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Cover of A Tale of Two CitiesClassic Literature · Historical Fiction

A Tale of Two Cities

A Novel

By Charles Dickens

As revolution approaches in France, the lives of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton become entangled across London and Paris in a story of divided loyalties, resurrection, and sacrifice.

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Cover of Absolution GapScience Fiction · Hard Science Fiction

Absolution Gap

The Inhibitor Trilogy, Book 3

By Alastair Reynolds

While humanity searches for help against the Inhibitors, a religious movement follows moving cathedrals across the moon Hela and watches the gas giant Haldora for an impossible sign.

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Cover of After the FallScience Fiction · Satire

After the Fall

A Novel

By Edward Ashton

A century after alien grays reduced humanity to bonded dependents, John learns the limits of friendship when his gray companion Martok wagers John's bond on a failed wilderness business.

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Airframe

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

Quality-assurance specialist Casey Singleton investigates a fatal incident aboard a Norton wide-body aircraft while technical complexity, corporate pressure, and sensational television coverage compete to define the cause.

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Alchemised

A Novel

By SenLinYu

Resistance healer Helena Marino wakes imprisoned after a civil war with crucial memories missing, while a powerful necromancer is ordered to recover the secrets buried inside her mind.

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Cover of Alchemy of SecretsFantasy · Contemporary Romance

Alchemy of Secrets

A Novel

By Stephanie Garber

Folklore student Holland St. James investigates whether Los Angeles legends are true, entering a hidden magical world while two compelling strangers offer incompatible versions of whom she can trust.

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All Systems Red

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 1

By Martha Wells

A self-aware security unit that has secretly disabled its governor module would rather watch entertainment than explain itself, but a survey mission in corporate space is becoming dangerously unreliable.

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Cover of Anger, Mercy, RevengePhilosophy · Non Fiction

Anger, Mercy, Revenge

On Anger, On Clemency, and The Pumpkinification of Claudius

By Seneca

Three sharply different works examine anger as a chosen moral failure, clemency as a ruler's disciplined power, and the dead emperor Claudius through an irreverent political satire.

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Animal Farm

A Fairy Story

By George Orwell

Animal Farm distills 20th-century history into a fierce fable: animals seize the farm, ideals get corrupted, and a relentless mirror shows how power is manufactured.

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Artificial Condition

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 2

By Martha Wells

Murderbot travels toward the mining facility where its worst memories began and forms an uneasy alliance with a powerful research transport while protecting a group of scientists caught in a corporate dispute.

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