelides
A criminal psychotherapist becomes obsessed with uncovering why a famous painter shot her husband five times in the face and has not spoken a single word since.
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by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A communist spy embedded in the South Vietnamese army narrates his journey from the fall of Saigon through Los Angeles exile to reeducation camp, examining what it means to be perpetually between worlds.
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by Margaret Atwood
Set fifteen years after The Handmaid's Tale, three women's testimonies reveal how Gilead began to crumble from within, led by the most unlikely of architects.
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by Richard Osman
Four retirement village residents — including a former spy and a retired psychiatrist — meet weekly to solve cold cases, and find themselves entangled in a very live one.
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by Annie Ernaux
A collective autobiography of twentieth-century France, told through the pronoun 'one' rather than 'I,' assembling a life from photographs, memories, and the shared experience of an entire generation.
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by Lucy Score
A woman arrives in a small town to rescue her twin sister and ends up stranded there, falling into an unlikely arrangement with the town's most infuriating man while raising her niece.
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by Daniel H. Pink
Daniel Pink argues that we are all in sales now — persuading, convincing, and moving others is a universal human activity, not just a profession — and explains the new science behind doing it well.
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by Yaa Gyasi
A Ghanaian-American neuroscience PhD student at Stanford studies the science of addiction and depression while caring for her catatonic mother and processing the loss of her brother to an opioid overdose.
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by Hernan Diaz
Four interlocking narratives circle the same story of a Gilded Age financier and his wife, each version revealing how wealth constructs, revises, and suppresses the truth.
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by Mark Bittman
Mark Bittman's flexible, part-time approach to plant-based eating — vegan before 6:00 p.m., then a sensible dinner — built to improve health and lose weight without the rigidity of a full-time diet, with strategies and recipes to make it work.
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by Daniel H. Pink
Daniel Pink synthesizes research from biology, economics, and psychology to explain when to make decisions, take breaks, and start projects for optimal performance.
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by Zadie Smith
Two North London families — one Bangladeshi, one English — collide across generations in a novel about race, identity, history, and the inheritance that binds us.
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by Cheryl Strayed
After the collapse of her marriage and her mother's death, Cheryl Strayed impulsively hiked 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail alone — unprepared, grieving, and ultimately transformed.
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by Will Smith
Will Smith's memoir traces his journey from West Philadelphia to global superstardom while exploring the fears, failures, and family dynamics that shaped him.
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