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  • The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post

    The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future...
  • Shattered Lies: Web of Lies #3 by Kathleen Brooks

    Shattered Lies: Web of Lies #3 by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The time has come to step out of the shadows . . . Valeria McGregor was a better shot, a better fighter, and smarter than everyone she’d ever gone up against as an agent for the DEA. Then she’d uncovered illegal activity within her own organization and was fired as part of a cover-up. That was how she’d joined the secret group who reports only to the president...
  • Phoenix by Teagan Brooks

    Phoenix by Teagan Brooks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Phoenix I met the love of my life when I was 17 years old. She was my best friend, my love, my soulmate. Even at such a young age, we had a solid plan for our future. I would join the Marines after graduation. We would get married after my first deployment. When my time with Marines was up, we would start a family. But that’s not what happened...
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    family  war  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  biker  book
  • Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz

    Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    * AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *"This novel will be remembered as one of the best thrillers of the year." —Associated Press "A shocking stunner in every way. The perfect thriller." —Robert CraisWhen darkness closes in—he's your last, best hope. Evan Smoak returns in Gregg Hurwitz’s #1 international bestselling Orphan X series in Out of the Dark...
  • I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

    I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan...
  • Killer on the Fens by Joy Ellis

    Killer on the Fens by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    DETECTIVE NIKKI GALENA’S DYING FATHER HAS ONE FINAL REQUEST: “FIND EVE.” DI Nikki Galena faces a personal challenge which will stretch her to the limit. She must fulfil her father’s dying wish and discover who the mysterious Eve is. Meanwhile a dead drug dealer is found on an abandoned airfield that the locals say is haunted...
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

    A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen, after that 1953 foul ball, is extraordinary and terrifying...
  • Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she..
  • Breaking Free by Adrienne Giordano

    Breaking Free by Adrienne Giordano

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the black sheep of the Steele brood, Micki Steele craves one thing: the love of her family. Working as a hacker for a ruthless fixer, Micki has done things she'll never be proud of. When she flees Vegas and returns to her hometown, she brings along her boss’s secrets and plenty of danger...
  • Walk by Cora Brent

    Walk by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “I saw him for who he was; not just some tortured ex-con trying to beat back his demons and figure out his place in the world. Stone Gentry was sexy, complex, damaged, mysterious. He was a man I could fall for …if he let me.” 1513 …The number of single lines you carefully scratched on a piece of notebook paper at each sunrise...
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    family  war  age-gap  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc  fiction
  • Mended by J.L. Drake

    Mended by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Savannah takes control… Tired of all the lies and deception Savannah decides that she must face things on her own. As she seeks to find out who she really is she still must deal with the fallout from her past. Her fragile hold on her new life slowly gives her the confidence to move ahead. What she really needs is right in front of her waiting for the right moment to prove his love...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

    The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust — and the man who risks everything to reunite them.A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth...
  • Defender's Instinct: Cerberus Tactical K9 by Fiona Quinn

    Defender's Instinct: Cerberus Tactical K9 by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’ll take more than his battle-hardened instincts to defend her…CIA linguist Sabrin Harris’s plans for a relaxing vacation went up in smoke when twenty-six hostages disappeared just north of her grandmother’s house in Slovakia. Now, she’s been called into action. Her mission is fairly simple...
  • Hold by Cora Brent

    Hold by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    They all said we were trash and would end up dead or in prison. They were wrong. The three of us brothers endured hell together and somehow climbed out battle-scarred but whole. We are no longer the ferocious boys who punched our way through terrible days and went to bed hungry every night. Now we've got love, we've got hope, and we've got each other...
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    family  war  book  contemporary  crime  dark  female-mc  fiction
  • EDGE by Cora Brent

    EDGE by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    **99¢ only on release day!** ROSLYN It was him. Conway Gentry. The boy I'd known years ago - the one who'd loved my best friend and was left shattered by her death - was now a macho adrenaline junkie, an arrogant, womanizing hustler. There was not a single good reason on this earth to fall for him. But no one told my heart that. CONWAY She didn't seem like my type...
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    family  war  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc  fiction
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon

    Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 82 ratings
    The new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his "most solid, most brilliant" work. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely. The scene is London, where there has been no new housing since 1950 and where the city-wide slums are called Victory Mansions...
  • Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin

    Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young writers at work today. His comic inventiveness and mind-bending talent prompted Time magazine to proclaim him a "psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber-age...
  • Somebody's Angel by Kallypso Masters

