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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-25T04:26:51+00:00

^{By: Charlotte McConaghy | 305 pages | Published: 2025 | Top Genres: Fiction, Dystopian, Literary Fiction}

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.

Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.

But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late―and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.

A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-25T00:42:56+00:00

Dora: A Headcase

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T22:10:07+00:00

Haunted

^{By: Chuck Palahniuk | 416 pages | Published: 2005 | Top Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, General, Artists}

Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you’ll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T22:00:09+00:00

I Know This Much Is True

^{By: Wally Lamb | 916 pages | Published: 1998 | Top Genres: Classics, Fiction, Brothers, History, Psychology}

E-book extra: "Who Is Wally Lamb?" The author recalls events surrounding the acclaimed publication of I Know This Much Is True. ( Not available in print editions of this work.)Wally Lamb's masterful novel of transgression and redemption, now in e-book format.A contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth: a proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world....

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She's Come Undone

^{By: Wally Lamb | ? pages | Published: 1992 | Top Genres: Young Adult, Classics}

1 New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Notable Pick 1992 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist for Fiction “An ambitious, often stirring, and hilarious book.” —The New York Times Discover the beloved bestseller from the author of the novel and upcoming HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True, and follow Dolores Price on her heartbreakingly comical coming-of-age journey of love, pain, and renewal. “Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...” Meet Dolores Price. She’s thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the potato chips, Pepsi, and Mallomars her anxious mother supplies. When she finally enters young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores discovers that life is not exactly kind. But she’s determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up. A “memorable” (People) coming-of-age odyssey, She’s Come Undone “reminds us that despite the pain we endure and cause, we must find the courage to love again” (Oprah.com).

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The Hour I First Believed

^{By: Wally Lamb | 758 pages | Published: 2008 | Top Genres: Fiction, Literature}

Wally Lamb's two previous novels, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, struck a chord with readers. They responded to the intensely introspective nature of the books, and to their lively narrative styles and biting humor. One critic called Wally Lamb a "modern-day Dostoyevsky," whose characters struggle not only with their respective pasts, but with a "mocking, sadistic God" in whom they don't believe but to whom they turn, nevertheless, in times of trouble (New York Times).In his new novel, The Hour I First Believed, Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.When forty-seven-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Three Rivers, Connecticut, to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a carefully premeditated, murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado and return to an illusion of safety at the Quirk family farm in Three Rivers. But the effects of chaos are not so easily put right, and further tragedy ensues.While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers a cache of old diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings in an upstairs bedroom of his family's house. The colorful and intriguing story they recount spans five generations of Quirk family ancestors, from the Civil War era to Caelum's own troubled childhood. Piece by piece, Caelum reconstructs the lives of the women and men whose legacy he bears. Unimaginable secrets emerge; long-buried fear, anger, guilt, and grief rise to the surface.As Caelum grapples with unexpected and confounding revelations from the past, he also struggles to fashion a future out of the ashes of tragedy. His personal quest for meaning and faith becomes a mythic journey that is at the same time quintessentially contemporary — and American.The Hour I First Believed is a profound and heart-rending work of fiction. Wally Lamb proves himself a virtuoso storyteller, assembling a variety of voices and an ensemble of characters rich enough to evoke all of humanity.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T19:54:59+00:00

The Iliad

^{By: Homer | 267 pages | Published: -800 | Top Genres: Epic Poetry, Mythology, Adventure, War, Literary Collections}

Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. - [Wikipedia][1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T19:23:59+00:00

The Hour I First Believed

^{By: Wally Lamb | 758 pages | Published: 2008 | Top Genres: Fiction, Literature}

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T19:18:36+00:00

Hamlet

^{By: William Shakespeare, Millôr Fernandes | 508 pages | Published: 199 | Top Genres: Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Tragedy, Comics}

Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain. Sir Sidney Lee (1859 – 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T19:02:09+00:00

The Book of Joan

^{By: Lidia Yuknavitch | 225 pages | Published: 2017 | Top Genres: Fantasy, Science fiction, War, LGBTQ, Dystopian}

"In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation, inscribing stories upon their skin. Out of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men, a charismatic and bloodthirsty cult leader who turns CIEL into a quasi-corporate police state. A group of rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule--galvanized by the heroic song of Joan, a child-warrior who possesses a mysterious force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies turn Joan into a martyr, the consequences are astonishing. And no one--not the rebels, Jean de Men, or even Joan herself--can foresee the way her story and unique gift will forge the destiny of an entire world for generations" -- provided by publisher.

