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Don't Be In Love

Liana Cincotti • 2024

Painted Scars: An Enemies To Lovers Mafia Romance (Perfectly Imperfect)

Neva Altaj • 2022

If You Could See the Sun

Ann Liang • 2022

Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, 1)

Rebecca Yarros • 2023

<p><b>A #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller • TV series in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society • Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 • Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 • Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 • NPR “Books We Love” 2023 • Audible Best Books of 2023 • Hudson Book of the Year • Google Play Best Books of 2023 • Indigo Best Books of 2023 • Waterstones Book of the Year finalist • Goodreads Choice Award Winner • Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Books of 2023 • Paste Magazine's Best Books of 2023</b><br><br><i>"Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros' Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy."</i> —<i><b>Booklist</b></i><b>, starred review</b><br><br><i>"</i>Fourth Wing<i> will have your heart pounding from beginning to end... A fantasy like you've never read before."</i> <b>―#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout</b><br><br><br><b>Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Rebecca Yarros</b><br><br>Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: <i>dragon riders</i>.<br><br>But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.<br><br>With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.<br><br>She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.<br><br>Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.<br><br>Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: <i>graduate or die</i>.<br><br>The Empyrean series is best enjoyed in order.<br>Reading Order:<br>Book #1 Fourth Wing<br>Book #2 Iron Flame<br>Book #3 Onyx Storm</p>

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins • 2016

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie • 2009

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Novel

Benjamin Stevenson • 2024

SUMMARY OF Mythology: Timeless tales of Gods and heroes Edith Hamilton

FREEMAN ISAAC • 2022

Mythos: (Ancient Greek Mythology Book for Adults, Modern Telling of Classical Greek Myths Book) (Stephen Fry's Greek Myths, 1)

Stephen Fry • 2019

<b><i>Mythos</i> is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and comedian Stephen Fry.</b> Fry transforms the adventures of Zeus and the Olympians into emotionally resonant and deeply funny stories, without losing any of their original wonder.<br><br><b>This stunning book features classical artwork</b> inspired by the myths, as well as learned notes from the author.<br><br>• Each adventure is infused with Fry's distinctive wit, voice, and writing style<br>• Connoisseurs of the Greek myths will appreciate this fresh-yet-reverential interpretation, while newcomers will feel welcome<br>• Retellings brim with humor and emotion and offer rich cultural context<br><br><b>Celebrating the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, <i>Mythos</i> breathes life into ancient tales—from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire.<br><br>This gorgeous volume invites you to explore a captivating world with the brilliant storyteller Stephen Fry as your guide.</b><br>• A collectible volume complete with a textured case, a foil-stamped jacket, and full-color art throughout<br>• The perfect gift for Greek mythology and history buffs, lovers of ancient Greece, art aficionados, and devoted fans of Stephen Fry<br>• Add it to the shelf with books like <i>Circe</i> by Madeline Miller, <i>Norse Mythology</i> by Neil Gaiman, and <i>Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes</i> by Edith Hamilton

A Portrait of the Artist As Filipino (An Elegy in Three Scenes)

Nick Joaquín • 1966

Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Melissa Bashardoust • 2017

Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)

Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1993

<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini • 2008

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier • 2013

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

Oscar Wilde • 1993

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman • 2018

Near to the Wild Heart (Penguin Modern Classics)

Clarice Lispector • 2022

Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)

Louisa May Alcott • 2014

<b>Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.<br></b><br>Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Whether they're putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas, there's one thing they can't help wondering: Will Father return home safely?

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai • 1973

<p> Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. </p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p><p>Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)</p>

The Stranger

Albert Camus • 1989

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2024

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka • 2009

The Ravenhood - Flock

Kate Stewart • 2023