    Somebody's Angel by Kallypso Masters

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Marc d’Alessio first rescued the curvaceous and spirited Italian Angelina Giardano at the Masters at Arms Club, he never expected her to turn his safe, controlled life upside down and pull at his long-broken heartstrings. Months later, the intense fire of their attraction still rages, but something holds him back from committing to her completely...
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    drama  family  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • To Live by C.G. Cooper

    To Live by C.G. Cooper

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Elmore Thadeus Nix, it's retirement time. You're sixty-five and ready. Take that final physical and then it's adios to your old life and hello to the new. Not so fast. Sorry, Elmore. Your plan's about to change. It's Elmore's last day of work. As part of his retirement, he heads to the family doctor for the follow-up to a routine physical. That's when the universe shifts on its axis. Cancer...
  • War, Unfinished by Veronica Lancet

    War, Unfinished by Veronica Lancet

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is a pitch black villain romance with irredeemable characters. Please check triggers before reading New York City. Vicious Battlefield. Home. With a million dollar bounty on my head, it took me years to step foot in the city again. Now I'm back. And the order of business is rather simple. 1. Destroy my reprobate brother. 2. Take back my stolen legacy. 3. Have a goddamn drink in peace...
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    literary-fiction  war  abuse  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  amnesia  angst
  • Blood on the Tracks by Barbara Nickless

    Blood on the Tracks by Barbara Nickless

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A young woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is the victim’s fiancé, a hideously scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, brought in by the Denver Major Crimes unit to help investigate, can't shake the feeling that larger forces are behind this apparent crime of passion...
  • Enemy Zone: Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Healing-Love Military Romance (Trident Rescue) by Alex Lidell

    Enemy Zone: Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Healing-Love Military Romance (Trident Rescue) by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I know all about guys like Cullen Hunt.Gorgeous. Wealthy. Powerful. I just fled New York to escape one. But when I reach Colorado, it’s either take a job at Cullen’s Trident Rescue or become homeless.And Cullen? He’s worse than I thought. Controlling. Demanding. Jerk.A grenade always teetering on the edge.He’s also hot as sin and makes my toes curl.I hate that I dream about him...
  • Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William T. Vollmann

    Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William T. Vollmann

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism...
  • Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy caliber weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instill fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. A genetically engineered Bioform, he's a deadly weapon in a dirty war...
  • Home Front by Kristin Hannah

    Home Front by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    In this powerhouse of a novel, Kristin Hannah explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war.All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . .
  • These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

    These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide. Finch has been raised on the books filling the cabin’s shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the wilderness...
  • The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille

    The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range.Paul Brenner is a member of the Army's elite undercover investigative unit and the man in charge of this politically explosive case...
  • Pull You Through by Kaylee Ryan

    Pull You Through by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Life is a series of events, one leading you to another. The hell I lived through with my drug-addicted parents led me to the Marine Corps. Committing my life to my country was easy. My brothers were my family--all I had and all I needed. I wasn’t looking for her, but I should have known life had other plans. It led me to her...
  • Tripwire by Lee Child, Dick Hill

    Tripwire by Lee Child, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    On the publication of Lee Child's debut novel, the multiple award-winning Killing Floor, critics nationwide marked its success. His last book, Die Trying, inspired the Chicago Tribune to call him "a suspense writer to be reckoned with." In Tripwire, Reacher is settling into lazy Key West when his life is interrupted by a stranger who comes looking for him...
  • Demian by Hermann Hesse

    Demian by Hermann Hesse

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    Emil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth...
  • FALL by Cora Brent

    FALL by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From NY Times and USA Today Bestselling author Cora Brent comes a new epic crossover novel. Jenny... I was a lost girl, a child bride. Now, to most people I appear to be just an average college student. They would never guess my strange history. But secretly I'm still held down by my past. I cannot bring myself to trust men...
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

    Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 101 ratings
    Winston Smith is a low-rung member of the Party, the ruling government of Oceania. He works in the Ministry of Truth, the Party's propoganda arm, where he is in charge of revising history. He is but a small brick in the pyramid that is the Party, at the head of which stands Big Brother. Big Brother the infallible. Big Brother the all-powerful...
  • Risk by Cora Brent

    Risk by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “I’d seen enough of Creed Gentry to know he might be the worst thing I could do. Yet one lustful glance from him scrambled every piece of sanity I owned.” Truly… My life hasn’t been uneventful and a few things should have sunk in by now. I’m a tired age twenty one with a laundry list of heartbreaks. Most of all I know what carnage comes from carelessly risking the heart...
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    drama  family  university  war  abuse  alpha-mc  angst  audiobook
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 75 ratings
    In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover...
  • A Virgin River Christmas by Robyn Carr