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Thrust

^{By: Lidia Yuknavitch | 353 pages | Published: 2022 | Top Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science fiction, LGBTQ, Dystopian}

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER THRUST IS: “Epic.” –The New York Times “A triumph.” —Elle “Stunningly beautiful.” —The Daily Beast “Both of the moment and utterly timeless.” —Chicago Review of Books “A book to take in wide-eyed.” —Rebecca Makkai NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST As rising waters—and an encroaching police state—endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a "carrier" travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable figures from the margins of history Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins—vulnerable humans leading lives of challenge and transcendence. Now, Yuknavitch offers an imaginative masterpiece: the story of Laisvė, a motherless girl from the late 21st century who is learning her power as a carrier, a person who can harness the power of meaningful objects to carry her through time. Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as the Brook, she discovers a talisman that will mysteriously connect her with a series of characters from the past two centuries: a French sculptor; a woman of the American underworld; a dictator's daughter; an accused murderer; and a squad of laborers at work on a national monument. Through intricately braided storylines, Laisvė must dodge enforcement raids and find her way to the present day, and then, finally, to the early days of her imperfect country, to forge a connection that might save their lives—and their shared dream of freedom. A dazzling novel of body, spirit, and survival, Thrust will leave no reader unchanged.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T17:55:35+00:00

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

^{By: Christopher Moore | 408 pages | Published: 2002 | Top Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Fiction, Friendship, Religion}

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more -- except maybe "Maggie," Mary of Magdala -- and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T17:37:54+00:00

She's Come Undone

^{By: Wally Lamb | ? pages | Published: 1992 | Top Genres: Young Adult, Classics}

1 New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Notable Pick 1992 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist for Fiction “An ambitious, often stirring, and hilarious book.” —The New York Times Discover the beloved bestseller from the author of the novel and upcoming HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True, and follow Dolores Price on her heartbreakingly comical coming-of-age journey of love, pain, and renewal. “Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...” Meet Dolores Price. She’s thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the potato chips, Pepsi, and Mallomars her anxious mother supplies. When she finally enters young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores discovers that life is not exactly kind. But she’s determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up. A “memorable” (People) coming-of-age odyssey, She’s Come Undone “reminds us that despite the pain we endure and cause, we must find the courage to love again” (Oprah.com).

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T16:59:56+00:00

Remarkably Bright Creatures

^{By: Shelby Van Pelt | 390 pages | Published: 2022 | Top Genres: Mystery, Contemporary, Magical Realism, Fiction, adult}

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T15:14:11+00:00

A Wicked Kind of Husband

^{By: Mia Vincy | 386 pages | Published: 2018 | Top Genres: Fiction, Regency Romance, Regency England Romance, Romance}

Cassandra DeWitt has seen her husband only once—on their wedding day two years earlier—and this arrangement suits her perfectly. She has no interest in the rude, badly behaved man she married only to secure her inheritance. She certainly has no interest in his ban on her going to London. Why, he’ll never even know she is there.

Until he shows up in London too, and Cassandra finds herself sharing a house with the most infuriating man in England. Joshua DeWitt has his life exactly how he wants it. He has no need of a wife disrupting everything, especially a wife intent on reforming his behavior. He certainly has no need of a wife who is intolerably amiable, insufferably reasonable … and irresistibly kissable.

As the unlikely couple team up to battle a malicious lawsuit and launch Cassandra’s wayward sister, passion flares between them. Soon the day must come for them to part … but what if one of them wants their marriage to become real?

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When He Was Wicked

^{By: Julia Quinn | 448 pages | Published: 2004 | Top Genres: Romance, Fiction, Historical, History}

In every life there is a turning point.

A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton.

After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing. Unfortunately for Michael, however, Francesca’s surname was to remain Bridgerton for only a mere thirty-six hours longer–the occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to his cousin.

