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Pasternak's 1922 poetry collection — written in the summer of 1917, during the revolutionary period — made him immediately famous in Russian literary circles. The poems are extraordinarily sensuous: nature, weather, rain, and the body are rendered with a precision that owes something to Rilke and something to no one. The poetry at the end of Doctor Zhivago belongs to this tradition.

Nine stories including 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish,' 'For Esmé — with Love and Squalor,' and 'The Laughing Man.' Salinger's story collection is the best American short fiction of the postwar period — each story structured as an epiphany that withholds its epiphanic content, leaving the reader in the resonant space of what is not quite said.

A sniper kills five random people in a midwestern city. The evidence is overwhelming. The suspect is in custody. He asks for one thing: Jack Reacher. Reacher arrives not to help the man get off, but to make sure justice is done — only to discover that something about the case does not add up.

Lauren Olamina's Earthseed community faces its greatest threat when a theocratic demagogue rises to power — mirroring America's darkest impulses. Butler's Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower is even more prophetic and more devastating than its predecessor.

The title novella follows two employees of a cave-people theme park required to behave as prehistoric humans and file daily reports on each other's authenticity. Also includes 'Sea Oak,' in which a dead aunt returns to demand her family improve their lives, and 'The Falls.' Pastoralia is the darkest of Saunders's collections and the one most directly engaged with economic precarity.

Percy Jackson and his friends venture into the treacherous Sea of Monsters to retrieve the Golden Fleece and save Camp Half-Blood from destruction.

Percy must rescue Artemis and Annabeth from the Titan lord's forces before a devastating prophecy comes to pass and Olympus falls.

Joan Didion's second novel follows Maria Wyeth, a model and actress drifting through Los Angeles and the Nevada desert in a state of existential collapse — a portrait of a woman at the end of what she can endure.

John Clark — the CIA field operative who has appeared across Clancy's Jack Ryan universe — is given command of Rainbow, a multinational counter-terrorism unit. When a series of hostage situations reveals a larger conspiracy involving bioterrorism and corporate eco-extremism, Rainbow must stop a plot aimed at reducing the human population.

Retired FBI profiler Will Graham, who was nearly killed capturing Hannibal Lecter, is called back to help catch a serial killer called the Tooth Fairy — and must return to Lecter's cell to get inside the new killer's mind.

Sabriel, the daughter of the Abhorsen — a necromancer who binds the dead rather than raising them — must cross the Wall between modern England and the magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father and confront a dread evil rising from Death.

After the Mule's defeat, the galaxy is preoccupied with finding the mysterious Second Foundation — whose existence could either save or undermine the First Foundation's plan. Two storylines unfold: the Mule's search, and then the First Foundation's own search years later. The location of the Second Foundation is the central mystery of the original trilogy.

Frédéric Moreau arrives in Paris from the provinces and spends twenty years pursuing an idealized love, a political career, wealth, and artistic ambition — achieving none of them. Flaubert's most autobiographical novel is his most devastating account of an entire generation's failure.

A financial plan for young professionals to go from broke to financial freedom in three phases — cutting expenses drastically, investing in income-producing assets, and scaling up.

Ellison's collection of essays on literature, music, and American identity — written over twenty years — is the essential companion to Invisible Man. The essays on jazz and blues argue that African American music is the central achievement of American culture; the literary essays situate Ellison's novel within the tradition of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Dostoevsky; and the autobiographical pieces account for the Oklahoman who became one of the great American novelists.

A shape-shifting kandra is orchestrating political unrest in the city of Elendel, and Wax and Wayne must stop an assassin who can wear any face before the city tears itself apart.

Spensa dreams of becoming a pilot in humanity's fight against the alien Krell, but her father's disgrace as a supposed coward has barred her from flight school. When she discovers a crashed, ancient starfighter with an unlikely AI, she finds a path to the sky — and to truths about the war her society would rather keep buried.

David Bach's bestselling personal finance guide for women — covering values-based financial planning, debt elimination, retirement investing, and building lasting wealth.

The fourth volume opens with the narrator's discovery that the Baron de Charlus is homosexual and follows the consequences through the upper echelons of French society — Proust's most extended treatment of same-sex desire and his most sociological.

Three thousand years after Ender's Game, the now-ancient Ender Wiggin becomes a Speaker for the Dead on a world where a second contact with aliens threatens to become the second genocide.

The definitive long-run analysis of stock market returns, showing why equities outperform all other asset classes over long time horizons and how to build a winning portfolio.

Gustad Noble, a Parsi bank clerk in 1971 Bombay, is drawn into an ill-fated conspiracy involving an old friend, the Indo-Pakistani War, and a sum of money that will threaten everything he has built.

Harry Dresden is recruited by the Faerie Winter Queen to investigate the murder of the Summer Knight — the human champion of the Summer Court — before a war between the faerie courts destroys Chicago.

The second Witcher short story collection introduces Ciri — the child of destiny whose fate becomes the central thread of the entire saga — and deepens the relationships between Geralt, Yennefer, and the world they inhabit.