
It Happened One Summer
by Tessa Bailey
A social-media-famous LA socialite is exiled to a small Pacific Northwest fishing town by her stepfather, where she falls for the town's gruff, widowed boat captain.
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by Tessa Bailey
A social-media-famous LA socialite is exiled to a small Pacific Northwest fishing town by her stepfather, where she falls for the town's gruff, widowed boat captain.
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by Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a seagull who cares nothing for the daily scramble for fish and everything for the art of flight, pursuing perfection with an obsession that gets him banished from his flock. The book follows his journey from outcast to teacher as he discovers that the limits of flight mirror the limits we place on our own potential.
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by R.F. Kuang
When a brilliant Cambridge magick scholar dies, two rival graduate students descend into a meticulously logical Hell to retrieve his soul — and the recommendation letter their careers depend on — in R.F. Kuang's dark-academia fantasy of grief, ambition, and rivalry.
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by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artificial Friend named Klara, powered by sunlight and possessed of extraordinary observational gifts, narrates her life alongside a sickly teenage girl and her mother in a near-future America.
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by Rebecca Solnit
Seven essays on sexism, language, and power — anchored by the title essay, which coined the term 'mansplaining' (though Solnit never uses the word), and ranging to cover the epidemic of violence against women, Virginia Woolf's relationship to the sea, and the politics of silence.
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by Suzanne Collins
Katniss Everdeen becomes the Mockingjay, the symbol of the rebellion against the Capitol, as all-out war engulfs Panem and extracts a devastating personal cost.
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by Keith Ferrazzi
Keith Ferrazzi argues that professional success depends on the quality of your relationships and provides a system for building genuine connections rather than transactional networks.
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by Sally Rooney
Two Irish teenagers, a popular athlete and an awkward intellectual, begin an unlikely relationship that reshapes both of them across years of university life.
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by Jack Kerouac
Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty — alter egos of Kerouac and Neal Cassady — drive back and forth across America in search of sensation, connection, and the meaning of the American road.
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by Abby Jimenez
An ER doctor and a handyman from a small town have a perfect weekend together — and then have to figure out if real life can hold what they found.
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by Paul Lynch
A microbiologist in near-future Ireland watches her country slide toward authoritarian rule as her family is torn apart, in a novel that won the 2023 Booker Prize.
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by Colleen Hoover
A mother-daughter story of grief, betrayal, and rebuilding after a devastating family tragedy reshapes everything they thought they knew.
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by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb's argument that bearing personal consequences for one's decisions is both an ethical imperative and the only reliable mechanism for producing good outcomes in complex systems.
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by Robert A. Heinlein
A human raised by Martians returns to Earth and, unable to comprehend human society, begins to transform it from within.
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by Grant Cardone
Grant Cardone argues that the only way to achieve extraordinary results is to set targets 10 times higher than you think you need and take 10 times more action than seems necessary.
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by Robert Greene
A distillation of three thousand years of history's most effective strategies for acquiring and maintaining power, drawn from historical figures ranging from Sun Tzu to Catherine the Great.
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by Mel Robbins
Mel Robbins reveals the five-second rule: when you feel an impulse to act on a goal, count backwards from five and move before your brain has time to stop you.
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by Malcolm Gladwell
The story of a group of idealistic American airmen in the 1930s who dreamed precision bombing could make war more humane — and why their dream collided with catastrophic reality over Tokyo.
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by David Graeber and David Wengrow
An anarchist anthropologist and an archaeologist argue that conventional narratives of social evolution — from bands to tribes to states — are wrong, and that human history shows far more political experimentation and freedom than we have assumed.
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by Julia Quinn
Daphne Bridgerton and the Duke of Hastings enter a fake courtship to mutual benefit — and discover that playing at love is a dangerous game when real feelings get involved.
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by Lisa Jewell
A woman inherits a Chelsea townhouse on her twenty-fifth birthday and discovers a mystery inside: three dead bodies were found there when she was a baby, and the house holds secrets about the cult that destroyed two families.
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by Lucy Foley
A glamorous wedding on a remote Irish island turns deadly, and the assembled guests all have reason to wish the groom harm.
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by Freida McFadden
Millie Calloway returns as a housemaid in a new household where she suspects her employer is in danger — but the situation is far more complicated and deadly than it first appears.
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by Helen Hoang
An autistic econometrician hires a professional escort to help her practice intimacy, and the arrangement becomes something neither of them could have predicted.
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