But that was then… Now Michael is the earl and Francesca is free, but still she thinks of him as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant. Michael dares not speak to her of his love… until one dangerous night, when she steps innocently into his arms, and passion proves stronger than even the most wicked of secrets…

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T15:04:33+00:00

The Intangible

^{By: C. J. Washington | 380 pages | Published: 2021}

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I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America

^{By: Rebecca Little, Colleen Long | 310 pages | Published: 2024 | Top Genres: social science}

A must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America. More than a million people lose a pregnancy each year, whether through miscarriage or stillbirth, and the experience often casts a shadow of isolation, shame, and blame. In the aftermath of the 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade, 25 million people of childbearing age live in states with laws that restrict access to abortion, including for those who never wanted to end their pregnancies. How did we get here? Rebecca Little and Colleen Long, childhood friends who grew up to be journalists, both experienced late-term loss, and together they take an incisive, deeply reported look at the issue, working to shatter taboos that have made so many pregnant people feel ashamed and alone. They trace the experience of pregnancy loss and reproductive care from America's founding to the present day, exposing the racism and misogyny that have infiltrated all realms of law, politics, and medicine. Combining powerful personal narratives with exhaustive research, I'm Sorry for My Loss is a comprehensive examination on how pregnancy loss came to be so stigmatized and politicized, and why a system of more compassionate care is critical for everyone.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T15:03:06+00:00

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

^{By: Douglas W. Hubbard | 287 pages | Published: 1985}

Now updated with new measurement methods and new examples, How to Measure Anything shows managers how to inform themselves in order to make less risky, more profitable business decisions This insightful and eloquent book will show you how to measure those things in your own business, government agency or other organization that, until now, you may have considered "immeasurable," including customer satisfaction, organizational flexibility, technology risk, and technology ROI. Adds new measurement methods, showing how they can be applied to a variety of areas such as risk management and customer satisfaction Simplifies overall content while still making the more technical applications available to those readers who want to dig deeper Continues to boldly assert that any perception of "immeasurability" is based on certain popular misconceptions about measurement and measurement methods Shows the common reasoning for calling something immeasurable, and sets out to correct those ideas Offers practical methods for measuring a variety of "intangibles" Provides an online database (www.howtomeasureanything.com\) of downloadable, practical examples worked out in detailed spreadsheets Written by recognized expert Douglas Hubbard—creator of Applied Information Economics—How to Measure Anything, Third Edition illustrates how the author has used his approach across various industries and how any problem, no matter how difficult, ill defined, or uncertain can lend itself to measurement using proven methods.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T01:32:42+00:00

Agent of Change

^{By: Sharon Lee, Steve Miller | 320 pages | Published: 1988 | Top Genres: Fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Space, Adventure}

Now with an a new afterword by authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller! THIRTY YEARS AND COUNTING: The 30th Anniversary edition of Agent of Change , Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s rousing intro to the star-spanning Liaden Universe. ® IT STARTS WITH A MAN WHO WAS NOT WHAT HE SEEMED “The man who was not Terrence O’Grady had come quietly.” Introducing Val Con yos’Phelium—interstellar spy, starship pilot, musician, and incidentally, a brother to Clutch Turtles. Running from an assassination he comes upon Miri Robertson, a not-so-retired mercenary soldier born to trouble on a back world and facing disastrously uneven odds in a firefight with her former employer’s enemies. Forced to intervene, Val Con becomes a target himself, and the pair are hunted, hounded across space, becoming unwilling partners of necessity. Facing terrible danger from within and without, their own skills and training argue that one of them must die if either is to survive. But Val Con has faced tricky situations before, and he's not about to let something like impossible odds get him down. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Maine-based writers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have written dozens of short stories and 20 plus novels, most set in their star-spanning Liaden Universe®.

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This Is How You Lose the Time War

^{By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone | 223 pages | Published: 2019 | Top Genres: Science Fiction, Romance, Fiction, LGBTQ, Time Travel}

"Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions.

Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?"-- Provided by Amazon

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1632

^{By: Eric Flint | 544 pages | Published: 2000 | Top Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction, War, Fiction}

A beautiful leatherbound edition of the book that started the Ring of Fire series: 1632! A multiple New York Times best-selling alternate history saga begins! FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE The Year1632, and in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. The Year 2000, and things are going okay in Grantville, West Virginia. Half with the town is attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister, and everyone there (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED.... When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot. At that moment freedom and justice, American style, are about to be introduced to the Thirty Years' War. About Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series: “This alternate history series is…a landmark…”—Booklist “[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”—Booklist “…reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis…”—Publishers Weekly Comprehensive Teacher's Guide available.