    A Virgin River Christmas by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. This Christmas she's come to Virgin River to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him. Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby's shattered body onto a medical transport in Fallujah four years ago, then disappeared as soon as their unit arrived stateside...
  • Meant To Be: A Novel of Honor and Duty by Jessica James

    Meant To Be: A Novel of Honor and Duty by Jessica James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It started as a chance encounter on the beach, and ended 24 hours later when they parted to go their separate ways. Or so they thought. Actually it was just the beginning. WHEN LAUREN CANTRELL said goodbye to the guy she had just met on the beach, she had no way of knowing their paths would ever cross again...
  • Somewhere to Begin by Mika Jolie

    Somewhere to Begin by Mika Jolie

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There are wounds that never show on the body. For twenty-nine years, Colbie Bennington does as expected with an eternal smile stained on her lips. The biggest chances she’s ever taken can be counted on one hand, three fingers to be exact—her battered red chucks, painting her toenails a vibrant blue, and her wedding dress...
  • Inside Danger by Ashley Claudy

    Inside Danger by Ashley Claudy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Regan thought she had found a new life.She thought she'd found something to love in the ring.She thought she'd found someone to love outside those ropes—Someone who loved her.But what she found was danger.And there's no easy way out...
  • The Best Friend by Leanne Davis

    The Best Friend by Leanne Davis

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    **WARNING: Recommended for readers 18+ due to strong language, sexual situations, and mature content matter.** Gretchen Hendricks spent half her life in love with a man who ended up more dedicated to his job than her. After a divorce that left her devastated she put all her energies into building up her career as a psychologist...
  • The Years Between: Jessie & Will by Leanne Davis

    The Years Between: Jessie & Will by Leanne Davis

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ***This is the sequel to The Other Sister and it's highly recommended you read it prior to The Years Between.*** The five years between when Jessie and Will Hendricks get back together and when they have their daughter are unforgettable years that travel from one side of the country to the next, and deal with the issues that have for so long kept them separated...
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    drama  family  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  angst
  • Steel Fear by Brandon Webb, John David Mann

    Steel Fear by Brandon Webb, John David Mann

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An aircraft carrier adrift with a crew the size of a small town. A killer in their midst. And the disgraced Navy SEAL who must track him down . . . The high-octane debut thriller from New York Times bestselling writing team Webb & Mann--combat-decorated Navy SEAL Brandon Webb and award-winning author John David Mann...
  • Otherwise Unharmed by Shay Savage

    Otherwise Unharmed by Shay Savage

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After Evan Arden was imprisoned by the enemy for a year and a half, he returned from the desert as a military hero. He’d suffered some minor injuries during his captivity, was discharged from the Marines with just a touch of shellshock, but was considered otherwise unharmed...
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    drama  realistic  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • Marathon by Brian Freeman, Joe Barrett

    Marathon by Brian Freeman, Joe Barrett

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On a rainy June morning, tens of thousands of people crowd into Duluth for the city’s biggest annual event: the Duluth Marathon. Exhausted runners push to reach the finish line and spectators line the streets to cheer them on. Then, in a terrifying echo of the Boston bombing, there is an explosion along the race course, leaving many people dead and injured...
  • The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

    The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. Rumors begin to spread of a dangerous species of hyperintelligent octopus that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr...
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence...
  • The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf

    The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After 25 years in exile, Adam travels from France to his homeland in the Middle East to bid farewell to his dying childhood friend.One night, a phone rings in Paris. Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago...
  • The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre

    The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor--seemingly there for the men's solace--their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail...
  • The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

    The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWho is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief? Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account? Why has someone tried to murder him?...Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he is Jason Bourne...
  • Return to Zero by Isobel Starling

    Return to Zero by Isobel Starling

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life takes a darker turn for Sam and Declan... Pulled into a world of secrets and lies for the man he loves, Declan Ramsay’s life has changed immeasurably in the eight months since meeting, and falling for his boss’s son, Sam Aiken. Declan journey of personal discovery is about to take a darker turn, and for Sam, the world becomes more treacherous than he could ever have imagined...
  • Public Information by Rolf Margenau

    Public Information by Rolf Margenau

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Twenty-year-old Wylie Cypher accidentally finds himself in the raging conflict of the Korean War in 1953. As he sits in a latrine considering his misfortune, a bomb explodes nearby...
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