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Cover of Terminal WorldScience Fiction · Hard Science Fiction

Terminal World

A Novel

By Alastair Reynolds

Pathologist Quillon flees the vertical city of Spearpoint with an angel's secret, crossing zones where different technologies function and the world itself resists a single explanation.

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Cover of The Anxious GenerationNon Fiction · Popular Science

The Anxious Generation

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt links the shift from play-based childhoods to phone-based childhoods with rising teen anxiety and depression, then proposes practical norms for parents and schools.

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Cover of The Calamity ClubHistorical Fiction · Womens Fiction

The Calamity Club

A Novel

By Kathryn Stockett

In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, eleven-year-old Meg, practical Birdie, and desperate Charlie are drawn into an audacious plan as poverty, an abusive orphanage, family secrets, and hostile institutions close around them.

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Cover of The CastleExistential Fiction · Classic Literature

The Castle

Kafka Review of Bureaucratic Surrealism

By Franz Kafka

Kafka immerses readers in a snowbound village where a land surveyor named K. confronts opaque officials and a living bureaucracy.

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Cover of The Cloud RoadsFantasy · Character Driven Fantasy

The Cloud Roads

The Books of the Raksura, Book 1

By Martha Wells

Moon has spent his life hiding that he can transform into a winged creature, but an encounter with another shapeshifter offers him a place in a court threatened by the predatory Fell.

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Cover of The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1Classic Literature

The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1

Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia

By Seneca

Medea, Phaedra, the women of Troy, the divided house of Oedipus, and the imperial court of Octavia reveal desire and power converting private injury into public catastrophe.

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The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2

Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon

By Seneca

Five Roman tragedies turn plague, family violence, madness, revenge, cannibalism, and the collapse of royal houses into concentrated studies of power and destructive passion.

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Cover of The CompoundScience Fiction · Dystopian Fiction

The Compound

A GMA Book Club Pick

By Aisling Rawle

Lily and nineteen contestants enter a desert reality show where luxury prizes and basic necessities blur into a ruthless, televised fight for comfort and survival.

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Cover of The CoworkerThriller · Psychological Horror

The Coworker

A Workplace Thriller

By Freida McFadden

When awkward accountant Dawn Schiff vanishes, polished coworker Natalie Farrell falls under suspicion and every email, routine, and break-room conversation looks like a clue.

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Cover of The Da Vinci CodeThriller · Historical Fiction

The Da Vinci Code

A Robert Langdon Thriller

By Dan Brown

Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is a lightning-fast art-history thriller that follows Robert Langdon across Paris and London as he decodes secret societies, sacred symbols, and a murder staged inside the Louvre.

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