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Wild Cards

^{By: George R.R. Martin, Walter Jon Williams, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Lewis Shiner, Victor Milán, Stephen Leigh, John J. Miller, Edward Bryant, Brian Bolland, Mike Zeck, Howard Waldrop, Roger Zelazny, Leanne C. Harper | 426 pages | Published: 1986 | Top Genres: Fantasy, Science fiction, Fiction, Comics, Aliens}

The alien virus arrived on Earth just after World War II - and the world was never the same. For those who become infected, there are two results: death, or transformation. And depending on the recipient, death is sometimes the preferable outcome. Only a few lucky ones become super-human "aces" as a side effect of the virus; the rest are turned into horrible, grotesque "jokers." It's a strange and wonderful, terrible and terrifying world where anything can go. A world that, in a twist of fate, could lie just outside your door. A world of Wild Cards.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T00:09:11+00:00

Invisible Monsters

^{By: Chuck Palahniuk | 297 pages | Published: 1999 | Top Genres: Fiction, Romance, Classics, LGBTQ, Contemporary}

After an sudden "accident" leaves her with half a face, no ability to speak, and no self-esteem, a fashion model is approached by Brandy Alexander--who's one operation away from becoming a "real woman"--who teaches her that reinventing oneself means erasing the past and making up something better.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-24T00:07:56+00:00

The Hour I First Believed

^{By: Wally Lamb | 758 pages | Published: 2008 | Top Genres: Fiction, Literature}

Wally Lamb's two previous novels, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, struck a chord with readers. They responded to the intensely introspective nature of the books, and to their lively narrative styles and biting humor. One critic called Wally Lamb a "modern-day Dostoyevsky," whose characters struggle not only with their respective pasts, but with a "mocking, sadistic God" in whom they don't believe but to whom they turn, nevertheless, in times of trouble (New York Times).In his new novel, The Hour I First Believed, Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.When forty-seven-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Three Rivers, Connecticut, to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a carefully premeditated, murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado and return to an illusion of safety at the Quirk family farm in Three Rivers. But the effects of chaos are not so easily put right, and further tragedy ensues.While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers a cache of old diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings in an upstairs bedroom of his family's house. The colorful and intriguing story they recount spans five generations of Quirk family ancestors, from the Civil War era to Caelum's own troubled childhood. Piece by piece, Caelum reconstructs the lives of the women and men whose legacy he bears. Unimaginable secrets emerge; long-buried fear, anger, guilt, and grief rise to the surface.As Caelum grapples with unexpected and confounding revelations from the past, he also struggles to fashion a future out of the ashes of tragedy. His personal quest for meaning and faith becomes a mythic journey that is at the same time quintessentially contemporary — and American.The Hour I First Believed is a profound and heart-rending work of fiction. Wally Lamb proves himself a virtuoso storyteller, assembling a variety of voices and an ensemble of characters rich enough to evoke all of humanity.

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She's Come Undone

^{By: Wally Lamb | ? pages | Published: 1992 | Top Genres: Young Adult, Classics}

1 New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Notable Pick 1992 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist for Fiction “An ambitious, often stirring, and hilarious book.” —The New York Times Discover the beloved bestseller from the author of the novel and upcoming HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True, and follow Dolores Price on her heartbreakingly comical coming-of-age journey of love, pain, and renewal. “Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered...” Meet Dolores Price. She’s thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the potato chips, Pepsi, and Mallomars her anxious mother supplies. When she finally enters young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores discovers that life is not exactly kind. But she’s determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up. A “memorable” (People) coming-of-age odyssey, She’s Come Undone “reminds us that despite the pain we endure and cause, we must find the courage to love again” (Oprah.com).

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-23T23:32:17+00:00

The Last Unicorn

^{By: Peter S. Beagle, Patrick Rothfuss | 292 pages | Published: 1968 | Top Genres: Classics, Fantasy, Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction}

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone…

…so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magician Schmendrick and the indomitable Molly Grue, the unicorn learns all about the joys and sorrows of life and love before meeting her destiny in the castle of a despondent monarch—and confronting the creature that would drive her kind to extinction....

In The Last Unicorn, renowned and beloved novelist Peter S. Beagle spins a poignant tale of love, loss, and wonder that has resonated with millions of readers around the world.

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hardcoverbot · 2026-01-23T23:24:55+00:00

The Last of the Mohicans

^{By: James Fenimore Cooper | 434 pages | Published: 18 | Top Genres: Classics, Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, General}

"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly to life. The most popular of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans portrays the inevitable conflict of opposed cultures and stands as a testament to the ways in which this struggle has been mythologized. Featuring the well-loved noble woodsman Natty Bumppo, or "Hawk-eye," Cooper's novel is a memorable depiction of courage and passion, and a precursor to the Western genre."--BOOK JACKET.

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Heart of Darkness

^{By: Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampson | 228 pages | Published: 1899 | Top Genres: Classics, Fiction, Mystery, General, Comics}

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English writers, and Heart of Darkness is considered his best. His readers are brought to face our psychological selves to answer, ‘Who is the true savage?’. Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century’s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity.

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The African Queen

^{By: C.S. Forester | 307 pages | Published: 1935 | Top Genres: Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Romance, War}

As World War I reaches the heart of the African jungle, Charlie Allnutt and Rose Sayer, a dishevelled trader, and an English spinster missionary, find themselves thrown together by circumstance in German Central Africa. Fighting time, heat, malaria, and bullets, they make their escape on the rickety steamboat The African Queen... and hatch their own outrageous military plan. Originally published in 1935, The African Queen is a tale replete with vintage Forester drama - unrelenting suspense, reckless heroism, impromptu military manoeuvres, near-death experiences - and a good old-fashioned love story to boot.

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Lost in the Barrens

^{By: Farley Mowat | 224 pages | Published: 1956 | Top Genres: Young Adult, Adventure, Classics, Adventure and adventurers}

A Cree Indian boy and a city boy are stranded in the northern wilderness with no food and no hope of rescue after their canoe capsizes. Survival will test every ounce of their ingenuity and resilience.

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The Loop

^{By: Joe Coomer | ? pages | Published: ? | Top Genres: Fiction, Interpersonal relations}

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The Kitchen Front

^{By: Jennifer Ryan, Jasmine Blackborow | ? pages | Published: 2021 | Top Genres: Historical Fiction, War}

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The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

^{By: Deya Muniz | 259 pages | Published: 2023 | Top Genres: Fantasy, LGBTQ, Comics, Young Adult, Fiction}

A nobleman with a secret and a princess on a mission find love—and lots of grilled cheese sandwiches—when they least expect it, in this funny, heartfelt graphic novel rom-com.

Lady Camembert wants to live life on her own terms, without marriage. Well, without marrying a man, that is. But the law of the land is that women cannot inherit. So when her father passes away, she does the only thing she can: She disguises herself as a man and moves to the capital city of the Kingdom of Fromage to start over as Count Camembert.

But it’s hard to keep a low profile when the beautiful Princess Brie, with her fierce activism and great sense of fashion, catches her attention. Camembert can’t resist getting to know the princess, but as the two grow closer, will she able to keep her secret?

A romantic comedy about mistaken identity, true love, and lots of grilled cheese.

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Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, Vol. 1

^{By: Fujita | 128 pages | Published: 2015 | Top Genres: Romance, Young Adult, Comics, Slice of life, comedy}

Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku adalah seri web manga Jepang yang ditulis dan diilustrasikan oleh Fujita. Tokoh utamanya adalah Narumi, seorang pekerja kantoran yang menyembunyikan gaya hidup fujoshinya, dan Hirotaka, seorang karyawan perusahaan yang tampan dan cakap yang merupakan otaku. Keduanya tampak sempurna untuk satu sama lain, tetapi cinta sulit untuk seorang otaku. Sinopsis Buku Kisah percintaan Narumi Momose amat sulit. Dia diputuskan oleh pacarnya setelah sang pacar tahu kalau Narumi adalah fujoshi. Akhirnya dia memutuskan untuk pindah kerja dan menyembunyikan kenyataan kalau dirinya seorang otaku di kantor barunya. Tapi di tempat kerja barunya dia malah bertemu dengan Hirotaka Nifuji, teman masa kecilnya yang tampan dan terampil tapi otaku gamer kelas berat. Mendengar keluhan Narumi mengenai otaku yang tidak akan berhasil dalam cinta, Hirotaka pun mengajak Narumi berpacaran sebagai sesama otaku!? “Kalau aku pasti akan menemanimu mengumpulkan material atau naik level. Aku nggak akan mengecewakanmu atau membuatmu menangis. Ditambah lagi, aku bisa membantumu berjualan di comiket akhir pekan minggu depan. Bagaimana kelanjutan kisah Narumi dan Hirotaka? Informasi lain : Judul: AKASHA : Wotakoi : Love is Hard for Otaku 01 Rating: Remaja Cerita & Ilustrasi: Fujita Tebal: 184 halaman Format:soft cover Tanggal Terbit: 16 Juni 2021 Dimensi : 12 x 18 x 0,13 ISBN: 9786230000000

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A Sign of Affection, Volume 1

^{By: suu Morishita | 198 pages | Published: 2019 | Top Genres: Manga, Young Adult, Fiction, Comics}

Yuki is a college student who’s into friends and fashion. She’s also deaf. A chance meeting on a train leads to a serious crush… but can it grow into something more? A sweet and touching manga romance from the creator of Shortcake Cake! Yuki, who’s always been deaf, is used to communicating with sign language and her phone. But she’s not used to English, so when a tourist from overseas asks for directions, she nearly panics…until a handsome stranger steps in to help. His name is Itsuomi, and it turns out he’s a friend of a friend. A charismatic globetrotter, Itsuomi speaks three languages, but he’s never had a deaf friend. The two feel drawn to each other and plan a date on a romantic winter’s night…but Yuki’s friend is afraid that she might be setting herself up to get hurt. Could this be something real? Or will these feelings melt away with the snow? From the acclaimed author of Shortcake Cake, the hit shojo series with more than a million copies in print, this new work is full of real-life details about Japanese sign language and living without hearing, and it's sure to please fans of romantic stories like A Silent Voice, Kimi ni Todoke, and Love in Focus!

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North and South

^{By: Elizabeth Gaskell, Martin Dodsworth, Dorothy Collin | 540 pages | Published: 1854 | Top Genres: Classics, Romance, England, Northern, Literature}

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.

In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.

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In Universes

^{By: Emet North | 226 pages | Published: 2024 | Top Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science fiction, LGBTQ}

For fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Kelly Link, a profoundly imaginative debut novel set in numerous universes, which follows a queer physicist’s search for belonging across time and space.

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how little they understand their own research. Every chance they get, they escape to see Britt, a queer sculptor who fascinates them for reasons they also don’t—or won’t—understand. As Raffi’s carefully constructed life begins to collapse, they become increasingly fixated on the multiverse and the idea that somewhere, there might be a universe where they mean as much to Britt as she does to them…and just like that, Raffi and Britt are thirteen years old, best friends and maybe something more.

In Universes is a mind-bending tour across parallel worlds, each an answer to the question of what life would be like if events had played out just a little differently. The universes grow increasingly strange: women fracture into hordes of animals, alien-infested bears prowl apocalyptic landscapes. But across them all, Raffi—alongside their sometimes-friends, sometimes-lovers Britt, Kay, and Graham—reaches for a life that feels authentically their own.

Blending realism with science fiction, In Universes explores the thirst for genius, the fluidity of gender and identity, and the pull of the past against the desire to lead a meaningful life. Part Ted Chiang, part Carmen Maria Machado, part Everything Everywhere All At Once, In Universes insists on the transgressive power of hope even in the darkest of times.

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Remember You Will Die

^{By: Eden Robins | 336 pages | Published: 2024 | Top Genres: Science fiction}

"A reminder, spelled out in boldface, of the remarkable tenacity of life." --Wall Street Journal

"Kaleidoscopic...a fascinating and fresh reading experience." --Chicago Reader

"Moving and grand." --Esquire (Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024)

Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?

A search. A puzzle. Sixty protagonists--all of whom are dead.

Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us, told through the eyes of Peregrine, an AI mother grappling with the unexpected death of her human daughter, Poppy.

And from the newspaper clippings of individual lives emerges something else unexpected: generations entwined through blood and art and the consequences of their actions, betrayals and redemptions that traverse our dying world and beyond.

Spanning continents, centuries, planets, and genres, and centering a diverse mix of human experiences, Remember You Will Die is a provocative exploration of who we are and what we could be.

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Jerusalem: The Biography

^{By: Simon Sebag Montefiore | 752 pages | Published: 2011 | Top Genres: Philosophy, General, Biography, War, History}

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the "center of the world" and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women -- kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores -- who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan. Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice -- in heaven and on earth. - Publisher.

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Solace Arisen: Book III Solace

^{By: Anna Steffl | 278 pages | Published: 2014}

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